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presenting evidence showing FBI agents were one of the leading forces in creating 911.

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Classified documents contradict FBI on post-9/11 probe of Saudis, ex-senator says

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Former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, left, greets former Sen. Bob Graham in a Dec. 17, 2004 file photo. Graham, who co-chaired the joint congressional investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, says the FBI did not inform his panel or a separate investigation co-chaired by Keane, about suspicious contacts between Saudi citizens living in Florida and some of the 9/11 hijackers.
By Anthony Summers and Dan Christensen
Special to msnbc.com

Former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, who co-chaired Congress’ Joint Inquiry into the 9/11 terrorist attacks, has seen two classified FBI documents that he says are at odds with the bureau’s public statements that there was no connection between the hijackers and Saudis then living in Sarasota, Fla.

“There are significant inconsistencies between the public statements of the FBI in September and what I read in the classified documents,” Graham said.

“One document adds to the evidence that the investigation was not the robust inquiry claimed by the FBI,” Graham said. “An important investigative lead was not pursued and unsubstantiated statements were accepted as truth.”
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Whether the 9/11 hijackers acted alone, or whether they had support within the U.S., remains an unanswered question -- one that began to be asked as soon as it became known that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens. It was underlined when Congress’s bipartisan inquiry released its public report in July 2003. The final 28 pages, regarding possible foreign support for the terrorists, were censored in their entirety -- on President George W. Bush’s instructions.

Graham said the two classified FBI documents that he saw, dated 2002 and 2003, were prepared by an agent who participated in the Sarasota investigation. He said the agent suggested that another federal agency be asked to join the investigation, but that the idea was “rejected.”

Graham attempted in recent weeks to contact the agent, he said, only to find the man had been instructed by FBI headquarters not to talk.

FBI: 'No credible evidence'
The FBI-led investigation a decade ago focused on Abdulaziz al-Hijji and his wife, Anoud, who moved out of their home in the upscale, gated community of Prestancia, near Sarasota, and left the country in the weeks before 9/11. The couple left behind three cars and numerous personal belongings, such as furnishings, clothes, medicine and food, according to law enforcement records. After the 9/11 attacks, a concerned neighbor contacted the FBI.

Analysis of Prestancia gatehouse visitor logs and photographs of license tags showed that vehicles driven by several of the future hijackers had visited the al-Hijji home at 4224 Escondito Circle, according to a counterterrorism officer and former Prestancia administrator Larry Berberich.

Al-Hijji, who now lives and works in London, recently called 9/11 “a crime against the USA and all humankind” and said he was “saddened and oppressed by these false allegations.” He also said it was “not true” that Mohamed Atta and other 9/11 hijackers visited him at his Sarasota home.

The FBI has backed up al-Hijji. After initially declining to comment, the bureau confirmed that it did investigate but said it found nothing sinister. Agents, however, have refused to answer reporters’ specific questions about its investigation or its findings about the Prestancia gate records.

The FBI reiterated its position in a Feb. 7 letter that denied a Freedom of Information Act request seeking records from its Sarasota probe. The denial said their release “could constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”

“At no time during the course of its investigation of the attacks, known as the PENTTBOM investigation, did the FBI develop credible evidence that connected the address at 4224 Escondito Circle, Sarasota, Florida, to any of the 9/11 hijackers,” wrote records section chief David M. Hardy.


Newly released Florida Department of Law Enforcement documents, however, state that an informant told the FBI in 2004 that al-Hijji had considered Osama bin Laden a “hero” and may have known some of the hijackers. The informant, Wissam Hammoud, also said al-Hijji once introduced him to Adnan El Shukrijumah, the ex-Broward County resident and suspected al-Qaida operative on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.

Last September, FBI spokesmen also disputed Graham’s assertion that Congress was never told about the Sarasota investigation.

The head of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility, John Conditt was recently sentenced to 12 years in prison who having sex with a 7 year old child.
The FBI OPR is featured in this breaking story.
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Wednesday, March 14, 201
Fired FBI Agent Cannot Seek Monetary Relief
By ROSE BOUBOUSHIAN



(CN) - The FBI cannot be sued for firing a special agent who violated the FBI Offense Code during a domestic dispute with his wife, a federal judge ruled.
If the former agent files an amended complaint, he can still seek reinstatement, the decision states.
FBI Special Agent Bryant Jones had a March 2008 domestic dispute with his wife at their home in Country Club Hills, Ill., a suburb of Chicago.
Jones allegedly made an "inappropriate comment to the local law enforcement officers who caused the responding local law enforcement officers to place Special Agent Jones under arrest and to forcibly escort him from inside his private residence," according to the complaint.
After Jones' supervisor arrived at the station, all charges against Jones were dismissed, and his record was expunged.
Nevertheless, the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility investigated the incident and found that Jones had violated several provisions of the FBI Offense Code. The office recommended Jones' immediate dismissal from the FBI.
The FBI's Disciplinary Review Board confirmed this recommendation, and Jones was fired in 2009, after an 11-year career with the bureau.
Jones sued U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. and FBI Director Robert Mueller III, alleging that the FBI wrongfully deprived him of a protectable property interest in his continued employment with the FBI.

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FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Child Abuse


Tuesday February 17, 2004 11:46 PM

By JOHN SOLOMON

https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forum ... 1077052156
WASHINGTON (AP) - The former chief internal watchdog at the FBI has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and has admitted he had a history of molesting other children before he joined the bureau for what became a two-decade career.

