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fruhmenschen » Wed Sep 18, 2013 3:30 pm wrote:http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/slides ... 199590.php

Thanks for the response earlier. No idea what you're getting at here, though.

http://www.democracynow.org/1997/6/5/randall_kennedy


Salt Lake City attorney Trentadue is interviewed. He goes to court soon trying to force FBI agents to say they created the Oklahoma City bombing

FBI Director happy with new FBI Sequester program.







http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_212502 ... ed-suicide
Coroner: Burbank FBI agent's death ruled suicide
08/06/2012 07:52:30 PM PDT


FBI Agent Stephen Ivens of Burbank is seen in this file photo. He was last seen May 10, 2012. Hikers found his body near his home on July 30, 2012.
BURBANK - The Los Angeles County coroner has determined the death of an FBI agent who went missing from his Burbank home was a suicide.
Chief Coroner Investigator Craig Harvey said Monday that 35-year-old Stephen Ivens shot himself in the head with a handgun, and died of the wound.

see link for full story
http://behindthebluewall.blogspot.com/2 ... nders.html


TOP FBI AGENT IN L.A. PLACED ON LEAVE: Sources say division chief Jim Sheehan is being transferred to Washington after the suicide of his former girlfriend, a colleague.
Los Angeles Times
By Greg Krikorian And Christine Hanley
February 3, 2005

The head of the FBI's criminal division in Los Angeles has been placed on administrative leave pending a reassignment to the bureau's headquarters, law enforcement sources said Wednesday.

The transfer of veteran FBI Special Agent in Charge Jim Sheehan comes amid an internal investigation into the recent suicide of a longtime agent, Wendy Woskoff, with whom Sheehan had been romantically involved until several months ago, sources said.

Woskoff, 54, died of a self-inflicted gunshot Jan. 23 at her Santa Monica home. A 24-year veteran of the FBI, Woskoff was most recently assigned to an intelligence squad in the Los Angeles division.




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http://www.ticklethewire.com/2011/04/27 ... -in-maine/

FBI Agent Commits Suicide in Maine


By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
The FBI wasn’t saying much last week about the suicide of an FBI agent, who shot himself in the Portland, Maine area over the weekend of April 24, according to sources.

FBI agent Greg Comcowich, a spokesman for the Boston FBI Division, which includes Maine, told the ticklethewire.com:
“The type of question which you are inquiring (about)is not something the FBI would comment on.”
Last year, an FBI agent assigned to Quantico committed suicide.

see link for full story
http://blog.al.com/montgomery-independe ... _year.html


FBI harassed Deputy AG who committed suicide last year
Published: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 3:53 PM Updated: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 4:31 PM

By Bob Martin, Editor & Publisher

A Deputy Alabama Attorney General, who committed suicide last Nov. 5th was being harassed by two FBI agents who mistakenly thought he was trying to help Milton McGregor.
Officials in the AG’s office confirmed that fact and also the tragic self-inflicted death last December after the The Independent submitted questions to them. The agents, both involved in the investigation of McGregor and the current gaming legislation issue, were Keith Baker and John H. McEachern, III.
The Deputy AG, Robert William “Bob” Caviness, was in the process of conducting a background check on an individual with the last name of McEachern, who lived in the Auburn-Opelika area. It was a matter involving worker’s comp fraud.
The Independent was told by the AG’s office that Agents Baker and McEachern became suspicious when they found out through the state’s computer data base that someone in the Attorney General’s office was conducting the search involving McEachern’s name.



Body of Missing Retired FBI Agent Found in Texas: Homicide or Suicide?






http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/body-of- ... aed30.html


The body of a missing retired FBI agent was found in Waller County, Texas late last week near her car, the Waller County News Citizen reported.
The paper said unconfirmed reports indicated Patricia Durney had suffered a bullet wound to the head. It said authorities were trying to determine whether it was a homicide or suicide. Her body was found Thursday, one day after she was reported missing.
A comment from the sheriff’s department made it sound as if they were leaning toward suicide.

Insane Clown Posse attorneys say FBI withholding documents on gang listing of Juggalos
September 19 2013
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http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.s ... eys_s.html
ptember 18, 2013
FLINT, MI -- Attorneys for the Insane Clown Posse say the Federal Bureau of Investigation is withholding information they requested to explore why federal law enforcement officials decided to label the band's followers a gang.

The FBI filed a motion for summary disposition Friday, Aug. 23, after the Detroit-based rap duo and its Bloomfield Hills-based law firm, Hertz Schram, filed a lawsuit in September 2012 in Flint U.S. District Court demanding the FBI turn over information that led the agency to list the band's fans -- known as Juggalos -- as a gang.

The lawsuit claims the band asked the FBI, through an Aug. 24 Freedom of Information Act request, for information about the National Gang Intelligence Center's 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment Emerging Trends report.

The FBI argued in its motion to dismiss, which was filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office, that the bureau turned over all pertinent records in two separate releases. However, attorneys from Hertz Schram claim in their Friday, Sept. 13, response that the FBI has not released all of the requested information and they question the adequacy of the bureau's search for documents.

Attorneys representing the band could not be reached for comment.

READ: The documents the FBI released to Hertz Schram

FBI officials declined to comment on the allegations.

The band's attorneys point to a March 11, 2012, FOIA request filed by the website MuckRock.com as proof that the FBI is not releasing all of the information sought by FOIA requests submitted by the band's attorneys.

2 stories
1st story

FBI Director say FBI needs to reinvent itself every day and in every way
as American Voters and Taxpayers continue to discover the crimes committed by taxpayer funded FBI agents.

The organization that committed genocide against african americans for 80 years
plans to use the taxpayer dime to fight genocide.
see link for full story
http://groundreport.com/fbi-launches-ne ... -genocide/
FBI launches new website to fight genocide
09/21/2013 at 6:07PM

The FBI announces the launch of a website in connection with its Genocide War Crimes Program. The website solicits information from victims and others about acts of genocide, war crimes, or related mass atrocities.

The FBI recently announced the launch of a website in connection with its Genocide War Crimes Program. “Today, in an effort to raise awareness about these crimes and the FBI’s part in helping to combat them, we’re announcing the launch of our Genocide War Crimes Program website. In addition to educating the public on our role, the website solicits information from victims and others about acts of genocide, war crimes, or related mass atrocities that can be submitted to us through tips.fbi.gov or by contacting an FBI field office or legal attaché office.”

According to the article: “The global community has banded together to help prevent crimes like these and to bring to justice the perpetrators who commit them. The U.S. is part of this international effort—most recently through the creation of an interagency Atrocities Prevention Board. And the FBI supports the government’s efforts through its own Genocide War Crimes Program” (see article: Genocide and War Crimes – New Website Designed to Raise Awareness, Solicit Information http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/au ... es-webpage ).

Genocide is “the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.

According to FBI Special Agent Jeffrey VanNest, who heads up our Genocide War Crimes Unit (GWCU), our mission is to “systematically and methodically help track down perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and other related atrocities – the worst of the worst -and apprehend them.”




2nd story
Congressman demands FBI punish agents for CAIR contact Reporter: Jack Minor September 21, 2013 in Politics 0 Share0 Tweet1 Share0 0 Congressman demands FBI punish agents for CAIR contactU.S. Rep. Frank Wolf R-Va. fired off a scathing letter to the new director of the FBI after an Inspector General’s report provided to Congress revealed that FBI agents deliberately violated a policy to avoid interactions with a Muslim group with known ties to terrorist organizations. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case. The case was the largest terrorism funding case ever brought before American courts. Later a judge upheld CAIR’s unindicted co-conspirator designation. Sponsored Links In the aftermath of the court case, the FBI issued a ban on non-investigative cooperation with the Islamist group. Prior to this, CAIR was frequently used by the FBI as an expert on Islam. In a classified report, Inspector General Michael Horwitz uncovered a series of incidents where FBI field offices knowingly engaged in outreach activity with CAIR despite the ban. In the report’s summary which has been made available to the public, it reveals that several of the FBI field office agents-in-charge balked at the policy and chose to deliberately disobey it “[W]e will decide how our relationship is operated and maintained with CAIR barring some additional instruction from FBI Headquarters,” the Los Angeles Special Agent in Charge wrote. “Please instruct your folks at this time that are not to abide by the … [policy] but that their dire
Read more at http://usfinancepost.com/congressman-de ... GefsEpw.99

FBI informant murders DA
see link for full story
Source says body of missing DA in Penn State sex scandal case was hidden in a shaft after former Hell's Angel has his 'knee caps spun' and throat slit

Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar went missing in 2005 while driving to work
In 1998, Gricar was informed about sexual abuse allegations against Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, but he decided not to press charges
After the sex abuse scandal came to light in 2011, some believed that his disappearance may have something to do with the sex scandal
A former Hell's Angels ranking officer told police and local press in May that Gricar was actually killed by a former member and it had nothing to do with Penn State
The source took FBI agents to the Pennsylvania property where Gricar's body was buried but didn't point out the exact location
He wants to secure immunity first since there are four other bodies buried in the same shaft as Gricar and he doesn't want to incriminate himself

21 September 2013

Answers? A source has told authorities in Pennsylvania and the FBI that he knows the location of missing DA Ray Gricar's body

One of the most shocking things about the Penn State sex abuse scandal when it came to light in 2011, was the fact that the local District Attorney knew about the case back in the 1990s.

