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Friday, April 4, 2014

Florida State under investigation for its handling of Jameis Winston rape allegations

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced the investigation this week

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Florida State under investigation for its handling of Jameis Winston rape allegations

Friday, March 28, 2014

Missing Plane Investigation, Search Shifts

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Friday, March 21, 2014

Whistleblower Prompts CSEC Investigation: Uncovers Misuse of Public Assets, Serious Ethics Breaches

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Friday, February 21, 2014

12 Banker "Suicides" Linked To JP Morgan Investigation For Forex Manipulation

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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

School Shooting Expert Threatened Over Sandy Hook Investigation

Was told if he didn’t comply “bad things are going to happen”

Adan Salazar
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February 18, 2014

The Sandy Hook school shooting was a giant, elaborate hoax and no one really died; that’s the conclusion Wolgang Halbig, a former educator, US Customs agent and Florida state trooper, has reached after ten months of investigation and multiple disputes with federal, state and school authorities.

Halbig is convinced a deluge of discrepancies prove that the whole scenario was a scripted event.

“..I suspect, in my professional opinion as a consultant and doing this a long, long time, I think it’s a scripted event that took place. I think it was in planning for maybe two, two and a half years,” Halbig said recently in an explosive interview with American Free Press.

Halbig is not your average conspiracy theorist. In fact he’s not one at all.

He’s a former educator and law enforcement officer who now contracts out as a national school safety consultant.

His job is to help schools prevent incidents like the one that unfolded in Newtown. In order to do that, he needs to know exactly what happened at Sandy Hook.

“How do I tell people how to make their school safer when we don’t even have the truth about Sandy Hook?” asked a frustrated Halbig. “See, there is a nexus, I do this for a living.”

But school, state and federal officials aren’t making his job easy, and the state’s even threatened him for meddling in their affairs.

“They were in plain clothes,” Halbig recalled, describing a visit from Lake County homicide investigators. “They introduced themselves, they showed me their identification, their badges, and they basically said, ‘We need to have a conversation,’ and I said, ‘Well come on in, sit down, make yourselves comfortable,’ and then they read off my resumé. I mean, somehow, they did a lot of homework.. Basically the next thing they said was if I don’t stop, the Connecticut state police were gonna file charges and they recommended that I hire an attorney.”

The retired school principal, however, affirmed he’s in the right. “I said there is no way in the world that I’m gonna hire an attorney, because I’m following the procedures of the Connecticut state Freedom of Information Act. I mean, if anybody ought to be arrested, I said you tell those guys they ought to be arrested for failing to comply by the law of Connecticut.”

He says they also treated him in a threatening manner, stating “if I don’t comply that bad things are going to happen to me.”

Nevertheless, Halbig says, like any homicide investigation, Sandy Hook is a giant puzzle, but one which the public hasn’t been provided all the pieces to solve.

“..[T]his crime that was committed is a puzzle and no one can show me the pieces to put together to finish this puzzle. They don’t fit no matter how hard you try.. you and your listeners will not be able to put this puzzle together,” Halbig attested to host Dave Gahary.

Unanswered Questions

National school safety consultant Wolgang Halbig.

For Halbig, there are unanswered questions, lots of them.

For instance, why in the immediate aftermath of the shooting were no medical helicopters summoned?

“Think about it: you have 20 children, 6 staff members who were supposed to have been shot. They’re seriously injured. Where’s the trauma helicopters? Those are the quickest and the best medical services that any child or any school staff member can receive, and no trauma helicopters were ever requested?”

Halbig also called Life Star emergency services, who confirmed they were never summoned that morning. “[T]hey said, ‘Mr. Halbig we were never requested on that morning. We were shocked and surprised, we were ready, we thought we were going to go to Sandy Hook.’ They had helicopters ready to go, but they were never asked.. Here’s my premise.. there wasn’t anybody there to be treated.”

Halbig also questions why EMT and firefighters, who were mere minutes away from the scene, were prevented from entering the school and possibly saving lives, and additionally, he wants to know how, within the first 11 minutes, America was already presented with a death toll.

