Thomas Galati Quotes
… information that has come in has not commenced an investigation …. I never made a lead from rhetoric that came from a Demographics report, and I'm here since 2006
See {637047}for a description of the racial profiling, infiltration program.
Thomas Galati, Assistant Chief, New York City Police Department, Legal Deposition Under Oath, 2012
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There were not only no convictions as a result of this ethnic profiling and warrantless surveillance but there was not even a single lead generated. See {637048}.
The judge found that Blacks and Hispanics were stopped and frisked at a much higher rate than whites despite the fact that whites, when they were stopped and searched had a higher rate of carrying an illegal gun or illegal substances.
He was the NSA Director when the agency literally captured data on every phone call in the United States and most internet e-mails and other digital communications. It became a national scandal and debate. There was an opposite point of view of intelligence experts. See {637041} and {637042}.
Munir was a strong advocate for civilian control over the military and as exposed many military atrocities and disappearances. He was poisoned on a Garuda Airlines flight to Holland where he was exposing more of the human rights violations of the Indonesian Military.
Ironically, without the word “wicked” most people would regard the first sentence as a good description of elements of a modern democracy. It illustrates that for the Islamic fundamentalist democracy substitutes the rule of man for the rule of God, freedom of speech allows heresy and blasphemy to to uttered and communicated, and religion which is supposed to inform and direct politics. So what is good for the lover of democracy is the very thing that is bad for Islam. This is not a uniquely Islamic viewpoint. It has been and is held by fundamentalist Christians and Jews as well who would return to Biblical law punishing blasphemy and heresy with death and have religion drive all politics.
The Egyptian pilot was an extreme Muslim fundamentalist who committed suicide while killing all the passengers. From the point of view of Osama bin Laden this was a test that a fanatic would kill “heathens” by flying an Airplane and killing himself also in the process. This was then used in designing the plan for 9-11. However, at the time of the investigation, our intelligence agencies never “connected the dots” while it was clear in retrospect. The cockpit voice recorder showed that the pilot kept repeating the traditional Islamic battle cry, “God is Great” over and over as he dove the plane into the sea.
The conflict to which he was referring was the terrorism practiced by the Pakistan-supported Muslim fundamentalists in Kargil, India in 1999.
The key security organizations of the Pakistan government had large numbers of radical Islamicists with great sympathy and close ties with the Islamic terrorists.
He was the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
He was the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
He was the first American citizen who was assassinated by the Central Intelligence Agency by means of a drone attack. He was a major recruiter for Al Qaeda, and he preached to 3 of the 9-11 terrorists.
Snowden, was a contract worker for Booz Allan assigned to the National Security Agency (NSA). He felt that some of the NSA activities were illegal and unethical and tried to complain to NSA officials who rebuffed him. Despite the fact that he had signed an agreement not to do so, he copied many critical, classified documents that exposed much of the NSA activities that the NSA officials had denied existed—including lying under oath to the Senate. He then made many of them public, violating his oath, breaking the law, and opening up an entire area of government spying which most Americans knew nothing about and about which senior government officials had lied under oath to Congress. They of course wanted to prosecute Snowden who had told the truth, while they had lied. For many Americans, this became a moral and ethical conundrum.
The NSA had been publicly exposed (by the Edward Snowden leaks) as collecting data on virtually every American’s phone and on-line conversation, and criticism was rampant.
