And you're full of crap.
And your Queen wears army boots. Big, ugly ones.
The smartest guy Biden knows, who they looked to for financial advice, doesn't know what happened to that $1.2 BILLION he was entrusted with. And he feels terrible about it, 'so leave me alone', etc.
Since DHS is supposed to be worried about SECURITY, i.e. catching terrorists and such, what the hell are they doing playing 'social justice' games?
Remember the idiots in Boston who run the Tynan Elementary School? It gets a bit deeper:
Wilder declined to comment on any possible calls to the state, but said generally they are legally obligated to report incidents of sexual misconduct to the agency.
“We’re mandatory reporters as a school employee,’’ he said. “We have to report any type of accusation of sexual assault or sexual harassment that is reported to a school employee.’’
Remember: Lynch was being choked by his attacker and kicked in self-defense; and the morons at the school are wanting to screw him over FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT OR HARASSMENT. Not going after the attacker for choking him, oh no.
Borrowing from P&P borrowing from Steyn,
If officials of the Boston public schools system genuinely believe that when a seven-year old kicks another seven-year old in the crotch that that is an act of “sexual harassment”, then they are too stupid to be entrusted with the care of the city’s children. If, on the other hand, they retain enough residual humanity to understand that a seven-year-old groin-kick is not a sexual assault but have concluded that regulatory compliance obliges them to investigate it as such, then they are colluding in an act of great evil.
In North Carolina, some sanity in the school system:
The story of Emanyea Lockett's suspension last week, first reported by WSOC-TV of Charlotte, N.C., created a national controversy. Tuesday, the Gaston County School District apologized to the family and said there was no sexual harassment.
Jerry Bostic, principal of Brookside Elementary School in Gastonia, told WSOC on Tuesday night that he had retired because of the controversy.
Bostic whines "I only made one mistake!" Don't know about that, but the one that got this attention was a BIG EFFING MISTAKE, bozo.(found thanks to Uncle)
And back to the PROM: "How dare you actually seem HAPPY to score, you little bastard! That'll cost you the points!" If the Redcoats showed up in Boston today, they'd hand them the keys to the city.
And from Idaho, the gentleman got a comment: The majority of (real)Americans agree with everything the OWS stands for and you ignore their message at your own peril. You will "get it" from their peaceful protest or you will get it through more forceful means, but you will get it.
Aren't they such peaceful, persuasive people?
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
At the time of the attack, the top guy in the Army was worried about it 'hurting diversity'
in the Army; so why should this bullshit be a surprise?
Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence and suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the nation's Armed Forces at home.
During a joint session of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, the Maine Republican referenced a letter from the Defense Department depicting the Fort Hood shootings as workplace violence. She criticized the Obama administration for failing to identify the threat as radical Islam.
And they won't; they don't have the balls or integrity.
I don't know much about General Casey, but when I read that statement of his my first thought was "You're a fucking disgrace to those stars you wear and the troops you command." I'm still pissed about it.
Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence and suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the nation's Armed Forces at home.
During a joint session of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, the Maine Republican referenced a letter from the Defense Department depicting the Fort Hood shootings as workplace violence. She criticized the Obama administration for failing to identify the threat as radical Islam.
And they won't; they don't have the balls or integrity.
I don't know much about General Casey, but when I read that statement of his my first thought was "You're a fucking disgrace to those stars you wear and the troops you command." I'm still pissed about it.
Just to remind people of what scumbags we're dealing with in DOJ
and BATFE:
No one at DOJ is known to have been held accountable for this attack on Dodson. Meanwhile, the whistleblowers who blew the top off Fast and Furious are paying the price.
- Agent John Dodson, after nearly a year of harassment, including being given menial assignments and being barred from areas of the ATF building in Phoenix, is in the process of trying to sell his home in Arizona so he can transfer to South Carolina.
- Agent Larry Alt transferred to Florida. He still has unresolved legal claims against the ATF.
- Agent Pete Forcelli was demoted to a desk job after he testified before Congress. He has requested an internal investigation to address retaliation targeting him.
- Agent James Casa took a transfer to Florida.
- Agent Carlos Canino, who was a deputy attache in Mexico City, was moved to Tucson.
Meanwhile the officials who went along with the operation and its subsequent cover up have mostly been rewarded. “These transfers/reassignments have never been described as promotions in any of the documents announcing them,” said an ATF statement after journalists noted that those who didn’t become whistleblowers profited from their silence. The ATF says that because these officials pay didn’t go up they weren’t promoted; however, in many cases their titles and positions have inarguably been enhanced.
- Former Acting ATF Chief Ken Melson, after refusing to be a scapegoat for this operation, became an adviser in the Office of Legal Affairs in Washington, D.C.
- Acting Deputy Director Billy Hoover is now the special agent in charge of the D.C. office.
- Deputy Director for Field Operations William McMahon—he’d received detailed briefings Fast and Furious—is now at the ATF’s Office of Internal Affairs.
- Former Special Agent in Charge of Phoenix William Newell—he oversaw Fast and Furious and lied by saying guns hadn’t been allowed to go south of the border—is now at the Office of Management in Washington, D.C.
- Phoenix Deputy Chief George Gillette is now in to Washington, D.C., as ATF’s liaison to the U.S. Marshal’s Service.
- ATF Group Supervisor David Voth—he managed Fast and Furious out of the Phoenix office—is now in a management position in Washington, D.C.
- Agent Hope McCallister—she had management duties on the team that ran Fast and Furious—was given a “Lifesaving Award” after it came to light she’d ordered agents to stop tailing suspects who the ATF had allowed to buy guns.
I'd written to my Rep., Lankford, a while back on Gunwalker; a couple of days ago I got a response that included this:
As a result of our investigations, every person in the chain of command surrounding Fast and Furious has either been demoted or released, including the acting director of ATF.
I just replied, pointing out- with a link to this article- that these people don't seem very 'demoted or released' to me.
If it turns out Lankford is not serious about this, I'm going to be very disappointed in him.
So Gingrich is comfortable with screwing gun owners
If I had any reason to vote for him, this kills it.
I do wonder how he'll respond if any interviewer asks him about this
I do wonder how he'll respond if any interviewer asks him about this
al-Husseini officially meets with Adolf Hitler to discuss “the Jewish problem”
An anniversary I missed
There had to have been less painful ways for him to off himself.
Uncle is right: every public official involved in this prosecution should be tarred and feathered. And fired.
Of course, so should a lot of other clowns who happen to wear badges. By the way: the response to anyone saying "If you have nothing to hide, you won't object to being searched" would be to make a anonymous call about 'something wrong' at their house or seeing something in their car and seeing if they object to the police searching(no, I'm not recommending that; I'm saying I doubt they'd be all that thrilled with "We want to search. Because we want to.")
Oh, and I have an answer:
The only reason to have 33 bullets loaded in a handgun is to kill a lot of people very quickly [why Lautenberg's magazine ban bill exempts current, and even retired, police is left unexplained--are the police expected to need to "kill a lot of people very quickly?].
Lautenberg is a nasty a bigot as you'll run across, of COURSE he wants the Only Ones to have whatever the hell they want; that's why. Plus he figures it'll get them on his side.
"You're muslim, and not used to drinking, so no real penalty for beating the crap out of someone."
He may build good bikes, but Jesse James is a friggin' dirtbag.
Any police department that accepts a bunch of military gear without actual reason(Hello, Richland County SO with your heavy machinegun on the APC) ought to face some serious "Just what the hell do you plan on doing with this?" questioning. Or retirement or something. And the first time any of it is used in a wrong-address/wrong-person/shouldn't-have-happened-at-all raid, the people responsible should be fired; I'm sick of this crap.
The gun bigots are downright unhappy with The Lightworker; I'm tempted to say that anything that RWPP Jackson is in favor of is almost by definition bad for a free people. Not quite true, but close.
Last, what the HELL is wrong with some of these people?
There had to have been less painful ways for him to off himself.
Uncle is right: every public official involved in this prosecution should be tarred and feathered. And fired.
Of course, so should a lot of other clowns who happen to wear badges. By the way: the response to anyone saying "If you have nothing to hide, you won't object to being searched" would be to make a anonymous call about 'something wrong' at their house or seeing something in their car and seeing if they object to the police searching(no, I'm not recommending that; I'm saying I doubt they'd be all that thrilled with "We want to search. Because we want to.")
Oh, and I have an answer:
The only reason to have 33 bullets loaded in a handgun is to kill a lot of people very quickly [why Lautenberg's magazine ban bill exempts current, and even retired, police is left unexplained--are the police expected to need to "kill a lot of people very quickly?].
Lautenberg is a nasty a bigot as you'll run across, of COURSE he wants the Only Ones to have whatever the hell they want; that's why. Plus he figures it'll get them on his side.
"You're muslim, and not used to drinking, so no real penalty for beating the crap out of someone."
He may build good bikes, but Jesse James is a friggin' dirtbag.
Any police department that accepts a bunch of military gear without actual reason(Hello, Richland County SO with your heavy machinegun on the APC) ought to face some serious "Just what the hell do you plan on doing with this?" questioning. Or retirement or something. And the first time any of it is used in a wrong-address/wrong-person/shouldn't-have-happened-at-all raid, the people responsible should be fired; I'm sick of this crap.
The gun bigots are downright unhappy with The Lightworker; I'm tempted to say that anything that RWPP Jackson is in favor of is almost by definition bad for a free people. Not quite true, but close.
Last, what the HELL is wrong with some of these people?
In the delusional state where Great Britain once was,
Furious parents vented their anger at a headteacher who turned off his school's heating on one of the coldest days of the year.
Pupils at Ansford Academy in Castle Cary, Somerset, were forced to grip their pens through thick gloves and wear their coats and hats in class as temperatures dropped to 1C.
The school's headmaster, Rob Benzie, shut down the radiators as an experiment to show students how the school could cut its carbon footprint.