John H. Conditt Jr., 53, who retired in 2001, was sentenced last week to 12 years in prison in Tarrant County court in Fort Worth, Texas, after he admitted he molested the daughter of two FBI agents after he retired. He acknowledged molesting at least two other girls before he began his law enforcement career, his lawyer said.

Infiltration Of Political Movements In USA
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By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers

15 March, 2012
Countercurrents.org

This is the part II of a three part series " Infiltration of Political Movements is the Norm, Not the Exception in the United States "

Read Part I here

On March 6 members of an off-shoot of Anonymous, Lulzsec, were arrested as a result of an FBI informant, Sabu, who the media describes as a Lulzsec leader. The six arrests were for people allegedly involved with Lulzsec which became known for targeting Sony, the CIA, the U.S. Senate, and FBI, as well as Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal .

Exactly one year ago to the day of the arrests, The Guardian published an article headlined, “ One in four US hackers 'is an FBI informer.' ” The article described how the FBI had used the threat of long sentences to turn some members of Anonymous and similar groups into informants. It also described how the group was open to infiltration. On Democracy Now , Gabriella Coleman, a professor at McGill University who is an expert on digital media, hackers and the law, said: “ There had been rumors of infiltration or informants. At some level, Anonymous is quite easy to infiltrate, because anyone can sort of join and participate. And so, there had been rumors of this sort of activity happening for quite a long time.”

In Part I of this series, Infiltration to Disrupt, Divide and Mis-direct are Widespread in Occupy , we described reports of widespread infiltration of the Occupy. In this article we will describe the history of infiltration of political movements in the United States and the goals of infiltration. Part III of this series will describe behavior of infiltrators, how other movements have countered infiltrators and what Occupy can do to minimize the damage from infiltrators.

Infiltration is the Norm, not the Exception, of U.S. Political Movements

When the long history of political infiltration is reviewed, the Occupy Movement should be surprised if it is not infiltrated. Almost every movement in modern history has been infiltrated by police and others using many of the same tactics we are now seeing in Occupy.

Virtually every movement has been the target of police surveillance and disruption activities. The most famous surveillance program was the FBI's COINTELPRO which according to COINTELPRO Documents targeted the women's rights, Civil Rights, anti-war and peace movements, the New Left, socialists, communists and independence movement for Puerto Rico, among others. Among the groups infiltrated were the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the NAACP, Congress for Racial Equality, the American Indian Movement, Students for a Democratic Society, the National Lawyers Guild, the Black Panthers and Weather Underground. Significant leaders from Albert Einstein to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who are both memorialized in Washington, were monitored. The rule in the United States is to be infiltrated; the exception is not to be.

The Church Committee documented a history of use of the FBI for purposes of political repression. They described infiltration efforts going back to World War I, including the 1920s, when agents were charged with rounding up “anarchists and revolutionaries” for deportation. The Church Committee found infiltration efforts growing from 1936 through 1976, with COINTELPRO as the major program. While these domestic political spying and disruption programs were supposed to stop in 1976, in fact they have continued. As reported in “The Price of Dissent,” Federal Magistrate Joan Lefkow found in 1991, the record “shows that despite regulations, orders and consent decrees prohibiting such activities, the FBI had continued to collect information concerning only the exercise of free speech.”

How many agents or infiltrators can we expect to see inside a movement? One of the most notorious “police riots” was the 1968 Democratic Party Convention. Independent journalist Yasha Levine writes : “ During the 1968 protests of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which drew about 10,000 protesters and was brutally crushed by the police, 1 out of 6 protesters was a federal undercover agent . That's right, 1/6th of the total protesting population was made up of spooks drawn from various federal agencies. That's roughly 1,600 people! The stat came from an Army document obtained by CBS News in 1978, a full decade after the protest took place. According to CBS, the infiltrators were not passive observers, monitoring and relaying information to central command, but were involved in violent confrontations with the police.” [Emphasis in original.]

Peter Camejo, who ran for Governor of California in 2003 as a Green and as Ralph Nader's vice president in 2004, often told the story about his 1976 presidential campaign. Camejo able to get the FBI in court after finding their offices broken into and suing them over COINTELPRO activities. The judge asked the Special Agent in Charge how many FBI agents worked in Camejo's presidential campaign; the answer was 66 agents. Camejo estimated he had a campaign staff of about 400 across the country. Once again that would be an infiltration rate of 1 out of 6 people. Camejo discovered that among the agents was his campaign co-chair. He also discovered eavesdropping equipment in his campaign office and documents showing the FBI had followed him since he was a student activist at 18 years old.

The federal infiltration is buttressed by local and state police. Local police infiltrators have a long tradition dating back to the Haymarket riots of 1886 and the 1904 “Italian Squad in New York City. In addition to political activity they were also involved in infiltrations of unions especially around strikes. Common throughout the United States were the so-called “Red Squads” a 1963 report estimated 300,000 officers were involved in surveillance of political activities. These were local police focused on the same types of people as the FBI. Some of their activities included assassinations of political activists.

