You are one for reading this.
Truthfully, they reside in government offices in Tel Aviv, Washington D.C., and London.
"Online threats to Obama rise, challenging Secret Service; Agency urged to update methods for new risks" by Juliet Eilperin | Washington Post October 08, 2014
WASHINGTON — More than 60 percent of the threats against President Obama are made online, according to the Secret Service, posing a new set of challenges for an agency under fire for a series of critical security lapses.
That's dumb. All that stuff goes right to the NSA.
Lawmakers and private security officials question whether the Secret Service has sufficiently adapted to a new social-media landscape in which it must sort through a blizzard of online references to the president, investigate those that raise flags, and then reconcile them with the intelligence they are gathering on the ground.
I have to sort through a blizzard of mind-manipulating propaganda ever day.
‘‘I don’t know if they’ve adapted to these new threats,’’ said Representative Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah, who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on national security. ‘‘The attacks are going to come, no matter what. Are there new and creative ways of detecting them? I’m not convinced they’ve tied those loops.’’
Chaffetz noted that he was ‘‘pleasantly surprised’’ that in 2011 agents were able to pick up right away a tweet a D.C. woman had posted about a man shooting at the White House. But he questioned why that piece of evidence was not used to corroborate suspicions among several officers that shots had been fired. Instead, the agency forwarded the report to the Park Police for further investigation, and it would be four days before it was discovered that bullets had hit the White House.
‘‘Why didn’t that show up in the system?’’ he asked about the tweet.
During Obama’s first run for the presidency, the issue of clearest concern was his race, which made him a magnet for threats from people who thought being African-American disqualified him from the office.
After nearly six years in the White House, the number of overtly racist threats has subsided, but the threats in general continue.
The threats are down, but let's hype it anyway. OMG! What is this, to try and gain sympathy for the failed president (who cares about his color? It's the policies, stupid!)
Today, the dominant theme of grievance in threats against the president is government overreach, according to current and former Secret Service officials, as critics suggest Obama is abusing his power and trampling the Constitution.
Oh, so if you criticize this administration and its criminality, you are a THREAT!
Been warning about this for years, and here it is.
Brian Leary, a spokesman for the Secret Service, said the agency has adjusted to 60 percent of the threats made against the president now occurring online.
Related: Secret Service Let Gunman Get Close to Obama
They must be so busy looking on line and reading this blog that's how the gunmen can just run into the White House(?).
‘‘The capability is there, and we have to evolve with technology as well,’’ he said, adding that the number of threats against Obama ‘‘did spike a few months after the election, but they declined back to a level that is consistent with his predecessors, and they still are.’’
!!!!!!
That means he is no different than any other president, and yet I get this propaganda shoveled at me as the national lead. OMG!
Other sources, who because of the sensitivity of the matter asked to not be identified, said the president still receives more threats than previous presidents, although the number is lower than in the immediate aftermath of his first election. Members of the protective intelligence division consider even the most minor suggestions of harm worthy of investigation.
That explains all the hits here. Hi, guys!
Since Obama took office, at least 65 people have been indicted for threatening to harm him. In January, Daniel L. Temple, who had tweeted ‘‘im coming to kill you’’ and ‘‘so I gotta kill barack obama first,’’ was sentenced to 16 months in prison after pleading guilty.
Nicholas Savino was sentenced in March to a year in jail after posting on the White House website in August 2013, ‘‘President Obama the Anti-Christ, As a result of breaking the constitution you will stand down or be shot dead.’’
Police, who arrested Savino a few days after he posted the statement, found three guns and roughly 11,000 rounds of ammunition in his apartment and car.
Agents briefed on protective intelligence for presidents and presidential candidates say that the rise in threats has much to do with the advance of the technological age, with the agency now receiving a much larger number of electronic communications that contain threats.
Today, racially based threats constitute 5 to 10 percent of the threats made against the president, according to individuals familiar with the matter. Marilyn Mayo, codirector of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, said her group has found that physical threats against Obama and racial remarks on white-supremacist sites peaked in 2008 and 2009.
Oh, the ADL, huh?
Related:
ADL - America's Most Powerful Hate Group
ADL - World's Largest Hate Group
The ADL's hate crimes legislation
The ADL Hates Our Freedoms
It's actually an honor to be called an anti-Semite, and we can see now the gloved Zionist hand up Obama's ass helping him out.
During the early days of Obama’s candidacy and his first year of his presidency, according to several individuals familiar with the matter, many of the threats against him had a frightening racist quality.
‘‘We continue to see a tremendous amount of anger against Obama,’’ she said, adding that much of it is in assertions that he has overstepped his constitutional authority.
