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The two men were indicted July 11. Thompson was arrested several days later and released on a personal recognizance bond. Graham was arrested Friday and released on an unsecured $10,000 bond. Neither man could not be reached for comment. The devices were described in a search warrant affidavit filed by FBI agent Mark Holstlaw as cardboard tubes measuring 21/2 inches long and 11/2 inches wide. They contained less than a half ounce of a high-explosive mix, and contained the same power of about a quarter stick of dynamite.
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The Time coverage charges that the police, parents, and the community failed to see how Harris and Klebold’s violent fantasies were motivated not so much by the desire for revenge as ultimately the desire for celebrity. "Because this may have been about celebrity as much as cruelty. "They wanted to be famous," concludes FBI agent Mark Holstlaw. "And they are. They’re infamous. It used to be said that living well is the best revenge; for these two, it was to kill and die in spectacular fashion." The emphasis on the killers’ desire for fame in the coverage downplays the extent to which the shootings were politically motivated as Giroux and Williams show, but the emphasis on fame as an alibi also effaces the extent to which the shootings took the competitive culture of violence to its logical extension, even turning themselves into commodities, notorious for an instant. Harris and Klebold were even willing to sacrifice their own lives to win at the game they had been losing for years.
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Two high school students Dylan Klebold and Erie Harris made a series of home videos leading up to their killings of fellow students at Columbine High School in Colorado. Time Magazine viewed the video tapes, and reports that Klebold and Harris expressed hatred for nearly all their schoolmates. Kelbold said on one tape, “I hope we kill 250 of you. “At lunchtime on April 20, Kelbold and Harris opened fire, and went on to kill 12 other students and one teacher before taking their own lives. Time says the tapes made over a five – week period before the violent(暴力的) act make it clear that Klebold and Harris felt alienated and wanted revenge(报复) against those who disliked playing together with them or laughed at them – mainly the Columbine sports students. The magazine says, the only regret that the shooters show on the tapes is when Harris admits that his and Klebold’s parents would be “put through hell(地狱) once we do this.” But he said, “there is nothing you guys (the parents) could have done to prevent this,” Klebold said, “I’m sorry I have so much anger in my heart.” Harris talked of having to move often with his family, starting over each time at the bottom of the social ladder, where people made fun of “ my face, my hair, my shirts.” Time reports Klebold and Harris saw the attacks as a way to get “the respect we should”, Klebold said directors “will be fighting over this story”. FBI agent Mark Holstlaw told Time “They wanted to be famous. And they are. They’re infamous.”
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Here are some selected Excerpts: 'Harris and Klebold have an inventory of their ecumenical hatred: all "niggers, spics, Jews, gays, f___ing whites," theenemies who abused them and the friends who didn't do enough to defend them. But it will all be over soon. "I hope we kill 250 of you," Klebold says. He thinks it will be the most "nerve-racking 15 minutes of my life, after the bombs are set and we're waiting to charge through the school. Seconds will be like hours. I can't wait. I'll be shaking like a leaf." Klebold '...knows what hisparents will be thinking. "If only we could have reached them sooner or found this tape," he predicts they will say. "If only we would have searched their room," says Harris. "If only we would have asked the right questions." ...'"They wanted to be famous," concludes FBI agent Mark Holstlaw. "And they are. They're infamous." It used to be said that living well is the best revenge; for these two, it was to kill and die in spectacular fashion. ' ...'These boys had read their Shakespeare: "Good wombs hath borne bad sons," Harris quoted from The Tempest, as he reflected on how his rampage would ruin his parents' lives. The boys knew that once they staged their final act, the audience would be desperate for meaning. And so they provided their own poisonous chorus, about why they hated so many people so much.' In Harris's website this was written: "I'm coming for EVERYONE soon and I WILL be armed to the f___ing teeth and I WILL shoot to kill." He rails against the people of Denver, "with their rich snobby attitude thinkin they are all high and mighty...God, I can't wait til I can kill you people. Feel no remorse, no sense of shame. I don't care if I live or die in the shoot-out. All I want to do is kill and injure as many of you as I can, especially a few people. Like Brooks Brown."
