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EXCLUSIVE: Six years after terrorists detonated two bombs near the Boston Marathon finish line taking three lives and causing hundreds of injuries, Propagate Content/Electus will make the documentary series Maximum Harm, based on Boston-based investigative journalist Michele McPhee’s book. Aboard to direct are Charles Ferguson, who won an Oscar for the 2008 financial meltdown dissection The Inside Job and his partner Shimon Dotan, who won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize director for Hot House.

McPhee’s book recaptured an unimaginable outcome to Patriots Day, when the city of Boston screeches to a halt annually for celebrations capped by the Boston Marathon. In her book, McPhee leaned heavily into the allegation that lead terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an FBI informant gone rogue, and questioned whether he and brother Dzhokhar actually built the bombs they planted 210 yards apart near the finish of the Boston Marathon. Besides three deaths, the bombs caused several hundred injuries that included 16 who lost limbs.

The book painted a complex picture that questioned how Tamerlan Tsaernev was able to travel back and forth to Russia despite being on two government watch lists and having no apparent financial resources, and pointed it back to the bureau’s recruitment of him to be a “mosque crawler” to inform on radical separatists here and in their home in Chechnya. The book also reported as botched deals and broken promises by the FBI with regard to his immigration and the disenchantment, rage, and growing radicalization of the brothers and their family, including Tamerlan’s wife. McPhee is a five-time Emmy nominated journalist.

This allows for a different narrative than the HBO documentary Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing (which focused on the terror attack but especially on the resilience of the maimed survivors), Patriots Day (the Peter Berg-directed procedural in which the FBI, local law enforcement and politicians shut down the city for a dragnet that nabbed the terrorists) and Stronger, in which Jake Gyllenhaal starred as Jeff Bauman and his grueling recovery from wounds that cost him both of his lower legs. Like all of those films, Maximum Harm will highlight the heroism and Boston Strong spirit that prompted then U.S. president Barack Obama to say, “Boston is a tough and resilient town. So are its people.”

Electus will produce with Ben Silverman, Howard Owens, Chris Grant, Drew Buckley and Jonathan Schaerf serving as Executive Producers, alongside Michele McPhee (City on a Hill), Max Levenson, Bryan O’Connell and his newly formed Lady Moon Entertainment. Latter company is also producing a Judy Garland & Sid Luft documentary at Showtime and a Reagan documentary at A&E.

UTA Independent Film Group will handle worldwide sales for the project. Ferguson and Dotan are represented by UTA.

useyourcommoncents

This is Russiagate all over...and the Serial podcast. The media will do anything to feed the beast, even distort facts and tell outright lies.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nud2TQNahaU)

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXgkuM2NhYI) It's true. We can.

patsysvodka

“As foreperson of the jury in the Noor Salman trial I felt it important that I present a juror’s perspective of the verdicts. I am giving you my perspective, and not speaking for the entire jury. My initial inclination was not to communicate with the news media at all, however once I returned home a watched the news coverage of the reactions to the verdicts I felt compelled to at least clarify several misconceptions. First, I want to express my deepest sympathy to family and friends of the victims of this senseless tragedy. I understand the desire to hold someone accountable for this heinous act of violence. Omar Mateen is dead. He cannot be punished. It is only logical the world would look next to Noor Salman.

These past few days have been very difficult. We listened carefully to opening arguments, testimonies from both prosecution and defense witnesses, viewed many exhibits and heard closing statements. We received many pages of documentation from the court outlining very specific instructions related to the charges and how we should apply the law. We used these detailed instructions, our courtroom notes, and all evidence presented by both sides in our deliberations.

Having said that, I want to make several things very clear. A verdict of not guilty did NOT mean that we thought Noor Salman was unaware of what Omar Mateen was planning to do. On the contrary we were convinced she did know. She may not have known what day, or what location, but she knew. However, we were not tasked with deciding if she was aware of a potential attack. The charges were aiding and abetting and obstruction of justice. I felt the both the prosecution and the defense did an excellent job presenting their case. I wish that the FBI had recorded their interviews with Ms. Salman as there were several significant inconsistencies with the written summaries of her statements. The bottom line is that, based on the letter of the law, and the detailed instructions provided by the court, we were presented with no option but to return a verdict of not guilty.”

