by Jim Kouri, CPP The counterintelligence function involves protecting the country, as well as intelligence agencies, from the activities of foreign intelligence services. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has principal responsibility for countering the activities of foreign intelligence services within the United States in order to protect both classified US Government information and proprietary...
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A shocking story about child sex abuse in women’s abuse centers is posted here. This is the first of many cases involving an astonishing amount of child abuse, child molestation, abuse of women in women’s shelters, organized operation of prostitution, sales of illegal drugs, misuse of federal funds, and violations of employment laws in...
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Some, but by no means all, contributors to this website have a pronounced nostalgia for earlier historical periods. The 1950s in particular are an era many recall fondly. Some would like to see us return to prevailing mores and ideals of that period. I myself have a special liking for some TV shows that...
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Susan Atkins is a murderer notorious for her participation in the cruel slayings committed at the Sharon Tate residence on August 6, 1969. She has been in prison almost four decades. Her name is Susan Atkins-Whitehouse because she is married to attorney James Whitehouse. Atkins-Whitehouse is dying from an inoperable brain tumor. She is...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Defendants Hassan Saied Keshari and Traian Bujduveanu were arrested on June 20 and 21 on charges of conspiring to export military aircraft parts to Iran, according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police. The two suspects are charged in a federal criminal complaint with conspiring...
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Suppose someone says, “There’s a bunch of winos on that street corner.†You approach the indicated area. You expect to see a group of women in ragged dresses passing around a bottle of wine that is perhaps still in its brown paper bag. Or at least that is what you expected to see prior...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Last week, 96 street gang members and associates were arrested as a result of a state-wide public safety initiative in New Jersey, according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police. Each of those arrested were targeted for their membership, participation or association with violent street...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Seventy members and associates of the Drew Street clique of the Avenues gang have been named in a federal racketeering indictment unsealed on June 25 that alleges a long series of narcotics-related offenses and violent crimes — including murder, attacks against police officers, witness intimidation and extortion of local businesses....
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Diplomatic leaders and legal and human rights experts presented unique perspectives on Latin America’s political landscape and democracy during a recent academic discussion held at the University of Miami, according to a report submitted to the 14,000-member National Association of Chiefs of Police. Among topics discussed was the state of...
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Gunmen today opened fire in a Mexico City restaurant, killing a top police official in charge of monitoring the country’s illegal drug trade, as well as one of his bodyguards, Mexican officials said. The attack is the latest waged against authorities attempting to fight Mexico’s powerful drug cartels. Security officials in Mexico City say...
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To give this book a fair review, it is necessary to discuss some history because a generation has been born and reached middle age since the events that catapulted the subject of “The Manson File†into worldwide infamy. On the evening of August 9, 1969, five people were murdered at the Bel Air, California...
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On Wednesday, a United States federal appeals court upheld convictions of fraud and obstruction of justice against media mogul Conrad Black, along with three other executives from his former press corporation Hollinger International. Black, a Canadian-born who holds the title Baron Black of Crossharbour in the United Kingdom, was found guilty in July 2007...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP The foreign intelligence threat within the United States is far more complex than it has ever been historically. The threat is increasingly asymmetrical insofar as it comes not only from traditional...
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There is an extraordinary irony in America’s seemingly endless War on Drugs. What are arguably the most deadly mood- or mind-altering drugs known to humanity – tobacco and alcohol – are legal and socially acceptable. I don’t believe in a devil (or a deity) but if such a being existed, he – or she...
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Betty Jefferson, age 70, an elected tax assessor in New Orleans, along with her brother Mose Jefferson, age 66, and her daughter, Angela Coleman, age 53 — all residents of New Orleans, Louisiana — were charged via a 31 count-indictment by a Federal Grand Jury with conspiracy to commit mail fraud; and federal program...
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Author’s Note: I want to encourage my readers to go to http://www.epinions.com/content_432280931972 if they have an opinion about this review and rate it there. I’d like comments both here on the blog and at epinions.com The Museum of Dr. Moses This volume of short stories by the extraordinarily gifted Joyce Carol Oates is subtitled...
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Author’s Note: This article was published several years ago so it is likely some things have changed. I think it is relevant to this website because it shows the good people, in this case CEOs, have done for other people. The Buckhead Coalition has been working on behalf of the community for eleven years....
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Grieg didn't just harbor Fuith all these years. She interfered whenever Hindle needed a visa to attend custody hearings, arranged for his improper arrest, imprisonment and deportation by the immigration department, and tried to set him up to be arrested for violence. And all the while, during her many lawless and reprehensible actions, she...
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Four paintings were stolen in broad daylight from a branch of the Pinacoteca Museum located in São Paulo, Brazil. In this, the second high-scale art robbery in São Paulo in less then a year, the three armed robbers overpowered three unarmed museum guards before walking out with the paintings, frames and all, in two...
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Carlos Mario Jimenez-Naranjo, a/k/a Macaco, has been extradited from Colombia to the United States to face drug trafficking charges, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher announced yesterday. Jimenez-Naranjo faces drug-related charges in the District of Columbia and the Southern District of Florida. Jimenez-Naranjo made his initial appearance today in the District of Columbia before...
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