Southern Poverty Law Center senior fellow Mark Potok, whose group monitors white supremacist organizations, said in an interview, ‘‘The fact that all of this is online makes the job in some way easier and in some way harder.’’
Related: Is the SPLC An American Arm of the Mossad?
‘‘All this ugliness is exposed to the light of day,’’ Potok said. ‘‘On the other hand, you typically have no idea who are the people posting on these sites, because they’re anonymous.’’
Oh, I see. This is to out bloggers.
Related:
"Facebook and other social media allow users to present a curated self, showing friends or the public a happier or more accomplished version of a person. Most of the time, as with Pisacane’s post, it is trivial. But in some cases, the gap between reality and the Facebook version can be striking, and troubling, psychologists say."
I get the same feeling every morning I read a Globe.
"Leaked emails from data security firm HBGary show the federal government is offering private intelligence companies contracts to create software to manage “fake people” on social media sites, possibly to manipulate public opinion or create the illusion of consensus on controversial issues."
There is just an army of fake social media friends to promote propaganda, isn't there?
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There is another one.
Related: Boston Herald to meet with NAACP over Obama cartoon
Trigger-happy police, trigger-shy Secret Service
Of course, if you criticize Israel you are un-AmeriKan!
"Israeli leader calls White House criticism un-American" Associated Press October 06, 2014
JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister dismissed a recent White House rebuke of Israeli settlement construction, saying in comments broadcast on Sunday that the criticism goes ‘‘against American values.’’
That last comment should offend every American. Who the hell does he think he is?
And the spate of Secret Service breakdowns appearing in the jew$media sure takes on a different look in light of this. Israel sending Obummer a message.
Well, I may hate you, Mr. President, but we got your back on that one. Not falling for that again.
The tough words by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to deepen a rift with the White House over Israeli construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war and claimed by the Palestinians as parts of a future independent state.
Israel came under fire last week after a Jerusalem city official signed the final go-ahead for construction of a housing development in East Jerusalem. A day earlier, an ultranationalist Jewish group said dozens of settlers would move into six apartment buildings purchased in the heart of a predominantly Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem.
Israel says East Jerusalem is part of its capital and considers Jewish housing developments there to be neighborhoods of the city. But the international community, including the United States, does not recognize Israel’s annexation of the area and considers construction there to be illegitimate settlement activity.
But Israel keeps putting the buildings up and nothing happens.
In a striking public rebuke last week, the Obama administration warned Israel that the new project would distance Israel from ‘‘even its closest allies’’ and raise questions about its commitment to seeking peace with Palestinians.
Has he stopped signing the aid checks?
In an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS’s ‘‘Face the Nation,’’ Netanyahu said he does not accept restrictions on where Jews could live, adding that Jerusalem’s Arabs and Jews should be able to buy homes wherever they want.
He said he was ‘‘baffled’’ by the American condemnation.
‘‘It’s against the American values. And it doesn’t bode well for peace,’’ he said. ‘‘The idea that we’d have this ethnic purification as a condition for peace, I think it’s antipeace.’’ The interview was recorded Thursday.
What do you say to stuff like this? My nation was founded on the slaughter of the native population, and his is founded on the slaughter of Palestinians. The supremacist apartheid state complaining about ethnic purification? Sigh.
The White House declined to comment.
In a separate development Sunday, a Lebanese soldier was wounded after Israeli soldiers opened fire near the border between the two countries, Lebanon’s military said.
Related: Hezbollah bomb injures 2 Israelis
Also see:
Iran vows to aid Lebanese military
UN uncertain if all Iranian atomic work is peaceful
The explosion should answer that question.
There were conflicting reports about the shooting in the Shebaa farms area, a disputed zone along the frontier between Lebanon and Israel. The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, said it was aware of the reports and was investigating.
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Turns out the terrorists have infested Boston:
"Federal initiative in Boston aims to counter extremism" by Shelley Murphy | Globe Staff October 04, 2014
A new Justice Department initiative in Boston aimed at preventing people from joining extremist groups will focus not just on radicalized Muslims but on all forms of militants, including white supremacists, religious hate groups, and school shooters, US Attorney Carmen Ortiz said.
Here we go again, another tyrannical program justified by the phantom threat of self-created terrorists that now includes a whole lot more.
In an interview, Ortiz said the program is unprecedented in its scope, enlisting a broad spectrum of religious leaders, community leaders, and experts in health and education to identify people susceptible to radical ideology and intervene before they become a threat. It also draws on counterterrorism specialists, as well as federal, state, and local law enforcement, to assess risks and threats.
Meanwhile, you get social service cuts on the back end, America.
The program is launching as the Islamic State militant group that has occupied parts of Syria and Iraq has been aggressively recruiting members on social media, and a number of Americans have traveled overseas to join the Islamic State and other militants.
