FBI WATCH MAKING CRUELTY VISIBLE

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Exclusive: ATF Director’s 'Eyes Nearly Popped Out of (His) Head' When he Learned ATF Might Have Been Selling Guns to FBI in 'Fast and Furious'

July 18, 2011 3:01 PM

Interviewed by congressional investigators earlier this month, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Ken Melson agreed that the allegations that federal agencies weren’t sharing information regarding the Fast & Furious program were “eye-popping,” according to transcripts of the interview exclusively obtained by ABC News.

In the controversial Fast & Furious program, the ATF trafficked assault weapons across the Mexican border in order to try to locate criminals. But many of the guns have since shown up at crime scenes in the US, and one theory investigators are exploring is that the ATF agents were unknowingly selling weapons to straw purchasers created by the FBI using informants and maybe even taxpayer money.

Melson was asked about this – politely called an “interagency communication issue” -- when he testified behind closed doors to congressional investigators over 4th of July weekend. In the below excerpt from that testimony, Melson describes a conversation with the deputy attorney general (DAG) Jim Cole on July 16, the day after the ATF hearing on the Hill. “IG” is a reference to the inspector general who is investigating the Fast & Furious case internally at the Justice Department.

Below is the relevant exchange:

Q: Do you have any concerns that because you raised the interagency communication issue with the DAG and also with the IG that you might be viewed as speaking out of turn.

MELSON: Well, I guess I have -- I have got concerns about talking with you about it, as well as pushing it as I have in the Department, because it could be a very sensitive issue. I don't know. Better communication with them would have helped me understand how sensitive it is, if it is, or what the ramifications of its disclosure is. I mentioned it to the DAG's office in good faith to try and avoid further damage to the Department or the government if this thing is as you have laid it out and it unravels and the American public sees ATF investigating straw purchasers and another agency working the money angle and the ordering of the weapons. I mean, that would make us look pretty silly, I think. So my mention of it to the DAG's office was simply to let them know, to give them a head's up so if this was occurring, they could figure out what to do with it. And we weren't getting any responses. I'm still concerned about it. I'm still concerned about not just what was done, but what could be ongoing as well.

Q: When I first heard about the information sharing issues, my eyes nearly popped out of my head.

MELSON: Well, so did mine.

Q: I'm curious when you communicated that to the DAG, did his eyes pop out of his head, did he think this was a big problem.

MELSON: I can't tell you what he thought or how he thought. But he simply said, "We will have to look into it."

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Anthrax Mailing Suspect's Lab Lacked Spore-Drying Gear
Tuesday, July 19, 2011



The airtight "hot suite" in the laboratory of the final suspect in the 2001 anthrax mailings lacked systems capable of freeze-drying fluid anthrax samples into dry spores of the type used in the attacks, the U.S. Justice Department said in court documents filed on Friday (see GSN, May 20).

(Jul. 19) - Hazardous materials experts decontaminate one another in 2001 upon exiting the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, one target of the anthrax mailings. A sealed laboratory containment area used by the suspected perpetrator of the attacks did not contain equipment able to prepare freeze-dried anthrax spores of the type used in the mailings, the Justice Department indicated last week in court documents (Stephen Jaffe/Getty Images).

While the department reaffirmed its stance that deceased U.S. Army microbiologist Bruce Ivins was "more likely than not" the perpetrator of the mailings that killed five people, it did not suggest how he might have produced the dried anthrax, several news organizations said on Tuesday in a collaborative report published by ProPublica. The Florida court filings specify that the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., had not placed "the specialized equipment" in the suspect's restricted work area "that would be required to prepare the dried spore preparations that were used in the letters."

The department's acknowledgment heightens doubts about its findings against Ivins, who killed himself in July 2008 before facing any charges, according to the news report. The government declared in early 2010 that it had wrapped up the anthrax investigation and named the scientist as the sole perpetrator in the attacks. No direct evidence was ever found to connect the researcher to the crime, however, and a $100 million probe conducted over eight years failed to demonstrate beyond doubt he sent the anthrax and to determine another means by which he could have prepared the material.

The government issued the statement in court to counter a legal challenge by relatives of Robert Stevens, a photo editor at Florida's Sun newspaper who died in 2001 after breathing in anthrax spores mailed to his employer. The plaintiffs contend the government was negligent in securing the anthrax stocks the FBI says were used in the deadly mailings.

