Ron Paul: “End the War on Drugs”

We have recently heard many shocking stories of brutal killings and ruthless violence related to drug cartels warring with Mexican and US officials. It is approaching the fever pitch of a full-blown crisis. Unfortunately, the administration is not likely to waste this opportunity to further expand government. Hopefully, we can take a deep breath and [...]

Anti Police and State Violence Coalition Meeting / Cop Watch Training, Thursday April 2nd

with TRAINING from COP WATCH ON POLICING THE POLICE Join us at our next organizing group meeting to discuss and carry forward our strategies to end state and police violence. Know Your Rights: Training will include: What are your rights to observe the police? Tactics on how to COPWATCH or patrol the police Know your [...]

Texas Officer Charged With Bank Robbery

A Conroe police officer was arrested and charged with one count of bank robbery, FBI officials told KPRC Local 2 Tuesday. Sgt. Michael Tindall Federal authorities said Sgt. Michael Tindall is accused of robbing the First Bank of Conroe on Aug. 11, 2008. He was arrested on Tuesday. Tindall was off duty, but monitoring a [...]

Hemet Police buying armored vehicle

HEMET: Most of the funds for $270,000 car covered by grant from Homeland Security. The Hemet Police Department is buying a $270,000 police car. Well, not exactly. The department is buying an armored personnel carrier designed to get a lot of officers into a crime scene without getting shot. “The main function of this vehicle [...]

Bureau of Prisons pressed to comply with FOIA request

The federal Bureau of Prisons was ordered by a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to either look again for records requested by a legal magazine under the Freedom of Information Act, or prove that its initial search was done properly. In its lawsuit over the records, Prison Legal News challenged the Bureau’s handling of its [...]

POGO Releases Names of Suspended and Debarred Contractors Profiled in GAO Report

POGO has obtained the names of the companies and individuals that were featured in a February report by the Government Accountability Office, which documented how these companies and individuals were able to receive new federal contracts despite being suspended or debarred. – Neil Gordon

Why Secretly Funded DEA Surveillance Planes Aren’t Flying

WASHINGTON — The first sign of trouble with the Drug Enforcement Administration‘s new surveillance planes surfaced almost immediately.  On the way from the manufacturer to the agency’s aviation headquarters, one of them veered off a runway during a fuel stop. The malfunction last spring was only the beginning.  A month later, the windshield unlatched in [...]

Supervisor Josie Gonzales criticizes hiring of immigration activist

The only minority member of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on Thursday criticized a colleague’s hiring of an anti-illegal immigration activist earlier this week. Supervisor Josie Gonzales said Supervisor Neil Derry‘s decision to hire Joseph Turner, founder of Save Our State, as a special projects coordinator could be taken as an offense by [...]

Un-elected, unwanted, unknown shill

Read “Good Ol’ Boys.“  This issue needs to be brought before the next Grand Jury, as well as the Attorney General.  We intend to take our county back, and put the prison- and military-industrial complexes back under the thumbs of the people where they belong. And read this, Hoops: U.S. to yield marijuana jurisdiction to [...]

8,000 Inland criminal cases in question in light of probe of former Riverside lab tech

The probe into the work of a former Riverside lab chemist has expanded to more than 8,000 Inland criminal cases, and the total is certain to grow as three Southern California counties and the state of Colorado investigate. Authorities estimated this week that 4,500 San Bernardino County cases may be scrutinized. About 3,700 Riverside County [...]

Another Nazi Pig Comes to Town: San Bernardino County supervisor hires controversial activist

San Bernardino County Supervisor Neil Derry hired a controversial anti-illegal immigration activist Tuesday, the same day he announced the resignation of another staff member who has been a lightning rod for criticism in the county. The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted 4-0, with Supervisor Josie Gonzales absent, to ratify the decision to hire Joseph [...]

Military seeks “the Right Stuff” via “Moral Waivers”

The military is increasingly issuing something called “moral waivers,” so they can enlist military personnel with felony convictions for crimes like rape and sexual assault. “We don’t enlist convicted rapists in the armed forces of the United States,” said Michael Dominguez, the principal under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness. “If there’s a consensus [...]

