What's more, any deals brokered with informants, and any information that might undermine the informants' credibility—say, that they were informants in other cases, or that they have lied on the stand in the past—must be turned over to the defense.
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In his luggage were notebooks containing notes from meetings with informants, meeting locations used by the C.I.A. and the true names of agency informants.
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Nor did the F.B.I. send informants or undercover agents to meet with campaign officials before opening Crossfire Hurricane, place any informants inside the campaign or ask the informants it did rely on to "report on the Trump campaign," as Mr. Trump's allies have insinuated.
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David Videcette, a former counterterrorism detective for the Metropolitan Police who has worked with young informants, explained that child informants were used as a last resort.
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Between 2010 and 2012, dozens of C.I.A. informants in China disappeared, either jailed or killed, embroiling the agency in an internal debate about how Chinese intelligence officers had identified the informants.
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The review found "no evidence" that the FBI placed informants or spies within the Trump campaign, and that the FBI wasn't biased when it did use informants as part of the probe.
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What Trey Gowdy is specifically talking about is the small slice of the investigation that we&aposre looking at as it relates to whether or not informants, an informant or informants were used.
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He added that intelligence officers often rely on neighborhood informants.
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Also common are online or other verbal threats to informants.
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Did he know that the FBI was putting informants there?
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The FBI gains a lot of valuable information from informants.
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The groups use children as messengers, informants, cooks and porters.
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Former Odebrecht executives are now cooperating with prosecutors as informants.
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Prosecutions are inevitably onerous, requiring wiretaps, informants and good luck.
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"It's informants that they have charged with fraud," Spiro said.
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There are informants among them to prevent people from organizing.
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The data was based on information gathered by 32 informants.
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"Running informants was about cultivating their trust," the heroine says.
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There were three main informants, all working for the DEA.
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Police and police informants can be found on street corners.
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Some states are strengthening rules on the practice of using testimony from jailhouse informants in trials, after new DNA technology exonerated dozens of people wrongly convicted based on those informants' lies, the AP reports.
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I used informants and concerned businessmen to get into real businesses.
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They through spies, informants, secret subpoenas, electronic surveillance, fake dossiers, unmasking.
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But there are also informants in the smugglers' ranks, says Fariat.
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They use informants and have strict rules and protocols on this.
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Informants and agents don't always play the role of passive listener.
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You wonder, so they have informants in President Trump&aposs campaign.
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Previously, the group had mostly attacked police, soldiers and their informants.
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Women are recruited to be informants and enforcers of ISIS rules.
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Lee was suspected of assisting the Chinese in uncovering CIA informants.
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It also instructs camp staff to recruit informants among the inmates.
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"Everybody's been burned to a crisp here by informants," he said.
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A pair of informants got $6 million and agents spent freely.
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This would include information from F.B.I. informants and foreign allies. 3.
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The use of informants is commonplace in counterintelligence and criminal investigations.
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Last year, Illinois passed legislation that requires judges to hold pretrial "reliability hearings" to evaluate whether informants, in light of the benefits they have been promised and their histories as informants, should be allowed to testify.
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Based on wiretaps and statements from informants, the F.B.I. reported that Mr. Young had made a number of other incendiary and perhaps even threatening comments over the years about Muslim informants, F.B.I. investigators and "kaffirs" — or nonbelievers.
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They talked about informants or spies whatever you want to talk about.
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The government's case against him relied heavily on the testimony of informants.
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More common are violent acts designed to intimidate informants and their families.
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How many informants did you have before the investigation was even open?
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Anyone can be an Eye, including women, who often work as informants.
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The primary credibility issue with informants is one of motive, analysts said.
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Some biases will generate suspicion, and some informants will just be wrong.
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The money may also go to informants or victims in the cases.
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"Pumpkin," got in on the fun — sometimes acting as "informants," Crooks joked.
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He had a jolly, exuberant presence, and he easily cultivated confidential informants.
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Over four decades, it used torture, intimidation and informants to crush dissent.
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The examination also showed that police used confidential informants without proper documentation.
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It patrols border areas and also runs its own network of informants.
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The Chinese government was trying to recruit them as informants, they said.
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After the shooting occurred, Goines named informants to investigators, the affidavits state.
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Criminal cases aren't made using angels or nuns as informants or witnesses.
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So far, the use of jailhouse informants has received relatively little consideration.
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Dozens of people, including some government informants, occupied the refuge from Jan.
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He asked if the informants' statements were "material" to Mr. Balarezo's strategy.
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It's exactly what law enforcement does all the time using confidential informants.
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"Recruiting and running informants was about cultivating their trust," Marie tells us.
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The law also determined how and how much informants should be paid.
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Working with informants, were you worried someone else would get in trouble?
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Now, an American is suspected of having helped Beijing by identifying informants.
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" In his 2011 book Les Indics — an investigation into the secret world of police informants — journalist Christophe Cornevin found that, "according to the latest analysis, the super-secret [BCS] database contains 1,700 code numbers, and as many informants.
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The online age has brought new dangers to government informants and their families.
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Forest rangers often pay people in villages to act as "informants," documents show.
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America's Drug Enforcement Administration controls probably the country's largest pool of criminal informants.
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One seller even tried to tell him he might be dealing with informants.
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"The allegations of the criminal informants, we thought, were specious," Di Carlo said.
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RELATED: Nunes is demanding new information on Trump campaign and FBI informants Rep.
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For example, Vasquez initially assumed LEAD was a police tool for recruiting informants.
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But officials disagreed over whether Mr. Lee was responsible for the lost informants.
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Now, an American is suspected of having helped Beijing by identifying the informants.
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Gonzalez could understand such conflicted feelings; he had seen that with informants before.
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The informants say they are being unfairly blamed for the A.T.F.'s actions.
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She helped manage the same highly classified program involving informants working against Iran.
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Their estimates were based on information from informants, deserters, captured rebels and residents.
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And you get those informants and tips by having a level of trust.
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Police provided money and one of the informants returned and bought the weapon.
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BuzzFeed News revealed in March that the charity had organized, financed, and run dangerous and secretive networks of informants motivated by "fear" and "revenge," including within indigenous communities, to provide park officials with intelligence — all while publicly denying working with informants.
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"Jailhouse informants are common in prosecutions of very serious crimes, including ones that carry life and even death sentences," said Michelle Feldman, the Innocence Project's state campaigns director, whose work focuses on legislative efforts to regulate the use of jailhouse informants.
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Mr. Sanders also found that the sheriff's department kept a secret file for decades on where the jailhouse informants were placed, while the prosecutors kept their own files of informants and their deals with them and rewarded them for any information.
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In Icaria there are no domestic servants, cops, informants, middlemen, soldiers, gunsmiths, or bankers.
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Both informants have admitted to lying to the DEA to secretly traffic drugs themselves.
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Jailhouse informants usually are motivated by a reduction in sentence or other special favors.
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The informants were not identified in the document for their safety, the police said.
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That included surveilling Caceres, sometimes paying informants for tips about her activities, it said.
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Egypt's informants kept watch on the dissident Muslim Brothers who had been chased abroad.
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But their ability to protect those informants has come under scrutiny in recent years.
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Informants can wear wires to record conversations and undercover agents may enter the mix.
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"We were amused when we heard the confessions of mobsters-turned-informants," he said.
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The new timeline makes one wonder: Did the FBI follow its rules governing informants?
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It allows the use of informants, limited physical surveillance, mining databases and conducting interviews.
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Pitt's case also underlines the importance to the FBI of undercover agents and informants.
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The European approach, that effectively turns "informants into martyrs", is "a joke", he says.
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Watch "The Backstory": Yudhijit Bhattacharjee on one of the D.E.A.'s most successful informants.
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Immigration agents spend months mapping out networks and gathering evidence using informants and wiretaps.
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To be able to attract informants, the F.B.I. must never give these names out.
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Iranian officials also cultivated networks of informants who had once worked for the Americans.
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The city has already paid out at least $175,000 to informants, covering 2,000 violations.
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The term "confidential" has meaning and protects the identity of informants every single day.
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Barr also faulted the FBI for using confidential informants while investigating Trump&aposs campaign.
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Evidence leading to the arrests came primarily from police informants, the prosecutors' statement said.
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Mr. Lesnak said he set the prices, allowing his informants "customary and reasonable" profits.
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More than a dozen C.I.A. informants were killed or imprisoned by the Chinese government.
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The next day, informants told police that the brothers were bragging about the shooting.
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Its informants are also prohibited from "initiating or instigating" a plan to commit a crime.
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FBI sends classified letter to House GOP on use of informants in Trump campaign. Sen.
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Investigators, they said, are probing a crucial question: Were any investigations or confidential informants compromised?
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But attacks have decreased and co-operation between police and informants is on the up.
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You have so many jailhouse informants trying to get favors and get out of jail.
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Similarly, informants and witnesses, who can endanger themselves by helping police, should have similar privileges.
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Be that whistleblowers, media informants, or individuals or organizations in possession of highly sensitive data.
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Identifiable units, according to informants, have been moved through Tibet in trucks and troop carriers.
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How did the celebrities, musicians, drug lords, informants, and cops all interact at the Mutiny?
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Many were abducted by armed factions to be used as child soldiers, informants or porters.
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A fluent German speaker, his work there included recruiting informants and saw him promoted twice.
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He and Varys often went toe-to-toe about who had more informants and information.
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Cash from funds to pay informants has a way of going missing, military officials said.
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Their de facto informants consist of friends — and friends of friends — from around the world.
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Informants are usually very vulnerable or highly incentivized subjects, and therefore their accounts are fraught.
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Those records include information about unsolved cases, witnesses, confidential informants and undercover officers, he said.
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From 2010 to 2012, Chinese officers killed at least a dozen informants and imprisoned others.
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Plainclothes officers monitored cafés and other gathering places, while informants infiltrated mosques and student groups.
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Some states and cities have worked to rein in or regulate the use of informants.
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But the new procedures on jailhouse informants shouldn't have been necessary in the first place.
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Some officials reportedly believed the mole inside the CIA was exposing its roster of informants.
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" The Times didn't name him, stating it "typically does not name informants to preserve their safety.
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They will not be shocked by prosecutors making deals with "stool pigeons," snitches and paid informants.
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And they say, did the FBI use informants against members or associates of the Trump campaign?
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How much did you pay these informants to run into Trump campaign or officials or associates?
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Human Rights Watch says the story is consistent with what they have heard from trusted informants.
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But the identification, recruitment, and development of access by these types of informants is notoriously difficult.
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At trial, lawyers for the nephews are expected to call into question the DEA informants' credibility.
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The police are also hard pressed to overcome the fear of IS that discourages possible informants.
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Now, the thing is Jesse, these types of informants don&apost just work on one case.
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They questioned official assurances that ties had been cut to informants among the party's top officials.
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They had been used as porters, messengers and informants, and trained to fight and plant landmines.
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It is a common practice, however, for the bureau to use confidential informants in counterintelligence investigations.
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And friends, informants, snoops, the FBI had this informant, maybe others, spying on the Trump campaign.
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As part of its counterterrorism efforts, the FBI has developed a massive network of confidential informants.
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According to the ACLU, the NYPD reportedly spied on Muslim communities using plainclothes officers and informants.
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At the time, they were under not only surveillance, but the party was infiltrated with informants.
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Some intelligence officials believed that a mole inside the C.I.A. was exposing its roster of informants.
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Some investigators believed that China had cracked the C.I.A.'s system for communicating with its informants.
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They question Cicig's use of informants, and maintain that suspects' presumption of innocence has been violated.
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Aided by Frank's agency contacts and Max's purebred informants, the two search for their human culprit.
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"Build secret forces, use informants to prevent people from colluding to create troubles," the document reads.
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Reformers hope that new legislation, though imperfect, could still deter prosecutors from relying on jailhouse informants.
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A pair of A.T.F. informants received at least $20123 million each from that sum, records show.
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It is well known that the government uses confidential informants every day to build criminal cases.
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He tells informants early what he knows "so it limits the bullshit and lies they tell".
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And Russian informants could still meet their C.I.A. handlers outside Russia, further from Moscow's counterintelligence apparatus.
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Neyret's wife is also appearing in court alongside her husband and several of his alleged informants.
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The BCS keeps records of all police informants, who are each given a confidential identification number.
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"One would think that the desire to ensure that further informants cooperate in government investigations should also motivate the government to take swift action against individuals who seek to expose the identity of informants, their proffered criminal history and the details of their cooperation," the judge wrote.
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And if so, how many informants were used and how much money was spent on their activities?
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ET Monday deadline for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to answer questions about informants used in 2016.
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The case cracked open thanks in part to multiple informants and statements made by Diehl-Armstrong herself.
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How does deputizing citizens as "smartphone informants"(as The Intercept put it) increase officer transparency or accountability?
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Source: Kurtis Productions Undercover informants brought hidden cameras into Bay Medical to catch the defendants red handed.
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It&aposs a classic to say that what you have informants in that people have been entrapped.
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I don&apost think informants in a campaign or trying to make contact is a side issue.
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Its five divisions operate separately, which makes it harder for informants to bring down all senior members.
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But their coverage was the work of white journalists who relied on Chinese informants for their stories.
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He said the informants provided details about militants' movements, their vehicle license plates and where they met.
