Monday, March 10, 2014

Dead Men Tell No Tales

Heard about this shortly after the Boston Marathon bombings. Is still unreolved and the FBI has not come clean on what happened to Ibragim Todashev. He supposedly was a friend of one of the bombers and was killed during interrogation by the FBI. The FBI still won't come clean on why the agent shot him seven times but An American Life chronicles the story and proposes a theory on what really happened. Most likely the agent failed to conduct a proper interrogation, then killed the suspect, and as a result the FBI most likely still does not know who committed the crimes in Waltham, Mass.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/519/dead-men-tell-no-tales

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/14/fbi-agent-boston-bombing-ibragim-todashev-controversial-past

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/02/family-chechen-shot-dead-sues-fbi-30m-ibragim-todashev

Monday, March 3, 2014

Extorting the Poor

How the poor are subjected to extortion.
What happened to rehabilitation and forgiveness?
Now when someone gets down all they want to do is keep them down.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/mar/02/poor-