FBI Issues Report On Shooting Death Of Ibragim Todashev

On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. FBI SAC Charles Bright from the Orlando FBI office made the following statement:

“We regret to announce the death of Ibragim Todashev who died earlier today as a result of being shot three times by FBI Special Agent Rick O’Shea. The circumstances of this unfortunate incident are as follows.

Since the identification of the Tsarnaev brothers as the terrorists in the Marathon Terrorist Attack the FBI has been questioning people associated with Tamerlan Tsarnaev. One of these persons was Ibragim Todashev who was known to be an associate of Tamerlan and lived with him in Boston. Since April 19, 2013, he has been questioned by the FBI seven times concerning his involvement in that attack. There has been no evidence connecting him with the attack.

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Ignoring The Plain Constitutional Language: F.B. I. – A Few Bad Ideas – (5)

A Letter From A Mother To Her Child At Camp Is Constitutionally Protected From Government Eyes

When I read FBI Boston SAC Richard DesLauriers statement that the FBI was doing everything “in accordance with U.S. constitutional restrictions” I knew that was just another FBI line that is often tossed out to the American public as a keeper of a junk yard throws a bone to his mad dog to keep him in line.

If there is one organization that has constantly ignored the Constitution it is the FBI. We shouldn’t be surprised about it because it has a witting partner in the Department of Justice (DOJ). I read that the American Civil Liberties Union was concerned that the FBI was reading the emails of Americans without getting a warrant. It wanted to know what the policy of the Obama administration on this. It filed a Freedom of Information request.

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And The Band Played On – The Right Not To Know

We wait to hear from the FBI about the many unanswered questions surrounding the Tsanaevs but are assured, I don’t know if by the FBI or by information from mysterious parties who are unidentified, that the Tsarnaevs acted alone. Déjà vu the Kennedy assassination. A day after Kennedy was a murdered J. Edgar Hoover decided that it was done by one man with no other accomplices and all investigations were directed to confirm the decision he made in Washington, DC with little knowledge of the crime.

The FBI refuses to tell us what happened both before the Marathon Terrorist Attack and afterwards. Almost all Americans seem content with that. Then it appears we learn that perhaps what has been told us by those parties who are unidentified that there may be more to this. We never would have known about it except the FBI has killed a Chechen. The Boston Globe reported that ““The agent along with two Massachusetts State Police troopers and other law enforcement personnel were interviewing an individual in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing investigation.“

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The Big Lie About Tsarnaev Investigation – F.B. I. – A Few Bad Ideas – (4)

The FBI insists That Like Itself This Contains A Few Bad Idea That It Need Not Follow

The FBI insists That Like Itself This Contains A Few Bad Ideas That It Need Not Follow

It’s difficult to find out where this information came from but it’s all over the news that the FBI spent three months investigating Tamerlan Tsarnaev. It’d be nice if we could see the reports about what was done by whom and when, but dealing with the FBI we can’t expect to be told anything. No one tells the FBI what to do unlike with any other police force in America that is responsible to someone else such as a mayor, board of selectmen, governor, or even like a sheriff, the electorate.

Here are the facts that we’ve learned about the initial investigation of Tamerlan Tsarnaev from the FBI as set forth in its recent statement: “The Tsarnaev assessment was thorough, comprehensive, and fully compliant with law and policy.” Who needs facts when conclusions will do.

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The Horses Are Being Mounted In Whitey’s Case: How Will The Prosecutor Leave The Gate?

Time is ticking away. If you’ve watched any of the Triple Crown races like the Kentucky Derby on TV, a few hours into the broadcast a celebrity will be given a microphone and while the cameras roll she is suppose to say, “jockeys mount your horses” or something like that. Celebrities always seeking to call attention to themselves by trying to say those four words in an usual or memorable manner but despite their best efforts there’s little anyone can do with four words.

Well we are at the equivalent stage in the Bulger case. Judge Casper on the 20th issued a call for a “Status Conference set for 5/22/2013 03:30 PM [tomorrow] in Courtroom 11 before Judge Denise J. Casper.” I’d like to cover it for you folk but I was 3700 miles away from Boston when I got the news so it’ll be difficult to attend.

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The Marathon Aftermath – F.B. I. – A Few Bad Ideas – (3)

On May 9 Commissioner Ed Davis of the Boston Police testified before a Washington DC Congressional committee. The committee’s chairperson is Michael McCall a Republican from Texas. Unfortunately, looking at his background he worked in the US attorney’s office in Texas and then as a Deputy Attorney General in the Department of Justice. He’s not one to upset the FBI’s nice apple cart but we’ll just have to see.

Commissioner Davis said he was first told about Tsarnaev’s background on the morning that Tsarnaev was killed in a confrontation with police in Watertown. He was not aware of an earlier FBI investigation into Tsarnaev, even though there are three Boston police detectives and one sergeant working full-time on the Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force.

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The Insane World Of FBI Reports

Patty who comments here wrote and told us we should write the FBI to find out what it has on us. We’d end up getting files with those big black redaction lines through them. So why bother? Further, truth be told, FBI reports can be of little value.

Remember FBI agent Paul Rico talking about those reports to a Congressional Committee. He tried to suggest that when an informant tells you about things that are happening you reduce them to writing and file it in report form in the FBI’s filing system. It doesn’t mean what you are told is the truth. Here’s how it works.

Suppose Agent M. Key’s has an informant Joe The Giraffe. Most people who read about what Joe says won’t know who the information is coming from. Joe will be identified by a number such as # 82828, Joe tells Agent M. Key he saw Loo Water the night before at a poker party and during the night Loo and Harry Hippo were involved in a heated conversation.

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The Marathon – F.B. I. – A Few Bad Ideas – (2)

Another Day of Infamy – Could it Have Not Been So?

The news of the Marathon Terrorist Attack (MTA) grew slowly. For me I believe it was a video taken by a Boston Globe reporter who was near the finish line which first brought home the enormity of what happened. The gruesomeness and shock of this MTA could not really be felt at home as we watched it; however for most of those nearby it will be implanted on their minds forever and for an unlucky few the devastation to their bodies will be a constant reminder of the happenstance that caused them to stop to watch the runners in the vicinity of this heinous attack. Then, there are the three who are no longer with us, one a young boy of seven who I am told is the grandson of a friend from my youth. Then three days later we lost one other, a young MIT police officer Sean Collier.

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Are The Birds Coming Home To Roost?

Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) was a prominent Protestant pastor who emerged as an outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps.

He wrote:

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out–
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out–
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out–
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me–and there was no one left to speak for me.

You see how it all begins, very slowly. Nothing is taken from us quickly it seems it is always taken from the other person. As long as it is the other, we sit back content to let it happen.

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The FBI Updated Dead List Identified Two Supreme Court Justices As Communists

I spoke to the need of the Internet being free and being a source of much information that is not available elsewhere. I was looking for an article by Clarence Walker written in April 2005 asking whether FBI Agent John Connolly could “Go FREE?” I clicked on an article that seemed to have some of what I was looking for. It didn’t. Rather it was a document which the FBI called its Dead List.

It described it as “This is an updated list of the people the FBI understands are deceased. It amounts to a list of notable or famous individuals for whom there are FBI files (usually) or cross references to FBI files.” A little later it states: “FBI files on any of the individuals contained in this list may be requested by writing a letter.”

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