San Bernardino anti-government protest moves due to red tape

Follow-up. Matt Munson’s post at IE Politics says it all: I recently let our readers know about a special event to protest against government abuse and waste in San Bernardino, but due to city red tape it got moved to Rancho Cuccamonga. Here are the details: Date: Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 Time: 5pm-7pm Place: Rancho [...]

Federation of American Scientists The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is a “front company” that seeks “to expose national security information,” according to a new briefing on classification policy prepared by a U.S. Marine Corps official.  See “Derivative Classification Requirements 2009″ (pdf), U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific. The 13 page briefing, which pedantically explains the [...]

Pennsylvania police department gets new photo policy

LANCASTER, Penn. — Two years ago, Gregory Bush got tossed in jail because he wouldn’t let Lancaster City police take his picture. Today he’s out of jail, a little bit richer – and responsible for a new rule in Lancaster stipulating that if police don’t charge you with a crime, you don’t have to cooperate [...]

Fair report privilege applies to police reports, court says

The Arkansas Supreme Court has dismissed a libel lawsuit against the Russellville-based Courier News, ruling that the fair report privilege applies to police reports and provided the paper with a defense from the suit. The paper was sued by Ryan Whiteside, who was mentioned in a police report the newspaper obtained in early 2007. In [...]

US flag-burning marks war anniversary

BAGHDAD (AP)– American flags were set on fire Friday to chants of “no, no for occupation” as followers of an anti-U.S. Shiite cleric marked the sixth anniversary of the Iraq war. In five other Iraqi cities, supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr also either marched or stood in protest after prayers to demand the release of [...]

Justice for Derek Copp

Colleagues, What’s the most dangerous consequence of using marijuana? Under our current laws, it can be a bullet in the chest. Earlier this month, Derek Copp, a Michigan college student, heard a noise at the back door of his apartment. As he went to investigate, his eyes were blinded by a flashlight and a gunshot [...]

Glenn Beck and Penn Jillette on MIAC report

See also: The Radical Polarization of Law Enforcement

“Ron Paul Girl” almost killed in brutal racially motivated assault

Aimee Allen, a professional singer who became an online sensation for her Ron Paul videos, was once nearly killed when three thugs attacked her with a crowbar in Los Angeles in June 2008. Aimee broke the story today on the Alex Jones online internet show. She says that police told her the attackers were most [...]

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Ex-deaf school teacher faces new accusations

RIVERSIDE – A former teacher at the California School for the Deaf is being accused by two students of sex-related crimes.Daniel Metroka was sent to prison last summer for 20 years after pleading guilty to four sex crimes involving children. The students recently made allegations that they were victimized at the school. Metroka is likely [...]

U.S. Military Contractor Allegedly Hacked Teens to Extort Nude Photos from Them

An army contractor who worked on a U.S. military base in Iraq hacked into the computers of teenage girls to harass and extort sexually explicit images from them, authorities allege. Police say he and an accomplice targeted some 4,000 young women around the world, including six Florida teens — one of whom he cyber-stalked for [...]

Records now presumed public in South Dakota

South Dakota is now on par with most states and the federal government in treating its government records as presumably public rather than non-public. Gov. Mike Rounds signed a bill flipping the legal standard despite the fact that he, as well as several other groups, opposed it, the Associated Press reported. South Dakota Sen. Dave Knudson championed [...]

Obama Administration: Constitution Does Not Protect Cell-Site Records

The Obama administration says the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures does not apply to cell-site information mobile phone carriers retain on their customers. The position is being staked out in a little-noticed surveillance case pending before the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. The case has wide-ranging implications for Americans, [...]

Judicial Conference to make sealed cases more visible

The Judicial Conference of the United States has adopted a new policy of publicly acknowledging the existence of so-called “super-sealed” cases, Legal Times reports. The Judicial Conference is the body that sets policy for the federal courts. Its policies are considered highly persuasive and are often incorporated into local ourt rules. According to a Judicial [...]