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Informants are a critical tool for United States law enforcement officials working to untangle transnational drug trafficking.
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Informants As with all crimes, there are frequently other people involved in different aspects of the crime.
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The FBI began monitoring and recording Hamzeh's conversations with the informants in October, according to the complaint.
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Mr. Giuliani was once the US attorney in Manhattan, who oversaw countless government investigations utilizing confidential informants.
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The use of informants by the FBI is certainly something that has been done for decades. 18.
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Generally speaking, there's nothing unusual about federal investigators using informants in a major criminal and counterintelligence case.
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So why were FBI informants contacting Trump figures about Russia long before the Russia probe was opened?
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Transparency International said the proposal was a bold step in recognizing the importance and rights of informants.
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Using informants, bugs, and surveillance, the RCMP tirelessly monitored Williams and Elliot until the winter of 1973.
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He collected them over years of investigations, from raids or from informants in fake medicine distribution networks.
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Before his file was finally sealed, some 14 F.B.I. agents would interview 39 "confidential informants" about him.
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That assessment, based on anecdotal evidence and informants, was backed up by American and British intelligence reports.
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Over the years, he said, Mr. Jatt had killed many people, tortured informants and organized terror attacks.
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He hired native speakers to call informants inside the country and communicated discreetly with his own connections.
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It is rare for the agency to discover immediately that informants have eroded or are running scared.
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He struck people as more outgoing and he was the one with the skill for cultivating informants.
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The press had been muzzled, lawyers and journalists were regularly harassed and informants filled Cairo's downtown cafes.
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National Security, thought to have 100,000 employees and at least as many informants, remains the most visible.
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Later, police turned to jailhouse informants, some of whom say they were coached and have since recanted.
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A series of new charges have been filed against her based on information from the jailhouse informants.
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Some of the bullet points included multiple alleged targets, including informants and members of rival drug cartels.
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He attributed the deaths to botched drug deals, turf wars between drug syndicates, or informants being silenced.
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The attack required not just satellite observation from above but also feedback from informants on the ground.
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Most likely, the bureau wanted to do nothing that might risk revealing the identities of its informants.
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George Ryan declared a statewide moratorium on executions, but nationally, the harms of jailhouse informants went unaddressed.
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And a third of these specially trained informants reported from inside North Korea, which is extremely rare.
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With help from the C.I.A., the department built a web of informants around the city and beyond.
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But the means by which they've fought have been sophisticated beyond belief: Surveillance and counter-surveillance, informants and fake-informants, bribery, coercion, back-room deals, ethical dodges, and a series of personal betrayals they've each resolved to live with if it means getting the better of one other.
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And I don&apost think that he further said that the American people support the use of informants.
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For instance, they do not answer the question about whether or not were informants or human sources used.
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The heavy reliance on informants is particularly glaring, given the potential that some are motivated by personal grudges.
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Sometime between 2009 and 2010, Rodriguez's superiors became suspicious of his treatment of informants, according to the lawsuit.
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Saudi intelligence agents have caught several CIA agents trying to recruit Saudi officials as informants, the sources said.
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When I was a prosecutor, the -- we called them informants and the defense lawyers said they were spies.
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No FBI would put informants in another presidential campaign without permission from the White House, including the President.
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Those informants tell Iranian intelligence if they spot anything more serious than alcohol being transported into the country.
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In Mehsana district, offenders will be fined about 2,100 rupees ($31) and informants will be rewarded, Thakor said.
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According to the FBI and its informants, Staluppi was also a made member of the Colombo crime family.
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All these conversations happened off the record, of course, with few "informants" willing or able to identify themselves.
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Sometimes foreign intelligence officers provide their teams with equipment but, just as often, informants buy it for themselves.
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The twins became informants for the feds and went into protective custody, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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The other advantage of dealing with inadequate personalities is that they are often fairly easily turned into informants.
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Children are recruited to be fighters, informants, looters, messengers, spies and as domestic and sexual slaves, it said.
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The documents also mention the "immigration relief dangle," a forbidden practice of promising immigration benefits to potential informants.
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Washington (CNN)The FBI has lost several informants that had penetrated groups at the center of terrorism investigations.
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As Hochschild's informants see it, Obama's Washington cares more for shirkers and cheaters than for hard-working people.
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At one point, it had half a million informants in a country of 21983 million at the time.
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Unguarded statements to confidential informants can provide prosecutors with the intent evidence that they would otherwise be lacking.
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That would leave open the mystery of how China managed to unravel the C.I.A.'s web of informants.
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An American is suspected of having helped Beijing to identify C.I.A. informants who were later killed or imprisoned.
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Some of the rewards, which never exceeded $500, went to supposed informants whose names and IDs didn't match.
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Mr. Desormeau, in particular, had a knack for recruiting informants who would tell him who was carrying guns.
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The People's Daily said the government would give 500,000 renminbi, or $73,000, to informants providing information on spies.
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In the past, agents have been criticized for the use of dubious informants and embedding with drug traffickers.
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After the gang attack on Mr. Patterson, two confidential informants gave Mr. Herskovic's name to a police detective.
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Mr. Adams has been accused of personally ordering the killings of some of those suspected of being informants.
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A week before we met, he enlisted "informants" who provided leads on where to find our three mushrooms.
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Agents had also developed two informants who they hoped could lead to additional information about the foundation's dealings.
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The inspector general said his team reviewed the FBI's "Delta files," which contain records on all FBI informants.
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Editorial Prosecutors love jailhouse informants who can provide damning testimony that a cellmate privately confessed to a crime.
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His claims led to a grand-jury investigation into jailhouse informants that was the first of its kind.
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Although some of the documents are based on information from informants, others are simply newspaper and magazine clippings.
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Mr. Bharara oversaw the increased use of wiretaps and confidential informants in white-collar cases — a controversial approach.
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The squad allegedly used informants to learn of the criminals' plans, possibly even encouraged them, before designing a raid.
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These protocols are explained in a document known as The Attorney General's Guidelines Regarding the Use of Confidential Informants.
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Peck said Holt, who has a lengthy criminal record, was arrested on Tuesday after police received tips from informants.
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MCCARHTY: The Bush 2008 justice department and FBI send informants into the Obama 2008 campaign without letting Obama know.
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But that phrasing leaves the door open to one or more informants conducting surveillance of the Trump camp. Listen.
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The state has bought 11 CDS of data since 2010 and paid 17.9 million euros ($19.59 million) to informants.
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And I think something that&aposs very important, and Gregg touched on it, how many informants did they have?
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While the DEA and its informants may have profited nicely, travellers no doubt paid the price in increased searches.
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Yet many Gazans grumble (quietly, since Hamas has informants everywhere) that it has, in effect, given up the fight.
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Even though it now appears there were paid informants who were hanging around the periphery of the Trump campaign.
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From early 2016, Iraqi military intelligence began reaching out to possible informants and allies through intermediaries, Iraqi officials said.
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If one gave an answer more than 10% apart from the others, they were replaced with two different "informants".
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Their arrests in November were the result of a sting operation involving paid informants; no drugs were ever shipped.
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They said Hamzeh "refused to participate and insisted they abandon any plan for violence" despite persistence by the informants.
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For a long time, most members of Congress have defended the FBI's use of informants in the Trump probe.
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Iranian intelligence reportedly tried to recruit Iraqi CIA informants with gold after the US withdrew its troops in 2011.
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Former Obama administration officials have said it was not unusual for the FBI to use informants in counterintelligence investigations.
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Even the detectives want her to knock it off: She's alienating informants they need in an ongoing drug case.
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Also, the Louisiana State Police narcotics people and the DEA had some good reliable informants who dealt with Seal.
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Third, the memo ignores the fact that judges usually expect informants to be biased without being told of it.
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Judges routinely uphold warrants in criminal cases that fail to disclose bias in informants far worse than Mr. Steele's.
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With Guadalupe being Argentine, Estela originally from Brazil, and Rosa from Paraguay, this trio quickly becomes our best informants.
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His bosses feared he might also be taking money to pay informants who did not exist, the colleague said.
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He was known for having a furious temper and for ordering the killings of people he suspected were informants.
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Confidential informants are among the most sensitive topics in law enforcement, and publicly disclosing them could jeopardize ongoing investigations.
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Russia's pursuit of informants intensified around the time relations with the West soured over Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea.
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The F.B.I. also recruited informants inside peace organizations, wiretapped phones, broke into homes and offices and infiltrated various groups.
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The New York Times has learned the source's identity but typically does not name informants to preserve their safety.
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It has been corrected to include that the report says FBI informants recorded their conversations with Page and others.
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A.T.F. agents told the informants to buy untaxed cigarettes, mark up the cost and sell them at a profit.
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Citing confidential informants, prosecutors said Mingzheng was operated by a Chinese citizen with ties to the Foreign Trade Bank.
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Mr. Horowitz also said that the F.B.I. followed all policies when it used informants to carry out that work.
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The IG found the use of these informants to be in compliance with FBI and DOJ policies and procedures.
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For example, FBI agents and intelligence officers rely on the public to help gather leads and serve as informants.
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And while the FBI did have informants in the Trump campaign, they were not involved in the Russia probe.
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As a trainee detective in Brixton, during the nineteen-nineties, Neville worked gangs, and he excelled at recruiting informants.
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Some, like Jeremy Hammond, received lengthy prison sentences, while others like Hector Monsegur became informants against their former colleagues.
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He introduced Brand to the informants, police officers, and smugglers who would become the roots of his informant organization.
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The fake informants would later get a cut of whatever cash or drugs the officers pocketed during their search.
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When I was a prosecutor, the informants worked for us, so when I spoke to the jury during a case, I would call them the informants, and the defense lawyers would get up and speak to the same jury about the same guys and called them the spies, the snitches, the thinks, whatever.
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Either the FBI has dramatically curtailed how often it allows informants to break the law, or something's not right here.
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The existence of the Geek Squad informants was first revealed via the prosecution of a California doctor named Mark Rettenmaier.
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For weeks, Majid's aunt and other informants had been giving him updates of new executions of people accused of homosexuality.
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In 1975, the FBI had a roster of 1,500 paid informants; by 2008, the number had increased tenfold to 15,000.
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Here, a third person baited a container with two "informants" in the room with them (and the dog and owner).
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The informants' testimony, along with Chapman's eyewitness identification, were the two main pillars the judge cited in finding McCullough guilty.
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It's never spelled out what are the self-interests of these informants; you'd think all these people came from heaven.
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The FBI routinely uses confidential informants in counterintelligence investigations, and there is no public evidence of wrongdoing by the bureau.
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Military officials and experts know that cash given to special operations forces — but designated for informants — can sometimes go missing.
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The district attorney's office also appears to have repeatedly failed to disclose evidence from its own files on some informants.
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He claimed his information came from local informants who had been inside the hospital and witnessed the Taliban operating there.
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The F.B.I. used confidential informants to determine whether Mr. Mateen was a terrorist and placed him on a watch list.
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In the 1980s, you would have informants and undercover assets working the Italian mafia, staking out and penetrating Italian restaurants.
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Multiple FBI officials working in counterterrorism described in the report how the inability to pay informants had affected their investigations.
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So even the FBI said, "Well some of these contacts from our informants/spies occurred leading up to the investigation".
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Well John Solomon discovered that the FBI violated its own rules by using informants before the investigation was ever launched.
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German media have also reported that the Turkish government's MIT intelligence service had a network of 6,000 informants in Germany.
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The American military has taken steps to protect the informants whose identities Ms. Thompson revealed, according to a government official.
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The indictment does not describe Mr. Jackson or Mr. Coles as suspected informants, but says each man was shot once.
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The budget covers expenses as diverse as spy satellites, cyberweapons and the C.I.A.'s network of overseas spies and informants.
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He is suspected of compromising at least 18 informants in China, some of whom were killed between 2010 and 2012.
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The two Navy SEALs were under scrutiny in the theft of money from a fund used to pay confidential informants.
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Mr. Pompeo said the agency was conducting counterintelligence collection, which can include developing informants and penetrating computers overseas, officials said.
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One of the F.B.I.'s informants in the investigation was a socially prominent and politically connected Californian named Katrina Leung.
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Their refusal to become government informants in terrorism-related investigations was based at least in part on their religious beliefs.
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Informants take great risks when working for intelligence services, Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, testified before Congress on Wednesday.
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Missteps don't just cost you investigations; they ultimately imperil your life or the lives of fellow UCAs or case informants.
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The informants helped the bureau's investigations into tobacco smugglers, who move cigarettes across state or national borders to avoid taxes.
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In that case, federal prosecutors charged individuals with trying to sell material from Drug Enforcement Administration files about government informants.
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This included revelations about the other two jailhouse informants, Pablo DeJesus and James Leitner, who testified against Dailey in 1987.
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One of the most prolific jailhouse informants in U.S. history is also a con artist with a long criminal record.
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This is real-life information about our CIA informants being murdered, and it's getting no coverage, except on this channel.
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Horowitz&aposs report found that the bureau&aposs use of confidential informants was in compliance with longstanding rules and protocol.
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The report is also supposed to discredit this idea that the FBI placed informants or spies within the Trump campaign.
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Ms. Witt did not have access to C.I.A. intelligence or the names of the agency's informants and agents, officials said.