“Who declared all those 26 people dead within the first 11 minutes? Connecticut law states that only a doctor can declare them dead, legally dead.”

Moreover, Halbig says the FBI’s classification of the school shooting report is something he’s never witnessed in his entire career. “I can tell you [out of] all the shootings, never has an FBI agency ever classified an investigative report on a school shooting.”

More Unanswered Questions

There are also a whole host of peculiarities Halbig is still baffled by.

For example, why was Sandy Hook elementary torn down? Even in the Columbine tragedy, whose crime scene Halbig assisted with and in which he testified as a key witness, the school was cleaned up, but was never torn down.

According to Halbig, no one could tell him which environmental company cleaned up the bloody mess, or who installed the school’s security system, all things his job would require him to know.

He has other pressing questions, such as: Why was there a registered nurse found in the building four hours after the shooting? Why was there a sign flashing “Everyone must sign in?” Why were there port-a-potties on site within three hours? Why were children turned around by officers and sent back into rooms supposedly littered with dead bodies? How did someone with Asperger’s have the physical coordination to carry the large amount of munitions Adam Lanza supposedly carried? Why did no parents file a lawsuit against the school, when in every other school shooting suits have been filed? And ultimately, why would the state threaten Halbig?

“The things [we"re] talking about.. they should never offend any parent…These are simple questions that we as homicide investigators, we need to know and we should know.”

Sandy Hook elementary / Image: Wikimedia Commons

Truth Seeking Won’t Stop

Altogether, from the puzzle pieces he’s collected and analyzed, Halbig concludes there is a massive cover up.

“Absolutely… It is.. when you refuse to respond to simple requests, something is not right.”

The next step legally, Halbig says, would be to hire attorneys and depose the key players of the investigation, because, “The only way you’re ever gonna get the truth is by getting them to raise their right hands..” “..[I]f you lie in a deposition and if you’re caught in that lie, there’s a lot of things that you can lose, you can go to jail and you can lose your retirement..” warns the safety consultant.

When asked if he feels his life could be in danger if the cover-up goes all the way up to the White House, Halbig answered he is not fearful because he’s led a rich life, but that for him, people showing up and knocking on his door was the final straw.

“Here’s the problem and this is what got me fired up even more, is when they start bringing people to my house.”

Halbig says next he’s traveling to Newtown, Conn. and scoping out the crime scene, and that he’s possibly planning a Sandy Hook event in Orlando, Florida sometime in the near future.

He says he won’t stop until he gets some answers.

Below, check out Infowars’ report on why so many people think the Sandy Hook school shooting was a staged event.

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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Suspicious Death of JPMorgan Vice President, Gabriel Magee, Under Investigation in London

Suspicious Death of JPMorgan Vice President, Gabriel Magee, Under Investigation in London
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(Left) JPMorgan’s European Headquarters at 25 Bank Street, in the Canary Wharf Section of London

London Police have confirmed that an official investigation is underway into the death of a 39-year old JPMorgan Vice President whose body was found on the 9^th floor rooftop of a JPMorgan building in Canary Wharf two weeks ago.

The news reports at the time of the incident of Gabriel (Gabe) Magee’s “non suspicious” death by “suicide” resulting from his reported leap from the 33^rd level rooftop of JPMorgan’s European headquarters building in London have turned out to be every bit as reliable as CEO Jamie Dimon’s initial response to press reports on the London Whale trading scandal in 2012 as a “tempest in a teapot.”

An intense investigation is now underway into the details of exactly how Magee died and why his death was so quickly labeled “non suspicious.” An upcoming Coroner’s inquest will reveal the details of that investigation.

It’s becoming clear that when JPMorgan tells us “nothing to see here, move along,” that’s the precise time we need to bring in the blood hounds and law enforcement with the guts to get past this global behemoth’s army of lawyers who have a penchant for taking over investigations and producing their own milquetoast reports of what happened.

