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	<title>gangstalking on Closing The Gap</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>gangstalking on Closing The Gap</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p><a onclick="return hs.expand(this)" class="highslide" href="http://static.lulu.com/product/paperback/closing-the-gap/12456582/thumbnail/320" title=""><img src="http://static.lulu.com/product/paperback/closing-the-gap/12456582/thumbnail/320" border="0" class="sfimageleft" title="" width="100" alt="" /><img src="http://www.gangstalkingunited.com/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/two-en/mouse.png" class="sfimageleft sfmouseleft" alt="" /></a>Closing The Gap takes a deeper look into the Gang Stalking phenomenon<br />
and how community notification programs are being used and abused to<br />
destroy the lives of innocent citizens. These programs are being used<br />
to create a system of state control and conformity. </p>
<p>The citizens of<br />
democratic countries have been mobilized as weapons for the state. They<br />
are being used as a clearing house for those who the state see as<br />
unfit, and undesirable. </p>
<p>The state in every community, workplace, and<br />
most families have created a disturbing, interconnected system of<br />
surveillance, and control. Once targeted, the person in question is<br />
blacklisted. Then those around the target are categorically enlisted<br />
into the states monitoring, supervision, and annexing of the target.</p>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>justin on 1944 WWII Simple Sabotage Field Manual</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p>I saw <a href="http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/p4013coll9&#38;CISOPTR=307&#38;filename=308.pdf" target="_blank">this book</a> posted <a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/06/world_war_ii_sa.html" target="_blank">on Bruce Schneier's blog</a>. It outlines a lot of tactics that could be used against targeted individuals.</p>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>gangstalking on Bridging the gap</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p>Bridging the Gap. </p>
<p>This book is now available at Amazon.com</p>
<p>You can now purchase this the Hardcopy of this book at Amazon.com. This book is a great way to help you and others understand what Gang Stalking is, and why it could be happening in society.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bridging-Gap-GmB-Bailey/dp/1441448845" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Bridging.....1441448845</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.GangStalkingUnited.com/images/Bridge5.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.GangStalkingUnited......ridge5.jpg</a></p>
<p>The book will answer a lot of the questions that get thrown out at targets. Why would the government do this? You are just not that interesting? Who would spend that much money to track and stalk you? How could so many people be taking part? You are just paranoid? Has this ever happened before?</p>
<p>It really should help to bridge some of the gaps between the regular population and the targeted individuals community. </p>
<p>Below are the chapters. Again the book is now available at Amazon.com and you can find it by using this link. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bridging-Gap-GmB-Bailey/dp/1441448845" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Bridging.....1441448845</a></p>
<p>Table Of Content</p>
<p>Table Of Content</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>Introduction&#160;&#160;&#160; I</p>
<p>Table of contents</p>
<p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Table of contents III</p>
<p>1. Bridging the gap </p>
<p>&#160;&#160;&#160; Bridging the gap 1</p>
<p>2. What is Gang Stalking </p>
<p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; What is Gang Stalking?&#160; 2.1<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Community Policing 2.4<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Goals of Gang Stalking 2.5<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Who gets targeted 2.7<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Who takes part 2.9<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Why people become informants&#160; 2.10<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Common Techniques used&#160; 2.10<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Funding for Gang Stalking&#160; 2.12<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; How do participants communicate&#160; 2.13</p>
<p>3. Covert Techniques </p>
<p>&#160;&#160;&#160; Covert Techniques&#160; 3.1</p>
<p>4. Obedience to authority </p>
<p>&#160;&#160;&#160; Milgram Experiment&#160; 4.1<br />&#160;&#160;&#160; The Stanford Prison Experiment 4.3<br />&#160;&#160;&#160; Strip Search Call Prank 4.4</p>
<p>5. Informant System </p>
<p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The Snitching System&#160; 5.1<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Alexandra Natapoff&#160; 5.3</p>
<p>6. Conspiracies and history </p>
<p>&#160;&#160; The Secret Persuaders 6.1<br />&#160;&#160; Operation Gladio&#160;&#160; 6.2<br />&#160;&#160; Red Squads&#160;&#160;&#160; 6.4<br />&#160;&#160; McCarthyism&#160; 6.7<br />&#160;&#160; Cointelpro&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; 6.9<br />&#160;&#160; Stasi&#160; 6.11<br />&#160;&#160; The Buzzsaw 6.14<br />&#160;&#160; Fusion Centers&#160; 6.17</p>
<p>7. Are Canadians being Watched</p>
<p>&#160;&#160;&#160; Secret Databases 7.1<br />&#160;&#160;&#160; Spying101&#160; 7.2<br />&#160; <br />8. The Set Up&#39;s</p>
