Not surprising and nothing new. CIA has been infiltrating police departments for decades.
"Bloomberg defends CIA role with NYC police" October 18, 2011|By Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press
WASHINGTON - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday defended the arrangement under which one of the CIA’s most experienced clandestine operatives is working in the city Police Department, but questions remain about whether the line separating foreign and domestic intelligence gathering has been crossed.
“We live in a dangerous world,’’ Bloomberg said. “There are people trying to kill us. And if the CIA can help us, I’m all for getting any information they have and then letting the Police Department use it … if it’s appropriate to protect you and to protect me.’’
I've had it with the hollering of propaganda based on an inside job. Just damn tired of it.
The operative arrived at the department in July as the special assistant to the deputy commissioner of intelligence. Although his title is clear, his job responsibilities are not.
Federal and city officials have offered differing explanations for why a top CIA officer was assigned to the Police Department since the Associated Press revealed the assignment in August. The Central Intelligence Agency is prohibited from spying domestically, and its unusual partnership with a municipal police force has troubled top federal lawmakers and prompted an internal investigation.
The last time a CIA officer worked so closely with the NYPD, beginning in the months after the 9/11 attacks, he became the architect of aggressive police programs that monitored Muslim neighborhoods.
It was an extraordinary collaboration that at times troubled some senior CIA officials and may have stretched the bounds of how the agency is allowed to operate in the United States.
The government is above the law in AmeriKa.
The arrangement surrounding the newly arrived CIA officer, who was at the center of one of the worst US intelligence fiascos in recent history, has been portrayed differently from that of his predecessor. When first asked, a senior US official described the posting as a sabbatical, a program aimed at giving the man in New York more management training.
Testifying at City Hall recently, New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the CIA operative provides his officers “with information, usually coming from perhaps overseas.’’ He said the CIA operative provides technical information to the NYPD but “doesn’t have access to any of our investigative files.’’
David Petraeus, director of the CIA, has described him as an adviser, someone who could ensure that information was being shared.
But the CIA already has someone with that job. At its large station in New York, a CIA liaison shares intelligence with the Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York, which has hundreds of NYPD detectives assigned to it. And the CIA did not explain how, if the adviser doesn’t have access to police files, he’s getting management experience in a division built entirely around collecting domestic intelligence.
James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, mischaracterized him to Congress as an “embedded analyst’’ - his office later quietly said that was a mistake - and acknowledged it looked bad to have the CIA working so closely with a police department....
What, the intelligence community lying to the people?
The undercover operative still remains in New York while the agency’s inspector general investigates the CIA’s decade-long relationship with the NYPD.
The CIA has asked that the operative not be identified because he remains a member of the clandestine service and his identity is classified. The operative is a former station chief in Pakistan and then Jordan, according to current and former officials who worked with him. He also was in charge of the agency’s Counter Proliferation Division.
Former US intelligence officials said he was nearly expelled from Pakistan after an incident during President George W. Bush’s first term. Pakistan became enraged after sharing intelligence with the United States, only to learn that the CIA station chief passed the information to the British.
The CIA’s deep ties to the NYPD began after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when CIA director George Tenet dispatched a veteran officer, Larry Sanchez, to New York, where he became the architect of the Police Department’s secret spying programs.
While still on the agency payroll, Sanchez, a CIA veteran who spent 15 years overseas in the former Soviet Union, South Asia, and the Middle East, instructed officers on the art of collecting information without attracting attention. He directed officers and reviewed case files.
Sometimes, officials said, intelligence collected from NYPD’s operations was passed informally to the CIA.
Sanchez also hand-picked an NYPD detective to attend the “Farm,’’ the CIA’s training facility where officers are turned into operatives.
The detective returned to the department armed with the agency’s espionage skills.
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Are you on the list?
"NYC police monitor name changers; Checks run on Muslims with new monikers" October 27, 2011|By Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press
NEW YORK - For generations, immigrants have shed their ancestral identities and taken new, Americanized names as they found their place in the melting pot. For Muslims in New York, that rite of assimilation is now seen by police as a possible red flag in the hunt for terrorists.
The New York Police Department monitors everyone in the city who changes his or her name, according to interviews and internal police documents. For those whose names sound Arabic or might be from Muslim countries, police run background checks that include reviewing travel records, criminal histories, business licenses, and immigration documents.
Your tax dollars hard at work creating tyranny.
All this is recorded in police databases for supervisors, who review the names and select people for police to visit.
Why did the word Gestapo just cross my mind?
The program was conceived as a tripwire for police in the hunt for home-grown terrorists.
Have you checked the halls of government?
Like other NYPD intelligence programs created in the past decade, this one involved monitoring behavior protected by the First Amendment.