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/jury-foreman-speaks-out-after-not-guilty-verdict-in-noor-salman-trial

useyourcommoncents

Well, as least one jury was thinking of the letter of the law compared to what most Defense attorneys wish you to do, sympathize and be more emotional swayed.

patsysvodka

It is an open secret female spouses are difficult to charge and even more difficult to convict. Hubbie's change of target from Disney to Gay bar made this case a bridge too far.

Also they got her to consent to a polygraph and then chose not to follow through with the actual polygraph after they obtained a shifty confession. Low IQ + domestic violence. I wasn’t surprised by the jury’s decision.

useyourcommoncents

Me neither, and considering his violence he unleashed that made the case for her domestic abuse case. But that defense is clearly being used non-stop in many court cases, can I say Jodi Aries. She even had a supposed domestic abuse counselor to affirm her claim.

Still, like with Kathryn and Tamerlan - she clearly was abused in some capacity and so how much does religion play in obeying your husband, and doing what he says, verses breaking the law and be complicit in crimes of that magnitude whether there was domestic abuse or not. I mean did Katheryn not take notice of her husband buying 3 pressure cookers, as he used her and his child as cover to make their purchases seem "normal."

Domestic abuse is prevalent in the Middle East, and with Islam according to advocates and writers.

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patsysvodka

We know who killed three people and maimed 260 more in that shocking act of domestic terrorism five years ago at the Boston Marathon. But whoever built the bombs that ripped apart so many lives is still on the loose, capable of killing again.

The FBI has said repeatedly that they don’t know who armed the Tsarnaev brothers for their bloody attack, but cops in the Boston area think that there’s a suspect in plain sight and that the bureau and the U.S. attorney are protecting him for some reason. “It is incredibly troubling to look at the facts surrounding this guy Daniel Morley, and have no understanding whatsoever about why the FBI got involved [in his case]…why the charges were dismissed and how the circumstances about his connection to the marathon bombers were kept quiet,” says Jerry Flynn, executive director of the New England Police Benevolent Association, one of Massachusetts’s largest police unions. “We are talking about bombs that killed a little boy, two women. We have a dead cop. This kind of secrecy shouldn’t be tolerated.”

inktablet

Well, I’m glad she’s still on this, though she’s still taking some liberties in her writing– ”Dzhokhar killed Collier” –she does clarify later in the article, but a copy editor should call this out!

And hmmm….

Police initially linked the 7-Eleven stickup to Collier’s killing but later backed away from that theory. However, there’s another man in the store’s surveillance video, his face obscured, clearly wearing a gray, hooded sweatshirt and carrying a backpack. In the trial of Robel Phillipos, a friend of the Tsarnaev brothers who was convicted of lying to the FBI about evidence he and two friends discarded from Dzhokhar’s dorm room the night Collier was killed, a federal agent testified that during questioning, Phillipos identified a photo of Dzhokhar wearing a “gray hooded sweatshirt with fluorescent lettering” from an array of “recent surveillance photos from a robbery of a 7-Eleven.”

Were Morley and Dzhokhar together in that 7-Eleven? If so, that would seem to be a vital clue to pursue in one of the most infamous crimes in recent U.S. history, and after Morley was identified as a possible suspect, several police departments shared their suspicions about him with the Cambridge police.

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I’ll have to go back and look at some of those photos, I don’t remember another person.

patsysvodka

Yeah, I remember two photos from inside the 7-11 and I don’t remember hearing anything about another person matching Jahar’s description present with bucket-hat man. Robel must have seen an unreleased photo. I’m also glad McPhee is staying on top of this mess.

oh, did you see @useyourcommoncents post about Abu Hamza?

https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/blog/useyourcommoncents/169367622227

How the hell did that get out and there’s no mugshot of Jahar because reasons or something…. Weird…..

useyourcommoncents

I would like to know who she considers "the FBI" that supposedly said we don't know who built the bombs for them? It's a big problem when she hides behind 'sources' same way she refers to the FBI when she insisted the FBI said he wrote "Fuck you" in the boat. And there is no evidence to suggest this was every written..and even the defense makes the case it's false, and if there was really a Fuck You, the prosecutor would have jumped on that as further evidence to use against him. Remember that boat was viewed by jury....

