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Ashman, Charles R., The Finest Judges Money Can Buy, And Other Forms of Judicial Pollution (Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, 1973) (that constitutional scholar provides 74 documented cases of corruption, including via bribes, "loans" and prostitutes. Those are the ones who were caught.)
Barlow, Sarah, "Patterns of Arrests for Misdemeanor Narcotics Possession: Manhattan Police Practices 1960-62," 4 Crim. L. Bull. 549, 549-50 (1968) (presenting data showing that "dropsy testimony"--i.e., police testimony that an arrestee had dropped drugs as the police came upon them--increased after Mapp v. Ohio imposed the exclusionary rule on state police, indicating that the "police are lying about the circumstances of such arrests so that the contraband which they have seized illegally will be admissible as evidence.").
Borgatta, Edgar R. (Univ of Wisc) and Robert R. Evans (Univ of Arizona), Smoking, Health, and Behavior (Chicago: Aldine Pub Co, 1968), cited organized crime role in cigarette selling. "New York City officials and state tax officials . . . as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation are convinced that organized crime . . . moved into the cigarette bootlegging business. Many facts contribute to this conclusion. Bail is posted promptly on all arrests. Fines are paid promptly. Many arrests are of known criminals with records dating back twenty to thirty years and known to be members of the organization. Fake driver's licenses, painted over and renumbered license plates on trucks, and dispersal depots . . . have been detected. . . . All of this smacks of a highly coordinated effort such as organized crime operates." Each's "family, including the children, cannot help but be aware of this illegal activity. In this way, an even greater disrespect for law is being taught to youngsters." (Pp 265-266).
Califano, Joseph A., Jr., Inside: A Public and Private Life (New York: Special Affairs, 2004) (cites ex parte contacts by Judge Charles Richey, a Nixon appointee, to aid Nixon in the Watergate crimes situation, by making court decisions outside-the-record contacts with Nixon aides, pages 270, 273-275, 277, 280-281, 287, and 313: "Judge Richey was fixed by the Nixon administration." "I had come to doubt the integrity of many judges [and] realize that [many] judges were just . . . biased, corruptible, and ambitious." Also cites Nixon's effort to blackmail former President Lyndon B. Johnson, p 280)
Clarke, Richard A., Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror (New York and London: Free Press, 2004) (cites background on Bush mismanagement pre 9-11, disinterest in terrorism prevention, and post 9-11 obsession with Saddam Hussein) (Example)
Cohen, Fred, "Police Perjury: An Interview with Martin Garbus," 8 Crim. L. Bull. 363, 367 (1972) ("[A]mong all the lawyers that I know--whether they are into defense work or prosecution--not one of them will argue that systematic police perjury does not exist. We may differ on its extent, its impact . . . but no trial lawyer that I know will argue that police perjury is nonexistent or sporadic.")
Dean, John, Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush (New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2004) (on Bush Administration)
DeFrank, Frank, "Cops and Cash Make For Poor Mix," Macomb Daily (11 Feb 2002)
Joseph H. Delaney, “A Lawyer's View of the Justice System,” in Analog Sci Fiction and Fact, Vol. CXVIX No. 7 & 8 (July/August 1999)
Dershowitz, Prof. Alan M., Letters to a Young Lawyer (Basic Books, 2001) (shows corruption in the legal system. He says, for example, on being “suspicious of all legal and judicial institutions. Trust no one in power, including — especially — judges. Don't take judicial opinions at face value. Go back and check the transcript [record]. Cite-check the cases. You will be amazed how often you will find judges 'finessing' the facts and the law. Too often, legal observers take as a given judges' intellectual honesty” (p 11). Pp 80-81 note that pro-government lying is common, rampant, by judges.
Devine, Thomas M., and Donald G. Aplin, “Whistleblower Protection-Gap Between Law and Reality,” 31 Howard Law J (#2) 223-239 (1988) (federal civil service is to attack honest employees, called whistleblowers, and to do so viciously, to “go well beyond merely defeating a whistle blower . . . prove to others that no one is safe . . . make the most outrageous charges possible. . . . for purposes of teaching others a lesson, the more obvious the inconsistency [with work record and law, i.e., the lying or perjury] the better. . . .”)
