[ Veterans Today - http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/08/01/fbi-pedo/ ]
The FBI announced Monday that it has arrested 150 people suspected of child sex trafficking.
Unfortunately, those arrested appear to be low-level operators – not
the well-connected kingpins who pander children to the wealthiest and
most powerful Americans. Elite pedophile networks connected to elements
of the CIA, including the “Finders of Lost Children” and the Franklin
Scandal group, have operated shamelessly and without fear of prosecution
for decades. They have even peddled young prostitutes during midnight
tours of the White House.
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Saturday, August 3, 2013
Friday, July 26, 2013
FBI admits to flying drones over US without warrants
[ Russia Today - http://rt.com/usa/fbi-drones-over-usa-653/ ]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has used drones for domestic surveillance purposes in the United States at least ten times without obtaining warrants. In three additional cases, drones were authorized but “not actually used.”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday published a letter from FBI Assistant Director Stephen D. Kelly, who admitted that the agency used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) domestically, without gathering any warrants.
“The FBI uses UAVs in very limited circumstances to conduct surveillance when there is a specific, operational need,” the letter reads. “Since late 2006, the FBI has conducted surveillance using UAVs in eight criminal cases and two national security cases.”
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has used drones for domestic surveillance purposes in the United States at least ten times without obtaining warrants. In three additional cases, drones were authorized but “not actually used.”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday published a letter from FBI Assistant Director Stephen D. Kelly, who admitted that the agency used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) domestically, without gathering any warrants.
“The FBI uses UAVs in very limited circumstances to conduct surveillance when there is a specific, operational need,” the letter reads. “Since late 2006, the FBI has conducted surveillance using UAVs in eight criminal cases and two national security cases.”
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Thursday, July 18, 2013
US reviews 27 death penalty convictions due to FBI errors
[ Russia Today - http://rt.com/usa/usa-reviews-death-penalty-274/ ]
The FBI has reviewed thousands of criminal cases and suspects that 27 death penalty convictions may have been secured by using faulty and exaggerated testimonies that may have wrongfully linked defendants to crimes.
A joint review by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department was launched after the Washington Post last year reported that flawed forensic work by FBI hair examiners might have led to the convictions of innocent people. The article suggested that Justice Department officials knew of the flaws, but failed to acknowledge them.
Last July, federal officials announced that they would investigate old criminal cases to see if faulty testimonies influenced death penalty convictions. More than 21,700 FBI Laboratory files are being examined, and at least 120 convictions have already been identified as potentially suspicious. Of these, about 27 were death penalty convictions, the Post reports.-[Full Article]
The FBI has reviewed thousands of criminal cases and suspects that 27 death penalty convictions may have been secured by using faulty and exaggerated testimonies that may have wrongfully linked defendants to crimes.
A joint review by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department was launched after the Washington Post last year reported that flawed forensic work by FBI hair examiners might have led to the convictions of innocent people. The article suggested that Justice Department officials knew of the flaws, but failed to acknowledge them.
Last July, federal officials announced that they would investigate old criminal cases to see if faulty testimonies influenced death penalty convictions. More than 21,700 FBI Laboratory files are being examined, and at least 120 convictions have already been identified as potentially suspicious. Of these, about 27 were death penalty convictions, the Post reports.-[Full Article]
Monday, July 1, 2013
FBI sued over secretive facial recognition program
[ Russia Today]
Soon the FBI will be done building a database containing the photographs, fingerprints and other biometric data for millions of Americans, but the agency has been far from forthcoming with the details. A new lawsuit filed this week aims to change that.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit digital rights group based out of California, sued the United States Department of Justice this week for failing to comply with multiple Freedom of Information Act requests filed last year by the EFF.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation received no fewer than three FOIA requests from the EFF last year for details about its state-of-the-art Next Generation Identification program, or NGI, a system that will store personally-identifiable data for millions of Americans and foreign nationals to act as what the FBI has called a "bigger, faster and better" version of what law enforcement already uses. But while the bureau has indeed already been using fingerprint information to track down potential terrorists and troublemakers for years, the EFF’s main concern revolves around what sort of space-age face recognition abilities NGI will be able to employ.