Jamie Dimon’s so-called “tempest in a teapot” in the London Whale matter morphed into $ 6.2 billion in bank depositor losses, $ 1 billion in fines to JPMorgan, 300 pages of scandalous details by the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that called into question JPMorgan’s risk controls and the integrity of upper management, and, finally, resulted in criminal charges against two of the men involved. The criminal cases have yet to go to trial.

According to numerous sources close to the investigation of Gabriel Magee’s death, almost nothing thus far reported about his death has been accurate. This appears to stem from an initial poorly worded press release issued by the Metropolitan Police in London which may have been a result of bad communications between it and JPMorgan or something more deliberate on someone’s part.

The Metropolitan Police have provided me with their original press release. It reads:

“Police were called at approximately 08.02 hrs on Tuesday 28 January to reports of a man having fallen from a building at 25 Bank Street, E14 and landing on a ninth floor roof. London Ambulance Service and London Air Ambulance attended. The man was pronounced dead at the scene a short while later. The deceased is believed to be aged 39. We believe we know the identity of the deceased but await formal identification. Next of kin have been informed. No arrests have been made and the death is being treated as non-suspicious.”

That press release resulted in CNBC running with this headline: “Death Plunge at JP Morgan Tower Not Suspicious, Police Say.” Dozens of other media followed with similar reporting.

The Independent newspaper in London flatly stated that Magee “died after falling from the roof.” The London Evening Standard tweeted: “Bankers watch JP Morgan IT exec fall to his death from roof of London HQ,” which linked to their article which declared in its opening sentence that “A man plunged to his death from a Canary Wharf tower in front of thousands of horrified commuters today.”

At this moment in time, police have yet to produce a single witness who saw Magee jump from the rooftop of this building, let alone “thousands of horrified commuters.” (Exactly why would thousands of horrified commuters be standing in front of 25 Bank Street at 8:02 a.m. with their necks tilted up toward the roof? Magee did not land on the sidewalk; his body was found on a rooftop 9 floors above street level.) Both the Independent and London Evening Standard newspapers are majority owned by Alexander Lebedev, a Russian and former KGB agent.

No one in the media seemed to notice that Iain Dey, Deputy Business Editor of the Sunday Times in London, flatly disputed the notion that a plunge from the rooftop had been observed by anyone when he reported that: “Gabriel Magee’s body lay for several hours before it was found at 8am last Tuesday.”

The only facts in this case which are currently reliable are that fellow workers looking from their windows in the building noticed a body lying on the 9^th level rooftop, which juts out from the main 33-story building, at around 8:02 a.m. on Tuesday, January 28, and called the police. There is no concrete proof at this moment in time that Magee fell, jumped or was ever on the 33-story rooftop, which is a highly secured area of the building unobtainable by employees other than top security and maintenance personnel. According to design documents that have been publicly filed, the rooftop functions as a highly sophisticated cooling plant with large, bulky machinery taking up the majority of the space on the side of the building from which Magee would have had to jump in order to land on the 9^th level rooftop.

No solid evidence exists currently to suggest that the death was a suicide. In fact, there is a strong piece of evidence pointing in the opposite direction. Magee had emailed his girlfriend, Veronica, on the evening of January 27 to say that he was about to leave the office and would see her shortly. She received no further emails from him, suggesting that whatever happened to Magee happened shortly thereafter, not the next morning. According to multiple sources, Magee’s girlfriend reported his disappearance on the evening of January 27. The Metropolitan Police would provide me with no details on that investigation.

The JPMorgan building at 25 Bank Street is located in the borough of Tower Hamlets. According to drawings and plans submitted by JPMorgan to the borough after it purchased the building for £495 million in 2010, the 9^th floor roof is accessible “via the stair from level 8 within the existing Level 9 plant enclosure…” In other words, it would be just as reasonable to entertain the possibility that Magee suffered his physical injuries inside the building and his body was placed on the 9^th level rooftop via an internal staircase access sometime during the night of January 27.

