Matt DeHart: ex US Air National Guard / Persecuted for his Connections to WikiLeaks & Anonymous

MATT DeHART #freemattdehart Legal defence fund:  https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/drgc5/ab/c40Ci5 TWITTER:  @FreeMattDehart Lawyer:  Tor Ekeland Lawyer Website: https://torekeland.com/ Lawyer e-mail:   tor*at*torekeland.com COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.  MATT DeHART - IV DRUGGED AGAINST HIS WILL BY FBI, TORTURED & DENIED ACCESS TO LAWYER BY FBI February 11, 2015 by freemattdehart | Media Denial of Refugee Protection For Matt DeHart NEWS RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH, 2015 CANADIAN IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE BOARD, REFUGEE DIVISION’S DENIAL OF REFUGEE PROTECTION FOR MATT DEHART On Monday, February 9th, Matt DeHart’s parents, Paul and Leann, received notice by mail from the Refugee Protection Division of Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board that the family’s claim for Refugee Protection had been denied. The family fled the United States after Matt was interrogated and tortured during an FBI espionage investigation in which child pornography charges were hastily filed after Matt was detained at the Canadian border, an action which was triggered by an espionage alert. The Refugee Protection Division determined that because they found no “credible and trustworthy evidence” to support the US government’s child pornography charges against Matt, the DeHarts weren’t excluded from refugee protection on the basis of those criminal charges. However, the determinative issue for the board was whether they considered the DeHarts would be afforded adequate protections by the United Sates. Since the Board found the US to be a “democratic country with a system of checks and balances” and that Matt had the “ability to access and retain counsel for the purposes of defending himself” the Board ultimately ruled the DeHarts were not persons in need of protection at this time. The DeHarts’ Refugee Protection process was frustrated by the fact that there was “no indictment or prosecution with regards to the National Security issue at the present time in the US.” But this has never been a case about child pornography; In this context the child porn charges appear to be nothing more than a pretext to discredit and silence a whistleblower who came across information implicating criminal activity against United States citizens by their own government. As noted in the ruling, after FBI Agents detained Matt at the Canadian border, the “first notations in documents regarding his detention by the US authorities in August 2010 were made with respect to espionage” — not child pornography. During his detention by the FBI at this time, as also noted in the ruling, Matt was drugged against his will, tortured, and denied access to a lawyer. The criminal complaint and arrest warrant for Matt came later in the day after he was detained at the border on the espionage alert — a timeframe that speaks volumes given that the alleged crimes occurred in 2008 and, despite an investigation, no previous charges had been filed. Matt brought two thumb drives of data implicating United States government agencies in criminal activity to Canada, which supported his claim for refugee protection. He gave them to the Canada Border Services Agency for use at his refugee hearing. The thumb drives were then retained by the CBSA, who refused to give Matt’s attorneys access to them. Therefore, a significant portion of evidence was not considered by those making the refugee decision READ FURTHER AT SOURCE - here. WHO IS MATT DEHART? Matt DeHart is a 30 year old U.S. Citizen and former US airman with Top Secret clearance who the US government detained at the US Canadian border on an alleged “espionage matter.” While detained he was drugged via an I.V. without his consent and repeatedly interrogated about Anonymous, Wikileaks, and a file allegedly detailing an FBI investigation of post-9/11 domestic criminal activity by a US intelligence agency that appeared on a server he was an admin on. Later that day the government hastily drafted and filed a criminal complaint, in what looks like a smear campaign, charging Matt with the solicitation of child pornography based on two-year-old allegations it had previously investigated but never filed charges on. Wiped The child pornography investigation began after an irate mother reported Matt following a prank involving the toilet papering of a house. At the time of the incident, no child pornography accusations were made. No child pornography has been found on any of Matt’s devices, and he vehemently denies the allegations. Following his detention at the Canadian border, the FBI interrogated Matt in Maine without a lawyer for over a week, even after one was appointed for him at his federal detention hearing, and never questioned him about matters relating to the child pornography allegations. Evidence III Matt’s parents, Paul and Leann DeHart, are active in Christian ministry, and both had Top Secret clearance while they worked for the US Military as linguists analyzing signals intelligence. After the FBI interrogation and nearly three years of trying to work through the US legal system the whole family fled to Canada to seek asylum under the UN Convention Against Torture. READ FURTHER AT SOURCE - here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMENT How creepy is what's happened to Matt DeHart? This shouldn't be happening in a proper democracy.