The success of drug decriminalization in Portugal

In 2001, Portugal became the only EU-member state to decriminalize drugs, a distinction which continues through to the present.  Last year, working with the Cato Institute, I went to that country in order to research the effects of the decriminalization law (which applies to all substances, including cocaine and heroin) and to interview both Portuguese and EU drug policy officials [...]

Rallies at University of Michigan and Michigan State to join GVSU in protesting drug policies that led to shooting of student

GRAND RAPIDS — Students at University of Michigan and Michigan State are joining Grand Valley State University students in protesting the shooting of Derek Copp. Copp, a 20-year-old GVSU student, was shot in the chest by police last week during the execution of a drug-related search warrant at his off-campus apartment. Organizers expect hundreds of [...]

Marine Corps Recruiting Center Attacked in Berkeley

At 9PM on March 18th, the eve of the 6th anniversary of the war in Iraq, a group of persons wearing masks smashed the windows and splattered red paint at the U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Center in Berkeley, California. The center has been the target of protests for the last 18 months, and stands as [...]

Meet the CIA’s Shrink

Meet Dr. David Charney, the Brooklyn-born, Virginia-based psychiatrist who’s been treating the CIA’s cloak-and-dagger set for nearly 20 years. SpyTalk shares a fascinating St. Patrick’s Day lunch with Charney, who breaks down the issues that various spooks face. For analysts in the Directorate of Intelligence, the problem is  “obsessional,” like fretting endlessly over whether a [...]

Judge Sanctions Court-Martial for 5 GIs

Fort Bragg. N.C. – The military judge who presided over the hearings of seven soldiers charged in the death of Pfc. Luke Brown has recommended court-martial proceedings for five of them, but says getting convictions may be tough because of the “leave no paratrooper behind” ethic of the 82nd Airborne Division. In a report submitted [...]

Ex-Marine enters plea in Utah bank heist

SALT LAKE CITY — An Iraq war veteran and former U.S. Marine has entered a not guilty plea to federal bank robbery charges. Codie Carver, 24, appeared in U.S. District Court Friday. He is accused of robbing a Washington Mutual bank branch in Sandy on March 9. A three-day trial is scheduled to begin May [...]

Ex-FBI Agent Convicted of SoCal Robbery Plot

A jury convicted a former FBI agent and another man of plotting to rob a drug stash house in Southern California using a machine gun. The verdict was read Wednesday after jurors reached their decision late Tuesday in the trial of 44-year-old Vo Duong Tran, a former agent from New Orleans. Tran and Yu Sung [...]

Accused CIA Rapist’s Alleged Victims Did Not File Local Charges

Interesting tidbits continue to shake out from the strange case of Andrew Warren, the erstwhile CIA station chief in Algeria accused of date rape.First is the overlooked statement of Algeria’s interior minister that the two “local” Muslim women who complained to U.S. embassy officials that Warren spiked their cocktails for nonconsensual sex hold “dual citizenship,” [...]

Attorney General Issues New FOIA Guidelines to Favor Disclosure and Transparency

WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder issued comprehensive new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) guidelines today that direct all executive branch departments and agencies to apply a presumption of openness when administering the FOIA. The new guidelines, announced in a memo to heads of executive departments and agencies, build on the principles announced by President [...]

Coast Guard Petty Officer gets 13 months for sexual assault and sodomy

CAPE MAY, N.J. — A Coast Guard petty officer has been sentenced to 13 months behind bars for sexually assaulting a former recruit in his Cape May home. Wilson Medina pleaded guilty during a court-martial last week to assault consummated by a battery and sodomy. Medina was assigned to Coast Guard Training Center Cape May [...]