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As a result, evidence from jailhouse informants is now viewed with more skepticism, as is any confession obtained under duress.
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They contended that the victims had been informants for Mexicans who had raided the nearby Brite Ranch a month earlier.
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Today, they and others appear to be working smarter, potentially with the help of informants throughout the country, said Lebovich.
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The fake informants would later get a cut of whatever cash or drugs the officers pocketed during their search. Sgt.
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What Trey Gowdy is specifically talking about is this small slice of the investigation that we&aposre looking at as it relates to whether or not informants -- an informant or informants were used that&aposs what he&aposs referring to when he talks about that the president&aposs not a target of this investigation.
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After piecing together the sting by compiling and listening to the raw data (including hundreds of FBI wiretaps generated by the two informants, more than 10,000 FISA intercepted phone taps), reading through hundreds of surveillance logs prepared by FBI agents and 85033s documenting the FBI agent's interactions with their informants, the full picture was undeniable.
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Alexandra Natapoff, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, who is the nation's foremost legal scholar on criminal informants, said the parallels between the two California scandals show how little has changed in 30 years and how little we know about how often jailhouse informants continue to be used across the country.
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In the 1990s, Colombia's Cali cartel was a massive, multinational drug syndicate with informants and connections in governments around the globe.
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Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, whose interactions with FBI informants in 2016 are part of Barr's review, also heralded the move.
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And that means that in 2015 the FBI may have authorized its informants to commit 5,261 misdemeanors for all we know.
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I don&apost think he actually has a good grasp on what American people think about running informants on political campaigns.
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" The tweet : "The corrupt Mainstream Media is working overtime not to mention the infiltration of people, Spies (Informants), into my campaign!
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They often use paid informants, many of whom are familiar with law enforcement's modus operandi because they have criminal records themselves.
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The shake-up followed a pledge to review policies surrounding the use of informants and the use of "no-knock" warrants.
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And, as you say, the questions have arisen about how they have looked into the Trump campaign, including possibly using informants.
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They are based in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and have informants on the ground on both sides of the border.
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With informants, moving in and out of London, dates not matching up, what do you think&aposs going through their minds?
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A previous attempt to outlaw the NPD foundered in 2003 because government-paid informants were among the witnesses, tainting the evidence.
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Historically, the Bureau has been unsuccessful in infiltrating clandestine terror groups or in the development of informants within existing terror cells.
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INGRAHAM: Byron there is an effort to say kind of that we should be grateful that these informants were out there.
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The informants' testimony, along with Chapman's eyewitness identification, were the two main pillars Judge James Hallock cited in finding McCullough guilty.
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Court documents suggest that prosecutors ended up with 49 hours of covertly-taped conversations inside Alstom, courtesy of executives-turned-informants.
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It was the perfect cover for a paranoid 1950s that saw spies and informants under every bed and in every closet.
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And also tonight, former Trump campaign adviser, Michael Caputo, is saying there could have been multiple informants targeting the Trump campaign.
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Many of the identified informants were killed in "a systematic dismantling" of the CIA's network in China that began in 2010.
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How it works: Just how Custos intends to turn file-sharing techno-libertarians into copyright informants is yet to be explained.
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He is trialling a form of informal humanitarian assistance through a network of skilled informants providing care for refugees from within.
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We understand that the FBI and DOJ have to protect the identity of their informants, and the secrecy of their operations.
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The police freely admit that drug syndicates have taken advantage of Mr Duterte's green light to kill rivals or potential informants.
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The new investigation was being driven, he said, by conversations the committee has had with informants over the past several months.
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In fact, many of Rachman's informants belong to an international élite that cannot be easily pinned down to East or West.
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Despite the risks, multiple confidential informants have made millions, according to the source, and confirmed by multiple other former DEA officials.
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EFF's FOIA request on the FBI's ties to Best Buy came out, revealing a few new tidbits about Geek Squad informants.
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The use of informants is relatively common, and they are typically used before other methods of intelligence gathering, like electronic surveillance.
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Taheb was arrested after he accepted weapons and explosives from FBI informants in exchange for his car, according to ABC News.
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These days, it's almost commonplace to take a plea deal, and wise guys are becoming informants with a seemingly higher frequency.
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Most good drug cases are made by undercover operations, good informants, and by wire taps, or a combination of all that.
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Another group accused C.I.A. officials in Beijing of being sloppy and allowing themselves to be identified when meeting with their informants.
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There has been much chatter among intelligence experts that Mr. Steele's Russian informants could have been pressured to feed him disinformation.
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Sheikhzadeh also imagined that having lost so many targets with the prisoner swap, the feds wanted swiftly to attract new informants.
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The hosts trawl government archives to piece together her story, review testimony from informants and interview family members and remaining witnesses.
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Security staff keep a detailed log of visitors, checking each bag, and there are said to be informants on every floor.
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"There was no illegal wiretapping, there were no informants inserted into the campaign, there was no 'spying' on the Trump campaign."
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As you might imagine, though, in a market driven by such questionable motives, the testimony these informants provide is often unreliable.
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The tobacco cooperative is suing a former employee and a consultant who, according to court documents, both worked as A.T.F. informants.
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His death marks a final chapter in the life of one of the country's most infamous criminals, federal informants and fugitives.
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FBI informants also met with Page and two other Trump campaign aides, to ask them questions about their ties to Russia.
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Informants told the authorities that Mr. Nichols, his brother and McVeigh had detonated small bombs on the farm in years past.
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He had noticed that some officers and informants excelled at making identifications, but he had always attributed the difference to motivation.
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Many within the agency came to believe that a mole had exposed American informants, and Mr. Lee became a main suspect.
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And it had assigned undercover officers and informants to local Muslim leaders who were working with the NYPD to combat radicalization.
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Instead of helping, FBI informants spent a year coaching the teenager into a bomb attack on Portland's Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
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Half of the terrorism prosecutions since 9/11 have involved informants, and more than a quarter have employed government sting operations.
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In other words, the figures don't actually represent crimes, but 90-day windows in which informants are allowed to break the law.
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And one of the questions that he asks is, did the FBI use informants against members or associates of the Trump campaign?
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Several lawyers I spoke to said a better way of addressing danger to informants is to tackle the pervasive violence in prisons.
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But experts say the redactions are likely names of foreigners who worked for or acted as informants for the CIA and FBI.
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MCCARTHY: Yes, it&aposs something that you always have to be concerned about when you have a situation where there&aposs informants.
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He has a network of agents and informants who talk to ranch-hands and send reports of labor abuses to federal authorities.
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The Cold-War-era methods of undercover agents, informants living in your neighborhood and agents provocateurs is too labor-intensive and inefficient.
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DOJ was investigating RT. These are the types of meetings we have with people when we want to recruit them as informants.
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The final investigation in Washington is doing counterintelligence work and looking into leads from informants and foreign communications surrounding the hacking allegations.
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Informants were instructed to "create and capture": provoking conversations about jihad and terrorism at study groups and mosques, and capturing the responses.
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One of the informants is a central figure in one of a half-dozen investigations focused on the mayor's campaign fund-raising.
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The informants had erroneously indicated that Saleh was in the hall: the leader's security detail had entered, but Saleh had remained outside.
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The consequence has been an over-reliance on communications surveillance, and an under-detection of "weak signals" via informants on the ground.
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George Washington University law professor Orin Kerr noted earlier this week that the government often uses informants who don't have impeccable credentials.
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She contacted the Office of Professional Standards, she said, and was referred to the F.B.I., where she offered to help recruit informants.
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Current and former Pemex workers are at both ends of the crimes – some as victims but others as instigators, participants or informants.
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This form of control was very effective, as informants stressed the importance of maintaining a high average rating and good accuracy scores.
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The lawmaker also revealed that his committee is probing whether various informants in Russia received payments before there was an authorized investigation.
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"Being unable to pay informants destroys that relationship of trust that is so key to recruiting people to report crime," Campbell added.
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Many informants are "walk-ins," like Mullen, and others are recruits, but some are plants—anti-fascists placed inside far-right groups.
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Records show that, in one case, a pair of informants received $6 million each and agents spent freely from an unofficial account.
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Low-level runners or informants, mostly boys, were allowed to stay, though the cartel murdered most in retaliation, a militia commander said.
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Tawanna Hilliard is also accused of looking up information on the gang member who allegedly told her to report back on informants.
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Melgar reportedly accused the other service members of soliciting prostitutes and bringing them to a safehouse; and skimming cash intended for informants.
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Worse, China obliterated our intelligence networks in the country, leading to the jailing and killing of more than a dozen CIA informants.
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In 2012, Mr. Klehr obtained newly declassified F.B.I. files on informants who had successfully penetrated the Communist Party of the United States.
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However, those operations "received the necessary approvals under FBI policy" and there were no informants placed within the Trump campaign, Horowitz concluded.
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The leader of a pro-government militia charged with developing informants inside Baba Amr, Khaled al-Fares, received a black Hyundai Genesis.
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Some of what was ''classified'' under the new system involved vital intelligence matters: military plans, weapons technology, the names of informants overseas.
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For successful whistle-blowers, the rules carry an important reminder: "Informants can pick up the reward within 90 days of receiving notification."
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But the two jailhouse informants were eclipsed by a third inmate, who had contacted Halliday to say that he had some information.
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The two publications obtained thousands of pages of public records that provide a vivid picture of how jailhouse informants are used. 8.
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Through these young informants, Ripley meets battle-scarred reformers, sleep-deprived zombie students, and a teacher who earns $4 million a year.
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The case against Mr. Dailey, now 73, leaned heavily on the testimony of jailhouse informants who said Mr. Dailey had incriminated himself.
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And a newly released K.G.B. archive has revealed the names of 4,103 Latvians who might have been secret informants for the Soviets.
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Would-be terrorists have been left to work alone or, occasionally, with close relatives they can trust not to be FBI informants.
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In addition, the compromise of the network led to the loss of informants in China, where the C.I.A.'s network was devastated.
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The Times investigation found no-knock searches often start with unreliable informants and cursory investigations that produce affidavits signed by unquestioning judges.
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INGRAHAM: Well it looks like the documents Nunes requested were about informants placed inside the Trump campaign or who approached the Trump campaign.
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Gang members have severed the fingers of rivals with machetes, killed suspected informants and committed rapes, assaults and other crimes, the FBI said.
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TJWG crafted the report, entitled "Mapping Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea," in order to attract more experts and informants to the cause.
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Then you look at the Laurel of collusion, FBI, Hillary, Democrats, the British spy, one informant, maybe two informants inserted in the campaign.
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People who observed the barricades in their neighborhoods said government informants had been compiling lists of who was manning them or supporting them.
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Former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo, he&aposs now saying that there could have been multiple informants, multiple spies targeting the Trump campaign.
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Abdullah worked with a police intelligence officer, Ayad Jassim, to put together a network of 2176 informants in towns and villages near Mosul.
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Isis clamped down or banned the use of mobile phones and internet in areas it still controls, leaving informants scrambling for more sources.
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Reliable informants generally have firsthand information, but the Steele dossier stands in stark contrast: It relied upon unnamed sources in Russia for information.
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Obviously, for most of us who aren't former FBI informants working in the security business, this isn't very realistic — we're going to text.
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One of Elhassan's attorneys accused the government of manufacturing the plot with the help of informants, naming Younus Abdullah Muhammad in open court.
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Iran faces a more subtle version of the same threat, with police more interested in cultivating informants than raiding bathhouses and making headlines.
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Terrorist attacks can fail due to a technical error made by the terrorists themselves, or may be foiled by informants or intelligence services.
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FBI informants famously infiltrated the Black Panthers in the 1960s, effectively crippling a group poised to become a major force in American society.
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For example, the FBI cannot leverage Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court-ordered interceptions or task informants at this stage of its investigation.
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In an attempt to end the 41-day standoff, the government sent paid informants into the refuge, about 225 miles southeast of Portland.
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Informants within Syria then found al-Ethawi at a market in Idlib and followed him to the house where al-Baghdadi was staying.
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You know, the truth is, spy services use informants in lots of ways, that has been part of the history of the business.
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I think it&aposs unseemly that the FBI was putting informants in there, trying to extract and entrap members of the Trump campaign.
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There were contacts going on by people identified as informers and informants, people who provided information began much, much earlier than July 31st.
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Problems in Paradise A former senior DEA official told me that Afghan participants in the illegal drug trade sometimes doubled as CIA informants.
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Why it matters: Many within the organization are concerned that credibility questions will threaten the cooperation of informants, police officials and allies overseas.
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Some of Hayes's informants, like Mary from Australia, moved to Cuenca because "life seems to be narrowing" at home as friends pass away.
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The FBI paid Best Buy Geek Squad employees to act as informants, according to documents obtained by the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
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Plastic-bag vigilantes are everywhere, from airports to villages, and these informants tip off the authorities about suspected sales or use of plastic.
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I recall syntacticians insisting to me that Everett's informants must have hated him to the point where they fed him a nonsense language.
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That could mean everything from confidential informants in hate groups, gangs, or terrorist networks, to local police officers, in the U.S. and abroad.
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C.I.A. officers at the center work closely with the F.B.I. on complex cases like hunting down traitors and helping validate the agency's informants.
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Former officials say Mr. Lee had access to information that could have helped the Chinese figure out the identities of the American informants.