Well, then the NSA knows where they are!
“This is to try to identify individuals who are likely to engage in violent extremism,” Ortiz told the Globe. “At the end of the day our goal is to really promote public safety here and to have the community be a part of our national security.”
God, that feels so Soviet Union to me.
The Islamic Council of New England, which was already in the process of creating a training program to steer youths away from extremist ideology, has agreed to participate in the project, along with leaders of other faiths.
It has been well known for a long time that organized religion is now working with the U.S. government.
Dr. Nabeel Khudairi, chairman of the interfaith committee of the Islamic Council of New England, said Muslim leaders have repeatedly condemned violent extremism and that the council has been working to create a youth training program to stress that message.
“We see it as our responsibly as good Muslims to constantly remind young people they have a moral obligation to follow certain codes and behavior,” said Khudairi, who is a member of one of two working groups Ortiz formed to counter violent extremism.
Tell the FBI (and NYPD) to stop sending in the instigators.
The Islamic Council is seeking advice from psychologists, sociologists and computer experts on how to develop the training program, with workshops, and possibly interactive educational apps for smartphones, that would be implemented at mosques throughout New England, and eventually nationwide.
The training sessions “would clearly steer them away from acts of revenge or extremist thinking,” Khudairi said.
Yusufi Vali, executive director of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, said he was hopeful that mosques and the Muslim community would not be singled out under the initiative.
Given past history....
“Mosques are the best buffers against any form of extremism because it’s a place where community happens,” said Vali, citing studies that indicate many violent extremists are often loners who isolate themselves from the community and are radicalized online.
I'm tired of the persecution.
“As a country we’ve seen an increase in violent extremism, whether it be the school shootings, the recent attack on a synagogue in Kansas City or the Boston Marathon tragedy,” said Vali, adding that authorities should focus on what is causing the spike in violence.
All those false flags or hoaxes, that's what it is looking like more and more now.
In explaining the program, Ortiz said Boston was not selected because of the Marathon bombings.
But rather, she said, the city was chosen because it has strong community-oriented policing that has been successful in targeting gangs and gun violence.
She said the initiative, which was announced last month and is also underway in Los Angeles and Minneapolis, is intended as a pilot for a program that could be expanded to a nationwide approach to countering violent extremism.
The endless encroachment of total tyranny.
Kieran Ramsey, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston office, said the practice of enlisting community groups, nonprofit agencies, private businesses, and neighborhood residents will better prevent and predict future threats “from gangs, drugs, cyber-related crimes, and terrorism” than “merely reacting to ones as they appear.”
This is beginning to look like Nazi Germany from what I have been told and taught.
Boston Police Commissioner William Evans, who is participating in the federal initiative, said he recently visited the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center for the first time, and is doing more outreach to the Muslim and Somali communities in an effort to build trust and allay fears of religious profiling.
“If they see someone whose views are extremely radical, those are the people we want them to notify us of,” Evans said. “We don’t want to be snooping in on their religion.”
He cited as an example of the outreach the police response to a rash of robberies committed by Somali youths on Boston Common. Evans said police resolved the cases by going into the Somali community in Allston and Brighton and working with the parents of the youths.
Oh, is that who it was.
“I think this is more of an education piece on both sides,” Evans said. “Learn to trust each other and help each other.”
The Rev. Jeffrey Brown, one of the founders of Boston’s TenPoint Coalition, created in the early 1990s and hailed as a national model for reducing gang violence, said he signed on to the new federal initiative because of its emphasis on civil engagement.
“The community has to be looked upon as a partner and not to be used as a tool in a counter-terrorism effort,” said Brown, who helped negotiate truces between warring gangs by hitting the streets and talking with youths involved in the feuds.
“Civil engagement puts the emphasis on relationships and the kind of mentoring TenPoint is noted for, which can really help young people who are thinking about going down the wrong path and help them on a different path,” Brown said.
How much they paying you?
Kurt Schwartz, the state undersecretary for homeland security and emergency management, said law enforcement officials have foiled a number of plots by violent extremists since the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. The goal now, he said, is to create a “best practices” national model that will capture more “at-risk” people.
“We’re not trying to build a society where every time someone looks at you cross-eyed you’re calling the police, the FBI or a community watch group,” Schwartz said. “We have to become even better and better at identifying those critical previolent indicators that are really signs of something troubling, as opposed to those other things that are just personality quirks.”
Yeah, you gotta be crazy to disapprove of this monstrous government.
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Same day psyop:
"Death threat e-mailed to hundreds of Harvard students" by Travis Andersen and Matt Rocheleau | Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent October 04, 2014
A large number of students and others affiliated with Harvard University received an e-mailed death threat on Friday, prompting an increase in security around the Ivy League campus.
