#john was paranoid but not by much the files show he was surveilled hes politically targeted and effectively it worked in shutting him up

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October 8, 2010: NPR Fresh Air revisits a 2000 interview with Jon Wiener about his book Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files [listen] [full transcript]

GROSS: Did you find anything in the FBI files that were released to you that indicated that the FBI went beyond surveillance - that they ever tried to set Lennon up?

Prof. WIENER: You know, there's like a couple of documents. Their concern was that Lennon would participate in some kind of concert, rally, anti-war demonstration outside the Republican National Convention. And there's a memo from J. Edgar Hoover to the head of the Miami FBI office that suggests that if Lennon could be arrested on possession of narcotics charges he would become more immediately deportable. Now this seems to me an effort to set Lennon up for a drug bust. The FBI doesnt enforce possession of narcotics charges, that's a state offense, this is not part of what the FBI is supposed to be doing. I then filed a Freedom of Information request with the Miami FBI office, asking for their files on Lennon, to see what their response to this was. They replied to me that their John Lennon file had been destroyed as a part of a routine file destruction procedure.

GROSS: Hmm.

Prof. WIENER: Now I have to note that - know that Lennon files were collected in five other cities and none of those places destroyed their Lennon file, so we wonder what was in the Miami Lennon file that was destroyed.

#john lennon #richard nixon #j edgar hoover #gimme some truth book #politics and the beatles #activism #audio #bug book list #mine #the bit about the miami file being destroyed coupled with the denial nondenial bit about the wiretapping is most interesting #john was paranoid but not by much the files show he was surveilled hes politically targeted and effectively it worked in shutting him up #the 1970s #1971 #1972 #1973 #oh and that the files wrap up when hoover dies #but the problem persists for 2 years he's under an order to leave the country in 60 days and has to request extensions over and over #this is in addition to the apple legal stuff and the copyright cases #i think i need a courts and john tag no wonder why he was a pro by 76

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  ∧ Top 10 Things Bombshell Got Factually Righ WRITTEN BY: Nick Spake As disturbing as it sounds, there are a lot of things Bombshell got factually right.  Transcript