The mother of one of the children abused by football coach Jerry Sandusky, reported the crime to DA Ray Gricar in 1998 but he decided not to bring up charges.

Gricar, 59, was never able to explain why he let Sandusky slip away, since Gricar himself vanished in 2005.

After the sex scandal revelation, some hypothesized that Gricar's disappearance was somehow tied to Penn State.

But now a former person of interest in his disappearance has told the Altoona Mirror that it was a former Hell's Angel that carried out the killing and had nothing to do with Penn State.

The last time anyone saw Gricar was on April 15, 2005, when he left for work in his red mini cooper.

Gricar never showed up and the next day his car was discovered parked in an antique mall parking lot. Eventually, authorities also found his computer and hard drive.

Over the years the FBI has worked with local police to investigate leads in the case..

Last May, a former Hell's Angels ranking officer decided to come forward to authorities and the Altoona Mirror with what he says is the real story behind Gricar's death.

Sex abuse scandal: After the Penn State sex abuse scandal came to light in 2011, it was revealed that Gricar heard complaints about football coach Jerry Sandusky as early as 1998 but decided not to bring up charges

Without a trace: Gricar was never able to account for why he let Sandusky, above, off since he himself went missing while driving to work in April 2005

According to the source, Gricar was murdered by a former Hell's Angel who was getting back at the DA for receiving a long prison sentence for an aggravated assault conviction in the 1990s.

The man who carried out the killing was also an FBI informant. According to a statement read by a judge at a sentencing hearing, the former Hell's Angel reported information to the FBI on illegal activities by the motorcycle gang after his release.

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Like the FBI Global Warming and Climate Change are very bad for the human species.
I thought it might be useful to see the close connection between the two.
Did you know FBI Director J Edgar Hoover worked closely with the Texas Oil Mafia
to assassinate President Kennedy?
In light of the catastrophic weather Colorado experienced this month of September 2013
it might be useful to introduce you to the new documentary CHASING ICE done with the hopes of introducing you to what caused the flooding in Colorado this month.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs7NwjuNIaM




9/11 Truth Teleconference
wtc7 pentagon
Draft Agenda for 9/25/11 9/11 Truth Teleconference




8pm (est); 5pm (pst) Teleconference # 1- 218-895-6835 Access code: 9112001 #

Greetings all,

This month, for a change, a more open agenda. Hopefully we'll get some feedback on the recent 9/11: Advancing the Truth conference, and take a look at what lies ahead for the 9/11 truth movement.

Peace,
Ken


I Roll call of participants and affiliations (5 minutes)

II Approval of previous teleconference minutes (copied below)

III Approval of agenda

IV Proposed special teleconference with Christopher Bollyn...discussion and appropriate planning (See last month's minutes for details) [Ned Delaney] (20-30 min)

V Announcements



VI Reports and open discussion on 9/11 Anniversary events (9/11: Advancing the Truth Conference, Rethinking 9/11, etc.)



VII Open discussion of issues of interest to the 9/11 truth movement (any remaining time)



VIII Adjournment (no later than 9:30 p EST)



Craig McKee, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference Call
**********************

Draft minutes of Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Monthly 9/11 Truth Teleconference Call 8 pm (ET); 5pm (PT)

Present on the 8/28/2013 9/11 Truth Teleconference Call were:

Ken Freeland, Facilitator of 9/11 Truth Teleconference Call, Houston 9/11 Truth
Craig McKee, Secretary of 9/11 Truth Teleconference Call, Truth and Shadows
Barbara Honegger, independent 9/11 researcher
James Hufferd, 9/11 Truth Grassroots Organization
Paul Zarembka, editor of The Hidden History of 9-11
Dwain Deets, SD9/11 Truth
Adam Syed, Cincinnati 9/11 Truth
Adam Ruff, independent 9/11 activist
Barrie Zwicker, author of Towers of Deception: the Media Cover-up of 9/11
Ned Delaney, 9/11 Grassroots
Lorenzo Fine, 9/11 activist, Newton, Mass.
Barton Bruce, Boston 9/11 Truth
George Ripley, Citizens 9/11 Commission
Robin Hordon, Occupy Peace Through 9/11 Truth
Cheryl Curtiss, Connecticut 9/11 Truth
Frank Tolopko, Berkshire 9/11 Truth
Dennis McMahon, member, Consensus 9/11 Panel
Elizabeth Woodworth, co-founder, Consensus 9/11 Panel


Draft minutes from 7/31/13 teleconference were APPROVED

(With respect to the section on the DC conference, Barbara Honegger requested a correction to the July minutes but after a discussion agreed instead that a notation be included in the July minutes stating that her Saturday Sept. 14, 2013 presentation at the 9/11: Advancing the Truth conference, while not primarily on the Pentagon, would include reference to the Pentagon)

A typographical error in which the July minutes had been approved last month was corrected to show that it was the June minutes that were approved.

The amended draft agenda was APPROVED

1) Request for support for study

A motion was APPROVED to endorse the work of chemical engineer Mark Basile who is looking to independently confirm the evidence laid out in the 2009 paper by Niels Harrit and others about thermite being present in the WTC dust.

2) (A) Resolution regarding 9/11: Advancing the Truth conference

Paul Zarembka proposed the substitution of a new resolution regarding the 9/11: Advancing the Truth conference planned for September 14 and 15 in Washington D.C. for the resolution proposed on the July 31 call.

The revised resolution read as follows:

Whereas George Ripley, an organizer for the “9/11: Advancing the Truth” conference to take place on September 14-15, 2013 in Washington, D.C., said on the 9/11 Truth Teleconference call on June 26, 2013 that a prime purpose of the conference has been to debate the CIT evidence regarding the Pentagon event, and

Whereas Dwain Deets, Barbara Honegger, and Matt Sullivan are scheduled for 15th to make a four-hour presentation and discussion on the Pentagon event, and

Whereas Dwain Deets and Barbara Honegger are speaking on the Pentagon event without significant elements of their positions having been carefully vetted by others,

Therefore, be it resolved

that the 9/11 Truth Teleconference recommends that Dwain Deets and Barbara Honegger make clear statements at the conference as to their own positions, as well as their areas of agreement and disagreement with the positions of CIT and Pilots for 9/11 Truth, and

that the Teleconference recommends that, in addition to fully laying out his position that no airliner hit the Pentagon, Matt Sullivan specify in which respects he believes that this position is inconsistent with the positions taken by Deets and Honegger, and
that the Teleconference is concerned with Barbara Honegger having a second billing on the day prior to the Pentagon discussion and thus that she be asked to refrain from using that prior talk as a preliminary for the Pentagon talk the next day, and

that the Teleconference recommends that the order of speakers for any session discussing the Pentagon event be decided by lot, and

that the idea of a “consensus" statement on the Pentagon event not be entertained, and

that this resolution be transmitted forthwith by the facilitator of the Teleconference to George Ripley and Matt Sullivan as two organizers for the D.C. conference.

The motion to substitute the new resolution for the old was APPROVED without objection.

Frank Tolopko proposed postponing consideration of the resolution until the September call. The motion was DEFEATED.

