Posts Tagged ‘FBI in Puerto Rico’
New Puerto Rico Governor Appoints FBI Agent New Police Chief
10:33 am By Maegan La Mala · Justice| Puerto Rico · 1 Comment
24 Nov 2008
President-elect Obama isn’t the only one making questionable choices in his political appointments. Puerto Rico’s Governor-elect Luis Fortuño chose the current assistant director of the FBI in Puerto Rico, José Figueroa Sancha, to head the island’s police force, further blurring the line between P.R.’s ability to govern it’s internal affairs and the reality of it’s status as a U.S. colony.
Supreme Court : Filiberto Files Not Open to Puerto Rico
10:49 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice| Puerto Rico · Comments Off
3 Apr 2008
Just another reminder of the powerlessness of the current status of Puerto Rico. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico sued the FBI over access to files from the shooting death of Filiberto Ojeda Rios and the subsequent pepper spraying of Rican journalists.
A U.S. District Court judge threw out Puerto Rico’s lawsuit, saying the commonwealth’s sovereign authority to enforce its criminal laws did not provide grounds for obtaining the FBI material.
The judge also ruled that the FBI’s refusal to comply with the commonwealth’s subpoenas was neither arbitrary nor capricious.
A federal appeals court ruled that disclosing information on the Ojeda raid “would reveal how the FBI goes about capturing a fugitive who is believed to be dangerous.”
The appeals court added that disclosing the names of FBI agents would jeopardize the agents’ ability to conduct covert operations and expose them to harassment.
The case is Puerto Rico v. U.S., 07-685
Meanwhile Back in Puerto Rico
12:53 pm By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Puerto Rico · Comments Off
24 Feb 2006
Politicians and the Community Wanna Know What’s Going Down in PR
7:00 pm By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Events| Justice| New York City| Puerto Rico · Comments Off
20 Feb 2006
Congressional Representatives Charles Rangel, José Serrano, Nydia Velázquez from New York, Luis Gutierrez from Chicago, Governor of Puerto Rico Anibal Acevedo Vilá and Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Luis Fortuño have called for hearings and an independent investigation in response to the FBI’s military-style assault and seizures in the homes and places of work of citizens who favor independence of Puerto Rico, as well as the pepper-spraying of members of the Puerto Rican press who sought to cover the events that happened nearly two weeks ago. In a press release issued today Councilwoman Melissa Mark-Viverito declared:
We are 8 million U.S. citizens living throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, whose sons and daughters have served this country with distinction in all its wars since 1917. We have a right to know on what grounds the FBI determined to bring the War on Terrorism to the homes and places of work of Puerto Ricans who favor the Island’s independence?
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