What exactly goes on behind the scenes of this controversial news corporation? Welcome to MsMojo and today we’ll be counting down our picks for the Top 10 Things Bombshell Got Factually Right. For this list, we’re taking a look at accurate plot points and details from this drama about the Fox News misconduct scandal. In case you haven’t seen the film yet, this list contains spoilers, not to mention bombshells.   #10: More Than 20 Women Accused Roger Ailes In 2016, Megyn Kelly reportedly informed investigators that she had been sexually harassed by Fox News CEO Roger Ailes. When Kelly goes on the record in “Bombshell,” the investigators label her with the letter “W,” meaning that she’s the 23rd woman who has accused Ailes. According to Gretchen Carlson’s lawyers, more than 20 women accused Ailes of inappropriate behavior, both publicly and privately. Many of the women who spoke out against Ailes were former Fox News employees, including Rudi Bakhtiar, Laurie Luhn, and Andrea Tantaros. The film does take a few creative liberties with Ailes’ accusers. Most notably, Kayla Pospisil, a Fox News journalist played by Margot Robbie, is a composite character. Just because Kayla is fictitious, though, doesn’t mean her story is without truth. #9: Megyn Kelly’s White Santa Debate During a brief news segment in the film, Kelly scoffs at the possibility that Santa is any color other than white. This is based on an actual Fox News story in which Kelly slammed a Slate article entitled “Santa Claus Should Not Be a White Man Anymore.” Addressing all the “kids watching at home,” Kelly firmly insisted that “Santa just is white.” She’d go on to say that “Jesus was a white man too.” Kelly revisited the “White Christmas” debate in a later segment, claiming that an “offhand jest” she made snowballed out of control and Fox News was being unfairly targeted. Aisha Harris, the Slate piece’s writer, interpreted Kelly’s comment as more than just a joke and accused Fox of playing the victim. #8: Elizabeth Ailes Stood by Her Husband Connie Britton portrayals Elizabeth Tilson Ailes, Roger’s third wife. Working as a programming executive, Tilson met Ailes at CNBC and they were married in 1998. Just as there’s a significant age difference between Britton and John Lithgow, Tilson was 37 while Ailes was 58 when they wedded. “Bombshell” depicts Tilson as a “good wife” archetype who supports her husband, even as he faces a harassment lawsuit with accusations piling up. In response to the allegations, Tilson reportedly stated, “This is not about money. This is about his legacy.” Despite defending her husband, there were reports that Tilson took the accusations “especially hard” and considered divorcing Ailes. Nevertheless, the couple remained together until Ailes passed in 2017, less than a year after the scandal hit. #7: Gretchen Carlson’s Real Stories Although she was given her own afternoon show after leaving “Fox & Friends,” Gretchen Carlson didn’t always fit the network’s mold. Leading up to her termination, Carlson took a few stances that challenged the Fox News brand. As seen in “Bombshell,” Carlson did an exposé on how makeup is used to sexualize girls in culture. Carlson emphasized her point by not wearing any makeup for the segment, claiming this was a first for cable news. Carlson also advocated an assault weapons ban in a 2016 segment. 89% of viewers disagreed with Carlson, to which she replied on the air, “That’s fine. That’s what makes America great.” Only a few days after Carlson showed support for stricter gun laws, her contract with Fox News officially expired. #6: Roger Ailes Threw Doughnuts Actual reports indicate that Ailes was every bit as paranoid as “Bombshell” suggests. Ailes reportedly had around-the-clock security at his home and was even accused of spying on reporters. One of the most bizarre details that the film gets down is how Ailes used donuts. In multiple scenes, we see Ailes stocking up on these fried desserts. It’s said that Ailes orders donuts just so he can throw them at people during his emotional moments. This behavior is backed up in the biographical book, “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” which reads, “Aisles could turn donuts into projectiles.” Although Ailes didn’t always eat the donuts, both the book and this film point out his poor diet, claiming he’d order entire pages off room service menus. #5: Gretchen Carlson Recorded Conversations Instead of going after Fox News, Carlson filed a lawsuit directly against Ailes, who continually denied the allegations aimed at him. In the film, Ailes is finally backed into a corner when his lawyer, Susan Estrich, tells him that Carlson recorded their conversations. In 2014, about two years before the scandal broke out, Carlson started using her iPhone to secretly tape her meetings with Ailes. Carlson dedicated an entire year to recording the inappropriate comments of Ailes and other Fox News employees. Ailes reportedly asked Carlson to “turn around so he could view her posterior,” which we see him do on multiple occasions in “Bombshell.” The tapes also caught Ailes telling Carlson, “you and I should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago.” #4: Megyn Kelly Faced Backlash from Trump Supporters Fox News’ audience is known for being conservative, but that didn’t stop Kelly from calling out Donald Trump’s treatment towards women during the first Republican presidential debate. This ignited an ongoing feud between the two with Trump posting numerous tweets that painted Kelly as “crazy.” Kelly thus became the story, as well as a target. As the film shows us, Kelly was heavily criticized and even threatened by Trump supporters. In an interview, Kelly stated, “The vast majority of Donald Trump supporters are not at all this way,” but added, “The worst part is the security threats that I’ve had to face and, as much as I try to avoid some of that online vitriol, I get lots of it and I really hate it.” #3: Roger Ailes’ Meeting with Rupert Murdoch The final act of “Bombshell” is mostly faithful to Ailes’ downfall as he’s barred from the news empire he helped build. On July 21, 2016, Ailes and Susan Estrich reported to the apartment of Rupert Murdoch, played here by Malcolm McDowell. In the film, Murdoch’s two sons, Lachlan and James, are also present at the meeting. This is slightly off, as James was not present, although Lachlan did attend. Peter Johnson and Gerson Zweifach are also notably absent from this scene. Nevertheless, Rupert did inform Ailes that he’d temporarily be taking over Fox News. He also denied Ailes’ request to walk into the Fox News headquarters with him and announce his departure. Ailes ultimately agreed to go quietly, receiving a severance package of $40 million. #2: The Black Room Speaking to a former Fox News journalist played by Jennifer Morrison, Megyn Kelly learns about the infamous “Black Room,” as various insiders called it. Established in 2011 on the 14th floor of the News Corporation building, the Black Room is where Ailes supposedly managed public relations and surveillance campaigns against his foes in secrecy. Among the people Ailes targeted was reporter Gabriel Sherman, who’d go on to write “The Loudest Voice in the Room.” According to Sherman, the “Black Room” consisted of “consultants, political operatives, and private detectives who reported only to [Ailes].” The Fox News CEO reportedly used company money to fund these sketchy operations, although Susan Estrich claimed on Ailes’ behalf, “These allegations are totally false.” #1: Fox News Dresses Throughout “Bombshell,” Ailes is seen ordering the network’s female talent to wear dresses, sit at see-through desks, and show off their legs. According to “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” Ailes once called during a segment taping, saying, “Move that damn laptop, I can’t see her legs!” While Fox News denied accusations that there was a “miniskirt dress code,” Ailes didn’t make it easy for female employees to cover up their legs. Under Ailes’ management, Jedediah Bila claims that the wardrobe department was full of dresses, but no pants were available. Bila was also reportedly told that she couldn’t wear orange because Ailes wasn’t a fan of the color. After Ailes’ departure, women were permitted to start wearing pants and jumpsuits on the air.                                                                                                                                                                  