(AT THIS POINT, ELIZABETH WOODWORTH ASKED THAT WE MOVE HER PRESENTATION TO THIS POINT IN THE CALL AND THAT WE RETURN TO THE DISCUSSION OF PAUL ZAREMBKA’S PROPOSAL AFTERWARDS. THIS WAS APPROVED.

3) Update on Consensus Panel

Elizabeth Woodworth gave a presentation about the work of the Consensus 9/11 Panel followed by questions and answers. Elizabeth indicated that new points would be released in early September. She also mentioned that Nexus magazine in France had done a 12-page spread on the Consensus Panel (the link to the article is: http://www.consensus911.org/wp-content/ ... S-11-9.pdf)

A motion was made by Robin Hordon to extend this discussion for an additional 20 minutes, which was APPROVED.

2) (B) Resolution regarding 9/11: Advancing the Truth conference (continued)

Craig McKee proposed adding the section below to the resolution:

That conference organizers not refer to the position being taken by Matt Sullivan as the “CIT position” because it implies that CIT are the only ones making the “no airliner impact” case. Also, because it is impossible for anything described as “the CIT position” to be articulated in enough detail by someone other than CIT, especially in the short time frame available, and

This was APPROVED. Dwain Deets and Robin Hordon asked that it be noted that they abstained from this vote.

George Ripley made a motion to remove the section of the resolution dealing with a conference “consensus statement” and the section dealing with drawing lots to determine the order of speakers.

Paul Zarembka proposed dividing the question. This was APPROVED.

The motion to remove the reference to drawing lots was APPROVED.

During discussion about the other motion by George, Ken Freeland proposed a change of wording to this section, which was agreed to by Paul Zarembka:

that the idea of a “consensus" statement on what happened or did not happen at the Pentagon event not be entertained…

This change of wording was APPROVED.

The vote was then held on George Ripley’s motion to remove this section. This was APPROVED.

A motion was then made by Adam Ruff to remove the original resolution from consideration. This was APPROVED.

4) Future of Teleconference

Craig McKee gave a summary of responses to the survey on the future of the Teleconference sent out in July. He also proposed that the current three-month limit for remaining on the listserve without participating in a conference call be extended to six months. This was APPROVED.

Robin Hordon then proposed that the restriction be lifted altogether. This was APPROVED.

5) Christopher Bollyn on future call

Ken Freeland mentioned that the opportunity exists to have researcher/author Christopher Bollyn join us for a future Teleconference call, but that it would require a special time be arranged because Christopher is in Sweden and cannot be part of the call at the usual time. Ken agreed to ask Ned Delaney, who had conveyed this information to him in the first place, to put together the details in an email that would then be shared with the entire Teleconference mailing list. The subject will be revisited on the September call.

6) Rethink 9/11

Barrie Zwicker initiated a discussion of the Rethink 9/11 campaign.

Call adjourned at 11 p.m. EST/8 p.m. PST

You can hear an audio recording of the teleconference (along with archives of earlier calls) in its entirety here: http://houston911truth.net/audio/082813.wav

The 9/11 Truth Teleconference is held on the last Wednesday of every month. The next 9/11 Teleconference call will be Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 8 pm EST/5:00 pm PST.

Please send agenda items for next call to facilitator Ken Freeland (diogenesquest@gmail.com) by September 21. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.”

see link for full story

23 September 2013

Ex-FBI Pleads Guilty to NatSec Leak and Child Porn

Washington Post reporters Greg Miller and Karen DeYoung reported on a foiled airline bomb plot out of Yemen on May 7, 2012, a few days before Sachtleben's child porn charges on May 12, 2012:

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012 ... underwear-
bomb-aqap-explosive-device

From the child porn plea agreement:

"5. Wiring: The defendant understands and acknowledges that this Superceding Plea Agreement and the related plea of guilty are contingent upon the entry of a guilty plea by the defendant in the separate case charging him with two (2) violations of Title 18, United States Code, Section 793." [Section 793 covers disclosure of defense information.]

http://www.fbi.gov/washingtondc/press-r ... ontractor-
petitions-to-plead-guilty-to-unlawfully-disclosing-national-defense-information-
and-to-distributing-child-pornography

Former Federal Contractor Petitions to Plead Guilty to Unlawfully Disclosing National Defense Information and to Distributing Child Pornography

U.S. Attorney’s Office

September 23, 2013 Office of Public Affairs

(202) 514-2007/ (202) 514-1888

WASHINGTON—Donald John Sachtleben, a former FBI bomb technician who later worked as a government contractor for the agency, has filed a petition to plead guilty to newly filed charges of unlawfully disclosing national defense information relating to a disrupted terrorist plot. Sachtleben previously had filed a petition to plead guilty to charges of possessing and distributing child pornography resulting from a separate investigation.

Sachtleben, 55, of Carmel, Indiana, has signed plea agreements in both cases. The documents were filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Charges in the national security case were filed today, and charges in the child pornography case were filed in May 2012.

The developments were announced by Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole; Ronald C. Machen, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia; Joseph H. Hogsett, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana; and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

The plea agreements signed by the parties would resolve both cases in court proceedings in Indiana. The agreements, which are contingent upon the court’s approval, call for Sachtleben to plead guilty to the two national security charges as well as the two child pornography offenses. The plea agreements call for Sachtleben to be sentenced to a total of 140 months of incarceration, including a 43-month prison term for the national security offenses and a consecutive 97-month term for the child pornography charges.

“This unauthorized and unjustifiable disclosure severely jeopardized national security and put lives at risk,” Deputy Attorney General Cole said. “To keep the country safe, the department must enforce the law against such critical and dangerous leaks, while respecting the important role of the press under the department’s media guidelines and any shield law enacted by Congress. I am grateful to the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys’ offices in both Washington, D.C., and Indiana for their excellent and dedicated work on this case.”

“Fifteen months ago, we were given the task of uncovering who had threatened a sensitive intelligence operation and endangered lives by illegally disclosing classified information relating to a disrupted al Qaeda suicide bomb plot,” said U.S. Attorney Machen. “That plot could not have been more serious, as it targeted a plane bound for the United States. After unprecedented investigative efforts by prosecutors and FBI agents and analysts, today Donald Sachtleben has been charged with this egregious betrayal of our national security. This prosecution demonstrates our deep resolve to hold accountable anyone who would violate their solemn duty to protect our nation’s secrets and to prevent future, potentially devastating leaks by those who would wantonly ignore their obligations to safeguard classified information.”

“The allegations in this case describe the defendant’s repeated violation of a sacred trust that the public had placed in him,” said U.S. Attorney Hogsett. “With these charges, a message has been sent that this type of behavior is completely unacceptable and no person is above the law.”

“Today, Mr. Sachtleben has been charged with knowingly and willfully disclosing national defense information to a member of the media,” said Assistant Director in Charge Parlave. “These charges are the result of a careful and thorough investigation by FBI special agents and analysts who, together with federal prosecutors, systematically conducted more than 500 interviews and, following that exhaustive process, analyzed relevant telephone records obtained by subpoena. After analysis of the telephone records, investigators identified him as the source of this unlawful disclosure. The FBI will continue to take all necessary steps to pursue such individuals who put the security of our nation and the lives of others at risk by their disclosure of sensitive information.”

National Security Case:

According to a criminal information filed today, on May 2, 2012, nine days before Sachtleben was arrested in Indiana on child pornography charges, Sachtleben knowingly and willfully disclosed national defense information to a reporter for a national news organization not entitled to receive it. The charging document alleges that Sachtleben had reason to believe that this information could be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation. The criminal information also charges him with willfully retaining documents relating to the national defense without authorization.

Sachtleben worked for the FBI from 1983 through 2008. During his career, he was a special agent bomb technician and was assigned to work on many major cases involving terrorist attacks. In his work as an FBI employee, Sachtleben held a top secret security clearance and had regular access to classified and national defense information relating to the FBI’s activities, as well as the activities of other members of the U.S. intelligence community.

In 2008, Sachtleben retired from the FBI and was rehired as a contractor. Because of his official responsibilities, he maintained his top secret security clearance as an FBI contractor. As a result, he continued to have regular access to classified and national defense information relating to the FBI’s activities, as well as the activities of other members of the U.S. intelligence community. As a contractor, he routinely visited the FBI Lab in Quantico, Virginia.