TWITTER CENSORSHIP - CABLEDRUM / WIKILEAKS

TWITTER CENSORSHIP COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. CABLEDRUM https://www.cabledrum.net/news/twitter LINK “The WikiLeaks Supporters Forum” at wikileaks-forum.com website, the pseudo forum: Mark Goeder Tarant’s anti- #WikiLeaks anti- #WLsup Operation intensifies on #Twitter (Update 15/03/2015)

AUSTRALIA: AFP Access Journalists' Metadata / Australian Greens - STOP Data Retention

AUSTRALIA - POLICE STATE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Source - https://twitter.com/vanbadham/status/577955499703816192 See ADAM BRANDT video:   #StopDataRetention -- Adam Bandt https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=839543312747570 Adam Brandt is deputy leader of the Australian Greens. Why is there such a zeal to monitor what people do online? Labor has joined with the Liberals to push through poorly thought out legislation that violates the principle of prevention of government intrusion (eg state/police intrude only on those suspected of having committed a crime - not intrude upon entire civilian population, as is the case with mass surveillance & retention of data).  Brandt also pointed out that: Criminals can switch to international web-based servers and won't get caught by data retention bill, but the bulk of the unsuspecting population will (so this legislation does not serve the purpose it purports to serve). EUROPEAN UNION and NETHERLANDS have opted out of the data retention step, for good reason. Opens the public up to potential CIVIL LAWSUITS if information subpoenaed  (eg media conglomerates / copyright) -- HYPOCRITE LABOR JOINS LIBERALS TO RUSH THROUGH LEGISLATION Brandt says the public is told that there will be protection for journalists in the Bill and Labor says they'll back up the Liberal government, but no amendment has been circulated in the chamber or made publicly available and the Labor Party is prepared to take the LNP government on faith; but Greens are not.  Why should parliament be required to vote on legislation without a chance to properly look through amendments:  this is complicated & giving people protections from these kinds of laws is complicated. -- COMMENT Government intent on giving journalists protections?  Got to be kidding.  The police state is already violating the liberty of journalists. I'm shocked. If journalists are subject to state violation and intimidation, what hope of freedom has the average person got?

HUMOUR - Dave Cameron's 'The Sun' Promo From Hell

Dave Cameron 'The Sun' Promo HELL COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Got a few laughs out of the comments people made.  ;) Do I detect hostility ahead of  an election?  LOL

