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Shaun King Embraces the FBI and CIA as Paragons of Justice

Grand juries that routinely fail to indict killer cops become paragons of justice and virtue in Shaun King’s mind when manipulated to indict Russians.

July 26th, 2018

By Glen Ford

Shaun King Embraces the FBI and CIA as Paragons of Justice

Shaun King is an activist in a bubble, hobbled by a shrunken worldview that makes him an ally of the same forces of racial and economic repression he purports to oppose. The stunted nature of King’s politics was laid bare in a July 18 article in

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Glen Ford

Glen Ford is the executive editor of the Black Agenda Report. He can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com

Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Arrested For Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Two-Year-Old

“Having started an organization that pushed for the end of sexual violence, Davis displayed the highest degree of hypocrisy by his alleged attempts to sexually exploit multiple minors.” — FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney Jr.

June 28th, 2018

By Whitney Webb Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb

Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Arrested For Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Two-Year-Old

NEW YORK – The 22-year-old co-founder of a charity that advocates for victims of sexual violence was arrested on Tuesday in New York for possession of child pornography and for working to arrange sexual encounters with children as

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Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb is a staff writer for MintPress News and a contributor to Ben Swann's Truth in Media. Her work has appeared on Global Research, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has also made radio and TV appearances on RT and Sputnik. She currently lives with her family in southern Chile.

In ‘Chilling’ Attack on Press Freedom, Trump’s DOJ Seizes Records of Reporter

“This decision by the Justice Department will endanger reporters’ ability to promise confidentiality to their sources and, ultimately, undermine the ability of a free press to shine a much-needed light on government actions.”

June 08th, 2018

By Julia Conley

In ‘Chilling’ Attack on Press Freedom, Trump’s DOJ Seizes Records of Reporter

Crossing a line that the Obama administration was previously attacked for breaching, the Department of Justice seized the phone and email records of a national security reporter at the New York Times in the Trump administration's effort to stop government

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Someone Tell Trump: There Is No ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Card for Presidents

“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.“
— Richard Nixon

June 07th, 2018

By John Whitehead

Someone Tell Trump: There Is No ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Card for Presidents

Someone needs to alert Donald Trump: there is no “Get Out of Jail Free” card just for being president. According to Trump’s Twitter feed, he believes that he has an absolute right to pardon himself of any crimes for which he might be charged while

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John Whitehead

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People (SelectBooks, 2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org.

How Sloppy Work by the FBI – and the Press – Led to 30 Suicides

As the dust settled from Operation Ore, but only after harm had been done, it became clear that a list of names of suspected pedophiles harvested by the FBI included many who were entirely innocent.

April 09th, 2018

By Dr. Adrian Quinn

How Sloppy Work by the FBI – and the Press – Led to 30 Suicides

Operation Ore caused a press sensation when it began in 2002, probing what was thought to be a huge secret network of child pornography users. It ended up mired in controversy about the unjust targeting of innocent men, some of whom lost access to their children while others – some reports say as many as 30 – took their own lives. Press coverage

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Bad Track Record Gets Worse as New Whistleblower Outed by The Intercept

“I am appalled that yet another whistleblower in touch with The Intercept has been outed and arrested. … [P]erhaps The Intercept should walk away from national security reporting before its lack of journalistic professionalism ruins any more lives.” — CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou

March 30th, 2018

By Whitney Webb Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb

Bad Track Record Gets Worse as New Whistleblower Outed by The Intercept

MINNEAPOLIS – On Wednesday, Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) reported that former Minneapolis-based FBI agent Terry James Albury had been charged with leaking classified government information to the online publication The Intercept.

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The Einstein File Exposes the FBI as an Enemy of All the People

The FBI’s secret war against the most famous scientist on earth failed to stop Einstein from supporting social justice at the height of the Red Scare.