One of the criminal charges involves Sachtleben’s contacts with the reporter relating to the disruption of a plot to conduct a suicide bomb attack on a U.S.-bound airliner by the Yemen-based terrorist organization al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and the recovery by the United States of a bomb in connection with that plot. As a result of Sachtleben’s disclosure of national defense information to the reporter, the national security of the United States was compromised, a significant international intelligence operation was placed in jeopardy, and lives were put at risk.

Sachtleben was identified as a suspect in the case of this unauthorized disclosure only after toll records for phone numbers related to the reporter were obtained through a subpoena and compared to other evidence collected during the leak investigation. This allowed investigators to obtain a search warrant authorizing a more exhaustive search of Sachtleben’s cell phone, computer, and other electronic media, which were in the possession of federal investigators due to the child pornography investigation.

Sachtleben was employed as an FBI contractor until on or about May 11, 2012. The following day, he was arrested in Indiana and charged by complaint with the federal child pornography charges.

Child Pornography Case:

According to a criminal complaint filed in Indiana in May 2012, federal and state investigators became aware of an individual trading images of child pornography online in September 2010. An extensive investigation into that individual led to the arrest of a defendant in Illinois in January 2012. Upon arrest, a forensic search of that defendant’s computer equipment and e-mail accounts allegedly revealed that he had been actively trading the explicit materials online with numerous other people.

Based on that information, law enforcement traced the alleged online activity to Sachtleben’s home in Carmel. After conducting several days of surveillance, a search warrant was executed on May 11, 2012, by law enforcement officers from the Indiana State Police and the FBI Cyber Crime Task Force. Sachtleben was charged in the Southern District of Indiana with possession and distribution of child pornography.

The complaint alleges that an initial forensic examination of Sachtleben’s laptop computer revealed the presence of approximately 30 images and video files containing child pornography. It is alleged that a number of files identified during this initial search matched those that had been found in the course of investigating the Illinois defendant. The complaint further alleges that the laptop’s hard drive contained references to other files known to have been in the possession of the Illinois defendant.


Former top FBI agent charged with child porn distribution
By Bill Mears, CNN
May 15, 2012
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/15/justice/e ... index.html

(CNN) -- A former supervisory FBI agent has been arrested and jailed on child pornography charges.

Donald Sachtleben was taken into custody and charged Monday after a nationwide undercover investigation of illegal child porn images traded over the Internet.



A federal complaint alleges 30 graphic images and video were found on Sachtleben's laptop computer late last week when FBI agents searched his home, about 23 miles north of Indianapolis.



Sachtleben is currently an Oklahoma State University visiting professor, according to his online resume. He is director of training at the school's Center for Improvised Explosives, but all references to his work have now been removed from the university's website. There was no indication from the school as to whether it had suspended him. Calls to the university and his Indianapolis attorneys were not immediately returned.

He had been an FBI special agent from 1983 to 2008, serving as a bomb technician. He worked on the Oklahoma City bombing and Unabomber investigations, according to his university biography.

A separate LinkedIn profile filled out by Sachtleben says he is an "accomplished investigator with more than 25 years of experience in FBI major case management, counter terrorism investigations, bombing prevention, post blast investigations and public speaking."

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http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/report-kenne ... i-payroll/


September 25, 2013
Report: Kennedy assassin was on FBI payroll
Author says Bill O'Reilly 'uncritically repeats the Warren Commission lie'

In his bestseller “Killing Kennedy,” author and Fox News host Bill O’Reilly “uncritically repeats the Warren Commission lie” that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of President John F. Kennedy, charges Jerome Corsi, author of the newly released “Who Really Killed Kennedy? 50 Years Later: Stunning New Revelations about the JFK Assassination.”
Corsi, whose new book has overtaken O’Reilly’s on the Amazon list of top sellers about JFK, argues O’Reilly fails to take into account the extensive documentation produced over the last 50 years indicating Oswald was an agent of the federal government with an extensive CIA intelligence file that stretched back to 1957.
O’Reilly, says Corsi, uncritically presents Oswald as a communist-sympathizer who defected to the Soviet Union, without mentioning the documentary record.
Corsi, in his book, presents evidence that Oswald was a double agent in the “false defector program” in which the U.S. government encouraged military troops loyal to the United States to engage in a ruse in which they would defect to the Soviet Union to gain access to the inside operations of the KGB.
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O’Reilly also does not mention the evidence that Oswald was being paid by the FBI as an informant in November 1963, prior to the assassination. Corsi says the Warren Commission suppressed the information, concluding Oswald had no affiliation with U.S. intelligence agencies.
Corsi asks: “Was Bill O’Reilly simply unaware of this documentary evidence when he co-authored ‘Killing Kennedy’?”
“Who Really Killed Kennedy,” released last week as the 50th anniversary of the assassination approaches, is bolstered by recently declassified documents that shed new light on the greatest “who-done-it” mystery of the 20th century. Corsi sorted through tens of thousands of documents, all 26 volumes of the Warren Commission’s report, hundreds of books, several films and countless photographs.
Oswald’s CIA file
The documents on the JFK assassination released by the federal government in the past few years show the CIA had an intelligence file on Oswald.
His “201″ CIA file, a personality file, was numbered No. 39-61981, with the “39” denoting an intelligence file, Corsi points out.
The Mary Ferrell Foundation has made public 50,000 pages of documents from Oswald’s CIA file, including a small selection of the pre-assassination file, followed by a huge collection of post-assassination documents pertaining to the Warren Commission and other subsequent investigations of the JFK assassination.
Oswald’s 201 CIA file was opened by Counter Intelligence officer Elizabeth “Ann” Egerter in December 1960.
The pre-assassination part of Oswald’s 201 CIA file shows the CIA followed, step by step, every move Oswald made to return to the United States after “defecting” to the Soviet Union, says Corsi.
As early as October 1960, while the presidential campaign between Nixon and Kennedy was still going on, the Department of State undertook a project to identify and research all Americans who had defected to the Soviet Union, to Soviet bloc nations or to communist China.
At the Department of State’s “Office of Intelligence/Resources and Coordination,” Robert B. Elwood wrote to Richard Bissell, then CIA’s deputy director for plans – the position from which Bissell began planning under the Eisenhower administration the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
The assignment at the State Department fell to Otto F. Otepka, deputy director of the State Department Office of Security. Bissell shipped the file to James Angleton at CIA counter intelligence and to Robert L. Bannerman, the CIA deputy chief of security.
According to former military intelligence officer John Newman in his 1995 book “Oswald and the CIA,” Bannerman said the opening of Oswald’s “201 file” regarding his defection to the Soviet Union “would have all gone through Angleton.” The 201 opening was something on which “we worked very closely with Angleton and his staff,” Bannerman recalled.
At the CIA, Otepka continued to add to Oswald’s 201 file, noting key “red flags,” such as when Oswald applied for and received a U.S. passport on one day’s notice to return to the United States. Oswald also received an extra visa a month and a half before he left Russia, apparently so his Russian wife could accompany him home.
Otepka also added to Oswald’s file, according to Corsi, when he learned Oswald had received a State Department loan that made his return to the U.S. possible financially. There are indications in the file that Attorney General Bobby Kennedy was aware of Oswald and his 201 file a year and a half before the JFK assassination.
The Justice Department evidently intervened with the Dallas Police, asking them not to pursue, investigate or arrest Oswald for allegedly firing a shot at Gen. Edwin Walker in Dallas prior to the Kennedy assassination.
Walker urged the House Select Committee on Investigations to look into the extraordinary intervention that traced back to Bobby Kennedy.
Oswald and the FBI
“As remarkable as it seems, the evidence suggests Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the assassination was on the payroll of the FBI,” says Corsi.
J. Lee Rankin, the general counsel of the Warren Commission, wrote a memo to the file in January 1964 documenting that a reliable source informed him of journalists in Texas who commonly knew Oswald was receiving a monthly check of $200 from the FBI.
In that letter, as reproduced in the archives preserved by the Mary Ferrell Foundation online, Rankin documents that on Jan. 22, 1964, he received a telephone call from Waggoner Carr, attorney general of Texas, communicating on a confidential basis an allegation that Oswald had been an undercover agent for the FBI since September 1962 and had been paid $200 a month from an account designated as No. 179.
Rankin’s letter further documents that on Jan. 23, 1964, Secret Service Report No. 766 summarized an interview conducted by FBI agent Bertram with Houston Post reporter Alonso H. Hudkins III that read in part:

On December 19, Mr. Hudkins advised that he had just returned from a weekend in Dallas, during which time he talked to Allen Sweatt, Chief Criminal Division, Sheriff’s Office, Dallas. Chief Sweatt mentioned that it was his opinion that Lee Harvey Oswald was being paid $200 a month by the FBI as an informant in connection with their subversive investigation. He furnished the alleged informant number assigned to Oswald by the FBI as “S172.”