REUNIFICATION OF CRIMEA WITH RUSSIA

US Plays Double With Russia After Plans for Base in Crimea Failed - Experts © Sputnik/ Vasiliy Batanov Opinion 23:11 16.03.2015(updated 08:15 17.03.2015) After NATO and the United States' hopes for a military base in Crimea failed due to the reunification of the peninsula with Russia, the West has been playing double to continue sanctioning Moscow, experts told Sputnik on Monday. MOSCOW (Sputnik), Anastasia Levchenko — The reunification of Crimea with Russia, which took place after a referendum exactly one year ago, has been dubbed an "annexation" by Western states and has led to numerous rounds of sanctions imposed on Russia. Misplaced US hopes "NATO very much wanted to have a base in the Crimea, to have a base in Sevastopol, because that would have meant that Russia's positions in the Black Sea would have been greatly diminished. America has long had ambitions for the Crimea, and now that has been blocked indefinitely," Marcus Papadopoulos, British political expert and editor-in-chief of Politics First magazine, told Sputnik. The United States considers the whole post-Soviet area as a geopolitical playground for rivalry with Russia, and the ultimate objective in this game is regime change in Moscow, according to Srdja Trifkovic, foreign affairs analyst and former advisor to two Serbian presidents. High military ambitions and double play have always been features of US foreign policy. Thus, Trifkovic reminded that in 1990, then US Secretary of State James Baker gave guarantees to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on behalf of then US president George H.W. Bush that NATO would not advance to the East if the Soviet Union accepted Germany's reunification. However, NATO saw two expansions afterward, and the Baltic countries are now the scene of the deployment of heavy US weaponry. "So, anyone who thinks that NATO will virtuously refrain from turning Sevastopol into a US navy base, should look into this record. And if they still maintain that NATO did not have such intentions, meaning the United States, they live in a dream-world, in a fairy-land," Trifkovic, who was the director of the Center for International Affairs at the Rockford Institute, said. Sevastopol base in the Black Sea, which is of high strategic importance, has been under close US scrutiny for the last 20 years, according to Papadopoulos. "Sevastopol is the most incredible navy base in the world. NATO's ambitions in Eastern Europe have taken quiet a knockback," Papadopoulos said. Crimea as pressure tool: too comfortable to quit The severe Western criticism that Russia has been subjected to since Crimean reunification is a clear example of doubletalk in politics, if one recalls the situation with the separation of Kosovo from Serbia. The precedent of changing internationally recognized borders in post-1945 Europe was set under NATO and EU auspices in 1999 during the Kosovo war. "Of course, those who did it claim that Kosovo did not constitute a precedent, but they can huff and puff, the precedent indeed was created, and Russia's right to re-incorporation of Crimea, which had been part of Russia since the time of Catherine the Great, was infinitely greater than the right of the Albanians of Kosovo to create their quasi-state, to which they never had any legal or moral claim," Trifkovic told Sputnik. Papadopoulos also noted that the United States broke international laws and destroyed the mechanisms of the United Nations "when they tore Kosovo away from Serbia and made it an independent state." The West does not consider Crimea's referendum as a free and democratic vote, though as many as 96 percent of Crimean voters chose to break away from Ukraine and join Russia during a referendum. Having obtained a comfortable tool to pressurize Russia, the West will not be willing to let it go even if the Ukrainian crisis is finally resolved. "Crimea to them is a very handy tool with which to beat Russia and to continue sanctioning Russia, even if the Ukrainian crisis were to be resolved peacefully… I think the recognition by the Western powers is out of the question for the simple reason that they want to keep in their arsenal the weapon with which they can continue sanctioning Russia, criticizing Russia and demonizing Putin whenever they wish to do so," Trifkovic explained. Recalling the referendum Remembering the day of the referendum, Trifkovic, who was an observer at the popular vote, spoke to some Crimeans to find out their preferences and feelings. The observer remembers that people he spoke with after the vote claimed they accepted living as part of the Soviet Union, because they had no choice, and after Ukraine became independent – because they enjoyed considerable rights of autonomy. "But with chaos in Kiev and illegal overtake of government, they felt no longer secure, and they certainly did not want to live under Banderist Ukraine, in which their identity and personal security would no longer be guaranteed," Trifkovic continued. In a documentary titled "Crimea. Way Back Home" released on Sunday by Rossiya-1 TV Russia's President Vladimir Putin explained the motives behind Russian policy toward Crimea. He made it clear that Russia's actions in the Crimea were defensive and primarily aimed to protect ethnic Russians and the Russian speaking people in Crimea. "For the Americans and Europeans, it is very unlikely that they will recognize Crimea as being a part of Russia, but the reality is that it is a part of Russia, and nothing will ever change that," the expert concluded. Crimea became a Russian region following a referendum held March 16, 2014, in which over 96 percent of Crimean voters backed a move to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia. Crimea's reunification with Russia followed the February 2014 coup in Ukraine. http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20150316/1019588225.html COMMENT What a good article that was.  Really enjoyable read.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - Notes Part 1

