https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2023/6 ... l-cover-upBREAKING: Under Blackburn Questioning, FBI Admits Biden Bribery Scandal Cover Up
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57844784Larry Nassar: FBI failed to investigate USA Gymnastics abuser, watchdog finds
https://nypost.com/2023/09/13/fbi-offic ... up-claims/FBI official can’t recall, refuses to answer questions over Hunter Biden whistleblower cover-up claims
By Social Links for Victor Nava and Social Links for Steven Nelson
https://nypost.com/2024/04/23/us-news/2 ... the-bronx/Two NYPD cops arrested for alleged sex assault of intoxicated woman: ‘Let’s go bro, she’s waking up’
Larry Celona Allie Griffin April 23, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/Snitches-Blackma ... B0CTD15W6DFBI Snitches, Blackmail, and Obscene Ethics at the Supreme Court: Plus: How it took Thirteen years and Three FOIA lawsuits to get the FBI's Secret Supreme Court Sex and Informant Files
by attorney Alex Charns
https://www.ncaj.com/news/uncovering-wh ... -the-1960sUncovering What the FBI Had On the Supreme Court in the 1960s
March 13, 2024 | Amber Nimocks
Alex Charns’ new book, FBI Snitches, Blackmail, and Obscene Ethics at the Supreme Court (Bull City Law Publishing 2024) chronicles his 13-year legal battle to gain release of FBI files so secret and scandalous that the FBI denied they even existed. It is a follow-up to his first book, Cloak and Gavel. FBI Wiretaps, Bugs, Informers, and the Supreme Court (Univ. of Illinois 1992).
The new book details how it took Charns three FOIA lawsuits to get the unindexed files that provide a look at how J. Edgar Hoover leveraged sexual blackmail and used U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas as a Bureau informant.
Charns has been investigating the connection between the FBI and the U.S. Supreme Court since just after he graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1983. He said he was inspired by the work of his mentor, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Garrow, who wrote about Hoover’s FBI and its surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. Charns’ exploration of his own FBI file eventually helped him craft the FOIA requests he needed to extract
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ ... abe-fortasThe Cautionary Tale of Abe Fortas
Neil Gorsuch has a lot of friends in Washington. He should manage these relationships carefully.
* Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
* February 6, 2018
http://hnn.us/article/did-the-fbi-try-t ... rt-justiceDid the FBI Try to Blackmail Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas?
by Marc Stein
The second document, dated July 24, 1967, is a letter from the FBI’s Cartha DeLoach to the FBI’s Clyde Tolson. It reads, in part,
Pursuant to the Director’s instructions, I saw Justice Fortas at his home.... I told him we had received an allegation from a source of information reflecting participation in homosexual activities on his part. I stated that the Director wanted this matter discreetly and informally brought to his attention so that he would be aware of such an allegation. I mentioned that the FBI was taking no further action in connection with this matter and that the fact that the Director was making this available to him was strictly for his own personal protection and knowledge. Justice Fortas was handed the attached memorandum so that he could read it personally. After reading this memorandum, he told me that the charges were ridiculous and absolutely false. He stated he had never committed a homosexual act in his life and while he might be properly accused of normal sexual relations while a young man and during his married life, he most certainly had never committed homosexual acts at any time.... Justice Fortas expressed great appreciation for having been provided with the above facts. He asked that his thanks be extended to the Director for having handled the matter in this manner.
In 2003, Susan Braudy’s book Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left (Knopf) made a passing reference to the allegations about Fortas. According to Braudy (page 331), “In fact, Fortas resigned because of J. Edgar Hoover’s threat of blackmail: an FBI agent had visited Fortas in 1968 to inform him of Hoover’s ‘concern’ that Fortas had been seen at a homosexual bar. It was left to President Nixon to appoint Fortas’s successor as well as the chief justice. Thus did Hoover deliver a history-changing coup de grace to the liberal Supreme Court.”