In fact, a predecessor to the modern Occupy, the Bonus March of 1932 was infiltrated by federal agents. Their focus was on radicals, anarchists and Communists who might be in the movement. The infiltration resulted in greatly exaggerated reports about radicals inside the Bonus encampments, which were primarily made up of veterans and their families that were used to help justify their removal by President Herbert Hoover with military troops acting against veterans under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, assisted by then-colonels Eisenhower and Patton.

Another predecessor to the Occupy, Resurrection City of 1968, a “community of love and brotherhood,” that occupied the Washington, DC mall for four months was organized by the Poor People's Campaign fulfilling a plan made prior to the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Resurrection City was heavily infiltrated by layers of police including the FBI, military, Park Police, Secret Service and Metropolitan DC police. FBI director Hoover had agents go to press conferences with false media identification, stationed FBI agents around the perimeter of the encampment and authorized an expensive informant program. After the FBI, the most expensive infiltration of Resurrection City was military intelligence which conducted an unlawful surveillance program, intercepting radio transmissions, monitoring radio traffic and intercepting all communications which were then passed on to the FBI, Secret Service, DC police and Park Police. The military also sent fictitious media to press conferences. The Metropolitan DC police “red squad” sent undercover officers into the camp and took mug shots of its members.

Infiltration tactics continue, perhaps have even escalated today. In a recent report the ACLU writes : “Today the government is spying on Americans in ways the founders of our country never could have imagined. The FBI , federal intelligence agencies , the military , state and local police , private companies , and even firemen and emergency medical technicians are gathering incredible amounts of personal information about ordinary Americans that can be used to construct vast dossiers that can be widely shared with a simple mouse-click through new institutions like Joint Terrorism Task Forces , fusion centers , and public-private partnerships . The fear of terrorism has led to a new era of overzealous police intelligence activity directed, as in the past , against political activists, racial and religious minorities, and immigrants.” There have also multiple reports of the CIA working with New York City police for years, an activity that is almost certainly illegal .

Not only have budgets increased in the post-911 world, but restrictions on spying have been weakened and court review has become rarer. The government, often with corporate interests, are gathering huge amounts of data on Americans and targeting a wide range of groups and individuals for intelligence gathering and infiltration. The extent of spying is so widespread that it is more than this brief article can examine, but the ACLU provides a state-by-state review .

We will not know the extent of current infiltration and the activities of government agents for quite some time, but in the post-911 world, with record intelligence budgets and a massive new homeland security bureaucracy, spying is very likely more extensive than ever. Add to that the private security of corporations and political organizations tied to the two political parties and the extent of Occupy infiltration is very likely quite extensive.

What Have Been the Goals, Strategies and Tactics of Past Infiltration?

The most common purpose of infiltration is the intelligence function of gathering information, but the goals are commonly more aggressive. Herbert Hoover ordered FBI agents to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize” the activities of these movements and their leaders according to COINTELPRO Documents .

According to, Surveillance and Governance: Crime Control and Beyond , the goal of COINTELPRO was also to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, or otherwise neutralize” groups. FBI field operatives were directed to:

1. Create a negative public image for target groups by surveiling activists and then releasing negative personal information to the public.

2. Break down internal organization by creating conflicts by having agents exacerbate racial tensions, or send anonymous letters to try to create conflicts.

3. Create dissension between groups by spreading rumors that other groups were stealing money.

4. Restrict access to public resources by pressuring non-profit organizations to cut off funding or material support.

5. Restrict the ability to organize protests through agents promoting violence against police during planning and at protests.

6. Restrict the ability of individuals to participate in group activities by character assassinations, false arrests, surveillance.

The COINTELPRO documents disclose numerous cases of the FBI's intentions to stop the mass protest against the Vietnam War. Many techniques were used to accomplish the assignment. The documents state: “These included promoting splits among antiwar forces, encouraging red-baiting of socialists, and pushing violent confrontations as an alternative to massive, peaceful demonstrations.”

Infiltration to gather intelligence and intentionally disrupt and break up social movements is common in the United States. At this point in history when the degree of wealth inequality has reached such staggering proportions that the richest 400 people have the same wealth as the bottom 154,000,000 people, when unemployment and foreclosures rates are high, when tens of millions can't afford health care and students can't afford to go to college, those in power are fearful that the people will rise up. Events of the past year, particularly the Occupy, reveal that this uprising has begun. It is likely that the powerful will use the tools available to stop Occupy, including infiltration to disrupt, divide and misdirect.

In Part III, we will describe common behaviors of infiltrators and how other social movements have tried to minimize the impact of infiltration. We will then examine the basic structure of the Occupy and analyze its strengths and weaknesses in the context of infiltration. Our hope is that this series will lead to a broader discussion within the movement so that efforts can be made to balance the strengths of Occupy with actions necessary to protect the movement from disruption and division.

If you have experience with your Occupy responding to infiltration please send them to research@october2011.org . Experiences that have worked and failed are of interest.

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers are original organizers of OccupyWashington, DC/October2011 and are currently among the organizers of the National Occupation of Washington, DC.

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Why were Saudi royals with ‘links to 9/11’ allowed to leave the U.S. without being quizzed by the FBI?

By Daily Mail Reporter
15 March 2012


Startling new information shows the FBI never questioned members of the Saudi Royal Family before allowing them to flee the United States in the days immediately following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Aboard the plane were two princes -- one of whom allegedly had been in contact with al-Qaeda before the the attacks and another whose father's longtime adviser owned a house in Florida that was allegedly visited several times by some of the hijackers.