FBI Notes - Pt 1 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Origins: 'Threat' from 'anarchists 1901 [Guessing that would be labour movements seeking social justice] Govt keeping records for years, but Theodore Roosevelt sought more monitoring powers FBI started off as Bureau of Investigation (BOI) - 1908 from Department of Justice (DoJ) funds  (FBI = Dept. of Treasury off-shoot) incl. members of Secret Service (est. 1865), role:  (1) financial crimes investigation  (2) physical protection of assigned persons counterfeit currency was a big issue / 1865 one-third currency circulating was counterfeit Fast-forward:  1984 1984 = Comprehensive Crime Control Act, extending  Secret Service jurisdiction over credit card fraud & computer fraud. [see Phreakers - prior 1990 illegal 'tapping' into telecommunications services / free phone calls.]  Analog to digital telecommunications switch =  more exposure of telcoms to hackers 1990 Secret Service initiated Operation Sundevil ext. wire fraud / to counter rampant credit card & calling card fraud  Operation Sundevil  = multiple USG agencies, incl. Secret Service + FBI new laws to investigate + prosecute:   phreaking, hacking, wire &  cit card fraud  Op Sundevil drama - resulted in establishment of Electronic Frontier Foundation (f. Mitchell Kapor, f. Lotus Development Corp) + John Perry Barlow, an author = hired lawyers to represent hackers in two of cases re  Operation Sundevil > intended sting against malicious hackers, allegedly responsible for disrupting telephone services across entire US  > No convictions / Secret Service was sued & required to pay damages [no Wikipedia citation given] Due to publicity, Op Sundevil seen as public-relations stunt & message to hackers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sundevil 2012  2012 - El Salvador - Secret Service agents hiring strippers & prostitutes prior to Obama  visit.  ;) -- Name change to FBI - 1935  HQ =   J. Edgar Hoover Building, Washington, DC FIELD OFFICES = 56 RESIDENT AGENCIES (smaller cities) = 400 + LEGAL ATTACHÉS (International embassy & consulate attachments) = 50 2012 Budget =  approx.  $8.12 billion --  J Edgar Hoover  John Edgar Hoover, Director (48 years) JEH =  FBI Director who served from 1924–1972 48 years with BOI, DOI + FBI. DOI = Dept of Interior = Fed dept re management of federal lands, resources etc.  aka   "The Department of Everything Else"  - ie broad range of responsibilities  GW Bush - emphasis on commerce over conservation Interior Department Inspector General Earl Devaney:   "Simply stated, short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of Interior. [1] -- FBI = US government (USG) agency,  within the US Department of Justice FBI is a USA security service & the agency is part of the US 'Intelligence Community' FBI organisation serves two functions: 1.  federal criminal investigations. 2.  internal intelligence agency. FBI investigates these: counter-terrorism / terrorist attacks counterintelligence / foreign intelligence ops & espionage cyberwarfare / cybercrime major white-collar crime significant violent crime transnational/national organised crime civil rights  [ummm, think they might actually subvert, rather than 'investigate' these ;)] public corruption (all levels) * Indian reservations = federal / FBI responsibility  * FBI works in conjunction with other USG federal agencies -- PATRIOT Act  increased FBI powers, esp. wiretapping & monitoring of Internet activity Controversial PATRIOT Act provision = 'sneak & peek' provision ie.  The State (via its FBI agency) can enter & search  a home while occupant is out, without notifiying occupant of this gross  violation "for several weeks". [Wow, that's seriously sick & totalitarian conduct, in the 'land of the free.'] FBI can also inquire into the 'library records' of targets / that presumably is a library of government stored data, rather than one's book library. FBI  Late 1970s - early 1980s -  Abscam controversy - allegations of FBI  entrapment of elected officials http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscam FBI, aided by Justice Department & a convicted con-man, Melvin Weinberg (convicted swindler, international con artist & informant) FBI videotaped politicians accepting bribes from a fraudulent Arabian co. in return for political favours. 31 targeted officials / 1 Senator + 6 House of Reps - convictions Weinberg avoided prison re prior scams & was paid $150,000 in agreement with Abscam operation Criticism:  "widespread and serious misuse" of national security letters (an administrative subpoena used to demand records & data of individuals). -- Counterintelligence 1940s - 1970s - FBI investigation of spying on US & allies cases Ex parte Quirin x8  Nazi agents (planned sabotage ops) - x8 arrested  / x6 executed Ex parte Quirin - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_parte_Quirin EX PARTE Lat. 'By or for one party' or 'by one side.' http://www.lectlaw.com/def/e051.htm US Supreme Court -  precedent - 1942 Trial by military commission of unlawful combatant against USA "the law of war draws a distinction between the armed forces and the peaceful populations of belligerent nations and also between those who are lawful and unlawful combatants. Lawful combatants are subject to capture and detention as prisoners of war by opposing military forces. Unlawful combatants are likewise subject to capture and detention, but in addition they are subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals for acts which render their belligerency unlawful. The spy who secretly and without uniform passes the military lines of a belligerent in time of war, seeking to gather military information and communicate it to the enemy, or an enemy combatant who without uniform comes secretly through the lines for the purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property, are familiar examples of belligerents who are generally deemed not to be entitled to the status of prisoners of war, but to be offenders against the law of war subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals." Leitenant Colonel Kenneth Royall:  Roosevelt had no right to create a military tribunal to try his clients, citing Ex parte Milligan (1866), a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could not establish military tribunals to try civilians in areas where civilian courts were functioning, even during wartime.   