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Lee was said to be suspected of helping China detect CIA informants, many of whom were later imprisoned or killed in the country.
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So we invited them to Mogadishu, asking them to travel along I.E.D.-infested roads and risk being accused by Shabab of being informants.
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As evidence, the lawsuit cited contracts between the companies and the Iraqi government, leaked diplomatic cables, press accounts and the testimony of informants.
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How many people are serving as informants is impossible to know: The only people who talk about recruitment pitches are those who balked.
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Massari left perplexed: Abdel-Ghaffar, a 258-year veteran of the security services, had an army of informants on the streets of Cairo.
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And a separate new organization might improve the management of law enforcement informants, now handled by the F.B.I. and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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Four others have some hidden text, because prosecutors are redacting names of informants in the case and keeping secret information about ongoing prosecutions.
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Even before Abdullah's deportation, Gonzalez gathered information that seemed to support the prison informants' claims that Abdullah had some forewarning of 9/11.
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The leaked documents describe in detail Iran's efforts to obtain informants and to persuade Iraqi agents working for the Americans to switch sides.
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Mr. Lee was at the center of an intensive F.B.I. and C.I.A. investigation into how the Chinese determined the identities of agency informants.
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For years, law enforcement officials compiled maps of Muslim communities, eavesdropped in mosques, infiltrated Muslim student groups and used informants in sting operations.
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Officials were able to pinpoint his location using a combination of top-secret information from informants, electronic intercepts, reconnaissance aircraft, and other surveillance.
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The revelations highlight the lax oversight at the A.T.F. that allowed agents and informants to spend millions while avoiding the normal accounting process.
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Records show that a pair of A.T.F. informants who ran a tobacco warehouse in Bristol, Jason Carpenter and Christopher Small, opened the account.
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Caller ID was not nearly that advanced, but it did create problems for people in sensitive situations—say, police informants or drug dealers.
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"There was no illegal wiretapping, there were no informants inserted into the campaign, there was no 'spying' on the Trump campaign," Comey wrote.
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Given how opaque and unchecked prosecutors' use of jailhouse informants is, it is impossible to quantify how often they factor into criminal cases.
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In one deal described in the lawsuit, the informants bought tobacco at $15 a carton and sold it to U.S. Tobacco at $17.50.
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They were away from mainstream platforms like Twitter and Facebook, and they were thoroughly infiltrated by pro-deplatforming activists and law enforcement informants.
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Informants can be used and rewarded for information in criminal investigations, but not once suspects are facing trial and are represented by lawyers.
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For years, law enforcement officials compiled maps of Muslim communities, eavesdropped in mosques, infiltrated Muslim student groups and used informants in sting operations.
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The unusual business arrangement and the secret account helped make Mr. Carpenter and Mr. Small two of the A.T.F.'s most valuable informants.
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These informants were utilized by the Syrian military to sniff out resistance and place missile trackers at the places they found resistance gathering.
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So, I think any involvement, even in crossfire hurricane of an informants being paid to go into the Trump campaign is something that - a red line that we&aposve never crossed before, but what could be even worse is if there were informants that were being run into the Trump campaign and their associates before July 34.993st, which would be even worse.
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The only way we can stop it locally is through increased surveillance, neighborhood surveillance, community surveillance, that means using undercover as if using informants.
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His investigation looked at how the FBI used informants to infiltrate organized crime, and he successfully prosecuted an FBI supervisor and a police lieutenant.
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And now we know that in 2016, at least 381 times, the FBI authorized its informants to engage in some really serious criminal activity.
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These informants frequently point the FBI in the direction of suspects who suffer from mental illnesses and are thus easy prey for sting operations.
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Even when defendants have suffered from mental health issues or were nabbed with the assistance of shady informants, severe sentences have been the norm.
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Latif shared for the first time with a Western journalist intelligence about the group gathered by Kurdish fighters, spies, and their network of informants.
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Williams and Milton, following up with their informants to see what they are doing now, were unable to track down a majority of them.
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Gomez said that the FBI's informants and undercover agents set up the suspect for the "next proactive move," but don't make them take it.
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Citing two informants, Rivera thinks Tara could have been killed by at least two teenage boys from the community who acted with two accomplices.
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Romanian-born Virgil Flaviu Georgescu was convicted of conspiring to sell $15 million worth of weapons to undercover DEA informants posing as Colombian rebels.
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In explosive new court testimony, the FBI, citing informants, implicated Timothy Da'Shaun Taylor and his father, Timothy Shaun Taylor, in Drexel's disappearance and death.
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In this case, there is no current information that would indicate that informants were involved in identifying Russia as the source of the crime.
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Anyone in possession of drugs ensnared by the revolution's layers of police and informants faced a lengthy prison sentence, or sometimes a firing squad.
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The collectors harvest intelligence from a much larger network of unpaid sources, some of whom don't even realize they are being treated as informants.
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Campbell: Informants often serve as the backbone of important investigations, because they take the FBI into places they could never go on their own.
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Lutchman discussed these communications with three paid informants pretending to be ISIS recruits, asking them to help him plan and fund a knife attack.
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During the FBI's investigation into him in 85033 and 2014, officials placed Mateen under surveillance, introduced him to confidential informants and interviewed him twice.
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" Estes blamed "rats" and undercover informants" for igniting discord among the group setting up the rally, set to take place in Stone Mountain Park.
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Friends, informants and snoops The FBI reportedly used one-time CIA operative Stefan Halper in 2016 as an informant to spy on Trump officials.
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Despite the fears of some of Roiphe's informants, plenty of women have questioned aspects of the #MeToo movement without demonstrable damage to their careers.
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When the firm discovered a $15,000 shortfall in a cash fund used to pay informants on cigarette smuggling cases, Mr. Lee came under suspicion.
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And the few charges that are tied to publication of the documents focused on issues like revealing the names of informants in war zones.
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Spies and informants overseas also give American intelligence agencies early warning about influence campaigns, interference operations or other attempts to compromise the United States.
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The information Mr. Ji provided would have been used in the Chinese government's efforts to recruit those employees as informants, the Justice Department said.
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After the American withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, many of those informants were jobless and fearful that their work as spies would be revealed.
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However, as they lamented repeatedly to the informants wearing live wires, their undocumented status prevented them from purchasing firearms legally on the open market.
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Jailhouse informants, in turn, love the perks they get in exchange for snitching, like shortened sentences, immunity from prosecution or a wad of cash.
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As Ms Richlin discovered in Washington, there was no huge difference between her informants who attended charismatic churches and those who followed other sects.
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"Particular credit must go to the eagle-eyed informants who made us aware that the missing piece had been located after so many years."
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If there was any doubt that the laws and regulations protecting the "confidentiality" of confidential informants also covers whistleblowers, that debate ended in 2002.
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In its final throes, the Stasi used an estimated 189,143 informants to help maintain its grip on a Communist state of about 16 million.
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It is common practice for the FBI to pay informants, one former senior FBI official who worked on national security issues told The Hill.
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The FBI then utilizes its vast network of over 15,000 informants to target these individuals, even in the absence of any actual criminal conduct.
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However, this slide presentation reveals that Ring actively recruited private citizens to simultaneously promote Ring products and serve as private informants to local police.
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The F.B.I. never tried to place undercover agents or informants inside the Trump campaign, a highly anticipated inspector general's report is expected to find.
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Mr. Barr has suggested that the F.B.I. assigned other informants as well to figure out whether any Trump associates were working with the Russians.
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Among informants in federal custody, the officials said, he ranks among a handful whose information seriously disrupted terrorist plots and contributed to winning convictions.
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Instead, he hired native Russian speakers to call informants inside Russia and made surreptitious contact with his own connections in the country as well.
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The investigators apparently decided that by continuing to quietly monitor Mr. Lee, they might glean more clues about the disappearing C.I.A. informants in China.
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The collapse of the covert communications network, called the "covcom" by intelligence agencies, led to the deaths of informants in Iran, intelligence officials assessed.
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The United States, like other countries, also has a worldwide network of paid informants who provide information about the inner workings of foreign governments.
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Scapegoating, questionable informants, and stitch-ups cannot be ruled out in the military justice system any more than they can be in the civilian one.
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The jury heard testimony from 14 witnesses including DEA agents, informants for the agency, a member of Haitian drug law enforcement, data analysts and translators.
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After the assassination of a top Hamas official by suspected Palestinian informants for Israel, Hamas' long and intense operation to root out spies has escalated.
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Also Robert Mueller has allegedly weaponized the information collected by the informants, spies in order to target President Trump and those connected to his campaign.
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Where informants may be put at risk, judges will consider requests to seal the records, allowing access only to prosecutors, defense attorneys, and court clerks.
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Researchers also found in interviews with "key informants" — policy professionals, service providers and drug users — that practical, legal, and community resistance exists to prescription heroin.
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Prosecutors noted that the New York Times reported in the summer of 2010 that the Taliban were studying the WikiLeaks documents to learn about informants.
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The question is whether technicians are specifically acting as FBI informants to find material that the agency would otherwise need a warrant to look for.
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A hearing in January revealed some of this information, but these new documents offer more specific details, including ones about how much informants were paid.
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Informants in Syria then spotted an Iraqi man wearing a checkered headdress in an Idlib marketplace and recognized him from a photograph, the official said.
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He also offers a judicious assessment of controversial F.B.I. sting operations, using often unsavory informants, and the overreach by intelligence agencies in their surveillance efforts.
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In some cases, those stops are made as a result of FBI requests, as a means of recruiting informants from a particular region or community.
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At Pruett's trial, the only eyewitnesses to the crime who testified were inmate informants, whose "so-called snitch testimony is notoriously unreliable," Pruett's appeals state.
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For example, it may wish to protect the rights of innocent parties, conceal the identity of confidential informants, or prevent disclosure of prosecution legal strategy.
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In court papers, the Exoneration Project rips the case apart -- including the timeline of events, an eyewitness identification and the testimony of three jailhouse informants.
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Then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other U.S. officials argued some of the documents put lives at risk by revealing information about collaborators and informants.
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Unnamed U.S. officials acknowledged that the raid had been made possible by multiple sources of intelligence, including satellite imagery, drone reconnaissance, electronic eavesdropping, and informants.
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According to the press release, informants told law enforcement that parents of drug-addicted babies sometimes do this to hide signs of addiction from hospitals.
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Prosecutors alleged he would have informants and other enemies tortured and killed, and that he often wielded a diamond-encrusted or gold-plated AK-47.
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Gang leaders often respond by setting the informants' homes on fire, with the Chicago police failing to pre-emptively protect these victims from retaliatory arson.
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The rest of the criminal justice system calls them rats, snitches, chivatos, stool pigeons, informants and sapos, just to name a few of the terms.
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Steele claims to have informants from the highest levels of the Kremlin; some reportedly even worked within listening distance of Russian President Vladimir Putin himself.
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It's impossible to ask or expect those troops to track every dollar or get receipts from confidential informants, although there are ways of getting them.
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In order to distinguish between Internet fabulists and dangerous individuals, the agency conducts sting operations with paid informants and undercover agents posing as ISIS supporters.
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Zakaria Tamer, one of the great Arab short story writers, attacked Syria's dictatorship with his own take on Juha—replacing gossipy cats with police informants.
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In court, prosecutors presented allegations from two unidentified informants who said that Perez was involved in the arson, Di Carlo said in a telephone interview.
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In a prototype of the surveillance state, she instigated policies to encourage informants, installing metal boxes on the sides of administrative buildings for anonymous tipoffs.
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There is no public evidence of wrongdoing by either the intelligence source or the bureau, which regularly uses confidential informants in validly predicated counterintelligence investigations.
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According to New America data, just under half of the more than 400 post-9/11 jihadist terrorism cases used informants or undercover FBI agents.
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The FBI and U.S. customs office work together to recruit potential informants that are entering the U.S., according to government documents obtained by The Intercept.
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Informants in Syria found one of al-Baghdadi's top aides at a market in Idlib and followed him to the house where Baghdadi was staying.
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But the US has provided a special refugee program for individuals who serve the US government, especially as translators, informants, military contractors, and so on.
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It encouraged urban police forces to confront Black Panthers; planted informants and agents provocateurs; and intimidated local community members who were sympathetic to the group.
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The Fortify Rights report also describes how militants from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army killed and tortured Rohingya whom they considered to be government informants.
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The man took a screenshot of their video chat that showed her displaying a handwritten note with the name of two informants, court papers showed.
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The New York Times did not originally name Mr. Halper because of a general practice not to name confidential F.B.I. informants to preserve their safety.
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Human rights advocates have criticized aggressive sting operations, the use of informants and other tools that law enforcement officials have used in international terrorism cases.
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The alleged victims include cartel rivals, informants, law enforcement officials, Chapo's cousin, his ex-bodyguard, and at least one man who might still be alive.
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He shows up, spouts a few platitudes, and mostly leaves us wishing he were any of The X-Files' original crew of baddies or informants.
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Agents also used a multimillion-dollar slush fund meant to pay informants to instead pad their own pockets, The New York Times revealed last year.
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The book flows from reporting for The Times by Sanger and his colleagues, who have had access, and volunteer informants, that lesser publications rarely enjoy.
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Non-profit advocacy groups like Project Salam and National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms maintained the men were entrapped by informants in a government conspiracy.
