Archive for the 'COINTELPRO' Category
Orlando: Mass Shooting at Nightclub
June 12th, 2016Judge Napolitano: “Nobody Died Until 05:13 in the Morning” — Gun Store Owner: We Called FBI Before Orlando Shooting Via: CBS: The co-owner of a Florida gun store says his employees contacted law enforcement before the Orlando shooting after gunman Omar Mateen attempted to purchase body armor and ammunition. Robbie Abell, co-owner of Lotus Gunworks, […]
Suspect Says He Shot Officer In Name Of Islam…
January 8th, 2016…Using a weapon supposedly stolen from the cops. Fascinating. Via: CBS: Authorities say a Philadelphia police officer is recovering after he was shot several times during an ambush late Thursday night in West Philadelphia. Philadelphia police commissioner Richard Ross says the officer, identified as 33-year-old Jesse Hartnett, was sitting in his patrol car around 11:30 […]
ISIS Twitter Accounts Run from British Government IP Addresses
December 15th, 2015Maybe honeypots. Maybe not. In other news, ISIS Armed with U.S. Weapons. Via: Russia Today: At least three Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) supporters’ social media accounts are run from IP addresses linked to the British government’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), a group of hackers has claimed. The group of teenage computer experts, […]
A Missed Warning?
December 8th, 2015Via: Weekly Standard: Scanner traffic indicates law enforcement may have investigated San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook a week before the attack.
British Government Compensates Women Who Spent Years in Fake Relationships with Undercover Cops
November 25th, 2015Via: Guardian: Back then, the public knew little about a covert operation that had been running since 1968. Only a limited number of senior police officers knew about it. Kennedy was one of more than 100 undercover officers who, over the previous four decades, had transformed themselves into fake campaigners for years at a time, […]
MI5 Secretly Collected Phone Data for Decade
November 6th, 2015Via: BBC: MI5 has secretly been collecting vast amounts of data about UK phone calls to search for terrorist connections. The programme has been running for 10 years under a law described as “vague” by the government’s terror watchdog. It emerged as Home Secretary Theresa May unveiled a draft bill governing spying on communications by […]
Federal Court Invalidates 11-Year-Old FBI Gag Order on National Security Letter Recipient Nicholas Merrill
September 15th, 2015Via Calyx Institute: A federal district court has ordered the FBI to lift an eleven-year- old gag order imposed on Nicholas Merrill forbidding him from speaking about a National Security Letter (“NSL”) that the FBI served on him in 2004. The ruling marks the first time that an NSL gag order has been lifted in […]
Facial Recognition Software Moves From Overseas Wars to Local Police
August 12th, 2015The countries that run ECHELON, the largest civilian communications surveillance program in the world, have developed unified standards for biometric identification. See how this might look in the future by looking at Iraq. That’s the beta testing phase for what’s in store for the rest of us. —Cryptogon, 2007 Via: New York Times: Facial recognition […]
Son of Boston Police Captain Arrested as Possible Terrorist
July 14th, 2015Via: ABC: The estranged son of a respected Boston police captain was arrested July 4 by FBI agents as part of a counter-terrorism operation against alleged ISIS-inspired domestic terrorists, federal officials told ABC News today. Alexander Ciccolo, 23, of Adams, Mass., was taken into custody on gun charges after buying two pistols and two rifles […]
San Francisco Pier Shooting Suspect Francisco Sanchez Allegedly Used Federal Agent’s Gun
July 7th, 2015Claim: Weapon Stolen from BLM Ranger’s Car Via: San Jose Mercury News: A Bureau of Land Management ranger’s service pistol was stolen from a car four days before police said a Mexican national and five-time deportee used it to shoot and kill Kathryn Steinle on a San Francisco pier. But it isn’t clear how he […]
