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>#Extortion17

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>12/17/22 (Sat)

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>what did he mean by Extortion17? Someone give me a non Q answer

Why ask Q research for a 'non Q answer'? Why not research for yourself?

Why are you here?

https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/index.html#/search-all/results/1/CgZoYXJyaXMSBmxvc3Rvbg–/

Extortion 17

August 6, 2022 marks 11 years since Extortion 17. On this day 11 years ago, 30 American military servicemen and a U.S. military dog were killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter–call sign Extortion 17–was shot down in Afghanistan.

This remains the greatest single loss of life to Naval Special Warfare since the Afghan War started in 2001. The Museum Executive Team worked with these men. We continue our work at the Museum so that their service and sacrifice will never be forgotten.

Please take a moment and pause to honor and remember these heroes.

The following sailors assigned to an East Coast-based Naval Special Warfare unit were killed:

Lieutenant Commander (SEAL) Jonas B. Kelsall, 32, of Shreveport, Louisiana

Special Warfare Operator Master Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Louis J. Langlais, 44, of Santa Barbara, California

Special Warfare Operator Senior Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Thomas A. Ratzlaff, 34, of Green Forest, Arkansas

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician Senior Chief Petty Officer (Expeditionary Warfare Specialist/Freefall Parachutist) Kraig M. Vickers 36, of Kokomo, Hawaii

Special Warfare Operator Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Brian R. Bill, 31, of Stamford, Connecticut

Special Warfare Operator Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) John W. Faas, 31, of Minneapolis, Minnesota

Special Warfare Operator Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Kevin A. Houston, 35, of West Hyannisport, Massachusetts

Special Warfare Operator Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Matthew D. Mason, 37, of Kansas City, Missouri

Special Warfare Operator Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Stephen M. Mills, 35, of Fort Worth, Texas

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician Chief Petty Officer(Expeditionary Warfare Specialist/Freefall Parachutist/Diver) Nicholas H. Null, 30, of Washington, West Virginia

Special Warfare Operator Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Robert J. Reeves, 32, of Shreveport, Louisiana

Special Warfare Operator Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Heath M. Robinson, 34, of Detroit, Michigan

Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 1st Class (SEAL) Darrik C. Benson, 28, of Angwin, California

Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 1st Class (SEAL/Parachutist) Christopher G. Campbell, 36, of Jacksonville, North Carolina

Information Systems Technician Petty Officer 1st Class (Expeditionary Warfare Specialist/Freefall Parachutist) Jared W. Day, 28, of Taylorsville, Utah

Master-at-Arms Petty Officer 1st Class (Expeditionary Warfare Specialist) John Douangdara, 26, of South Sioux City, Nebraska

Cryptologist Technician(Collection)Petty Officer 1st Class(Expeditionary Warfare Specialist) Michael J. Strange, 25, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 1st Class (SEAL/Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist) Jon T. Tumilson, 35, of Rockford, Iowa

Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 1st Class (SEAL)Aaron C. Vaughn, 30, of Stuart, Florida

Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 1st Class (SEAL)Jason R. Workman, 32, of Blanding, Utah

The following sailors assigned to a West Coast-based Naval Special Warfare unit were killed:

>>17962912

>Please take a moment and pause to honor and remember these heroes.

Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 1st Class (SEAL)Jesse D. Pittman, 27, of Ukiah, California

Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 2nd Class (SEAL)Nicholas P. Spehar, 24, of Saint Paul, Minnesota

The soldiers killed were:

Chief Warrant Officer David R. Carter, 47, of Centennial, Colo. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 135th Aviation Regiment (General Support Aviation Battalion), Aurora, Colorado

Chief Warrant Officer Bryan J. Nichols, 31, of Hays, Kan. He was assigned to the 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment(General Support Aviation Battalion), New Century, Kansas

Staff Sgt. Patrick D. Hamburger, 30, of Lincoln, Neb. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 135th Aviation Regiment (General Support Aviation Battalion), Grand Island, Nebraska

• Sergeant Hamburger was posthumously promoted to Staff Sergeant

Sgt. Alexander J. Bennett, 24, of Tacoma, Wash. He was assigned to the 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment (General Support Aviation Battalion), New Century, Kansas

Spc. Spencer C. Duncan, 21, of Olathe, Kan. He was assigned to the 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment (General Support Aviation Battalion), New Century, Kansas

The airmen killed were:

Tech. Sgt. John W. Brown, 33, of Tallahassee, Florida

Staff Sgt. Andrew W. Harvell, 26, of Long Beach, California

Tech. Sgt. Daniel L. Zerbe, 28, of York, Pennsylvania

All three airmen were assigned to the 24th Special Tactics Squadron, Pope Field, North Carolina.