Braudy cites the FBI’s file on Fortas, adding in her footnotes (page 431),
It would be many years before a hint of more complicated factors leading to Fortas’s resignation surfaced. According to a document from
https://casetext.com/case/samahon-v-fed ... tigation-1This is a case about abuse of governmental power by senior officials in the federal government. Although technically framed as a request for disclosure of certain information in the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), at bottom, the case is about the ability of the federal government to pry into the private lives of U.S. citizens with virtual impunity.
The case implicates the highest levels of the federal government, including President Lyndon B. Johnson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Abe Fortas, and senior FBI officials including FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The subject of the government's interest was George Hamilton, a film and television actor who at the time (circa
https://nypost.com/2024/04/23/us-news/p ... ed-at-nyu/Anti-Israel protesters carry flares to march on NYPD HQ after over 150 arrested at NYU
Isabel Keane and Joe Marino April 23, 2024
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/ ... _secondaryStudents at MIT, Emerson, Tufts set up pro-Palestine encampments after Columbia arrests
Harvard University preemptively closed the Yard ahead of planned encampments. Last week, more than 100 Columbia University students were arrested when NYPD cleared tents off the campus.
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/0 ... nty-offer/Eighty Six Percent of Guantanamo Bay Inmates Were Sold to American Troops in Response to $5,000 Bounty Offer
By Jeremy Kuzmarov - April 22, 2024
https://truthout.org/articles/israel-le ... palestine/Israel Tied With Iran Among Top Jailers of Journalists in 2023, Report Finds
The Committee to Protect Journalists says 2023 saw the highest number of arrests of Palestinian journalists since 1992.
By Zane McNeill , TRUTHOUT April 22, 2024
https://truthout.org/articles/global-mi ... -trillion/Global Military Spending Reached an All-Time High Last Year at $2.4 Trillion
The US was by far the largest military spender at $916 billion in 2023, up 2.3 percent compared to the previous year.
By Jake Johnson , COMMONDREAMS April 22, 2024
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/44 ... ssil-fuels44,000 Reasons to Phase Out Fossil Fuels
Climate change, along with habitat loss and exploitation, are accelerating extinction at a terrifying rate.
JEAN SU TANYA SANERIB Apr 23, 2024 Common Dreams
In 2019, we traveled with our colleagues to Michoacán, Mexico, to wi
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/22/law ... ce-online/Lawmakers Who Insisted The US Gov’t Should Never Combat Foreign Influence Online, Vote To Combat TikTok’s Foreign Influence Online
from the ain't-no-hypocrisy-like-congressional-hypocrisy dept
Mon, Apr 22nd 2024 01:35pm - Mike Masnick
Is the US government allowed to step in to deal with foreign influence on social media or not? According to at least some members of Congress, the answer appears to be “yes, when we dislike what they’re saying, and no when we like what they’re saying.”
When the original House bill to “ban TikTok” passed, David Greene and Karen Gullo at EFF noted the odd contrast of dozens of Congressional Reps who both signed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in the Murthy case, saying that the US government should simply never be allowed to interfere with speech, including to counter election misinformation, and also (just days later) voted to ban TikTok.
Over the weekend, the House once again passed a TikTok ban bill (similar to the original with a few small changes), which they bizarrely bundled with funding for Ukraine
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/22/96- ... a-brokers/96% Of Hospitals Share Sensitive Visitor Data With Meta, Google, and Data Brokers
from the greed-has-broken-everything dept
Mon, Apr 22nd 2024 05:23am - Karl Bode
I’ve mentioned more than a few times how the singular hyperventilation about TikTok is kind of silly distraction from the fact that the United States is too corrupt to pass a modern privacy law, resulting in no limit of dodgy behavior, abuse, and scandal. We have no real standards thanks to corruption, and most people have no real idea of the scale of the dysfunction.
Case in point: a new study out of the University of Pennsylvania (hat tip to The Register) analyzed a nationally representative sample of 100 U.S. hospitals, and found
https://whowhatwhy.org/elections/maine- ... democracy/Maine Brings US One Step Closer to Actual Democracy
WHOWHATWHY STAFF 04/21/24
https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/governm ... lman-died/It’s the 20th Anniversary of the Pentagon’s Cover-Up of How Pat Tillman Died
KLAUS MARRE 04/22/24
The attempt to hide how Pat Tillman died began right after he was killed by friendly fire 20 years ago today.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA1nv9GVTrump’s Valet Promised Pardon Even If He Lied To FBI In Classified Docs Case, Witness Claims
Story by Nick Visser
Walt Nauta, one of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants in his classified documents case, was allegedly told he would receive a pardon even if he was charged with lying to the FBI, according to newly unsealed court documents.
