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Thread Tools Show Printable Version. The SAC is right. How can the sheepdogs protect the sheeple from an increasing number of wolves if they don't have the tools to do it? I am glad I do not live in Boston. Seems they should just show them some video from the Hollywood shootout, I guess they missed that on the news. And certainly the local citizens couldn't be trusted with such vile evil black rifles. Jokes aside, having lived in Boston for most of my life, this kind of politics is par for the course.

Thankfully I live in a more reasonable place now. Universal Task List. The UTL,. The following is an outline of the UTL. Please see Appendices A — G for a detailed list.

June , UTL Workshop — participants. July , National review of draft task list by scenario. UTL Workshop participants. Page 3. Target Capabilities List. Critical tasks are defined as those tasks that must be performed during. The target capabilities are combinations of resources that provide the means to achieve a. A capability may be delivered with any. The following is an outline. Please see Appendices A — G for a.

October , Capabilities Workshop - participants. December , Working Group Meetings. State, Local, and Tribal Working Group. December 17, — January 17, National review. January , Working Group Meetings. Page 4. Page 5. Senior Steering Committee.

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Holtermann Keith. Matthew Payne. Lynn Steele. Terri Spear. LEAD: A former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was indicted on a manslaughter charge today, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. A former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was indicted on a manslaughter charge today, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 16 years in prison.

It was believed to be the first time anyone had been charged with committing a crime involving homicide while an agent for the bureau, said Terry O'Connor, special agent in charge of all F.

Today's rapid developments followed weeks of negotiation between Commonwealth's Attorney John Paul Runyon and year-old Mark Putnam, who resigned from the F. Smith had met Mr. Putnam while he was assigned to the bureau's office in this city miles southeast of Lexington and she was serving as an informer in a car theft case.

Last week, a year after she disappeared, Mr. Putnam led the police to her remains near an old coal-mining road nine miles north of town. In return for an indictment charging Mr. Putnam with manslaughter instead of murder, Mr. Runyon received the agent's admission that he strangled Ms. Smith on June 8, , in a quarrel over the baby they were expecting. Putnam had apparently offered to adopt the child, but Ms. Smith wanted him to leave his wife.

The indictment, returned by a Pike County grand jury, said Mr. Putnam killed Ms. Smith ''while under extreme emotional duress. Bob Foster, the new chief investigator for Attorney General Jack Conway, is reviewing the Kentucky Bureau of Investigations and will present a series of recommendations to improve the agency in April. Foster spent almost 30 years with the FBI and was later director of security for the Transportation Security Administration. On Jan. The TSA was a new agency when Foster joined, and he said he had to build partnerships with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.

He said those contacts and experience will be important in his new job. In his new position, Foster will supervise the cases pursued by 37 investigators in four offices across the state. Staff members investigate Medicare fraud, drug cases and allegations of public corruption. Foster said one of his first priorities will be to conduct a review of the agency and introduce proposed organizational changes in April. Foster said the investigators are efficient and experienced.

Foster said he will introduce a plan in April to align the KBI with Conway's investigative priorities. Creating a cyber crimes unit will require money to purchase new equipment and train investigators, Foster said. However, Gov. Steve Beshear's proposed budget would impose funding cuts for a number of state agencies, including the attorney general's office.

Members of the Schaumburg Business Association today learned of the role businessmen and businesswomen just like themselves play in combating Chicago-area organized crime.

At its monthly breakfast meeting in Schaumburg, the group heard from an FBI agent and federal attorney involved in the investigation and prosecution at the recent "Family Secrets" mob trial. Assistant U. Attorney John Scully told the association that the Chicago Crime Commission was formed in out of the frustration legitimate businesses felt from the influence of organized crime.

Though the Chicago Crime Commission has enjoyed many successes, only 14 of these gangland murders have ever ended in convictions, Maseth said. The "Family Secrets" case brought about some of the most significant victories in the law's long battle with the mob, he added. But one of the first challenges prosecutors faced, Scully said, was to prove the Chicago Outfit actually existed. The mob's coded language and code of silence long prevented isolated arrests from doing any significant damage to overall operations.

Edgar Hoover wouldn't even acknowledge that there was a mob," Scully said. The creation of racketeering charges - which target illegal business operations rather than traditional criminal acts like theft and murder - helped law enforcement widen its net.

But the key that helped unlock years of investigative work in Chicago and its suburbs was the offer of help the FBI received from Frank Calabrese Jr. Maseth said Calabrese was willing to turn informant and spy on his father, Frank Calabrese Sr. The younger Calabrese's change of heart came not from any sudden insight of right and wrong, but because his father had shoved a gun in his mouth after learning of his embezzlement of a million dollars of the outfit's money.