The FBI previously acknowledged that NGI will “house multimodal biometrics records like palm prints and iris scans” in one master system, as well as facial imaging information and intelligence about scars, marks and tattoos. Eventually, the agency said, it hopes to incorporate technology to track down people using only their voice. For now, though, the EFF is interested in what the facial recognition infrastructure will be able to do, and is demanding the FBI fesses up.-[Full Article]
Soon the FBI will be done building a database containing the photographs, fingerprints and other biometric data for millions of Americans, but the agency has been far from forthcoming with the details. A new lawsuit filed this week aims to change that.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit digital rights group based out of California, sued the United States Department of Justice this week for failing to comply with multiple Freedom of Information Act requests filed last year by the EFF.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation received no fewer than three FOIA requests from the EFF last year for details about its state-of-the-art Next Generation Identification program, or NGI, a system that will store personally-identifiable data for millions of Americans and foreign nationals to act as what the FBI has called a "bigger, faster and better" version of what law enforcement already uses. But while the bureau has indeed already been using fingerprint information to track down potential terrorists and troublemakers for years, the EFF’s main concern revolves around what sort of space-age face recognition abilities NGI will be able to employ.
The FBI previously acknowledged that NGI will “house multimodal biometrics records like palm prints and iris scans” in one master system, as well as facial imaging information and intelligence about scars, marks and tattoos. Eventually, the agency said, it hopes to incorporate technology to track down people using only their voice. For now, though, the EFF is interested in what the facial recognition infrastructure will be able to do, and is demanding the FBI fesses up.-[Full Article]
Thursday, June 27, 2013
MATT CONNOLLY: FBI still mum on death of Ibragim Todashev
On May 22, 2013 Ibragim Todshev was involved in a homicide. He was the victim. He was in a room with at least six law enforcement officers. The homicide occurred in Florida. The State of Florida refuses to investigate it. Two of the officers were Massachusetts State Police officers. The Massachusetts State Police refuse to discuss what happened.
He was gunned down with about 7 bullets by an FBI agent. Immediately after the shooting the FBI began investigating what happened in that room. This was to be an easy one. Only cops could say what happened. No messy civilian witnesses who might not have seen correctly.
If you wanted to find out what happened, you’d ask the officers who were present and you’d know. How long would it take you to do that? An hour, two. Maybe a day or two if you were particularly inept. Then you’d know and you could tell the public what happened in that room.
We are now a month after that event. The FBI is still covering up investigating what happened. We don’t even know how many officers were present in the room. We know nothing. Even our state authorities are terrorized into not speaking about it. Such silence from our officials is something new.
Let me ask you: did you ever think they’d come a time in America when a person could be the victim of a homicide and you’d never find out how it happened, or, if you did it was only after what happened was washed, rinsed and hung out to dry? Did you ever think one cop could kill an unarmed person in a room full of cops and it'd take at least a month to learn anything about it?
How are we any different from those countries who made people they did not like disappear? Where is our free press that is supposed to be watching out for these things? How would you feel if it happened to someone you loved that she could be killed in a room jammed full of cops and you were told they could not tell you what happened until they massaged the facts?
The New York Times reported. that the FBI deemed its agents faultless in 150 shootings from 1993 to 2001. Ain’t that interesting?
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Friday, February 22, 2013
FBI agents caught sexting and dating drug dealers
UK Telegraph
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.
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.-[Full Article]
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
FBI figures show more Americans are killed with hammers, clubs, hands and feet than rifles
(NaturalNews) A new set of data from the FBI shows what tens of millions
of Americans already know but that Washington and other elitist
politicians refuse to acknowledge: That for the past several years more
people have been killed with clubs and hammers than with rifles.
According to the data:
-- In 2005, there were 445 people killed with rifles, compared to 608 who were killed with a "blunt object" (club, hammer, etc.);
-- In 2006, the numbers were 438 and 618 respectively; in 2007, 453 and 647; in 2008, 380 versus 603; and in 2009, there were 348 deaths by rifle compared to 611 who were killed with a blunt object.
According to the data:
-- In 2005, there were 445 people killed with rifles, compared to 608 who were killed with a "blunt object" (club, hammer, etc.);
-- In 2006, the numbers were 438 and 618 respectively; in 2007, 453 and 647; in 2008, 380 versus 603; and in 2009, there were 348 deaths by rifle compared to 611 who were killed with a blunt object.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
FBI yet again foils their own fake terrorist plot, this time targeting the NY Federal Reserve
By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie
At this point I wish I could laugh at the absurdly obvious nature of the federal government’s involvement in the manufacture of domestic terrorism, but unfortunately it is far too serious a matter.