The Justice Department documents filed last week at a federal court in Palm Beach, Fla., responded to the accusation by asserting that the mailed anthrax had not been grown at the Army biodefense facility. A department representative, though, on Monday reaffirmed the official stance that the anthrax had originated at the Maryland laboratory.

Spokesman Dean Boyd said the legal documents do not run against the earlier finding, but instead assert that "Ivins’ actions were not foreseeable to his supervisors" because his work area lacked spore-dying systems. "To clarify, this statement was intended to relate to the specific containment laboratory," he said.

Ivins's head lawyer Paul Kemp, though, on Monday said the statement "is at direct variance to the assertions of the government on July 29, 2008," the date of the scientist's death, therefore “invalidating one of the chief theories of their prosecution case.”

U.S. officials previously told Kemp and an associate that federal investigators would show Ivins had generated the dried spores through his heightened use of laboratory containment areas in August and September of 2001, the lawyer recalled.

Officials contending that Ivins carried out the attacks noted the scientist's increased use of the hot suites ahead of the mailings and noted security privileges that placed sensitive systems within his reach. Former co-workers, though, in affidavits for the Florida dispute said producing the anthrax inside the laboratory would have allowed the agent to infect staffers and additional personnel who had not received immunization.

The USAMRIID site in 2001 did not have the facilities for producing the type of anthrax spores contained in the mailings, Patricia Worsham, who now heads the the Fort Detrick facility's Bacteriology Division, said in one of several court statements disclosed last week with redactions. The refrigerator-sized spore-drying apparatus was not located in the hot suite, she said.

“If someone had used that to dry down that preparation, I would have expected that area to be very, very contaminated, and we had nonimmunized personnel in that area, and I would have expected some of them to become ill,” Worsham added.

Mailings received by the offices of Democratic Senators Patrick Leahy (Vt.) and Thomas Daschle (S.D.) contained particularly dangerous anthrax spores capable of easily spreading through the air, according to the news report.

Generating the quantity of anthrax used in the mailings would have necessitated between 2.8 and 53 liters -- or from 463 to 1,250 Petri dishes -- of growth medium, the Justice Department said in its defense. Ivins could not have produced the material without drawing attention from other personnel, former co-workers stated.

"Drying anthrax is expressly forbidden by various treaties" and "overt use of any of these methods, if noticed, would have raised considerable alarm and scrutiny," the government said in closing the case last year (PBS/ProPublica/McClatchy Newspapers, July 18).

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MI5 spies blame software for 7/7 cropping disaster



Wednesday 20th July 2011
Chris Cheesman




MI5 has blamed poor image cropping software and a flatbed scanner for missing potentially crucial photographic evidence ahead of the 7/7 bombings.

Woeful cropping of a colour image, showing 7/7 bombers Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, was the most heavily criticised aspect of the Security Service's actions during the Coroner's Inquests.

Inquests into the deaths resulting from the 2005 terrorist attacks revealed that the MI5-edited image - captured covertly at a motorway service station in February 2004 - failed to show Khan when it was sent to an Al Queda informant for possible identification.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
By Heather Miller

How the federal justice system incentivizes questionable and often unreliable witnesses, including jailhouse snitches, to prosecute the War on Drugs

“Just because the United States of America accuses somebody of being guilty of a crime doesn’t make it so.” — Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Jarzabek, chief criminal deputy of the Western District of Louisiana, speaking to U.S. District Judge Tucker Melancon at the conclusion of a high-profile public corruption trial in Monroe.

Mike Wyatt is, by trade, a master mechanic. He’s an artisan of all things auto who transforms factory features on vehicles into customized pieces for car and stereo enthusiasts alike. A hard-working small business owner, Wyatt spends 60-90 hours a week at his Jefferson Street auto and sound shop, a 9,000-square-foot haven for a specialized craft he’s been perfecting for more than 20 years.

Mike Wyatt is 44 years old and has no criminal record. He’s a family man, the husband of a nurse practitioner, a father who spends his weekends outdoors with his wife and son. And now, Mike Wyatt may spend the next 10 years in a federal prison — and the rest of his life paying up to $4 million in fines to the federal government.