Rankin, says Corsi, further affirmed that District Attorney Wade in Dallas and “others of the Texas representatives” stated the rumors that Oswald was an undercover agent were widely held among members of the press in Dallas and that Melvin Belli, attorney for Jack Ruby, was aware of the allegations.
Wade further told Rankin that Oswald was an informant for the CIA, carrying No. 110669.
As documented by the proceedings of the Warren Commission’s executive session Jan. 27, 1964, another document archived online by the Mary Ferrell Foundation, Rankin presented to the commissioners the allegations of Oswald’s connections to the FBI and the CIA.
At that meeting, Rankin made clear his intention to cover up the information when he told the commission, “We do have a dirty rumor that is very bad for the commission, and it is very damaging to the agencies that are involved in it, and it must be wiped out so insofar as it is possible to do so by this commission.”
At the Warren Commission’s executive session on Jan. 27, 1964, commissioner Allen Dulles commented in concluding the discussion of the information Oswald was a paid FBI agent: “I think this record ought to be destroyed. Do you think we need a record of this?”
Corsi contends the Warren Commission suppressed evidence of Oswald’s relationship with the FBI, precisely because the information undermined the commission’s central conclusion that Oswald was the lone assassin.
Corsi says the evidence shows Oswald was a patriotic U.S. citizen who earned his employment as a well-trained intelligence operative, with his primary allegiance to the CIA. It could be, Corsi concludes, “a key part of the deep secret the CIA could not afford the U.S. public to know in the aftermath of the JFK assassination when the Warren Report was issued in 1964.”





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Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013
Civil liberties group claims FBI harassment toward friends of man killed by agent

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An American-Islamic civil liberties group told only Eyewitness News that it has damaging information showing a pattern of harassment by the FBI toward friends of a man who was shot and killed by an agent in Orlando.

CAIR-Florida claims agents have continually intimidated friends of Ibragim Todashev.

The group's director, Hassan Shibly, said he plans to release the information Wednesday during a news conference or by email.

He insists it will show that the FBI keeps harassing those friends months after the FBI killed the Chechen man inside his apartment.

"There's been a pattern and practice right now of the FBI intimidating and bringing perceptual charges and harassing many, many individuals who are associated with Ibragim," Shibly said by phone.

Todashev was killed as he was questioned over his possible role in a Boston-area triple murder allegedly involving bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Eyewitness News learned agents from the Boston FBI office were again in Central Florida just last week. This time, they grilled Ashurmamad Miraliev over his friendship with Todashev.

"They've basically taken retaliatory action against individuals who are familiar or associated with Ibragim Todashev, who are key witnesses into what happened in the days before he was killed," Shibly said.

Miraliev spent at least eight hours undergoing FBI questioning. He remains locked up in the Osceola County Jail on an unrelated witness tampering charge.

Eyewitness News also spoke to Todashev's former girlfriend off-camera who said she was just released from jail after spending roughly three months locked up on immigration issues, including five days in solitary confinement.




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Metadata May Not Catch Many Terrorists, But It's Great at Busting Journalists' Sources
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
The National Security Agency says that the telephone metadata it collects on every American is essential for finding terrorists. And that's debatable. But this we know for sure: Metadata is very useful for tracking journalists and discovering their sources.
On Monday, a former FBI agent and bomb technician pleaded guilty to leaking classified information to the Associated Press about a successful CIA operation in Yemen. As it turns out, phone metadata was the key to finding him.
The prosecution of the former agent, Donald Sachtleben, brings the number of leaks prosecutions under the Obama administration to eight, nearly three times the number prosecuted under all previous administrations. What's driving this record-breaking prosecution of leakers? Is it that this president especially despises loose talk with reporters and the time-worn culture of Washington backstabbing that they represent?
Not likely. The real reason the government is going after leakers is because it can. Investigators today have greater access to phone records and e-mails than they did before Obama took office, allowing them to follow digital data trails straight to the source.
After the AP published its big scoop on the Yemen operation, on May 7, 2012, FBI investigators started looking for the source of the story. They interviewed more than 550 officials, but they came up short.
So, in a highly controversial move, investigators secretly obtained a subpoena for phone records of AP reporters and editors. The records, which included the metadata of who had called whom, and how long the call lasted, covered a period in April and May of 2012. That was right around the time that the AP was reporting the Yemen story.
Once investigators looked at that phone metadata, they got their big break in the case.
"Sachtleben was identified as a suspect ... only after toll records for phone numbers related to the reporter were obtained through a subpoena and compared to other evidence collected during the leak investigation," the Justice Department said yesterday in a statement. "This allowed investigators to obtain a search warrant authorizing a more exhaustive search of Sachtleben's cellphone, computer and other electronic media..."
The reporter is not named in the court documents, but two of the AP's best investigative journalists, Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo, wrote the Yemen story.
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The phone metadata wasn't just the key to Satchleben. It sped up the investigation dramatically. The FBI had conducted 550 fruitless interviews, and with one scan of a reporter's phone record, they had their man. It's no wonder that the Obama administration is going after leakers so often. Metadata is the closest thing to a smoking gun that they're likely to have, absent a wiretap or a copy of an email in which the source is clearly seen giving a reporter classified information.
The subpoena of the AP's records was roundly criticized by press groups. The Justice Department didn't tell AP about the subpoena in advance, as is customary in these cases. And the department didn't reveal until May 2013, a year after the story ran, that investigators had been combing through journalists' phone logs.
The AP called the secret subpoena a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into the news-gathering process. And it may have resulted in a backlash. Sources close to the Justice Department have said recently that investigators are unlikely to aggressively go after a leaker via a reporter's phone records again because of the controversy over the AP case. They've also been chastened in another leaks investigation, in which a Fox News reporter was named as a potential co-conspirator because he asked his source for information, a move that drew similar howls from press advocates.
Of course, the FBI doesn't just look at reporters' phone records. They can examine government employees' work phones and email accounts without a warrant. The FBI also had a stroke of unexpected luck in the Sachtleben case, because the government had already seized his cell phone and computer as part of a child pornography investigation. When the FBI found the link to the AP reporter in the phone records, they scanned Sachtleben's devices. On his phone, they discovered text messages and records of calls between Sachtleben and an AP reporter -- again, he's not named in court documents -- about a notorious Yemeni bomb maker. On May 2, Sachtleben visited a lab where U.S. technicians were examining a new underwear device that the bombmaker had built, and that had been captured by the CIA before it could be used, the documents say. This was the germ of the AP's story, which ran five days later.
But the FBI would not have been tipped to Sachtleben as the AP's source in the first place absent that link from the reporter's phone records. If you're looking for a case study in the power of metadata, you've found it.


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Senators Demand Answers On NSA Snooping — By The End Of 2014

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This week nine members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the inspector general of the Intelligence Community, I. Charles McCullough III, asking him to conduct a full review of U.S. intelligence operations, and to “make public the findings.”
This almost sounds compelling: A bipartisan group of Senators demanding that the intelligence wing of the United States government take a hard look at itself and report its findings to the public. Of course, asking a consummate intelligence insider to vet his own team isn’t exactly exciting.
Mr. McCullough III is a former FBI agent, helped draft the intelligence portions of the Patriot Act, and worked in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. So the guy has friends throughout the agencies that he has now been asked to both vet and then publicly discuss. What do you want to wager that this report comes out milquetoast?
Here’s what the senators want the inspector general to focus on:

The use and implementation of Section 215 and Section 702 authorities, including the manner in which information – and in particular, information about U.S. persons – is collected, retained, analyzed and disseminated.

Applicable minimization procedures and other relevant procedures and guidelines, including whether they are consistent across agencies and the extent to which they protect the privacy rights of U.S. persons.
Any improper or illegal use of the authorities or information collected pursuant to them.

An examination of the effectiveness of the authorities as investigative and intelligence tools.