For those who think the most recent case of 21-year-old Bangladeshi national Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI’s) major role in said case is something of a fluke, think again.
Indeed, the FBI’s business is manufacturing terrorism of all kinds and breaking the law in the process. The two most recent cases I personally covered occurred in February of this year and then in May of this year as well. Let’s not forget that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) also thwarted their own little manufactured terror plot in May of this year as well.
The most recent case involving Nafis has not bucked the trend in the slightest. According to USA Today‘s latest update at the time of writing this story, Nafis “allegedly met with an undercover FBI agent who provided him with inert explosives.”
Once again, we learn that the “terrorist” actually never was in contact with any real terrorists (other than those hiding behind the safety of a badge) and was never even able to procure real explosives.
Instead, as is the case with so many other cases of the government thwarting their own plots, we learn that Nafis actually would never have done anything if it were not for the help of the FBI.
Editor of End the Lie
At this point I wish I could laugh at the absurdly obvious nature of the federal government’s involvement in the manufacture of domestic terrorism, but unfortunately it is far too serious a matter.
For those who think the most recent case of 21-year-old Bangladeshi national Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI’s) major role in said case is something of a fluke, think again.
Indeed, the FBI’s business is manufacturing terrorism of all kinds and breaking the law in the process. The two most recent cases I personally covered occurred in February of this year and then in May of this year as well. Let’s not forget that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) also thwarted their own little manufactured terror plot in May of this year as well.
The most recent case involving Nafis has not bucked the trend in the slightest. According to USA Today‘s latest update at the time of writing this story, Nafis “allegedly met with an undercover FBI agent who provided him with inert explosives.”
Once again, we learn that the “terrorist” actually never was in contact with any real terrorists (other than those hiding behind the safety of a badge) and was never even able to procure real explosives.
Instead, as is the case with so many other cases of the government thwarting their own plots, we learn that Nafis actually would never have done anything if it were not for the help of the FBI.
Saturday, September 15, 2012
'Minority Report' facial recognition system being installed across USA by FBI; everyone to be tracked
Natural News
By J. D. Heyes
September 15 - Don't look now, but Big Brother is one step closer to watching you all of the time, no matter where you are. The FBI has begun introducing its brand new $1 billion biometric Next Generation Identification (NGI) system which is, in essence, a nationwide database of...
By J. D. Heyes
September 15 - Don't look now, but Big Brother is one step closer to watching you all of the time, no matter where you are. The FBI has begun introducing its brand new $1 billion biometric Next Generation Identification (NGI) system which is, in essence, a nationwide database of...
Monday, September 10, 2012
FBI’s Sinister New $1 Billion Project Will Track Everyone By Their Face
Gizmodo
How would you feel if the government could easily track your movements by automatically identifying your face on images captured by the ever-growing network of CCTV of cameras in America? The FBI is will be able to do just that soon, with its one-billion-dollar Next Generation Identification program.-[Full Article]
How would you feel if the government could easily track your movements by automatically identifying your face on images captured by the ever-growing network of CCTV of cameras in America? The FBI is will be able to do just that soon, with its one-billion-dollar Next Generation Identification program.-[Full Article]
FBI rolling out high-tech 'Big Brother' monitoring system
PC World
The FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system is raising concerns among some privacy advocates.
Thanks to the FBI, the United States government will soon have a nationwide system in place capable of monitoring and identifying “persons of interest” virtually anywhere. The Next Generation Identification (NGI) system is designed to aid the FBI in tracking down and capturing criminals.
Fingerprints have been the primary unique identifier for law enforcement agencies of all levels for a century. Even with billions of samples on record, no two fingerprints have ever been found to be alike.
Fingerprints are just one unique identifier, though, and much of the accumulated fingerprint data is not merged and easily accessible. NGI will include voice recognition, iris and retina scan data, facial recognition, DNA analysis, and more in an automated system designed to help law enforcement identify and capture suspects more efficiently and effectively.
NGI is designed to integrate with surveillance camera systems across the country. An algorithm will be used to automatically scan surveillance video and compare faces to criminal mugshots to alert authorities when wanted suspects are identified. The FBI database will also have the ability to identify unique scars or tattoos on potential suspects.-[Full Article]
The FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system is raising concerns among some privacy advocates.