What's more, the FBI's detailed report to Congress and President George W. Bush on the Saudi exodus was so flawed, it didn't even correctly identify one of the princes, according to new reporting by MSNBC.
Prince Ahmed bin Salman

Early warning: Prince Ahmed bein Salman (right, with the Clintons after winning the Belmont Stakes) has been accused of receiving contact from al-Quaeda
Saudi Prince Sultan Bin Fahd

Stuck in Florida: Saudi Prince Sultan Bin Fahd (left) has ties to his father's close adviser, who owned a house visited by September 11 hijackers

Both men, MSNBC reports, were later found to have troubling connections to the men who hijacked four planes on September 11, 2001.

Al-Qaida had allegedly been in contact with Prince Ahmed before the attacks, according to statements made by one of Osama bin Ladin's top aides, Abu Zubaydah, MSNBC reported.
University of Tampa American Language Academy

Secret flight: Prince Sultan was studying at the University of Tampa American Language Academy in Florida and took a private plane to Lexington, Kentucky

The Prince's family has strenuously denied these allegations and said he loved the United States.

Additionally, an FBI supervisor reported that Prince Ahmed told a local TV station in the days after the attacks that he was bin Laden's cousin.

However, no video of such an interview has ever surfaced and there is no evidence Prince Ahmed had family ties to bin Laden.

More strange is the fact that Prince Ahmed died in July 2002 at age 43 of heart failure. The circumstances of his death remain unclear to this day.

Prince Sultan, meanwhile, had links to Esam Ghazzawi -- a top adviser to his father Prince Fahd.

Ghazzawi allegedly owned a home in Sarasota that was visited several times by Mohamad Atta, the leader of the September 11 hijackers, and his group.

On the day of the attacks, Prince Sultan was in Sarasota. He received a call from his uncle who told him to make it to Lexington as soon as they could so they could leave the country amid mounting anti-Saudi sentiment.

A former Florida police officer and a former FBI agent were hired to provide protection for the young royal and his colleagues.

In the hours after the September 11 attacks, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights until 11am September 13.

Though it has been reported that the Saudis flew during this air prohibition, according to MSNBC, Prince Sultan and his friends actually didn't leave on a chartered jet until five hours after the flight ban was lifted.

The FBI report to Congress and President George W. Bush lists another method of travel entirely. The FBI claimed that the prince hired a car and drove the 900 miles north to Kentucky.

But the two men who worked for the prince's security detail said the FBI got this all wrong, MSNBC says.

Another key detail the FBI got wrong was Prince Sultan's identity.

The FBI said the young prince was the son of Prince Ahmed. However, Prince Sultant is actually the older royal's nephew.

Three days after prince touched down in Lexington, Kentucky, he and Prince Ahmed, along with 12 other Saudis boarded a Boeing 727 and flew back to Saudi Arabia.

None of the men was ever questioned by the FBI before they were allowed to leave the country, according to MSNBC.

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Did Mark Kennedy make a mystery trip to New York for the FBI?

What was the undercover officer doing in New York in 2008? He claims to have worked for the FBI – did you encounter him?



Was Mark Kennedy, the infamous police spy who infiltrated political activists in Europe, also an FBI agent? And can you help us work out what he was doing in New York?

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Kennedy, who spent seven years living as green campaigner 'Mark Stone', claims to have received a special commendation from the United States federal intelligence agency. The FBI declined to comment on the story, but Kennedy provided some tantalising details to the US magazine.

In 2008, with the approval of the US government, Kennedy traveled to New York to spy on a secret meeting of European and American anti-capitalists, including members of the Earth Liberation Front and student activists from Stanford University, who were planning to disrupt the upcoming Republican and Democratic conventions.

Posing as Stone, Kennedy shared his logistical expertise with the assembled activists, not far from where the Occupy movement would later take off. Based on what he saw in New York, though, he did not know what all the fuss was about. "It was a bit of a pointless meeting," he says. He told his superiors that the group, who struck him as young and naive, didn't seem like much of a threat. A French activist suspected of advocating armed revolution was followed as a result of his spying, but no arrests were made.

If you are a US-based activist – were you at this so-called 'secret meeting'? Do you recall meeting Kennedy? Or does anyone stateside know how we might find out more about his time there?

Kennedy has a good record of lying and we have been careful in the past to take all of his public prouncements with a pinch of salt. The article, which you read in full here (warning: paywall), he also offers his thoughts on the failings of the Occupy movement, which he reckons is being infiltrated on a "day to day basis", is one of Kennedy's typically one-sided proncouncements.

But the French connection is an intriguing one. An article published in the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles this week alleges intelligence gleaned by Kennedy was passed to the French intelligence services, and proved significant in bringing about the 2008 arrests of the Tarnac Nine. (We wrote about the Tarnac arrests here.)

Local Preschoolers Meet Rik, the Bomb Sniffing Canine
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Special Agent and K-9 Handler for the FBI, and trusted companion, visit The Learning Experience preschool.

By Eric Goodman
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March 14, 2012


Students of The Learning Experience preschool greeted a unique visitor last week, while learning a thing or two about the different roles of police enforcement.

Special Agent Rik of the FBI, a 7-year-old Belgian Malinois, demonstrated how his keen sense of smell can be used to sniff out explosive substances.

Rick and his handler, a Special Agent and K-9 Handler for the Newark Division of the FBI, were invited to demonstrate how they work together to detect potentially explosive materials.

