but he knew he was in the bathroom and he was able to get out of the building, again, because these exit doors were working well. i can t tell you how thankful i am just to do that one task homeland security told us to do. because in the past you couldn t push through the exit doors? they weren t easily opened. they had safeties on them so they couldn t open either way. but now he was able to get out. i mean, he could be alive because of this. where were you when you found out this had occurred? i was heading up to the service. i m there every i was there last night for service. i go up there around 10:00 and in the morning and one of the vice presidents that i work with on facilities now that i stepped down, he called. he worked for city emergency management. and he said he just got word there s an active shooter at
tree of life. go up there and see if this is true. i tried to get up. i only live a block away from the synagogue. i tried to get up shady avenue and was
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The use of government agents and informants to instigate criminal acts to create the pretense for a crackdown is hardly new, and it is not exclusively the province of overtly totalitarian regimes.
On the night of March 21, 1965, 40-year-old Freedom Rider Viola Liuzzo and a 19-year-old Black volunteer with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (LeRoy Moton) were driving back to Selma, AL, from assisting some 3,000 civil rights marchers under the leadership of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., on their trek from Selma to Montgomery, AL, for a scheduled rally at the state capitol building. A car carrying four men pulled alongside and fired several shots into the car. Two of the rounds struck Liuzzo in the head, killing her. The car crashed. Moton lost consciousness but was covered in blood, so the shooters mistook him for dead. Eventually, four Klansmen were arrested. But there was an interesting twist. One of the Klansmen was an FBI informant. Whi
Pending indictments against russians, both individuals and companies, who we know who both doj and the intelligence community concluded are the people responsible for the hack. so whatever barr finds, it won t change that conclusion that s implemented in those indictments. it really looks like a wild goose chase that could only sour relationships both political and law enforcement relationships with some of our closest allies. and phil rucker, you and your colleagues basically report on exactly that. that the reaction from our allies is basically what s going on here. yeah. and that s the problem for the administration. but we should also think about the impact it has on our own federal law enforcement community because you have here the attorney general traveling around the world to dig up dirt to find incriminating information to show that there was corruption inside the very agency that he leads, the department of justice. unbelievable. and it completely undermines the work