Thanks to the FBI, the United States government will soon have a nationwide system in place capable of monitoring and identifying “persons of interest” virtually anywhere. The Next Generation Identification (NGI) system is designed to aid the FBI in tracking down and capturing criminals.
Fingerprints have been the primary unique identifier for law enforcement agencies of all levels for a century. Even with billions of samples on record, no two fingerprints have ever been found to be alike.
Fingerprints are just one unique identifier, though, and much of the accumulated fingerprint data is not merged and easily accessible. NGI will include voice recognition, iris and retina scan data, facial recognition, DNA analysis, and more in an automated system designed to help law enforcement identify and capture suspects more efficiently and effectively.
NGI is designed to integrate with surveillance camera systems across the country. An algorithm will be used to automatically scan surveillance video and compare faces to criminal mugshots to alert authorities when wanted suspects are identified. The FBI database will also have the ability to identify unique scars or tattoos on potential suspects.-[Full Article]
Saturday, September 8, 2012
FBI begins installation of $1 billion face recognition system across America
Russia Today
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reached a milestone in the development of their Next Generation Identification (NGI) program and is now implementing the intelligence database in unidentified locales across the country, New Scientist reports in an article this week. The FBI first outlined the project back in 2005, explaining to the Justice Department in an August 2006 document (.pdf) that their new system will eventually serve as an upgrade to the current Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) that keeps track of citizens with criminal records across America . -[Full Article]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reached a milestone in the development of their Next Generation Identification (NGI) program and is now implementing the intelligence database in unidentified locales across the country, New Scientist reports in an article this week. The FBI first outlined the project back in 2005, explaining to the Justice Department in an August 2006 document (.pdf) that their new system will eventually serve as an upgrade to the current Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) that keeps track of citizens with criminal records across America . -[Full Article]
FBI and DHS Preparing False Flag Attack Claim Domestic Terrorists Building IEDs
Occupy Corporatism
On September 27th, in Springfield, Illinois, the Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will conduct a presentation on improvised explosive devices (IEDs). This demonstration is an extension of the FBI’s National Improvised Explosive Familiarization (NIEF) initiative “designed to raise awareness of the use of common chemicals to produce IEDs.”
The Illinois Fertilizer & Chemical Association (IFCA) are an organization that assists and represents “the crop production supply and service industry while promoting the sound stewardship and utilization of agricultural inputs.”
The NIEF was created in 2007. They are “an intelligence-driven and a threat-focused national security and law enforcement organization” that becomes involved with local and state law enforcement with regard to terrorist and intelligence threats.
Just last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requested 700 pounds of high density ammonium nitrate and 700 pounds of A-5 Flake RDX explosives. These ingredients are known to be very high powered explosives.
The DHS was given oversight of procurement of ammonium nitrate after Congress requested they “regulate the sale and transfer of ammonium nitrate by an ammonium nitrate facility…to prevent the misappropriation or use of ammonium nitrate in an act of terrorism.” The Ammonium Nitrate Security Program focuses on preventing a terrorist attack by use of ammonium nitrate in a home-made bomb by requiring that its sale and those that purchase it be registered with the DHS. Purchasers are screened against the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB).
Meanwhile, the DHS and FBI are warning about a possible false flag attacks using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and “anarchists”.
Mainstream media reported that the “FBI and DHS assess with high confidence anarchist extremists will target… infrastructure in Tampa and Charlotte, with potentially significant impacts on public safety and transportation.”
Domestic terrorists, according to the DHS, are more of a threat to American safety than foreign terrorist organizations. This harkens to the 2009 report DHS published for the Obama administration called Rightwing Extremism that stated domestic extremists, particularly white supremacists, were proposed to be the newest and most dangerous threat to the US since al-Qaeda.-[Full Article]
On September 27th, in Springfield, Illinois, the Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will conduct a presentation on improvised explosive devices (IEDs). This demonstration is an extension of the FBI’s National Improvised Explosive Familiarization (NIEF) initiative “designed to raise awareness of the use of common chemicals to produce IEDs.”
The Illinois Fertilizer & Chemical Association (IFCA) are an organization that assists and represents “the crop production supply and service industry while promoting the sound stewardship and utilization of agricultural inputs.”
The NIEF was created in 2007. They are “an intelligence-driven and a threat-focused national security and law enforcement organization” that becomes involved with local and state law enforcement with regard to terrorist and intelligence threats.
Just last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requested 700 pounds of high density ammonium nitrate and 700 pounds of A-5 Flake RDX explosives. These ingredients are known to be very high powered explosives.