Downing of Extortion 17: The Single Deadliest Incident of the US War in Afghanistan

HISTORY

Aug 10, 2022 Samantha Franco, Guest Author

Photo Credit: Balon Greyjoy / Wikimedia Commons CC0 1.0

On August 6, 2011, the final flight of Extortion 17 resulted in the single deadliest incident for the US military during the War in Afghanistan. When the Boeing CH-47D Chinook helicopter was hit, all 38 onboard were instantly killed. Prior to the mission, the deadliest incident was June 2005’s Operation Red Wings, which resulted in the deaths of eight US Navy SEALs and eight US Army Special Operations aviators.

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> Prior to the mission, the deadliest incident was June 2005’sOperation Red Wings,which resulted in the deaths of eight US Navy SEALs and eight US Army Special Operations aviators.

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Yellow Jacket way in th eback. Might be near Extortion 17 grave

>>17963114, >>17963120 Keep these FBI crime notables coming Anons

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dam son

that list is gonna be long

How ‘Deep Throat’ Took Down Nixon From Inside the FBI

Former FBI deputy director William Mark Felt broke his 30-year silence and confirmed in 2005 that he was “Deep Throat,” the anonymous government source who helped take down President Nixon in the Watergate scandal.

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>dam son

>that list is gonna be long

Proof Released By ACLU: FBI (& NSA?) Spying On Liberals[Update: WaPo Runs Story]

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Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday March 14, 2006 ·

The proof is starting to emerge that Cheney/ Bush goons are peeping into their political opponents' everyday lives. We've all heard about it, now the ACLU says they have the proof:

> ACLU Releases First Concrete Evidence of FBI Spying Based Solely on Groups' Anti-War Views

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> PITTSBURGH - The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Pennsylvania today released new evidence that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting investigations into a political organizations based solely on its anti-war views.

Update 8:40 EST: WaPo: FBI Took Photos of Antiwar Activists in 2002 (Thomas Merton Center for Peace leaflet hipsters)… add conspiracy and intimidation to list of crimes, snips below.

> Two documents released today reveal that the FBI investigated gatherings of the Thomas Merton Center for Peace & Justice just because the organization opposed the war in Iraq. Although previously disclosed documents show that the FBI is retaining files on anti-war groups, these documents are the first to show conclusively that the rationale for FBI targeting is the group's opposition to the war.

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> "It makes no sense that the FBI would be spying on peace activists handing out flyers," said Jim Kleissler, Executive Director of the Thomas Merton Center for Peace & Justice. "Our members were simply offering leaflets to passersby, legally and peacefully, and now they're being investigated by a counter-terrorism unit. Something is seriously wrong in how our government determines who and what constitutes terrorism when peace activists find themselves targeted."

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> According to the documents released today, the FBI initiated a classified investigation into the activities of the Thomas Merton Center, noting in a November 2002 memo that the center "holds daily leaflet distribution activities in downtown Pittsburgh and is currently focused on its opposition to the potential war on Iraq." The synopsis of the document is provided to "report results of investigation on Pittsburgh anti-war activities." The FBI memo points out that the Merton Center "is a left-wing organization advocating, among many political causes, pacifism."

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> "All over the country we see the FBI monitoring and keeping files on Americans exercising their First Amendment rights to free expression," said Mary Catherine Roper, a staff attorney with the ACLU of Pennsylvania. "These documents show that Americans are not safe from secret government surveillance, even when they are handing out flyers in the town square - an activity clearly protected by the Constitution."

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> The documents come to the ACLU as a result of a national campaign to expose domestic spying by the FBI and other government agencies. The ACLU has filed Freedom of Information Act requests in 20 states on behalf of more than 150 organizations and individuals. In response to these requests, the government has released documents that reveal monitoring and infiltration by the FBI and local law enforcement, targeting political, environmental, anti-war and faith-based groups.

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> "From the FBI to the Pentagon to the National Security Agency this administration has embarked on an unprecedented campaign to spy on innocent Americans," said Ann Beeson, Associate Legal Director of the national ACLU. "Investigating law-abiding groups and their members simply because of their political views is not only irresponsible, it has a chilling effect on the vibrant tradition of dissent in this country."

