Tag: doj
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homeland stupidity won’t pay its phone bills
fbi wiretaps dropped due to unpaid billsfrom washington post: The FBI, which has had trouble keeping track of its guns and laptops, also has a chronic problem paying its phone bills on time, according to audit results released today. Telephone companies have repeatedly cut off FBI wiretaps of alleged terrorists and criminal suspects because of…
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unsolved mysteries: danny casolaro
the perplexing case of a freelance journalist, who at the time of his death in 1991, was researching an insidious & wide-ranging conspiracy from wikipedia: Danny Casolaro was found dead in a bathtub in the Sheraton Inn, Martinsburg, West Virginia, one day after allegedly arranging to meet a source in connection with an investigation he…
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operation falcon, profiling, fingerprinting & vandalism
operation falcon: police state america in real timefrom pan-african news: Mike Whitney won a 2008 Project Censored Award for his February, 2007 article titled “Operation FALCON and the Looming Police State.” In it, he reported that the Bush administration “carried out three massive sweeps in the last two years, rolling up more than 30,000 minor…
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the cia’s gift to conspiracy theorists
from robert baer: The CIA has proved, once again, that the cover up is worse than the crime. Or at least let’s hope that’s the case. CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden has admitted that in 2005 the CIA destroyed two videotapes of interrogations of al-Qaeda prisoners, including a central figure in 9/11, Abu Zubaydah… What…
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2,000+ dead in US during arrests in three years
from afp: More than 2,000 people died in the United States during arrests between 2003 and 2005, according to data published by the Department of Justice for the first time Thursday. As many as 54 percent were killed by police… According to the statistics, almost all succumbed to gunfire, while 17 were killed by “Taser”…
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data on americans mined for terror risk
from ap: The FBI is gathering and sorting information about Americans to help search for potential terrorists, insurance cheats and crooked pharmacists, according to a government report obtained Tuesday. Records about identity thefts, real estate transactions, motor vehicle accidents and complaints about Internet drug companies are being searched for common threads to aid law enforcement…
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doj stalls anthrax investigation
from daily kos: Democratic Representative Rush Holt (NJ-12) has been stonewalled in his efforts to get answers from the DOJ and the FBI about the status of investigations into the 2001 anthrax attacks on the federal government. The anthrax letters originated from his district. On December 11, 2006, Holt and a bipartisan group of Congressmen…