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INVESTIGATIVE PLANNING On Friday, April 23, 1999, over 100 investigators met in the band room at Columbine High School and shared the critical information each had obtained during the previous three days. Over 500 preliminary interviews were reviewed which named several critical witnesses, associates of Harris and Klebold, background information on the Trench Coat Mafia, and any indications of involvement by others. On Sunday, May 2, 1999, Sheriff Stone and Undersheriff Dunaway conferred with several key investigators, including Lt. Kiekbusch and investigators from other jurisdictions, to discuss the information currently known and to plan the direction of the investigation from that point. The discussion ultimately led to the development of a multi-jurisdictional task force that would investigate the incident, an organization that would become the Columbine Investigation Task Force. Undersheriff Dunaway assigned Kiekbusch to direct the investigation. Over the weekend, Capt. Harris helped secure space in the Countys' administration building for the task force operations. Clerical support was provided by the FBI, the ATF and the Sheriff's Office. Forty computers were installed for report writing, Internet searches and criminal history searches. The FBI "Rapid Start" automated tracking software was installed on several computers to assist in tracking leads. Rapid Start required every lead that came into the task force to be written on a lead sheet, entered into the computer, assigned a number and then given to an investigator to follow up. The investigator would complete the assignment, and only after the written report was turned in, was the lead closed. The Rapid Start program ensured that every lead was followed up and duplicate leads were kept to a minimum. The task force completed over 3,900 leads in addition to the initial 500 interviews. At the onset of this investigation it was apparent that no one agency could effectively handle the number of leads, interviews and evidence analysis which this case required. Approximately 80 investigators from a dozen city, county, state and federal law enforcement agencies formed the Columbine Task Force.
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ASSOCIATES TEAM CREATED The Associates Team, led by Jefferson County Sheriff's Office Investigator Don Estep and FBI Special Agent Mark Holstlaw, had the responsibility of identifying all associates of Harris and Klebold. Included in the identification were any members, past or present, of the TCM. Once identified, all members and associates were to be interviewed and investigated by the associates team. The goal was to determine if any other person may have participated or conspired with Harris and Klebold in the preparation or carrying out of the events of April 20 or any related crime. The team was also assigned to identify anyone who had any prior knowledge that Harris and Klebold were planning the shootings. Twenty-one individuals were initially identified as TCM members. These initial 21 provided pertinent information regarding the origin and membership of the Trench Coat Mafia and their associates. Some of these individuals also provided specific information about Harris and Klebold and how they related to the other members in their social circle. From these interviews, 20 additional individuals were identified as associates of Harris and Klebold, and several others were identified as acquaintances. In addition, the associates team identified any friends or co-workers of Harris and Klebold in order to obtain background information on the activities of the two. After conducting numerous interviews, the associates team determined each identified person's relationship to Harris and/or Klebold. Some appeared to have had only a peripheral or minimal relationship with the shooters. Close associates of Harris and Klebold and the Trench Coat Mafia primarily consisted of friends within Columbine High School. Others were initially associated with the group only because they were friends of an alleged TCM member. Several individuals were identified as associates because they worked at Blackjack Pizza with Harris and Klebold or socialized with them outside of Columbine High School.
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It turns out there is much more to the story than that. Why, if their motive was rage at the athletes who taunted them, didn't they take their guns and bombs to the locker room? Because retaliation against specific people was not the point. Because this may have been about celebrity as much as cruelty. "They wanted to be famous," concludes FBI agent Mark Holstlaw. "And they are. They're infamous." It used to be said that living well is the best revenge; for these two, it was to kill and die in spectacular fashion.
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On Fox, the show reached about 5.5 million homes. Boos said she hopes the newsletter, which costs $18.95 a year, would have subscriptions for 1 percent of that market, or 55,000 people. The newsletter has the blessing of the FBI's Denver office. Special Agent Mark Holstlaw said the newsletter "would be valuable to law enforcement. There have been several agencies concerned about the cancellation of the program." Holstlaw said the FBI supported any means to publish information about criminals that might lead to their arrest. The agency, he said, was studying how it might help the newsletter itself, whether by supplying information about fugitives or more general information to help people learn to make themselves less vulnerable to street crime.
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Bowling for Columbine I do not condone what Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold did by taking other peoples lives, yet it is a proven winner for publicity. The boys knew that once they staged their final act, following endless Television references to Lee Harvey Oswald (and the rest), the audience would be desperate for meaning. This was about celebrity as much as cruelty. “They wanted to be famous,” concludes FBI agent Mark Holstlaw. “And they are. They’re infamous.” It used to be said that living well is the best revenge; for these two, it was to kill and die in spectacular fashion. They wanted movies made of their story, which they had carefully laced with “a lot of foreshadowing and dramatic irony,” as Harris put it. “Directors will be fighting over this story,” Klebold said - the boys chewed over which could be trusted with the script: Steven Spielberg or Quentin Tarantino. The simple (not obvious) difference between me (mine) and them (theirs) is in how and what is being expressed when human beings make art. This "show" is a written reflection of Harris and Klebold’s expression and uses the concept of death to provoke thought about life. War is art, everything is art.