On July 20, 2006, a few minutes after B&M Auto Sound and 4x4 opened at 9 a.m., federal agents armed with assault rifles stormed the local business, searching every person, every vehicle and every inch of the building. A few months later, Wyatt was indicted by a federal grand jury, accused by the U.S. government of conspiring with 12 other people to traffic mass amounts of cocaine and marijuana from South Texas to Lafayette over a four-year period. His role? The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Louisiana claims Wyatt installed secret compartments for a group of customers who used them to stash drugs, guns and money as they crossed state lines. The feds have never said Wyatt ever possessed drugs, distributed illegal substances or dealt with proceeds from drug transactions. If convicted, Wyatt’s prison time could be close or equal to that of the kingpin who’s pleaded guilty to leading the lucrative drug ring.

What’s even more compelling than the seemingly excessive charges against Wyatt is that hidden compartments are legal to possess and install under federal law and in most states, Louisiana included. The hideaways can be used to store almost anything — purses, jewelry, guns, valuables — and are just one small component of services — wheels, speakers, TVs, etc. — that a business like B&M provides.

The key to the government’s charges against Wyatt is proving the business owner had direct knowledge of how the compartments were being used.

20110720-cover-0102Court documents reveal that the only person so far who has made that claim against Wyatt — aside from a federal prosecutor — is Eric Alexander, the drug ring’s mastermind whose testimony has been proven false — and whose prison sentence depends on him providing “substantial assistance” to the prosecution of the three remaining defendants who have refused to accept a plea agreement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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19 July 2011 Last updated at 22:54 ET

At home with Cuba's public enemy number one
By Rob Walker BBC News

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Cuba is still furious that Mr Posada is living freely in the United States

Luis Posada Carriles is a Cuban militant, a former CIA operative, and to some, a mass murderer.

But at home in Miami, he proudly shows me a plaque from supporters dedicated to "Bambi", one of the half dozen noms de guerre he used in five decades of fighting Fidel Castro's Cuba.

Mr Posada is also quick to show me the scars he says that battle has left him. He takes my hand and presses it to the smashed right side of his face - the result of a 1990 assassination attempt in Guatemala.

"A bullet hit me in the jaw. Another one hit me in the chest and exited from my back," he said. "I was shot six times."

He says the attack was carried out on Mr Castro's orders, a charge Cuba denies. I ask him how many times he believes Mr Castro has tried to have him killed.

"That I know of, three," he says.

I ask: "And how many times how you tried to kill Fidel Castro?"

At this point, his lawyer intervenes and stops him from answering. Mr Posada smiles at me. He looks as though he is bursting to say more.
Assassination plots

Mr Posada is in many ways a relic from a past era. Today most Cuban Americans want to see a peaceful transition in Havana.
Luis Posada Carriles in Dallas in a 2011 file photo Now in his 80s, Mr Posada says he would join an anti-Castro fight even if it meant cooking for soldiers

Mr Posada's militant exile generation is fading away.

But for them, just like Cuba's ageing rulers, the struggle which began 50 years ago is still not over.

While his supporters deem him a freedom fighter, the Cuban government calls Mr Posada the "Bin Laden of the Americas".

In addition to multiple alleged plots to kill the former Cuban leader, Mr Posada is accused in Cuba and Venezuela of a series of alleged terrorism offences.

He was involved in the failed US-backed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in 1961, then worked as a CIA operative until the mid-1970s.

He was arrested in Venezuela in 1976 following the bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. Declassified FBI and CIA documents show US agents received information that Mr Posada was involved in the bombing.

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Rep. Nadler presses FBI for anthrax information
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By Greg Gordon
McClatchy Newspapers
Published: Thursday, May. 26, 2011 - 2:56 pm

WASHINGTON — A senior member of the House of Representatives is pressing the FBI to explain why he apparently was sent "incomplete and misleading" information that concealed a lab test showing a soaring level of silicon in one of the anthrax-laden letters that killed five people in 2001.

Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, a senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, demanded an explanation in a letter Wednesday to FBI Director Robert Mueller after a McClatchy story disclosed that the Justice Department gave a sketchy reply to Nadler's 2008 inquiry.

McClatchy also reported in its May 19 story that FBI lab data suggests that a silicon-based chemical may have been added to the anthrax powder to heighten its potency. Some scientists say that concocting such a chemical formula would have been beyond the expertise of the late Bruce Ivins, a longtime Army anthrax researcher whom the FBI blames for the attacks.