The LinkedIn profile that Magee set up for himself online indicates that he was involved with “Technical architecture oversight for planning, development, and operation of systems for fixed income securities and interest rate derivatives.” As a key part of the computer technology group in London, Magee may have been involved in providing subpoenaed material for the London Whale investigation and the myriad other investigations that JPMorgan has been sanctioned and fined for over the last year. There are two serious open investigations into foreign exchange rigging and potential manipulation of commodities markets.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) lists the man known as the London Whale, Bruno Iksil, who is cooperating with criminal prosecutors, and the two traders who have been criminally charged with hiding hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, Javier Martin-Artajo and Julien Grout, as having the same JPMorgan address, 25 Bank Street, as did Gabriel Magee.

Documents produced by the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, however, show a 2012 address for JPMorgan’s Chief Investment Office in London, supposedly where the London Whale trades were originating, as 100 Wood Street, 6^th Floor, London. If the London Whale traders were located at an address other than the European Headquarters for JPMorgan, it could have been to evade detection by regulators that the firm was using bank deposits in the United States, that carried FDIC insurance, to place high risk gambles in London in the derivatives market.

The Senate’s 300-page report noted that key traders involved in the London Whale matter, including Iksil, Martin-Artajo, and Grout, refused to submit to interviews by the Senate investigators. The Senate report notes that “their refusal to provide information to the Subcommittee meant that this Report had to be prepared without their direct input. The Subcommittee relied instead on their internal emails, recorded telephone conversations and instant messages, internal memoranda and presentations, and interview summaries prepared by the bank’s internal investigation, to reconstruct what happened.”

If Magee became aware that incriminating emails, instant messages, or video teleconferences were not turned over in their entirety to Senate investigators or Justice Department prosecutors, that might be reason enough for his untimely death. Yes, this is speculation. But it is along the lines that smart thinking investigators need to intensely explore to bring peace of mind and answers to Gabriel Magee’s loved ones and coworkers.

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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Head Of Bridge Scandal Investigation: Hoboken Mayor"s Story "Attracted Our Attention"

New Jersey Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D) issued a statement Saturday responding to Hoboken, N.J. mayor Dawn Zimmer’s claims the administration of Gov. Chris Christie (R) withheld Hurricane Sandy relief money from her city because she did not fast-track a real estate project linked to one of his allies. Wisniewski, who is the chairman of the New Jersey General Assembly committee investigating last September’s lane closures on the George Washington Bridge, said Zimmer’s claims are “serious” and had the committee’s attention.

“The allegations discussed today by Mayor Zimmer are serious and yet again raise concern about abuse of government power, This certainly has attracted our attention. We need to obtain all relevant facts, confer with our special counsel and determine the committee’s best course of action,” said Wisniewski.

On Friday, the Assembly Democrats announced Wisniewski’s committee had served 20 individuals and organizations with subpoenas including Christie’s office, his re-election campaign, and many of his top aides. Some Democrats have alleged Christie’s allies ordered the closure of the lanes, which led to days of traffic in Fort Lee, N.J., to retaliate against a mayor who did not endorse him.

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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Sandy Hook Shooting Investigation Report: Grim Details, No Motive

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Sunday, November 10, 2013

Germany, under pressure, speeds investigation of Nazi-looted art

By Erik Kirschbaum

BERLIN Sun Nov 10, 2013 10:57am EST

1 of 8. File photo of a print of the painting ‘Lion-Tamer’ by artist Max Beckmann is displayed in a book about the German expressionist at Lempertz auction house in Cologne November 4, 2013.

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany, under pressure to hasten inquiries into Nazi-looted art works stashed in a recluse’s flat, has sent legal experts to help local authorities in Munich resolve myriad ownership issues, Focus magazine reported on Sunday.

The federal government’s intervention follows criticism that authorities stayed silent too long about 1,406 art works by European masters they stumbled upon last year.

Focus, based in Munich, said the government sent “several staffers” to the Bavaria justice ministry on Friday.

“The federal government is working hard to ensure that information about the confiscated works of art is made available as there are now indications that Nazi persecution could be involved,” Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said the same day.

Focus, which broke the Nazi art story a week ago, also said on Sunday customs experts believe some of the art cannot be legally returned to its original owners because it came from state museums – and restitution claims would likely fail.