It got down to 33 degrees in the building. But it was a success, according to the effing greenie moron running the school:
But headteacher Mr Benzie, 52, defended the day, saying it was 'a success.'
'We turned off the heating as an experiment to see if we can lower our carbon footprint,' he said.
'We allowed pupils to wear as many jumpers as they liked and everyone seemed to be happy enough although it did get pretty chilly.
Yeah, I'm sure everyone was just friggin' delighted that they were trying to write while wearing gloves and shivering.
You know, if those assholes meeting in Durban to plan the downfall of civilization have their way, you'll have dead students in the northern US and Canada because they'll HAVE to shut off all the heat- and probably the lights- to meet the targets they favor
Pupils at Ansford Academy in Castle Cary, Somerset, were forced to grip their pens through thick gloves and wear their coats and hats in class as temperatures dropped to 1C.
The school's headmaster, Rob Benzie, shut down the radiators as an experiment to show students how the school could cut its carbon footprint.
It got down to 33 degrees in the building. But it was a success, according to the effing greenie moron running the school:
But headteacher Mr Benzie, 52, defended the day, saying it was 'a success.'
'We turned off the heating as an experiment to see if we can lower our carbon footprint,' he said.
'We allowed pupils to wear as many jumpers as they liked and everyone seemed to be happy enough although it did get pretty chilly.
Yeah, I'm sure everyone was just friggin' delighted that they were trying to write while wearing gloves and shivering.
You know, if those assholes meeting in Durban to plan the downfall of civilization have their way, you'll have dead students in the northern US and Canada because they'll HAVE to shut off all the heat- and probably the lights- to meet the targets they favor
December 7, 1941
The attack on Pearl Harbor, the official start of our active participation in the global production of bodies known as World War II. 2,402 killed and 1,282 wounded. And yeah, if there'd been more worry about outside attack and less about sabotage, well, who knows.
I'm sure there's going to be lessons taught in some schools that it was all our fault, the Japanese shouldn't be blamed, and things like the Rape of Nanking and Unit 731 will either be ignored entirely, or minimized.
We came back. In the Pacific the Doolittle raid, buying time, and then Midway and on till the end.
I'm sure there's going to be lessons taught in some schools that it was all our fault, the Japanese shouldn't be blamed, and things like the Rape of Nanking and Unit 731 will either be ignored entirely, or minimized.
We came back. In the Pacific the Doolittle raid, buying time, and then Midway and on till the end.
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Also, Sharyl Atkisson is still working on Gunwalker
Now it seems that the big spike in arms supply to cartels didn’t come from local gun shops at all, but from the US government approving a rapid increase in direct sales from manufacturers to the Mexican government, whose purchases got diverted to the cartels — a fact known to the Obama administration all along. Sharyl Atkisson continues her excellent investigative reporting for CBS on OF&F with this exposé:
...Here’s how it works: A foreign government fills out an application to buy weapons from private gun manufacturers in the U.S. Then the State Department decides whether to approve.
And it did approve 2,476 guns to be sold to Mexico in 2006. In 2009, that number was up nearly 10 times, to 18,709. The State Department has since stopped disclosing numbers of guns it approves, and wouldn’t give CBS News figures for 2010 or 2011. …
The State Department audits only a tiny sample – less than 1 percent of sales – but the results are disturbing: In 2009, more than a quarter (26 percent) of the guns sold to the region that includes Mexico were “diverted” into the wrong hands, or had other “unfavorable” results.
My, my.
While the ATF allowed two thousand or so guns to “walk” across the border without the ability to track them, the Obama administration was already aware that the direct-sales program had a 26% fail rate — which would have meant almost 4,900 weapons fell into the hands of the cartels based on sales approved by the Obama administration’s State Department in 2009 alone. That’s more than twice the amount “lost” by the ATF and DoJ in OF&F. And we don’t know how much worse the problem got last year or this year, thanks to the stonewalling of the Obama administration on the numbers.
...Here’s how it works: A foreign government fills out an application to buy weapons from private gun manufacturers in the U.S. Then the State Department decides whether to approve.
And it did approve 2,476 guns to be sold to Mexico in 2006. In 2009, that number was up nearly 10 times, to 18,709. The State Department has since stopped disclosing numbers of guns it approves, and wouldn’t give CBS News figures for 2010 or 2011. …
The State Department audits only a tiny sample – less than 1 percent of sales – but the results are disturbing: In 2009, more than a quarter (26 percent) of the guns sold to the region that includes Mexico were “diverted” into the wrong hands, or had other “unfavorable” results.
My, my.
While the ATF allowed two thousand or so guns to “walk” across the border without the ability to track them, the Obama administration was already aware that the direct-sales program had a 26% fail rate — which would have meant almost 4,900 weapons fell into the hands of the cartels based on sales approved by the Obama administration’s State Department in 2009 alone. That’s more than twice the amount “lost” by the ATF and DoJ in OF&F. And we don’t know how much worse the problem got last year or this year, thanks to the stonewalling of the Obama administration on the numbers.
So Burke "It's all a LIE!!" of the AZ AG office
is full of crap? Not exactly a big surprise, is it?
Now we find out, thanks to an email provided to Sipsey Street, that Billy Hoover wasn't the only ATF manager who thanked Dennis Burke for his hardline approach to the Grassley letter.
This Melson email to Burke shoots his "What, me Gunwalker?" defense in the head.
Dead.
It is obvious that the Committee has some more questions -- hard questions -- to ask Kenneth E. Melson. The principal question for the rest of us onlookers is, who is playing whom?
Back at the time of Melson's testimony I gave him a certain benefit of doubt, that maybe having the costs of this operation thrown up before him really might have broken through; apparently I need to stop giving any of these people any such benefit.
Also, further rumors the gentleman reports from Sodom on the Potomac:
1. Committee is said to be ready for a document dump today, possibly emails from Dennis Burke to Holder and Napolitano, among others, that will blow those two Gunwalker conspirators out of their jobs.
2. Kevin O'Reilly, erstwhile State Department employee of Hillary's, fresh from the desert clime of Iraq, is said to have retained his own attorney and either has, or soon will, make his statement before the committee investigators.
3. Lamar Smith, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee from Texas, may, according to conflicting sources, either be about to cravenly fold on a sell-out deal with the Obamanoids to stop the damage at Eric Holder's career and call it a scandal, or is a stand-up guy who is determined about to take the scandal to the next level, no matter what the damage the truth has to the administration. Place your bets, for the roulette wheel is turning.
If you live in Texas, especially in Smith's district, it might not be a bad thing to call and present an opinion as to which he should do.
Now we find out, thanks to an email provided to Sipsey Street, that Billy Hoover wasn't the only ATF manager who thanked Dennis Burke for his hardline approach to the Grassley letter.
From: Melson, Kenneth E.This email is proof that if Melson ever was "sick to his stomach" as he claimed to the Issa and Grassley investigators, then he must have found the Phenergan pretty quickly.
To: Burke, Dennis (USAAZ)
Sent: 2/3/2011 7:51:58 PM
Subject: Grassley
Dennis: I just got back from the Interpol meeting and wanted to thank you for your help on the Grassley response and for your work on Fast and Furious. Ken
This Melson email to Burke shoots his "What, me Gunwalker?" defense in the head.
Dead.
It is obvious that the Committee has some more questions -- hard questions -- to ask Kenneth E. Melson. The principal question for the rest of us onlookers is, who is playing whom?
Back at the time of Melson's testimony I gave him a certain benefit of doubt, that maybe having the costs of this operation thrown up before him really might have broken through; apparently I need to stop giving any of these people any such benefit.
Also, further rumors the gentleman reports from Sodom on the Potomac:
1. Committee is said to be ready for a document dump today, possibly emails from Dennis Burke to Holder and Napolitano, among others, that will blow those two Gunwalker conspirators out of their jobs.
2. Kevin O'Reilly, erstwhile State Department employee of Hillary's, fresh from the desert clime of Iraq, is said to have retained his own attorney and either has, or soon will, make his statement before the committee investigators.
3. Lamar Smith, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee from Texas, may, according to conflicting sources, either be about to cravenly fold on a sell-out deal with the Obamanoids to stop the damage at Eric Holder's career and call it a scandal, or is a stand-up guy who is determined about to take the scandal to the next level, no matter what the damage the truth has to the administration. Place your bets, for the roulette wheel is turning.
If you live in Texas, especially in Smith's district, it might not be a bad thing to call and present an opinion as to which he should do.
A site I'd not seen before on self-defense
I think I'm going to spend some time going through the place over the next while
"First, it's Bush's fault! He started it!
Second, ATF and the AG in Arizona lied to Holder & Co.! So it's not our fault we lied under oath to the committee!" Etc., lather, rinse, repeat.
Sometimes you just run into a string of things at a blog
all of which should be spread around. So from a link Tam had to Popehat, we get in total
Idiocy from the Border Patrol, which should really be more worried about the AG and DHS and others trying to get BP agents killed;
The general rule for good health(it seems) when talking to law enforcement: "Shut up."
Various idiocy from LE organizations. Which seems to include "If you don't have something to hide, then you'll tell us whatever we ask. Like it or not." Quote from linked post:
A spokesman for the D.C. police, who had not seen the film, said the rules are good rules to follow. “However,” he said, “if you have nothing to hide and police are doing some kind of investigation, you should tell them whatever they need to know. Police are there to protect the society and the community in which we work.”
And who decides what they 'need to know'? You sure as hell don't.
Also, from Cato: Ten rules for dealing with police
Idiocy from the Border Patrol, which should really be more worried about the AG and DHS and others trying to get BP agents killed;
The general rule for good health(it seems) when talking to law enforcement: "Shut up."
Various idiocy from LE organizations. Which seems to include "If you don't have something to hide, then you'll tell us whatever we ask. Like it or not." Quote from linked post:
A spokesman for the D.C. police, who had not seen the film, said the rules are good rules to follow. “However,” he said, “if you have nothing to hide and police are doing some kind of investigation, you should tell them whatever they need to know. Police are there to protect the society and the community in which we work.”