Devine, Thomas M., and Donald G. Aplin, “Abuse of Authority: The Office of the Special Counsel and Whistleblower Protection," 4 Antioch Law J 5-71 (Summer 1986) (elaboration of civil service abuses of employees, and refusal to protect them)
Devine, Thomas M., “The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989: Foundation for the Modern Law of Employment Dissent," 51 Admin Law Rev (#2) 531-577 (Spring 1999) (continued background on the subject)
Dickerson, Brian, "State Supreme Court Case Shows Justice May Be for Sale," Detroit Free Press 2B (7 May 1999) (he offers evidence "that . . the Legislature Michigan's insurance industry had bought and paid for" is receiving judicial support in its action to alter court rules to exclude more pro-litigant witnesses. Dickerson as an example, cites support for this including from Gov. John Engler's appointee, Judge Clifford Douglas, so "deep-pocket [litigants] will soon be in a position to spend less on lawyers, and more on legislators")
Ehrenfeld, Rachel, Ph.D., Director, NYC Center for the Study of Corruption & the Rule of Law, Narco-Terrorism (NY: Basic Books, 1990) and Evil Money (NY: HarperCollins, 1992) (tracks the money trail, as a cycle from drug abusers through local to higher drug dealers, and back in sequence all the way to initial growers and indigenous terrorist groups). See also her "U.S. ignored money trail: Bush is doomed to fail if he doesn't cut off financing of terrorists," Detroit News, pp 17A & 20A (30 Sep 2001). And see also theantidrug.com's background material on drugs and terrorism.
Elias, Prof. Robert, "
Terrorism and American Foreign Policy"
(25 September 2001) (cites US policy and practice of undeclared wars, use of weapons of mass destruction, use of chemical and biological weapons, election abuses, torture, supporting and harboring terrorists, assassinations)
Ewing, David W., “Canning Directions: How the Government Rids Itself of Troublemakers," Harpers 16, 18, 22 (August 1979) (federal civil service policy of attacking honest employees, aka "whistleblowers," includes: 1. transfer to irrelevant assignment 2. abolish the whistleblower's job 3. refuse to provide pertinent records 4. file false charges 5. cause high legal bills 6. falsely accuse of insanity 7. cut their budget 8. transfer away their co-workers 9. close his office without warning 10. deprive of promotion)
Griffin, Prof. David Ray, The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (Northampton, Mass.: Olive Branch Press, March 2004) (Interview; cites issues of whether Bush knew in advance about 9-11, and obstructed prevention)
Grattan, Clinton Hartley (1902-1980), Why We Fought (New York: Vanguard Press, 1929, 1957) (historian cites propaganda and government lying, including by the President, to get U.S.A. into World War I, including falsifying Lusitania data, to pretend it did not contain tons of explosives, see details on President lying)
Higgins, Jack M., Luciano's Luck (New York: Stein and Day, 1981) (cites governmental cooperation with the Mafia dating back to World War II and the invasion of Italy)
Hochschild, Adam, King Leopold's Ghost (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1998) (cites bribery of officials in Congress and the White House to obtain support for Belgian King Leopold II's conquest, enslaving of, and genocide in, the Congo, a pattern of outrage continuing from the 1880's to the 1960's)
Keegan, Anne, "Sting in Cook County," Chicago Tribune Magazine, and 136 Reader's Digest 9-16 (June 1990) (cites widespread bribery of judges, the amounts ($50, $100, $200, for volume) and the shunning of the honest lawyer Terry Hake who worked with the FBI in identifying the bribers).
Kelly, John F., and Phillip K. Wearne, Tainting Evidence: Inside the Scandals at the FBI Crime Lab (New York: The Free Press, 1998) (citing rampant falsifications, with whistleblowers punished, and the corrupt ones, promoted)
Kittel, N. G., "Police Perjury: Criminal Defense Attorneys' Perspective," 11 Am. J. Crim. Just. 11, 16 (1986) (57% of 277 attorneys believe police perjury takes place very often or often).
