https://www.themainewire.com/2024/08/fb ... uckerberg/FBI Pressured Facebook to Interfere in 2020 Election: Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg says the FBI pressured Facebook to censor a story that could well have prevented Joe Biden from becoming president in 2020
BY STEVE ROBINSONAUGUST 27, 2024
https://archive.org/stream/directoryofg ... 5_djvu.txtFull text of "Directory of graduates of the FBI National Academy and officers of the FBI National Academy Associates"
https://fandomwire.com/the-fbi-had-a-pr ... ertheless/“The FBI had a problem with that in the script”: One Clint Eastwood Movie Ran Into a Problem With the FBI That He Still Included in the Script Nevertheless
Clint Eastwood had directed some great biopics that showcased the power of the human spirt. However, the FBI had issues with one of his films.
Written by: Rahul PUBLISHED AUGUST 27, 2024
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/08 ... te-change/Climate change is overheating Maine’s pristine lakes
by Peter McGuire, Maine Public
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/art ... est-statesUS Midwest braces for hottest days this summer, with 55m under heat alerts
Chicago, Des Moines, Topeka and other cities experiencing extreme heat ‘with little to no overnight relief’ an air quality alert is in effect in states including Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio and Tennessee, where heat indices are forecast to reach 105F (40.5C) to 115F (46.1C). Experts recommended residents to limit prolonged outdoor activity, especially those with chronic respiratory illnesses.
Erum Salam Mon 26 Aug 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/art ... -jj-abrams‘Job applications at MI5 went through the roof’: how we made Spooks
‘We killed off Lisa with a deep fat fryer in episode two – to show that no one was safe. I heard that JJ Abrams played it to his writers and said, “This is how you do it!”’’
Interviews by Michael Hogan Mon 26 Aug 2024
https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2024/ ... hp_primaryCop arrested after allegedly urinating on woman at Kenny Chesney concert
The woman told police her new $180 cowgirl boots were ruined and reeked of urine following the alleged incident at Saturday's show.
By Abby Patkin August 27, 2024
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/0 ... nto-rehab/The Spy Who Went into Rehab
By Ed Rampell - August 27, 2024
https://theintercept.com/2024/08/27/fac ... lance-dhs/FACE RECOGNITION ON THE BORDER IS AN ERROR-PRONE EXPERIMENT THAT WON’T STOP
The Department of Homeland Security wants to use face recognition technology on drivers and passengers approaching the border.
Sam Biddle August 27 2024
https://truthout.org/articles/from-weap ... al-wealth/From Weapons to Fossil Fuels — 10 Firms Control $50 Trillion of Global Wealth
A new book, “Titans of Capital,” shows how the 0.05 percent concentrate wealth by investing in industries of mass death.
By Peter Handel , TRUTHOUT Published August 26, 2024
https://truthout.org/articles/heat-rela ... -and-2023/Heat-Related Deaths in the US Rose 117 Percent Between 1999 and 2023
The lead author of a new report warns the current climate trajectory is starting to show up in increased deaths.
By Jessica Corbett , COMMONDREAMS Published August 27, 2024
https://www.commondreams.org/news/summer-of-heat‘What Real Eldership Looks Like': 29 Senior Climate Protesters Arrested at CitiBank HQ Wall Street giant responsible for massive funding of fossil fuels accused of "robbing our grandchildren's future."
JESSICA CORBETT Aug 27, 2024
The "Summer of Heat on Wall Street" protests continued Tuesday with at least 29 elders arrested while blocking Citibank's New York City headquarters to demand an end to the bank's financing of climate-wrecking fossil fuel projects.
noo ‘Smart’ Baby Bassinet Sees Key Features Paywalled, Loses Functionality If Bought Used
Oklahoma Gov’t Revokes License Of Teacher Who Dared To Push Back Against State’s Censors
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/27/in- ... ction-230/In YOLO Ruling, Ninth Circuit Cracks Open Pandora’s Box For Section 230
Content Moderation from the you-only-destroy-the-internet-once dept
Tue, Aug 27th 2024 09:21am - Mike Masnick
The Ninth Circuit appeals court seems to have figured out the best way to “reform” Section 230: by pretending it doesn’t apply to some stuff that the judges there just randomly decide it doesn’t apply to anymore. At least that’s my reading of the recent ruling against YOLO Technologies.