Since August, an Associated Press investigation has revealed a vast NYPD intelligence-collecting effort targeting Muslims following the terror attacks of September 2001. Police have conducted surveillance of entire Muslim neighborhoods, chronicling daily life including where people eat, pray, and get their hair cut. Police infiltrated dozens of mosques and Muslim student groups and investigated hundreds more.
Monitoring name changes illustrates how the threat of terrorism now casts suspicion over what historically has been part of America’s story. For centuries, foreigners have changed their names, often to lose any stigma attached with their surname.
David Cohen, the NYPD’s intelligence chief, worried that would-be terrorists could use their new names to lie low in New York, current and former officials recalled. Reviewing name changes was intended to identify people who either Americanized their names or took Arabic names for the first time, said the officials, who insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the program.
NYPD spokesman Paul Browne did not respond to messages left over two days asking about the legal justification for the program and whether it had identified any terrorists.
The goal was to find a way to spot terrorists like Daood Gilani and Carlos Bledsoe before they attacked.
Gilani, a Chicago man, changed his name to David Coleman Headley to avoid suspicion as he helped plan the 2008 terrorist shooting spree in Mumbai, India.
Related: FBI Case File: Heading to Chicago
Oh, he worked for government intelligence?
Bledsoe, of Tennessee, changed his name to Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad in 2007 and, two years later, killed one soldier and wounded another in a shooting at a recruiting station in Little Rock, Ark.
Related: False-Flag Friday: Preparing a Patsy
Yeah, this s*** is getting old.
Sometime around 2008, state court officials began sending the NYPD information about new name changes, said Ron Younkins, the court’s chief of operations. The court regularly sends updates to police, he said. The information is all public, and he said the court was not aware of how police used it.
Yup, the court just forwards the information to the Party.
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And look what the CIA agent is assisting, 'er, missing while he pours over his list of "terrorists":
"Current, ex-N.Y. police accused of gun trafficking; 8 charged with taking cash to drive arms in" October 26, 2011|By Joseph Goldstein and William K. Rashbaum, New York Times
NEW YORK - Eight current and former New York police officers were arrested yesterday and charged in federal court with accepting thousands of dollars in cash to drive a caravan of firearms into the state, an act of corruption that brazenly defied the city’s strenuous efforts to get illegal guns off the streets.
Job security.
The officers - five are still on the force, and three are retired - and four other men were accused of transporting M-16 rifles and handguns, and what they believed to be stolen merchandise across state lines, according to a complaint filed in US District Court in Manhattan.
When the authorities are organized crime you live in a gangster state.
The current and retired officers, most of whom at one time or another worked in the same Brooklyn station, were arrested at their homes before sunrise by FBI agents and investigators from the Police Department’s Internal Affairs Bureau, officials said. Also arrested were a New Jersey correction officer, a former New York City sanitation department police officer, and two men identified in the complaint as his associates.
The gun-trafficking accusations strike at the heart of one of the Police Department’s most hard-fought and robust initiatives, and one that has been a central theme of the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg: getting guns off the city’s streets. Bloomberg is the head of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a coalition of 600 municipal chief executives from around the nation.
The arrests come at a difficult time for a department, the largest municipal police force in the nation, already besieged by corruption accusations....
Awwwww, the poor, park-clearing police.
The new case began after an FBI confidential informant sought to have a traffic ticket fixed in exchange for payment. He was introduced to one of the officers, William Masso, 47, according to the complaint. They developed a relationship, and Masso began expressing interest in working with the informant to obtain and sell contraband, largely cigarettes.
This is the kind of thing the FBI should be investigating.
It grew into a yearlong undercover operation conducted by its agents and investigators from the Police Department’s Internal Affairs Bureau, with wiretaps on the phones of Masso, the former sanitation department officer, and four undercover agents, said the complaint, which was sworn out by FBI special agent Kenneth Hosey.
The charges include conspiracy to transport firearms across state lines, conspiracy to transport defaced firearms across state lines, conspiracy to sell firearms across state lines, and conspiracy to transport and receive stolen property across state lines, according to the complaint....
A lot of conspiracies.
The mayor and police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly each defended the department, suggesting that the rogue actions of a few officers did not impeach the entire force....
But the rogue action of a few protesters means clear the area.
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Related:
"Man on rampage dies after police use Tasers" November 01, 2011|Associated Press
COLONIE, N.Y. - A burly, incoherent 32-year-old man who rampaged through an upstate New York gym died after going into cardiac arrest when he was repeatedly shocked with Tasers during a struggle with three officers, police said yesterday.
Colonie Police Chief Steven Heider said Chad Brothers of Troy had gone to the Gold’s Gym in the Albany suburb just before 6 a.m. and was described by witnesses as “annoying’’ and in a “highly escalated mood.’’