<p>&#160;&#160;&#160; Conspiracy 8.1<br />&#160;&#160;&#160; Paying the price&#160; 8.2</p>
<p>9. Chain Reaction</p>
<p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The Game&#160; 9.1<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Understanding the game 9.3<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Stopping the chain reaction&#160; 9.7</p>
<p>10. Infiltrations</p>
<p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Online Infiltrations&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; 10.1<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Offline Infiltrations&#160;&#160;&#160; 10.2</p>
<p>11. The final pieces<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The Final Pieces&#160;&#160; 11.1<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Checks and balances&#160; 11.2<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Unwelcome truths 11.3</p>
<p>12. Coping</p>
<p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Coping&#160; 12.1</p>
<p>13. Closing Thoughts</p>
<p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Closing&#160; 13.1</p>
<p>14. Resources</p>
<p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Movies&#160; 14.1<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Videos&#160; 14.1<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Books&#160; 14.1<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Articles 14.2<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Cointelpro 14.4<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Websites&#160;&#160; 14.5</p>
<p>15. References</p>
<p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; References&#160; 15.1</p>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>admin on Please read the ebook first. </title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>gangstalking on Bridging the gap</title>
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<p>Now available in pdf formant. Download the ebook.</p>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>gangstalking on Bridging the gap</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p>Are you being watched without knowing it?</p>
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<p>Average citizens are being placed under covert investigations. Could you be a target? NO? Guess again, you might be surprised who is being investigated and why? If you value your privacy learn how the game is being played. Informants are all around us.</p>
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<p>Uncover the truth about secret deals, undercover operations, the reason some are being disenfranchised from their jobs, communities, and their very livelihoods. Discover what others have discovered. Even if you do nothing wrong, you have plenty to worry about. Informants are in every nook and cranny in society. If you are an informant learn the truth about the system that controls us all. Bridging the gap exposes, the truth behind the lies.</p>
<p>Average citizens are being followed, monitored, watched, in their homes, at work, on the streets. Could this happen to you? NO? All it takes is the word of an informant. Find out what other innocent citizens have learnt. Freedom is not free, you too could become an enemy of the system. Once you do, your life will never been the same again.</p>
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<p>Discover a state apparatus you never knew existed in a world that you currently inhibit. Discover how you too could be systemically ruined if you make the wrong enemy or step outside the invisible lines. Bridging The Gap, will help you or someone you love get ahead of the game, before the game gets you. This book will bring you up to date on what you need to know, to make the right choices for staying ahead of the game in today&#39;s society.</p>
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<p>Informants are an integral part of society, if you don&#39;t watch your back, they will be watching it for you. The system has created a game, and we are all players, find out your best strategy for survival, in a modern day surveillance society.</p>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>gangstalking on Bridging the gap</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p>Bridging The Gap is a disturbing, yet poignant look into modern day democratic surveillance societies. The book examines how this structure is used to discredit, disenfranchise, and destroy innocent citizens.</p>
<p>Gang Stalking, The Buzzsaw, Cointelpro, what do these words mean and more importantly what do they have in common? They are names that have been used to describe the systemic apparatus that reaches out to destroy and discredit those declared enemy by the state.</p>
<p>This book will open your eyes to how the informant system has taken over these democratic countries, and how they are being used to further create a surveillance society where no one will be out of reach, should they too&#160; become persona non grata by the system. <a onclick="return hs.expand(this)" class="highslide" href="/images/Bridge5.jpg" title=""><img src="/images/Bridge5.jpg" border="0" class="sfimageleft" title="" width="100" alt="" /><img src="http://www.gangstalkingunited.com/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/two-en/mouse.png" class="sfimageleft sfmouseleft" alt="" /></a></p>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>gangstalking on There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence</title>
