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Secret Service Agents Illegally Accessed Congressman’s Private Info in Attempt to Retaliate For Criticism

June 15, 2016June 15, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 822 Views Accountability, Assistant Director Ed Lowery, background checks, bandwagon jumping, Civil rights, clickwrap, Congressman, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, crashing cars in the White House gate, DHS, Dishonesty, double-standards, drunk driving, dui, dwi, forced to apologize, Harassment, high school locker room, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, illegal background check, Illegal search/entry, Inspector General's report, Justice System, kelly patterson, misconduct, not paying for their hookers, peer pressure, police, police accountability, privacy act of 1974, quick to respond, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Republican, retaliation, rights, secret service, Senior Executive Service level, SES, some level of discipline, string of high-profile failures, suspended discipline, Things are being Done, tighter processes, unpaid suspension, Utah, washington post

One Secret Service agent resigned and forty others have received “some level” of discipline after they illegally accessed background information

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Federal Judge Rules FBI Illegally Defies Freedom Of Information Act

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1367 Views Accountability, All Gov, all time low, America’s spearhead police organization, arcane methodologies, armed occupation of federal land, brought to task for its crimes, bundy, case evaluations, case law, Civil rights, classified national security matters, common American police department, compelling reasons, confidential information, Congress, cop block, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, Department of Justice, Dishonesty, District Judge Randolph D Moss, DoJ, double-standards, emboldened bureau entities, FBI, federal bereau of investigation, federal law enforcement agency, flagrant violation of federal law, FOIA exemption, FOIA policy, foia requests, freedom, freedom of information request, fundamentally at odds with the state, government transparency, Guardian, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, implicit disclosure of highly sensitive information relating to ongoing investigations, inherently secret, Justice System, Kel McClanahan, kelly patterson, law enforcement techniques, lost in a press loop, MIT, National Security Counselors, oregon standoff, orwellian, PhD, PHD-in-training, police, police accountability, Police State, privacy act of 1974, processing notes, protective layers of artificial secrecy, public knowledge, public outcry, renegade crusade, revolution, revolution of ideas, rights, Ryan Shapiro, search slips, Surveillance, Transparency, transparently criminal, treachery, treason, withholding evidence

The following post was submitted to the CopBlock Network by Isiah Holmes, who has been featured several times previously on

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If You Drive on a Highway; Chances are the Police are Tracking You

May 22, 2012January 27, 2017 Kelly W. Patterson 1256 Views ACLU, american civil liberties union, automated license plate scanners, California, Civil rights, cop block, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Dishonesty, drug enforcement administration, drug prohibition, el paso intelligence center, freedom, freedom of movement, fusion centers, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, justice department, kelly patterson, Mexico, no victim no crime, police, police abuse, Police State, Privacy, privacy act of 1974, rights, Self-ownership, strike the root, Surveillance, Texas, Utah, video

The article was shared with the CopBlock Network by a reader named Joe, via the CopBlock.org Submissions Page. The article

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