And who decides what they 'need to know'? You sure as hell don't.
Also, from Cato: Ten rules for dealing with police
Gun bigots in Canada: "You will be allowed to attend
the memorial if you throw out your principles."
The long-gun registry hasn't accomplished squat, but if you don't want to do it more and harder, then you 'don't caaaarree about women!', etc. ad bullshit.
The long-gun registry hasn't accomplished squat, but if you don't want to do it more and harder, then you 'don't caaaarree about women!', etc. ad bullshit.
Ferraris and Mercedes and Nissan,
oh bloody my!
A fleet of high-performance cars, including eight Ferraris, has been involved in one of the most expensive accidents in history after an astonishing multi-car pile-up in Japan.
A fleet of high-performance cars, including eight Ferraris, has been involved in one of the most expensive accidents in history after an astonishing multi-car pile-up in Japan.
What? A government agency may have helped Government Motors
(formerly just GM) hide a problem with the Volt? Whoda thunk such a thing...
Apparently, way back in June, General Motors heard about a Volt fire that happened three weeks after said vehicle was crash tested, yet it wasn’t until November that the company, nor NHTSA disclosed there was a potential problem, urging both dealers and customers to drain the battery pack immediately following an accident.
...
Joan Claybrook, a former adminstrator at NHTSA believes part of the reason for the delay was the “fragility of Volt sales.” Yet she also believes that “NHTSA could have put out a consumer alert, not to tell them [customers] for six months makes no sense to me.”
Think they'd have had such concern for, say a Ford(non-GM that is) product? Me neither.
Oh, and on that buy-back offer that GM made, well, they seem to have changed their mind on that:
Tony Faria, auto industry expert at business professor at the University of Windsor, said Akerson's comments are causing public relations headaches for the automaker.
"That certainly may be something that will hurt GM more than anything else because it makes it sound as if GM very confidently went forward and said, 'we're so confident in this vehicle and all the satisfaction of the owners of this vehicle and we'll buy it back if anyone is concerned.' This sounds like they've had second thoughts about it, which makes it a little bit worse than what it really was."
Apparently, way back in June, General Motors heard about a Volt fire that happened three weeks after said vehicle was crash tested, yet it wasn’t until November that the company, nor NHTSA disclosed there was a potential problem, urging both dealers and customers to drain the battery pack immediately following an accident.
...
Joan Claybrook, a former adminstrator at NHTSA believes part of the reason for the delay was the “fragility of Volt sales.” Yet she also believes that “NHTSA could have put out a consumer alert, not to tell them [customers] for six months makes no sense to me.”
Think they'd have had such concern for, say a Ford(non-GM that is) product? Me neither.
Oh, and on that buy-back offer that GM made, well, they seem to have changed their mind on that:
Tony Faria, auto industry expert at business professor at the University of Windsor, said Akerson's comments are causing public relations headaches for the automaker.
"That certainly may be something that will hurt GM more than anything else because it makes it sound as if GM very confidently went forward and said, 'we're so confident in this vehicle and all the satisfaction of the owners of this vehicle and we'll buy it back if anyone is concerned.' This sounds like they've had second thoughts about it, which makes it a little bit worse than what it really was."
So Rep. Pelosi(Vile Progressive-CA) threatened to release confidential
information in an attack on Gingrich:
“One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi, D-Calif., told Talking Points Memo. “I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him. Four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.”
Oops
“I’d like to thank Speaker Pelosi for what I regard as an early Christmas gift. Well, she’s suggesting that she’s going to use material that she developed when she was on the ethics committee. That’s a fundamental violation of rules of the House and I would hope that members would immediately file charges against her the second she does it. I think it tells you how capriciously political that committee was that she was on it. It tells you how tainted the outcome was that she was on it."
Slight problem when your target won't cooperate.
And now
But this afternoon, Pelosi’s spokesman, Drew Hammill, suggested that her comments have been misconstrued beyond the leader’s intent.
“Leader Pelosi was clearly referring to the extensive amount of information that is in the public record, including the comprehensive committee report with which the public may not be fully aware,” Hammill wrote in a statement.
No, she wasn't, and we know it, but this is about the only way to back out open to her without admitting she was going to violate the rules.
Yeah, she is a slimy piece of work, isn't she?'
I don't much care for Gingrich. I just heard a little of the interview he did on Beck's show, and it showed just how much of a DC insider he is(Subsidies have a 'long history, so they're no problem' and other such crap); but he's done something most of the other Stupid Party candidates won't do, which is go after Obama, go after the Democrats, and I think that is a big reason he's shot up in the polls.
“One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi, D-Calif., told Talking Points Memo. “I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him. Four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.”
Oops
“I’d like to thank Speaker Pelosi for what I regard as an early Christmas gift. Well, she’s suggesting that she’s going to use material that she developed when she was on the ethics committee. That’s a fundamental violation of rules of the House and I would hope that members would immediately file charges against her the second she does it. I think it tells you how capriciously political that committee was that she was on it. It tells you how tainted the outcome was that she was on it."
Slight problem when your target won't cooperate.
And now
But this afternoon, Pelosi’s spokesman, Drew Hammill, suggested that her comments have been misconstrued beyond the leader’s intent.
“Leader Pelosi was clearly referring to the extensive amount of information that is in the public record, including the comprehensive committee report with which the public may not be fully aware,” Hammill wrote in a statement.
No, she wasn't, and we know it, but this is about the only way to back out open to her without admitting she was going to violate the rules.
Yeah, she is a slimy piece of work, isn't she?'
I don't much care for Gingrich. I just heard a little of the interview he did on Beck's show, and it showed just how much of a DC insider he is(Subsidies have a 'long history, so they're no problem' and other such crap); but he's done something most of the other Stupid Party candidates won't do, which is go after Obama, go after the Democrats, and I think that is a big reason he's shot up in the polls.
"Democrat Party and President Obama sued for racist actions
and words, and refusal to apologize; video at ten!"
The plaintiffs, who refer to the defendants as the “Father of Racism,” allege that as an organization, the Democratic Party has consistently refused to apologize for the role they played in slavery, Jim Crow and for other subsequent racist practices from 1792 to 2011. Mrs. Frances P. Rice, the Chair of the National Black Republican Association is also a named plaintiff in the class action lawsuit.
The case cites the collective work of over 350 legal scholars and includes Congressional records, case law, research from our nation's top history professors, racist statements from Democratic elected officials, citations from the Democrat's National Platforms regarding their support of slavery, excepts of speeches from Senator Obama, individual testimonies from blacks who lived in the Jim Crow South and opinions from the NAACP.
This ought to stir the pot a bit. I wonder if the people who've insisted "The nation must apologize for slavery!" will also insist the Democrat Party apologize for the part it played in the matter? And its actions after the Civil War?
The plaintiffs, who refer to the defendants as the “Father of Racism,” allege that as an organization, the Democratic Party has consistently refused to apologize for the role they played in slavery, Jim Crow and for other subsequent racist practices from 1792 to 2011. Mrs. Frances P. Rice, the Chair of the National Black Republican Association is also a named plaintiff in the class action lawsuit.
The case cites the collective work of over 350 legal scholars and includes Congressional records, case law, research from our nation's top history professors, racist statements from Democratic elected officials, citations from the Democrat's National Platforms regarding their support of slavery, excepts of speeches from Senator Obama, individual testimonies from blacks who lived in the Jim Crow South and opinions from the NAACP.
This ought to stir the pot a bit. I wonder if the people who've insisted "The nation must apologize for slavery!" will also insist the Democrat Party apologize for the part it played in the matter? And its actions after the Civil War?
So I have to conclude that the Globular Warmering clowns in Durban
either don't know at all what the hell they're talking about, or the LIKE the idea of destroying every country developed beyond the level of, say, Haiti.
Issued by the chair of COP-17, the negotiating draft is “an intermediate product presenting work in progress, a Saturday snapshot of where we are at the end of this first week of COP 17.” Consider some of the proposed cuts in emissions that are being demanded of developed countries. One of the more moderate proposal demands—with proposed phrases in brackets—that “developed countries as a group should reduce their greenhouse gas emissions…[by][at least][40][45][50] per cent from 1990 levels by 2020.”
Or, for an even more idiotic/insane/genocidal idea,
But if that proposed emissions cut is not ambitious (read: delusional) enough consider the draft proposal that demands that rich countries “undertake ambitious national economy-wide binding targets for quantified emission reduction commitments of at least 50 per cent of their domestic greenhouse gas emissions during the period 2013 to 2017 and by more than 100 per cent before 2040, compared with their 1990 levels.” Instead of trashing and trying to replace 70 percent of U.S. electric power generation and half its vehicle fleet in nine years, get Americans to sign a treaty that commits them to doing that in as little as two years.
I shall have to descend to bad language: What the FUCK is in the minds of these people? Do they know they're pushing absolute bullshit, or do they want(without having the balls to say it outright) the levels of death and destruction that would occur if this were tried? Because if you actually tried to cut our emissions by that level, lots and lots of people would die. Ignore destroying our(and China and India and Europe and Russia and- well, damn near everybody above the level of Haiti) industrial base for a moment: we couldn't grow enough food. We couldn't keep people warm in winter. I hate to think of the number of dead bodies to dispose of(before they start producing greenhouse gases, must consider that) that such insanity would produce.
But we're supposed to take these morons meeting in Durban seriously. Well, I do; just not in the way they demand
Issued by the chair of COP-17, the negotiating draft is “an intermediate product presenting work in progress, a Saturday snapshot of where we are at the end of this first week of COP 17.” Consider some of the proposed cuts in emissions that are being demanded of developed countries. One of the more moderate proposal demands—with proposed phrases in brackets—that “developed countries as a group should reduce their greenhouse gas emissions…[by][at least][40][45][50] per cent from 1990 levels by 2020.”