Customs officials seized the paintings, sketches and sculptures from Cornelius Gurlitt in February 2012. They were hoarded by his father Hildebrand, a war-era art dealer put in charge of selling “degenerate” art by Adolf Hitler.

“A large portion of Hildebrand Gurlitt’s treasure confiscated from his son can probably not be returned to the rightful owners,” Focus magazine said, quoting from an internal customs office analysis made for the Finance Ministry that refers to 315 pieces of the “degenerate” art work found.

The legal status of the art remains murky and disputed nearly 70 years after World War Two. Some legal experts say Gurlitt may even get to keep it but others say Germany could nullify his ownership under the 1998 Washington Declaration, a set of principles for dealing with looted art.

The secrecy and the delay in publishing an inventory of the works, estimated to be worth up to 1 billion euros ($ 1.34 billion), has been criticized by those who say that publicizing such finds is vital to finding their rightful owners.

The Nazis plundered hundreds of thousands of art works from museums and individuals across Europe. Many are still missing.

The Munich trove been hailed as one of the most significant discoveries of looted art, fuelling speculation about its provenance and claims from heirs of Jewish collectors who were robbed, dispossessed or murdered by the Nazis.

The 79-year-old recluse at the centre of the mystery, Cornelius Gurlitt, has vanished. He has not been charged but has been under investigation for tax evasion and concealment.

On Sunday Bild am Sonntag newspaper said Gurlitt had been seen near his Munich apartment last Monday. Der Spiegel news magazine said it had received a confused-sounding letter signed by Gurlitt dated November 4 asking that it not use his name.

“The good news is about that is that Cornelius Gurlitt alive,” Der Spiegel wrote.

Separately, German authorities confiscated 22 paintings on Saturday from the house of Gurlitt’s brother-in-law Nikolaus Fraessle near Stuttgart, Bild am Sonntag said, after Fraessle called police himself to hand the art works over.

The federal government, which ordinarily leaves such cases to state justice officials, stepped up its involvement after the United States asked it to publish a list of the art works.

Focus quoted German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle as saying he was taking a personal interest in the case and that behind many of the paintings found “are quite likely dramatic stories of people pressured and persecuted” by the Nazis.

The apparent official reluctance to publish an inventory infuriated families whose ancestors were robbed by the Nazis.

Charlotte Knobloch, a leader of the German Jewish community in Munich, said it was bad enough that the looted art had not been returned sooner, but it would be a scandal if it turned out officials had wasted 18 months since its discovery.

“It can’t be possible that the injustices of the past are compounded now,” she said, appealing to Merkel to take charge.

(Editing by Alistair Lyon)

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Friday, November 8, 2013

Agent feared FBI was stalling Petraeus investigation until after 2012 election

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David H. Petraeus, former army general and head of the Central Intelligence Agency, speaks at the annual dinner for veterans and ROTC students at the University of Southern California, in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday, March 26, 2013.

By Michael Isikoff, National Investigative Correspondent, NBC News

A veteran FBI counterterrorism agent repeatedly raised concerns last year that senior bureau officials were stalling an investigation into then-CIA Director David Petraeus’ extramarital affair to avoid a distraction prior to the 2012 presidential election, according to a former FBI official and two sources with direct knowledge of the agent’s account.

New details about the claims of Fred Humphries, a 17-year FBI veteran who is assigned to the bureau’s Tampa office, are expected to be included in a legal filing soon by Jill Kelley, a Tampa Bay socialite who became embroiled in the Petraeus investigation. NBC News independently learned how Humphries raised concerns about possible interference in the investigation with a former senior bureau official and Republican lawmakers, arguing that it could pose a potential national security risk.

Kelley, who had close social connections to a wide array of senior U.S. military and intelligence officials, many of whom she met at parties she threw at her home, is suing current and former Obama administration officials for allegedly leaking her name and smearing her reputation after the case became public. Kelley’s lawsuit threatens to force a re-examination of the details of Petraeus’ resignation and to require a number of key players — including former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Deputy FBI Director Sean Joyce (who announced his resignation this week), Homeland Security Secretary nominee Jeh Johnson and many others — to answer questions under oath.

