FBI Swept Up Info About Aaron Swartz While Pursuing An Al-Qaeda Investigation

The FBI has the power to collect massive amounts of data and communications during its investigations. This power periodically ingests NATSEC steroids, pumping the FBI's data stores full of stuff not relevant to the NSA's work, but possibly relevant to the FBI's crime-fighting duties.

You would think the FBI would toss anything not relevant to an investigation. Just in terms of storage and haystack-sorting, it would only make sense to discard data/communications not needed for ongoing investigations. But you'd be wrong. The FBI holds on to everything it gets because you never know: the irrelevancies you hoovered up yesterday might be useful today.

That's pretty much what happened to Aaron Swartz, according to documents published by Dell Cameron of Gizmodo.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181217/11080641248/fbi-swept-up-info-about-aaron-swartz-while-pursuing-al-qaeda-investigation.shtml

The Intelligence Community's Official Whistleblower Channel Is Going To Start Hunting Down Leakers

from the prepare-for-the-worst-of-both-worlds dept

The Inspector General for the Intelligence Community is finally implementing long-resisted whistleblower-related reforms. The IG has previously buried reports indicating whistleblowers were being greeted with retaliation for going through the proper channels. Despite this, government officials continue to claim the only whistleblowers they'll recognize are those who use the internal options – options that allow the government to control the narrative and, in many cases, do as little as possible to address complaints.

The Inspector General's office is one of the official channels. After turmoil that consumed most of last year – including the ouster of Dan Meyer, the head of the IC's whistleblower outreach program – a new Inspector General is in place. Michael Atkinson promised to get the IC IG's house in order after news surfaced of its burial of a damning whistleblower retaliation report earlier this year, but so far it's unclear what improvements have been made.

What does appear to be in place is the IG office's participation in the Forever War on Whistleblowers. National security reporter Jenna McLaughlin noticed this disturbing development in the IG office's latest semiannual report [PDF]:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181208/11411241183/intelligence-communitys-official-whistleblower-channel-is-going-to-start-hunting-down-leakers.shtml

>>4360195

Thank you . Glad somebody can look at it with a discerning mind

For those of you that care about it

Privacy organizations, websites, tools and resources

https://privacy.net/resources/

Watergate Documentary Twists History

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. In that closing statement, director Charles Ferguson reminds us that “Watergate,” his six-part documentary, is not as much about reassessing the twilight of Richard Nixon’s presidency as it is a less-than-subtle commentary on President Donald Trump.

As further evidence, consider the documentary’s full title: “Watergate—Or, How We Learned to Stop an Out-of-Control President.” The phrase “learned to stop” implies that the roadmap has already been documented. It is the execution of the roadmap that must now commence. Also consider that its three-night airing on the History Channel occurred throughout the weekend before the mid-term elections. At that point, it also becomes a Democratic Party campaign ad.

https://americanfreepress.net/watergate-documentary-twists-history/

Hillary Clinton Email Scandal – Mishandling of Classified Information

Hillary Rodham Clinton served as U.S. Secretary of State from January 21, 2009 to February 1, 2013. The FBI conducted an investigation into allegations that classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on a personal e-mail server she used during her tenure.

Declassified Documents

Department of Justice (DOJ) Documents

https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/fbi-notes-regarding-hillary-clinton-email-scandal-mishandling-classified-information/

Bombshell study shows aspartame depletes neurotransmitters in the brain, makes brains vulnerable to chemical damage from food and vaccines

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/69832/bombshell-study-shows-aspartame-depletes-neurotransmitters-in-the-brain-makes-brains-vulnerable-to.html

IMPACT OF ASPARTAME CONSUMPTION ON NEUROTRANSMITTERS IN RAT BRAIN

Background: Aspartame (APM), a common artificial sweetener, has been used for diabetic subjects and body weight

control for a long time. The goal of the present study was to evaluate the impact of APM consumption on

neurotransmitters and oxidative stress in rat’s brain.

http://journals.sfu.ca/africanem/index.php/ajtcam/article/view/4861

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Puerto Rico Bailout Shows Corruption of Paul Ryan and Establishment GOP Leadership

Speaker Paul Ryan and his establishment Republican “leadership” team have a problem; they want to bailout Puerto Rico’s corrupt and inefficient Democrat-led government, but rank and file House Republicans want no part of a federal taxpayer-funded bailout.

https://www.conservativehq.com/article/22873-puerto-rico-bailout-shows-corruption-paul-ryan-and-establishment-gop-leadership