Or, for an even more idiotic/insane/genocidal idea,
But if that proposed emissions cut is not ambitious (read: delusional) enough consider the draft proposal that demands that rich countries “undertake ambitious national economy-wide binding targets for quantified emission reduction commitments of at least 50 per cent of their domestic greenhouse gas emissions during the period 2013 to 2017 and by more than 100 per cent before 2040, compared with their 1990 levels.” Instead of trashing and trying to replace 70 percent of U.S. electric power generation and half its vehicle fleet in nine years, get Americans to sign a treaty that commits them to doing that in as little as two years.
I shall have to descend to bad language: What the FUCK is in the minds of these people? Do they know they're pushing absolute bullshit, or do they want(without having the balls to say it outright) the levels of death and destruction that would occur if this were tried? Because if you actually tried to cut our emissions by that level, lots and lots of people would die. Ignore destroying our(and China and India and Europe and Russia and- well, damn near everybody above the level of Haiti) industrial base for a moment: we couldn't grow enough food. We couldn't keep people warm in winter. I hate to think of the number of dead bodies to dispose of(before they start producing greenhouse gases, must consider that) that such insanity would produce.
But we're supposed to take these morons meeting in Durban seriously. Well, I do; just not in the way they demand
Monday, December 05, 2011
I call the place Hollyweird; this goes beyond weird to
hanging, drawing & quartering territory:
Revelations of this sort come as no surprise to former child star Corey Feldman.
Feldman, 40, himself a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, unflinchingly warned of the world of pedophiles who are drawn to the entertainment industry last August. "I can tell you that the No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia,” Feldman told ABC’s Nightline. “That's the biggest problem for children in this industry... It's the big secret.”
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“This has been going on for a very long time,” concurs former “Little House on the Prairie” star Alison Arngrim. “It was the gossip back in the ‘80s. People said, ‘Oh yeah, the Coreys, everyone’s had them.’ People talked about it like it was not a big deal.”
Arngrim, 49, was referring to Feldman and his co-star in “The Lost Boys,” Corey Haim, who died in March 2010 after years of drug abuse.
“I literally heard that they were ‘passed around,’” Arngrim said. “The word was that they were given drugs and being used for sex. It was awful – these were kids, they weren’t 18 yet. There were all sorts of stories about everyone from their, quote, ‘set guardians’ on down that these two had been sexually abused and were totally being corrupted in every possible way.”
Might help explain all the opposition to bringing Roman Polanski being brought back to face charges; a lot of people consider it no big deal for such an 'artist', and others would be scared as hell it might lead to further investigations. Of course, you have to wonder what kind of screws are loose for someone to consider drugging and raping girls to be no big deal as long as you're a great director or something.
Found at Ace
I cannot remember where read it years back, a guy was writing about the modeling industry and kids and said if his daughter were offered a contract there'd be two stipulations: First, mom or dad would be there while she was working. Always. Second, if someone tried to get the kid to work without them around, the contract would be void(preferably with enough of a penalty to get their attention). From what he said it wasn't just pedophiles who worked around the industry, but teenage girls were a target of some of the older female models as well.
Revelations of this sort come as no surprise to former child star Corey Feldman.
Feldman, 40, himself a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, unflinchingly warned of the world of pedophiles who are drawn to the entertainment industry last August. "I can tell you that the No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia,” Feldman told ABC’s Nightline. “That's the biggest problem for children in this industry... It's the big secret.”
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“This has been going on for a very long time,” concurs former “Little House on the Prairie” star Alison Arngrim. “It was the gossip back in the ‘80s. People said, ‘Oh yeah, the Coreys, everyone’s had them.’ People talked about it like it was not a big deal.”
Arngrim, 49, was referring to Feldman and his co-star in “The Lost Boys,” Corey Haim, who died in March 2010 after years of drug abuse.
“I literally heard that they were ‘passed around,’” Arngrim said. “The word was that they were given drugs and being used for sex. It was awful – these were kids, they weren’t 18 yet. There were all sorts of stories about everyone from their, quote, ‘set guardians’ on down that these two had been sexually abused and were totally being corrupted in every possible way.”
Might help explain all the opposition to bringing Roman Polanski being brought back to face charges; a lot of people consider it no big deal for such an 'artist', and others would be scared as hell it might lead to further investigations. Of course, you have to wonder what kind of screws are loose for someone to consider drugging and raping girls to be no big deal as long as you're a great director or something.
Found at Ace
I cannot remember where read it years back, a guy was writing about the modeling industry and kids and said if his daughter were offered a contract there'd be two stipulations: First, mom or dad would be there while she was working. Always. Second, if someone tried to get the kid to work without them around, the contract would be void(preferably with enough of a penalty to get their attention). From what he said it wasn't just pedophiles who worked around the industry, but teenage girls were a target of some of the older female models as well.
Well, a lot of them are socialists too...
The curious coincidence is that this wasn’t the first time Marcus’ monument has been defaced. As mentioned in the previous post about Marcus, in 1938, after Austria was unified with Germany under the Third Reich, the Nazis tore down this very statue and every other memorial in Vienna that honored Marcus as the inventor of the automobile. That time Marcus’ monument was also defaced by self-righteous people convinced that the only way to save the world was to make people act the way they wanted them too. They were adept at focusing their hate on identifiable targets, for example, like Jews and Gypsies.
Of course I’m not saying that radical environmentalists are akin to Nazis. Nowadays, too many people have no perspective and throw around the word “Nazi” or compare people to Nazis without a clue about how wicked and evil and cruel the Nazis really were. So obviously I’m loathe to say that the greens in Vienna acted like Nazis when they defaced Marcus’ statue, but the simple facts are that they vandalized the same monument that Nazis vandalized in 1938.
I have no doubt that some hardcore environmentalist earth firsters can be as totalitarian as human beings are capable of being. Clearly some radical environmentalists put their own values above the value of some human life. Still, like I said, I’m not going to call greens Nazis. I will say, though, you’d think the environmentalists would have thought twice before acting like Nazis.
Of course, they'd have to A: know their history and B: care.
Of course I’m not saying that radical environmentalists are akin to Nazis. Nowadays, too many people have no perspective and throw around the word “Nazi” or compare people to Nazis without a clue about how wicked and evil and cruel the Nazis really were. So obviously I’m loathe to say that the greens in Vienna acted like Nazis when they defaced Marcus’ statue, but the simple facts are that they vandalized the same monument that Nazis vandalized in 1938.
I have no doubt that some hardcore environmentalist earth firsters can be as totalitarian as human beings are capable of being. Clearly some radical environmentalists put their own values above the value of some human life. Still, like I said, I’m not going to call greens Nazis. I will say, though, you’d think the environmentalists would have thought twice before acting like Nazis.
Of course, they'd have to A: know their history and B: care.
Sounds a lot like the crap in the Clinton 'Assault Weapons Ban',
doesn't it?
If the above paragraph seems dense, it admittedly is. It is also a gross simplification of the legislation, which is highly technical and riddled with numerous caveats and exemptions. The laws were written in such a way to ensnare the maximum possible number of firearms into the prohibited and restricted categories, severely curtailing their availability to the public. But since the government of the day — the Jean Chrétien-led Liberals — didn’t want to admit that was their intention, they had to hide their motives behind benign-sounding technical jargon. In doing so, they created a bureaucratic monster.
The NDP are its latest victims. Ruger, an American-based firearms manufacturer, builds the Mini-14 rifles, in several different variants. The different variants are essentially identical in terms of their mechanical operation — the “guts” of the rifle, with the highly complex moving parts and delicate components — are common across every variant. Only the finishing touches differ, and those are easy to slap on in the final phase of manufacture.
The reason for the different finishing touches is unremarkable: It’s all marketing. The “Ranch” variant of the rifle is marketed to hunters and farmers, and has few bells and whistles. It has a wooden stock — nothing fancy — and a long barrel, good for accuracy at long ranges (like those found, for example, on a ranch). The “Tactical” variant of the rifle, though mechanically identical, is marketed towards sports shooters, and has a shorter barrel, a black plastic stock and the option to attach accessories like flashlights.
But small differences can have big effects. The Tactical variant of the rifle, due to its shorter barrel, is classified as restricted under Canadian law. The Ranch variant, with two inches more barrel, is non-restricted. That’s how the NDP made their innocent mistake. But it also goes to show how needlessly complex the classification system is. The Ruger Mini-14 Tactical looks somewhat scarier and is slightly shorter (and thus, the logic goes, easier to conceal). But can anyone seriously say it’s more dangerous? Two extra inches of barrel won’t stop a madman from firing into a crowd. Two inches less doesn’t mean it can’t be used for hunting.
If you recall, several Democrats sat down with a catalog and decided that any rifle with 'X' features that made them lose bladder control was therefore a eeevilllleee Assault Weapon and the peasants should not be allowed such. Which meant manufacturers could change a few cosmetic features and the guns were legal to make and sell. And then the gun bigots bitched and whined that "They're following the letter of the law, but violating the spirit!" I think that line actually came from Schumer(long walk/short dock, etc.). Who, being a lawyer, you'd think would know better than to say such a thing; but I guess he was hoping to shame them or something instead of revealing that idiots had written a law and gotten some of the usual results.
Of course, we also have that idiot McCarthy demonstrating that she was pushing for laws on things she knows absolutely nothing about; apparently she hadn't seen the catalog, or even bothered to find out what it was she was trying to ban. 'Shoulder thing that goes up' for Deity's sake!
If the above paragraph seems dense, it admittedly is. It is also a gross simplification of the legislation, which is highly technical and riddled with numerous caveats and exemptions. The laws were written in such a way to ensnare the maximum possible number of firearms into the prohibited and restricted categories, severely curtailing their availability to the public. But since the government of the day — the Jean Chrétien-led Liberals — didn’t want to admit that was their intention, they had to hide their motives behind benign-sounding technical jargon. In doing so, they created a bureaucratic monster.