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<p>Cunningham analyzes the counterintelligence program of the FBI that was discovered in the early 1970s and formally stopped as an illegal operation in violation of the target&#39;s civil rights. Illegal surveillance was conducted with a broad range of groups from the New Left to civil rights groups to the Ku Klux Klan and related hate groups. Cunningham asserts that while the formal COINTELPRO was outlawed, many of its practices have continued because they are rooted in the strong anti-communist era when the FBI&#39;s activities went far beyond mere surveillance. Cunningham reflects on both the similar and distinctly different treatment of the New Left, which FBI director J. Edgar Hoover considered to be unpatriotic, and the Klan, which was viewed as patriotic but prone to violence. Cunningham draws connections between structural deficiencies of the agency from the 1970s until today, and their impact on the agency&#39;s inability to detect the activities of the 9/11 terrorists. This is an absorbing book for readers interested in the balance between our government&#39;s questionable surveillance practices and concerns about national security.</p>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>gangstalking on Drugging America: A Trojan Horse</title>
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<p>Drugging America is written by a former federal agent, Rodney Stich, in collaboration with dozens of other insiders. The coalition of government agents and deep-cover operatives (FBI, CIA, DEA, INS, Customs, ONI and others) reveal government corruption that is undermining, like a Trojan horse, the government and the people of the United States. Also contributing to the book&#39;s contents are police officers, Mafia family members, and former drug traffickers, former drug smugglers carrying out drug-smuggling assignments for people in the CIA and other government offices and operations, some of who were houseguests to Colombian drug lords, and former Mafia figures. Their insider information given directly to the author is bolstered by numerous government documents and other writings. There is no known other book that covers the arrogant and corrupt war on drugs as written by insiders. </p>
<p><strong>From the Author</strong><br />I have great appreciation for the many courageous people who contributed to the reporting of intrigue, arrogance, deception, and criminal misconduct of people in key positions in the three branches of the federal government that I personally discovered and documented. By their willingness to provide information and documentation to me, I have been motivated to continue my efforts to inform as many people as possible of the harm being inflicted by these government personnel upon all of America and particularly on thousands of individual men and women.</p>
<p>Without their assistance, this and my other books would be less complete and a smaller part of the bizarre story could be conveyed to the readers.</p>
<p>These people, numbering in the dozens, consist of present and past government agents and deep- cover operatives from such government agencies as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), U.S. Customs Service (USCS), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Secret Service (SS), and state agencies. Also, prior drug traffickers and Mafia family members.</p>
<p>These sources either discovered the misconduct described within these pages as part of their official duties, or they were part of the activities, acting under orders.</p>
<p>In preparing this manuscript for the printer, appreciation is given to Glenda Guilinger for her proofreading. Having acquired her pilot&#39;s license at the age of 17, she is my "copilot" and partner who spent many hours going over the manuscript and helping with corrections and clarification. <em>--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.</em></p>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>gangstalking on On Being Watched</title>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium; color: #810081; font-family: Comic Sans MS;"></p>
<p align="left"><strong>"It&#39;s not paranoia .&#8230;</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>if they&#39;re really after you &#8230;!</strong></p>
<p align="left">&#160;</p>
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<p align="left">In recent years, surveillance techniques have been developed, they say, for the catching of criminals in criminal acts, further, to provide evidence for their prosecution. I think society at large would argue, that that&#39;s fair enough. Fingerprintdetection, after all, seems to be acceptable to most!</p>
<p align="left">Now, however, these same surveillance techniques are being much used to inform those trying to control `dissent&#39; in this country. It should be pointed out that dissent and protest are not crimes here, yet!</p>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>gangstalking on Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press</title>
