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Snipergate
This CBS Evening News report broke the story of Hillary Clinton's March '08 embellishment of her trip to Bosnia as First Lady in 1996. On several occasions, Mrs. Clinton falsely claimed she'd had to "duck sniper fire" upon landing at Bosnia's airport shortly after the Ward had officially ended. It was a trip on which
Tags: Hillary Clinton; Bosnia; duck sniper fire; campaign scandal; misstatement; Clinton's account; political lies
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Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke
Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm were the owners of Rainbow Farm, a 52-acre campground and concert venue with the mission of advocating the legalization and decriminalization of marijuana. Their activities included holding events on the property, events at which attendees smoked marijuana and which trumpeted many uses for hemp. Though the two men did not sell or deal the drug, these activities drew the ire of the local Cass County, MI prosecutor, who began to focus efforts on getting Rainbow Farm shut down. Rohm's son was taken away from the two men, and a series of legal pushes by the police ended in a standoff at Rainbow Farm. In the end, FBI snipers shot and killed both men, who had burned Rainbow Farm to the ground in an act of protest. Author Dean Kuiper examines the buildup to the fateful standoff, and discusses what Rainbow Farm's purpose was in this book. Ironically, this story was widely reported in the Midwest before the events of Sept. 11, 2001 pushed it off the front page. Yet Kuiper stuck with it to produce this story.
Tags: Cannabis; hemp; marijuana; drug legalization; Ruby Ridge; Waco; Tommy Chong; stoner; FBI
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At Large
The story uncovered a deeply flawed investigation by an overmatched and overconfident police agency that led to the wrongful arrest and prosecution of a Bay Area man accused of being the freeway sniper.
Tags: police; sniper; San Francisco; the freeway sniper; wrongful arrest
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G.I. Jerk
This investigation explores the way one man, Phil Haberman, scammed the U.S. Army. Though in reality he was only an assistant cook, he forged paperwork and lied pathologically to convince many people that he was a sniper with the Army Special Forces. This investigation de-constructs his lies and talks to the people he took advantage of.
Tags: war; military; army; soldiers; fraud; federal government; Iraq
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Desperate Housewife
This riveting story takes readers inside the mind of Michelle Theer, a psychologist convicted in the murder of her husband. Police and military investigators said Mrs. Theer and her lover, John Diamond, an Army sniper, planned the murder out of lust and greed.
Tags: murder; crime; homicide; marriage; psychology
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Killing By Numbers
"This is the story of three young Army snipers who were court-martialed after they and other members of their sniper team killed at least four unarmed Iraqis." Benjamin "showed that the ensuing chaos blurred the boundaries of acceptable conduct in a war zone. In fact, in three of the four killings, the soldier's actions appeared to be within the bounds of their commanders' orders and interpretation of the Law of Armed Conflict."
Tags: military; army; Iraq; civilian; sniper; Army Evan Vela; Pentagon;
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Errant gun dealer, wary agents paved way for Beltway sniper tragedy
This story deals with the gun dealer that supplied John Muhammad, and Lee Boyd Malvo with the military weapon used in the sniper shootings. Law enforcement sources say Lee Boyd Malvo told investigators he shoplifted the gun from the Bulls Eye firing range. The store has no sales record, and can't produce records for scores of other missing guns. Bull's Eye's negligent operation and the government's timid enforcement of errant gun dealers contributed to the tragedy according to released documents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and numerous interviews with current and former agency employees .
Tags: sniper; Bull's Eye's firing range; Lee Boyd Malvo; John Muhammad; Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms; gun supplier; ATF; ATF National Tracing Center; Bulls Eye Shooter Supply; Pacific Shooters Supply; 1968 Gun Control Act; Federal Firearms License; National Rifle Association
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The Big Gun: Fifty-caliber sniper rifles can shoot through bullet-proof glass and cinderblock walls and hit targets a mile away -- and they're perfectly legal.
This article talks about the dangers of fifty-caliber sniper rifles. According to the author, "The rifles...are the biggest firearms you can buy without a special dispensation from the government. Fifty-caliber rifles shoot ammunition designed to chew up armored vehicles, and they're accurate, in the right hands, at a mile or more. They can shoot through bulletproof glass, armored limousines, cinder-block walls...from as far away as the Washington Monument through the forehead of someone standing on the steps of the Capitol. And any eighteen-year-old can buy one with no more paperwork than it takes to buy a .22 at Wal-Mart."
Tags: guns; violence; fifty-caliber rifles; .50 rifles; rifles; ammunition; long-range guns; bulletproof
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Sniper Attacks
In October of 2002, a sniper shot 13 people at random in the Washington area and in the end was linked to 22 shootings in seven states. The Washington Post covered the story from the first attack to the arrest of the suspects.
Tags: sniper attacks; crime; murder
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The .50 Caliber Militia
BNNtv investigates the militia movement in America. Contrary to ideas that the militia movement is declining BNNtv found it thriving. BNNtv traces an underground network of traffickers in the extremely lethal .50-caliber sniper rifle. The story reveals that the State Commander of the infamous Michigan Militia was almost caught in an ATF raid at the home of a convicted felon and gun dealer in Arizona.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; militias; Michigan Militia; ATF