“It's a community liaison and outreach program to let the children know that the FBI are friends and that we are here to help,” said the Special Agent who cannot be named for security reasons.

The agent explained to the children that Rik, like all dogs, has a much more sensitive nose than humans, but with special training Rik is able to use his heightened sense of smell to find harmful materials so they can be disposed of.

It took Rik only moments to sniff out a sealed bag of gunpowder hidden inside a small container in the classroom. When the gunpowder was found, Rik sat and pointed to where it was hidden with his nose, while students applaused. For doing such a great job, Rik was awarded his tennis ball, which the agent explained was his favorite toy.

The hidden gunpowder was in a sealed bag and without any flammable agents in the vicinity, posed no threat to the children at any time.

The demonstration was organized by Phil Chaiklin, a lifelong resident of Livingston and father of 2-year-old Michael Chaiklin who attends the preschool. Phil is a member of the FBI Citizens Academy, a group which teaches civilians about the FBI and enables them to raise awareness of FBI practices throughout their community.

“This was a great way to raise awareness and teach the kids that there are working service dogs out there that aren't pets,” he said. “It's very important for the kids to be exposed to law enforcement and learn that they are friends.”

We brought FBI lab whistleblower Dr Frederick Whitehurst to speak in our community to discuss the racism occurring at the FBI Lab where Whitehurst worked for 15 years.
Dr Whitehurst told the audience every other word out of people working in the lab was ni**er
and evidence would be analyzed to target people of color regardless of their innocence.

two reads about the FBI Lab and it's black victims.

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http://www.whistleblowers.org/index.php ... Itemid=125


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http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/local/f ... nce-031612


FBI Lab Reveals Dubious DNA Evidence Used in Convictions

Friday, 16 Mar 2012

BY PAUL WAGNER/myfoxdc

WASHINGTON - Two men sent to prison more than 30 years ago are now learning the scientific evidence used against them at trial was wrong. Kirk Odom and Santae Tribble were each convicted in part on testimony their hair was discovered at two different crime scenes in the district. Odom was convicted of rape, Tribble of murder.

But DNA analysis now shows the hair in each case belongs to someone else, a fact that has moved the U.S. Attorney to launch a new review of hundreds of cases.

Kirk Odom and Santae Tribble came forward after reading stories about Donald Gates.

A man who went to prison in part because an FBI agent said his hair was found at the scene of a murder. But DNA evidence proved otherwise and Gates was released from prison in 2009. Odom and Tribble wondered if they could get the same justice.

Attorneys from the public defender’s service began an investigation and have now filed a motion to vacate their convictions.

On February 24th, 1981, a young woman called police to say she had just been raped inside her Capitol Hill apartment.

A composite picture was distributed by police and within three months investigators had developed a suspect, 18-year-old Kirk Odom.

At a lineup, the victim picked Odom out, telling a grand jury, "Immediately when I walked into the room, one man's face just seemed to jump out at me, and it was very scary. I recognized him and I felt afraid that he could see me…"

Based on that identification and the hair analysis, Odom was convicted, an outcome that shocked the teen who wrote a letter to his attorney.

"That lady don't know me and I don't know her or were (sic) she live at…and I think that somebody just don't want me on the street or the police told her to say it was me. All I know is I didn't do it….”

In the case of Santae Tribble, investigators accused him of killing John McCormick on the porch of this house in July of 1978.

The cabbie had just returned home from work when his wife says a gunman wearing a stocking mask tried to rob him.

A stocking was recovered nearby and inside investigators said were hairs from the assailant, one that matched Santae Tribble.

In fact, FBI Special Agent James Hilverda said, "The hair that aligned with Santae Tribble matched in all microscopic characteristics, all characteristics were the same."

But DNA testing now shows the hair did not come from Santae Tribble.

"We are announcing today that we are going to go back and do a sweeping review of cases going back decades,” said U.S. Attorney Ron Machen, “Some in the 70s and 80s and even earlier if we can find the records of cases where hair analysis was used in part to secure convictions."

The U.S. Attorney’s Office just completed another review of more than 200 cases called into question by the wrongful conviction of Donald Gates, a man who went to prison in part due to the hair analysis testimony of an FBI agent.

Tip - Any article that tells you all about "the hijackers" is disinfo.

Software targeting ran the planes, however that was pulled off, not 'suicidal human pilots.'

Be wary of this misdirection into limited hangouts. Tech rules over human operators to Make Things Happen Guaranteed.

Tip 2 - The cover-up of what 'Star Trek' was doing with the psyops story 'The Trouble With Tribbles' to promote alarm over population explosions among "tribals" will lead to stories like the one about "Kirk" and "Tribble" in this thread.

The spooks are hiding their keyword tracks today.

Patriot Act enforcement ‘stunning,’ senators say

Colorado Sen. Mark Udall wants public to know how broadly law is interpreted.
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Congress approved the Patriot Act in late 2001 to give the federal government broad power to investigate and thwart terror attacks.

Mark Udall

Posted: Saturday, March 17, 2012 12:00 am

By PETE ROPER | proper@chieftain.com

Colorado Sen. Mark Udall and Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden have released a joint letter stating that Americans would be "stunned" to learn how the FBI and the Justice Department are using sections of the Patriot Act to broadly gather intelligence based on secret legal opinions.