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Federal Whistleblower 702 362-9567 stewwebb@s... P.O.Box 31052 Las Vegas, NV 89173 Partner: www.almartinraw.com www.stewwebb.com coming soon FBI DENVER FIELD OFFICE TRYING TO SET STEW WEBB FEDERAL WHISTLE-BLOWER UP ON A MURDER CHARGE Today I contacted the Colorado Gaming Commission to verify the age of one of its commissioners, Richard Millman. (In his 40s) After a lengthy conversation with a Colorado State Agent, he revealed to me that he had been previously contacted by FBI agent Mark Holstlaw of the Denver FBI office regarding a Richard Millman. I had reported to FBI agent Mark Hostlaw a month ago that I had information that Bush Crime Family Kingpin Leonard Yale Millman of Denver, Colorado, was using fictitious names one being a Richard Millman of Colorado Springs, Colorado. I had asked Mark Hostlaw Division 5 FBI to see if the Colorado Gaming Commissioner was the same 76 year old as Leonard Millman. FBI Hostlaw never reported back. I had given this to FBI Mark Hostlaw to test him and his office, to see if obstruction of Justice would occur. I did not tell him what I had discover regarding Leonard Millman The Bush Crime Family Narcotics Money Launderer and Scamster my former-father-in-law. (Re: www.almartinraw.com-From Cradle to Cabal -Gale Norton-story) What I have discovered about Leonard Millman aka Richard Millman. (More will come out about Leonard the Richard) While talking to this State Investigator, I was told Mark Hostlaw had contacted him about The Gaming Commissioner Richard Millman. (Note this Richard Millman an Attorney from Col. Springs, is not the same Richard Millman I have identified as Leonard Millman) After lenthy conversation with the State agent I was told that FBI Mark Hostlaw contacted Richard Millman the Attorney and warned him that Stew Webb might try to harm him. Because Stew Webb thought this was his former-in-law and that Stew Webb had made threats against Leonard Millman in the past. (I was locked up on false threat charges for 10 1/2 months 1992-1993 the case was dismissed with prejudice see story below)
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Associated Press Writer Dec. 17, 3:45 p.m. - The FBI arrested an 18-year-old in Florida today and charged him with sending a threat by Internet instant mail to a Columbine High School student that led to closing the facility for two days. FBI agent Mark Holstlaw said the youth, Michael Ian Campbell, 18 of Cape Coral, Fla., confessed to agents today that he used the screen name "Soup 81" to send the message over AOL's instant message system to Erin J. Walton. He was charged with transmitting a communication containing threat in interstate commerce, according to a complaint and an affidavit by Holstlaw, both released by the Justice Department here. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Holstlaw said "Soup 81" informed Walton on Wednesday evening she should not go to school the next day because "Soup 81" needed to "finish what begun" and did not want Walton's "blood on my hands." School and law enforcement officials interpreted that as a reference to the shootings at the high school last April in which two students killed 13 people at the school. FBI agents in Florida seized a computer at Campbell's home Wednesday and showed him a transcript of the instant message chat and that he admitted that he had sent the "Soup 81" message. Authorities closed the school Thursday after a threat was sent by someone using the Soup 81 screen name to 16-year-old Columbine student Erin Walton. It warned her not to go to school Thursday, Jefferson County sheriff's spokesman Steve Davis said. "I need to finish what begun (sic) and if you do I don't want your blood on my hands," it read in part, Davis said. Sheriff's Division Chief John Kiekbusch said it is possible the writer knew the girl was a Columbine student through her AOL user profile. Critics of Jefferson County authorities have said they ignored threats Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold posted on the Internet before their April 20 attack on the school. They killed 12 students and a teacher before committing suicide.
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2.There was a dispute at trial about how Graham came to profit on the transactions in the first place, and what he actually did with the money. Graham contended that he took a profit only at the insistence of Kronfeld and that the profit was always intended as a donation to the Organization. He further testified that, pursuant to Kronfeld's orders, all of the money was used to further Organization activities. Kronfeld admitted that the topic of a donation to the Organization was discussed, but denied insisting on such. According to Special Agent Mark Holstlaw, Graham confessed during the search of the Store that although a portion of the money went to the Organization, a portion also "went to his business" and "to the Young Marine program." Tr. of Trial Proceedings at 127, R. Vol. 4. We find this factual dispute irrelevant to our analysis. See infra note 9.