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<p>The buzzsaw, explains Borjesson, is what journalists encounter when they attempt to reveal information that the nation&#39;s "large institutions-be they corporate or government-" prefer to keep secret. She presents 18 firsthand accounts by authors and print and television producers and reporters who challenged the media structure, often with devastating results to their careers. While Borjesson&#39;s and David Hendrix&#39;s narratives on the 1996 TWA Flight 800 disaster alone are worth the price of the book, other contributors chronicle their experiences with everything from books suppressed by the publishing industry to drug-war "shills" (those hoping to convince an audience that the "game is honest") to Bobby Garwood, who spent 14 years as a POW in Vietnam. Self-censorship is rife, they say, forcing limits on what constitutes news and whose voice is being heard. This desperate state of modern journalism relates directly to the fact that while good investigative reporting demands time, money, and risk, news executives are more concerned with profitability. Suggested reforms include providing "news that matters" and a return to the First Amendment&#39;s promise of a "free press." Many of the essays are blunt; all are provocative, substantiated by examples and evidence. The issues each one raises should spark lively debates in journalism and government classes and stimulate the critical thinking of news consumers. A brief biography and photograph of the contributor prefaces each chapter.</p>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>gangstalking on The Covert War Against Rock</title>
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<p>Constantine&#39;s paranoid romp through rock history explores Brian Jones&#39; demise at Winnie the Pooh&#39;s house, Peter Tosh&#39;s death during a home invasion, Bob Marley&#39;s fatal cancer, and the terminations of other, somehow subversive rock stars, and vets the conspiracy theories about them. Was Marley given cancer by means of a booby-trapped cowboy boot from the CIA? If so, was that part of the same CIA-Jamaican government campaign that rubbed out Tosh? What of alleged foul play in the death of Tupac Shakur, not by rival gangsta rap crews, but by a "COINTELPRO-type operation" ? According to Constantine, the mainstream media have produced books "libelling the deceased and misleading the reader on the circumstances." The scary suppositions are only slightly undercut by Constantine&#39;s occasional fudging of known, if ungermane, facts, as when he says that the Mick Jagger^-Keith Richards bust occurred at a hotel rather than Richards&#39; Redlands estate. Less scurrilous than the <em>Weekly World News</em>, less reliable than Kenneth Anger&#39;s Tinseltown expose, <em>Hollywood Babylon</em>, this is still fascinating conspiracy mongering.</p>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>gangstalking on Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall </title>
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<p>"Its job was to know everything about everyone, using any means it chose. It knew who your visitors were, it knew whom you telephoned, and it knew if your wife slept around." This was the fearsome Stasi, the Ministry for State Security of the late and unlamented German Democratic Republic. Funder, an Australian writer, international lawyer and TV and radio producer, visiting Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, finds herself captivated by stories of people who resisted the Stasi-moving stories that she collects in her first book, which was shortlisted for two literary awards in Australia. For instance, Miriam Weber, a slight woman with a "surprisingly big nicotine-stained voice," was placed in solitary confinement at the age of 16 for printing and distributing protest leaflets; she was caught again during a dramatic nighttime attempt to go over the Wall. Filtered through Funder&#39;s own keen perspective, these dramatic tales highlight the courage that ordinary people can display in torturous circumstances.</p>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>gangstalking on Snitch</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p><span id="btAsinTitle"><a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Snitch-Informants-Cooperators-Corruption-Justice/dp/1586484923/ref=sr_11_1/183-3950576-3579110?ie=UTF8&#38;qid=1229657910&#38;sr=11-1" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.ca/Snitch-In.....mp;sr=11-1</a></span></p>
<p><span>Snitch &#38; Informants, Cooperators, and the Corruption of Justice</span></p>
<p><span>by <a href="http://www.gangstalkingunited.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#38;search-type=ss&#38;index=books-ca&#38;field-author=Ethan%20Brown" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399;">Ethan Brown</span></a> </span></p>
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<p><span>Brown (<em>Queens Reigns Supreme</em>) presents the case that harsh minimum sentencing laws have led federal prosecutors to rely too much on unreliable informants and cooperators, and too little on solid investigative work; the sentences are also, he argues, feeding the anti-snitch movement. Brown correctly notes that long minimum sentences give defendants greater incentive to lie in exchange for a reduced sentence, and he relates anecdotes about deals with unsavory criminals. But these cases don&#39;t provide any analysis of whether such arrangements are really antithetical to justice and corrupt the system. For instance, in discussing the agreement struck with unrepentant Mafia turncoat Sammy Gravano, the author doesn&#39;t assess the possibility that such plea bargains with mob leaders have contributed to the decline of traditional organized crime. Further, the author&#39;s critique of pre-emptive indictments in alleged terrorist plots based on informers could have given more weight to the legitimate fears that waiting too long to stop such a plot may be too risky. The serious issues raised by the federal government&#39;s reliance on informants and cooperative witnesses merit a more thorough and nuanced analysis than Brown provides. </span></p>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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