Now, let’s start by making something clear: YOLO Technologies appears to be a horrible company, making a horrible service, run by horrible people. We’ll get more into the details of that below. I completely understand the instinctual desire that YOLO should lose. That said, there are elements of this ruling that could lead to dangerous results for other services that aren’t horrible. And that’s what always worries me.
First, a quick history lesson: over fifteen years ago, we wrote about the Ninth Circuit’s ruling in Barnes v. Yahoo. At the time, and
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/26/aus ... iolations/Australian Regulators Decide To Do Absolutely Nothing About Clearview’s Privacy Law Violations
(Mis)Uses of Technology
from the ah-well-nothing-can-be-done-here dept
Mon, Aug 26th 2024 04:23pm - Tim Cushing
Clearview’s status as an international pariah really hasn’t changed much over the past few years. It may be generating fewer headlines, but nothing’s really changed about the way it does business.
Clearview has spent years scraping the web, compiling as much personal info as possible to couple with the billions of photos it has collected. It sells all of this to whoever wants to buy it. In the US, this means lots and lots of cop shops. Also, in the US, Clearview has mostly avoided running into a lot of legal trouble, other than a couple of lawsuits stemming from violations of certain states’ privacy laws.
Elsewhere in the world, it’s a different story. It has amassed millions in fines and plenty of orders to exit multiple countries immediately. These orders also mandate the removal of photos and other info gathered from accounts of these countries’ residents.
It doesn’t appear Clearview has complied with many of these orders, much less paid any of the fines. Clearview’s argument has always been that it’s a US company and
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/pennsylvan ... ts-171082/Subject: Pennsylvania Right to Know Act Request: Policy Documents
Fax
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Pennsylvania Right to Know Act, I hereby request the following records:
Any policy manual, employee procedure manual, or folder of collected policies which guide police operations. This may be one document with many policies, or all policies collected.
The original format of the documents is acceptable (PDF, .doc, .txt, etc).
The requested documents will be made available t
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-sta ... ga-126995/To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
1. All agency records pertaining to the decision by the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney's Office (USAO) for the Middle District of Georgia (MDGa), to decline the recommended prosecution of former CoreCivic employee Freddy Wims for making false statements under oath in connection with the investigation of the death of Jeancarlo Alfonso Jimenez Joseph at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, GA, on May 15, 2017, including, but not limited to, the Declination Memo created by the USAO MDGa.
2. All agency records created or reviewed in connection with the following FOIA requests: "CRM-3006-97176"; EOUSA-2019-002865; A-2020-01304.
Please note the following history of the agency's failure to task an adequate search in response to similar previous requests:
A. First, on May 8, 2019, I requested records from the DOJ Criminal Division pertaining to the declination of prosecution by the USAO for the MDGa. (See:
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-sta ... 898/#comms). DOJ acknowledged receiving this request on May 22, 2019, and assigned it a tracking number of CRM-3006-97176. In its May 22, 2019, acknowledgement letter, DOJ FOIA requested clarification as to the records requested. I provided the requested clarification the same day, indicating that because prosecution was declined, no case number was publicly available. Consequently, on July 5, 2019, DOJ-CRIM concluded my original request was "misdirected" and transferred that request to the Executive Office of United States Attorneys (EOUSA) and informed me it was treating the response as final and the case closed. I did not administratively appeal that determination because it appeared that DOJ-CRIM did not have responsive records, EOUSA did, and that EOUSA would commence a search for these records after it received DOJ-CRIM's intra-agency referral. To the best of my knowledge, I have never received an acknowledgement or individualized tracking number from EOUSA following DOJ-CRIM's July 5, 2019, referral of my May 8, 2019, "misdirected" request to EOUSA.
2. Second, on May 8, 2019, I requested records from the EOUSA (independently from the referral by DOJ-CRIM). That request is available here:
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-sta ... eys-72899/. On May 16, 2019, EOUSA acknowledged receipt of this request and assigned it tracking number EOUSA-2019-002865. On July 8, 2019, EOUSA informed me that it had conducted a search of the USAO for the Northern District of Georgia and located no responsive records. I replied on July 17, 2019, by pointing out that the USAO MDGa had not been searched. EOUSA provided no response. On June 3, 2020, I administratively appealed the constructive denial of my FOIA request, which EOUSA assigned tracking number A-2020-01304. On July 20, 2020, EOUSA denied the appeal, determining it was untimely, because it was not filed within the 90-day period after EOUSA's July 8, 2019 decision.