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10. Officially: Battan said that all suspects had passed lie detector tests. Families' contention: Columbine student Nathan Dykeman failed his test and refused to take another. Student Zachary Heckler's test was inconclusive. News' findings: Battan did say all suspects passed polygraphs; documents showed that one was "inconclusive" and another was "deceptive" on key questions. Battan told the Rohrboughs, according to their audiotape: "Some of these people have been interviewed six or seven times. Many of these people, and closer friends, have taken polygraphs. Everybody has passed the polygraphs, which I don't believe polygraphs 100 percent ever." FBI agent Mark Holstlaw told the News in a Dec. 14, 1999, story, that everyone who had taken lie detector tests had passed, and other methods were used to clear those who had refused.
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Fearing terrorist attacks this summer and fall, the FBI is using its latest intelligence to expand "interviews" in U.S. (Emphasis added!) ------- "An FBI official said the interviews will be driven by information gathered by the 2004 Threat Task Force, composed of bureau agents and analysts, plus experts from the intelligence community and Department of Homeland Security. ..." "The FBI has conducted community interviews before, going into Arab-American neighborhoods after the Sept. 11 hijackings to seek information. And, after the United States invaded Iraq, the FBI interviewed thousands of Iraqi-born individuals living in the United States to try to uncover potential terrorists and to protect the rest from hate crimes. ..."
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The Honorable Wesley E. Brown, District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Kansas, sitting by designation. 1Graham contended at trial that he lied about the new manufacturer because he was scared of Kronfeld and wanted to find a way out of participating in further transactions. The jury was apparently unpersuaded by this testimony. See generally United States v. Edmonson, 962 F.2d 1535, 1547-48 (10th Cir. 1992) ("[T]he evidence may be sufficient even though it does not exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence or [is not] wholly inconsistent with every conclusion of guilt [.] A jury is free to choose among reasonable constructions of evidence.") (internal quotations omitted). 2There was a dispute at trial about how Graham came to profit on the transactions in the first place, and what he actually did with the money. Graham contended that he took a profit only at the insistence of Kronfeld and that the profit was always intended as a donation to the Organization. He further testified that, pursuant to Kronfeld's orders, all of the money was used to further Organization activities. Kronfeld admitted that the topic of a donation to the Organization was discussed, but denied insisting on such. According to Special Agent Mark Holstlaw, Graham confessed during the search of the Store that although a portion of the money went to the Organization, a portion also "went to his business" and "to the Young Marine program." Tr. of Trial Proceedings at 127, R. Vol. 4. We find this factual dispute irrelevant to our analysis. See infra note 9. 3This motion was initially raised and denied at the conclusion of the government's case-in-chief, and was also renewed without success at the end of the presentation of the evidence, before the jury deliberated.
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Even the FBI is taking notice. Agent Mark Holstlaw from the Denver FBI office attended Sunday’s rally in Denver at the bequest of FBI headquarters and sat with the sizeable rally crowd. After the meeting he contacted Bob Schulz and told Schulz that he "thoroughly enjoyed" the speeches by Schulz and the former IRS agents and would report to headquarters that any fears the FBI "may have had" about our efforts are completely unfounded. Holstlaw even offered the FBI’s assistance in DC and referred Schulz to an agent in the DC office that will help us if needed.
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He spent much of the first afternoon inside an Arapahoe County sheriff's van talking on his cell phone to students barricaded in the school. With him were two other seasoned FBI hostage negotiators. One of them, Mark Holstlaw, had been at home, just a quarter-mile from the school, when the call came. He'd had a tooth pulled that morning, and he was holding an ice pack to his jaw. "I didn't think I would be much good as a negotiator with a mouth full of cotton, but I went anyway," he recalls. Using extension numbers supplied by school officials, the negotiators talked with students in the administration area, the choir room and elsewhere. As they dialed, Fuselier, wondering where his son was, spoke with his wife, Mimi. Do you know where Brian is? she asked. He told her he believed their boy was at the public library across Clement Park from the school. But he wasn't sure. "I didn't tell her that I knew then that we had students who had been killed outside," he says. At the scene, Kiekbusch and West talked about how to structure the investigation.
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At the same time, Estep and other intelligence officers probed for everything they could learn about Harris, Klebold and others who might have been involved. If they had to negotiate with the gunmen, Estep reasoned, they'd need that information, and fast. But how many suspects were there? No one knew. Shaken students described a dozen characteristics of the gunmen. Someone was shooting from the rooftop. Two gunmen were wearing dark, Western dusters. One killer had a white T-shirt. Out of the chaos, conflicting stories became the rule. Investigators got the first inkling of how difficult their work would be. There would be at least 2,000 witnesses to interview -- some who saw nothing, others who knew a lot. Some would be wounded students. Many others would be in shock themselves. Battan dispatched detectives to every hospital.
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