The detail was revealed Monday in a redacted interview conducted with a witness in the federal case centered on Trump’s handling of classified files after he left the White House. Trump, Nauta and a third defendant, Carlos De Oliveira, have been charged with dozens of federal crimes in Florida, where the former president
https://newstalkkit.com/former-yakima-p ... continues/YAKIMA POLICE OFFICER KILLS TWO AS NATIONWIDE MANHUNT CONTINUES
Lance Tormey April 23, 2024
A nationwide manhunt is underway for a former Yakima Police Officer who authorities say shot two people and took his child Monday in West Richland.
THE FORMER OFFICER WAS SET TO GO TO TRIAL THIS WEEK ON RAPE CHARGES
40-year-old Elias Huizar served in the Yakima Police Department from 2013-2022 and was charged with the sexual assault of a teen back in February. It's not known if the killings are connected to the case. Washington State Patrol Troopers say Troopers says the two victims wer
Read More: Former Yakima Police Officer Kills Two Manhunt Underway |
https://newstalkkit.com/former-yakima-p ... m=referralhttps://boingboing.net/2024/04/23/flori ... nsent.htmlFloridans can record conversations with cops without their consent
ROB BESCHIZZA 9:34 AM TUE APR 23, 2024
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/d ... e_vignetteDisgraced cop stole two phones and iPad from dad after he died from heart attack
Alan Sneddon, who had 28 years police experience, took the items from John Green's home in Paisley last year and was recently spared jail for his brazen crime
ByRory CassidyReporterSteven White
23 Apr 2024
https://www.insauga.com/concerns-over-o ... -brampton/Concerns over officer testimony leads to review of Toronto cops in death of officer from Brampton
By Ryan Rumbolt Published April 23, 2024
https://wibc.com/324550/delphi-murders- ... -of-lying/Delphi Murders Prosecutor Claims Former Rushville Cop Could Have History of Lying
Donnie Burgess Published on April 23, 2024
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article ... collector/‘Steroid King’ murder trial hears how crooked cop protected violent debt collector
By Vincent Cruywagen 23 Apr 2024
https://gizmodo.com/cops-are-now-using- ... 1851429617Cops Are Now Using AI to Generate Police Reports
The dreaded law enforcement contractor Axon has pioneered a new software for writing police reports, but critics are wary of its impacts.
By Lucas Ropek
COPAGANDA
https://www.tvinsider.com/1132668/fbi-m ... neak-peek/“FBI: Most Wanted’ Sneak Peek: Is Guest Star Susan Misner Interested in Task Force or Remy? (VIDEO)
Meredith Jacobs APRIL 23, 2024
https://gizmodo.com/thermonator-the-fla ... 1851429292Thermonator, the Flame-Throwing Robot Dog, Can Now Be Yours for $9,420
A good tagline for this product might be: “How the Fuck Is This Legal?”
By Lucas Ropek
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/we-shi ... um=reader2Meryl’s COVID Newsletter
We shined the light on the IHR amendments and the pandemic treaty and some bad things have been removed in the new drafts
But their plan is the same, and like the lockdowns, it is one step back and two steps forward for the globalists
MERYL NASS MD APR 23, 2024
https://www.ctinsider.com/journalinquir ... 418670.phpGlastonbury cop and suspected 'serial burglar' arrested in Vernon break-ins, police say
By Christine Dempsey, April 23, 2024
https://www.oig.dhs.gov/foia/reading-roomFOIA Reading Room
https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2024/ ... aturestackWeymouth police officer pleads guilty to assaulting man in custody
Justin Chappell punched a man in custody around 13 times “without legal justification” in 2022, officials said.
By Emily Spatz April 23, 2024