Kohn, Stephen M., and Michael D. Kohn, “An Overview of Federal and State Whistleblower Protection," 4 Antioch Law Journal 99-152 (Summer 1986) (summary of civil service attacks on honest employees, and the alleged "protection" politicians have voted them)
Kwitny, Jonathan, The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA (New York: W. W. Norton, 1987) (this Wall Street Journal investigative reporter—and biographer of Pope John Paul II—gives examples of government officials (Pentagon military, etc.), smuggling drugs into the U.S. and taking action against those rare honest government agents who wanted to halt the smuggling)
Lance, Peter, 1000 Years for Revenge: International Terroism and the FBI: The Untold Story (New York: Regan Books, 2003) (details failures to prevent 9-11, including attacks by federal civil service managers on conscientious employees, obstructing prevention activity)
Lazarus, Edward P., Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court (New York: Times Books, 1998; Penguin Books, 1999) (exposé by Supreme Court law clerk, saying judges "resort to transparently deceitful and hypocritical arguments and factual distortions as they discard judicial [impartiality] in favor of [result-oriented] bottom-line results"—factual distortions are called criminal fraud, mail fraud, when done by others)
Levine, Michael, Deep Cover (New York: Delacorte Press, 1990) (from a Drug Enforcement Agency [1965-1989] perspective, he shows that the so-called "war [on drugs but really of] lies, hypocrisy, and self-interest . . . fought with no intention of winning" [p 9])
Levine, Michael, The Big White Lie (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1993) (from a Drug Enforcement Agency [1965-1989] perspective, he labels the war on drugs an "illusion" due to officials undermining it so much, e.g., releasing well-connected drug criminals, denying needed support to agents so excess casualties would result, etc.)
Lieberman, Jethro K., How The Government Breaks the Law (New York: Stein and Day, 1972) (he has many examples of legislator, police, and judicial lawlessness)
Lindsay, Judge Benjamin L., The Beast (Garden City, NY: 1910) (writing as insider, exposing corruption of judges thus obstructing justice; of police thus obstructing enforcement of existing laws; and of legislators, thus preventing passing of better laws. Lindsay won judgeship despite being opposed by both parties).
Lockwood, Brocton and Harlan H. Mendenhall, Operation Greylord: Brocton Lockwood's Story (Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ Press, 1989) (this exposé by a judge of his corrupt colleagues is a narrative of widespread bribery of judges; there were about 70 convictions in that situation, but the undercover lawyer who reported the corruption was unable to remain in the area practicing law)
Maas, Peter, Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the [Corrupt] System (New York: Viking Press, 1973) (exposed rampant corruption that led to the Knapp Commission)
Maier, Timoth W., "Inside the DNA Labs" (June 2003) (concerns "allegations of deceit, misconduct and incompetence [by] DNA crime labs" via "fabricated evidence or because exonerating or exculpatory evidence was withheld."
Mark, Vernon H., M.D., and Frank R. Ervin, M.D., Violence and the Brain (New York: Harper & Row, 1970) (they explain the huge role of brain damage in crime (brain damage typically resulting from tobacco use as the linked narratives show), and expose the scams of the punishers and rehabilitators, neither of which approach can or does work to solve an anatomy problem, brain damage; only prevention works; and as the data on corruption shows, politicians prefer crime to prevention).
McClellan, Barr, Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K. (New York: Hanover House, 2003) (intrigue and murder of Pres. Kennedy aided and abetted by the secrecy of the attorney-client privilege, and politicians "owning" judges, enabling crimes by powerful clients, as judges ignore laws and court rules; instead of bad ones being ousted, jailed, they are rewarded, promoted! And, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover pompously ex cathedra decreed that the assassination was done by a "lone gunman," forcing all subordinate agents to alter actual findings to conform to his preconceived notion. [Forcing government employees to alter findings to suit their masters is the norm in civil service; any fact-oriented individual is deemed deviant, not a team-player, a whistleblower, whose career, reputation, finances, family, are to be ruined and destroyed, see whistleblower references herein cited.] See also History Channel Debate).
McCoy, Prof. Alfred W., The Politics of Heroin (New York: Harper and Row, 1972) (though he overlooks the tobacco-as-drug aspect, he cites some of the government role in promoting drug abuse dating back into the World War II time frame; the government tried to suppress some of the data).
Merit Systems Protection Board, "Retaliation Rate Remains Unchanged" (U.S. Gov't, December 2000) (government's own data shows a 7-12% harassment rate against federal civil service employees, hundreds of thousands of incidents over the years, having a chilling effect on being conscientious, as per penalty for being so)
Mills, James, The Underground Empire: Where Crime and Governments Embrace (Garden City: Doubleday and Co, 1986) (data on CIA aiding drug criminals for "intelligence" purposes while obstructing dealing with their drug activities)
Moore, James, Bush's War for Reelection (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004). (He “goes inside the White House and the Pentagon to show how the [Iraq War] was a Bush goal before 9/11—and how 9/11 became the justification [pretext, and citing] the unprecedented efforts by the Bush administration to suppress and distort intelligence, amd withhold the truth from the American people.” Moore cites “a Lieutenant Colonel from the Texas Air National Guard who claims to have witnessed 'embarrasssments' being removed from the Guard records of President Bush.” Moore “exposes the fibs and half-truths, ranging from Bush's disappearing act during his stint in the Texas Air National Guard, to the doctored intelligence reports that the Bush Administration used to justify [as a pretext for] invading Iraq.” Its methods of preventing the "doctored" data being discovered included (a) censoring scientists and (b) feeding false information to compliant journalists.
