Portland Says NO to the JTTF

Portland Says NO to the JTTF Coalition of citizens and groups opposed to Portland rejoining the FBI's domestic spying program, the Joint Terrorim Task Force (JTTF). cities.

Many activist groups and members of the community strongly oppose rejoining the JTTF because of the continued evidence and facts surrounding issues of racial and religious profiling, wiretapping, spying and arresting of activists in organizations and immigrant/Muslim communities in Portland and many other U.S. The Electronic Frontier Foundation discovered over 40,000 violations by the FBI of U.S.

citizens' constitutional rights since 9/11/01. In September 2010, the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice found the FBI to have consistently violated civil liberties by actively investigating peace groups, animal rights activists, Palestinian rights activists, environmental groups and anti-war protesters, without any evidence of crimes. A key reason for former Mayor Tom Potter's original historic decision to have Portland be the only U.S. city to leave the JTTF was that selected Portland Police officers were given special FBI clearances and duties, but the mayor did not have the ability or clearance to effectively monitor or supervise these officers. Many have proposed that if full clearance were given to the Mayor, an alliance with the JTTF would be acceptable. But it is our position that any agreement with the JTTF, or any government agency that operates under a similar model, endangers the civil liberties of Portlanders and is completely unacceptable. We do not want police officers, federal agents, or any government agency to be able to operate in secrecy, outside of the law and with disregard for our civil liberties.

03/13/2015

In a sign of the renewed momentum of the "war on terror," a famously liberal Oregon city resumed cooperation with the FBI.

The JTTF is back in the news. Three years after rejoining the JTTF it appears as if the commitment to good oversight ha...
03/28/2014

The JTTF is back in the news. Three years after rejoining the JTTF it appears as if the commitment to good oversight has been abandoned. City Hall will be addressing their annual report at their next meeting (Wed April 2)... are they going to be an advocate for accountability or are they going to let the Portland Police and JTTF run wild? PPD is currently under investigation by the Justice Dept and the JTTF has a horrible track record.

Portland Mayor Charlie Hales, who opposed JTTF involvement a decade ago and has been denied "secret" clearance, said he's comfortable with the arrangement -- for now.

"The judge listened as Sady argued for evidence that the government's prosecution of Mohamud was driven by a political m...
04/21/2012

"The judge listened as Sady argued for evidence that the government's prosecution of Mohamud was driven by a political motive to get the Portland Police Bureau to rejoin the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force."

Mohamed Mohamud, 20, is in jail awaiting an October trial for allegedly attempting to ignite a weapon of mass destruction at Portland's annual tree lighting ceremony in 2010.

good article - published december 14th
12/18/2011

good article - published december 14th

FBI Director Robert Mueller just this morning told the Senate that he fears the proposed law will create confusion over who has authority to investigate terrorism cases.

"Time and again, the FBI concocts a Terrorist attack, infiltrates Muslim communities in order to find recruits, persuade...
09/30/2011

"Time and again, the FBI concocts a Terrorist attack, infiltrates Muslim communities in order to find recruits, persuades them to perpetrate the attack, supplies them with the money, weapons and know-how they need to carry it out -- only to heroically jump in at the last moment, arrest the would-be perpetrators whom the FBI converted, and save a grateful nation from the plot manufactured by the FBI. "

Are there so few actual Terrorists that the FBI has to recruit them into manufactured attacks?

09/02/2011

Agents have been hunting more for potential threats to national security than for ordinary criminals in recent years, according to newly disclosed data.

08/10/2011

here is the link to the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for the Portland Police Bureau working with the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) that was released 22 July 2011

no security clearances granted and the PPD/JTTF deal has yet to manifest but apparently the attack in Norway is being us...
08/05/2011

no security clearances granted and the PPD/JTTF deal has yet to manifest but apparently the attack in Norway is being used to create some sense that this bad deal is not materializing fast enough.

People protesting the citys plan to rejoin the local FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in April probably did not realize it would take months for police to participate in the group.

07/20/2011

A day after the online sect LulzSecurity pulled their own hack on Rupert Murdoch, members of the most the widely-known...

06/17/2011

Civil liberties advocates are raising alarm over news the FBI is giving agents more leeway to conduct domestic surveillance. According to the New York Times, new guidelines will allow FBI agents to investigate people and organizations "pro-actively" without firm evidence for suspecting criminal acti

05/26/2011

Negotiations between city officials and federal authorities included a memorandum of understanding.

05/24/2011

FBI agents, who raided the home of Mick Kelly and Linden Gawboy, took with them thousands of pages of documents and books, along with computers, cell phones and a passport. By mistake, they also left something behind; the operation plans for the raid, “Interview questions” for anti-war and internati

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