.And MM doesn't even remotely tell the story of Morley and his personal background, known associates, etc or where he purchased items, his phone records, computer logs and emails etc. There would have to be some electronic trail to connect him to the Tsarnaevs. And that is easily established, something I am sure was part of his background check by LE.

T was paranoid, and he didn't trust anyone with his plan, that from the Tsarnaev, so to suggest he would enlist another person he didn't know, is not logical. (Katherine is another story) Too easy for something to go wrong before anything happened, the more people you add to plan, the more likely for things to go wrong - to turn on you. And clearly Morely was mentally unstable, he drew attention to himself and got found out.

I mean come on, if the FBI can question Tsarnaev groupies about books they are sending him, and flush out if their Isamic extremists then they certainly can flush out Morley's footprint.

and @patsysvodka my knowledge suggest his ADX picture is not made public due to SAMS, which would most likely cause media attention and scrutiny from the FBI, (same with the books he received* and FBI shakedown). I mean they don't forget that foreign groups like ISIS and Al Queda mention him - and can use it as propaganda for recruiting. Same way Zubie suggested playing his jail house call on world news was used against him, that permanent record is used as evidence in court cases for harsher sentencing. BTW, she insist the media manipulated her, meaning they told her would not go on air! Come on, who believes that with all the interviews she did, and cameras in her house that day. But lying is the path the Tsarneavs take when they are confronted on wrong doing or making themselves look good. This is a family with a life long pattern of lying, in the mist of their chaotic dysfunctional family structure. And it didn't change when they Migrated to America, nor does seem today. And not to mention things they told supporters, same way they never talk to many supporters again when they no longer offered them things, like money. And money is big motivator in this family, and always has been.

Two years of solitary confinement has taken its toll on the hate preacher, who has launched an appeal claiming his US prison conditions are a breach of his human rights.

Now he wants to go back to the UK, the ADX is too hard on him. He wants to suck up to the judge so he can go back to the UK, same place he was wishing for the death and destruction of the entire country. Boy to these wanna be jihadists just turn on a dime, where is the logic and reason?

Now he wants to talk democracy and human rights. Plz.

#hate preacher abu hamza pictured pathetic figure

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ9pYwCKopE)

patsysvodka

BREAKING: Authorities: Brother of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of possessing child porn. (AP) *The order of funders for Steele Dossier: unnamed GOP official a cutout for GOP Presidential candidate who dropped out, then Clinton Campaign atty, then the FBI on retainer for info past pg. 35

Now we find out Campos crossed the border BACK INTO the US from Mexico one week after the shooting and Paddock’s hard drive is missing from the laptop found in his hotel room. I guess we can’t question any of this because Ellen declared Campos a HERO and he will not be answering any further questions. My god.

useyourcommoncents

You crap me up! Did he look uncomfortable or what!

Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine - Rock In Rio 1991

patsysvodka

David Henneberry found Tsarnaev hiding in his boat.

The man who ended a massive manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers has died, according to the Boston Globe. David Henneberry, of Watertown, spotted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in the boat he had stored in his backyard on April 19, 2013. He notified authorities, who arrested Tsarnaev after a two hour standoff.

Four days after the Boston Marathon bombings, as investigators sought to track down the brothers, Henneberry happened to notice that some padding that ordinarily was in place to protect the hull of his boat, the Slip Away II, had fallen to the ground. He actually made two trips out to the boat to try and figure out what had happened to the padding, and only looked inside the boat out of an abundance of caution on the second trip.

Once he lifted the cover, he saw Tsarnaev, then 19, curled up in the boat amidst blood splatters. He ran back into the house and called 911. The boat became evidence in the ongoing investigation of the bombings.

He was able to eventually purchase a new boat thanks to donations from those inspired by his heroism, which he named after his wife Elizabeth, who died in 2014. But he resisted efforts to label him a hero in the manhunt efforts, telling CNN, “It makes me feel wonderful that people that are thinking like that, but it is my boat. People lost lives and lost limbs. I’d rather that (the money) go to the One Fund Boston. To buy me a new boat is a wonderful thing, I don’t want that, really. I would wish that they donate it to the One Fund Boston. They lost limbs. I lost a boat.”