That’s actually quite a fine list. While asking the inspector general to grade the law he helped to write and vet the performance of his friends in an unbiased fashion is humorous, the senators’ final request is my favorite:

Please proceed to administratively perform reviews of the implementation of Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act and Section 702 of FISA, and submit the reports no later than December 31, 2014.

So the report can come out more than a year from now, and meet expectations. Assuming that the good inspector complies with the request, he has 15 months to produce something that says nothing. Empty attempts at oversight are worse than doing nothing, as they provide cover for parties that otherwise would be easier to excoriate.
Ars Technica has a good take on the situation at hand: “As more and more has come out about the scope of American surveillance programs, lawmakers are realizing that they don’t know very much about what exactly is going on.” Yes, and the rest of us don’t know enough either.
But asking Mr. McCullough III to educate us next year about what is going on now doesn’t even pass the laugh test. I’m not sure if the good senators understand how anemic their attempt at controlling the intelligence apparatus in fact is, and that alone is depressing.

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Wednesday, 09.25.13
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Graham: FBI held back Fla. 9/11 links

The former Florida senator accused the FBI in court papers of failing to give Congress details about a Saudi family in Sarasota and its possible connection to the attacks.
By Dan Christensen and Anthony Summers
Special to The Miami Herald
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham has accused the FBI in court papers of having impeded Congress' Joint Inquiry into 9/11 by withholding information about a Florida connection to the al-Qaida attacks that killed almost 3,000 people.
The information, first reported by BrowardBulldog.org in 2011, includes a recently declassified FBI report that ties a Saudi family who once lived in Sarasota "to individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001."
"The FBI's failure to call [to the Joint Inquiry's attention] documents finding 'many connections' between Saudis living in the United States and individuals associated with the terrorist attack . . . interfered with the Inquiry's ability to complete its mission, " said Graham, who was co-chairman of the Joint Inquiry.
Graham said the FBI kept the 9/11 Commission in the dark, too. He said co-chairmen Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton and executive director Philip Zelikow all told him they were unaware of the FBI's Sarasota investigation.
Moreover, Graham stated that Deputy FBI Director Sean Joyce, the Bureau's second-in-command, personally intervened to block him from speaking with the special agent-in-charge of the Sarasota investigation.
"I am troubled by what appears to me to be a persistent effort by the FBI to conceal from the American people information concerning possible Saudi support of the Sept. 11 attacks, " said Graham, who is also a former Florida governor.
Graham's remarks are contained in a 14-page sworn declaration made in a Freedom of Information lawsuit brought by BrowardBulldog.org in federal court in Fort Lauderdale.
The suit seeks the records of an FBI investigation into Esam Ghazzawi, a former adviser to a senior Saudi Prince - who, had he lived, was well-placed to become king - as well as Ghazzawi's wife Deborah and son-in-law and daughter Abdulaziz and Anoud al-Hijji.
The Ghazzawis owned the home in the gated-neighborhood of Prestancia, where the al-Hijjis lived until about two weeks before 9/11. Their hurried departure - leaving behind cars, furniture and personal effects - prompted neighbors to call the FBI.
News of the subsequent investigation did not surface until Sept. 8, 2011, when its existence was disclosed in a story published simultaneously by BrowardBulldog.org and The Miami Herald.
The story reported that a counterterrorism officer, as well as Prestancia's former administrator, Larry Berberich, said that gatehouse logs and photographs of license plates showed that vehicles used by the future hijackers had visited the al-Hijji home. Analysis of telephone records also linked the hijackers to their house, the counterterrorism officer said.
Graham told reporters in September 2011 that while Congress had relied on the FBI to provide all of its information about 9/11, he had not been made aware of the Sarasota probe.
After the story broke, the FBI acknowledged its investigation but claimed it found no evidence to connect the Ghazzawis or the al-Hijjis to the hijackers or the 9/11 plot. Agents maintained, too, that the FBI made all of its 9/11 records available to Congress.
The Freedom of Information lawsuit was filed last September, after the FBI declined to release any records on the matter.
In March, as the case moved toward trial this summer, the Bureau unexpectedly released 31 of 35 pages that it said had been located. The partially censored records flatly contradict the FBI's earlier public comments, and state that the Sarasota Saudis had "many connections" to persons allied with the hijackers.
Last month, the Department of Justice asked U.S. District Judge William Zloch to quash the lawsuit, citing national security and saying the FBI had identified and released all documents responsive to its Sarasota probe.
But in his declaration, Graham, a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said those few pages "do not appear to be the full record of the FBI investigation." He dismissed the government's assertion that it lacks further documentation as "entirely implausible."
"On a matter of this magnitude and significance, my expectation is that the FBI would have hundreds or even thousands of pages of documents, " Graham stated.
As evidence that records continue to be withheld, Graham cited a Sept. 16, 2002, FBI report about Sarasota that he was allowed to see after making inquiries at the FBI. That report should have been released, he said, but was not.

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CAIR-FL Says FBI Denied Todashev Friend the Right to an Attorney
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Muslim civil rights group calls on DOJ to probe denial of constitutional rights
TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-FL) today called on the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate a pattern of "egregious" civil rights violations and abuse by the FBI targeting associates of Ibragim Todashev, who was shot and killed by an FBI agent after hours of interrogation in the Chechen immigrant's home.
Video: CAIR-FL Claims FBI Harassing Friends of Muslim Shot by Agency
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CAIR-FL reports that the alleged violations of constitutional rights included the denial of the Fifth Amendment right to an attorney.
According to CAIR-FL, a number of friends and associates of Todashev have come forward to complain of frivolous investigations, intimidation and unlawful threats by the FBI.
Most recently, Ashur Miraliev, who assisted Todashev's father, Abdul Baki Todashev, and drove the senior Todashev to all his meetings during his stay in Orlando, was arrested by the FBI on September 18. When informed of the arrest, CAIR-FL attorneys immediately contacted the U.S. attorney's office and the FBI and asked to speak to Miraliev and requested that he not be questioned without his attorney present.
Despite being his legal counsel, CAIR-FL attorneys were not able to meet with Miraliev until yesterday. At that point, CAIR-Florida learned that Miraliev was questioned for more than six hours after his arrest, not about any alleged criminal activity he participated in, but about everything he knew concerning Ibragim Todashev.
Since his arrest, and throughout the interrogation, Miraliev reportedly told the agents that he wanted to speak with his attorneys and that he wanted his attorneys present. The FBI agents allegedly responded: "That is not happening."
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution mandates that law enforcement authorities must cease any questioning of individuals in custody once they ask for an attorney and that they must be allowed to contact an attorney. CAIR-FL says FBI reportedly ignored Miraliev's repeated requests for an attorney and continued to question him in violation of the law.
CAIR-Florida Civil Rights Director Thania Diaz Clevenger, Esq., made the following statement:
"This egregious conduct by the FBI shows that some agents have little regard for the fundamental rights protected by the Constitution and are engaging in gross violations of the Bill of Rights. It is simply unacceptable for the FBI to continue to question our client and deny his requests to speak with his legal counsel. It fits the pattern of abuse and troubling behavior by FBI agents beginning in the days prior to the killing of the unarmed Ibragim Todashev. One can only wonder if Mr. Todashev was denied his rights to legal council during the questioning that ultimately resulted in his death."
While conducting its own independent investigation, CAIR-FL has received several corroborating reports from associates of Todashev that FBI agents have threatened to wrongfully arrest them unless they became informants and spied on local mosques, Muslim restaurants and hookah lounges.


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Seattle’s top FBI agent not happy about her record-setting stint
Seattle’s top FBI agent not happy about her record-setting stint
Credit: FBI
Laura Laughlin, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Seattle
Posted on September 25, 2013 at 3:44 PM
The woman who heads Seattle’s FBI office has been at the helm longer than any of her counterparts across the country.

Agent Laura Laughlin says that’s because she’s being discriminated against and not getting promotions that are being offered to less qualified males.

Her nine years as Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC) of the Seattle FBI office is longer than any other SAC has served in recent FBI history. Typically, SAC’s hold their jobs for two years or so before moving on.


