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Lawsuit Alleges Undercover FBI Officer Crippled Local Cop in Chicagoland DUI Crash

by Ken Silva | Jul 8, 2024 | Featured Articles

“Head-on crash kills driver; cop is critical,” was the dire headline that appeared in the Feb. 17, 2006, edition of the Chicago Tribune, describing an incident that happened the day before, when a drunk driver torpedoed down the wrong side of the rode and collided into an Arlington Heights police car driven by officer Tim Sheehan. At the time, little was publicly known about the dead driver, then-35-year-old Evangelo Actipis, other than his history of drinking violations. Most of the local media coverage in the aftermath of the crash focused on Sheehan’s lengthy and difficult recovery. “Tim...

FBI Requests 20-Year Wait Before Producing OKC Records

by Ken Silva | Jun 26, 2024 | Featured Articles, OKC

It’s been about nine years since Utah attorney Jesse Trentadue filed a Freedom of Information Act request for records about a CIA asset and FBI informant who helped fund the Oklahoma City bombing, as well as for records about a neo-Nazi bank-robbery gang also involved in the attack. Tired of waiting, Trentaudue sued the FBI over the matter in February, demanding the bureau to produce the 69,375 pages of documents that it’s holding. But now, the FBI wants to take another nearly 12 years to fork over those documents to him, which means that it would take at least 20 years for the bureau to...

Ex-FBI Source Reveals How He Infiltrated Anti-Government Groups

by Ken Silva | Jun 20, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

Former FBI confidential human source David Gletty has provided Headline USA with a tell-all interview, describing how he went from a Florida redneck to infiltrating neo-Nazi and other anti-government groups in the late 1990s through 2007. In the process, Gletty candidly told this publication that his handlers directed him to disrupt those groups by just about any means necessary—even if it meant skirting the Fourth Amendment and other constitutional protections. “You get into the FBI office, there’s audio and video recordings everywhere, and they have to tell you to do things by the book:...

FBI Records Link OKC Bomber to Bank Robbers, Suggesting Case is Still Unsolved

by Ken Silva | Apr 16, 2024 | Featured Articles, OKC

This Friday marks the 29th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, which killed at least 168 people, including 19 children in the deadliest domestic terrorist event in U.S. history. While that attack may seem like ancient history for some, one attorney in Utah continues to pursue lawsuits against the Justice Department for records about it. The attorney, Jesse Trentadue, thinks that others helped the supposed “lone wolf,” Timothy McVeigh. Specifically, Trentadue has implicated the Aryan Republican Army, or ARA, a gang of neo-Nazi bank robbers who were operating around the same time as...

BREAKING: Attorney Sues FBI for Records about CIA Asset Who Funded OKC Bombing

by Ken Silva | Feb 13, 2024 | Featured Articles

Utah attorney Jesse Trentadue sued the FBI on Friday for records about a CIA asset who helped fund the Oklahoma City bombing, as well as for records about a neo-Nazi bank-robbery gang also involved in the attack—the deadliest domestic terrorism event in U.S. history. Trentadue has been suing the U.S. government for OKC bomb-related records for nearly 30 years, ever since his brother was murdered in a federal penitentiary. The complex story of how the death of Trentadue’s brother relates to the OKC bombing can be read in this Mother Jones article. Trentadue’s latest lawsuit comes nearly a...

Man Entrapped by FBI in Dubious Plot to Build ‘X-Ray Gun’ is Now in Supermax Prison

by Ken Silva | Feb 1, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

The plot would be comical if not for its disturbing outcome: A man entrapped by FBI undercover agents and informants in a dubious plan to build a so-called X-ray gun is now housed in one of the most notorious prisons in the world. The inmate, Glendon Crawford, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, was initially charged by the Justice Department in 2013 for conspiring to build a “lethal radiation-emitting device.” It turned out, Crawford’s plans were almost entirely facilitated by FBI undercover informants, undercover agents and a cooperating witness from the KKK—as the DOJ admitted in its...

Even American Neo-Nazis Have Abandoned Ukraine

by Ken Silva | Jan 17, 2024 | Blog, Foreign Policy

Editor's Note: The activities of Christopher Pohlhaus were previously reported on by the Libertarian Institute's Kyle Anzalone. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, neo-Nazis in the U.S. expressed widespread support for their Ukrainian counterparts. One of the more prominent U.S. neo-Nazis, Blood Tribe leader Christopher Pohlhaus, went as far as planning a compound in Maine to train American extremists to fight for Ukraine against Russia. Pohlhaus and his colleagues also made headlines last September for their endorsement of Joe Biden for the 2024 presidential election....

Militia Leader Targeted by FBI is out of Prison, Still Fighting Conviction

by Ken Silva | Dec 18, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

About a decade before the FBI infiltrated Midwest militias and fomented a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the bureau targeted Alaska’s militias as part of an apparent attempt to disrupt what was once a thriving Tea Party movement in that state. The FBI’s main target in Alaska was militia leader Shaeffer Cox, a liberty activist who was making waves in mainstream politics at the time—as evidenced by the fact that the upstart won 37% of the vote in a Republican primary for Congress in 2010. Using at least two undercover informants, the FBI concocted a case that Cox had plotted to...

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