Hell’s Angels back in town Sunday for a ‘Red and White Day’ at Angel’s Roadhouse

The Angel’s Roadhouse in Yucaipa is once again hosting an event for the notorious Hells Angel’s motorcycle gang this Sunday. The Berdoo chapter is holding their first annual Red and White Day. The website states, “Come celebrate the 81st day of the year with us.” Although this event is not expected to bring in anywhere [...]

San Bernardino Police Kill Mental Patient

SAN BERNARDINO – Meki Samatua said she called police to her home late Wednesday to help control her mentally ill brother, who was running through the halls and yelling in a threatening manner. Her intent was to get Penimina Sue to the hospital, she said. “He only make noise, but never strike you,” Samatua said [...]

Ex-educator pleads not guilty to sex abuse of son

APPLE VALLEY • A former teacher and school psychologist has been charged with repeatedly sexually abusing his son for at least eight years, officials said Thursday. Richard Swank, 46, of Apple Valley was arrested at his home in the 16000 block of Chehalis Road March 13 after his son, now an adult, came forward to [...]

Former San Bernardino County assistant assessor, Jim Erwin, is arrested

A widening criminal probe of the San Bernardino County assessor’s office led to the arrest Thursday of James Erwin, chief of staff for county Supervisor Neil Derry and a former assistant assessor, on 10 felony counts including “failure to disclose receipt of prostitution and masseuse services.”Investigators from the district attorney’s Public Integrity Unit said Erwin [...]

New Web Site To Find Medical Marijuana Near You Launched

A new Web site has been launched, which helps people locate medical marijuana.WeedMaps.com maps out where you can find marijuana and marijuana groups near you, reports The New York Daily News. Although it may sound illegal but the site purports to only track medical marijuana.WeedMaps.com is a Web site “where medical marijuana patients can connect [...]

Alabama sheriff says he asked Rucker MPs for help

The Army is investigating the deployment of 22 active duty military police and the provost marshal from Fort Rucker, Ala., to Samson, Ala., following a killing spree by a civilian. Ten people were killed in the March 10 rampage in southeastern Alabama by a man police identified as Michael McClendon, 28, of Kinston, Ala., where [...]

Popular state sovereignty bills draw comparison to Civil War posturing

Are You Breaking Up With Me?! The threat is only implied in more than two-dozen state sovereignty bills making the rounds in legislatures across the country, except for a New Hampshire bill where the authors didn’t hold back. Any law infringing on the state’s right to self govern would trigger the dissolution of the nation: [...]

Sailor, soldier accused of assaulting girl, 17

A sailor and soldier were accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl March 14 in Pensacola, Fla., according to an arrest report cited by the Pensacola News Journal. The teenager accused the two men, Airman Recruit Corey Woods, 24, who is stationed at Naval Air Station Pensacola, and Jeremy Boze, 23, rank unavailable, who is [...]

Judge elevates lesser charges against Kreutzer

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — A military judge elevated 16 lesser charges against a former paratrooper who has admitted carrying out a rifle attack on his brigade more than a decade ago in North Carolina. The judge at Fort Bragg ruled Tuesday that 16 of the 17 counts of aggravated assault for wounding soldiers would become [...]

DoD: Sexual assault reports increased in 2008

Reports of sexual assaults involving military victims or perpetrators are on the rise — more than 8 percent over the previous fiscal year — and increased more than three times as much in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Pentagon’s new report to Congress also says the number of cases that were sent to court-martial rose 8 [...]

The Radical Polarization of Law Enforcement

The Radical Polarization of Law Enforcement Patriots, Christians and concerned citizens are increasingly in the cross hairs of the U.S. intelligence community, and battle lines are being quietly drawn that could soon pit our own law enforcement and military forces against us. A February 20 report entitled “The Modern Militia Movement” was issued by the [...]

History Channel: “The Secret Government”

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History Channel: “Mind Control”

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President’s Intel Advisory Board Members All Resigned

Secrecy News previously criticized the White House web site for failing, among other things, to provide a current roster of members of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.  (“White House Web Site Off to a Slow Start,” Secrecy News, March 9.) But it turns out that there are no current members, since the entire membership of [...]