Roid rage?
Brothers fell off an elliptical machine, turned up the speed on another patron’s treadmill, and then punched him in the face. He started toppling 700-pound training machines and throwing 45-pound free weights around the gym filled with about 30 clients and staff.
Brothers, who was 6-foot-1 and weighed between 225 and 240 pounds, went on to destroy a showcase and entered an office, the chief said.
That was when the first officer on the scene confronted Brothers, and told him to get on the ground. At some point, Brothers threw some boxes at the officer and she knocked him down with a Taser jolt. Heider said that while the officer was trying to cuff Brothers, he stood up with her on his back, was shocked again and then got hold of the Taser, apparently triggering another jolt himself. Two other officers jumped in and used their Tasers in stun mode at least twice and one of the officers hit Brothers with a plastic baton.
Brothers went into cardiac arrest shortly after he was subdued with the help of patrons.
Heider said it wasn’t clear what was behind Brother’s actions or what caused his death. An autopsy is scheduled.
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"Wife guilty only on gun charge in killing" November 11, 2011|Associated Press
NEW YORK - A school secretary who was acquitted of murder was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday on a weapons charge in the death of her husband - a retired police sergeant who was shot 11 times.
Barbara Sheehan, 50, appeared stunned by the sentence and left the courtroom without speaking to reporters. She is free pending appeal.
The mother of two had said she fired the gun in self-defense on Feb. 18, 2008, after her husband of 24 years, retired New York police Sergeant Raymond Sheehan, threatened to kill her if she did not go with him on a Florida vacation. After decades of marriage to a violent and abusive man, her attorney said, she was enough of an expert on his terrifying behavior to know he was serious.
She grabbed his loaded revolver from the bedroom while he was in the bathroom shaving. She emptied the revolver, then picked up a loaded Glock by his side on the vanity and fired six shots. He died in the bathroom.
Jurors, nine women and three men, found her guilty of a weapons charge for the Glock. She was acquitted of a second weapons charge for the revolver.
The acquittal on the murder charge was unexpected by court analysts. Domestic violence experts said that battered women accused of killing their partners in self-defense are convicted at about the same rate as others accused of murder.
At yesterday’s sentencing, the two sides again battled about whether Barbara Sheehan had been a battered woman....
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"Flight 587 jet crash is remembered
Hundreds of people gathered yesterday morning at a seaside memorial on New York’s Rockaway peninsula to mark the 10th anniversary of the crash of Flight 587, which killed all 265 on board and five people on the ground. The wreck remains the second deadliest aviation accident on US soil. Investigators ultimately determined that the plane’s tail had detached in midair because of stress put on the plane’s rudder as the copilot tried to steady the aircraft in another jet’s turbulent wake. Since then, steering systems for some airliners have been redesigned so pilots can have greater awareness of movements in the tail rudder.
Vandals burn cars, paint swastikas
Authorities say vandals torched three cars and scrawled Nazi swastikas and other hate messages on benches in a Jewish neighborhood in New York City, infuriating residents and causing thousands of dollars in damage. The attack occurred yesterday in Brooklyn’s Midwood section. Someone painted the letters “KKK’’ on a van. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said there is no place for hate in “the freest city in the freest country in the world.’’
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Did I mention I was tired of the false-flag, sympathy-generating hoaxes?
"Anti-Semitic vandalism in NYC decried" November 14, 2011|Associated Press
NEW YORK - Dozens of residents marched through a Brooklyn neighborhood yesterday to protest vandals who torched three cars and scrawled Nazi swastikas in an area populated by Orthodox Jews.
Protesters said they were stunned after unknown vandals set the cars ablaze, spray-painted the letters “KKK’’ on a van, defaced four public benches with 16 swastikas, and left other anti-Semitic messages on a sidewalk in the Midwood neighborhood before dawn on Friday. Police have made no arrests.
“I’ve never seen this level of violence here,’’ State Assemblyman Dov Hikind said. “This goes beyond the pale - blowing up cars in the middle of the Jewish community.’’
I'll bet Muslims are damn used to it.
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The marchers carried an Israeli flag and were led by Hikind, state Senator Eric Adams, Rabbi Chaim Gruber, New York City public advocate Bill de Blasio, civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel, and other community leaders.
Protesters noted the attack occurred one day after the 73d anniversary of Kristallnacht, a series of attacks on Jews in Nazi Germany on Nov. 9-10, 1938.
Sunday’s march included about 25 people from the Occupy Wall Street movement in Manhattan.
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Also see: Hate Crime Hoaxes Appearing All Across America
Israel must be getting ready to do something really nasty.