Thursday's letter was an unusual public step for the two Democrats who both serve on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Their letter is intended to push the Justice Department into revealing secret legal opinions that have been used in the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court to justify intelligence-gathering operations.

"We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted Section 215 of the Patriot Act," the letter to Attorney General Eric Holder said. "As we see it, there is now a significant gap between what most Americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows."

The FISA court, first established in 1978, meets behind closed doors and gives legal permission for covert U.S. anti-terror investigations.

Udall and Wyden have read those secret documents as members of the intelligence committee, but they cannot reveal or discuss them. But, they urged Holder to declassify and disclose the legal rulings.

"To put it another way," the letter said, "Americans know their government will sometimes conduct secret operations, but they don't think that government officials should be writing secret law."

While members of Congress may read the opinions — in strictly controlled conditions — Udall and Wyden said most lawmakers are unfamiliar with the FISA court rulings and "many of them would be surprised and angry to learn how the Patriot Act has been interpreted in secret."

The senators said their letter was prompted by the Justice Department's response on Feb. 27 to two Freedom of Information Act lawsuits demanding the release of the secret legal opinions. Those lawsuits came from the New York Times and the American Civil Liberties Union.

The Justice Department told a federal district court in New York those opinions could not be released because they would reveal the workings of covert anti-terror investigations.

Congress approved the Patriot Act in late 2001 to give the federal government broad power to investigate and thwart terror attacks. Section 215 initially granted the FBI the authority to broadly and covertly inspect business and commercial records as part of an investigation.

When the act was reauthorized in 2005, there was sharp congressional debate over giving the FBI more time to conduct unauthorized surveillance before having to get FISA court approval.

The act was reauthorized again last year and both Wyden and Udall publicly have criticized what they describe as a steadily broadening range of covert surveillance authority.

The Udall and Wyden letter notes that the Obama administration said in August 2009 that it was starting a process to declassify or "redact" the FISA court opinions, but that nothing has resulted.

‘‘Two and a half years later, however, this ‘process’ has produced literally zero results,’’ the letter states. "Not a single redacted opinion has been released."

Over 12 Boston FBI agents collaborated with Whitey Bulger and the Mafia in the murders of over 20 women and men.
FBI agent John Zip Connolly was one of them and is currently serving a sentence in a Miami prison.Of course we now know FBI agents turned to the Mafia to help them in the assassination of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

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The cop who gave Whitey ‘heartburn’
Howie Carr By Howie Carr
Monday, March 19, 2012

Jack O’Donovan was Whitey Bulger’s worst nightmare — an honest cop.

O’D, the former state police lieutenant colonel who died Friday at the age of 81, was such a headache to Whitey that in 1981, a rider was anonymously added to the state budget that would have forced O’D to retire early.

O’D’s crime? He was causing the Bulger mob “heartburn,” as an Indiana congressman put it during a congressional hearing in 2003.

Not that Whitey was the only wiseguy Jack O’Donovan gave heartburn to. He arrested both Flemmi brothers, and one of the Martoranos. In 1966, O’D was shot on a Back Bay rooftop by Myles Connor, the so-called President of Rock ’n’ Roll and one of the most overrated criminals in the history of Massachusetts.

But Whitey was O’D’s arch-foe. You can tell just how much Whitey hated O’D by how often the ex-Marine from Belmont turns up in FBI reports, always being dissed by Whitey.

O’D met at least once with Whitey, and Whitey reported back to his employees, er handlers, at the FBI about how little respect O’D allegedly had for the G-men. As an FBI agent wrote of O’D: “He made very disparaging and derogatory statements about the professionalism of the FBI. Whitey took great umbrage...” Whitey always took great umbrage to anybody he couldn’t control.

O’D put the famous bug in the Lancaster Street garage. The FBI told Whitey. O’D went crazy, and started bad-mouthing the rat, gangster/FBI agent Zip Connolly, now doing life in Florida for second-degree murder. The Bulger mob had to stop O’D, because they had big plans for Zip — they were planning to make Whitey’s snitch the police commissioner of Boston.

It was shortly thereafter that the mysterious rider was attached to the state budget.

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Lawyers criticize FBI intimidation techniques
Muslim Students Association brings ACLU lawyers as response to NYPD surveillance

By Sarah Smith · March 18, 2012

Muslim Students Association moves forward with cause

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Muslim Student Association stands against racial profiling

If the Federal Bureau of Investigation knocks on your door to ask you questions, you don’t have to answer.

“You have no obligation to speak to an FBI agent and should not without a lawyer present,” American Civil Liberties Union legal fellow Seema Saifee told students and community members March 17.

The Muslim Students Association hosted an event called “Know Your Rights,” where ACLU representatives explained people’s rights when confronted by law enforcement issues. The event was in response to last month’s reports of the New York Police Department’s surveillance of MSAs across the Northeast.

The event was part of Penn’s sixth Annual Islamic Law Conference. The Muslim Law Students Association and National Muslim Law Students Association helped Penn MSA host the conference.

A crowd of about 30 attended the lecture, which featured two lawyers from the ACLU. They discussed surveillance policies, questioning by law enforcement agencies and extra airport security targeted at Muslims.

Spending resources profiling and surveilling young people and those belonging to the Muslim faith “is not an effective or efficient use of resources,” ACLU staff attorney Mary Catherine Roper said.
“It’s simply harassment,” she added.

