Police State

DHS adds stockpile of less lethal, crown control munitions to its stockpile of 1.6 billion rounds.

Cops and prosecutors conspire to convict an innocent man but a cell phone video saves him.

FBI agents make a lot more money than you.

"$121,097.  Every journeyman, non-supervisory, regular ordinary plain-Jane FBI agent with five years on the job and with no particular job specialty or unique pay enhancement (like flight pay, Sunday pay, scheduled overtime pay, hazardous duty pay, foreign COLA pay, post differential, night differential, housing allowance, danger pay, travel per diem,  temporary quarters allowances, or reimbursable undercover expenses), makes $121,097 if he works in the Washington, Baltimore, Maryland, or Northern Virginia area.  If he works in the San Francisco area, he makes $131,752.   If he works in Houston, he makes $125,475.  The differences are based on “locality pay” which is an automatic premium pay added onto the salaries of all federal law enforcement officers.  Agents, in all locations in the U.S., even the ones with the lowest cost of living, receive extra law enforcement locality pay.  The lowest paying locale in the U.S. would have this same agent earning the bottom rung locality-enhanced salary of $111,290."

That's ridiculous.

FBI's Oklahoma City bombing cover-up.

"The first battle in this almost decade long FOIA war was fought before this very Court inTrentadue v. FBI, which revealed that persons other that Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier had participated in the Bombing. That first battle, and the documents/records that Plaintiff obtained as a result, also disclosed: (1) the existence of the FBI’s I-Drive and S-Drive computer systems wherein evidence related to the Bombing was kept hidden so as not to be subject to a FOIA request and/or not made part of the FBI’s official Bombing case file; (2) the CIA’s involvement in the Oklahoma City Bombing; (3) “Patriot Conspiracy” or “PATCON” that was a decade or more long FBI undercover operation designed to infiltrate and monitor or perhaps even incite various right-wing organizations; and (4) the existence of a surveillance camera videotape taken on the morning of April 19, 1995, which according to federal government documents purportedly shows not only the destruction of the Alfred P. Murrah Building, but also the persons who carried out that attack.  That first FOIA battle also disclosed the existence of the FBI’s“Sensitive Informant Program,” which is at the heart of this current FOIA discovery dispute.
The Sensitive Informant Program is the FBI’s disturbing practice of using private citizens as spies on the staffs of members of Congress and perhaps even federal judges, in the national media, within other federal agencies, on defense teams in high profile federal and/or state criminal prosecutions, inside state and local law enforcement agencies and even among the clergy of organized religions. The Sensitive Informant Program is designed to and does result in the circumvention of the protections guaranteed to American citizens by the Bill of Rights and the Separation of Powers Doctrine."

No doubt similar things happened in Boston with the marathon bomber trial.