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FBI warns local students about ‘sexting’
Posted: Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Amid an apparent problem with “sexting” at a local high school, the FBI is warning students in Pike County they could face charges and other problems through the sharing of explicit photos and chats.
At an assembly at Pikeville High School on Monday, FBI agent Kimberly Kidd told a group of students from PHS and Shelby Valley High School that there could be severe consequences for sexting — the sharing of sexually-explicit photos by text messaging or other digital communication means — or engaging in sexually-explicit online chats. Kidd told the students they could faces charges, including child pornography charges, and could be charged as an adult even before they turn 18.

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February 22, 2013
FBI agents caught sexting and dating drug dealers
Dating drug dealers, harassing ex-boyfriends with naked pictures, and pointing guns at pet dogs: these were just a few of the offences committed recently by serving FBI agents, according to internal documents.
The US provided officers from the Egyptian secret police with training at the FBI, despite allegations that they routinely tortured detainees and suppressed political opposition.

Disciplinary files from the Bureau's Office of Professional Responsibility record an extraordinary range of transgressions that reveal the chaotic personal lives of some of America's top law enforcers.

One male agent was sacked after police were called to his mistress's house following reports of domestic incident. When officers arrived they found the agent "drunk and uncooperative" and eventually had to physically subdue him and wrestle away his loaded gun.

A woman e-mailed a "nude photograph of herself to her ex-boyfriend's wife" and then continued to harass the couple despite two warnings from senior officials. The Bureau concluded she was suffering from depression related to the break-up and allowed her to return to work after 10 days.
“They tried to raise the specters of Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover”
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Jess Sundin on FBI repression
Statement by Jess Sundin |
September 25, 2013
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Jess Sundin speaking at Sept. 24 protest against FBI repression.
Jess Sundin speaking at Sept. 24 protest against FBI repression. (Fight Back! News/Staff)
Fight Back! is circulating a speech delivered by anti war leader Jess Sundin, at the Sept 24 protest in front of the Federal Building in Minneapolis. About 100 demonstrators demanded an end to the federal investigation of anti war and international solidarity activists.
First, I want to say how much it means to me that you are all here today. It reminds me of the morning my home was raided by the FBI: When Garrett was the first friend to arrive, and then so many of you gathered outside all of our homes. There was the press conference on our lawn that afternoon – Marie, you were there; and the solidarity meeting that same night at the old Walker Church. Thank you all for standing with us that day, and every day, against political repression.
Three years ago, they busted through our front doors, armed with battering rams, search warrants and grand jury subpoenas, and they turned our lives upside-down. They treated us like terrorists, and the entire anti-war movement like some kind of criminal enterprise. The government set out to silence all of us, and to clear the way for war. Thanks to 23 grand jury resisters, and thousands of supporters, they failed. We are walking around free, speaking out against the agenda of war for empire, and standing here united against political repression.
When they raided our homes, they took books, photographs, computers, political papers, sign-up sheets – “evidence” of who we know and what we think. None of us talked to the FBI that day, but we later learned about the McCarthy-era questions they had planned to ask us. They wanted to know about the political groups we’re involved in, and the people we’ve worked with here and abroad. Who are your leaders? When are your meetings? Who takes the notes? How do you indoctrinate people? Are you now, or have you ever been…? Well, I didn’t tell them, but I’m telling you: I am now, and I have been for quite a long time been! Everything they took that day, they kept copies of, no doubt catalogued in some FBI/NSA/fusion center database. In the case of our Chicago friend, Hatem Abudayyeh, much of his property was never returned – held for evidence in this on-going investigation.
Now how many of you share my misfortune, of having met the undercover agent, the spy who called herself Karen Sullivan? I won’t say on this microphone what I call her now, but I think you can imagine. For two years, every word she ever said to me was a lie. Every word she said to you was a lie. She came to our meetings and our protests, our hospital rooms and our birthday parties. For two years, she worked full-time to destroy the Anti-War Committee, Freedom Road, and every organization or community we ever worked with. She sabotaged a solidarity trip to Palestine, and she used her key to let the FBI into the Anti-War Committee office three years ago today. The raids on our homes and office were based on her word. I have no doubt that the only case they could have against me and my friends is one that this professional liar manufactured.
From the outset, U.S. Attorneys said they were pursuing “multiple indictments of multiple people.” When prosecutor Barry Jonas was confronted by protesters in Chicago earlier this year, he said he couldn’t comment on “ongoing investigations” and that he has 8 years to bring charges in our case. Back in 2010, when I refused to testify in secret before the grand jury, I believed I might be jailed for that decision. Thanks to all of you, that didn’t happen.
But, I never imagined that I would live for three years under a cloud of suspicion, as a subject of an endlessly ongoing investigation. In its latest statement, the U.S. attorney’s office says, “there are no public criminal cases stemming from the investigation.” It seems clear enough that criminal indictments might already be there in secret, under seal, just waiting for the right political moment to bring them out. We are here today to show that the right political moment will never come. There will never be an easy time to take us. Our friends in the people’s movements will never stand by quietly while we are locked away like criminals for opposing the crimes of U.S. wars.
We have already proven that we are stronger than them, that we can prevail.
We beat the grand jury, and its McCarthyite witch hunt. Not one of us testified. And not one of us was jailed for refusing. Why? Because we stood together, and you stood behind us. It was solidarity.
And with solidarity, we beat back the attack on Carlos Montes. The FBI agents investigating us cooked up new charges related to an old COINTELPRO case against our friend, a Chicano leader and anti-war activist from Los Angeles. They wanted to put him away for years, but thanks to pressure by people like you and me, he wasn’t sentenced to a single day in prison!
Time and again, they tried to raise the specters of Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover, but we refused to be haunted by those old ghosts. Instead, through solidarity, we set an example of how to respond in the face of attacks: No one betrays their friends and political colleagues by testifying at a grand jury. And rather than hide in the shadows, we took the streets to say no to the attacks on us, and no to every attack on the people’s movements.
We’ve spent the last three years building unity with others fighting against repression, from anarchists, occupiers and environmentalists, to those facing terrorism charges like ours. We were here at this very courthouse when Amina Ali and Hawo Hassan were shamefully sentenced to years for sending charity home to war-torn Somalia. We rallied right here on this sidewalk for the Holy Land Five, who seek freedom from long sentences won by the same prosecutor we’re up against in our case. And we’re standing by Lynne Stewart, in her just demand for compassionate release, so that she won’t die of cancer in prison for her work defending another target of the bogus war on terror.
None of these people have done anything wrong, and neither have any of us. Was it wrong to march on the RNC against war and occupation? No! Was it wrong to travel to warzones like Palestine and Colombia, befriending those most-impacted by US policies of war? No! And to this day, is it wrong to believe in a better world – where there is no war and no want, but lasting peace built on a foundation of justice? No!
The FBI raids three years ago and the grand jury, in some ways, they changed everything. But in the ways that matter, they changed nothing. Every one of us who was targeted on September 24 has remained committed to building the people’s movements. We have not been silenced, but instead, we have used our defense campaign as a platform for speaking out against empire and all the wrong it does in this world.
All of us know more today than we did when the FBI arrived on our doorsteps. Of course, some of us learned that they’re watching us, personally. But now we also understand that the government has come to view every American as a suspect, and every activist or community leader as a target. While the government operates behind a shroud of secrecy, our right to privacy is gone. Grand juries, spying and warrantless phone and email monitoring have become standard operating procedure for the government. And the whistleblowers – from Chelsea Manning to Edward Snowden – are putting their freedom on the line, so that we can know the truth. We are witnessing a broad attack on democratic rights in this country today, and our case is part of that.
Freedom fighters are called terrorists, and war criminals receive Nobel peace prizes. We say enough is enough. We don’t want to live one more day in this upside-down Bizarro World.
For three years, we’ve stood by our activism, and insisted we’ve done nothing wrong. Today, on the three-year anniversary, and on the eve of a new war, we recommit ourselves to building the people’s movements. We defeated the grand jury, we defeated the attack on Carlos Montes, and now, we must demonstrate their complete failure in silencing activism, opposition to war, and international solidarity.
Solidarity is under attack! What do we do? Stand up, fight back!