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FBI agent sentenced to 4 years in prison
| July 21, 2011

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former FBI agent in Nashville has been sentenced to four years in prison for wire and bankruptcy fraud related to his purchase of rental properties totaling more than $1.25 million.

Forty-four-year-old Darin Lee McAllister of Brentwood, Tenn., was also ordered by a federal judge Thursday to pay $675,000 in restitution to the victims of his fraud and a special assessment of $1,800.

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Obama Revives Fruhmenschen

August 06 2010



by Jeffrey Steinberg

On Jan. 27, 1988, Rep. Mervyn Dymally (D-Calif.), the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, entered an affidavit into the Congressional Record, from an Atlanta attorney and FBI informant named Hirsch Friedman. Friedman provided an eyewitness account of a secret and illegal 40-year, ongoing FBI program, known within the Bureau as "Operation Frühmenschen" ("Operation Primitive Man").



Friedman described Frühmenschen in graphic terms: "The purpose of this policy was the routine investigation without probable cause of prominent elected and appointed black officials in major metropolitan areas throughout the United States." FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and other top Bureau officials, Friedman explained, believed that African-Americans were incapable of serving in high public office, and took it upon themselves to railroad countless African-Americans from elected office, through trumped up charges, and worse.

Several authors have subsequently linked the FBI to the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination—and tied that murder to Frühmenschen, as well.

As the result of Dymally's initial efforts, and a campaign waged throughout the 1990s by the Schiller Institute and a broad spectrum of civil rights activists and other close allies of Lyndon LaRouche, Operation Frühmenschen was widely exposed.

But now, Frühmenschen has been revived, with the full complicity of President Barack Obama and the "Chicago crew" at the White House. A senior U.S. intelligence source has confirmed crucial details of EIR's own investigation into a "marriage of convenience" between the FBI and the Obama White House. A select list of African-American legislators, who have been critical of key Obama policies, have been targetted for destruction, and, in return, the Obama Administration has given the FBI the green light to expand its illegal surveillance programs, targetted at American citizens.

"It is the worst of Chicago politics wedded to the worst FBI abuses of power," one source declared.

Pelosi's OCE
One of President Obama's key allies in this assault on the political leadership of the African-American community is Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The day she was sworn in as Speaker, in January 2007, Pelosi vowed to "clean the swamp" of Congressional corruption, and proposed the creation of an independent Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE). The proposal was so flagrantly unconstitutional on its face, that several leading Congressional Democrats assailed it publicly, including John Dingell (D-Mich.) and Neal Abercrombie (D-Hi.).

Abercrombie charged that any referral from the OCE to the House Ethics Committee would be tantamount to a guilty verdict. "Any other conclusion by the House Ethics Committee will be seen as a coverup." He raised the crucial question of the source of the complaints to the OCE that would trigger its investigations: "I can't figure out where the ethics complaints come from. Are they dropped off at the door?"

LaRouche was even more blunt: In a July 30 statement, LaRouche declared: "The OCE is not an elected body and it does not have the powers of government. It is totally unconstitutional. It is rotten, and it should be uprooted. The behavior of this thing, and the way it functions, is contrary to the intention of the Constitution. And so, if it passes an unconstitutional ruling, that should be recognized as unconstitutional...."

In the face of strong protests, Pelosi narrowly rammed through a House Resolution, creating the Office of Congressional Ethics, on March 11, 2008. On July 24, 2008, Pelosi and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced the appointment of six OCE board members and two alternates. The chair and co-chair of the body, named by Pelosi and Boehner, were two former Congressmen, David Skaggs, a Colorado Democrat, and Porter Goss, a Florida Republican, who later briefly served under President George W. Bush as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The staff director and general counsel to the OCE, Leo Wise, came to the office from the Department of Justice, where he was a prosecutor in the criminal division, and received a special service award from the FBI.

The Office of Congressional Ethics held its first full session in January 2009, as Barack Obama was being inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States.

Targetting Rangel and Waters
Dingell and Abercrombie's warnings were prophetic. In its short existence, the OCE has zeroed in on a number of leaders of the Black Congressional Caucus, who have all crossed swords with both Pelosi and Obama. At one point earlier this year, all eight of the ongoing OCE investigations were aimed at members of the Black Caucus, a flagrant case of selective prosecution.

While the OCE does not have the power to take action against Members of Congress, its referrals to the House Ethics Committee, and the leaking of details of those referrals to major news outlets, amount to a "star chamber" proceeding.

And, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official, the OCE has been fed FBI dossiers on a hit list of Congressmen, predominantly African-American, including material illegally obtained, through unauthorized surveillance and unwarranted sting operations.

The source pointed to the case of former Rep. William Jennings Jefferson (D-La.) as a crucial event in the revival of Frühmenschen. A nine-term Congressman, Jefferson was the first African-American elected to the U.S. Congress from Louisiana, since the end of Reconstruction. In May 2006, the FBI raided his Congressional office, in what some Constitutional scholars called one of the most flagrant violations of the separation of powers in American history. Jefferson was indicted on June 4, 2007, and following his defeat in the 2008 general election, he was prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to 13 years in Federal prison on bribery charges.

"The Jefferson case was the green light for the FBI to fully revive Frühmenschen, and the Obama Administration, contrary to the expectations of millions of voters, has done nothing to halt the FBI's latest assault on the African-American political leadership," the source charged.

On Aug. 2, the OCE aimed its guns at longtime California Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters, in an attempted political lynching, based on a bogus charge of "conflict of interest," in which bankers' boy Rep. Barney Frank is a primary witness against her. Like Rangel, Waters is refusing to capitulate to the Ethics Committee, stating,

"I have not violated any House rules. Therefore, I simply will not be forced to admit to something I did not do, and instead have chosen to respond to charges made by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct in a public hearing."

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'Panda' Receives FBI Award


It's not quite as impressive as a World Series ring, but San Francisco Giants' infielder Pablo Sandoval received an award, a special coin, and an official patch from the FBI Friday for his role in a child protection program. Sandoval -- nicknamed Kung Fu Panda -- is especially popular with the Giants' younger fans.

The agency honored Sandoval for his role in promoting child ID kits. The kits include a fingerprint identification card and cotton swabs for parents to take samples of their children's DNA. The prints and samples can save investigators valuable time when they are searching for a missing child. The kit takes about five minutes to complete, according to the FBI.

“I thank the FBI for letting me join this program,” Sandoval said. “All the Giants support the kids. We do well on the field -- we do well outside too, helping people.”

A year ago, Sandoval's agent came to Kenny Hansmire, the FBI National ID program's executive director, to ask how he could help. Sandoval will take part in a variety of outreach efforts to publicize the program, including hosting “Pablo Sandoval Children ID Day” at AT&T Park, where fans will receive the kits.


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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

Editor's note: Some content in this report may be offensive to readers. For more on this CNN exclusive story, watch Kyra Phillips' full report on "The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer" tonight starting at 5 p.m. ET.

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.

Read the FBI documents obtained by CNN





-- 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.
Child Porn Probe Leads To FBI Headquarters
Target claims inquiry is just a “misunderstanding”

JANUARY 5 2011--The government’s pursuit of suspects trafficking in child pornography recently led federal agents to a familiar address--the FBI’s Washington, D.C. headquarters, where a bureau official is the subject of an ongoing criminal probe, The Smoking Gun has learned.

The investigation by the Department of Justice’s inspector general is focusing on FBI employee Joseph Bonsuk’s receipt of nearly 80 illicit images that were e-mailed to him by an Illinois sex offender whose rap sheet includes felony convictions for bank robbery and solicitation of a minor.


Prosecutors move to dismiss charges against former Scout leader

January 3, 2007

NEW HAVEN, Conn. --Federal prosecutors have moved to dismiss charges against a retired FBI agent who was indicted on child sex charges dating back more than a decade when he was a Boy Scout leader, in response to the death of his accuser.


William Hutton, 63, of Killingworth, was arrested in February on charges he enticed a member of his Scout troop to Maine for the purpose of sexual activity in 1994 and 1995.


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Edward Rodgers was in charge of investigating cases of Child Abuse at the FBI

THE DENVER POST - Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire
May 17, 1990
Sisters win sex lawsuit vs. dad $2.3 million given for years of abuse
By Howard Prankratz
Denver Post Legal Affairs Writer

Two daughters of former state and federal law enforcement official Edward Rodgers were awarded $2.319,400 yesterday, after a Denver judge and jury found that the women suffered years of abuse at the hands of their father.

The award to Sharon Simone, 45, and Susan Hammond, 44, followed testimony of Rodgers’ four daughters in person or through depositions, describing repeated physical abuse and sexual assaults by their father from 1944 through 1965.