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Leonardo E. Concepcion, a lawyer for one of Mr. Irizarry's onetime informants, Gustavo Yabrudi, said his client had hoped his former handler would be charged.
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Across the country, there are virtually no consequences for prosecutors who rely on jailhouse informants, no matter how unreliable their testimony turns out to be.
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In March, an FBI agent based in Minneapolis, Terry Albury, was charged with a leak to The Intercept of the FBI's procedures for handling informants.
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The inquiry exposed extensive prosecutorial misconduct and the widespread misuse of jailhouse informants, who had concocted persuasive-sounding confessions in a variety of ingenious ways.
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Police say they have killed only in self-defence, and the deaths of other dealers and users was down to vigilantes or gangs silencing informants.
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But he passed on what he heard from Russian informants and others, and what they told him has not yet been vetted by American intelligence.
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Indeed, the Kremlin deployed an army of spies and recruited informants around the world to steal secrets, spread disinformation and support terrorists and rogue regimes.
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She also worked closely with the F.B.I. on counterintelligence matters, and she knew the identities of Iranian informants whom the American intelligence agencies were using.
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Together, the compromise of those networks of informants has been one of the gravest losses of intelligence operatives since the end of the Cold War.
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A judge found that the district attorney's office had lied to him about the use of informants and withheld potentially favorable evidence from defense lawyers.
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Nearly a fifth of the 365 people exonerated by new DNA evidence nationwide were convicted partly based on lying informants, according to the Innocence Project.
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As a consequence, the bureau did something else that's new: It revealed the number of times it gave informants permission to engage in serious criminal activity.
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The evidence included photos, videos and messages from the defendants' smartphones, as well as audio and video recordings obtained by DEA informants using hidden recording devices.
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Informants never appear in court; their claims are passed to the judges in dry, written reports from intelligence officials with no hint of their possible motivation.
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Documents unsealed by the FBI say that between 2007 and 2012, the agency cultivated eight "informants" at the Geek Squad City computer repair site in Kentucky.
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The program will take place in at least six cities and will not allow cameras during operations involving confidential informants, classified intelligence or national security concerns.
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To fight this, he proposed an idea he had first heard from a detective in South Africa: when investigating a crime, create a network of informants.
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But these require fortuitous tip-offs and extensive, expensive investigations, involving the examination of complex evidence from phone calls, e-mails or informants wired with recorders.
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Clapper admitted informants were "spying," but said the focus was on Russians and their potential ties to the campaign — which many insiders claimed was splitting hairs.
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Chipman said ATF investigations typically resulted from tips provided by informants and scrupulous gun dealers against people buying guns at a generous clip and suspect volume.
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"To prevent a re-occurrence of this issue, we are creating a detailed new policy on the use of jailhouse informants," Wilson said in a statement.
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An official said one informant was shot in front of his colleagues outside of a government building in an apparent gesture to intimidate other potential informants.
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"File under '22019 U.S.C. §§ 1503, 1512,'" George Conway tweeted, a reference to the statutes for obstruction of justice and tampering with witnesses, informants or victims, respectively.
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However, as an in-depth investigation from Buzzfeed News revealed, the citizenship status of many Muslim Americans depends on them becoming informants in their own community.
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First, Melgar reportedly found out that the two commandos took money from a government fund — with an estimated value of up to $210,63 — to pay informants.
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Defendants were convicted based on the testimony of informants whose credibility, the secret records showed, prosecutors and the police questioned, unknown to the judge and jury.
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Duck kulcha isn't on their menu, but the kulcha stuffed with pastrami and mustard helped me see why my New Delhi informants had been so excited.
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"I had some suspicions because some of my informants called me from Ukraine and said some strange things were happening," Mr. Brand in a telephone interview.
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In the former East, known as the German Democratic Republic, the repressive Ministry of State Security, or Stasi, used torture, intimidation and informants to crush dissent.
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Some of the informants were children, but that didn't matter in court—a suspect would never find out who had denounced him, or what was said.
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A criminal complaint alleged that Hamzeh toured the Masonic center with two FBI informants and then laid out details of an attack in a subsequent meeting.
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These rules help prevent individuals from becoming "genetic informants" by subjecting their relatives to unwanted government scrutiny, but they have not been implemented in all states.
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The reforms will also reinstall a civilian watchdog within the police department to prevent unfair targeting and will limit the use of undercover and confidential informants.
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An earlier attempt to ban the NPD in 2003 collapsed because some of the party officials used as witnesses turned out to be government-paid informants.
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The only exceptions to this rule apply to grand jury proceedings and occasional matters relating to such things as national security, confidential informants or threatened witnesses.
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Criminal informants are expected to know how to behave with their targets so as not to raise suspicion; confidential sources like Enotiades learn on the job.
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The memo was to include the impact on the agency's many investigations, including the ability to conduct wiretaps and pay informants, one law enforcement official said.
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Ranging in age from 19 to 34, the women were either confidential informants or had been arrested on suspicion of drug-related crimes, according to Newsweek.
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It's interesting to see that most of the informants who report on my father did find him exceptionally talented—if not the best in his generation.
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Over a dozen informants were killed or imprisoned in the period by the Chinese government, a devastating and confounding setback for the agency, the Times reported.
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Turkish officials hint that they have withheld the evidence so far in order to avoid exposing intelligence sources, which could include human informants or electronic surveillance.
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The DOJ announced on Tuesday that a former CIA officer found with top-secret material including the names of CIA employees and informants had been arrested.
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Inside the agency: Senior operatives described finding themselves now protecting informants and information not only from hostile states but also from members of their own government.
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That's partly because the US recruited informants from inside the Chinese administration, which helped the US better understand the inner workings of a highly secretive government.
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Terre Haute, like Coleman, is known to be a safe haven of sorts for inmates who might need extra protection, like informants and former gang members.
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He became one of the F.B.I.'s most important terrorism informants, and he is cited as proof that civilian courts could handle these types of cases.
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The inspector general has also asked about the handling of F.B.I. informants, including Mr. Steele and Stefan A. Halper, an American academic who teaches in Britain.
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Current American officials said there is no direct evidence that the exposure of Mr. Halper has been cited by overseas informants as a source of concern.
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The man approached the home of one of the C.I.A.'s most important informants, a fellow Russian, who had been secretly resettled along the sunny coast.
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Intelligence agents have tried to assess how easy it would be to find the informants through social media accounts, information shared with relatives and other clues.
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The Russians have also used more time-tested techniques, waiting for informants to grow homesick or using honey traps — fake romantic overtures to lure a target.
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The blackouts demonstrate influence, and the Taliban say they also serve a practical purpose of preventing government informants from calling in tips about their nighttime movements.
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And across Syria's porous border with Iraq, Islamic State fighters are conducting a campaign of assassination against local village headmen, in part to intimidate government informants.
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Mr. Herrera-Chiang also entered law enforcement databases on his work computer to run drug seizure checks and even provided information on confidential informants in Mexico.
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The group of athletes, officials, performers, reporters and cheerleaders -- including the younger sister of Kim Jong Un -- will be surrounded by support staff, minders and informants.
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He said team members would be under 24-7 surveillance -- unable to go to the bathroom alone and informants would monitor who is talking to whom.
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The "rap unit," as it was referred to internally, had a peripheral role in a division otherwise focused on recruiting Muslim informants and building terrorism cases.
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It's hard to gather more precise data on the use of informants, because prosecutors don't keep such records, which puts defendants, and jurors, at a disadvantage.
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Of the 367 DNA exonerations in the United States to date, jailhouse informants played a role in nearly one in five of the underlying wrongful convictions.
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Often that means working with informants to buy and sell tobacco on the black market, much the way agents pose as drug dealers to investigate cartels.
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About two-thirds of ISIS cases have involved sting operations with undercover agents and/or paid informants, according to a CNN review of arrests since 2014.
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The Stasi security service deployed hundreds of thousands of East German citizens as spies and informants, creating a climate of near-total surveillance and pervasive paranoia.
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The F.B.I. gave Mr. Horowitz's team extraordinary access to its informant database, and his investigators examined other F.B.I. informants with possible ties to the Trump campaign.
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The police interviewed "all of the confidential informants" that had worked with Officer Goines, the affidavits said, and "all denied making a buy" at that location.
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There are as many as 15,000 paid FBI informants in the Muslim community, up to one in 94 agents for every Muslim in the United States.
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According to the indictment, Elizondo and Salgado hired two Chicago residents to pose as confidential informants and lie to the court to get around these requirements.
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This means it will only review public statements of the party and other public information, but will not rely on confidential informants or the surveillance of communication.
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Moore later updated his theory to say "definitively" that Mateen was either an FBI informant or he was somehow radicalized by FBI informants during a botched operation.
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Some parents also worry the army is turning their children into informants by asking them about gang activity in their neighborhoods, putting them at risk of retaliation.
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"Expose all the informants and give them a real beating so she knows not to touch honorable revolutionary women," one group member wrote of the woman officer.
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To encourage informants, troops have erected a number of mobile-phone masts near the front line and phone operators have given residents 60 minutes of free credit.
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The brothers told the informants that they had gone to the Jungle to complete a drug deal with a man known as Phats, according to the affidavit.
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The FBI is under increasing pressure tonight to explain why it was surveilling the Trump campaign as a number of people contacted by informants continues to increase.
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Estrada and Gonzalez thought they were dealing with members of Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel, but they were actually informants for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, or DEA.
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This past weekend, President Donald Trump suggested that his presidential campaign may have been the victim of spies or moles who were FBI informants or undercover agents.
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Before that, it was a Missouri sheriff's office, which had inadvertently leaked audio recordings of police informants of victims involved in crimes as serious as child molestation.
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It&aposs just -- to just put it in perspective again, the Obama administration wiretapped and had informants inside the political opponent&aposs campaign, Donald Trump&aposs campaign.
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DrugWise says the purity levels for crack are "unprecedented," at an average of 212 percent—but informants suggest they could sometimes be as high as 2100 percent.
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"If the Swiss spy did not just collect data himself, but also placed informants in our financial administration, the scandal takes on a new dimension," he said.
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The Chinese government worked to weaken CIA spying operations by killing or imprisoning more than a dozen informants over two years, The New York Times reported Saturday.
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Was Epperlein's father one of the half a million informants the country employed to police his neighbors, and did that have something to do with his death?
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The former CIA officer is believed to have helped China dismantle a US spy network in the country and identify informants who were later killed or imprisoned.
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Allison's only informants on the subject appear to be Henry Kissinger and the late Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, both of whom he regards with awe.
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In the aftermath of the financial crisis, a growing army of confidential informants — better known as whistle-blowers — has helped federal securities regulators identify and prosecute wrongdoers.
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US, Iraqi, Turkish, and Kurdish intelligence, working with informants close to al-Baghdadi, were able to discover where the terrorist leader was hiding out near Idlib, Syria.
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As a throng of over a thousand FBI agents descended on the blocks where he'd grown up, he found out that people he'd trusted had turned informants.
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Why it matters: This follows a years-long investigation, launched in 2012 amid suspicion that a mole had betrayed the identities of CIA informants who kept disappearing.
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Scarlatoiu tells Lake it's "wishful thinking" to presume that America would be allowed to collect insights on a regime that largely operates a vast network of informants.
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Law enforcement and national security personnel can put those messages together with information gathered in other ways—surveillance, confidential informants, analysis of metadata and transmission characteristics, etc.
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Prosecutors said a contractor shared the names of informants — among the government's most closely held secrets — to a Lebanese man with ties to an Iran-backed group.
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A number of U.S. authorities offer financial rewards to incentivize informants to help recover billions of dollars lost to large-scale and often well hidden economic crime.
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Divino Rey Pabayo, the head of Joint Task Force Sulu, said the military had been tracking the Abu Sayyaf militants based on information provided by civilian informants.
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His friend Sergei Roldugin said he had never seen Mr. Putin so emotional as when he spoke about those East German informants whose identities had been revealed.
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Prosecutors said the woman worked as a translator for the military in Iraq and revealed the names of foreign informants, among the government's most closely held secrets.
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And she identified cases in which police informants who were arrested in connection with terrorist crimes were interrogated in ways that ensured they would not be prosecuted.
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Sidebar Three Muslim men say F.B.I. agents tried to use the list to coerce them into becoming informants, in violation of a federal law protecting religious freedom.
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Communist East Germany's ministry for state security, commonly known as the Stasi, became legendary among intelligence agencies for its pervasive network of informants and totalitarian surveillance activities.
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U.S. authorities say his actions in recklessly publishing unredacted classified diplomatic cables put informants, dissidents, journalists and human rights activists at risk of torture, abuse or death.
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A better solution would be to bar the use of compensated informants outright, or at least in cases involving capital crimes, as one Texas bill has proposed.
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This includes a full accounting of the benefits that jailhouse informants have received for their testimony, their criminal records and the previous cases in which they testified.
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In 1999, then-Attorney General Janet Reno dispatched him to Boston to lead a strike force aimed at sorting through FBI agents' convoluted relationship with mobster informants.
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It happened again in 2015 when the father of two high-level Sinaloa cartel informants in Chicago was murdered when he took a trip home to Mexico.
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The bureau has also not been able to pay its informants, an important source of intelligence in terrorism, narcotics, gang, illegal firearm and other national security cases.