In a written advisory to the campus community, Harvard police said that “hundreds of Harvard students and affiliates” received an e-mail at about 4:45 p.m. in which the author threatened to gun down recipients on campus on Saturday.
In the profanity-laced e-mail, which the Globe obtained Friday night, the writer says, “I will come tomorrow in (sic) Harvard University (sic) and shoot all of you each one of you. all Harvard students, I will kill you individually. I’ll be back tomorrow at 11 clock in your [expletive] university and will kill you, you sons of [expletive]. Even Mark Zuckerberg of facebook I will kill. I’m going to kill every one of you.”
Oh, I see. If you swear, you're a terrorist. Well, I'm working on my anger issues and am a lot tamer than I was years ago. Jaded after seeing all the bullshit all these years.
Zuckerberg is a former Harvard student and a co-founder of the social networking site, Facebook.
Campus police said Friday that they could not yet determine whether the threat was credible and urged students to review the school’s safety guidelines available on a university website.
“Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) immediately began investigating [the threat], and also notified other local law enforcement agencies as well as the FBI,” the advisory said, adding that campus police would increase their presence on school grounds over the weekend.
The author of the threatening message, which was obtained by the Globe on Friday night, claimed to be a woman named Stephanie living in Boston.
No kidding?
A university spokesman said he had not been informed Friday night of any weekend events being canceled.
Cambridge police and FBI representatives said they were assisting in the investigation but referred additional questions to Harvard.
The threat is similar to an incident in February 2013, when Cambridge police received an electronic message reporting that an armed man dressed in body armor was on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus.
The report was a hoax.
And so was this.
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Related:
“No one should have to open their inbox and see a such a threatening and racially charged message,” event organizers said in a statement provided to the Globe. “We are saddened that someone would go to such lengths to threaten the safety of our Harvard community.” The writer, who claims her name is Stephanie Nguyen, also used a racial slur targeting Asians."
WTF? Obama's black. As for sad, all this is.
"E-mail threats not credible, Harvard says" by Kiera Blessing | Globe correspondent October 09, 2014
Hundreds of e-mailed death threats sent to Harvard University students and affiliates last week, through the weekend, and on Monday did not pose a credible threat to campus safety, officials said Wednesday.
Harvard University Police said they have determined the threat came from overseas, though they did not specify where. The writer originally claimed to be a woman living in Boston named Stephanie.
The profanity-ridden threat, which was originally e-mailed to students and others affiliated with the university Friday, was obtained by the Globe. The e-mail said in part: “I will come tomorrow in [sic] Harvard University and shoot all of you.’’
The threat extended to Mark Zuckerberg, a cofounder of Facebook and a former Harvard student.
Harvard University police said they immediately notified the FBI and other law enforcement agencies about the e-mails.
On Saturday, an apparent apology arrived from a writer who claimed to be a 15-year-old resident of France.
University officials urged students to review the school’s safety guidelines.
The FBI will continue to work with Harvard University Police to investigate the threats.
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On to the next mind-manipulating bender:
"FBI joins police to investigate school bomb threats" by Kiera Blessing | Globe correspondent October 07, 2014
The FBI and local police departments are jointly searching for those responsible for sending threatening e-mails that led to the abrupt closure of high schools in several Massachusetts communities within the past two weeks, officials said.
The threats have led to evacuations or closures at high schools in Franklin, Bedford, Winchester, Swampscott, and Westwood. Swampscott police have charged a 17-year-old student in connection with the threat against their school.
But the search for the authors of the threats — which has also led to the closing of schools in Bedford, N.H., and Sandy Hook, Conn. — is not over, officials said.
Condition the kids for the future while filling their heads with fear of fakes and hoaxes.
“All jurisdictions that have been victimized are working together to bring a resolution to the cases,” said Chief Robert Bongiorno of the Bedford Police Department in Massachusetts. “We will continue to work with our partners on the federal, state, and local levels.”
Detective Lieutenant Scott Jones, also of Bedford, said local police departments have compared the nature of the threats and the information gathered during the agencies’ independent investigations.
Jones added that the FBI is the “lead investigating agency because of the way the threat has been communicated,” apparently across state lines.
Did it come from France again?
Greg Comcowich, a spokesman for the Boston bureau of the FBI, confirmed that the bureau is assisting local police.
“We are working with the police departments to try to help identify the sender of the e-mail messages,” Comcowich said. “Many police departments have the same skill sets we do, but if it’s crossing state lines . . . we just help facilitate it.”
Doesn't the FBI have hackers to help them?
The Bedford school system received its threat last week, the same day that Bedford, N.H., was targeted.