Petraeus resigned as CIA director one year ago this week after an FBI “cyberstalking” investigation into harassing emails sent to Kelley uncovered a sexual relationship between the CIA director and his biographer, Paula Broadwell.

Humphries’ claims about high-level interference from FBI headquarters were raised in multiple conversations last year with his former boss, Charles Mandigo, a former special agent in charge of the FBI’s Seattle office, where Humphries had previously been assigned. Mandigo then helped arrange for Humphries to raise his concerns with two Republican members of Congress, including House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va.

Humphries “said at one point, he had been told, just sit back and wait. Once the election is over, this will be quietly handled and it will all be resolved,” Mandigo said. Humphries attributed the comment to an unidentified senior official in the FBI’s Tampa office, he said.

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Jill Kelley leaves her home in Tampa, Fla., on Nov. 13, 2012.

Among the claims in Kelley’s lawsuit, which relies in part on Humphries’ account, is that Joyce, the deputy FBI director, assumed control of the investigation, preempted decisions made by Tampa agents assigned to the case and, at one point, directed them to delay a scheduled interview with Broadwell. The suit alleges that the case was handled “differently than normal criminal investigations” because bureau officials “wanted to avoid attention before the upcoming presidential election cycle.”

An FBI spokesman declined comment, citing “pending litigation.” The Justice Department has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, asserting that she does not have grounds to bring the complaint under the Privacy Act.

Humphries, who has been portrayed in some media reports as a whistleblower — although he was never specifically assigned to the Petraeus case — was informed last summer that he is the subject of a misconduct probe by the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility for the “unauthorized disclosure” of law enforcement information relating to the investigation, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.

Reached on his cellphone this week, Humphries declined to discuss details but said his decision to raise his concerns outside of bureau channels “was the right thing to do – even if it was unpleasant. If it happened again, I would do the same thing. Nobody is above the law, nobody is below it.”

The investigation of Petraeus began in early June 2012 after Kelley and her husband stated receiving what they viewed as harassing and threatening emails from an anonymous correspondent – with the addresses “Kelley patrol” and “Tampa Angel.” The emailer appeared to know precise details about the private schedules of Petraeus and senior generals at the U.S. Central Command, including an upcoming dinner that Kelley had planned with the CIA director. The emails suggested the movements of senior U.S. officials as well as Kelley were “clearly being tracked by someone with a hostile fixation,” according to the lawsuit filed by Kelley and her husband, Sean Kelley, a doctor.

One email concluded with threats about “averting… embarrassment for all, including spouses, such as info in national headlines,” according to the Kelley complaint, which was filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., in June.

Kelley first reported these emails to Humphries, a personal friend, who in turn passed them along to agents in Tampa who launched a “cyberstalking” investigation. Although Humphries was not assigned to the investigation, he stayed in touch with Kelley and monitored developments in the probe.

Humphries has alleged that in July 2012, he was called into the offices of Steve Ibison, then the special agent in charge of the Tampa office, and told that the “senior leadership of the FBI was convinced” he was having sexual relations with Kelley, according to a source directly familiar with his account. Humphries denied the charges — as has Kelley — and offered to take a polygraph, but that offer was not accepted, the source said. (An FBI spokesman in Tampa declined comment.)

Shortly thereafter, Humphries reached out to Mandigo, his former boss and expressed concern that he was being made a “scapegoat” in a politically toxic investigation.

“What troubled me is somebody was clearly going out their way to discredit the guy,” Mandigo said. “They were engaging in character assassination.”

Mandigo, who had previously served as a FBI spokesman in Washington, praised Humphries as a “great agent” who played a leading role in major counterterrorism cases, including the investigation into the so-called “millennium bomber” Ahmed Ressam, an al Qaeda operative who tried to blow up Los Angeles International Airport in December 1999. But Humphries, according to Mandigo, was also known as a maverick who sometimes ran afoul of FBI headquarters, including writing memos questioning aggressive interrogation techniques while serving as a deputy FBI commander at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo.