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Deputy Who Stopped Car Of Woman Who Says She Spurned Magistrate's Sexual Advances Must Serve 10 Months In Federal Prison
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Josh Greeson
Josh Greeson
A Murray County deputy who stopped a car driven by a woman who said she had spurned the sexual advances of the Murray County chief magistrate has been sentenced to 10 months in federal prison. Authorities said then-Magistrate Bryant Cochran called Greeson and told him he could find drugs on the woman's car. Authorities said those drugs were planted.
Joshua Lamar Greeson, who earlier pleaded guilty to obstructing a public corruption investigation, appeared before Federal Judge Harold Murphy in Rome, Ga. He also must perform 100 hours of public service.
Judge Murphy said he had been prepared to impose a harsher sentence, but Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Herskowitz recommended that he get the low end of the 10-16 months sentencing range.
Judge Murphy rejected an idea by attorney Ed Marger of Jasper, Ga., that Greeson do five months in prison and five months on home detention.
The attorney said Greeson, "Other than his family, loves hunting and being a police officer. Those are both gone."
Greeson, 26, made a tearful statement in which he said, "I apologize for my part in this whole mess. From the bottom of my heart, I'm sorry for what I done."
His grandfather, who was with the state patrol for over 20 years, said when he talked with Greeson about the case, "I told him to tell the truth."
Greeson's wife of two years, Adrian, called him a good husband who is a faithful churchgoer.
Judge Murphy said it was a "most serious offense" and "reprehensible conduct on the part of a police officer." He added, "It's a most sad occasion."
Prosecutor Herskowitz said Greeson "violated the oath he took. For our system to work, police officers have to be someone the public can trust."

ATF misplaced 420 million cigarettes in stings
September 26, 2013

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WASHINGTON – Government agents acting without authorization conducted dozens of undercover investigations of illegal tobacco sales, misused some of $162 million in profits from the stings and lost track of at least 420 million cigarettes, the Justice Department's inspector general said Wednesday.

In one case, agents for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives sold $15 million in cigarettes and later turned over $4.9 million in profits from the sales to a confidential informant — even though the agency did not properly account for the transaction.

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New FBI Director James B. Comey stunned by impact of sequestration on agents in the field

Friday, September 27, 10:03 PM E-mail the writer

In the first week of his new job as FBI director, James B. Comey had already heard about how training had stopped for recruits at Quantico and that the bureau wasn’t planning on bringing in any new agents next year, all because of budget cuts.

But Comey was stunned when he began visiting FBI field offices this month and heard directly from his special agents. New intelligence investigations were not being opened. Criminal cases were being closed. Informants couldn’t be paid. And there was not enough funding for agents to put gas in their cars.

“My reaction to that . . . ” Comey said about the gas. “I don’t even want to tell you what my reaction to that was.”

For the first time, FBI agents have put together a report about consequences in the field of the across-the-board government budget cuts known as sequestration.

In the 29-page report, “Voices From the Field,” agents from across the country warn that budget cuts and possible furloughs are hurting public safety and threaten their ability to protect Americans.

“We feel in­cred­ibly frustrated and find it very disturbing that we are going to be restrained from protecting Americans from criminal and terrorist attacks,” said Rey Tariche, a special agent on a Long Island gang task force and president of the FBI Agents Association, which wrote the report and represents nearly 12,000 active and former FBI agents.

The agents gave Comey their report Friday, but the director is already well aware of their complaints. Since he took over as director, Comey has been outspoken about budget cuts facing the FBI.

In an interview with reporters last week, Comey said that he visited agents in New York, Richmond and Washington, and what he heard most about was the impact on their criminal and counterterrorism investigations.

“I’m not crying wolf,” Comey said. “I’m not playing a game. This is the FBI. We will salute and execute. But I was very surprised to learn how severe the required cut is — and the potential impact on the FBI.”

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CNN exclusive: FBI misconduct reveals sex, lies and videotape

By Scott Zamost and Kyra Phillips, CNN Special Investigations Unit
January 27, 2011



Washington (CNN) -- An FBI employee shared confidential information with his girlfriend, who was a news reporter, then later threatened to release a sex tape the two had made.

A supervisor watched pornographic videos in his office during work hours while "satisfying himself."

And an employee in a "leadership position" misused a government database to check on two friends who were exotic dancers and allowed them into an FBI office after hours.

These are among confidential summaries of FBI disciplinary reports obtained by CNN, which describe misconduct by agency supervisors, agents and other employees over the last three years

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-- An employee had "a sexual relationship with a source" over seven months. The punishment was a 40-day suspension.
-- The supervisor who viewed "pornographic movies in the office while sexually satisfying himself" during work hours received a 35-day suspension.
-- The employee in a "leadership position" who misused a "government database to conduct name checks on two friends who were foreign nationals employed as exotic dancers" and "brought the two friends into FBI space after-hours without proper authorization" received a 23-day suspension. The same employee had been previously suspended for misusing a government database.
-- An employee who was drunk "exploited his FBI employment at a strip club," falsely claiming he was "conducting an official investigation." His punishment was a 30-day suspension.
-- And an employee conducted "unauthorized searches on FBI databases" for "information on public celebrities the employee thought were 'hot'" received a 30-day suspension.


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February 22, 2013
FBI agents caught sexting and dating drug dealers
Dating drug dealers, harassing ex-boyfriends with naked pictures, and pointing guns at pet dogs: these were just a few of the offences committed recently by serving FBI agents, according to internal documents.
The US provided officers from the Egyptian secret police with training at the FBI, despite allegations that they routinely tortured detainees and suppressed political opposition.

Disciplinary files from the Bureau's Office of Professional Responsibility record an extraordinary range of transgressions that reveal the chaotic personal lives of some of America's top law enforcers.

One male agent was sacked after police were called to his mistress's house following reports of domestic incident. When officers arrived they found the agent "drunk and uncooperative" and eventually had to physically subdue him and wrestle away his loaded gun.

A woman e-mailed a "nude photograph of herself to her ex-boyfriend's wife" and then continued to harass the couple despite two warnings from senior officials. The Bureau concluded she was suffering from depression related to the break-up and allowed her to return to work after 10 days.


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FBI Agent Accused Of Masturbating In Public
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May 25, 2007
FBI Agent Accused Of Masturbating In Public

Posted by, Marissa Pasquet KOLD News 13 News Editor

FBI Special Agent Ryan Seese, 34, is facing sex offense charges after a cleaning woman said she found him masturbating in a women's lavatory on campus, according to a University of Arizona police spokesman.

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Recent FBI report was ‘not reality’ for sexual assault counselors in Columbia
September 27, 2013

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Recent FBI report was ‘not reality’ for sexual assault counselors in Columbia

COLUMBIA, SC — When the annual FBI crime report was released last week, the executive director of Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands took one look at the number of reported rapes and thought one thing.
“This is not reality,” said Ginny Waller, who heads the Midlands rape crisis center.
Those who work directly with victims of rape and other forms of sexual assault always say that the official statistics are far lower each year than what really happens. They want to bring awareness to the situation for two reasons.
First, they don’t want the community to believe that a problem does not exist. Second, they hope to make it easier for people to report the assaults.
In 2012, 59 rapes were reported in Lexington County, and 105 were reported in Richland County, the FBI’s latest report said.
Sexual Trauma Services keeps statistics on its cases, but those numbers cannot be compared directly to the FBI’s report. Numbers in each report are gathered by different methods.
The FBI’s numbers did not include rapes reported in Columbia because the police department did not participate in the federal agency’s crime reporting program.
And Sexual Trauma Services numbers count for a four-county area. And, the FBI report only provides numbers for forcible rape, while Sexual Trauma Services sees both people who have suffered rape and other levels of sexual assault.
Still, Waller said her agency’s report illustrates her point.
In 2012, Sexual Trauma Services served 1,395 victims, but only 640 reported the incident to police. In 2011, less than half of the 1,329 people who were sexually assaulted reported their attacks to police, according to numbers provided to The State newspaper.
Victims don’t come forward for a number of reasons: Embarrassment, fear, shame, said Melanie Snipes, director of crisis services at Sexual Trauma Services. And, few perpetrators are punished even if they are arrested, she said. Cases are difficult to prosecute and many sex-related crimes do not carry large penalties, she said.
“What’s the point?” Waller said. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a survivor tell me that.”
Interim Columbia Police Chief Ruben Santiago said he agreed with Waller’s assessment that sexual assaults are under-reported.
He recently met with the Sexual Trauma Services staff and agreed to allow the agency provide advanced officer training on how to speak to victims.
“It was eye-opening with me,” he said of the meeting. “At times, we don’t realize how much something is underreported or why it’s underreported.”