New York City Commission to Investigate Alleged Police Corruption, Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption (1972) (this analyzes how police have been pressured or corrupted to not enforce laws, just as pre-Civil War, they were not allowed to enforce Constitutional rights and Northern states' anti-kidnaping laws even when slavers were kidnaping white women; while not all police are corrupt, those who are not, typically look the other way with respect to corrupt colleagues, so prosecutions are rare)
North, Mark, Act of Treason: The Role of J. Edgar Hoover in the Assassination of President Kennedy (New York: Carroll & Graf Pubs, Inc, 1991) (cites Hoover's not passing on to the Secret Service his information from wire-tapping mobsters planning the assassination; Hoover was displeased Kennedy intended to term-limit him, whereas the successor Lyndon Johnson, Hoover's neighbor, would foreseeably keep Hoover in office)
The New York Supreme Court had a case of a judge bribed in a murder case, In re Brennan, 65 NY 2d 564, 493 NYS 2d 549; 483 N. E. 2d 484 (1985).
Perkins, John, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Pub, 2004) (cites role in helping the U.S. cheat impoverished countries by (a) loans above ability to repay, then (b) taking their economies over, with (c) assassinations of officials who catch on) (Review 1; Review 2)
The Ohio Supreme Court had a case of a judge bribed in a murder case, Ohio v McGettrick, 40 Ohio App 3d 25; 531 NE2d 755 (1988).
Orfield, Myron W., Jr., "Deterrence, Perjury, and the Heater Factor: An Exclusionary Rule in the Chicago Criminal Courts," 63 U. Colo. L. Rev. 75, 107 (1992) (survey of prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges indicates a belief that, on average, perjury occurs 20% of the time, with defense attorneys estimating it occurs 53% of the time in connection with Fourth Amendment issues; only 8% believe that police never, or almost never, lie in court)
Pepper, William F., An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King (London and New York: Verso, 2003) (cites bribery in arranging the assassination)
Rumsfeld, Donald: "It's a problem that's faced by police departments in every major city in our country, that criminals infilitrate and sign up to join the police force," says Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, CXLVI Newsweek, p 23 (10 October 2005).
Saar, Erik and Viveca Novak, Inside the Wire (New York: Penguin Press, 2005) (exposes Guantanamo prison atrocities firsthand)
The Second Circuit Court has this case: United States v Federal Appeals Judge Martin T. Manton, 107 F2d 834 (CA 2, 1939) cert den 309 US 664; 60 S Ct 590; 84 L Ed 1012 (1940) (judge who took $186,000 in bribes, on conviction was fined $10,000 and jailed for 19 months, confirming that at that rate, there is no meaningful deterrent to bribing judges). As part of his cover, to make himself look good, he had voted "pro-morality" in obscenity cases, e.g.,U.S. v One Book Called Ulysses by James Joyce, 5 F Supp 182 (SD NY, 6 Dec 1933) aff'd 72 F2d 705 (CA 2, 7 Aug 1934).
The Seventh Circuit Court had this case: An entire court system can be operated in such an egregiously corrupt fashion as to constitute a criminal enterprise. Such a situation was found by the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a decision deeming the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, a criminal enterprise, United States v Murphy, 768 F2d 1518, 1531 (CA 7, 1985) cert den 475 US 1012; 106 S Ct 1188; 89 L Ed 2d 304 (1986). See related cases, United States ex rel. Collins v Welborn, 868 F Supp 950, 990 (ND Ill, 1994); United States v Maloney, 71 F3d 645 (CA7, 29 Nov 1995) cert den 519 US 927; 117 S Ct 295; 136 L Ed 2d 214 (15 Oct 1996), and Bracy v Gramley, 520 US 899; 117 S Ct 1793; 138 L Ed 2d 97 (9 June 1997). One problem is that pro-bribery prosecutors don't want to prosecute the so-called "small" cases. To such, it's much better to wait until there is a massive, widespread, rampant, systemic problem!! Sure got their druthers here!!