The NDP are its latest victims. Ruger, an American-based firearms manufacturer, builds the Mini-14 rifles, in several different variants. The different variants are essentially identical in terms of their mechanical operation — the “guts” of the rifle, with the highly complex moving parts and delicate components — are common across every variant. Only the finishing touches differ, and those are easy to slap on in the final phase of manufacture.
The reason for the different finishing touches is unremarkable: It’s all marketing. The “Ranch” variant of the rifle is marketed to hunters and farmers, and has few bells and whistles. It has a wooden stock — nothing fancy — and a long barrel, good for accuracy at long ranges (like those found, for example, on a ranch). The “Tactical” variant of the rifle, though mechanically identical, is marketed towards sports shooters, and has a shorter barrel, a black plastic stock and the option to attach accessories like flashlights.
But small differences can have big effects. The Tactical variant of the rifle, due to its shorter barrel, is classified as restricted under Canadian law. The Ranch variant, with two inches more barrel, is non-restricted. That’s how the NDP made their innocent mistake. But it also goes to show how needlessly complex the classification system is. The Ruger Mini-14 Tactical looks somewhat scarier and is slightly shorter (and thus, the logic goes, easier to conceal). But can anyone seriously say it’s more dangerous? Two extra inches of barrel won’t stop a madman from firing into a crowd. Two inches less doesn’t mean it can’t be used for hunting.
If you recall, several Democrats sat down with a catalog and decided that any rifle with 'X' features that made them lose bladder control was therefore a eeevilllleee Assault Weapon and the peasants should not be allowed such. Which meant manufacturers could change a few cosmetic features and the guns were legal to make and sell. And then the gun bigots bitched and whined that "They're following the letter of the law, but violating the spirit!" I think that line actually came from Schumer(long walk/short dock, etc.). Who, being a lawyer, you'd think would know better than to say such a thing; but I guess he was hoping to shame them or something instead of revealing that idiots had written a law and gotten some of the usual results.
Of course, we also have that idiot McCarthy demonstrating that she was pushing for laws on things she knows absolutely nothing about; apparently she hadn't seen the catalog, or even bothered to find out what it was she was trying to ban. 'Shoulder thing that goes up' for Deity's sake!
"This way I won't have to deal with Congress"
President Obama's team of negotiators at the United Nations Climate Change Conference may agree to a tax on foreign currency transactions, designed to pay for a "Green Climate Fund," that would fall disproportionately on American travellers and businesses, according to a group attending the conference that is skeptical of the UN position on global warming.
Negotiators at the conference are considering "a new tax on every foreign currency transaction in the world," according to the Center for a Constructive Alternative (CFACT). "Every time you travel abroad, you'll have to pay a climate tax," explains CFACT, the group that released the "Climategate" emails. "More importantly, every time we import goods, every time we export our fine products (think jobs) we will do so with a climate tax skimming off the top."
European countries would evade much of the tax burden, however, because "transactions within the Eurozone won't have to pay this new tax."
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CFACT suggests that Obama is open to implementing this tax and similar policies in the absence of a full climate treaty, which would require congressional approval.
Negotiators at the conference are considering "a new tax on every foreign currency transaction in the world," according to the Center for a Constructive Alternative (CFACT). "Every time you travel abroad, you'll have to pay a climate tax," explains CFACT, the group that released the "Climategate" emails. "More importantly, every time we import goods, every time we export our fine products (think jobs) we will do so with a climate tax skimming off the top."
European countries would evade much of the tax burden, however, because "transactions within the Eurozone won't have to pay this new tax."
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CFACT suggests that Obama is open to implementing this tax and similar policies in the absence of a full climate treaty, which would require congressional approval.
You want to know how effing stupid the people running the schools are?
This effing stupid:
Emanyea Lockett is the fourth grade boy who was forced to sit home for two days. The young man is confused by the situation, telling local press, “I was talking to my friend and I said Miss Taylor was cute.”
According to several accounts, that conversation between school friends was overheard by a substitute teacher and reported. The principal at North Carolina’s Brookside Elementary School allegedly said to the child’s mother that the comments were a “form of sexual harassment.”
The only good thing in this story is that(at least for now) they're not threatening to put him on a Sexual Offenders List.
Emanyea Lockett is the fourth grade boy who was forced to sit home for two days. The young man is confused by the situation, telling local press, “I was talking to my friend and I said Miss Taylor was cute.”
According to several accounts, that conversation between school friends was overheard by a substitute teacher and reported. The principal at North Carolina’s Brookside Elementary School allegedly said to the child’s mother that the comments were a “form of sexual harassment.”
The only good thing in this story is that(at least for now) they're not threatening to put him on a Sexual Offenders List.
You want to know just what a scumbag Eric Holder is?
Go read this. All of it. One excerpt:
(pic & comment stolen from SSI)
The most egregious and bizarre claims of executive privilege came in exchanges with Senator -- and Judiciary Chairman -- Orrin Hatch. The 1996 report from Margaret Love that had recommended against clemency was accidentally released to the committee, and Hatch asked Holder to comment on it.
Holder: The letter should not have been produced. It seems to me that the information contained in the letter is clearly within the bounds of executive privilege.
Hatch: Seriously?
Holder: Excuse me?
Hatch: Seriously, you can't really believe that.
Holder: Oh, absolutely.
Hatch: Well, we have a copy of the letter. And you are aware that she recommended against clemency.
Holder: I really would not comment on what recommendations were made by the pardon attorney. As I said, I think that falls well within the bounds of executive privilege.
Later, Hatch asked Holder about the 1999 report that he and Roger Adams prepared that effectively replaced the 1996 Love report that recommended against clemency.
Hatch: Did the second report contain a recommendation of whether the president should or should not grant clemency?
Holder: Mr. Chairman, with respect to those questions, it seems to me the answers to those questions are prohibited by the assertation of privilege of the...
Hatch: How? Tell me. I mean, where in the law do you find that?
The befuddled senator never received an answer.
Hatch also asked if there had been any attempt to obtain information from those offered clemency concerning some of their co-conspirators who remained at large.
FALN bomb-maker William Morales was -- and still is -- hiding in Cuba. Macheteros Victor Gerena and Filiberto Ojeda-Rios were on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list (Gerena has now been on that list for a record 27 years, and Rios was killed in an FBI shootout in 2005).
Holder replied that "to my knowledge[,] those requests were not placed."
Hatch: You're a former prosecutor. I mean, don't you want to get to the bottom of these things?
Holder: Sure.
Hatch: Well, then, why weren't those questions asked?
Holder: Because it seems to me you're talking about a group of people who did not recognize the right of the government to even--
Hatch: What's that got to do with it?
Holder tried to shift the blame to Clinton. "Well, as I said, the power of the president is absolute in these areas...again, it is for the president to decide."
(pic & comment stolen from SSI)
So it appears that Holder & Napolitano & Mueller & Co. broke some MORE laws
than we were aware of.
As we continue to watch the general uproar over the Operation Fast and Furious program, and specifically what Attorney General Holder knew and when he knew it, it needs to be noted that perjury is not the only apparent violation of law to have occurred.
I refer to the apparent violation of at least one (probably two) major U.S. laws by the Holder Justice Department. A few years ago, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701, the follow-on to the Trading with the Enemy Act) was expanded in order to criminalize any transactions between U.S. entities — to include departments and agencies of the U.S. government — and all foreign drug cartels.
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A violation of any of the IEEPA sanctioning programs or the Kingpin Act carries stiff penalties, both criminal and civil, and potentially totaling decades in prison and tens of millions of dollars in fines. It is not necessary that an individual or governmental entity be shown to have “knowingly” violated any of these programs: it is illegal for any U.S. entity or individual to aid, abet, or materially assist — or in the case of Operation Fast and Furious, to facilitate others to aid, abet, or materially assist — designated drug traffickers. There are no exceptions within IEEPA programs for unlicensed U.S. law enforcement or intelligence agency operations.
Based on the July 5, 2010, memo to Eric Holder, it would appear that Fast and Furious facilitated the delivery of weapons to — at a minimum — the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico. The U.S. Department of the Treasury, which administers both the IEEPA and Kingpin Act programs, has designated numerous members of the Sinaloa cartel under both programs. IEEPA prohibitions apply to the U.S. government as well as to individuals, and as stated there are no exceptions within IEEPA programs for unlicensed U.S. law enforcement or intelligence agency operations.
So how stringent are these laws?
...To illustrate and emphasize this point: even during the run-up to war in Iraq, the U.S. secretary of Defense had to obtain waivers (specific licenses) from the Treasury Department to allow U.S. Special Forces and their necessary equipment (to include weapons, intelligence gathering, and targeting gear) to go into Iraq, as Iraq at the time was under separate IEEPA sanctions.
Hmmm... I wonder if Tax-Cheat-In-Chief Geithner is going to say he authorized this? Somehow, I doubt it.
So some more really interesting questions for Holder on Thursday.
As we continue to watch the general uproar over the Operation Fast and Furious program, and specifically what Attorney General Holder knew and when he knew it, it needs to be noted that perjury is not the only apparent violation of law to have occurred.
I refer to the apparent violation of at least one (probably two) major U.S. laws by the Holder Justice Department. A few years ago, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701, the follow-on to the Trading with the Enemy Act) was expanded in order to criminalize any transactions between U.S. entities — to include departments and agencies of the U.S. government — and all foreign drug cartels.
...
A violation of any of the IEEPA sanctioning programs or the Kingpin Act carries stiff penalties, both criminal and civil, and potentially totaling decades in prison and tens of millions of dollars in fines. It is not necessary that an individual or governmental entity be shown to have “knowingly” violated any of these programs: it is illegal for any U.S. entity or individual to aid, abet, or materially assist — or in the case of Operation Fast and Furious, to facilitate others to aid, abet, or materially assist — designated drug traffickers. There are no exceptions within IEEPA programs for unlicensed U.S. law enforcement or intelligence agency operations.