Based on the above, a currently-pending referral from DOJ-Crim to EOUSA of my "misdirected" request, which DOJ-CRIM initiated no later than July 5, 2019, remains unacknowledged and pending within EOUSA's FOIA files. I seek records responsive to that referral on an expedited basis, given that DOJ FOIA has failed to properly acknowledged the intra-agency transfer for nearly 3 years.
Please do not hesitate to contact me at
Andrew@DetentionKills.org if I can provide any clarification or additional information regarding this time-sensitive request.
I make this request on behalf of the #DetentionKills Transparency Initiative, a project of Al Otro Lado. Its purpose is to inform the public of actual and alleged criminal wrongdoing by government contractors
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6361099088112Nicole Parker: Who is going to hold the Secret Service, FBI accountable?
Former FBI special agent Nicole Parker joins 'The Faulkner Focus' argues the need for transparency following the assassination attempt against former President Trump as lawmakers continue investigations.
https://nypost.com/2024/08/26/us-news/t ... se-gopers/Trump rally counter-sniper backs bombshell ‘evidence tampering’ claims by House GOPers
By Josh Christenson Published Aug. 26, 2024
https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/n ... crime-listOhio ranks third on list for percentage of unsolved crime in 2022
By Cody Thompson Ohio PUBLISHED 10:57 AM ET Aug. 27, 2024
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023 ... -gap-nibrs4 Reasons We Should Worry About FBI Missing Crime Data
The FBI’s crime data is still incomplete — and politicians are taking advantage.
By WEIHUA LI and JASMYNE RICARD
https://www.vera.org/news/yes-the-new-f ... ded-betterYes, the new FBI data is poor quality. But we’ve always needed better.
Léon Digard Editorial Director for Research // Jacob Kang-Brown Senior Research Fellow Oct 12, 2022
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/rest ... gJQK_D_BwEBad data from the FBI mislead about crime
Mark Morganand Sean Kennedy April 5, 2024 6:00 am
The fourth quarter 2023 crime report from the FBI, the federal government’s keeper of crime data, is unreliable at best and deceptive at worst.
https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politi ... 905569007/NYC cop seeking Hudson Valley House seat was accused of falsely charging teen girl
Chris McKenna
https://www.rideapart.com/news/731376/m ... alifornia/Cop Threatens to Kill Motorcyclist, Screams 'I'll Run You Over'
That might be a little aggressive.
August 27,2024
https://www.nj.com/monmouth/2024/08/i-w ... -says.htmlI was falsely accused of impersonating a police officer, ex-N.J. cop says
* Updated: Aug. 27, 2024
* By Anthony G. Attrino | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cannab ... -ambitionsJersey City Cop Accuses Mayor Of Using Cannabis Firings To Boost His Gubernatorial Ambitions
Rolando García, Benzinga Staff Writer August 27, 2024
https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/08/27 ... in-prison/‘Please, God, Help!’: South Carolina Cop Fatally Shot Suspect He Chased Into House 5 Times, Ordered K-9 to Maul Innocent Homeowner, Faces Up to 50 Years In Prison
By A.L. Lee | Published on: August 27, 2024
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ai-poli ... draft-one/Cops Are Using AI to Write Police Reports
Police departments around the country are testing software that automatically transcribes audio from body cameras and turns it into incident reports.
By Sammi Caramela August 27, 2024
https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/bet ... 2-20240827Published 16:15 27 Aug 2024 GMT+1
'Unhinged cop' who was fired after video of her outburst went viral has won her job back despite major concerns
Palm Beach Gardens police officer Bethany Guerriero was fired after footage of an aggressive arrest went viral
Niamh Shackleton
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/toronto-offic ... 04937.htmlToronto cop arrested while trying to leave country: police
CBC
August 26,2024
https://www.elizabethton.com/2024/08/26 ... cop-event/Preparations begin for JCPD’s 10th annual Shop with a Cop event Published 3:24 pm Monday, August 26, 2024 By Staff Reports
Read more at:
https://www.elizabethton.com/2024/08/26 ... cop-event/https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ex-cop-subjec ... naynSnGpq8Cop subjected partners to controlling, violent, and sexual abuse
Ben Waddell August 2024
https://oilcity.news/general/2024/08/26 ... only-bond/Casper cop accused of threatening five officers; held on $500K cash-only bond
by Tom Morton August 24,2024
https://rosemarydew.com/Rosemary%27s%20 ... 0Page.htmlMaking a difference
In 2003, former FBI Agent Rosemary Dew published No Backup: My Life as a Female FBI Agent (Carroll & Graf Publishers). For 13 years she struggled against the FBI system, attaining the rank of Supervisory Special Agent, but resigning in disgust after realizing she could make more impact fighting for change elsewhere.