The DHS was given oversight of procurement of ammonium nitrate after Congress requested they “regulate the sale and transfer of ammonium nitrate by an ammonium nitrate facility…to prevent the misappropriation or use of ammonium nitrate in an act of terrorism.” The Ammonium Nitrate Security Program focuses on preventing a terrorist attack by use of ammonium nitrate in a home-made bomb by requiring that its sale and those that purchase it be registered with the DHS. Purchasers are screened against the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB).
Meanwhile, the DHS and FBI are warning about a possible false flag attacks using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and “anarchists”.
Mainstream media reported that the “FBI and DHS assess with high confidence anarchist extremists will target… infrastructure in Tampa and Charlotte, with potentially significant impacts on public safety and transportation.”
Domestic terrorists, according to the DHS, are more of a threat to American safety than foreign terrorist organizations. This harkens to the 2009 report DHS published for the Obama administration called Rightwing Extremism that stated domestic extremists, particularly white supremacists, were proposed to be the newest and most dangerous threat to the US since al-Qaeda.-[Full Article]
Friday, August 3, 2012
FBI’s Facial Recognition is Coming to a State Near You
EFF
Recently-released documents
show that the FBI has been working since late 2011 with four
states—Michigan, Hawaii, Maryland, and possibly Oregon—to ramp up the Next Generation Identification (NGI)
Facial Recognition Program. When the program is fully deployed in 2014,
the FBI expects its facial recognition database will contain at least 12 million “searchable frontal photos.” (p. 6)
Recently-released documents
show that the FBI has been working since late 2011 with four
states—Michigan, Hawaii, Maryland, and possibly Oregon—to ramp up the Next Generation Identification (NGI)
Facial Recognition Program. When the program is fully deployed in 2014,
the FBI expects its facial recognition database will contain at least 12 million “searchable frontal photos.” (p. 6)
The documents, which the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) obtained from a recent meeting of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Advisory Policy Board,1 shed
new light on the FBI’s plans for NGI—the Bureau's massive biometrics
database that combines fingerprints, iris scans, palm prints, facial
recognition and extensive biographical data collected from over 100
million Americans.-[Full Article]
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Top official admits FBI had al-Awlaki in custody before letting him go in 2002
Fox News
The FBI, for the the first time, has admitted publicly that it knew the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was returning to the U.S. in October 2002 and that an FBI agent discussed the American's return with a U.S. attorney before he was detained and then abruptly released from federal custody.
Al-Awlaki, who would become the first American targeted for death by the CIA, eventually was killed last September in Yemen by a U.S. drone strike. Since September 2009, 26 terrorism cases have been tied to him and his digital jihad, according to the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.
The FBI, for the the first time, has admitted publicly that it knew the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was returning to the U.S. in October 2002 and that an FBI agent discussed the American's return with a U.S. attorney before he was detained and then abruptly released from federal custody.
Al-Awlaki, who would become the first American targeted for death by the CIA, eventually was killed last September in Yemen by a U.S. drone strike. Since September 2009, 26 terrorism cases have been tied to him and his digital jihad, according to the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.
Friday, June 29, 2012
What’s Left of FBI’s Legacy Destroyed by its Phony Terror Plots
American Free Press
By Pat Shannan
As stories continue to surface of its
agents lying under oath, enjoying legalized cover-ups and even creating
false terrorism, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is rapidly losing its 104-year-old luster of “fidelity, bravery and integrity.”
In the midst of two of the most recent
agent-fueled false terror plots, an FBI memo appeared showing that,
among other things, the federal law enforcement agency has the ability
and leeway to “bend or suspend the law and impinge upon the freedom of
others,” as well as “create ethical dilemmas for others when we ask that
they provide information on someone” that they normally would not be
willing to do.
Earlier this year, the FBI had one of
its agents pretend to be a member of al Qaeda and furnish Amine El
Khalifi, 29, a mentally-addled former drug addict, with a phony suicide
vest. He then instructed the would-be bomber to attack Capitol Hill.
After receiving the FBI-created non-explosive vest, the Moroccan was
dropped off by his FBI informant on Constitution Avenue and was arrested
shortly thereafter allegedly only blocks from the Capitol building. He
apparently was the only one not on the FBI’s payroll in the sordid
scheme.
The FBI boasted at the time that congressmen were never in danger and assured them that it was “all very controlled.”