Roper and Saifee said the FBI often embarks on “fishing expeditions” to gather information from Muslim communities. FBI agents call people in the Muslim community and knock on their doors for an interview, Saifee said.

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FBI Investigation of Scientology: Already Over Before We Even Heard of It
By Tony Ortega Mon., Mar. 19 2012 at 8:00 AM

​In February 2011, the New Yorker published Lawrence Wright's superb 24,000-word piece about director Paul Haggis and the Church of Scientology, "The Apostate."

One of the most interesting things in the story was a revelation that made news all on its own: Wright reported that the FBI was investigating Scientology for human trafficking abuses.

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who benefited the most from 911?
Exxon Mobil and the FBI

Sequestration would affect FBI 'for many years,' says Mueller
March 18, 2012| By David Perera



Approximately 60 percent of the FBI's $8 billion budget is now dedicated to national security programs, FBI Director Robert Mueller told a March 15 Senate panel.

The FBI fiscal 2013 budget request is for $8.15 billion, a .53 percent real decrease from the $8.04 billion enacted for the current year, when taking into account Office of Management and Budget-projected inflation levels.



Mueller told the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on commerce, justice and science that before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, about 20 to 25 percent of the FBI budget was for a national security program. Most of that, he added, went to counter-intelligence.

Were the FBI to undergo sequestration--the federal government is set to undergo an automatic, across-the-board cut of about 9 percent in non-entitlement program appropriations in the coming fiscal year, unless Congress modifies the Budget Control Act of 2011--the bureau's budget would likely be cut in a range between $650 million and $800 million, Mueller said.

"That would translate into a 25 workday furlough across the bureau," he said. The bureau would rotate the furloughs to lessen the impact, but "the impact of that sequestration would be felt for many years in the future," he added.

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Community Leaders Call for Transparency in SFPD-FBI Collaboration
, Mar 19, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO – Arab American, Muslim and South Asian community leaders are urging Mayor Ed Lee to approve an ordinance that they believe could re-establish trust between their communities and the San Francisco Police Department.

Last week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors narrowly passed the Safe San Francisco Civil Rights Ordinance, intended to prevent civil rights abuses in SFPD-FBI collaboration. The measure, proposed by Supervisor Jane Kim and supported by about 80 civil rights, legal and community groups, aims to increase transparency and restore local control over the actions of San Francisco police officers operating as members of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF).

The ordinance is up for a final Board of Supervisors vote this week, and if it passes, it will head to the desk of Mayor Ed Lee.

Lee, however, said he would follow the recommendations of Police Chief Greg Suhr, who has publicly expressed his disapproval of the ordinance.

Community leaders are hoping that Lee, who has a long history of advocating for civil rights, will take their concerns into consideration when making his decision.

“These issues are not new to him,” said Nasrina Bargzie, a staff attorney with the Asian Law Caucus, where the mayor used to work, “and we hope that we will have the opportunity to discuss them with him.”

Lily Haskell, program director at the Arab Resource and Organizing Committee, added, “Instead of looking to testimony about harassment and racial profiling, he is strictly looking to the police chief. We understand that he needs to take police protocol into account, but we believe it’s equally important to listen to community experiences with FBI intimidation and to make a decision out of those experiences.”

Civil rights advocates argue that this ordinance is necessary to repair and restore trust between community members and law enforcement.

“The American Muslim community has a difficult time trusting law enforcement in light of what various agencies, most recently the NYPD, have been doing to their friends, neighbors, and religious leaders,” said Zahra Billoo, executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations in the Bay Area.

CAIR has heard complaints in San Francisco from individuals who were visited by law enforcement agents and questioned about activity that did not appear to be criminal, such as their religious and political beliefs, Billoo said. The ordinance, she said, would “build a layer of protection and accountability at the local level to ensure that San Francisco police officers aren’t engaging in this problematic behavior.”

Thus far, more than 500 people have contacted the Mayor’s office asking him to approve the legislation, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California. Bargzie of the Asian Law Caucus said more than 50 people showed up to the Board of Supervisors’ vote last week.

But community leaders were disappointed that last week’s vote was so close: the Board of Supervisors passed the ordinance in a 6-5 vote.

Supervisor Cohen, who voted against the ordinance, said she had concerns that it could prevent the SFPD from accessing necessary intelligence information, and pointed out that because existing police departmental guidelines protect the interests of all San Franciscans, there was no need for duplicative legislation.

“I feel more comfortable making it a resolution, particularly when we already have in existence the general order,” said Cohen.

However, advocates said the current guidelines conflict with the 2007 agreement between the FBI and SFPD, creating confusion about which should be followed.

The agreement between the SFPD and the FBI states that when police officers are assigned to participate in the JTTF, they are under the control of the FBI’s rules, and are not held accountable to the same civilian oversight measures as the SFPD. The general order issued by the police chief in May 2011 attempted to address this by stipulating that those officers must report to the police department and are subject to oversight from the Office of Civilian Complaints.

But community leaders worry that this order could order easily be reversed by the next police chief.

Unlike the police chief’s order, an ordinance approved by the Board of Supervisor s and signed by the mayor would be binding. “An ordinance can’t just be changed when the police chief changes,” Billoo explained.