Rodgers, 72, who became a child abuse expert after retiring from the FBI and joining the colorado Springs DA’s office, failed to appear for the trial. But in a deposition taken in March, Rodgers denied ever hitting or sexually abusing his children.

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FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Child Abuse


Tuesday February 17, 2004 11:46 PM

By JOHN SOLOMON

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

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

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Monday August 8, 2005 Longtime FBI agent sentenced to prison on child porn count
http://www.fbi.gov/kansascity/press-rel ... 033110.htm
also see http://www.policeone.com/news/113935-Lo ... hild-Porn/
By JOHN MILLER

Associated Press Writer

BOISE, Idaho (AP) A longtime FBI agent who helped arrest mountain-man Claude Dallas and was involved in a deadly 1984 siege involving white supremacists in Washington state is going to prison for 12 months after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography.

William Buie, 64, of Boise, most recently worked as an investigator for the Idaho attorney general's office.


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February 22, 2007
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007 ... 007/262383
SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. A F.B.I. analyst has been sentenced to seven years in prison for having sex with a young girl in Spotsylvania County.
Forty-four-year-old Anthony John Lesko entered an Alford plea yesterday in Spotsylvania County Circuit Court to nine counts of felony indecent liberties upon a child. An Alford plea means Lesko doesn't admit guilt but believes there is enough evidence for a conviction.
Authorities say Lesko engaged in a sex act with her nine times, beginning when she was nine years old.
According to the plea, Lesko said he was a victim in the case. He said the girl initiated the contact.

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FBI Agent Accused Of Masturbating In Public
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index. ... _pris.html
May 25, 2007 09:02 PM
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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FBI agent arrested on child sexual assault charge




Associated Press - January 15, 2008 6:14 PM ET
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_7978377
PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) - An FBI agent is under arrest in Pueblo for investigation of sexual assault on a child by someone in a position of trust.

Authorities say 53-year-old David Allan Johnson is being held in the Pueblo County jail today on a $100,000 bail.

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Former Great Falls FBI agent sentenced on child sex charges

Jan 23, 2008



A man from Great Falls who's accused of sexually assaulting five underage girls will be spending the next 10 years behind bars.

Stanley Perkins, 64, changed his plea to guilty after police began investigating him for child molestation in August 2006.

The former educator, who also served two years as an FBI agent, was sentenced on one count of felony sexual assault.

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http://franklincoverup.com/index.php?op ... &Itemid=26

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ACLU wants FBI data on racial data gathering
By Ed Brayton | 07.22.11 | 7:45 am


The ACLU of Michigan has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation seeking documents related to their information gathering techniques regarding racial and ethnic groups in the state.

In a press release, the group says:

The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Michigan today sued the FBI and Department of Justice for records related to the FBI’s use of race and ethnicity in conducting assessments and investigations of local communities in Michigan. According to an FBI operations guide, FBI agents have the authority to collect information about, and create maps of, so-called racial and ethnic behaviors, lifestyle characteristics and cultural traditions and “ethnic-oriented” businesses in communities with concentrated ethnic populations.

“Through this lawsuit we hope to get records that will tell us exactly what federal law enforcement officials are doing and whether Americans are protected,” said Mark P. Fancher, ACLU of Michigan Racial Justice Project staff attorney. “Law enforcement profiling based on race and ethnicity has the potential to erode community trust while doing nothing to solve or deter crime. It’s important that Michigan residents know what federal law enforcement officials are doing so that as a community we can hold them accountable for any abuses of power.”

The FBI’s power to collect, use and map racial and ethnic data in order to assist the FBI’s “domain awareness” and “intelligence analysis” activities is described in the 2008 FBI Domestic Intelligence and Operations Guide (DIOG). The FBI released the DIOG in heavily redacted form in September 2009, but a less-censored version was not made public until January 2010. Although the DIOG has been in effect for more than two years, very little information is available to the public about how the FBI has implemented this authority…

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a liberal is someone who walks out of the room when an argument turns into a fight
a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged

Lawsuit Seeks Information on FBI Activities
in Bay Area Muslim Communities
http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress ... mmunities/


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FBI agent sent to prison for gun sales

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7169714.html

Because the link in the above post is no longer valid I am reposting the story with the name of the FBI agent and a current link


FBI agent John Shipley sentenced to prison for illegal gun sales

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http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_ ... 630380.php


Ex-FBI agent sentenced to two years
By Guillermo Contreras - Express-News
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

A former FBI agent in El Paso, three men in Del Rio and one in San Antonio all were part of a busy week in which authorities tried to stanch the flow of guns smuggled into Mexico.