AMERICAN FREE PRESS has reported many
times on the FBI’s standard operating procedure when it comes to
domestic terror cases. Agents approach someone, often after an offhand
comment made on the Internet, supply fake explosives to carry out some
mythical mission and then arrest the “terrorists” after alerting the
cooperative news media to be on the scene.
With such contrived operations of
tricking individuals to commit terrorism, the FBI has so far been able
to mislead the public into believing that it has developed certain
methods to prevent future terrorist attacks.
Such was the case in Cleveland in early
May when agents arrested five young men just before they could blow up a
bridge. This backfired, though, when it turned out that the men were
all duped into the scheme by yet another well-paid FBI informant. Note,
many FBI informants are criminals.
Then there were the plots to shoot
missiles at military aircraft developed by men in Newburgh, N.Y. and the
wild scheme in Massachusetts to fly explosives via model airplanes into
the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol Building. These turned out to be
concocted and supplied by undercover agents preying on naïve victims
rather than terrorists.
Informants have been reported to receive
$200K from the FBI for setting up terror cases. In other instances,
they have had their own criminal records cleared and avoided deportation
in exchange for participation in these shams.
This behavior is nothing new. Two
decades ago, the late Hoppy Heidelberg saw it from inside the grand jury
room in Oklahoma City.
It was at that time that famed criminal
defense lawyer Gerry Spence wrote: “I found the minions of the law—the
special agents of the FBI—to be men who proved themselves not only fully
capable, but also utterly willing to manufacture evidence, to conceal
crucial evidence and even to change the rules that governed life and
death if, in the prosecution of the accused, it seemed expedient to do
so.”
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Saturday, June 16, 2012
FBI Terror Plot: How the Government Is Destroying the Lives of Innocent People
AlterNet
The FBI is using informants to stir up fake terror plots, destroying lives in the process.
It wasn’t long after he met the man called Shareef that Khalifa Al-Akili began to sense he was being set up. Within days of their seemingly chance meeting, Shareef was offering to drive Akili, a 34-year-old Muslim living in East Liberty, Pennsylvania, to the local mosque for prayers. Shareef told Akili he was “all about fighting” and “had a lot of resources at his disposal.” But when Shareef began to probe Akili about his views on jihad and asked him if he could obtain a gun, Akili grew nervous. “I begin to try to avoid him, but would still see him due to the fact that he lived two minutes’ walking distance from my apartment,” Akili said later. In January of this year, Shareef showed up with a “brother” who called himself Mohammed and was keen to meet Akili. Mohammed told Akili that he was a businessman from Pakistan involved in jihad. “He kept attempting to talk about the fighting going on in Afghanistan, which I clearly felt was an attempt to get me to talk about my views,” Akili recalled. “I had a feeling that I had just played out a part in some Hollywood movie where I had just been introduced to the leader of a terrorist sleeper cell.”
The FBI is using informants to stir up fake terror plots, destroying lives in the process.
June 14, 2012 | The following article first appeared in The Nation. For more great content from the Nation, sign up for its e-mail newsletters here.
It wasn’t long after he met the man called Shareef that Khalifa Al-Akili began to sense he was being set up. Within days of their seemingly chance meeting, Shareef was offering to drive Akili, a 34-year-old Muslim living in East Liberty, Pennsylvania, to the local mosque for prayers. Shareef told Akili he was “all about fighting” and “had a lot of resources at his disposal.” But when Shareef began to probe Akili about his views on jihad and asked him if he could obtain a gun, Akili grew nervous. “I begin to try to avoid him, but would still see him due to the fact that he lived two minutes’ walking distance from my apartment,” Akili said later. In January of this year, Shareef showed up with a “brother” who called himself Mohammed and was keen to meet Akili. Mohammed told Akili that he was a businessman from Pakistan involved in jihad. “He kept attempting to talk about the fighting going on in Afghanistan, which I clearly felt was an attempt to get me to talk about my views,” Akili recalled. “I had a feeling that I had just played out a part in some Hollywood movie where I had just been introduced to the leader of a terrorist sleeper cell.”
Out of curiosity, Akili did an
Internet search on the cellphone number he’d received from Mohammed.