Arlington Police Chief Frederick Ryan said his town had not been targeted. But, he said, he and other leaders of municipal forces are comparing notes.
“There’s been a real effort to collaborate on all levels of law enforcement,’’ he said. “The chiefs throughout the region are connected and sort of have been given situational awareness briefs. . . . There is a heightened state of awareness.’’
So when is the next agenda-pushing, staged and scripted false flag or hoax school shooting scheduled?
Despite the attention the issue is getting, Ryan emphasized that, so far, nothing dangerous has been uncovered.
“All the threats that have come in have been determined to be low-level, low-credibility threats,’’ Ryan said.
That is something I recognize.
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Can't get any lower in credibility than that.
"The campuswide security alert went out via text, e-mail, and automated phone message to the MIT community around 1:45 p.m. Tuesday: The university was investigating a report of a “serious emergency on campus. STAY ALERT.’’ The incident was quickly declared to be relatively minor: a small chemical spill in a chemistry laboratory, which caused the building to be briefly evacuated. No injuries were reported. But the wording of the initial alert rattled the campus, and prompted concern about what some felt was its unnecessarily alarmist tone."
They are the times in which we live.
"A Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts student has been charged with making a bomb threat at the North Adams campus that forced evacuations. Jarret Ferriter had not-guilty pleas entered on his behalf in Northern Berkshire District Court Tuesday to charges including willful communication of a bomb threat. He was released on $1,000 bail and ordered to stay off campus. Authorities told The Berkshire Eagle that Ferriter, 21, of North Adams, was tied to Monday’s telephone threat by fingerprints and witness accounts, including a statement from his roommate who said Ferriter said he would make a bomb threat to avoid class. Ferriter reportedly apologized to police, saying it was a ‘‘silly college prank.’’
Also see: Quinnipiac graduaton bomb threat was ruse
Not a good idea.
"Police officers are being stationed at every school in Warwick, Cranston, and Johnston through Friday after police said they received an anonymous letter threatening physical harm to children at elementary schools in the three communities. Warwick Police Chief Steven McCartney told WPRO-AM Wednesday that the threat specified that ‘‘beheading is planned.’’ He called the nature of the threat chilling. Lieutenant Matthew Moynihan, a State Police officer working with Cranston police, said authorities have not determined whether there is any validity to the threat. Johnston police received the anonymous threat by mail Tuesday. Daniel Parrillo, deputy police chief in Johnston, said the FBI and State Police were assisting in the investigation into who sent the threat."
They just jumped the shark with the propaganda!
Also see:
Police detonate ordinance handed over by Cohasett resident
Arlington Police investigate threats made via Twitter
Maybe they could also investigate this:
"Twenty-eight current and retired Harvard Law School professors are asking the university to abandon its new sexual misconduct policy and craft different guidelines for investigating allegations, asserting that the new rules violate the due process rights of the accused. “This is an issue of political correctness run amok,” said Alan M. Dershowitz, an emeritus Harvard Law professor who was among the faculty members signing an article, sent to the Globe’s Opinion page, that is critical of the new procedures. The article was published on The Boston Globe website Tuesday night."
Dershowitz also received a five-part dirge on democracy and dictatorship from the Globe. What luck.
And now Uncle Sam needs your help finding me:
"Authorities seek help identifying US terror recruits" by Shelley Murphy | Globe Staff October 10, 2014
Federal authorities have tracked some 100 Americans suspected of possible involvement with violent militant groups overseas, but need the community’s help in identifying others who may be vulnerable to recruitment, a top US Justice Department official said Thursday.
John Carlin, the assistant attorney general for National Security, credited the FBI and the intelligence community with doing an excellent job of identifying Americans who have traveled to the Syria and Iraq region and joined or attempted to join terrorist groups, including some who were killed or prosecuted and imprisoned.
But they somehow are losing them, huh?
Come on! Can't have it both ways!
“They have a good handle on the ones they know about,” said Carlin, adding that officials are “particularly concerned about what we don’t know . . . about the issue of using the Internet to radicalize and recruit.”
It's used to push enough war propaganda!
Speaking to reporters, along with US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz, during a round-table discussion at her office in Boston, Carlin said, “Someone over here may be in contact with someone who is a terrorist in Syria or Iraq and they are in their pajamas in the basement, having that conversation and being radicalized.
OMG, now the THREAT is BLOGGERS LIKE ME UP EARLY in the MORNING!!!
I want to clear something up right now: I do NOT WANT TO BE NEAR OBAMA or ANY OTHER PUBLIC SLIME! If they are coming to my town I will go to the other end. Keep them the fuck (sorry) away from me! If you have read this far, government puke, you know that. You know I'm not a threat. Go destroy yourselves, you psychopathic bastards. I'll see you in hell where I will disembowel you and feast on your innards.
