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Updates: 01/28/2018 Paul Abbate added; 01/27/2018 Subsection started-FBI and Islamic Corruption-Deterrence, Complicty; link UTT on FBI 1993 philadelphia;12/03/2017 Mike German; Coleen Rowley; Directors section added w/ Robert Mueller, James Comey; 11/18/2017 Page started FBI Corruption and Selected General Activities Also see   DOJ   CIA   Senate/House Investigations Brief Links (Separate page)     Names-Directors         Names-Agents     Corruption - FBI-general     New Mexico FBI     Corruption-FBI and Islamic Corruption - Deterrence, complicity Directors:  Robert S. Mueller III     James Comey     Other leadership roles:   Paul Abbate Names: Corrupt FBI Agents       Aragoncillo, Leondro     Miller, RIchard     Harold Paul Rico     Robert Hanssen   Other:  McJunkin, James W.   Whistleblowers:   Coleen  Rowley     Mike German DIRECTORS - FBI MUELLER--Robert S. Mueller, III Huffington Post:  No, Robert Mueller And James Comey Aren’t Heroes. By Coleen Rowley (06/09/2017) The former FBI directors have acceded to numerous wrongful abuses of power in the post-9/11 era. Coleen Rowley, Contributor retired FBI Special Agent and former Minneapolis Division legal counsel of the FBI https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/conflicts-of-interest-and-ethics-robert-mueller-and_us_5936a148e4b033940169cdc8 New York Times: Questions for the FBI Nominee (07/09/2013) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/opinion/questions-for-the-fbi-nominee.html Washington Post--Mueller probe into Trump White House - Flynn, Mueller background https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-low-level-volunteer-papadopoulos-sought-high-profile-as-trump- adviser/2017/10/31/dc737a42-be5f-11e7-8444-a0d4f04b89eb_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.008322967a3d https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/muellers-swift-moves-signal-mounting-legal-peril-for-the-white- house/2017/12/01/36962e9a-d6b4-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html?utm_term=.8f081bcf7d63 FLYNN New York Times: Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty Lying to F.B.I. Cooperate Russia Inquiry. By Michael D. Shear/Adam Goldman (12/01/2017) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/us/politics/michael-flynn-guilty-russia-investigation.html BACKGROUND Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mueller ROWLEY FBI agent Rowley letter to Mueller on pre-9/11 red flags http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/05/politics/full-text-of-fbi-agents-letter-to-director-mueller.html LA TImes http://www.latimes.com/topic/crime-law-justice/robert-s.-mueller-iii-PEPLT0008908-topic.html COMEY--James B. Comey New York Times. Questions for the FBI Nominee (07/09/2013) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/opinion/questions-for-the-fbi-nominee.html OTHER LEADERS ABBATE - Paul Abbate Director of the Washington Field Office https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHwGE4AmhJ8 CORRUPTION - FBI ABC: 'Corrupt to the Core' Virginia Sheriff Indicted on Drug and Racketeering Charges (2006) http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2624416 Above Top Secret: Secret Connections: LDS Church and the American Intelligence Community www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread996855/pg1 Excerpt: A Mormon-Intelligence Community Connection?  Now that we have established the "value" some of these missionaries may have, lets ask ourselves an important question. Who would be interested in the type of person that has all of the above qualities and could be considered "informed ambassadors of the nations and cultures where they served"?  The CIA, perhaps?   The following is a quote from Wallace Turner. He was a writer for the New York Times that had written articles on "corporate corruption" within the LDS church and other such issues. New York Times, Sep, 16th 1974   Many Mormon scholars work on contracts for the C.I.A  Here we have an intelligence agency that operates in many countries across the globe that would be in need of people that were intelligent, faithful, educated and were familiar with foreign languages and cultures. The LDS missionary program itself does all of the legwork to "groom" such an asset. But is there any reason to believe such a connection exists? This is where things get interesting.   The Robert Mullen Company was founded by, of course, Robert R. Mullen in 1952. It was a public relations firm based in DC that provided services for groups such as the American Automobile Association, American Bar Association and even the LDS Church. In 1971, the company was taken over by Robert Foster Bennett.   