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Showing posts with label FBI. Show all posts
More Federal Agencies Are Using Undercover Operations
by Eric Lichtblau and Willilam M. Arkin. The federal government has significantly expanded undercover operations in recent years, with officers from at least 40 agencies posing as business people, welfare recipients, political protesters and even doctors or ministers to ferret out wrongdoing, records and interviews show. At the Supreme Court, ... MORENick Gillespie: Americans Trust Government Less and Less
Because we know more and more about it. Fifty years ago, FBI operatives sent Martin Luther King, Jr. was has come to be known as the "suicide letter," an anonymous note suggesting the civil rights leader should off himself before his private sex life was made public. The information about King's extramarital assignations was gathered ... MOREThe FBI Is Openly Defending The Practice Of Lying And Deception In Order To Conduct Warrantless Searches
Feds attempt to dodge Constitutional constraints. The Justice Department says it's perfectly legal for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to cut Internet access of hotel rooms, pose as repairmen, and gather evidence of illegal activity—without a court warrant. The government said in a court filing late Monday that the Caesars ... MORE
FBI Report: Americans Less Violent, Except for Police
Violent crime lowest since 1978. According to new FBI statistics released this week, violent crime rates in the US fell over 4% in the past year alone, bringing the amount of violent crimes lower than it has been in nearly 40 years. The statistics showed that there were an estimated 1.16 million violent crimes in the year of 2013, which is the ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: The FBI - America's Secret Police
Secret police. Secret courts. Secret government agencies. Surveillance. Intimidation tactics. Harassment. Torture. Brutality. Widespread corruption. Entrapment schemes. These are the hallmarks of every authoritarian regime from the Roman Empire to modern-day America, yet it’s the secret police—tasked with silencing ... MOREFederal Agencies Just Doing Whatever They Want Now
by Lucy Steigerwald. On October 26, The
New York Times published an article on the close ties between
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and ex-Nazis after World War II. This
wasn’t news, except for the fact that there were more Nazis poached by the CIA
and other intelligence services, then brought to the US, and protected from ... MOREGrant Duwe: The Truth About Mass Public Shootings
Why do the numbers appear to be going up? Because previous shootings have been underreported. The findings from two separate reports
released in the last month—one
by the FBI and the other by progressive investigative media
outlet
Mother Jones—have been offered up as evidence that
"mass shootings" are occurring more ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: The Government And Freedom
Don't trust your freedom to the government. Earlier this week, FBI Director James Comey gave an interview to "60 Minutes" during which he revealed a flawed understanding of personal freedom. He rightly distinguished what FBI agents do in their investigations of federal crimes from what the NSA does in its intelligence gathering, when the ... MORESecret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist
by Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Devereaux. The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion
of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that
requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to
designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key
government document obtained ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Obama's Chilling Effect
Government-approved tyranny. "Chilling" is the word lawyers use to describe governmental behavior
that does not directly interfere with constitutionally protected
freedoms, but rather tends to deter folks from exercising them. Classic
examples of "chilling" occurred in the 1970s, when FBI agents and U.S.
Army soldiers, in business suits ... MORE
Nicole Hensley: FBI Keeps Dictionary Of Internet Slang
To better track your children. You’re going to FP (face palm) when you see the FBI’s internal style guide for Internet slang. It’s more than 80 pages of definitions and acronyms — or “Twitter shorthand” — for obvious terms such as LOL and WTF. The document was acquired by the news site MuckRock
in its crusade for Freedom of Information ... MOREJay Sekulow: The IRS's War On Free Speech
More evidence the government is not us. The Obama administration’s IRS actively attempted to enlist the FBI in its war against the Tea Party. Does anyone still think this is a “phony scandal?” Does the following scenario sound like the United States of America, the land of liberty, or does it sound like a dictatorship, a land of paranoia ... MOREEliana Johnson: IRS Sent Confidential Database To FBI
More evidence the government is not us. The Internal Revenue Service may have been caught violating federal tax law: In October 2010, the agency sent a database on 501(c)(4) social-welfare groups containing confidential taxpayer information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to documents obtained by a House panel. The ... MORESteve Chapman: The FBI Prospers By Feeding Fear
Careful, he might be behind the tree. James Comey became FBI director last year, at a time when Osama bin Laden was dead, terrorism at home was on the decline and the United States was shrinking its inflammatory presence in the Muslim world. So naturally, he says the danger is way worse than you think. Referring to al-Qaida groups ... MOREFBI Spooks: Infiltrating and Informing
by J.D. Tuccille. The National Security Agency isn't the only arm of the government in the surveillance business. According to a September report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), "every 90 days for the past seven years the FBI has obtained secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court orders compelling telecommunications ... MORESilk Road 2.0 Resurrects Online Drugs Marketplace
Black market site adds new security measures. Silk Road, the online drugs marketplace which was shut down by the FBI in October, has been resurrected by a group of the site’s former moderators and users. Dubbed Silk Road 2.0, the new site taunts the authorities from the start with a login page that features a pastiche of the FBI’s seizure. ... MORESilk Road Raising Questions About Govt Spying (Again)
by Raj Sabhlok at Forbes. It’s a case that’s captured everyone’s attention — pirates, drug trafficking, hit men, government intrigue. By now, few people haven’t heard about Silk Road, run by the now notorious Dread Pirate Roberts, a pseudonym from the film “The Princess Bride.” It’s an interesting next chapter to perhaps the biggest news ... MORE
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