Henneberry showed some stoicism about what had happened, saying, “Slip Away is slipping away. But I say it did its job. It held a bad guy and is going away like a viking ship.”

His obituary says he died on September 27, and people are encouraged to donate to the American Lung Association in his honor.

useyourcommoncents

Sad, first his wife, and now him. Man time is ticking by, things change in minute. Lung Cancer, terrible.

patsysvodka

Why do you think the Kardashians can`t stop bashing Caitlyn over her book? Perhaps, she wrote the truth????

“She is… like, not a good persuuunnn…”

lmao

useyourcommoncents

This women is ridiculous and ignorant.

I didn't watch this, as I never watch this show, but the Daily Mail tells you all you want to know...and this women is the worst. The worst. Of course she wants to deny her father defended a double murderer, she is essentially making her father out to be some idiot, criminal lawyers are not stupid, but even so, ever person deserves due process, meaning having a lawyer defend you. She is essentially taking a jab at Bruce/Caitlyn for her disclosing shitty details about their family. How dare they do that to Kim! And how dare Daddy represent a friend of his with loads of cash - who needs a lawyer. So it's win win situation Kim, even if daddy knew he was guiltier than sin. Come on, the world knew he was guilty - and daddy has more evidence than anyone.

To suggest she knows her late fathers every thoughts is just stupidity this show radiates...and makes up.

But Bruce saved them, as Daddy was unwilling to give Kris money, so where is the respect, and the respect for her sisters' father? I guess they will let it slide since Kim things this family owes her everything, including Kendall as she said, I made her career, I should get a fee for doing so.

Her daddy issues are part of the drama. If he really had such influence so positively on this women, their lives would reflect it.

A wistful dream finally came true yesterday for the Richard family, which lost so much in the 2013 Boston Marathon terrorist bombings four years ago.Jane Richard was just six when she lost her left leg below the knee at the finish line to a pressure cooker bomb planted by the Tsarnaev brothers. The blast claimed the life of her brother, 8-year-old Martin Richard. Their mother Denise lost her right eye. Their father Bill’s eardrums were perforated.

Jane and Henry have really grown up. A wonderful idea for this community.

A huge manhunt was underway across Europe last night for at least one jihadist feared to be still at large after plotting the Barcelona terrorist attacks, as reports emerge that the terror cell may have planned to target the Sagrada Familia.

The authorities are now saying total of 5 Sets of Brothers part of the terror cell in Spain.

"Little is known about Moussa Oukabir. However, attention has already focused on comments he made on the social media site Kiwi. Asked what he would do on his first day if he became absolute ruler of the world, he replied:

“Kill the unbelievers and leave only Muslims who follow their religion.” Asked in which country he would never contemplate living, he answered: “The Vatican.”

^Religion plays a part...how are they any different than hate groups.? Yet, there is such opposition to even talk about hate fueled rhetoric that fuels this violence and thinking just because it may offend others in the same religious sect.

inktablet

Deadline for DT to file his appeal is August 18, 2018.

Full text of order:

This matter is before the court on Appellant Tsarnaev’s Motion to Disclose on Appeal Government Ex Parte Filings and Proceedings in the District Court. The motion is denied without prejudice. Tsarnaev can re-raise this issue once the appeal is fully briefed. The government'sMotion for Leave to File a Sealed Attachment to Its Opposition to Appellant’s Motion is allowed. Appellant’s brief shall be filed within twelve months from August 18, 2017 and the government’s brief within six months after the filing of the appellant’s brief. The reply brief shall be filed within sixty days after the filing of the government’s brief.

useyourcommoncents

I figured this was going to be the case - submitting paperwork to the DOJ for a Security Officer is procedural in nature, it's not a definite means to disclosure.

Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's top information technology (IT) aide was arrested Monday attempting to board a flight to Pakistan after wiring $283,000 from the Congressional Fed

They are yelling Islamaphobia but the IRS and FBI are yelling bank fraud and scamming the IRS when you take measures to hide money and get bogus mortgages and never report your income under LLC. Then your wife and children get the hell out of dodge and you try to do the same after wire transferring almost $300,000 but get detained at the airport- no that is no Islamophobia but facing a criminal complaint by the USA. It's now become a first defense for many, even when the FBI spells out the situation in legal docs.

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