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That's how traumatized the community was after learning how law enforcement planted informants among them in order to collect sufficient evidence for conviction against the teenage boys.
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The new policy, which went into effect Monday, lets informants pass information to authorities by calling through a hotline, sending letters, or visiting the city's state security bureau.
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Jose Pinto, head of the Revolutionary Tupamaro Movement, a militant group that backs Maduro, told Reuters he and other so-called "colectivos" were expanding their networks of informants.
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Among other things, his research suggests the victims worked as police informants and that at least one witnessed a 2005 police killing that was investigated as a crime.
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NUNES: We don&apost know if there is one informant or more informants because there is so much out there now, it&aposs really getting tough to follow.
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Beijing has successfully recruited FBI agents and State Department employees as spies, and has used information from U.S. informants to kill dozens of CIA sources inside the regime.
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They added that some of the watermarked pages covered communications between the inspector general and FDIC employees, raising concerns that the agency is attempting to identify confidential informants.
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An ex-CIA agent betrays the agency, feeding the identities of local informants to the Chinese, who carry out a systematic and deadly operation to break the network.
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The US attorneys sealed my case files [over the allegations of arson and conspiracy to commit arson against rival tattoo parlors] because there are ten informants in it.
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According to the review, the only other potentially viable option for obtaining this sort of information would have been through the use of human sources—informants or spies.
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On the surface, these informants appear to fit Brennan's model of using friendly outside intelligence sources while allowing U.S. intelligence chiefs to keep their fingerprints off the case.
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The blazes were confirmed by sources including two monitors with a network of informants on the ground, and a local journalist based in the nearby town of Buthidaung.
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Police said about 2,100 deaths among some 13,500 murders over the same period were drugs-related, attributed to turf wars, informants being silenced, or vigilantes killing drug users.
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As civilians marched out of Mosul, toward camps for the displaced, masked informants stood at checkpoints, pointing out individuals who, they claimed, had worked with the Islamic State.
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In at least three major public cases, the DEA has paid out huge sums to informants after sting operations:One against the Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout in 2008.
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The Stasi had some 91,000 full-time staff at the time East Germany collapsed and a network of around 200,000 informants who spied on friends, colleagues and relatives.
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"There is a clear conflict between the use of children as informants and agencies' safeguarding obligations," said Rights Watch UK, a civil liberties group, in a Twitter message.
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WASHINGTON — A former C.I.A. officer suspected by investigators of helping China dismantle United States spying operations and identify informants has been arrested, the Justice Department said on Tuesday.
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A growing number of Chinese students avoid the organization out of concern that it does harbor informants and spies (and there are almost certainly some on U.S. campuses).
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Pakistani officials, in turn, had accused General Raziq, who had a large network of informants and vast wealth, of stirring trouble in Baluchistan and assisting the Baluch separatists.
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The codes of omertà, or silence, that governed the Mafia and protected its bosses began to erode in the 1980s as rival families and informants turned state's evidence.
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Some argued that sloppy tradecraft was to blame or suggested that the Chinese government had cracked the encrypted system that American spies used to communicate with their informants.
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The department's inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, is separately examining investigators' use of wiretap applications and informants and whether any political bias against Mr. Trump influenced investigative decisions.
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" The website says the funds for the rewards had been donated by members of the public, and assured that the identities of any informants would remain "absolutely confidential.
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The new law requires prosecutors to keep thorough records of all jailhouse informants they use — the nature of their testimony, the benefits they received and their criminal history.
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Barr continued asserting that the Trump campaign was spied on and noted that the FBI used confidential informants who recorded conversations with campaign officials, according to NBC News.
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LOS ANGELES — The Department of Justice opened a civil rights investigation on Thursday into whether the Orange County district attorney's office improperly used jailhouse informants and withheld evidence.
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Considine, a fine actor in a dour role, plays Gabe Waters, a former undercover cop who now seeks out, trains and handles informants in the South Asian community.
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The Home Office declined to comment on the number of authorizations that had been given or to detail the crimes that MI5 informants had been allowed to commit.
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Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a former C.I.A. officer, is suspected of identifying agency informants to the Chinese government, helping to cripple the United States' intelligence operations in China.
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Mr. Horowitz's investigators have also asked witnesses about informants that the F.B.I. turned to in the early stages of the investigation, according to people familiar with his inquiry.
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Otherwise, authorized informants may engage in criminal activity to maintain cover and provide the bureau with intelligence on other, presumably worse criminals, so long as certain protocols are observed.
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There are suggestions that, in fact, there was possibly human contact, possibly informants going into the Trump campaign even before this Russia investigation was launched in July 303, 2016.
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Kevin Brock who actually supervised the rewriting of the rules of informants of the FBI joined us week, week before on the Angle, let&apos watch what he said.
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One WWF staffer emailed his managers in CAR in 2010 to warn that morale of the secret informants would run low if the charity wasn't paying them swiftly enough.
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"Most federal judges, when they review things, they understand fundamentally that most witnesses and informants have some type of bias anyway," said Stigall, now a lawyer at Ballard Spahr.
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Whatever he's up to, it involves looking through Maester Luwin's old scrolls — and/or setting up Arya to think that's what he's doing — and paying off lots of informants.
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You couldn&apost have done your job, the FBI can&apost do it&aposs job, the CIA if informants think they&aposre going to be outed for political purposes.
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Prosecutor German Juarez said he has "serious and founded elements for conviction" that includes documents and statements from witnesses and informants, the attorney general's office said in a statement.
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They declared the Obama administration was "not spying" on the Trump campaign when it sent covert informants to probe aides, tapped phones, and issued a secret warrant for surveillance.
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In his book, Mr. Laux recounts how he ran a web of informants to try to hunt down people who had turned the bomb making into a lucrative business.
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In one 2016 clip, a narrator claims that EncroChat and Myntex are federal informants on a "massive scale," and that EncroChat's device includes software that spies on the user.
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Rumold says there's a public interest in finding out more about the DEA's use of Skinner as a confidential informant, especially given its problematic use of informants in general.
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"It would be easier for law enforcement to use undercover informants to pose as a far-right foreign-based extremist who claim they're part of that organization," Blazakis said.
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He's now turned to Assange, a man who has leaked the names of Afghan civilians working with the US as informants, to make the case against America's own spies.
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The officers were from the Field Intelligence Unit of the 52nd Precinct, which gathers information about gangs, drug dealing and guns, often helping detectives with information from confidential informants.
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According to the court transcript, Besnik Bakalli, one of the informants testified in open court that he'd attempted premeditated murder in Albania and then fled to the United States.
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Under Bloomberg, the NYPD spied on and surveilled New York Muslims, using both informants and undercover agents to gather information from inside mosques and restaurants, neighborhoods and social groups.
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For the same reason, inmates quickly learn to steer clear of known informants like Mr. Skalnik, who often wind up in cells next to people who are awaiting trial.
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Another top high-level Trump official had contact with a confidential informant It was already well-known that George Papadopoulos and Page had interacted with FBI informants in 2016.
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Trump's skeptical view on foreign informants undermines one of the most essential ways that American intelligence agencies gather information about US adversaries, including analysis of their capabilities and intentions.
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A 2003 attempt to ban the National Democratic Party also failed, after the court found that paid informants in the party were partly responsible for evidence the government used.
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Mr. Sanders filed a motion arguing that deputies had intentionally placed informants in cells next to defendants who were facing trial, including Mr. Dekraai, and never disclosed this practice.
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Apart from thousands of women who provided support to the liberation war effort as lookouts, transporters, informants, cooks and cleaners, around 7,323 Zimbabwean women fought in the armed struggle.
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In fall 2014, mosques in five states reported unannounced visits from informants in a matter of weeks — prompting the Council on American-Islamic Relations to issue a nationwide alert.
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In Les Indics, Cornevin writes that, "In France, [the list] contains the names of around 50 informants you shouldn't go near," because they are either too dangerous or untrustworthy.
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Why it matters: The credibility of jailhouse informants has always been considered suspect, since they may be motivated to reduce their own sentences by providing incriminating, but inaccurate information.
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One thing they are working hard [on] is to build trust within the entire community because one really important way to keep communities safe is through informants, and tips.
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The rules also note that the cameras must be deactivated during meetings with confidential informants, during demonstrations (unless there is a crime being committed), sex crimes victims, and internal meetings.
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Court filings later revealed that there were "eight FBI informants at Geek Squad City," and a number had received $500 to $1,000 payments in exchange for acting as confidential sources.
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The 13-year veteran of the CIA is believed to have helped China dismantle a US spy network in the country and identify informants who were later killed or imprisoned.
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Nunes: DOJ, FBI on a very slippery slope House Intelligence Committee chair speaks out ahead of deadline for agencies to hand over materials on alleged informants inside the Trump campaign.
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The recruitment of informants and assets as "flies on the wall" sources of information have been much successful in targeting clandestine cells, whether criminal, terrorist, or hostile foreign-intelligence driven.
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But the CIA does not gather human intelligence - the most valuable and difficult-to-obtain information - from UAE informants on its autocratic government, the three former CIA officials told Reuters.
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The logs also show that CoreCivic may have attempted to gather information on hunger strike organizers through cultivating detainee informants, who were later locked in solitary confinement themselves for protection.
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Dennis Chang, an attorney who represents two of the women, said the officers took advantage of the women's positions and threatened them with jail time or outing them as informants.
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Informants told the army that the cleric, 58, knew the bomb would go off and had been helping foreign operatives reach Basilan from Malaysia, according to army spokesman Gerry Besana.
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And I&aposm sure that Trace reported it correctly when he said, in some cases, it&aposs the names of informants, most of whom, I&aposd bet, are long dead.
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But when they phrase it that way, that leaves the door wide open to one or more informants conducting surveillance of the Trump camp even if they weren&apost inside.
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Others speak of their fears for the future: the rampant distrust in the city as people wonder who acted as ISIS informants, revenge attacks and a spike in sectarian hatred.
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BuzzFeed had said WWF was like a spymaster "running dangerous and secretive networks of informants motivated by "fear" and "revenge," including within indigenous communities, to provide park officials with intelligence".
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The allegations against Mr. Irizarry could make it more difficult for United States law enforcement officials to earn the trust of confidential informants in the shadowy world of drug trafficking.
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Despite the massive counter-offensive last year, the government has accused the militants of continuing to run training camps in the mountains and killing alleged informants in the Muslim community.
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The New York Times reports that a number of CIA informants in Russia have grown silent as of late, likely as a result of aggressive counterintelligence efforts by the Kremlin.
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Once they became friends with the informants and the suspected 'dirty' ATF agents, gaining their trust, it became easy for them to purchase, run and deliver large loads of weapons.
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Several of the contacts, along with the informants and an ATF agent or two, would drive toward the Arizona-Mexico border in Nogales, following each other in their own vehicles.
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But the most successful areas for informants seeking payouts has been the battle throughout Central and South America against large drug cartels and rebel groups in league with drug traffickers.
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According to a source who was briefed on the investigation, the Bureau had intelligence from informants suggesting a possible connection between the Trump Organization and Russian banks, but no data.
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But the CIA does not gather "human intelligence" — the most valuable and difficult-to-obtain information — from UAE informants on its autocratic government, the three former CIA officials told Reuters.
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The information obtained from the searches is then filed into a database that identifies potential informants and can lead to a follow-up visit from the FBI, the report said.
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Duterte vehemently denies police are in cahoots with vigilantes and has said drugs gangs are killing rivals and silencing informants and it was taking place long before he took office.
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Mr. Shaw said the task force relied mainly on old-fashioned law enforcement techniques, such as cultivating informants in cartels or getting business owners and residents to report suspicious activities.
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At the last moment, under pressure from his collaborators, he withheld fifteen thousand reports that were most likely to contain details about Afghan informants, until they could be carefully analyzed.
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They tell us why their husbands became informants, what life was like inside the highest echelon of the Sinaloa cartel, and what the impact of El Chapo's trial will be.
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Yet rather than give the Trump campaign the usual defensive briefing, the FBI launched an unprecedented counterintelligence investigation into a president's campaign, running informants against it and obtaining surveillance warrants.
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According to one study by the Muslim Public Affairs Council, Muslim American informants have in fact been responsible for foiling 2 out of every 5 al-Qaeda-related terrorist attacks.
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"This life is so inundated with top echelon informants, that you couldn't survive a day in it," he told Boeri, explaining why he wasn't returning to a life of crime.
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"Law enforcement officers have to pose as buyers or use confidential informants to gauge if a person is really selling guns as a business and not a hobby," she says.
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Soldiers collected the men in groups, demanding their government identification cards, if they had them, so they could check them against a list of Islamic State members compiled from informants.
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Under the statute, she could face up to life in prison and possibly the death penalty if the information she revealed led to the death of any of the informants.
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The picturesque mountains around Gilgit-Baltistan are vulnerable to influence from all three, often in the shape of "agencies," a local euphemism for informants and spies, both foreign and domestic.
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In 22014, Chief Judge Mark Wolf of Massachusetts federal court concluded that the F.B.I. had protected both informants, even from the police, as they committed murders and other heinous crimes.
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Inside the agency, senior operatives described a situation in which they now find themselves protecting informants and information not only from hostile states — but from members of their own government.