The significance of Calabrese's help was that it helped show evidence already collected in a new light. One of the prominent pieces of evidence was a strange photo showing all of the mob's prominent figures together at a restaurant - the type of photo they'd all avoided before and after. It was conclusive proof that all knew each other well.

The younger Calabrese's help netted his brother, Nick Calabrese, who turned informant himself. The two lawmen also detailed other aspects of the investigation, including the funding of Las Vegas casinos with money from the Teamsters' pension fund and the bombing of cars belonging to resistant extortion victims.

There were some aspects of the investigation they still couldn't talk about as the trial of one remaining suspect, Frank Schweis, is still coming up.

Illness prevented Schweis from being tried with the rest. January 11, , Washington, DC. Take Action! Click here to contact Attorney General Mukasey and tell him that he must not tolerate further retaliation against whistleblower Bassem Youssef by managers at the FBI.

The Department of Justice is charged with overseeing the FBI, and it is time they begin doing just that. The FBI was fully aware of this speaking engagement, and had already granted permission for Mr. Youssef to speak. Unfortunately, when certain individuals within the FBI hierarchy caught wind of the fact that Mr. Youssef's presenation might in some way critique the Bureau, Mr. Youssef was threatened, and was issued documentation detailing secret censorship requirements that he cannot share with anyone outside of the Bureau.

Due to this intimidation from higher-ups at the FBI, Mr. Youssef is unable to give his prepared speech. He will only appear to take questions from audience members. For more information, see the blog post.

This format change will not stop the retaliation that Mr. Youssef faces every day at work. Being threatened for speaking in the public interest is wrong, and Mr. Mukasey should make that clear. Click here to Take Action Now! January 4, Washington, D. The judge's ruling dealt yet another blow to the FBI, which had filed an objection to Ms.

Turner's request for reimbursement of her attorneys fees. Turner was a highly regarded child crime agent working in the "Indian Counry" of North Dakota for thirteen years. She experienced retaliation from her managers after blowing the whistle on, among other issues, sex discrimination within the FBI. Stephen Kohn, Ms. Turner's attorney and President of the National Whistleblower Center, called the Turner decision "vindication for an irrational attempt by the FBI to destroy one of its highly decorated veteran agents after she exposed highly discriminatory practices by her management.

In addition to disclosing discrimination, Ms. A subsequent DOJ investigation found that scores of employees had stolen items belonging to the victims, including a crystal Tiffany globe and bloodstained clothing.

What the Bureau did to Jane Turner is unacceptable in modern law enforcement. December 28, , Washington, D. Youssef is expected to speak about failures in the FBI's Counterterrorism program, and his experiences as a whistleblower. The ALA has long been a champion for civil liberties, privacy, and intellectual freedom. Senate Passes Major Whistleblower Reforms. December 18, , Washington, DC. Last evening the U. This law enhances the protection for federal employee whistleblowers by expanding the scope of protected activity to cover complaints within an employees chain of command.

Passage of S. They need to be melded together in conference and immediately enacted into law. Only by combining the best of both bills will federal employees obtain realistic protection. Until then, the taxpayers and citizens will remain the losers in this debate, as billions of dollars in waste remains unreported and government officials who violate the law and mislead the American people escape accountability," said Stephen M.

Kohn, the President of the National Whistleblower Center. For more information, visit the Whistleblower Protection Blog. December 13, , Washington, D. Supreme Court was asked to hear a key civil rights tax appeal which could affect thousands of past and future victims of civil rights offenses and whistleblower retaliation. In Murphy v. IRS, the U.

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed its own original ruling in deciding that court awards for damages such as emotional distress and loss of reputation are taxable as income. The case was brought by Marrita Murphy, an environmental whistleblower who won her case before Department of Labor, and was awarded compensatory damages to vindicate her rights under six federal environmental whistleblower statutes.

After having her case dismissed, Murphy filed an appeal. Then, under pressure from the Bush Administration, the judges decided to rehear the case. In this ruling, Murphy II, the D. Circuit reversed its own previous decision, declaring that non-physical compensatory damages are taxable as gross income.

For the first time the issue of whether compensatory damages for non-physical injuries are taxable income is squarely before the Supreme Court. This is a major issue impacting all cases in which any person obtains compensatory damages for a mental distress or illness, or for physical problems resulting from or associated with emotional distress. David K. Colapinto went on to say that, "The D.

It was error for the D. Circuit to imply such a tax," he added. Washington, D. The Washington Post and 60 Minutes reported that the convictions of hundreds of defendants have come into question because a bullet-lead analysis used for 40 years has been discredited and that the FBI and Justice Department has failed for more than 2 years to properly notify those convicted about these problems.