“That is the hardest to detect and that is where we most need the assistance of the community.”
NSA not collecting or monitoring the data?
Carlin’s remarks come as the Islamic State militant group that has occupied parts of Syria and Iraq has been aggressively recruiting members on social media, and a number of Americans have traveled overseas to join the Islamic State and other militants.
Yup, ISIS is here -- or in Canada waiting to invade.
There have been arrests around the country of young people accused of offering material support to terrorists, or attempting to travel overseas, but Carlin said he does not see any trends in those who are allegedly radicalized.
“It’s really cut across the spectrum in terms of the people that have been attracted by it,” he said.
The problem, according to Carlin, is not limited to the United States. The Justice Department official estimated that some 12,000 foreign fighters have been recruited globally to fight alongside militants for the Islamic State and other organizations.
The estimated 100 Americans identified by authorities have not been linked to a designated militant organization, Carlin said. That number includes people who went to Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of Africa, he said.
Some of those Americans fought alongside militants and some traveled overseas and unsuccessfully tried to join militant groups. Others traveled to those regions and then returned to the United States, raising concerns, he said.
Carlin declined to offer more details on how many of those people remain free in the United States or where they are located. About a dozen Americans are suspected of joining the Islamic State overseas, according to the Justice Department.
They know terrorists are coming, but they know nothing else?
Ahmad Abousamra, who grew up in Stoughton and faces terrorism charges in federal court in Boston, allegedly fled to Syria in 2006 and is currently on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list, with a $50,000 reward being offered for information leading to his capture.
A Justice Department initiative in Boston, which was recently launched by Ortiz’s office, is aimed at preventing people from joining extremist groups and will focus not just on radicalized Muslims, but also on white supremacists, religious hate groups, and school shooters.
The program enlists a broad spectrum of religious leaders, community leaders, and experts in public and mental health and education to identify people susceptible to radical ideology and intervene before they become a threat. It also draws on counterterrorism specialists, as well as federal, state, and local law enforcement, to assess risks and threats.
The use of the Internet by terrorists, not just to radicalize and recruit, but to launch massive cyber attacks on public and private institutions and utilities is also a major concern of law enforcement officials, Carlin said.
Yeah, right, the terrorists are the hackers.
SIGH!
“In some sense we are in a race against time,” he said. “We know they have the intent. We know that if they develop the capability they are going to use it and so we need to do everything we can in the interim to increase our defenses to prevent against such an attack.”
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Here are a few they caught (after setting them up, of course):
"US says Illinois teen sought to join Islamic State" by Michael Tarm | Associated Press October 07, 2014
CHICAGO — A 19-year-old American left a letter for his parents expressing disgust with Western society before he tried to board a plane in Chicago, the first step in his plan to sneak into Syria to join the Islamic State group, according to a federal criminal complaint released Monday.
Mohammed Hamzah Khan, a US citizen who lived with his parents in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, was arrested Saturday while trying to board a plane to Turkey, which borders Syria, at O’Hare International Airport.
He is charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist group.
Before heading to the airport, Khan allegedly left a three-page, handwritten letter in his bedroom for his parents, explaining why he chose to join the Islamic State. The letter, according to the complaint, read: ‘‘We are all witness that the Western societies are getting more immoral day by day.’’
Investigators say Khan also wrote that he was upset that his US taxes were going to kill his ‘‘Muslim brothers and sisters,’’ an apparent reference to a bombing campaign against Islamic State militants by the United States and other nations. The letter was signed, ‘‘Your loving son.’’
Oh, so if you are upset at where your taxes are being spent.... you ARE a terrorist!
Khan appeared in a federal court Monday in orange jail clothes, calmly telling a federal magistrate that he understood the allegations. Later, as marshals led him away in handcuffs, the slight, bearded young man turned to smile at his parents at the back of the room.
US Magistrate Judge Susan Cox ordered that Khan be held at least until a detention hearing Thursday. Prosecutors indicated in court they would ask that he be kept behind bars pending trial.
If convicted, Khan could face a maximum 15-year prison sentence.
Around 12 Americans are believed to be fighting in Syria now, FBI director James Comey has said.
More than 100 Americans have either tried to go to Syria and were arrested or went and came back to the United States, Comey said, without offering more details.
?????????
Khan sought to fly Austrian Airlines to Istanbul by way of Vienna when customs officers stopped him as he passed through security at O’Hare’s international terminal. While FBI agents interviewed him there, investigators executed a search warrant at Khan’s home.
Looks like a set-up.