On Tuesday, ex-FBI agent John Shipley was sentenced to two years in prison for buying and selling numerous firearms, including .50-caliber Barrett guns, without a license.

The case against Shipley began in March 2008, after a .50-caliber sniper rifle was recovered following a gunbattle between narco traffickers and the Mexican military near Chihuahua, according to a news release from federal officials.

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Here is an article that appeared in todays Boston Globe
regarding FBI Director Robert Mueller see my response to the article below
see link for full story
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massac ... readerComm
A lingering question for the FBI’s director
By Kevin Cullen Globe Columnist / July 24, 2011


Back in 1976, as we were celebrating the 200th birthday of this republic, Congress passed a law limiting the tenure of the FBI director to 10 years.

This was done because, after the scandalous findings of the Church Commission, Congress realized that letting J. Edgar Hoover serve as director of the bureau from its founding in 1935 until his death in 1972 had only confirmed Lord Acton’s maxim that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Hoover was a power unto himself, and the FBI that was created very much in his image sometimes acted more like the secret police of the totalitarian regimes Hoover regularly denounced: running rogue wiretaps, harassing political dissidents, using illegal means to collect evidence. Hoover’s FBI wasn’t accountable; it was untouchable.

So now, just weeks after the FBI’s worst nightmare, a gangster and FBI informant by the name of Whitey Bulger came strolling back into town, Congress is about to ignore its own wisdom and let Bob Mueller, the FBI director and former US Attorney in Boston, stay on an extra two years.

President Obama says he needs Mueller to stay because there’s been so much turnover in the national security teams at the CIA and Pentagon, and that’s all well and good.

Mueller has wide, bipartisan support in Congress.

The recent FBI targeting of antiwar and labor activists in the Midwest has a disturbing echo of the days when the bureau considered Martin Luther King Jr. a sinister threat to national security.

But Mueller’s a Marine veteran and tough enough to take a question or two before Congress gives the president what he wants, and Mike Albano is just the guy to ask it: What did you know about Whitey Bulger, and when did you know it?

Back in the 1980s, when he was serving on the Massachusetts parole board, Albano expressed some sympathy for a group of men who had always maintained they had been framed for the 1965 gangland murder of a hoodlum named Teddy Deegan in Chelsea. The FBI had been instrumental in seeing that the men - Peter Limone, Henry Tameleo, Joe Salvati, and Louis Greco - were convicted. The FBI contended that Tameleo was the consigliere of the Mafia in Boston, and that Limone was a Mafia leader. There is no question that both men were bad actors, and Mafia players, but the evidence showed that neither had anything to do Deegan’s murder.

So in 1983, after Albano indicated he might vote to release Limone, he got a visit from a pair of FBI agents named John Connolly and John Morris. They told Albano that the men convicted of Deegan’s murder were bad guys, made guys.

“They told me that if I wanted to stay in public life, I shouldn’t vote to release a guy like Limone,’’ Albano said. “They intimidated me.’’

Turns out that Connolly was Whitey Bulger’s corrupt handler and Morris was Connolly’s corrupt supervisor. When they weren’t pocketing bribes from Bulger, they were helping him murder potential witnesses who were poised to expose the FBI’s sordid, Faustian deal with the rat named Whitey Bulger.

Albano was messing with the FBI’s national policy of going after the Mafia and the Mafia alone. That was the justification the FBI gave for making deals with devils like Whitey Bulger and his partner in crime, Stevie Flemmi. They were supposedly giving up their pals in the Mafia. The problem with the FBI’s national policy is that it didn’t take into account that the most vicious, murderous gangsters in Boston were Whitey Bulger and Stevie Flemmi.

After Albano was elected mayor of Springfield in 1995, he soon found the FBI hot on his tail, investigating his administration for corruption. The FBI took down several people in his administration, and Albano is convinced that the FBI wasn’t interested in public integrity as much as in publicly humiliating him because he dared to defy them.