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> More information about the ACLU's Spy Files project including the documents released today as well as profiles of members of the Thomas Merton Center is available online at www.aclu.org/spyfiles

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> More information about the Thomas Merton Center is available online at: www.thomasmertoncenter.org

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/3/14/193986/-

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FBI Patents Domestic Spying

AlterNet

andEarl Ofari Hutchinson

January 04, 2006

The ACLU publicly and indignantly blasted President Bush and the FBI after it got documents that showed the FBI was back in the domestic spy business. FBI targets were peace, environmental and animal rights groups. The ACLU should be indignant, but it shouldn't be surprised.

The FBI has always been in the domestic spy business, and the tactics that it uses against today's activists are no different than those it used to hammer radicals in years past. During the 1960s, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover kicked into high gear the supersecret and blatantly illegal counterintelligence COINTELPRO program that targeted Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and black and anti-war protest leaders, as well as thousands of innocent Americans. The results were immediate and devastating.

Thousands were expelled from schools, lost jobs, evicted from their homes and offices, and publicly slandered. Few of these individuals were indicted, convicted or even accused of any crimes. Hoover gave local FBI offices wide discretion to pick and choose their targets, and the tactics they could use to go after them. Despite FBI protests that it only targeted those that are foreign spies, terrorists, or individuals suspected of criminal acts, in nearly all cases the groups and individuals under the FBI lens did not fit that bill.

With the death of Hoover in 1972 and congressional disclosure of the illegal program, the Justice Department scrambled fast to staunch the public and congressional outcry to rein in the FBI. It publicly assured Congress that COINTELPRO was a thing of the past, and that it had implemented ironclad control over FBI activities. That never happened.

During the 1980s,the FBI waged a five-year covert spy campaign against dozens of religious and pacifist groups and leaders that opposed American foreign policy in Central America. In the 1990s it mounted covert campaigns against civil rights, environmental, Native American, anti-nuclear disarmament and Arab-American groups. The FBI has never made complete disclosure to Congress the full extent of its supersecret domestic operations. The documents the ACLU got, which showed the current round of FBI domestic spying, are heavily censored. That fuels the deep suspicion that the domestic spy operations the FBI admits to and those in the past are only the tip of the spy iceberg.

Also, the FBI tactics used against these groups are a close replica of the tactics that the FBI routinely used against domestic groups in the 1960s, and that the 1970s guidelines supposedly banned. They include the ransacking of personal records, warrantless eavesdropping of calls, the monitoring of emails and almost certainly electronic and physical surveillance of political dissidents.

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>FBI Patents Domestic Spying

>AlterNet

>The FBI quickly swung into even higher gear. FBI officials sent ~~a memo to local police departments~~ emails to twitter trust and safety before the ~~massive anti-Iraq war protests~~ election that year, urging them to keep close tabs on ~~protesters~~American Patriots.

With much fanfare, Bush, and then Attorney General John Ashcroft, in 2002 announced that they were scrapping the 1970s guidelines that banned FBI spying on domestic organizations. The FBI quickly swung into even higher gear. FBI officials sent a memo to local police departments before the massive anti-Iraq war protests that year, urging them to keep close tabs on protesters. That is a virtual carbon copy of the FBI's trademark approach to political spying, which is to work closely with local police departments against targeted domestic organizations. The FBI launched search and destroy missions jointly with local police in several cities in 1969 against the Black Panther Party.

Following the big anti-Iraq war demonstrations, peace activists complained that FBI agents infiltrated anti-war meetings in some cities, and that local police fiercely grilled anti-war demonstrators in New York City about their political ties, and that their names wound up on the government's "no fly" list. This is the list that the airlines can use to deny passengers the right to board an airplane.

FBI officials claim that their aim wasn't to harass or intimidate protesters, or chill political dissent, but simply to ferret out violent prone radicals. When the ACLU went public with its documents, the FBI again loudly protested that it was only after terrorists and their supporters. But FBI officials have not offered a shred of proof that these organizations or individuals have broken any laws, let alone aided and abetted terrorists.

The ACLU disclosures of FBI domestic spying don't necessarily mean the FBI will again blatantly and brazenly bend, twist and break the law, ride roughshod over civil liberties and commit the willful acts of violence it did in the past against civil rights and political protesters. They do, however, make it much easier for FBI officials to skirt the law if they so choose when dealing with protest organizations, and they can do it under the guise of waging war against terrorists. The enemies of the state, of course, can be just about anyone and everyone that Bush and FBI officials suspect or finger.

The ACLU disclosures are a dangerous warning that official law breaking can happen again. And that the FBI can and will use the same dubious tactics that it has patented over the years.