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Timothy M. Casey, NASHUA
Monday, Mar 31, 2003
NASHUA - Timothy M. Casey, 83, died yesterday at home. He was born in Concord, the son of Timothy and Laura (LaPlante) Casey. He was graduated from Concord High School in 1937. He attended Danville Military Academy in Danville, Va. He received his college education from Duke University. Casey served in the Navy as a pilot during World War II and received the Distinguished Flying Cross. He served on the USS Suwannee Aircraft Carrier CVE-27 flight group. Casey worked for the U.S. Department of Justice as a special agent for the FBI, retiring in 1976. He was a member of the North New England chapter of the retired FBI Special Agents, American Legion Post No. 1 in Memphis, Tenn., honorary member of the New Hampshire Chiefs of Police, and the Coos County and Grafton County Law Enforcement Associations. Survivors include his wife of 51 years, Margaret Casey; a daughter, Kathleen Casey of Nashua; a son, James Casey of Merrimack; and one grandson. Visiting hours will be held on Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. at the Waters Funeral Home, 50 South Main St. in Concord. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Thursday at 10 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 72 South Main St. in Concord. Burial will be held on April 27 at 10 a.m. in the New Hampshire Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen. Donations may be made to the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery Association Inc., P.O. Box 626, Concord 03302-0626, or to Home Health & Hospice Care, 22 Prospect St., Nashua 03060.

In February 2006, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) enacted an initiative to identify and closely examine all unsolved hate crimes resulting in death that occurred prior to 1970. A review of cold case civil rights matters that met the above criteria was conducted and, with the help of our federal, state and local law enforcement partners, as well as community leaders and civic organizations, numerous cases of unsolved violent crimes from the Civil Rights era are now being thoroughly examined and reinvestigated.
 
The Jackson Division of the FBI, which covers the state of Mississippi, was assigned 43 such cases. We are actively assessing each one to determine whether any new information can be developed which will help resolve these matters or lead to the identification and prosecution of responsible individuals if evidence indicates a crime was committed. While it is realized not every case will be resolved and, in some cases, the perpetrators may no longer be alive or there may be no federal prosecutorial jurisdiction, the Jackson Division is aggressively moving forward in investigating these cases while utilizing the updated analytical and forensic tools available to law enforcement today.
 
The names of the following deceased individuals represent the possible unsolved hate crime casesoccurring during the Civil Rights era which were received by the FBI’s Jackson Division:
 

These are the names of 74 men and women who died between 1952 and 1968 under circumstances suggesting they were the victims of racially motivated violence. The information below was gathered by the Southern Poverty Law Center as it planned a timeline of killings and other civil rights era events for the Civil Rights Memorial. The Memorial, dedicated in 1989, includes the names of 40 civil rights martyrs who were slain during that era. The names below were not inscribed on the Memorial because there was insufficient information about their deaths at the time the Memorial was created. They are, however, identified in a display at the Civil Rights Memorial Center as "The Forgotten."

And not for one of the reasons I already knew to expect—that the material was classified, that the file concerned a living person, or that no file existed to begin with. Judging by the FBI's final response letter, there might have been a file on my subject, a long-deceased Mississippi lawyer name John R. Poole. But if there was, it got shredded.

Many FOIA requesters are confused when they make a request to the FBI and get a "no record" response even though they are sure that there is a record on the subject of their request at the FBI. The FBI isn't lying-they just have devised a system that makes requesters to go through hoops to find the information they are seeking.

President Obama has thrown a kind of protective, legal “invisibility cloak” over C.I.A. officers who may have participated in torture or other war crimes, but whose actions were authorized by lawyers in the Bush Administration. The reasoning goes that, if they were acting in good faith on the orders of superiors, it’s unfair to hold them to a different standard. But the unredacted report (pdf) from the Senate Armed Services Committee, released tonight by Chairman Carl Levin, raises questions about whether the C.I.A. was always operating with legal authorization.

I had heard about the blacklist before, but I never thought to wonder how exactly it was promulgated, or enforced. As portrayed in The Front, it appeared to be something nebulous, a government taking without opportunity for a hearing and without appeal. I

In a brief news conference, Mueller declined to go into details of any specific investigation from the civil rights era.

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