Tag: fbi
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Emmanuel Goldstein’s 50th Birthday
from ap/my way: Followers of Osama bin Laden flooded Islamic Web sites with pledges of allegiance, videos and pictures Saturday to mark the al-Qaida leader’s 50th birthday, reflecting his importance as a militant symbol even though he has not shown his face for years… Like most things involving bin Laden, his exact birth date is…
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fbi misused patriot act powers
from ap/yahoo: The FBI improperly and, in some cases, illegally used the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about people in the United States, a Justice Department audit concluded Friday. And for three years the FBI underreported to Congress how often it forced businesses to turn over the customer data, the audit found.…
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news on the march
cia agents to stand trial for kidnappingfrom reuters: A Milan judge on Friday ordered 26 Americans, most of them thought to be CIA agents, to stand trial with Italian spies for the 2003 kidnapping of a Muslim cleric, who says he was flown to Egypt and tortured there… The trial, set to begin on June…
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news on the march
pig signals conflicts before new world orderfrom breitbart/afp: The world can expect a roller-coaster ride of conflict and unrest, natural disasters and a plunge in global stock markets once the Year of the Pig begins, Chinese soothsayers say… the last time such an arrangement appeared was in 2002, the year that followed the September 11…
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fbi turns to broad new wiretap method
from zdnet: The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed. Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing, agents conducting investigations appear to be assembling the activities of thousands of Internet users at a time into massive…
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pentagon & cia involved in domestic spying
from wired: Just a day before the nation celebrated the life of the once-federally-spied-upon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the New York Times reported that both the Pentagon and the CIA have been issuing subpoenas to domestic financial institutions to investigate possible terrorism. Although the military and the CIA are largely barred from spying on…
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military expands domestic surveillance
from new york times: The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage inside the United States, part of an aggressive expansion by the military into domestic intelligence gathering. The C.I.A. has also been issuing what are known as…
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news on the march
Ba’ath threatens US if Saddam is executedfrom international herald tribune: Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party threatened Wednesday to retaliate if the ousted Iraqi leader is executed, warning in an Internet posting it would target U.S. interests anywhere… “Our party warns again of the consequences of executing Mr. President and his comrades… The Ba’ath and the resistance…
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senators nix pre-9/11 hijacker ID theory
from ap/yahoo: A lengthy Senate investigation has debunked charges by a Republican congressman that military analysts identified Mohamed Atta and other Sept. 11 hijackers before the attacks, according to a committee aide familiar with the report. In a letter to members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sens. Pat Roberts and John D. Rockefeller dismissed suggestions…
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fbi chided for okc bomb investigation
from guardian: A two-year congressional inquiry into the Oklahoma City bombing concludes that the FBI didn’t fully investigate whether other suspects may have helped Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols with the deadly 1995 attack, allowing questions to linger a decade later. The House International Relations investigative subcommittee will release the findings of its two-year review…
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sears tower ‘plotters’ just ‘wannabes’
from raw story: In a BBC news broadcast today, Miami Herald reporter Mani Garcia remarks that the government’s arrest of seven men in connection with a ‘plot’ to blow up the Sears Tower is probably overblown. “They’ve been described to us by sources as ‘wannabes’ — still to be determined if making a connection about…
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morrissey vs. the fbi
morrissey was recently interrogated by the federal bureau of investigation. and he would’ve fought them in a battle of wits, but he refused to fight an unarmed bureaucracy… read all about it here, here & here.