In 2001, the four men convicted of Teddy Deegan’s murder were exonerated. Turned out the FBI let them take the rap to protect one of their informants, a killer named Vincent “Jimmy’’ Flemmi, who just happened to be the brother of their other rat, Stevie Flemmi. Thanks to the FBI’s corruption, taxpayers got stuck with the $100 million bill for compensating the framed men, two of whom, Greco and Tameleo, died in prison.

Albano was appalled that, later that same year, Mueller was appointed FBI director, because it was Mueller, first as an assistant US attorney then as the acting US attorney in Boston, who wrote letters to the parole and pardons board throughout the 1980s opposing clemency for the four men framed by FBI lies.

Of course, Mueller was also in that position while Whitey Bulger was helping the FBI cart off his criminal competitors even as he buried bodies in shallow graves along the Neponset.

“Before he gets that extension,’’ Mike Albano said, “somebody in the Senate or House needs to ask him why the US Attorney’s office he led let the FBI protect Whitey Bulger.’’

I called FBI headquarters in Washington and tried to do just that. The nice lady who answered suggested I talk to one of the FBI’s “public affairs specialists.’’ But my call was not returned.

Four years ago, when questioned about the FBI’s corruption in Boston, Mueller told the Globe, “I think the public should recognize that what happened, happened years ago.’’

That’s true. And we still don’t know what really happened.


MY RESPONSE

To bad Kevin Cullen is unable to raise the hard questions
to ask FBI Director Mueller. Aside from the fact the organizational model of the FBI is that of a death squad
fronting for American Corporations and the recent book by James Douglass titled THE UNSPEAKABLE connects FBI agents
to the assassination of Boston born US President John Kennedy on behalf of corporations using the Mafia families of Carlos Marcello and Lyndon Johnson much the same way attorney William Pepper was able to convince Memphis jurors in 1999 that FBI agents had assassinated Martin Luther King on behalf of the American Military-Industrial complex using the Memphis Police and Memphis Mafia as detailed in Pepper's book ACT OF STATE.When King was assassinated the Memphis Police Chief was a former FBI agent. Unlike Kevin Cullen a significant portion of the American public now know FBI agents Floyd, Anticev, Fox and others created the 1993 1st World Trade Center bombing; that FBI agent Potts and other FBI agents were handling Timothy McVeigh before the Oklahoma City bombing
and that over 1400 architects and engineers have signed a petition saying FBI agents lied about 911 which can be viewed at the website architects and engineers for 911 truth.Kevin Cullen is incapable of using google to type in the phrase mueller fbi bcci coverup If Cullen did
he would discover FBI Director Mueller was the principal architect behind the cover up of the BCCI Banking scandal,the largest banking scandal-taxpayer rip off in American history. Lest viewers be wondering why Mueller enjoys so much support from our esteemed members of the Senate and Congress one needs to understand the long history of FBI agents committing voter fraud to get their man elected to Congress. How do we know FBI agents are committing voter fraud? Leonard Gates was doing it for the FBI in Cincinnati when he blew the whistle. To bad Cullen does not know how to google leonard gates bob draise fbi voter fraud landes report

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LOL
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 351894.cms
Fearing strain in Pak ties, FBI didn’t arrest Fai earlier
PTI | Jul 25, 2011, 01.25AM IST

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http://www.ktvl.com/articles/momentum-1 ... regon.html
Sovereign Citizens gaining momentum in Southern Oregon
July 23, 2011 7:55 PM
Katie Conner / KTVL.com

MEDFORD, ORE. — A growing group of anti-government extremists has a strong following in Southern Oregon. Many of the followers don’t pay taxes, answer to law enforcement or believe they have to follow laws made by government. It’s a philosophy with real implications.

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FBI 6 pack

1st read
http://blog.nj.com/njv_frank_askin/2011 ... uld_g.html
New privacy guidelines would give FBI leeway to abuse privacy
Published: Sunday, July 24, 2011, 9:03 AM
Frank Askin/NJ Voices By Frank Askin/NJ Voices


Twenty-five years ago, Congress passed and President Gerald Ford signed the Federal Privacy Act. In an effort to end the abuses committed by the FBI against anti-war and civil rights activists that director J. Edgar Hoover disliked, Section (e)(7) of that Act prohibited any agency of the federal government from “maintaining records describing how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Amendment . . . unless pursuant to and within the scope of an authorized law enforcement activity.”
2nd read
http://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpre ... -they-app/