Sevilla, Charles M., "The Exclusionary Rule and Police Perjury," 11 San Diego Law Rev 839 (1974) (cites pro-conviction perjury [lying to convict innocent people] in these words: it "is recognized by the defense bar, winked at by the prosecution, ignored by the judiciary, and unknown to the general public")
Slobogin, Christopher, "Testilying: Police Perjury and What To Do About It," 67 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1037 (Fall 1996) ("Police, like people generally, lie in all sorts of contexts for all sorts of reasons. This article has focused on police lying designed to convict individuals the police think are guilty. Strong measures are needed to reduce the powerful incentives to practice such testilying and the reluctance of prosecutors and judges to do anything about it.")
Stockwell, John,
In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story (New York: W.W. Norton & Co, Inc., 1978) (Cites policy of government lying to Congress and American people; the of disregarding professional advice in favor of politician whimsies; politicians pressuring CIA to deliver pre-determined answers, etc. P 246 says, “The U.S. government, through the CIA, disburses tens of millions of dollars each year in cash bribes. Bribery is a standard operating technique of the U.S. government, via the CIA, but it is a criminal offense for U.S. businesses.” “Operationally its case officers 'publish or perish'—an officer who does not generate operations does not get promoted. [So] The officers energetically go about seeking opportunities . . . .” p 251.)
Stowe, Harriet B., Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: John P. Jewett & Co, 1853) (Pp 22-23 rebuts denials of judges being commonly for sale, aiding and abetting kidnapping).
Suskind, Ronald, The Price of Loyalty (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003) (cites background from Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill, on Bush mismanagement pre 9-11, including Bush's symptoms, "disengaged," "like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection") (See analysis).
Supreme Court decision United States v Agurs, 427 US 97; 96 S Ct 2392; 49 L Ed 2d 342 (1976) (Supreme Court decision holding on prosecutor's knowing use of perjured testimony as violating due process, ignoring its prevalance).
Thomas, Gordon, Seeds of Fire: China and the Story Behind the Attack on America (Tempe, AZ: Dandelion Books, 2001) (voluminously, 526 pages, exposes substantial behind-the-scenes activities)
Tiffany, Joel, Treatise on the
Unconstitutionality of American Slavery (Cleveland, Ohio: J. Calyer, 1849) (p 49 shows the U.S. Supreme Court as already then in 1849 recognized as the worst in the world as far as going outside the rule of law, so as to evade the actual words of the text of the U.S. Constitution)
Tuohy, James and Rob Warden, Greylord: Justice, Chicago Style (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989) (they cite judges' willingness to make money from crime, and willingness to take bribes from defendants, 90% of whom are typically smokers; as with the Knapp Commission situation, those judges who don't do bribes, typically do not turn in colleagues who do). An Illinois group of concerned citizens, Citizens for Legal Responsibility, makes a similar point in more detail.
Vipperman, Franklin D., The Deal Makers; The Cesspool; and Hell Hole (Vipperman at Las Vegas Tribune] covers police, judges, and prosecutors framing of innocent people, railroading them into prison, while defense attorneys aid, abet, and cover up. Goal: for all to benefit politically and monetarily)
Wolchover, David, "Police Perjury in London," 136 New L. J. 181, 183 (1986) (estimating that police officers lie in 3 out of 10 trials)
Winter-Berger, Robert N., The Washington Payoff: A Lobbyist's Own Story of Corruption in Government (Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, Inc, 1972) (corruption and bribery at highest levels of U.S. government; p 13, the motto in D.C., "Nothing for Nothing")
Woodward, Bob, VEIL: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987) (bribery does not take much money, "a comparatively small amount of money could" suffice, p 397. Concern about "anticorruption" action was deemed an obsession, making the person so concerned "a big pain in the ass for the [Reagan] administration," p 339. A Reaganite U.S. Attorney handling Operation Greylord, Dan K. Webb, not surprisingly was later retained by the tobacco lobby, promoting the underlying basis (tobacco-crime link) of the bribery process he had purported to oppose! despite the (tobacco link to drugs and thus to terrorism, supra.)
Bob Woodward, A Plan of Attack (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004) (cites pre-conceived intent to attack Iraq without credible WMD evidence; see also 60 Minutes Interview 18 April 2004)
Younger, Irving, "The Perjury Routine," The Nation (8 May 1967), pp 596-97 ("Every lawyer who practices in the criminal courts knows that police perjury is commonplace.")
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