Read The Article. This story has been over 10 years in the making, and is the direct product of work done by the National Whistleblower Center and its Forensic Justice Project, which is a special project of the Center. Whitehurst said. Whitehurst and the FJP have worked extensively with scientists, defense lawyers, the news media and members of Congress to force the FBI to address the serious problems and misconduct in the FBI's misuse of bullet-lead analysis in criminal cases. These FBI documents pertain to some of the hundreds of bullet-lead cases and provided important leads for discovery of other information from public court records, as reported in the Post Minutes investigation.

However, "the FBI and Justice Department have strongly resisted efforts by the FJP to determine the names of those defendants who were treated unfairly as a result of bad forensic science," said Dr. The FJP and Dr. Whitehurst requested these files so the FBI's bullet-lead cases can be independently reviewed by scientists and attorneys. All of the FBI's bullet-lead information should have been disclosed to the courts as well as criminal defendants and their attorneys years ago," said David Colapinto, General Counsel of the National Whistleblower Center.

Instead, the FBI and Justice Department deliberately chose to operate in the dark, out of public view, and conceal the evidence that is scientifically flawed but which was still used in criminal cases," Colapinto said. The FJP and the National Whistleblower Center congratulate the Washington Post and 60 Minutes for undertaking a joint journalistic investigation to publicly expose this scandal.

Frederic Whitehurst. Whistleblower Blog Launches. Washington D. A new whistleblower-support blog was launched by the National Whistleblower Legal Defense and Education Fund NWLDEF to provide critical information on cutting edge whistleblower issues and breaking news stories related to whistleblower rights. Among its features are:. News organizations, whistleblowers and whistleblower-advocates are encouraged to sign up for the Whistleblower Protection Blog RSS News Feeds to have the latest whistleblower issues downloaded right to your web browser.

The Editor-in-Chief of the blog is Mr. Marshall Chriswell, who can be contacted at mc whistleblowers. Is the FBI doing its best to combat terrorism? In response to a request for information filed by U. The response from counsel for Mr. Youssef was dated March 17, Senator Grassley placed these letters onto the record of the hearing conducted today before the Senate Judiciary Committee. In a statement issued today, the President of the National Whistleblower Center who also serves as Mr.

The record is clear. In , Mr. He made FBI managers fully aware of the problem well over one year before the Inspector General issued his report. One can only hope that the FBI will undertake the systemic corrective actions necessary to prevent further abuses. E-mails exist which fully document the nature of the problems identified by Mr. Youssef, who was made aware of these problems, and the efforts undertaken to correct the problems.

Youssef has formally requested that the FBI immediately make these e-mails public. Congress and the American public should have an opportunity to fully review these e-mails in order to understand how the FBI permitted violations of law to remain uncorrected for nearly two years. March 16, letter from Charles Grassley to Stephen Kohn. March 19, letter from Stephen Kohn to Charles Grassley.

Official Alerted F. Andrews NY Times, March 19, Youssef for his work in combating Middle Eastern Terrorism. Additional information about Mr. Oaxaca resiste DR Latuff. Set Color:. Print This Page. Narco News Issue 49 Complete Archives. The Other Campaign. A Outra Campanha. Die Andere Kampagne. De Andere Campagne.

Managing Editor: Laura del Castillo. Sign up for free alerts list: English. Editorial Policy and Disclosures. RSS 1. The web of U. Petersburg, Fla. Skyway also happens to have sold two planes to Venezuelan buyers in recent years that have since been identified as aircraft that were subsequently used in drug-trafficking operations.

But the facts are the facts, nonetheless. Peters and his business partner, Malago, between them have sold a total of three aircraft over the past four years that were subsequently used in Latin America for narco-trafficking operations.

Panamanian authorities arrested Urrego on money-laundering charges about a week before the Gulfstream II crashed. Urrego has since told the Panamanian press that he is, in fact, a CIA asset. Due to the multiple allegations linking at least two of these cocaine planes to U. They explain that any individuals or companies involved in a CIA -backed operation, even ones that are complicit in drug trafficking, would be off limits to U.

What sense does it make for the government to smuggle drugs into the country itself just to make cases? I find it strange for a law enforcement agency to be running a unilateral operation [the Mayan Express] involving that much dope being moved out of Colombia.

Intel collection in exchange for letting a narco-trafficker run his business is standard operating procedure for the Agency. I personally have witnessed it. Atlantic Alcohol is essentially a broker for biofuels, in particular ethanol, according to a brochure the company produced to promote its business. Malago explains that Atlantic Alcohol purchases ethanol from third parties and then resells and distributes the fuel to buyers primarily in the United States and Europe. He confirms that the company operates a warehouse facility in Brazil that is used to store biofuels.