Bennett was a Republican Senator for Utah from 1993 to 2011 and was the grandson of Heber Grant, a former president of the LDS Church and Bennett's wife was the grand-daughter of a former LDS Church president. One year after Bennett took over at Mullen, the company was involved in a scandal that eventually led to the resignation of Nixon.....the Watergate Scandal. Howard Baker, a Senator and member of the Watergate Committee produced a report that stated the following: www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread996855/pg1 Anti-Corruption Media: FBI Corruption 10 most crooked things http://theantimedia.org/fbi-corruption-history-10-most-crooked-things/ Excerpt:  (TFC) Washington, D.C. — Though the FBI is often credited with solving crimes, the bureau’s assistance comes at a cost. The futility of trusting the FBI to defend the greater good is demonstrated by 10 of the most crooked and corrupt things it has done since its inception as the “Bureau of Investigation” in 1908. Some misdeeds are well-known while others are obscure, but all provide cause to distrust the federal agency http://theantimedia.org/fbi-corruption-history-10-most-crooked-things/ Bleacher Report:  FBI Arrests 4 NCAA Basketball Coaches Connected to Fraud and Corruption. By Mike Chiari (09/26/2017) http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2735255-fbi-arrests-4-ncaa-basketball-coaches-connected-to-fraud-and-corruption CNN: First on CNN: Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe under federal investigation for campaign contributions (2016) http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/23/politics/terry-mcauliffe-fbi-doj-federal-investigation-campaign-contributions/index.html Reality Check: Hillary Clinton - FBI Investigation (2016) http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/25/politics/reality-check-hillary-clinton-fbi-investigation/index.html LDS Living: Why Mormons make great FBI recruits  How the FBI Mormon Mafia Myth began. By The Atlas Obscura http://www.ldsliving.com/Why-Mormons-Make-Great-FBI-Recruits-How-the-FBI-Mormon-Mafia-Myth-Began/s/80479 Excerpt: But there’s at least one place in American society where Mormons have found an unusual degree of acceptance—in agencies like the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the CIA, which see Mormons as particularly desirable recruits and have a reputation for hiring a disproportionate number of people who belong to the church. While this comes as a surprise to most people, in Washington and particularly among people who work with or report on intelligence and law enforcement, it’s common knowledge. And occasionally it leaks into popular culture: In his 2009 memoir Agent Bishop, Mike McPheters describes his years doubling as a FBI agent and Mormon bishop—a community leadership position he inherited from another FBI agent. http://www.ldsliving.com/Why-Mormons-Make-Great-FBI-Recruits-How-the-FBI-Mormon-Mafia-Myth-Began/s/80479 Liberation News: FBI spying on college students with financial aid (06/09/2008) https://www.liberationnews.org/06-09-08-fbi-spying-on-college-students-w-html/ Linked In: History of Corrupt Culture in the FBI-DOJ. By Rodney Stich (09/04/2014) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140904183703-29817943-history-of-corrupt-culture-in-the-fbi-doj The greatest threat to the people of the United States is the deep-seated culture of the lawyers in the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). It adversely affects national security and the lives of America’s people. No form of reorganization will correct this problem without exposing the pattern of criminal and even subversive activities that I and my dozens of government insiders discovered during hundreds of years of cumulative experience.  Forget everything you were taught or felt about integrity, honesty, guilt or innocence in the FBI and other divisions of the U.S. Department of Justice. Forget everything you may have heard about people sentenced to prison deserving what they got. The integrity of many who have been sentenced to federal prison is far greater than many Justice Department prosecutors whose misconduct constitutes major crimes and would be punishable if they were ordinary citizens.  Deeply Embedded Justice Department Culture:  The Justice Department culture is political, corrupt, and extremely dangerous to the people. The people in control of the awesome Justice Department power are responsible for human tragedies far beyond anyone’s comprehension. The Justice Department, under the U.S. Attorney General, includes the Solicitor General, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. attorneys, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), U.S. Marshals (USMS), and Bureau of Prisons (BP). https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140904183703-29817943-history-of-corrupt-culture-in-the-fbi-doj MSNBC:  Trump raises corruption allegations against FBI’s McCabe http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-raises-corruption-allegations-against-fbis-mccabe New York Post: Clinton Ally gave $500k to wife of FBI agent on email probe. By Daniel Halper (10/24/2016) https://nypost.com/2016/10/24/clinton-ally-gave-500k-to-wife-of-fbi-agent-on-email-probe/ Newsweek:  Law Enforcement Corruption: How The FBI Took Down A dozen crooked cops, jail guards in drug smuggling conspiracy . By Josh Saul (06/21/2017) http://www.newsweek.com/law-enforcement-corruption-fbi-crooked-cops-jail-guards-drug-smuggling-627282 Excerpt: Something was rotten in the state of North Carolina. There were rumors of corruption in the Northampton County Sheriff’s Office and whispers that Lann Tjuan Clanton, an ex-cop from a nearby police department, was selling drugs in the hardscrabble eastern half of the Tar Heel State.  