The Safe San Francisco Civil Rights Ordinance would require that any police officers participating in the JTTF must act in a way that is consistent with state, not federal, constitutional privacy standards, and avoid profiling. Any investigations into First Amendment activities (such as a person's religious or political beliefs) must be based on reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, subject to civilian oversight through the Police Commission and Office of Civilian Complaints, and authorized in writing by the chief of police.

The ordinance would only apply to future agreements between the SFPD and FBI. (A clause recommending that the current memorandum of understanding between the FBI and the SFPD be terminated was removed from the ordinance before it went up for a vote.)

If approved, the next time a memorandum of understanding comes down the pipeline from the FBI -- which advocates expect to happen soon -- it would be subject to civilian oversight and accountability.

“In the end, civil rights are protected by laws, not by vague assurances,” noted John Crew, police practices specialist with the ACLU of Northern California.

San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, whose lead the mayor is likely to follow, has expressed concern that if the ordinance passes, the SFPD will have to opt out of participating in the JTTF entirely -- a resource he considers to be extremely valuable in intelligence gathering.

According to Sergeant Michael Andraychak, “The SFPD obtained over 200 tips/items of information from the JTTF on criminal activity NOT related to First Amendment [activity] and the SFPD conducts investigations accordingly.”

But advocates note that a similar resolution that passed in Portland, Ore. – which the San Francisco ordinance is modeled after – did not stop police from working with the FBI. Portland continues to work with the JTTF after the city restored local control and transparency to its police officers participating in the task force.

In a Feb. 28 memo to the Portland City Council, Portland Police Chief Mike Reese explained how this worked. In order to provide proper oversight, he said, the Portland Criminal Investigations Unit Lieutenant is involved in the day-to-day management of the activities of the Portland police officers participating in the JTTF. Reese also continues to receive regular briefings on the work of the JTTF and attends JTTF Executive Committee meetings.

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PROOF OF OKC APRIL 19TH 1995 WAS AN FBI / ATF BOMBING SPECIAL OPERATION

Dr Bill Deagle MD

April 18th 2008

May 1st 2008 is a special day for Jesse C. Trentadue. This is the day he finds out if a Federal Judge permits an already mandated Video Deposition to take place of Terry Lynn Nichols.

In Feb 2007, Jesse C. Trentadue Attorney, spent one and one-half days with Terry Lynn Nichols, obtaining his deposition. In it, he stated that there were many other parties involved and that the operations were overseen by FBI. Jesse won a Federal injunction allowing a video deposition of Terry Lynn, but the US Dept of Prisons and FBI had filed motions to quash his video deposition of Terry. May 1st 2008 is May Day for the Old World Disorder, as this Video evidence will demand finally a Grand Jury, that will make complicit two and possibly three Presidencies, FBI, ATF, and US State's Attorney in Colorado, Arapahoe County Sherriff, and many more.

"On March 20, 2008, Plaintiff receive from the FBI's Philadelphia Office documents relate to information provided by informants to the FBI regarding: Tim McVeigh, Elohim City, the Aryan Republican Army or 'ARA', OKBOMB, BOMBROB, Richard Lee Guthrie and the Mid-West Bank Robbers, one of whom was Mark Thomas." ..." Donna Marazoff is or was the girlfriend of Mark Thomas and the mother of two of his children. The Court will recall that Thomas was a member of the Mid-West Bank Robbery Gang, a member of the Aryan Republican Army."

"With this background, the Marazoff 302 is very significant. In this 302, the FBI documents that Marazoff reported that prior to February of 1995, she and Thomas had been discussing the federal government's involvement in Waco and Ruby Ridge. According to Marazoff, Thomas became "very irritated" during that conversation and said: "We are going to get them. We are going to hit one of their buildings during the middle of the day. It's going to be a federal building. We will get sympathy if we bomb the building"[T]he people who will lose their loved ones, will realize how bad it feels." (Marazoff 302) (emphasis added).

"Interestingly, Thomas and the other Elohim City, ARA and Mid-West Bank Robbers crowd do not seem to have been subjects of interest to the FBI when it came to the bombing of the Murrah Building, and one has to wonder. Why? The answer to that question may likewise be the basis for the FBI Defendants' suspicious of Plaintiff's reason for advising the Court about this recent release of additional informant documents. This Saturday will be the 13th anniversary of the Bombing. That attack was the biggest act of domestic terrorism in the 20th Century and resulted in the deaths of 168 people, including 19 toddlers as well as hundreds of injured victims. Perhaps this approaching anniversary is why FBI Defendants' are so suspicious and wary of the motive behind Plaintiff's filing of the Notice of Release. But, if Plaintiff wante to present FBI Defendants in a bad light, he would have included the Marazoff 302 and similar FBI documents in his Notice of Release of additional informant documents. Dated this 17th day of April, 2008. -- Jesse C. Trentadue; Pro Se Plaintiff "

As Exit Medical Examiner at CCOM, St. Francis Hospital, I personally examined all five Special Ops Bomb Forensics Military Officers. One of the officers spent several hours provided extreme details of the scene, cause of the demolition and operational control of the site by Wakenhut Security. He wanted further testing from positive radiation exposure, and told me how the entire operation was run by FBI and ATF and how all their bags were weighed and scanned for radiation traces of removed debris particles and chunks. They were warned, "Don't remove any material from the site or we will track and kill you." When it became evident that he told me this information, he was court-martialed and I was summarily fired and threatened.