https://kkc.com/whistleblower-case-arch ... l-edmonds/Sibel Edmonds
FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds worked as a translator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington Field Office. Ms. Edmonds’ father is an Iranian Azerbaijani and her mother is Turkish. She lived in Iran and Turkey before coming to the United States as a student in 1988. She is fluent in Turkish Persian, English and Azerbaijani.
Immediately following the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks in 2001, she reported serious cover-ups, security breaches, and intentional blocking of intelligence that had national security implications. She was fired from her job in March of 2002.
Represented by Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, Ms. Edmonds pursued a successful Freedom of Information Act Case to document the FBI’s retaliation against her, and obtained critical findings from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General confirming that the FBI had retaliated against her from reporting misconduct to the proper authorities. Thereafter, KKC represented Ms. Edmonds in her attempt to publish her life story, free from FBI censorship. This representation was again successful and she published her autobiography, Classified Woman – The Sibel Edmonds Story in 2012.
https://kkc.com/whistleblower-case-archive/jane-turner/Jane Turner
Jane Turner was a highly decorated 25-year veteran of the FBI. She won awards for successfully investigating major crimes on the Forth Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. She was described by federal prosecutors as the leading FBI agent solving child crimes in the entire United States. After documenting a seriously botched child sex crime case committed by agents of the FBI, she was removed from her position.
Jane successfully fought her removal, winning a precedent setting case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Her case was tried before federal jury. She was fully vindicated. The jury awarded Ms. Turner the maximum compensatory damages permitted under Title VII. The total recovery, costs, fees, and damages awarded exceeded $1.5 million. After the trial one of the jurors hugged Ms. Turner and told her, “I think you were the very best FBI agent.”
Turner also reported illegal theft by federal officials at the 9/11 World Trade Center crime scene. Her disclosures were backed-up by the DOJ Inspector General, and systemic reforms were approved. She again suffered retaliation, and again won her whistleblower case.
Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Jane Turner led efforts to force the FBI to protect child sex crime victims on North Dakota Indian Reservations. In retaliation for exposing FBI failures within its child crime program, the FBI removed Ms. Turner from her position.
Ms. Turner was removed from her position in Minot after she disclosed serious FBI misconduct in its handling of child abuse cases. In one case, Ms. Turner vigorously complained that the FBI had improperly classified the brutal rape of a two year old Native American child as a “motor vehicle accident.” At the trial, government witnesses confirmed that Ms. Turner had successfully “dogged” the case for over one year and forced the government to re-open the prosecution. Her investigation led to a guilty plea by the rapist.
In a September 13, 2005 ruling, the US. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit unanimously upheld the right of Turner to obtain monetary damages and a jury trial against the FBI. In a historic victory for all FBI whistleblowers, the Court held that Ms. Turner set forth sufficient facts to justify a trial by a jury. The Court based its decision on evidence of the FBI’s retaliatory transfer of Ms. Turner. The FBI had moved her from an investigatory position in Minot, North Dakota, to a demeaning desk job in Minneapolis.
The FBI justified removing Turner based on her “performance.” But as the Court of Appeals noted, Ms. Turner’s law enforcement abilities were widely praised:
Federal agents, Native American reservation law enforcement personnel, and Assistant United States Attorneys who worked closely with Turner averred that she did not commit the specific procedural errors alleged [by the FBI], that historically her work was outstanding, and that her performance showed no decline during the [relevant time period].
After an almost ten-year battle, on February 5, 2007, she won a unanimous jury verdict in her favor. The jury awarded Ms. Turner the maximum compensatory damages permitted under Title VII. This award was the largest compensatory damage award permitted under the law for federal employees. The total recovery, costs, fees, and damages awarded exceeded $1.5 million.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune covered her trial, and reported the following after the jury vindicated Ms. Turner:
Federal jurors hugged former FBI agent Jane Turner. “I think you were the very best FBI Agent,” juror Mashima Dickens told Turner, who investigated child sex-abuse crimes. “Looking at the way you were treated, I just said you were screwed left and right,” Dickens said, tears rolling down her cheeks.”