Based on the July 5, 2010, memo to Eric Holder, it would appear that Fast and Furious facilitated the delivery of weapons to — at a minimum — the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico. The U.S. Department of the Treasury, which administers both the IEEPA and Kingpin Act programs, has designated numerous members of the Sinaloa cartel under both programs. IEEPA prohibitions apply to the U.S. government as well as to individuals, and as stated there are no exceptions within IEEPA programs for unlicensed U.S. law enforcement or intelligence agency operations.
So how stringent are these laws?
...To illustrate and emphasize this point: even during the run-up to war in Iraq, the U.S. secretary of Defense had to obtain waivers (specific licenses) from the Treasury Department to allow U.S. Special Forces and their necessary equipment (to include weapons, intelligence gathering, and targeting gear) to go into Iraq, as Iraq at the time was under separate IEEPA sanctions.
Hmmm... I wonder if Tax-Cheat-In-Chief Geithner is going to say he authorized this? Somehow, I doubt it.
So some more really interesting questions for Holder on Thursday.
First, change the law so police and prosecutors are PERSONALLY liable
for damages they do that they're currently protected from; then you'll see a lot of this crap stop.
In fact, very little about the raid that was unusual. For the most part, it was carried out the same way drug warrants are served some 150 times per day in the United States. The battering ram, the execution of Whitworth's dog, the fact that police weren't aware Whitworth's 7-year-old child was in the home before they riddled the place with bullets, the fact that they found only a small amount of pot, likely for personal use -- all are common in drug raids. The only thing unusual was that the raid was recorded by police, then released to the public after an open records request by the Columbia Daily Tribune. It was as if much of the country was seeing for the first time the violence with which the drug war is actually fought. And they didn't like what they saw.
Do you have any idea just how fucking sick I am of hearing wrong address/wrong person/dead dog SWAT raids excused from any responsibility for doing wrong by the chief or whoever saying "They were following standard procedures"? If this garbage is according to your procedures, then you need these procedures shoved right up your ass.
Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they're fighting a "war," and the consequences are predictable. These policies have taken a toll. Among the victims of increasingly aggressive and militaristic police tactics: Cheye Calvo, the mayor of Berwyn Heights, Md., whose dogs were killed when Prince George's County police mistakenly raided his home; 92-year-old Katherine Johnston, who was gunned down by narcotics cops in Atlanta in 2006; 11-year-old Alberto Sepulveda, who was killed by Modesto, Calif., police during a drug raid in September 2000; 80-year-old Isaac Singletary, who was shot by undercover narcotics police in 2007 who were attempting to sell drugs from his yard; Jonathan Ayers, a Georgia pastor shot as he tried to flee a gang of narcotics cops who jumped him at a gas station in 2009; Clayton Helriggle, a 23-year-old college student killed during a marijuana raid in Ohio in 2002; and Alberta Spruill, who died of a heart attack after police deployed a flash grenade during a mistaken raid on her Harlem apartment in 2003. Most recently, voting rights activist Barbara Arnwine was raided by a SWAT team in Prince George's County, Md., on Nov. 21. The police appear to have raided the wrong house.
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...But just three days before Loughner's rampage, police in Framingham, Mass., raided the home of 68-year-old Eurie Stamps. Stamps wasn't the target of the drug raid. Police were after the son of Stamps' girlfriend, and actually apprehended him outside the home. They raided the house anyway. Stamps, who was unarmed and broke no laws, was shot and killed by a police officer. By my count, he's at least the 46th innocent person killed in a botched drug raid. Every politician in Washington condemned the Loughner shootings, and rightly so. But nearly every politician in Washington supports the laws and policies that led to the death of Eurie Stamps.
God only knows how many dead dogs that adds up to.
In fact, very little about the raid that was unusual. For the most part, it was carried out the same way drug warrants are served some 150 times per day in the United States. The battering ram, the execution of Whitworth's dog, the fact that police weren't aware Whitworth's 7-year-old child was in the home before they riddled the place with bullets, the fact that they found only a small amount of pot, likely for personal use -- all are common in drug raids. The only thing unusual was that the raid was recorded by police, then released to the public after an open records request by the Columbia Daily Tribune. It was as if much of the country was seeing for the first time the violence with which the drug war is actually fought. And they didn't like what they saw.
Do you have any idea just how fucking sick I am of hearing wrong address/wrong person/dead dog SWAT raids excused from any responsibility for doing wrong by the chief or whoever saying "They were following standard procedures"? If this garbage is according to your procedures, then you need these procedures shoved right up your ass.
Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they're fighting a "war," and the consequences are predictable. These policies have taken a toll. Among the victims of increasingly aggressive and militaristic police tactics: Cheye Calvo, the mayor of Berwyn Heights, Md., whose dogs were killed when Prince George's County police mistakenly raided his home; 92-year-old Katherine Johnston, who was gunned down by narcotics cops in Atlanta in 2006; 11-year-old Alberto Sepulveda, who was killed by Modesto, Calif., police during a drug raid in September 2000; 80-year-old Isaac Singletary, who was shot by undercover narcotics police in 2007 who were attempting to sell drugs from his yard; Jonathan Ayers, a Georgia pastor shot as he tried to flee a gang of narcotics cops who jumped him at a gas station in 2009; Clayton Helriggle, a 23-year-old college student killed during a marijuana raid in Ohio in 2002; and Alberta Spruill, who died of a heart attack after police deployed a flash grenade during a mistaken raid on her Harlem apartment in 2003. Most recently, voting rights activist Barbara Arnwine was raided by a SWAT team in Prince George's County, Md., on Nov. 21. The police appear to have raided the wrong house.
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...But just three days before Loughner's rampage, police in Framingham, Mass., raided the home of 68-year-old Eurie Stamps. Stamps wasn't the target of the drug raid. Police were after the son of Stamps' girlfriend, and actually apprehended him outside the home. They raided the house anyway. Stamps, who was unarmed and broke no laws, was shot and killed by a police officer. By my count, he's at least the 46th innocent person killed in a botched drug raid. Every politician in Washington condemned the Loughner shootings, and rightly so. But nearly every politician in Washington supports the laws and policies that led to the death of Eurie Stamps.
God only knows how many dead dogs that adds up to.
Sunday, December 04, 2011
I forgot it's called Markley's Law, (Updated)
so I'm posting it to remind myself:
That has to be some kind of variant of Godwin's Law: As an online discussion of gun owners' rights grows longer, the probability of an ad hominem attack involving penis size approaches 1.
[Therefore, let it be know throughout the entire Internet that henceforth when an anti-gun bigot attributes the exercise of the specific enumerated right to keep and bear arms to the inadequate size or envy of male genital that it be referred to as Markley's Law, as first articulated by AlanR and named by Hank Archer.]
Update: Crotalus' Corollary: If guns are an extension of a man's penis, then men advocating gun control must want to be castrated.
(thank you, Joe)
Reminded of this by a visit to Joe Huffman's place
That has to be some kind of variant of Godwin's Law: As an online discussion of gun owners' rights grows longer, the probability of an ad hominem attack involving penis size approaches 1.
[Therefore, let it be know throughout the entire Internet that henceforth when an anti-gun bigot attributes the exercise of the specific enumerated right to keep and bear arms to the inadequate size or envy of male genital that it be referred to as Markley's Law, as first articulated by AlanR and named by Hank Archer.]
Update: Crotalus' Corollary: If guns are an extension of a man's penis, then men advocating gun control must want to be castrated.
(thank you, Joe)
Reminded of this by a visit to Joe Huffman's place
It's a sick damned culture that considers
this kind of thing 'honorable' living.
Smack in the middle of one of Canada’s most proudly cosmopolitan cities — Montreal, where they lived — this family of Afghan immigrants was still imprisoned in their homeland’s archaic culture.
The boys of the family were spying on the girls, looking for signs of loose Western behaviour; the older girls were so desperate for a way out they agreed to marry virtually any boy who looked at them twice; the two wives, quietly living in an illegal and secret polygamous marriage, were at one another’s throats, with the fertile one lording it over the older, barren one.
...
Pleading not guilty to four counts each of first-degree murder are the family patriarch, 58-year-old Mohammad Shafia, second wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, and their oldest son Hamed, 20.
Smack in the middle of one of Canada’s most proudly cosmopolitan cities — Montreal, where they lived — this family of Afghan immigrants was still imprisoned in their homeland’s archaic culture.
The boys of the family were spying on the girls, looking for signs of loose Western behaviour; the older girls were so desperate for a way out they agreed to marry virtually any boy who looked at them twice; the two wives, quietly living in an illegal and secret polygamous marriage, were at one another’s throats, with the fertile one lording it over the older, barren one.
...
Pleading not guilty to four counts each of first-degree murder are the family patriarch, 58-year-old Mohammad Shafia, second wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, and their oldest son Hamed, 20.
Well, we don't have cobras around here-
except at the zoo...*- but we do have rattlesnakes and copperheads, and they're all coming out by April 15.
If this is correct, the people running Boston Public Schools
are friggin' morons. First, if the other kid started it, he had every right to protect himself.
Second, sexual harassment? For a punch in a fight? I repeat, friggin' morons.
Second, sexual harassment? For a punch in a fight? I repeat, friggin' morons.
I didn't know there was a Fossil of the Day Award;
but we ought to be winning the damn thing. Canada, however,
"Canada is kicking ASS in the Fossil Of The Day Awards! - Stan
I'm going to steal three comments from the blog he links to:
I’m going to cut down and burn a random tree tomorrow in celebration.
...
I hope we come back with the effing T-rex award, then we can drag it around Canada Like the Olympic Flame, As proof of Canadian Common Sense..
...
Personally, I think every Canadian should have a fossil award to put on display in our living rooms every winter, when we have the furnaces fired up to the max to keep warm and toasty when it’s -50 C outside. BRING – IT – ON!!!!