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The United States military now stands to lose a diverse network of informants capable of monitoring threats and infiltrations from the Taliban and other groups, an American military official said.
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Last week, the city's Department of Investigation notified the mayor that Mr. Kuczinski had overseen an effort to listen in on calls between one of its investigators and inmate informants.
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Prosecutors say the charges arose from months of interviews with confidential informants, an examination of thousands of emails and other seized documents, and years of investigations into international smuggling networks.
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His work with Chinese intelligence coincided with the demolition of the C.I.A.'s network of informants in China — one of the biggest counterintelligence coups against the United States in decades.
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In doing so, Assange had identified the names of informants, journalists, dissidents and others in Iraq and Afghanistan who had given help to the U.S. and its allies, Lewis said.
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These partnerships have already raised concerns with privacy advocates and civil liberties organizations, which claim the agreements turn neighbors into informants and subject innocent people to greater risk and surveillance.
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"Many jailhouse informants can truthfully state to the jury that they have not been promised any benefit, even though realistically they expect to be compensated for their testimony," Natapoff said.
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And more radical ideas — like an outright ban on jailhouse informants in capital cases — have stalled, allowing prosecutors to continue using snitch testimony to secure the starkest, most irrevocable punishment.
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Nevertheless, the IG recommended reviewing and increasing the consultation and approval of informants in these contexts in order to create an additional buffer for activities protected by the First Amendment.
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"Today, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal decided that MI5 can secretly give informants permission to commit grave crimes in the UK, including violence," said Ilia Siatitsa, Legal Officer for Privacy International.
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Second, the Coleman facility is what's known as a "closed yard," considered a safer type of prison, and houses higher-profile prisoners such as Bulger, informants and former gang members.
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All of them were informants who sought not to peddle secrets to the country's enemies but to share information with the public about things they believed we needed to know.
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Using the F3EAD strategy, the tenBoma team facilitated a KWS-led operation using informants to track one tentacle of the ivory poaching network and target higher level nodes within it.
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Even if informants are running rampant in mob circles like never before, the Code of Omertà more pop-culture catchphrase than criminal fact, the American Mafia is still alive and kicking.
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The Clintonistas and the DNC hired Fusion GPS to assemble the notorious Trump dossier, which was created by former British spy Christopher Steele with the apparent help of Kremlin-linked informants.
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Well, they&aposre saying now, like, oh, the Russians were more interested in Trump, but that&aposs convenient now that everybody finds out that you&aposve been putting spies and informants.
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And they ran him in my estimation, and I worked a lot of informants in my time, they ran them pretty aggressively at these guys, and they came up with nothing.
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Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said a cyber attack could reveal law enforcement information, such as the names of informants or grand jury material, which is supposed to be kept secret.
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What I found was a deep sense of loss: Many of my informants felt cast adrift in a country that was changing and increasingly, they felt, held little place for them.
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Other informants also worry that the problem is their own intelligence, whose quality may have deteriorated when networks rapidly expanded as Isis comes under rising pressure and loses swaths of territory.
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As the anti-Isis campaign escalates, informants' handlers — ranging from the US, the UK and France to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates — are demanding more information, more quickly.
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Some informants suspect their network leaders, motivated by greed or growing demand, are selling the same intelligence to multiple coalition countries, which could make uncertain information appear sounder than it is.
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Their work suggests there's a market for these kind of native informants, capable of explaining the white working class to elite readers who have been sent reeling by recent political developments.
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The evidence showed that Mr. Bout had agreed to sell hundreds of surface-to-air missiles, thousands of AK-47 machine guns and five tons of plastic explosives to the informants.
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They argued that the presence of paid government informants at the refuge during the occupation muddied the waters and created reasonable doubt about how the decisions of the defendants were made.
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Such raids produce intelligence from cellphones and computer hard drives and other information that is combined with an increasingly effective network of spies and informants to put pressure on ISIS leaders.
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The Watts case was particularly difficult, because the most likely informants were involved in the drug trade, a fact that a defense attorney could use to undermine their credibility at trial.
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Details of the so-called black budget are secret, but the funds cover a range of expenses including spy planes and satellites, intelligence gathering through spies and informants, and cyber weapons.
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The department kept records on casual conversations among Muslims, used informants to spy on student groups and scrutinized Muslim congregations for years, though no charges were ever filed against a mosque.
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Second, credit reporting data provides compromising information that can be used to turn valuable people into agents of a foreign government, influencers or, for lower-level employees, data thieves or informants.
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During the Communist dictatorship in Romania, a lot of people willingly became informants for Securitate—the Romanian secret police, which was one of the largest secret police forces in Eastern Europe.
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Intelligence gathering to prevent future crime will also be impacted as the budget to pay informants, who can earn thousands of dollars for sharing valuable information with law enforcement, dries up.
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Two Navy SEAL commandos under investigation in the strangling of an Army soldier in Mali are also under scrutiny in the theft of money from a fund to pay confidential informants.
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The note, written in Arabic, also included a warning to a military target affiliated with Hezbollah whom prosecutors did not name and a request for the informants' phones to be monitored.
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Prosecutors did not disclose the relative importance of the informants, but even low-level sources are critical to the United States in understanding the activities and plans of Iranian proxy groups.
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Federal law enforcement, employing its customary methods — wiretaps, hidden cameras, "flipping" suspects and turning them into informants — put names and faces to long-rumored dirty dealing on the college recruiting circuit.
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The arrest of the former officer, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, capped an intense F.B.I. inquiry that began around 2012, two years after the C.I.A. began losing its informants in China.
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While attacks by specific terrorist organizations are often coordinated within groups that could be infiltrated by informants, white nationalist attacks are largely taken upon by individuals who don't coordinate their actions.
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While he was in the country, agents secretly searched his belongings and found a pair of notebooks containing sensitive details about C.I.A. operations and the identities of undercover officers and informants.
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The Russian government already uses threats against former spies to try to intimidate current informants into going quiet and to dissuade others from aiding Western intelligence, current and former officials say.
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As "Who Killed Malcolm X?" illustrates, FBI informants within the Nation of Islam helped to plant seeds of doubt within Elijah Muhammad and his family about Malcolm's loyalty to the group.
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Those informants told authorities they had worked with the officer "in the past on several narcotics transactions," but not for the warrant at the Harding Street address, according to the affidavits.
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"We found no evidence that the FBI used [informants] or [undercover agents] to interact with members of the Trump campaign prior to the opening of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation," Horowitz wrote.
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Of the two government informants disclosed in the case, both were "out of status," a term used to describe the loss of immigration status due to a violation of visa terms.
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" When pressed by a journalist about the possibility of redacting the names of Afghans who cooperated with the United States military, Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, reportedly replied: "Well, they're informants.
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It's that, as is the case with many serial jailhouse informants, his incentive to tell stories that prosecutors wanted to hear was far greater than his incentive to tell the truth.
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According to scholars and former officials, it was a network of police, soldiers, and informants, begun during the Cold War, to control domestic dissent and keep democratically elected governments off balance.
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A local public defender was able to show that for years, sheriff's deputies had engaged in a practice of strategically planting informants in the cells of defendants who were awaiting trial.
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They encouraged their neighbors to report criminal incidents to the police as a group, so gangs could not target individual informants, and to make themselves visible on the streets at night.
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The F.B.I. said in the 142 pages of documents that it had informants close to the Nation of Islam who let them know the details of Ali's involvement with the group.
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Reportedly informants are often under so much pressure to deliver actionable intelligence, or alternatively are paid so handsomely for it, they invent the very terrorism plots that the FBI later foils.
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He also recommended changes to Justice Department policies to require advance approval from prosecutors before launching an investigation into a political campaign and before deploying FBI informants in such a probe.
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"We found no evidence that the FBI used [informants] or [undercover agents] to interact with members of the Trump campaign prior to the opening of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation," he wrote.
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Tony Rackauckas, the district attorney, wrote to federal justice officials in January, saying he would welcome a review of the county's policies on informants and promising access to documents and employees.
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The improper use of informants was first uncovered in one of the county's most high-profile cases, a mass shooting that killed eight people in a Seal Beach salon in 2011.
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Horowitz, according to The New York Times, also did not find evidence that the FBI tried to put informants in Trump's campaign, undercutting a claim that the campaign was spied on.
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The group — it got its name because a local priest was one of the leaders — worked closely with local police officers who acted as both informants and hit men, residents said.
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On separate visits, he wrote down two different names, but when the officers interviewed the informants, both said they had not worked with him on that case, according to the affidavits.
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The CCI's preliminary finding was that Google appeared to be dominant on the basis of the material brought forward by the informants, who were identified in the order as Android users.
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At times it had clashed with efforts by the U.S. Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration, which worked with informants in Venezuela to nab influential officials for money laundering and drug trafficking.
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So, we have add before July 31 of 53, we have asked the Department of Justice for months and months and months -- I have said on your show -- did you run informants?
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"If the Swiss spy did not just collect data himself, but also placed informants in our financial administration, the scandal takes on a new dimension," said Norbert Walter-Borjans, NRW finance minister.
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The prominent coverage of the South Korean protests in Rodong Sinmun, meanwhile, has inadvertently made them a sanctioned topic of discussion in the North, says DailyNK, a news outlet with informants there.
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In several screenshots of conversations from the groups shared with BuzzFeed News, women repeatedly encourage one another to "not go easy" on the informants when it came to exposing their personal information.
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When East Germany collapsed in 1989, people marvelled at the store of information the Stasi security service had garnered on them, and the vast network of informants it took to compile it.
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Booker, who is also known as Muhammad Abdullah Hassan, had arrived at Fort Riley with Federal Bureau of Investigation informants to detonate the bomb without realizing it was inert, according to prosecutors.
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Jeffrey Bale, a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and an expert on jihadi cells in Europe, cautions against making bold assessments without reliable insider informants and intensive surveillance records.
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An ex-CIA agent has been arrested under suspicions that he helped the Chinese government find CIA informants operating in China, the New York Times' Adam Goldman reports, citing the Justice Department.
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Bomb was a dud from the start Booker did not know the bomb he constructed was made with inert materials or that two men working with him were FBI informants, prosecutors said.
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For the past year, the district attorney's office in Orange County, California, has been battling the fallout from revelations of a decades-old scheme of planting secret informants near defendants' jail cells.
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Mr. Levinson, like those present, had spent his career in a shadow land, one where spies, agents and private eyes persuade informants to spill secrets in exchange for money or a deal.
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Steele's claim about his high-level Kremlin informants leaves three options that already should have been obvious in January 85033: But wait a minute, is there not a flaw in this argument?
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For example, law enforcement evidence gathered through surveillance and from confidential informants, as well as analysis by FBI or NSA cybercrimes investigators, will not be accessible to private litigants in a lawsuit.
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"If I got out, after killing 30 people, I will be happy 100% ... 100% happy because these 30 will terrify the world," Hamzeh told one of the informants, according to the complaint.
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While Trump agreed that the identities of confidential informants who are still alive, for example, should not be released, he believed more information should be made available to the public, officials said.
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Ms. Rousseff herself signed the laws that allow suspects and companies in corruption cases to become informants in exchange for lighter sentences — one of the legal tools helping move the investigation forward.
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But our fixer had told us that there were a lot of spies and informants in the area, and we were interviewing a lot of different people, investigating an extremely sensitive issue.
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Lee was not charged with espionage but the arrest, The New York Times reported, capped an investigation dating back to 2012, two years after the CIA began losing its informants in China.
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Typically in sting operations such as the one Tuesday, investigators use undercover agents or informants to gather direct evidence to prove that a suspect was actively planning to carry out an attack.
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As one of Dr. Agronin's youngest informants said, even when physical decline and losses restrict one's options, there remains the capacity to appreciate and approach each day with a sense of purpose.
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As he built his life in London, Mr. Ashurkov learned to look for Russian agents reflexively — men in dark suits sitting alone at émigré gatherings, dinner-party acquaintances rumored to be informants.
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When his scheme came undone, thanks to undercover F.B.I. informants and wiretaps, Sood quickly pleaded guilty — essentially to victimizing the universities, who are somehow the innocents in all this, according to prosecutors.
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Current and former officials have said that the C.I.A.'s losses had ended by late 2012, so there is no evidence that the decision allowed more informants to be captured or killed.
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The US government has tapped phone lines and other forms of communication and sent informants into Muslim student groups and mosques, and added "suspicious" Muslim infants (and others) to no-fly lists.
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FRONT PAGE An article on Saturday about C.I.A. informants in Russia falling largely silent misstated when President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia spoke publicly against former intelligence agents he viewed as traitors.
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The Monday morning tweets by the president followed a weekend in which he angrily complained about reports that the investigation into his campaign's contacts with Russia relied in part on confidential informants.
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Government surveillance is a sensitive topic in Germany, where memories of the dreaded East German Stasi secret police and its extensive network of informants are still fresh in the minds of many.
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The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army has also killed some civilians it accused of being government informants and blocked Rohingya men and boys from fleeing Maungdaw, a township in Rakhine, Fortify Rights said.
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In Spain itself, bitter memories persist over the efforts by the dictator Francisco Franco to silence languages other than Spanish, using, for instance, informants to report speakers of Basque to the police.
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Mr. Irizarry's indictment could make it more difficult for American law enforcement officials to earn the trust of informants in the shadowy and dangerous world of drug trafficking, according to the authorities.
