Tag Archives: FBI

James Retherford : Who Watches the Watchman? Watergate and COINTELPRO

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Part VWho Watches the Watchman? COINTELPRO and the Federal Government’sClandestine Attack on the U.S. Constitution The FBI eventually acknowledged conducting 2,218 separate COINTELPRO actions from mid-1956 through mid-1974. By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / August 4, 2009 Quis … Continue reading →

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James Retherford : Who Watches the Watchman? The Huston Plan

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Part IVWho Watches the Watchman? COINTELPRO and the Federal Government’sClandestine Attack on the U.S. Constitution The plan, submitted to Nixon on June 25, 1970, called for increasing the role of the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency in domestic spying while … Continue reading →

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James Retherford : Who Watches the Watchman? The Espionage Octopus

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Part IIIWho Watches the Watchman? COINTELPRO and the Federal Government’sClandestine Attack on the U.S. Constitution Using FBI and CIA intelligence reports, the federal government compiled a Rabble Rouser Index of activists. By 1973 the National Security Council compiled a ‘watch … Continue reading →

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James Retherford : Who Watches the Watchman? Attacks on ‘Negroism’ and CPUSA

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Cartoon from The Progressive.Part IIWho Watches the Watchman? COINTELPRO and the Federal Government’sClandestine Attack on the U.S. Constitution By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / June 30, 2009 The repression of dissident groups by shadowy government operatives is nothing … Continue reading →

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James Retherford : Who Watches the Watchman? J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

J. Edgar Hoover and friend.Part IWho Watches the Watchman? COINTELPRO and the Federal Government’sClandestine Attack on the U.S. Constitution By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / June 23, 2009 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?— Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347 [A version … Continue reading →

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James Retherford : Brandon Darby, The Texas 2, and the FBI’s Runaway Informants

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

The Texas 2: David McKay and Bradley Crowder.The Texas 2: Intrigue, Provocation, and Betrayal The overarching story here is the blatant size of the federal government’s strategic operational use of informants and undercover agents against American citizens protesting eight years … Continue reading →

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Cop Nation : Snitch Brandon Darby, and Riot Police With the ‘Kent State’ Gene

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Riot cops at 2008 Republic National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. Photo by Pan African News. ‘I fear those individuals, identified only after they explode, who project their anxieties, anger and insecurities by becoming officers of the law and marauding … Continue reading →

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Mariann Wizard :
Brandon Darby – ‘To Live Outside the Law You Must Be Honest’

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

If Darby had really been worried people he was working with were planning violence, he could have taken it up with other group members. But that would have required honest discussion. When there is no honesty on one side, discussion … Continue reading →

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Brandon Darby : FBI Informant is Provocateur, Not a Hero

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Austin activist and FBI informant Brandon Darby. Photo courtesy of YouTube. ‘FBI informant Brandon Darby did not heroically intervene to stop violence. Rather it appears that he actively sought out people that he could manipulate and entrap.’ By Austin Informant … Continue reading →

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Brandon Darby : Austin Activist Outed as FBI Spy

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Austin activist and admitted FBI informant Brandon Darby. Austin has its very own FBI spy. Recall that Scrub Bush took all the FBI agents off enforcing banking laws, and put them to work watching political groups here at home. — … Continue reading →

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American Indians and the CIA : Buying Silence With Advertising

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Hopi elder Dan Evehema, sitting on a couch at his home on the Hopi mesa in 1996, warned: “Don’t take grant funding, they will control you.”How advertisers like the CIA and FBI use dollars to control and silence people.By Brenda … Continue reading →

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Now, We Seem to Have Lost the Dots

Posted on August 23, 2008 by RagBlog

Flaws Found In Watch List For TerroristsBy Siobhan Gorman / August 22, 2008 The government’s main terrorist-watch-list system is hobbled by technology challenges, and the $500 million program designed to upgrade it is on the verge of collapse, according to … Continue reading →

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