Tag Archives: fbi

U.S.

United Police States of America: NYPD using CIA tactics to spy on non-white Americans, NYPD officials call it “fiction”

“Some in the department, including lawyers, have privately expressed concerns about the program.”-Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) revealed that the New York Police Department is using spy tactics “that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government” and “does so with unprecedented help from the CIA in a partnership that has blurred the bright line between foreign and domestic spying.”

NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne says the report is “marked by outright fiction.”

The AP says their months long investigation included interviews with more than 40 current and former members of the NYPD, as well as Federal officials.

CIA veteran David Cohen, was hired in 2002 by NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly.  The anti-terrorist program targeted non-white communities.  Cops detained people based solely on how they looked.

The NYPD even asked New York taxi companies to spy on their employees.

Police attorneys told AP that when they warned police officials they were breaking the law, on the grounds that many of the people rounded up were innocent, the cops started shredding their files.

A possible reason why federal cops ratted on the NYPD, to the Associated Press, is because the NYPD overstepped their bounds.  New York cops launched operations in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, possibly interfering with federal operations.  That made federalis like the FBI mad.

International, Opinion, U.S.

Evil Cops & Rupurt Murdoch: Scotland Yard boss quits, another arrest, was this more than just unscrupulous journalists wanting a scoop?

“I have taken this decision as a consequence of the ongoing speculation and accusations relating to the Met’s links with News International at a senior level.”-Paul Stephenson, Metropolitan Police Commissioner

The boss of the Met Police, aka Scotland Yard, announced he’s quitting.  A few days ago he acted like this thing with Rupert Murdoch’s various media outlets was minor, and involved only a few managers at various newspapers, and a handful of evil cops.  Turns out it’s much bigger.

Also, remember Rebekah Brooks?  She’s the former CEO of Murdoch’s News International, and a former editor of the News of the World.  A couple of weeks ago she acted like it was no big thing, then suddenly quit last week, but not before reportedly telling her underlings that things were going to get much worse.  Now she’s been arrested.

Brooks is the eighth person arrested in connection with the phone-hacking probe and the fourth arrested in the police bribery investigation.

What’s really troubling about this phone hacking scandal is that it might have been done with the help of the British police.  British cops were willing to take bribes to give out information to help Murdoch’s “fair and balanced” news organizations.  Why would cops be so willing to sell such information to the media, especially Murdoch owned media outlets?

Even here in the United States there is enough cause for concern that the FBI is investigating such Murdoch owned media outlets as Fox News, and the Wall Street Journal, for at least attempting to do the same thing here.  Also, the U.S. Department of Justice is now investigating.

Is the Rupert Murdoch’s media empire really just a huge covert spy agency?  Don’t think it’s not possible.  History shows that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and British intelligence agencies (SS aka MI5, SIS aka MI6, etc) have set up fake corporations purely for the purpose of spying on people and governments.  Just one example; anybody remember the fake CIA transport airline “Air America”?

 

 

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Rupert Murdoch scandal hits the stock market, Dow Jones boss quits, FBI investigating possible phone hacks in the United States

One reason why the mainstream media is so into reporting the stock market; Rupert Murdoch owns the stock reporting company Dow Jones.  Tonight, July 15 U.S. time, the CEO of the Dow Jones quit.

Les Hinton, the boss of Murdoch’s Dow Jones & Co stepped down, as the British phone hacking scandal surrounding Murdoch’s News Corp spread to the United States.  The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now looking into similar acts here in the U.S.

Already the CEO of Murdoch’s News International, Rebekah Brooks, resigned.  Brooks was also the editor of the News of the World, the newspaper implicated in the scandal.

More and more British media outlets, owned by Murdoch, are being implicated for the same thing; phone hacking and bribing police and politicians for confidential information.  Murdoch’s News Corp controls a multitude of media outlets around the world, and he controls the Dow Jones.

Why did Les Hinton, the boss of the Dow Jones, quit?  It could be because he used to be the chairman of Murdoch’s News International, when all the alleged criminal acts took place.

British media has reported that Rebekah Brooks made an unofficial statement to employees of the News of the World, that things are going to get only worse, as more information about the goings on inside Murdoch’s News Corp are revealed.

A U.S. corporate governance analysts said the same thing, only officially: “There is going to be a constant drip, drip, drip of more information coming out that is simply going to get worse and worse.”-Nell Minow, GovernanceMetrics