Much to his surprise, he discovered that the man was, in fact, an FBI
informant named Shahed Hussain, who had played a pivotal role in at
least two major terrorism-related sting operations in recent years. In a
lengthy posting on his Facebook page recounting these events, Akili
wrote, “I would like to pursue a legal action against the FBI due to
their continuous harassment.” He also set up a press conference in
Washington with Muslim civil liberties groups to publicize his fear that
he was being entrapped. But it was too late. In mid-March, Akili was
arrested and charged with being in possession of a .22-caliber rifle at a
shooting range several years earlier, an act deemed illegal because of a
decade-old drug conviction. Though his arrest was on
nonterrorism-related charges, at his bond hearing FBI agents and US
Attorneys told the judge they’d seen unspecified “jihadist literature”
at his apartment and also alleged that he’d told one of the informants
of his desire to go to Pakistan and join the Taliban. The judge ordered
Akili held without bail.
“The
government is basically saying [the charges have] nothing to do with the
informant,” Akili’s attorney, Markéta Sims, told me. “But I’ve been
doing this a long time, and I’ve never heard of someone being charged
with felony possession for handling a gun at a shooting range.”
The FBI has employed informants
ever since its inception as the Bureau of Investigation in 1908. In 1961
director J. Edgar Hoover established the Top Echelon Criminal Informant
Program, in which FBI field offices were instructed to develop live
sources in the “organized hoodlum element.” By 1975 the Church Committee
found that the bureau was employing more than 1,500 domestic
informants. But while the FBI has long used undercover informants to
infiltrate criminal networks and build cases against potential suspects,
in the domestic front of the “war on terror,” informants have come to
play a far more proactive role in surveilling communities deemed suspect
by the bureau.
According to the
Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, there have been 138
terrorism or national security prosecutions involving informants since
2001, and more than a third of those have occurred in the past three
years. Nearly every major post-9/11 terrorism-related prosecution has
involved a sting operation, at the center of which is a government
informant. In these cases, the informants—who work for money or are
seeking leniency on criminal charges of their own—have crossed the line
from merely observing potential criminal behavior to encouraging and
assisting people to participate in plots that are largely scripted by
the FBI itself. Under the FBI’s guiding hand, the informants provide the
weapons, suggest the targets and even initiate the inflammatory
political rhetoric that later elevates the charges to the level of
terrorism.-[Full Article]
Thursday, May 24, 2012
FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit
CNET
The FBI has recently formed a secretive surveillance unit with an ambitious goal: to invent technology that will let police more readily eavesdrop on Internet and wireless communications.
The establishment of the Quantico, Va.-based unit, which is also staffed by agents from the U.S. Marshals Service and the Drug Enforcement Agency, is a response to technological developments that FBI officials believe outpace law enforcement's ability to listen in on private communications.
While the FBI has been tight-lipped about the creation of its Domestic Communications Assistance Center, or DCAC -- it declined to respond to requests made two days ago about who's running it, for instance -- CNET has pieced together information about its operations through interviews and a review of internal government documents.
DCAC's mandate is broad, covering everything from trying to intercept and decode Skype conversations to building custom wiretap hardware or analyzing the gigabytes of data that a wireless provider or social network might turn over in response to a court order. It's also designed to serve as a kind of surveillance help desk for state, local, and other federal police.-[Full Article]
The FBI has recently formed a secretive surveillance unit with an ambitious goal: to invent technology that will let police more readily eavesdrop on Internet and wireless communications.
The establishment of the Quantico, Va.-based unit, which is also staffed by agents from the U.S. Marshals Service and the Drug Enforcement Agency, is a response to technological developments that FBI officials believe outpace law enforcement's ability to listen in on private communications.
While the FBI has been tight-lipped about the creation of its Domestic Communications Assistance Center, or DCAC -- it declined to respond to requests made two days ago about who's running it, for instance -- CNET has pieced together information about its operations through interviews and a review of internal government documents.
DCAC's mandate is broad, covering everything from trying to intercept and decode Skype conversations to building custom wiretap hardware or analyzing the gigabytes of data that a wireless provider or social network might turn over in response to a court order. It's also designed to serve as a kind of surveillance help desk for state, local, and other federal police.-[Full Article]
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
FBI nabs five mastermind geniuses after teaching them how to blow up a bridge in Cleveland
May 3 - I feel safer already. After recruiting five of the dumbest crack heads in the city of Cleveland, Ohio and convincing them to "blow up a bridge", the FBI halted the operation just in time -- a move that wasn't too difficult considering the FBI plotted the whole thing...
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