Prosecutor Francis Biddle rebutted his argument, citing the case of British Major John André, who was executed as a spy by the Continental Army for passing through American lines to meet with American officer Benedict Arnold during the American Revolutionary War.  Biddle responded that the U.S. and Germany were at war and cited the Alien Enemies Act of 1798:  whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies  Supreme Court unanimously denied Royall's appeal, writing:  "The military commission was lawfully constituted ... petitioners are held in lawful custody for trial before the military commission and have not shown cause for being discharged by writ of habeas corpus." Writ of habeas corpus  =  writ to decide if a state's detention of a prisoner is valid / demands prisoner be brought before court Ex parte Quirin - SC decision controversy Justice Robert H. Jackson - draft opinion, expressing his disagreement with portions of SC opinion  http://www.greenbag.org/v9n3/v9n3_articles_goldsmith.pdf *Controversy revived - legal implications during War on Terror. Venona Project (1943-1980) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project  Joint US + UK code-breaking project  - Venona (1943-1980) initiated by forerunner of National Security Agency (NSA), ie US Army Signal Intelligence Service FBI was heavily involved Broke Soviet diplomatic & intelligence communications codes, allowing US + UK  to read Soviet communications Australians collected Venona intercepts Walter Seddon Clayton (cryptonym 'KLOD') - Australian, suspected of being Soviet spy-master. Communist Party of Australia / underground network within CPA, operable even if party shut down http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Seddon_Clayton Clayton mocked ASIO by going back into hiding shortly after his appearance at the Royal Commission. ASIO retaliated against Clayton with Operation Pigeon. Menzies cancelled Clayton & his wife's passports day before they were due to depart Australia. Clayton kept under ASIO surveillance throughout 1950s and 1960s as part of Operation Pigeon. Surveillance may have even extended into 1970s and 1980s. ASIO reportedly recruited services of local fishermen in Port Stephens area to monitor his movements at sea / submarine rendezvous preventative  [>> LMAO] Hoover, administering Verona, did not inform CIA re Verona until 1952. Summaries sourced at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation and/or other, as linked. COMMENT Must have looked at some of this stuff before, at some point.  But I've got a shocking memory, so any time I look something up it's like a wonderful revelation all over again. Doing some basic summaries is supposed to help me retain what I've read, but I wouldn't bet on it. Even if I don't remember this, it was really fun checking it out today. Surprised that the FBI seem to be quite powerful among the US agencies.  Always thought they were just fancy police or something like that. It looks like methods of operation remain the same:  ie use crooks facing time to participate in entrapment activities (see Melvin Weinberg, Abscam), combined with pay-offs. Also sounds like a creepy organisation - eg  'sneak & peak', wiretapping, data access etc. Activities extend beyond US national boundaries, as there's an international avenue through embassies (embassy & consulate legal attachments). OTHER * Check out the USD$8.12 billion est. 2012 budget of FBI (alone) vs their targets:  eg WikiLeaks & others. * USD$14.7 billion  2013 requested funding CIA - source here and here. So that's probably something like USD$22.82 billion vs. WikiLeaks publisher & other targets, in two US agencies' resources alone, and much a greater figure than that in resources of various combined USG agencies. "An espionage empire The summary provides a detailed look at how the U.S. intelligence community has been reconfigu by the massive infusion of resources that followed the 2001 attacks. The United States has spent more than $500 billion on intelligence during that period, an outlay that U.S. officials say has succeeded in its main objective: preventing another catastrophic terrorist attack in the United States. The result is an espionage empire with resources and a reach beyond those of any adversary, sustained even now by spending that rivals or exceeds the levels at the height of the Cold War." [Washington Post] "We the people" should be feeling dwarfed and freaked out by the size of the secret state apparatus ... and the size and power of the state. [ Edited out some colour code ( #A83128 ) that had somehow got into my text.  Very strange.  Did a global change of colour in notepad because the red was too bright.  But I somehow wound up with code among text without realising.  Hence the 'strange code'.   LOL Noooooo!  My colour code wasn't a code, as such.  It was the word 'red', which I globally searched & replaced with a HTML colour code ... but the letters 'red' appear in a number of words in the text document.  And they've been replaced with a code.  A code I removed.  So, why am I still having to edit?  Because it's has taken the letter combination - 'red' - out of the entire document.  Sh*t.  Now I've got to proofread and I'm really sleepy.   :(  Updated as best I could when I can barely stay awake.  Sure to have missed something.  It's a work in progress.  LOL]