Oh, and maybe one to hang from the rear view mirror in our gas guzzling vehicles, especially those that have a block heater installed that has to be plugged in overnight when it’s colder than -20 C, otherwise they won’t start in the morning, and we won’t be able to see through the windshield because the cold air has frosted/fogged it all up.
And I won’t even mention how far we have to drive to get from point A (where we live) to point B (where we work) after we get the damned things started when it’s -50 C throughout the month of January and part of February. But it’s a good thing we do get to work, cause without that income, how could we send all that foreign aid to backward countries spewing CO2 into the atmosphere.
But that’s a Canadian thing. We’re a hardy lot. We like it.
Anyway, I want my fossil award!!! And I want it now!!!!
Added: from the Whole Foods "Buy Local!" list:
"Canada is kicking ASS in the Fossil Of The Day Awards! - Stan
I'm going to steal three comments from the blog he links to:
I’m going to cut down and burn a random tree tomorrow in celebration.
...
I hope we come back with the effing T-rex award, then we can drag it around Canada Like the Olympic Flame, As proof of Canadian Common Sense..
...
Personally, I think every Canadian should have a fossil award to put on display in our living rooms every winter, when we have the furnaces fired up to the max to keep warm and toasty when it’s -50 C outside. BRING – IT – ON!!!!
Oh, and maybe one to hang from the rear view mirror in our gas guzzling vehicles, especially those that have a block heater installed that has to be plugged in overnight when it’s colder than -20 C, otherwise they won’t start in the morning, and we won’t be able to see through the windshield because the cold air has frosted/fogged it all up.
And I won’t even mention how far we have to drive to get from point A (where we live) to point B (where we work) after we get the damned things started when it’s -50 C throughout the month of January and part of February. But it’s a good thing we do get to work, cause without that income, how could we send all that foreign aid to backward countries spewing CO2 into the atmosphere.
But that’s a Canadian thing. We’re a hardy lot. We like it.
Anyway, I want my fossil award!!! And I want it now!!!!
Added: from the Whole Foods "Buy Local!" list:
First, I think the big reason Obama hasn't openly pushed gun bans
and other restrictions is
A: He used up an ENORMOUS amount of political capital in shoving Obamacare through, so he didn't have it to use for other things, and
B: Too many Democrats saying, behind the scenes, "You want to fuck us even MORE? Stay away from that!"
Take away either of those and we'd have had open attacks on the 2nd Amendment. As is, he's stuck with letting Holder talk about a new 'assault weapon' ban(maybe as a feeler, and didn't like what he felt) and pushing for federal judges and Supremes nominees who don't like the 2nd. And, I'm convinced at this point, making the 'under the radar' attack that we know as Gunwalker. That last tells us a lot about him and his minions(or handlers in some cases?): they were willing to violate US laws, subvert a number of LE agencies, to hand weapons to the murderers of the cartels in order to further their political aim. To let bodies pile up 'for the greater good'. And now they're all lying under oath and- I don't doubt- trying to destroy or cover-up evidence.
I keep coming back to that comment he made in Ohio, "I'm not going to take your guns away! Even if I wanted to, I don't have the votes!" and the attitude behind it. Obama isn't openly pushing for more anti-gun-ownership laws because it'd destroy any chance of reelection, and he knows he won't get them; otherwise he'd be out there talking about 'for our communities', 'for the safety of our children', etc.
A: He used up an ENORMOUS amount of political capital in shoving Obamacare through, so he didn't have it to use for other things, and
B: Too many Democrats saying, behind the scenes, "You want to fuck us even MORE? Stay away from that!"
Take away either of those and we'd have had open attacks on the 2nd Amendment. As is, he's stuck with letting Holder talk about a new 'assault weapon' ban(maybe as a feeler, and didn't like what he felt) and pushing for federal judges and Supremes nominees who don't like the 2nd. And, I'm convinced at this point, making the 'under the radar' attack that we know as Gunwalker. That last tells us a lot about him and his minions(or handlers in some cases?): they were willing to violate US laws, subvert a number of LE agencies, to hand weapons to the murderers of the cartels in order to further their political aim. To let bodies pile up 'for the greater good'. And now they're all lying under oath and- I don't doubt- trying to destroy or cover-up evidence.
I keep coming back to that comment he made in Ohio, "I'm not going to take your guns away! Even if I wanted to, I don't have the votes!" and the attitude behind it. Obama isn't openly pushing for more anti-gun-ownership laws because it'd destroy any chance of reelection, and he knows he won't get them; otherwise he'd be out there talking about 'for our communities', 'for the safety of our children', etc.
Tam writes about listening to Maddow,
and in comments some whacks at Rush Limbaugh, which included the 'attack on Chelsea Clinton' bit. On that, my understanding is that when he had a tv show, one episode he mentioned a news story about CC and oen of the staff flashed up a picture of a dog instead of the girl. He chewed them out, and apologized. A while later was at a party Hillary Clinton also attended, looked her up and apologized again. Not exactly the same as the attacks on Bushs' daughters and such.
Not apologizing for him. Nobody needs to: with his problems he still starts off at a more honest level than clowns like Maddow: he says up front "This show is about me telling you what I think about things", as opposed to Maddow and Tingles Matthews & Co. claiming to be unbiased journalists.
Still tend to listen to him, partly out of habit. When he first came on the air in this area gave him a try and got hooked. Partly the humor, partly the commentary, in big part because- in those pre-internet(for lots of people) and pre-new media days- he reported on lots of information that didn't make the nightly news. All those stories that sounded like something was missing? Or that you flat KNEW were full of crap? He threw in the information journalists* like Rather left out, or talked around(because you didn't need to know that, they thought); for which they hated his guts and for which lots of people listened.
Can be annoying at times, and far from perfect; but a big step above a lot of the clowns at MSNBC and CNN and CBS in some ways.
Not apologizing for him. Nobody needs to: with his problems he still starts off at a more honest level than clowns like Maddow: he says up front "This show is about me telling you what I think about things", as opposed to Maddow and Tingles Matthews & Co. claiming to be unbiased journalists.
Still tend to listen to him, partly out of habit. When he first came on the air in this area gave him a try and got hooked. Partly the humor, partly the commentary, in big part because- in those pre-internet(for lots of people) and pre-new media days- he reported on lots of information that didn't make the nightly news. All those stories that sounded like something was missing? Or that you flat KNEW were full of crap? He threw in the information journalists* like Rather left out, or talked around(because you didn't need to know that, they thought); for which they hated his guts and for which lots of people listened.
Can be annoying at times, and far from perfect; but a big step above a lot of the clowns at MSNBC and CNN and CBS in some ways.
Saturday, December 03, 2011
Gen. Napier, Britain needs you now
More than 2,800 so-called honour attacks - punishments for bringing shame on the family - were recorded by Britain's police last year, according to figures released yesterday.
At least 2,823 incidents of "honour-based" violence took place, with the highest number recorded in London, the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation (IKWRO) found.
The figures were compiled from 39 out of the 52 British police forces. The others were unwilling or unable to provide data. Eight areas recorded at least 100 incidents, the figures showed.
The attacks included murder, mutilation, beatings, abduction and acid attacks.
Compared with 2009 figures released by 12 police forces, there was a 47 per cent rise in incidents.
And what horrible acts could be seen as justification for this?
Things considered dishonourable include having a boyfriend, being a rape victim, refusing an arranged marriage, being gay and in some cases wearing make-up or inappropriate dress.
Fucking wonderful people, aren't they? If somebody raped my daughter I'd be looking to hang the bastard, not blame her.
Oh, and take note of the delicate wording:
Honour crimes mostly happen in South Asian, eastern European and Middle Eastern communities, she said.
Because saying "This mostly happens in muslim communities" isn't allowed; insensitive and all, y'know...
(if you're not familiar with Napier,
A story for which Napier is often noted involved Hindu priests complaining to him about the prohibition of Sati by British authorities. This was the custom of burning a widow alive on the funeral pyre of her husband. As first recounted by his brother William, he replied:
"Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.")
At least 2,823 incidents of "honour-based" violence took place, with the highest number recorded in London, the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation (IKWRO) found.
The figures were compiled from 39 out of the 52 British police forces. The others were unwilling or unable to provide data. Eight areas recorded at least 100 incidents, the figures showed.
The attacks included murder, mutilation, beatings, abduction and acid attacks.
Compared with 2009 figures released by 12 police forces, there was a 47 per cent rise in incidents.
And what horrible acts could be seen as justification for this?
Things considered dishonourable include having a boyfriend, being a rape victim, refusing an arranged marriage, being gay and in some cases wearing make-up or inappropriate dress.
Fucking wonderful people, aren't they? If somebody raped my daughter I'd be looking to hang the bastard, not blame her.
Oh, and take note of the delicate wording:
Honour crimes mostly happen in South Asian, eastern European and Middle Eastern communities, she said.
Because saying "This mostly happens in muslim communities" isn't allowed; insensitive and all, y'know...
(if you're not familiar with Napier,
A story for which Napier is often noted involved Hindu priests complaining to him about the prohibition of Sati by British authorities. This was the custom of burning a widow alive on the funeral pyre of her husband. As first recounted by his brother William, he replied:
"Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.")
And, connected with the previous Holder post,
even NPR is getting in on Gunwalker now(here's the direct NPR link).
Deputy Attorney General Jim Cole sent nearly 1,400 pages of emails and other documents to Capitol Hill late Friday afternoon that lay bare the raw and sometimes cringe-worthy process by which the letter was drafted. The materials contain clues into how misleading information about the botched gun trafficking operation made it into a Feb. 4, 2011 letter to Congress that department leaders have since acknowledged was false. . .
Here are a few of the new disclosures contained in the documents:
— The basis for the inaccurate statements in the letter appears to have originated among people in the U.S. Attorney's office in Arizona and among ATF officials earlier this year, according to the new letter to Congress. Notes taken by a Justice Department legislative affairs person who helped prepare a response to Congress include statements that found their way into the faulty Feb. 4 letter, including: "ATF doesn't let guns walk" and "we always try to interdict weapons purchased illegally." Also at the meeting were the ATF's top congressional liaison and a high level deputy named Billy Hoover. At other times, the U.S. Attorney's office in Arizona passed along inaccurate information about the length of the gun trafficking operation and the timing of when guns were purchased.