It wasn’t clear why authorities chose to stop Khan. Neither prosecutors nor Khan’s attorney spoke after Monday’s hearing. His parents also didn’t comment.
It is becoming clear to me. More mind-manipulating contrived propaganda.
During the search of his home, FBI agents found the letter and other documents. One page in a notebook had a drawing of what appeared to be an armed fighter with an Islamic State flag and the words ‘‘Come to Jihad’’ written in Arabic, according to the complaint.
Oh, no. Not a notebook full of scribbles.
Also found were drawings with arrows indicating where Khan might make border crossings into Syria and mentioning the city of Urfa, which the complaint says is in southeastern Turkey near the Syrian border.
He left his map behind?
This STINKS of being PLANTED, and we have seen such a thing so many times.
During the FBI interview, Khan allegedly said an online source gave him the number of a person he should contact when he got to Istanbul and that, in turn, the person would lead him to Islamic State members.
That was his government case handler, and they will disappear into oblivion.
Asked by agents what he would do once he arrived in territory controlled by the Islamic State, Khan allegedly said he would — in the words of the complaint — ‘‘be involved in some type of public service, a police force, humanitarian work or a combat role.’’
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Nice to be home for the holidays:
"Oregon man gets 30 years in Christmas bomb plot" by Nigel Duara | Associated Press October 02, 2014
PORTLAND, Ore. — A young Somali American was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for plotting to detonate a bomb in Portland’s downtown square while 10,000 revelers gathered to watch the mayor light a towering Christmas tree.
Prosecutors had sought a 40-year term for Mohamed Mohamud, 23, in the 2010 plot that was actually an FBI sting. But US District Court Judge Garr King said Mohamud’s youth and remorse for his actions helped lower his sentence.
Related: The Portland Patsy
King said he believed the actions of undercover FBI agents edged into ‘‘imperfect entrapment,’’ the idea that while they did not fully entrap Mohamud in a legal sense, their actions nonetheless encouraged him to commit wrongdoing.
‘‘This is a sad case,’’ King said.
What is sad is you didn't sentence him to time served for another in a long line of FBI frame-ups. That's why it is now known as the Federal Bureau of Instigation.
Mohamud was arrested Nov. 26, 2010, after pressing a keypad button on a cellphone that he believed would trigger a massive truck bomb and kill people gathered for the annual holiday event. But the bomb was a fake, provided by FBI agents posing as terrorists.
The undercover agents made friends with Mohamud after learning he had written for an online jihadi magazine and exchanged e-mails with accused terrorists.
King disagreed with Mohamud’s defense lawyers, who portrayed their client’s actions as those of a confused teenager who just had his braces removed when contacted by an FBI agent posing as a member of a terrorist cell. Mohamud chose the location and timing of the bomb, King said, and when offered the choice to commit peaceful acts of resistance, he instead told the undercover agents he wanted to ‘‘become operational.’’
Mohamud’s defense team said he will appeal the sentence.
The former Oregon State University student and his parents spoke before he was sentenced.
‘‘The things I said and did were terrible,’’ Mohamud said. ‘‘The hardest thing is to go over the [undercover agents’] tapes, to see myself, to hear what I was saying.’’
His mother, Mariam Barre, begged the judge for leniency.
‘‘Give him another chance,’’ she said through tears.
His father, Osman Barre, said he has watched his waifish teenage son become an adult in prison and mature in the process. But King said Mohamud’s youth aside, the sentence had to both punish him for his actions and serve as a warning for anyone planning similar acts.
FBI director James Comey said Wednesday that King’s remarks about ‘‘imperfect entrapment’’ will have no effect on the agency’s sting operations.
Meaning they will keep setting up plots and framing patsy for public consumption to continue advancing the agenda.
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Well, if you will excuse me, this "terrorist(!)" needs to get some sleep. I will be up early again tomorrow to update you on the latest spew from the Boston Globe. Good night.
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
Sorry I woke up rather late, it's raining like the dickens here, and all I have for you are these pathetic items before I go away again and spend time working on some other projects. Sorry.
"Survey: Harassment a common part of online life" AP October 23, 2014
NEW YORK — A new study confirms what many Internet users know all too well: Harassment is a common part of online life.
The first-of-its-kind report by the Pew Research Center found that nearly three-quarters of American adults who use the Internet have witnessed online harassment. Forty percent have experienced it themselves.
The types of harassment Pew asked about range from name-calling to physical threats, sexual harassment, and stalking. Half of those who were harassed said they did not know the person who had most recently attacked them.
Young adults — people 18 to 29 — were the most likely age group to see and undergo online harassment. Women ages 18 to 24 were disproportionately the victims of stalking and sexual harassment, according to the survey. And people who have more information available about themselves online, work in the tech industry, or promote themselves on the Internet were also more likely to be harassed.