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James Bovard, Idea contributor Published 5: 00 a.m. ET Nov. 13, 2019

Usa today The deep sigh has a long historical previous of betraying the have confidence of the American folks. They are no longer our mates prison because of we fragment an enemy in frequent.

“Thank God for the deep sigh,” declared same outdated performing CIA chief John McLaughlin lately whereas showing on a panel at George Mason University. A one year within the past, the deep sigh modified into routinely reviled as a figment of paranoid fair appropriate-wingers’ imagination. But grand of the information media are now conferring the same sainthood on the deep sigh that modified into previously bestowed on particular counsel Robert Mueller. 

A Contemporary York Cases article remaining month gushed that “over the remaining three weeks, the deep sigh has emerged from the shadows within the originate of staunch are residing authorities officials, previous and current ... and supplied evidence that largely backs up the serene-nameless whistleblower” on President Donald Trump’s mobile phone call to the president of Ukraine. Cases columnist James Stewart declared: “There could be a deep sigh, there is a bureaucracy in our country who has pledged to admire the Structure, admire the rule of regulations ... maintaining the American folks.” Cases editorial creator Michelle Cottle proclaimed that “the deep sigh is alive and successfully” and hailed it as “a chain of patriotic public servants.”

Usa today Intelligence agencies gone rogue

Oldschool CIA Director John Brennan, showing on the same panel as McLaughlin, declared, “The explanation why Mr. Trump has this very contentious relationship with CIA and FBI and the deep sigh folks ... is because of they repeat the fact.”

Powerful of the information coverage of the Trump impeachment is following that storyline — despite the fact that it is some distance amazing as an overheated Trump tweet.

5 years within the past, Brennan’s CIA ignited what must had been a constitutional disaster when it modified into caught illegally spying upon the Senate Intelligence Committee, which modified into compiling a big document on the CIA torture program. After 9/11, the CIA constructed an interrogation regime by “consulting Egyptian and Saudi intelligence officials and copying Soviet interrogation suggestions,” The Cases reported in 2007. Secret Bush administration torture memos “put the CIA free to slam suspects’ heads into walls as much as 30 instances in a row, to deprive suspects of sleep for more than every week straight, to confine them to little murky containers for hours at a time ... and to suffocate them with water to induce the thought that they're drowning,” Georgetown University regulations professor David Cole successfully-known. But the finest respectable who went to penitentiary modified into John Kiriakou, a same outdated CIA operative who publicly admitted that the CIA modified into waterboarding.