So in April 2013, the FBI opened an undercover investigation that had agents posing as drug traffickers looking for law enforcement officers who could act as armed guards for people moving drugs and drug money up and down the East Coast. The bureau called the secret probe Operation Rockfish, a bottom- feeding fish for which the county is well known. By the end of the investigation, a dozen law enforcement officers would plead guilty to drug conspiracy and bribery raps, with long sentences handed down last week. http://www.newsweek.com/law-enforcement-corruption-fbi-crooked-cops-jail-guards-drug-smuggling-627282 Patheos:  Mormons and the FBI – A Bleg.   April 30, 2014 by Matthew Bowman http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peculiarpeople/2014/04/mormons-and-the-fbi-a-bleg/ Reuters:  By Richard Rashke (03/06/2013) http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/03/06/the-fbis-shameful-recruitment-of-nazi-war-criminals/ Slate:  The Latest Clinton-FBI Corruption Allegation Looks More Legitimate Than Usual. By Ben Mathis-Lilley (10/27/2016) http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/10/27/clinton_did_fundraiser_that_indirectly_benefitted_fbi_official_s_wife.ht ml Vice:  Polygamist Mormon Sect Accused of Using Local Police to Bully Non-Members. By Colleen Curry (01/22/2016) https://news.vice.com/article/polygamist-mormon-sect-accused-of-using-local-police-to-bully-non-members Excerpt: In recent years, the towns have come under increased scrutiny by state and federal authorities due to the group's religious practices, particularly the marrying off of underage girls to older men in plural marriages. The church's self- proclaimed prophet leader, In recent years, the towns have come under increased scrutiny by state and federal authorities due to the group's religious practices, particularly the marrying off of underage girls to older men in plural marriages. The church's self-proclaimed prophet leader, Warren Jeffs, was on the FBI's Most Wanted list for sexual assault crimes for his multiple marriages to underage girls until he was arrested in 2006. He is currently serving a life sentence in prison. Warren Jeffs, was on the FBI's Most Wanted list for sexual assault crimes for his multiple marriages to underage girls until he was arrested in 2006. He is currently serving a life sentence in prison. https://news.vice.com/article/polygamist-mormon-sect-accused-of-using-local-police-to-bully-non-members Wikipedia:   COINTELPRO https://en wikipedia org/wiki/COINTELPRO https://en wikipedia org/wiki/Richard_Miller_(agent) WWLTV:  FBI agent accuses Justice Department of Systemic Corruption. By David Hammer, Jim Mastian  (03/21/2017) http://www.wwltv.com/news/investigations/no-fbi-agent-accuses-justice-dept-of-systemic-corruption/424349390 Excerpt of letter: Although I am the Federal Bureau of Investigation  (hereinafter “FBI”)  case agent on the current investigation into Harry Morel  (hereinafter “Morel”) , I am writing this Court in my capacity as a private citizen under the First Amendment. I do not represent the FBI or U.S. Government in any way. The views in this letter are mine alone. The purpose of my letter is to report misconduct by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana (hereinafter “USAO”) which has affected the prosecution of Morel. I believe that the USAO’s misconduct has resulted in a plea agreement with Morel based more on its own interest in covering up its misconduct than in advocating for a just result. I believe these matters are of… http://www.wwltv.com/news/investigations/no-fbi-agent-accuses-justice-dept-of-systemic-corruption/424349390 NAMES-FBI Agents/Names/Other McJunkin, James W. Washington Post: FBI’s James McJunkin, head of the Washington Field Office, ‘leads by example’.  By Del Quentin Wilber 09/9/2011 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fbi-field-office-director-james-mcjunkin-leads-byexample/2011/08/30 FBI dot gov https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/pressrel/press-releases/james-mcjunkin-named-assistant-director-of-the- counterterrorism-division NTSC: Discover Financial Services CISO James McJunkin Joins NTSC Board of Directors Monday, July 31, 2017 https://www.ntsc.org/about-ntsc/press-releases/discover-financial-services-ciso-jim-mcjunkin-joins-ntsc-board-of- directors.html Corrupt FBI Agents List Wikipedia FBI agents with Criminal Convictions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:FBI_agents_with_criminal_convictions Aragoncillo, Leondro https //en wikipedia org/wiki/Leandro_Aragoncillo (This has been added to Fat Leonard Case section) Aragoncillo is a former FBI intelligence analyst and a retired United States Marine Corps gunnery-sergeant who was convicted of spying against the United States Government in 2007. A naturalized Filipino-American,[1] he was charged with espionage and with leaking classified information to the regime of a former Filipino president.  