FOREIGN SERVICE UPDATES

DRC Congo US diplomat detained w W.African pro-democracy activists & foreign journalists after news conf. http://www.bulletinecho.com/politics/ap-news-congo-detains-us-diplomat-with-pro-democracy-activists-h8969.html Accused of: posing threat to stability. US Embassy in Kinshasa - no comment AP Circular http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/congo-detains-us-diplomat-pro-democracy-activist-29656474 LOL .. markings of US interference? Filimbi NGO organised conference: aims for greater youth participation in politics ** foreign journalists released ** according to AP circular Filimbi Swahili = flute  {Google Translate} = flute  {Glosobe} -- SierraLeone USA Ebola US embassy in Sierra Leone confirmed: US healthcare worker infected  / 10 in quarantine World Health Org: > 10,004 ebola deaths West Africa > abt. 24,350 total cases http://www.lse.co.uk/AllNews.asp?code=ef4lzjvo&headline=US_Ebola_Patient_Being_Treated_In_Washington_10_In_Quarantine Australian ambassadors to Zimbabwe & Egypt appointed  >>  http://www.psnews.com.au/aps/Page_psn44717.html -- PAKISTAN  Obama nominates US Ambassador to Lebanon - DAVID HALE - as new envoy to Pakistan Senate needs to confirm. David Hale >replacing ambassador Richard Olson. U. Georgetown. Career ambass. New Jersey native. LEBANON US Embassy in Beirut recently led a $25 million shipment of weapons from USA to help Lebanon fight extremists along border with Syria. http://www.lebaneseexaminer.com/2015/03/16/president-obama-nominates-u-s-ambassador-to-lebanon-as-new-envoy-to-pakistan/ --