Starting this summer, people involved in an online campaign termed ‘‘Gamergate’’ have been harassing several prominent women in the video game industry and their supporters for criticizing the lack of diversity in games and how women are portrayed. One of the targets is Brianna Wu, a software engineer and founder of game developer Giant Spacekat.
I rarely play Boston Globe video games anymore. Sorry.
This month, people threatened her and her husband with rape, death, and castration on Twitter and posted her address online, she said. She got so frightened that she left her home.
Wu went to the police, but most people harassed online do not. According to Pew, just 5 percent of those who were harassed reported the incident to law enforcement, while nearly half confronted the person online. Forty-four percent said they unfriended or blocked the person.
But victims of harassment often do not know where it is coming from. Thirty-eight percent of people who were harassed online said a stranger was behind the threats, and another 26 percent did not know who the person was.
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Related:
"A female high school student in Raymond, New Hampshire, has been suspended after a teacher inadvertently discovered a "hit list" of about 50 other students the girl felt were bullying her. WMUR-TV reports a parent said the teacher at Raymond High School was going through the student's flash drive, looking for her reports, and came across the list. Police Chief David Salois said the parents of the students on the list were notified and made aware of their investigation. He said the student is expected to be charged with a crime through the juvenile court system. It was not immediately known if she had a lawyer."
"Prosecutors have established a task force to take a new look at what happened to three girls who disappeared decades ago from the same area of eastern Connecticut. Prosecutors and police announced a Tolland County Cold Case Task Force on Thursday. The state is offering $150,000 in rewards for the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible for the disappearance of Judi Kelly, Debra Spickler, and Janice Pockett, who vanished between 1968 and 1974. Kelly and Spickler were 13 when they were last seen, and Pockett was 7 (AP)."
Oh, and that protection for the president:
"Secret Service rebuked for aiding personal dispute" by Erica Werner | Associated Press October 23, 2014
WASHINGTON — A federal investigation Wednesday criticized a bizarre Secret Service assignment that pulled agents from their duty near the White House and sent them to the rural Maryland home of a headquarters employee embroiled in a personal dispute with a neighbor.
The conduct amounted to a ‘‘serious lapse in judgment,’’ the inspector general of the Homeland Security Department, John Roth, said in a statement accompanying an investigative memo he released. ‘‘These agents, who were there to protect the president and the White House, were improperly diverted for an impermissible purpose.’’
You better be careful, Obummer, because they are sending you all sorts of signals that you ain't safe.
Although agency officials insisted President Obama’s safety was not compromised, the report said Obama was at the White House on at least two days that the agents were ‘‘a 50-minute drive [without traffic] from the White House’’ checking on the headquarters employee. It found no legal justification for using Secret Service agents for such a purpose.
Secret Service broke the law in dereliction of duty?
A Secret Service spokesman, Ed Donovan, said in a statement, ‘‘The Secret Service has received the memorandum and is reviewing it for findings.’’
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said he asked Joe Clancy, the acting director of the Secret Service, which is part of Department of Homeland Security, to ‘‘take any appropriate disciplinary action that he deems necessary and report back to me.’’
The report comes as Congress is investigating the Secret Service over a series of security breaches and scandals, including a recent incident in which a man with a knife scaled the White House fence and dashed all the way into the East Room.
Yeah.
Compared to that failure and other incidents, including a prostitution scandal in Colombia, ‘‘Operation Moonlight’’ stands as a strange side note. It happened three years ago but came to light this past May in a report in the Washington Post.
And the first I'm reading about it is at the end of October?
A Secret Service employee who worked as the assistant to then-director Mark Sullivan was involved in a dispute with her neighbor, who was harassing her and assaulted her father. This ‘‘resulted in the loss of several of her father’s teeth,’’ the report said.
Local police arrested the neighbor, and the employee, Lisa Chopey, sought a protective order. But it did not stop there. She told investigators that Keith Prewitt, then the deputy director of the Secret Service, was a family friend. And when he heard her story, Prewitt told A.T. Smith, then the assistant director for investigations, that the Secret Service should do something to help her out.
This looks like a case of government intimidation now.
Smith directed one of his managers to have agents drive out to Chopey’s home in La Plata, Md., to check on her. The report said that Sullivan, the agency director who has since retired, was made aware of that decision, but Sullivan disputed that in a statement Wednesday, saying that he had only learned of the checks being made on Chopey after they had stopped.
Several of the people named in the report, including Chopey, have retired or moved on from the Secret Service, but Smith is now the agency deputy director.
Which is what I'm going to do.
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UPDATE: Two dead in shooting at high school near Seattle
Didn't have to wait long, did we?