The FBI labeled Aragoncillo the first known case of espionage within the history of the White House. For over thirty-one months, from 1999 to 2001, Aragoncillo was assigned under Vice President Al Gore and then later under Vice President Dick Cheney.  Hired to work for the FBI at the Army's Ft. Monmouth base in New Jersey in July 2004, Aragoncillo began sending classified documents in January 2005, according to a federal complaint.  On October 5, 2005, Aragoncillo was indicted and arrested in New Jersey for espionage. Federal agents accused him of stealing classified information, including details about the current President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo and then passing that information onto opposition leaders in the Philippines.  According to reports compiled by Filipino intelligence professionals, there were indications of a link between Aragoncillo and the French intelligence service, Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure. Frequent visits by Aragoncillo to Manila allegedly were interspersed with clandestine meetings between identified, French operatives and several "illegals" (i.e. unregistered agents) around 2002 to 2004. https //en wikipedia org/wiki/Leandro_Aragoncillo Miller, RIchard Wikipedia https://en wikipedia org/wiki/Richard_Miller_(agent) Excerpt: On October 3, 1984, Miller was arrested with Svetlana and Nikolai Ogorodnikov, Russian immigrants who had moved to Los Angeles in 1973 to seek refuge, but who were actually access agents of the Soviet KGB. Miller was alleged to have provided classified documents, including an FBI Counterintelligence manual, to the Ogorodnikovs after demanding $50,000 in gold and $15,000 cash in return. Miller, who had eight children and was faced with financial difficulties, was having an affair with the married Svetlana Ogorodnikov, and was preparing to travel with her to Vienna at the time of his arrest. It was later alleged that Svetlana Ogorodnikov had been in touch with a KGB case officer working out of the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco and had made arrangements for Miller to meet with the KGB in Vienna.  After his arrest, a fuller portrait emerged of Miller. According to various news accounts, Miller occasionally took three-hour "lunches" at the 7- Elevens near his Los Angeles office, gorging himself on stolen candy bars while reading comic books. He was alleged to have cheated his own uncle by selling a muscle-relaxant device he'd patented, and skimmed cash from bureau coffers meant for one of his informants. Miller also ran auto-registration checks and searched FBI criminal indexes for a local private investigator at $500 per search. In early 1984, the LDS Church excommunicated Miller for adultery. He was divorced from his wife, Paula Miller (now renamed Hill), in late 1988. Following his release, he re-located to Northern Utah. He re- married Tamara Lewis (now Miller) September 23, 1995.[citation needed] https://en wikipedia org/wiki/Richard_Miller_(agent) Harold Rico https: //en wikipedia org/wiki/H._Paul_Rico Rico was an FBI agent. Indicted for murder in 2003, he played a significant role in the 1968 framing of four men for murder, unjustly imprisoning them for decades. Robert Hanssen https //en wikipedia org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen [Names: FBI Agents - Robert Hanssen] Hanssen is a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for 22 years from 1979 to 2001. He is currently serving 15 consecutive life sentences at ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison near Florence, Colorado Earl Edwin Pitts Earl Edwin Pitts (born September 23, 1953) is a former FBI special agent who, in 1996, was arrested at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Pitts was charged with several offenses, including spying for the Soviet Union. In February 1997, he pleaded guilty to conspiring and attempting to commit espionage in exchange for a reduced prison sentence. https //en wikipedia org/wiki/Earl_Edwin_Pitts Whistleblowers - FBI https://federalnewsradio.com/workforce-rightsgovernance/2016/12/fbi-whistleblowers-see-glimmer-hope-new-law-still-face- uphill-battle/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2017/06/13/new-fbi-whistleblower-protections-could-not-have-come-at-a-better- time/#65475b0d1002 Coleen Rowley Democracy Now: Two FBI Whistleblowers accuse bureau of…(04/09/2004) https://www.democracynow.org/2004/4/9/two_fbi_whistleblowers_accuse_bureau_of Huffington