Is the deep sigh more staunch when it is some distance killing than when it is some distance torturing?

Brennan declared in 2016 that  “the president requires conclude to sure bet of no collateral harm” before approving a drone strike. Confidential CIA documents published that the CIA had itsy-bitsy or no thought who it modified into killing more continuously than no longer with its drone attacks in Pakistan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen and other countries. A Salon diagnosis, summarizing an NBC News document, successfully-known, “Even whereas admitting that the identities of many killed by drones weren't known, the CIA documents asserted that all those tiring had been enemy warring parties. The common sense is crooked: If we abolish you, then you had been an enemy combatant.” Lying about drone killings rapidly grew to became institutionalized right through the deep sigh. The Cases reported in 2015: “Every fair investigation of the (drone) strikes has discovered grand more civilian casualties than administration officials admit.”

Condominium Intelligence Committee chairman: Trump betrayed The United States. Soon the final public will hear from patriots who defended it.

The deep sigh is practically designed to abolish privateness that enable authorities officials to disclaim illegalities. The Nationwide Security Agency’s credibility modified into obliterated in 2013 when same outdated NSA analyst Edward Snowden published that the agency can tap practically any mobile phone on this planet, earn entry to anybody’s electronic mail and web-procuring historical previous, and crack the overwhelming majority of pc encryption. But the NSA’s definition of “terrorist suspect” modified into ludicrously big, including “somebody hunting the on-line for suspicious stuff.” Just a few months before Snowden’s revelations, nationwide intelligence director James Clapper lied to Congress when he denied that the NSA collects “any form of files in any admire on millions, or hundreds of millions of American citizens.”

Usa today Disguise-u.s. the Pentagon

Trump’s version of his call to the Ukraine president has been challenged in closed testimony to the Condominium Intelligence Committee by Military Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the Ukrainian-born officer who listened in to the resolution whereas serving on the Nationwide Security Council.

There are a form of honorable, factual military officers, nevertheless the Pentagon per se has as grand credibility as a 2d-interval of time congressman. In the put up 9/11 expertise, Pentagon officials deluged the information media with false growth claims on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, perennially covered up killings of civilians, and also sought to bury their safe torture scandal (published in a omitted 2008 document by a Senate investigation co-chaired by John McCain). 

The deep sigh has an appalling sage of abusing the whistleblowers who're now being acclaimed. A draft Intelligence Neighborhood Inspector General document remaining one year discovered that intelligence agencies refused to acknowledge retaliation in opposition to whistleblowers in 99% of conditions, in step with The On daily foundation Beast. A 2017 document by International Coverage magazine concluded that “the intelligence community’s central watchdog is at risk of crumbling thanks to mismanagement, bureaucratic battles, clashes among big personalities, and sidelining of whistleblower outreach and practicing efforts.” After CIA Inspector General John Helgerson compiled a damning document on the CIA’s put up 9/11 interrogation program, CIA chief Michael Hayden launched a vital investigation of Helgerson in 2007, upsetting outrage on Capitol Hill. (The CIA managed to prolong the free up of Helgerson’s document for  years, thereby conserving both Congress and the American folks at hour of darkness regarding ultimate abuses.)

Scandal: Trump's contemporary impeachable offense is threatening the lifetime of a CIA officer

It's some distance worse than naive to place a matter to the deep sigh to draw an antidote to the venality of American politics. The agencies now being exalted beget about a of the longest files of deceit and crimes. The secrecy that has shrouded U.S. intelligence, surveillance and military operations has accomplished nothing to originate same outdated Boy Scouts and church choir individuals ascend to key policymaking positions.  

The Trump-deep sigh conflict is a showdown between a presidency that has became some distance too grand versus federal agencies that became fiefdoms that indulge in immunity for practically any and all abuses. Regardless of the consequence of the congressional impeachment investigation, can the political gadget pull within the reins on imperious agencies? It's some distance no longer seemingly.

James Bovard, creator of "Consideration Deficit Democracy," is a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors. Notice him on Twitter: @JimBovard

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