Mandigo said he became especially concerned when he learned from Humphries that FBI agents had traced the harassing emails to Broadwell, Petraeus’ biographer. Mandigo said he and Humphries believed there were “national security concerns” that demanded that the investigation be aggressively pursued and concluded.

“Consider the possibility that one or both of them (Petraeus and Broadwell) could have been compromised,” Mandigo said. “If that happened, how could they rationalize how they handled this?”

After several conversations, Mandigo helped arrange for Humphries to raise his concerns with Republican Rep. Dave Reichert, who represented the Seattle area, and then with Cantor during the week before last year’s election.

According to accounts provided by U.S. law enforcement and congressional officials last year, Cantor, alerted by Reichert, called Humphries on Oct. 27. Steve Sombres, the majority leader’s chief of staff, then called then FBI Director Bob Mueller’s chief of staff on Oct. 31 to inquire about the Petraeus probe.

In the days that followed, FBI agents completed their second interviews with Petraeus and Broadwell. At 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 6 — Election Day — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was informed by the FBI of the investigation and that the CIA director had acknowledged a sexual relationship with Broadwell. That Friday, Nov. 9, Petraeus resigned.

The Kelley lawsuit is focused on her treatment during the investigation, alleging agents violated her privacy by demanding “unrestricted access” to her private emails and, along with senior Defense Department officials, later leaked information about them — suggesting she was having an inappropriate relationship with Gen. John Allen, then the U.S. commander in Afghanistan.

Her complaint also describes a scene in the driveway of her Tampa home on July 17, 2012 in which, she alleges, FBI agents confronted her while her three children were in her house and demanded she get in a SUV for questioning. When she balked, “the agents threatened her, demanding that she not make them do something in front of her children that may terrify them.” After she got in the SUV, the complaint states, agents “demanded she answer bewildering questions regarding her relationship with Director Petraeus and General Allen — including insinuations and accusations that she was engaged in adulterous activity.”

During the height of the furor over the case, Humphries was reported to have sent a “shirtless” photo to Kelley. But Mandigo noted that he and many others had gotten a copy of the same “joke” photo years earlier. It showed Humphries next to two mannequins at a shooting range. Humphries was known for sending such photos, he said, adding, “That’s just Fred.”

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US Attempts to Sabotage UN Chemical Weapons Investigation

Decision to attack Syria already made over a year ago

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
August 27, 2013

Desperate to maintain a narrative that will justify a cruise missile attack on Syria, the Obama administration is seemingly trying everything within its power to sabotage the UN chemical weapons investigation in Syria.

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The reason is obvious – the last time the United Nations investigated claims of chemical weapons use in Syria, its inspectors concluded that it was the rebels and not Assad’s forces who were likely behind the sarin gas attack.

Eager to avoid a repeat that would completely derail the march to war, the White House in concert with Britain has repeatedly attempted to scupper the UN investigation or render it meaningless.

In the latest example, the Wall Street Journal reports that the Obama administration told UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon that “there wasn’t adequate security for the U.N. inspectors to visit the affected areas to conduct their mission,” a clear warning (or a blatant threat) that inspectors should pull out entirely.

This warning followed an incident, almost certainly the work of US-backed rebels, where a convoy of UN vehicles was fired upon by a sniper, causing the inspectors to temporarily suspend their work. Rebels have repeatedly acted with hostility against UN workers and peacekeepers, with one FSA group kidnapping 21 peacekeepers back in March.

While discouraging the UN from completing its investigation, the US and Britain have already declared that last week’s attack involved the use of chemical weapons and that it was the work of Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, despite numerous other examples where rebels have prepared and used chemical weapons themselves.

Even when Syria allowed UN inspectors to enter the affected region, the Obama administration responded that it was “too late,” and that the evidence could have been destroyed – so why bother investigating at all?