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While he was in Virginia and Hawaii, agents secretly searched his belongings and found a pair of notebooks containing sensitive details about C.I.A. operations and the identities of undercover officers and informants.
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False testimony from jailhouse informants has been the single biggest reason for death-row exonerations in the modern death-penalty era, according to a 2005 survey by the Center on Wrongful Convictions.
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The Times first reported Wednesday that the report is expected to say that the DOJ watchdog found no evidence that the FBI tried to place informants or undercover agents inside Trump's campaign.
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Even though Steele received healthy compensation for his dossier work, the funds available to pay legitimate Kremlin insider informants (we assume they were paid until further notice) would have been grossly inadequate.
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Prosecutors said Bout, 49, had agreed to sell the FARC weapons worth millions of dollars to two informants with the understanding the weapons would be used to attack U.S. helicopters in Colombia.
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The New York Times reported Tuesday that Lee was at the center of an FBI investigation launched in 2012 into why several CIA informants in China had been killed in recent years.
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Ms. Witt, a former Air Force tech sergeant who worked with the service's counterintelligence office, would have had little or no insight into the Central Intelligence Agency's informants in Iran, officials said.
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In a case in Orange County, a public defender had discovered that the district attorney's office was strategically placing jailhouse informants, offering them leniency if they could coax confessions from fellow inmates.
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That kind of investigation would have given the FBI the ability to use certain tools, like setting up meetings between targets and informants, but prevents them from using others, like FISA surveillance.
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They have to let us know, first of all, were human sources used, were they informants, were they being paid and when do they become used by the FBI and/or the DOJ.
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"Granting entry for critical witnesses and informants can be very important to investigations, particular in major drug trafficking and national security cases," Greg Brower, former FBI assistant director and United States Attorney, said.
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Hot Land ethnographer Falko A. Ernst, from the University of Essex, says he is receiving the message from his well-connected informants on the ground that "open war" is returning to the region.
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There is also evidence around the case of the Berlin market investigation that community informants have played their part in warning about the threat posed by prime suspect Anis Amri before the attack.
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But as the Times reported, this was around the same time—at the behest of his childhood friend turned FBI agent, John Connolly—that the duo became informants against the Mafia's Patriarca family.
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The DEA's chief of inspections told the congressional committee that the agency has stopped making payments to government or quasi-government employees, and that it is reviewing its use of "limited use" informants.
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This problem will not be solved by inviting Muslim feminist groups to speak next year, or by bringing on board a series of "native informants" as outside consultants, junior interns, or special guests.
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A senior official said some of them were members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group being taken to hospital and that they may have been targeted for being suspected informants.
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Former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo opened up to Fox News about alleged informants who approached him during the 2016 presidential election, and revealed that special investigators didn't seem to care at all.
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He argued that the three pillars holding up the conviction -- the prosecution's timeline, a lineup identification from the only eyewitness, and testimony from three "incentivized" jailhouse informants -- each had crumbled under close scrutiny.
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Maybe dealers don't even know that the law exists (although law enforcement could make it part of their job to let people know these laws exists by, say, letting informants know about them).
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The Los Angeles Times reported in 2013 that Nichols and Valenzuela were narcotics officers under investigation for allegations that they sexually assaulted at least four women they had arrested or used as informants.
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It all ended with a fateful trip to Walmart, where one of the informants gave Lutchman $40 to purchase a machete, ski masks, duct tape, ammonia, zip ties (for hostages) and latex gloves.
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Documents given to Nawal Al-Maghafi, a journalist who made a documentary about the day's events for the BBC, show that informants were providing the Saudi coalition with updates on who was there.
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Bout, 49, was convicted of conspiring to kill U.S. soldiers by agreeing to sell arms to U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration informants posing as members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
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"Through some informants ... we were able to locate the whereabouts of Bob Mathews and six members of The Order at his hideout on Whidbey Island on the Puget Sound in Washington," Manis said.
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Details: The investigation used undercover informants and agents to infiltrate medical practices — including 31 doctors, 8 nurse practitioners, 7 pharmacists and 7 other medical professionals — in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Alabama and West Virginia.
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Chief O'Neill's career stalled under the former commissioner, Mr. Kelly, who removed him from his narcotics command in 2008 amid a scandal involving officers who paid informants with drugs in exchange for information.
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Schock's lawyers have also accused the FBI of sending confidential informants into Schock's office while he was a sitting congressman, which they say crosses the line between the judicial and the legislative branches.
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In 2011, an Associated Press investigation revealed that the Demographics Unit, with assistance from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), had been using undercover officers and paid informants to gather intelligence on Muslim communities.
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"Agents build trust with people and recruit them to help, and these informants often get paid in return," said Josh Campbell, a former FBI supervisory special agent and a CNN law enforcement analyst.
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Prosecutors said the contractor, Mariam Taha Thompson, 61, revealed to a Lebanese man with ties to Hezbollah the names of foreign informants and details of the information they provided to the United States.
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The identities of such informants are among the government's most closely held secrets, and law enforcement officials said Ms. Thompson endangered the lives of the sources as well as those of military personnel.
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Witnesses, mostly police informants or former members of his church, accused him of voicing support for Kurdish separatists and serving as a link to supply weapons and support to Kurdish rebels in Syria.
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In Austria, the leader of the anti-extremism unit of the domestic intelligence service recently refused to turn over informants to far-right members of the Freedom Party, part of the coalition government.
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Observers have noted there's a risk that an elite group of informants could be biasing Bezos's work toward their favored projects, rather than honestly and comprehensively assessing who exactly has the best idea.
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But senior government officials said they cannot recall any serious push to arrest Mr. Lee at the time or to try to charge him with espionage in connection with the lost Chinese informants.
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It's being called one of the worst U.S. intelligence failures in years: More than a dozen C.I.A. informants in China have been killed or arrested since 2010, as Beijing dismantled American spying operations.
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However, the partnerships raised concerns from privacy advocates who believe the program could threaten civil liberties, turn residents into informants and subject innocent people to greater surveillance and risk, The Washington Post noted.
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Federal District Court Judge Robert Aguilar ruled in 1987 that INS farm raids were illegal without specific information on search warrants by "informants or INS officers" of names of suspected illegally present people.
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"NHCA Group created a database of resumes, 'scraped and extracted from publicly-available sources,' which the organization uses to identify 'potential informants,'" DOJ's motion said, quoting a Wired magazine story about the firm.
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In a quest for investor returns, the Justice brief claimed, Health Choice went hunting for informants so it could file copycat FCA suits based on allegations of which it has no firsthand knowledge.
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But before Issue No. 36 could reach its target audience, federal officials banned the publication, whose slogan is "the original street bible," from the prison system — because of its penchant for outing informants.
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Mr. Young does not appear to have been an F.B.I. target at the time, even as undercover informants began giving the bureau reports about the activities of him and some of his associates.
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Buried deep in thousands of pages of court records spread across two states lies evidence to suggest that Skalnik was one of the most prolific, and most effective, jailhouse informants in American history.
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A seminal 2004 study conducted by Northwestern Law School's Center on Wrongful Convictions found that testimony from jailhouse snitches and other criminal informants was the leading cause of wrongful convictions in capital cases.
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In July, Connecticut became the first state to enact a statewide tracking system for jailhouse informants that documents where and when such witnesses have previously testified and what benefits they received in return.
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He was arrested in Bangkok in 2008 in a sting operation in which U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration informants posed as representatives of the Colombian rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
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Mr. Balarezo said he wanted to know the names of the informants, and when and where they gave their statements, so he could further investigate the claims and incorporate them into his defense.
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Once he was imprisoned, informants told the government that Mr. Sobell might reveal details of the espionage ring in return for a reduced sentence, but apparently his wife, Helen, persuaded him not to.
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In the books the agents found, Mr. Lee had written down details about meetings between C.I.A. informants and undercover agents, as well as their real names and phone numbers, according to court papers.
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FBI and NYPD informants are instructed to listen for "anti-American" sentiments, latch on to those individuals expressing "suspect" political beliefs and prod them to see if they are interested in taking action.
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In addition, the inspector general found that the D.E.A. had failed to deal with concerns about its handling of informants who might be involved in criminal activity or pose other conflicts in an investigation.
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But two confidential informants claimed Morrissey told them she had gone to McNew's house to confront him, wrested a gun away from him and accidentally shot him with the weapon, according to the affidavit.
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We know that indeed that there was informants within the Trump campaign prior to the FBI opening an investigation, so we have got to make sure that we get to the bottom of it.
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According to the Independent, Brand reportedly used satellite images, archival documents, and military informants to figure out the location and authenticity of the sculptures, thought to have been lost in the Battle of Berlin.
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She had become one of Majid's best informants, secretly calling him in the rare moments when she could get a signal to give him the details of people who had raped, tortured, or murdered.
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Some monographs produced by Park's team were written by ''native informants'' — Louis Wirth on the Jewish ghetto, Paul Siu on the Chinese laundryman, Drake and Cayton on the black belt — and others by outsiders.
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"When you're going after gangs like that, there are a lot of similarities to terrorists with intercepted communications, informants trying to penetrate the organization, trying to understand what the next target is," Martin said.
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Another Tampa Bay Times story identified White as one of two informants who helped kick that process into gear by telling police they saw Massad treat people's injuries—and provided him with illegal substances.
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The information he provided would have been instrumental in the collapse, beginning in 2010, of the CIA's surveillance operations in China, which resulted in the killing or imprisonment of more than a dozen informants.
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What's the money for: Details of the so-called black budget are secret, but the funds cover a range of expenses including spy planes and satellites, intelligence gathering through spies and informants and cyberweapons.
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His work to dismantle U.S. spying efforts in China reportedly led in part to the CIA's decision to suspend human spying efforts in the country while it reevaluates its protocols for communicating with informants.
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The indictment also states that Assange was warned by the State Department that releasing the names of informants could endanger those sources, and while he redacted some of the names, others were still released.
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My sources tell me that agents secured evidence of the innocence of both men from informants, intercepts and other techniques that was never disclosed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judges in the case.
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Activists have long criticized Iraq's use of the death penalty because of the problems plaguing the country's justice system and the number of convictions based on testimony from confidential informants, without any physical evidence.
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Justice Department officials said on Wednesday that they had fully complied with two of those subpoenas — one related to the department's application to wiretap Mr. Page, and the other pertaining to the confidential informants.
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Moreover, Mr. Chau later recalled, the government's intelligence system was "almost a joke" because it depended on informants who had served the state for years and who were often fed disinformation by the enemy.
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While The Times did take steps to withhold the names of informants in the subset of the files it published, it is not clear how that is legally different from publishing other classified information.
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We can wrangle over whether to use the term "spying" to describe sending informants to meet with a Trump campaign aide, George Papadopoulos, under false pretenses and subjecting another aide, Carter Page, to wiretapping.
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State Security was renamed the National Security Agency, but it remained under the control of the powerful Interior Ministry, which was thought to employ at least 1.5 million police officers, security agents and informants.
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Thirty-five speakers murmur with chimes and metallic scratches, but also whispered syllables that may put you in mind of Turkey's campaign of denunciations by private informants since the attempted government coup last summer.
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More than 8,000 people have been killed since Duterte took office eight months ago, mostly drug users killed by mysterious gunmen in incidents authorities attribute to vigilantes, gang members silencing informants, or unrelated murders.
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That preliminary investigation included the use of confidential informants, surveillance, review of electronic records and other investigative tools, but it was closed in 2014 when the bureau failed to find anything incriminating, Comey said.
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" It's not clear who he's referring to, but Hasson goes on to explain that he's reluctant to join a specific white nationalist organization because "most are infested with informants of one kind or another.
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In the wake of the scandal, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office instituted reforms to provide more oversight of prosecutors who put jailhouse informants on the stand, but beyond Los Angeles, little changed.
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The City Press cited an unnamed senior crime intelligence commander as saying his police unit was now involved in the inquiry because it had "better resources and capacity, and a larger network of informants".
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But the inspector general has previously confirmed that he was looking into the early stages of the Russia inquiry, including wiretap applications, informants and whether any political bias against Mr. Trump influenced investigative decisions.
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Hunter, who prosecutors say went by the nickname Rambo, pleaded guilty last year to an array of conspiracy charges, including coordinating a plot to murder a DEA agent and one of the agency's informants.
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He also, all three of these guys that were approached by the spy will join us tonight and, of course, Caputo&aposs claiming that he was approached by multiple government informants during the 224 election.
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This special category of immigration status is often used by the department to permit the entry of cooperating witnesses and confidential informants, who may be required to take part in investigative operations or trial testimony.
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This information, which a decade ago could only be obtained by laborious hands-on research, has caused growing concern for the safety of informants and the ability of prosecutors to strike plea deals for cooperation.
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During that time, the FJC reports, at least 31 informants were murdered, in and out of prison, by people who obtained information about their plea deals from unsealed court documents or transcripts of court proceedings.
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An Associated Press investigation also found that police relied on the word of jailhouse informants who were offered reduced sentences and have since recanted, and that another, currently-incarcerated man has confessed to the murder.
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Part of the problem for both native informants and outside observers, Wright saw at the time, was that this sort of detail-heavy, participatory intensity was always in danger of being taken the wrong way.
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