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Ever since the horrific public assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane at the Marriott Hotel in New York City in 1990, there has been a small, yet vocal group of individuals trying to get certain US authorities - both state and federal - to pay attention to his murder. Their many entreaties both for personal justice and for a wider investigation fell on deaf ears. Nonetheless, the ramifications from the inaction of these US authorities can no longer be ignored. This small group's personal pain at the rabbi's cold-blooded assassination fueled their initial anguished pleas. However, there was much more underlying...

A federal judge in Vermont on Friday released a Turkish Tufts University student detained in a Louisiana immigration center more than six weeks after she was arrested while walking along a street in a Boston suburb, allowing her to return to her studies. U.S. District Judge William Sessions in Burlington released Rumeysa Ozturk pending a final decision on her claim that she’s been illegally detained following an op-ed she co-wrote last year that criticized the school’s response to Israel’s war in Gaza. Details of her release and travel plans were not immediately available, and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

William Sessions, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, died on June 12 in San Antonio, Texas, at the age of 90. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, Sessions served until 1993, when President Clinton fired him, charging poor leadership and use of his position to leverage perks. The more likely cause was Sessions’ effort to prevent the politicization of the FBI, then gearing up under the new administration. President Clinton fired Sessions on July 19, 1993. The next day at approximately 1 p.m. Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster came out of his office with his...

In 1993, Bill Clinton ousted William Sessions as FBI director a day before Vince Foster was found dead.

Reprinted from NewsMax.com The Coup D'état at the FBIChristopher RuddyThursday, May 30, 2002 This week I heard author Ron Kessler say the FBI "disintegrated" under former FBI Director Louis Freeh. I happen to agree with Kessler. But I would like to ask, where was Kessler all these years? And the Washington press corps? And Congress? During the '90s they mostly hid under a rock, timid as they were to challenge the political takeover of the FBI by the Clinton White House. Any reasonable person knows that Sept. 11 didn't happen in a vacuum. Current FBI Director Robert Mueller claims that...