Washington and Downing Street are preparing to dive headlong into another potentially catastrophic war in the Middle East based on the evidence of a collection of YouTube videos. As in Iraq, it doesn’t really matter how flimsy the actual justification is because the decision to attack Syria was already made over a year ago, with a hyped humanitarian crisis being the agreed upon pretext, and the intervening period was merely an exercise in manufacturing a casus belli.

Why is the Obama administration and the British government so keen to prevent or dismiss as irrelevant the UN’s investigation?

The only reason is that it would threaten the already agreed upon narrative that Bashar Al-Assad, in complete defiance of any logic, ordered a chemical weapons attack right when UN inspectors were already in the country, timing the attack at the most opportune moment to justify western military intervention.

With western warplanes now already in place in Cyprus, along with a number of warships at sea, the die has been cast and the UN chemical weapons investigation will continue to be sabotaged or simply ignored, lest it turn up evidence that contradicts the rush to war.

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Nearly 200 British Police Officers Under Investigation for Sexual Assault

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By JG Vibes
Intellihub.com
August 25, 2013

On a daily basis, there are countless people worldwide who use their position of authority to hurt others. This is the whole purpose of authority anyway, to abuse and exploit people without suffering any consequences. It is quite common for police officers or other enforcement agents of the state to assault, frame and even rape innocent people. Recently in the UK, nearly 200 police officers and staff workers were accused of sexual assault.

The Guardian reported that Police forces are being ordered to face up to corruption by officers who commit sexual offences against vulnerable women and young people, as figures obtained by the Guardian reveal 169 officers and support staff are under investigation for predatory sexual behavior.’ [1]

According to the report only a small number of these cases will actually be reviewed by an independent group, the vast majority of the cases will be investigated by the police themselves.

Debaleena Dasgupta, a lawyer representing women who have been raped or sexually assaulted by police officers, said: “If a woman reports rape or sexual assault by a police officer it is not just that the investigation has to be properly carried out, it has to be seen to be done properly in order for victims to have confidence in the system.”

“If these cases are being investigated by the police themselves, then victims are going to get anxious. The IPCC may not have perfect resources but they should be fighting for them in order to investigate these kinds of cases.”

In a film made by Nottinghamshire police, which is being released to all forces next month, the woman said: “I thought he was going to work and doing a professional job, making a difference, and it was all just lies. It affected everybody.

“These people [his victims] were vulnerable. He was in a position of authority. He abused their trust, he abused the public’s trust.”

This type of situation is not an uncommon incident, just afew weeks ago we reported on a Texas cop who resigned amid allegation that he sexually assaulted a woman in front of her children while questioning her in her own home.[2]

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[1] Police investigate 169 staff over predatory sexual behaviour – The Guardian

[2] Cop Resigns After Woman Accuses Him of Sexual Assault With Her Children Nearby – Intellihub

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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Sen. Vitter Demands Investigation into EPA Fraud

A former aide to the new chief of the Environmental Protection Agency has been charged with stealing nearly $ 900,000 from the agency, prompting calls from Congress to investigate whether corruption within the agency is more widespread.

John C. Beale, a former deputy assistant administrator in the Office of Air and Radiation that was led by new EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, is accused of stealing the money over a 13-year period through bonuses and padding salary checks, The Hill and Associated Press reported.

The 64-year-old Arlington, Va. man faces 10 years in prison and financial fines if found guilty.

The Hill reports that Louisiana’s Sen. David Vitter, the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment Committee, says there is a pattern of fraudulent activity at the contentious agency and is demanding a congressional investigation.

“There appears to be corruption to the umpteenth degree,” Vitter said.

“It’s clear that further investigations are necessary, and at the appropriate time we’ll need answers — a whole lot of answers,” Vitter said.

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In a new survey, 63 percent of college students admit to cheating, and these days it’s easier than ever. Students are now paying strangers for customized papers, fooling even the best professors. NBC’s Jeff Rossen reports on the ghostwriters helping students cheat.

TODAY National Investigative Correspondent Jeff Rossen and his team went undercover to report on cheating among college students.

Watch the video report above or click here to read a text piece detailing what they found about the academic artifice.

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