20 November 2020 — Grayzone
Tag: FBI
Guaido Representative Threatens FBI Investigation Into Journalists Exposing Her Dealings
6 July 2020 — Mint Press
“A Price on Your Head”
From the Twitter account of her communications firm, Asymmetrica, Vanessa Neumann accused four journalists of a “criminal conspiracy” to support Venezuelan vice-president Delcy Rodriguez. “There is a price on your head,” she threatened.
The FBI Has Been Lying About Seth Rich
30 January 2020 — Craig Murray
A persistent American lawyer has uncovered the undeniable fact that the FBI has been continuously lying, including giving false testimony in court, in response to Freedom of Information requests for its records on Seth Rich. The FBI has previously given affidavits that it has no records regarding Seth Rich.
Did Bill Barr Call His Shot? Unanswered Questions about FBI’s Foreknowledge of the El Paso Shooting
7 August 2019 — Mint Press
William Barr’s warning that a “major incident” could occur “at any time” and “galvanize public opinion” around the unpopular encryption back-door policy he has been seeking seems to have come true in the weeks since the attorney general made those statements.
by Whitney Webb
National Security Archive Joins Media Groups Versus Unlimited Gag Orders
3 May 2019 — National Security Archive
Amicus Brief Argues for Court Review, Time Limits on Secrecy of National Security Letters
Washington D.C., May 3, 2019 – The National Security Archive, along with 15 other media organizations, filed a “friend of the court” brief on April 29 challenging the FBI’s authority to issue national security letters (NSLs) without any judicial oversight and under indefinite gag orders. The letters demand business records from a wide array of organizations for national security investigations, and their accompanying gag orders prohibit the recipient from speaking with anyone about the NSL, often permanently.
Distinguished Iranian/American Journalist Marzieh Hashemi arrested by FBI By Stephen Lendman
21 January 2019 — Global Research
Distinguished Press TV journalist/anchor’s unlawful arrest, detention and mistreatment by the FBI, on the pretext of being a material witness regarding a case her family knows nothing about, gave the US another international black eye.
Facebook and Google outline unprecedented mass censorship at US Senate hearing By Andre Damon
18 January 2018– WSWS
Behind the backs of the US and world populations, social media companies have built up a massive censorship apparatus staffed by an army of “content reviewers” capable of seamlessly monitoring, tracking, and blocking millions of pieces of content.
The character of this apparatus was detailed in testimony Wednesday from representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s YouTube before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, chaired by South Dakota Republican John Thune.
Audio: 'The Bureau Is Once Again Profiling Black Activists Because of Their Beliefs and Their Race'
24 October 2017 — FAIR
Janine Jackson interviewed Nusrat Choudhury about the FBI’s “black identity extremist” designation for the October 20, 2017, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
Nusrat Choudhury on ‘Black Identity Extremists’, Neil deMause on Amazon Bidding War
20 October 2017 — FAIR
Foreign Policy (10/6/17)
This week on CounterSpin: Public protest against racist police brutality has been a beacon for all kinds of activists looking for ways to stand up to oppression—a model for those who want to go down on the right side of history with principled, persistent and peaceful action in resistance to increasingly frightening reactionary exertions of state power. Into this context we now introduce, by way of documents leaked to the magazine Foreign Policy, the FBI’s designation of “black identity extremists” as a movement constituting a violent threat to public safety, and warranting the surveillance and scrutiny of the country’s “counterterrorism” forces. What do we know about the definition of this term and, more importantly, the FBI’s application of it? The ACLU’s Racial Justice Program is on the case; we’ll hear from lead attorney Nusrat Choudhury.
The FBI Targets Black “Ideology” By Glen Ford
12 October 2017 — Black Agenda Report
The FBI has apparently chosen a new heading under which to lump Black Americans targeted for political persecution: “Black Identity Extremists.” There’s a simple explanation for the new categorization. The FBI is a bureaucracy whose day-to-day work involves drawing up lists of people and organizations to be surveilled, disrupted and prosecuted. The dramatic increase in Black “movement” activity since the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, has presented the FBI with a much larger field of targets, including youthful elements loosely grouped under the Black Lives Matter banner. When bureaucracies compile new lists, they typically file them under new names.
Video: FBI Report Targets Black Activists
10 October 2017 — TRNN
The FBI terrorism unit’s report warning that ‘black identity extremists’ are a violent threat is only the latest in a long tradition of targeting black activists, says the Black Agenda Report’s Glen Ford (inc. transcript)
Video: Empire in Decay: Federal Government Falling Apart as Spying Allegations Fly
7 March 2017 — TRNN
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says there is a theory circulating in the intelligence community that the CIA asked the British to spy on Trump on behalf of the Democratic Party; the politicization of the intelligence agencies is a reflection of a dying empire