Ms. Turner also exposed criminal theft of property at the 9/11 crime scene by a handful of FBI agents. The FBI harshly retaliated against her for reporting these violations to the Department of Justice Inspector General. Ms. Turner’s allegations led to an investigation by the Department of Justice Inspector General. The IG Investigation Report found that there had been misconduct by FBI agents and led to new agency regulations preventing the taking of souvenirs from crime scenes.
After reporting the illegal theft at the World Trade Center 9/11 crime scene Ms. Turner was placed on administrative leave and recommended for removal. She filed a complaint under the Department of Justice FBI Whistleblower Protection Act, and won a second retaliation case. Her notice of removal was rescinded. After 25-years of stellar service on behalf of the American people, Ms. Turner retired from the FBI. She thereafter joined the Board of Directors of the National Whistleblower Center.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm ... story.htmlSuzzane Doucette
FBI Settles Harassment Lawsuit for $300,000 : Courts: Ex-agent says she pursued legal action, even though it led her to cut short her career, because she wanted to end a culture of abuse.
By JEFF BRAZIL Feb. 1, 1995
Also testifying at the hearing were Katherine Churchill, a senior forensic chemist at the DEA's Southeast Laboratory in Miami; Ann Marie Canty Garcia, a DEA special agent in Hong Kong; and Suzanne Doucette, a former FBI agent who also testified last May to the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs.After that appearance, Doucette testified yesterday, male agents at her former office in Tucson played videotapes of her testimony and made derogatory comments about it.
"After being forced to leave the FBI, my career is over, my salary is gone and I am forced to sell personal belongings, including a car and my home," Doucette said. FBI spokesman Nestor Michnyak said that because of Doucette's pending lawsuit against the agency, the FBI could not comment on her testimony.
https://nypost.com/2006/06/27/mob-feds- ... -trip-okd/‘MOB’ FED’S BREAK – FIREWORKS TRIP OK’D
By Alex Ginsberg Published June 27, 2006
Lindley DeVecchio is accused of helping a vicious mob boss commit four brutal gangland rubouts – but don’t call him unpatriotic.
The suspected rogue FBI agent asked a judge to allow him a one-time pass to stay out past his court-ordered 9 p.m. curfew – to watch the July 4 fireworks.
A Brooklyn judge yesterday granted him his wish.
http://9-11themotherofallblackoperation ... exual.htmlAfter a year of investigations of her complaint, Wyche said she was offered a transfer to Denver with the promise that nothing from Albuquerque would follow her. She agreed.Her new boss, it turns out, was a friend of the supervisors in Albuquerque - and he, too, began harassing her, she said.Wyche now is on leave without pay.
Shirley Ann Garcia, an investigative assistant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said the special agent in charge in Dallas flicked his cigarette ashes down the front of her blouse several times.Wyche, Garcia and three other female employees of federal law enforcement agencies - including the Federal Bureau of Investigation - alleged sexual harassment and retaliation in a hearing of the House Post Office and Civil Service subcommittee on oversight and investigations.
https://www.salon.com/2013/01/20/fbi_re ... ank_pages/FBI responds to ACLU with blank pages
Fully blacked-out page after fully blacked-out page constituted the federal response to FOIA on tracking
By NATASHA LENNARD
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/fo ... r-AA1pxDR4Englewood police officer recorded by FBI making drug deal with stolen evidence is sentenced
Story by Nathan Solis • August 27,2024
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r ... &FORM=VIREThe FBI's Most Intense Missions | FBI Files Marathon S3 (Pt.1) | Real Crime
Real Crime 2.9M viewsNov 11, 2022
https://www.highlowbrowpod.com/diary-ne ... ast-decadeThe most notable forms of Copaganda in media in the last decade
if you’re starting to feel bad for the police, it’s working
If you don't know what Copaganda is, then phew — this week's episode and blog are for you. Let's start off with some of the basics, shall we? Copaganda typically encompasses many things, but according to Refinery 29, it's the phenomenon that takes fictional characters in media (TV and film, as examples) and attempts to create positive depictions of police officers. How is this done? A variety of ways actually: heartfelt social media posts made by police departments, journalists not challenging police and acting as PR for them, kids programming, or community