Bob McCarty Writes

A preliminary hearing for Mohamed H. Dawod is set to take place Oct. 12.  Now, one question remains:  Will the mainstream media show any interest in the case that involves a man with a Muslim name allegedly shooting a man he didn’t know in a public place on the eve of the 10th anniversary of [...]

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Things are getting bad when I find myself largely in agreement with Mike German, a former FBI special agent-turned ACLU policy lawyer.  Well, things are getting bad, and German’s comments about top threats to our civil liberties in a post-9/11 world seem to be on target.  Therefore, I share them as contained in the video [...]

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Documents obtained exclusively by Fox News Channel suggest a third gun linked to “Operation Fast and Furious” was found at the scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s murder, according to the network’s exclusive report today.  Further, those documents appear to contradict earlier assertions by federal agencies that police found only two weapons tied to [...]

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In a response filed yesterday to a federal judge’s order May 11, an FBI official offered no denials about the existence of video images captured by more than 20 surveillance cameras operating prior to 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, in the vicinity of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. Instead, [...]

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The manner in which FBI officials respond to a federal judge’s order will say a lot about the agency’s failures thusfar to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request for copies of surveillance video captured April 19, 1995, by more than 20 cameras operating in the vicinity of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building [...]

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By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger According to a June 12 article by Charlie Savage in The New York Times, “The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash, or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of [...]

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Records show FBI practice of hiding evidence in secret databases. The words above appeared as the headline of Dennis Romboy’s article published Friday evening in the Deseret News, Utah’s largest daily newspaper.  When you read the article below the headline, however, you discover that the federal court case from which that ominous headline emerged is [...]

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