Both Peters and Malago have previously told Narco News that they have no control over what happens to aircraft they sell once the new buyers take possession of the planes.

Neither of them have been identified as targets of the ongoing, separate DEA and FBI investigations into the cocaine planes — although Malago says he has provided information to the U. Embassy in Brazil with the goal of assisting investigators looking into the crash of the Gulfstream II aircraft. Malago and Peters are not alone in their Atlantic Alcohol venture. Narco News contacted Janney via telephone for a comment for this story. Southeast in St.

In addition, the Web site and brochure for Atlantic Alcohol lists both Peters and Singer as principals and officers of the company. For example, the following background on Singer can be found at a cached Web site for a high-tech real estate company called the SettlementRoom :. Neil Singer joined SettlementRoom on a permanent basis after being the lead developer on the original SettlementRoom development contract. He has significant expertise in process automation, database integration, and dynamic content generation.

He is also experienced in a wide variety of database architectures, graphics and system design software, and a variety of hardware and operating system environments. Over the past 12 years, Mr. Neil Singer has a B. Singer also is listed as a board member of a small nonprofit group called the Israel Fund. Twenty years of national and international operations have required him to work in widely disparate communities, with contrasting opportunities and needs.

New ventures include seeking opportunities to promote ethanol and other clean-fuel alternatives to petroleum power. His undergraduate work at Cornell University in both Natural Resources and Business management was followed by graduate work at American University in International Development. These programs provided a foundation for Mr.

Singer to bring the priorities of continuing education and fair labor practice into the world of entrepreneurial business. Neil brings fourteen years of experience in corporate communications in both independent contracting, corporate and government information technology consulting.

Neil has built front-end websites and back-office data systems for Fortune companies and Federal Government Agencies.

Neil has experience supporting the US Marine Corps and the US Army with Internet technology, training and support services, and he carries a current security clearance.

Although Singer was reluctant to talk with Narco News over the phone, he did suggest we send him an e-mail with questions we might have about his business endeavors. Petersburg, Florida. The brochure for Atlantic Alcohol lists you and Larry Peters as well as an individual named David Janney as officers of the company.

Peters also owns Skyway Aircraft. You said you are not aware of the media coverage involving Skyway and the fact it sold two planes to Latin American buyers who subsequently used those aircraft in narcotics-trafficking- and money-laundering-related activities. Peters has previously stated that he had no knowledge of how those planes were being used after his company sold them and cannot control what third parties do with the aircraft once they have been sold.

Another Atlantic Alcohol representative, Joao Malago of Brazil, also was involved the sale of a plane … that subsequently crashed in Mexico with nearly four tons of cocaine onboard.

Malago likewise says he cannot control what happens to a plane once he has sold it. Given these connections, it does not seem improbable that federal agents might have approached individuals associated with Atlantic Alcohol as well as Skyway to question them about the planes. Malago has already confirmed that he has supplied information to the U.

Embassy on the matter. Have you been questioned by law enforcement officials on this matter, or are you cooperating with law enforcement or intelligence officials with respect to these aircraft and their past use in narco-trafficking- and money-laundering-related operations? Also, is there any insight you can provide into the situation and how it affects Atlantic Alcohol? I realize you may be constrained in answering these questions, but any help you can provide is appreciated.

Unfortunately, Singer has not yet replied to the e-mail, nor has he returned several calls seeking to assure he received the e-mail correspondence. If these cocaine planes are linked to CIA operations, as signs point to in at least two of the aircraft, and Singer who has a history of doing highly sensitive work for the U. So that means the answers to the questions this story raises cannot be answered with certainty at this point.

Government Operative. Email of Feb. Posted by permission of the author--gm. We had a very unpleasant visit from the FBI and IRS agents yesterday morning and they walked out with more than 40 boxes of tax returns, forms, documents, books, flags, cds, etc. The special agent said that they have a probable cause for money laundering, wire fraud, bank fraud, etc. When I applied for my citizenship in the attorney asked for my record under the FOIC and got a file bigger than the NY city yellow pages with a lot of black lines to mark the names of the informants.

The names of my children who are now adults -- Rita, a graduate of Berkeley medical school at the top of her class and an ex-Harvard graduate; my son Abdullah, who is a UT graduate with a B average in math, physics and linguistics -- are also listed. The FBI agents spoke to my son who is ill and disabled and said that they would come again and they spoke to him without a search warrant. When the special agent in charge was asked about the probable cause, he said that the judge knows but he could not tell us.

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