Post: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/conflicts-of-interest-and-ethics-robert-mueller-and_us_5936a148e4b033940169cdc8 Coleen Rowley Blog http://www.coleenrowley.com/blog/index.php FBI agent Rowley to Mueller on pre-9/11 red flags New York Times:  Full text of FBI agent’s letter to Director Mueller (03/05/2003) http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/05/politics/full-text-of-fbi-agents-letter-to-director-mueller.html Mike German https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/fbi-whistleblower-and-former-undercover-agent-talks-comey-firing-russia GENERAL ACTIVITIES OR OTHER INFO FBI NM Albuq. Journal:  FBI Takes Aim at Rural Corruption https://www.abqjournal.com/322932/fbi-takes-aim-at-rural-corruption.html FBI dot gov:  FBI launches anti-public corruption campaign in Southern New Mexico https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/albuquerque/news/press-releases/fbi-launches-anti-public-corruption- campaign-in-southern-new-mexico SAC/FBI Tom McClenaghan: "NM Most Corrupt of All 50 States" (2014) http://www.topix.com/forum/albuquerque/T5A7VJ5OA47I3JFMU US News:  Lawsuit accuses County’s Top Prosecutor of Corruption (09/16/2017) https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-mexico/articles/2017-09-16/lawsuit-accuses-countys-top-prosecutor-of- corruption Excerpt:  D'Antonio said in a statement to The Associated Press that the claims were absurd. He described them as a "poorly-veiled political attack."  "As a former FBI agent and federal prosecutor with an unblemished record, I am offended by these vague accusations of corruption — coming years after they are alleged to have occurred," he said. "This is not only a calculated attack on me and my family, but it undermines the exceptional work my office does every single day. " https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-mexico/articles/2017-09-16/lawsuit-accuses-countys-top-prosecutor-of- corruption Other New York Times:  F.B.I. Agents Faced Arrest and Ruin After Trying to Conceive a Child.  By Adam Goldman (10/28/2017) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/28/us/politics/fbi-matt-litton-fertility.html Excerpt: Matthew Litton, a former Army officer and member of the F.B.I.’s elite Hostage Rescue Team, choked up as he sat in a courtroom in Virginia earlier this year, questioned by his lawyer about his infertility problems. The hearing was Mr. Litton’s last best hope to get his F.B.I. job back and convince an administrative judge that he had been wrongly fired for failing to disclose the drugs he had taken to treat his disorder.  “It’s extremely embarrassing private information,” Mr. Litton testified in January. He began to cry, an unusually emotional moment for a taciturn man who served lengthy tours hunting Qaeda militants in Afghanistan as a Green Beret and later insurgents in Iraq as an F.B.I. agent.  Late last month, the judge ruled in his favor, ordering the F.B.I. to reinstate Mr. Litton and turn over part of his back pay, which totals more than $700,000. On Friday, the F.B.I. appealed the judge’s decision, contending that it was riddled with errors.Mr. Litton knew it would be difficult. Since the early 1990s, he had periodically seen blood in his urine and semen, and he had received a diagnosis of sterility from Army doctors in 1997. He joined the F.B.I. in 2001 and hoped that a job with more stability would allow him time to deal with his infertility, but after the Sept. 11 attacks, he was recalled to active duty, leading a seven-man Army Special Forces team in Afghanistan. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/28/us/politics/fbi-matt-litton-fertility.html CNN: Fbi-arrests-flds-leader-lyle-jeffs http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/15/us/fbi-arrests-flds-leader-lyle-jeffs/index.html Deseret News:Wright-Words-Mormon-FBI-agent-risks-job-life-to-rescue-brother https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865576699/Wright-Words-Mormon-FBI-agent-risks-job-life-to-rescue-brother.html FBI and Islamic Conspiracy-Deterrence-Complicity Deterrence https://www.understandingthethreat.com/cair-is-hamas-2/ 1. In 1993, the leaders of the U.S. Palestine Committee, which is Hamas in the United States, met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The meeting was covered by the FBI via physical surveillance, microphones in meeting rooms, wiretaps on phones, and other investigative techniques. An Action Memo from FBI Counterterrorism Assistant Director Dale Watson stated this was a “Meeting among senior leaders of Hamas, the HLFRD, and the IAP.” The FBI’s analysis of the Philadelphia meeting entered as evidence in the US v HLF trial stated: “All attendees of this meeting are Hamas members.” CAIR founders Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad were present at this meeting. https://www.understandingthethreat.com/cair-is-hamas-2/ Complicity FBI Leaders Aiding and Abetting Terrorists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHwGE4AmhJ8