...
...Weinstein, who had served as a highly regarded prosecutor in Baltimore and New York for a decade before taking a political appointment at the Justice Department, already had come under scrutiny from Republican lawmakers. They say he had approved the use of wiretaps in the Obama administration's Fast and Furious operation and he should have dug deeper. The department has acknowledged that the operation sent as many as 2,000 weapons into Mexico but failed to follow them. Many of those guns later ended up at crime scenes on both sides of the border, including near the body of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010.
Justice officials say Weinstein relied on the ATF and the U.S. Attorney's Office in drafting the letter.(anybody else see a "It's Newell & Co. at fault, don't blame US!" theme?)
...
Former Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke, who resigned in August as the gun trafficking scandal intensified, repeatedly urged Justice officials in Washington to "push back" against "categorical falsehoods" coming from whistleblowers inside the ATF and from members of Congress. Burke also had some choice words for Sen. Grassley's staff, which he said were "acting as willing stooges for the Gun Lobby" and "lobbing this reckless despicable accusation" about ATF. In another message, he tells a colleague that the congressional accusations are "among the lowest acts I have ever seen in politics." Burke may have been relying on aides in his office, who more closely supervised the day to day activities of the ATF in the gun trafficking operation.
"Dennis Burke is a standup guy. He provided what he believed to be accurate information to the Department of Justice, as he always does," said Chuck Rosenberg, an attorney for Burke.(Ok, we have the Evil Gun Lobby controlling things plus "Blame the aides! They didn't get him all the information!!" I wonder if that's also going to be the excuse somehow for Burke attacking a whistleblower?)
...
And, of course,
“Weinstein has expressed to me that, in hindsight, he wishes he had not relied on those assertions and that, because he did rely so heavily on them, he viewed, incorrectly, the misguided tactics used in Operation Wide Receiver — which resulted in the ATF losing control of guns that then crossed the border into Mexico — as having no relation to the allegations that were being made about Operation Fast and Furious,” Breuer said today in a written statement to Congressional investigators.
"BUSH STARTED IT!!!"
Reading some of this, some of these clowns(Weinstein, possibly) weren't aware of all of the crap; but most of them damn sure were; they KNEW, and they lied, and they're still lying and breaking other laws.
If you can go to Sipsey, he's got links interspersed with the post that cover other media reports and blog posts on this mess overall and some of the people involved.
Deputy Attorney General Jim Cole sent nearly 1,400 pages of emails and other documents to Capitol Hill late Friday afternoon that lay bare the raw and sometimes cringe-worthy process by which the letter was drafted. The materials contain clues into how misleading information about the botched gun trafficking operation made it into a Feb. 4, 2011 letter to Congress that department leaders have since acknowledged was false. . .
Here are a few of the new disclosures contained in the documents:
— The basis for the inaccurate statements in the letter appears to have originated among people in the U.S. Attorney's office in Arizona and among ATF officials earlier this year, according to the new letter to Congress. Notes taken by a Justice Department legislative affairs person who helped prepare a response to Congress include statements that found their way into the faulty Feb. 4 letter, including: "ATF doesn't let guns walk" and "we always try to interdict weapons purchased illegally." Also at the meeting were the ATF's top congressional liaison and a high level deputy named Billy Hoover. At other times, the U.S. Attorney's office in Arizona passed along inaccurate information about the length of the gun trafficking operation and the timing of when guns were purchased.
...
...Weinstein, who had served as a highly regarded prosecutor in Baltimore and New York for a decade before taking a political appointment at the Justice Department, already had come under scrutiny from Republican lawmakers. They say he had approved the use of wiretaps in the Obama administration's Fast and Furious operation and he should have dug deeper. The department has acknowledged that the operation sent as many as 2,000 weapons into Mexico but failed to follow them. Many of those guns later ended up at crime scenes on both sides of the border, including near the body of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010.
Justice officials say Weinstein relied on the ATF and the U.S. Attorney's Office in drafting the letter.(anybody else see a "It's Newell & Co. at fault, don't blame US!" theme?)
...
Former Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke, who resigned in August as the gun trafficking scandal intensified, repeatedly urged Justice officials in Washington to "push back" against "categorical falsehoods" coming from whistleblowers inside the ATF and from members of Congress. Burke also had some choice words for Sen. Grassley's staff, which he said were "acting as willing stooges for the Gun Lobby" and "lobbing this reckless despicable accusation" about ATF. In another message, he tells a colleague that the congressional accusations are "among the lowest acts I have ever seen in politics." Burke may have been relying on aides in his office, who more closely supervised the day to day activities of the ATF in the gun trafficking operation.
"Dennis Burke is a standup guy. He provided what he believed to be accurate information to the Department of Justice, as he always does," said Chuck Rosenberg, an attorney for Burke.(Ok, we have the Evil Gun Lobby controlling things plus "Blame the aides! They didn't get him all the information!!" I wonder if that's also going to be the excuse somehow for Burke attacking a whistleblower?)
...
And, of course,
“Weinstein has expressed to me that, in hindsight, he wishes he had not relied on those assertions and that, because he did rely so heavily on them, he viewed, incorrectly, the misguided tactics used in Operation Wide Receiver — which resulted in the ATF losing control of guns that then crossed the border into Mexico — as having no relation to the allegations that were being made about Operation Fast and Furious,” Breuer said today in a written statement to Congressional investigators.
"BUSH STARTED IT!!!"
Reading some of this, some of these clowns(Weinstein, possibly) weren't aware of all of the crap; but most of them damn sure were; they KNEW, and they lied, and they're still lying and breaking other laws.
If you can go to Sipsey, he's got links interspersed with the post that cover other media reports and blog posts on this mess overall and some of the people involved.
I tend to forget about Holder's part in another coverup
of an apparent crime committed by federal personnel:
In the letter, Trentadue told the chair of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee the following:
In the letter, Trentadue told the chair of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee the following:
You need to know that Eric Holder, now nominated to become Attorney General, played a key role in covering up the torture-murder of my brother, Kenneth Michael Trentadue. You also need to know that Mr. Holder did this while serving as Deputy Attorney General and Acting Attorney General from 1997-2001.
...
The paper trail on Mr. Holder’s actions is scant. However, e-mails and handwritten notes by those working under Mr. Holder in the Justice Department have surfaced. These documents paint a clear picture of a wide-ranging and cynical scheme, run directly by Mr. Holder, to quash my family’s efforts to have my brother’s murder investigated, and to deflect congressional oversight and media attention from the shocking circumstances of his death.
According to these documents, a significant part of this plan involved Mr. Holder convincing Congress not to inquire into my brother’s murder. The plan called for Mr. Holder to meet with Senator Hatch on October 9, 1997, just prior to the Justice Department’s issuance of a Press Release announcing that the federal grand jury supposedly “investigating” my brother’s murder had failed to charge anyone with this crime.
The stated purpose of this meeting between Mr. Holder and Senator Hatch was to defuse Judiciary Committee oversight and media inquiry into the circumstances of my brother’s death. In fact, one e-mail states that “we ain’t looking for press on this. Hill takes priority.”
But that meeting apparently did not go as planned by Mr. Holder, because the next day, October 10, 1997, Senator Hatch gave an exclusive interview to Fox News in which he spoke out against the results of the grand jury and the Justice Department’s handling of the case.
Let's see, TSA idiocy and bad behavior or one of Obama's appointees blaming Jews:
Which to start with... Ok, I'll go with the Fast Food Rejects with Police Powers:
When Zimmerman reached a security checkpoint, she asked if she could forgo the advanced image technology screening equipment, fearing it might interfere with her defibrillator.
She said she normally gets patted down. But this time, she says that two female agents escorted her to a private room and began to remove her clothes.
“I was outraged,” said Zimmerman, a retired receptionist.
As she tried to lift a lightweight walker off her lap, she says, the metal bars banged against her leg and blood trickled from a gash.
“My sock was soaked with blood,” she said. “I was bleeding like a pig.”
But the TSA assures us that Procedures Were Followed, We Care For Your Dignity, etc.
You want further reason why Israel doesn't trust Obama? And why some liberal Jews here are getting fed up?
“A distinction should be made between traditional anti-Semitism, which should be condemned and Muslim hatred for Jews, which stems from the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians,” Gutman reportedly said, according to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. “He also argued that an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty will significantly diminish Muslim anti-Semitism.”
According to the account in the Israeli paper, “The legal experts at the event were visibly stunned by Gutman’s words, and the next speaker offered a scathing rebuttal to the envoy’s remarks.”
Gutman was a major fundraiser for President Obama’s 2008 election campaign. He bundled $500,000 for Obama, according to OpenSecrets.org, personally giving at least $2,300 to the campaign.
And Obama made him ambassador to Belgium, where he can say crap like this.
Added:
Earlier, Gutman also presented participants with a short video clip showing him received with warm applause at a Muslim school in Brussels. While he did not mention what prompted the warm reception, his message was that this is the kind of welcome given to a Jew who supports President Obama’s policy of openness to Islam.
Approached by Yedioth Ahronoth, the US envoy was asked whether Obama’s policy did not cause America to lose its influence in the region. Gutman responded by saying that the Arab world appreciates Obama following his speech in Cairo, referring to an address delivered by the president in 2009.
When Zimmerman reached a security checkpoint, she asked if she could forgo the advanced image technology screening equipment, fearing it might interfere with her defibrillator.
She said she normally gets patted down. But this time, she says that two female agents escorted her to a private room and began to remove her clothes.
“I was outraged,” said Zimmerman, a retired receptionist.
As she tried to lift a lightweight walker off her lap, she says, the metal bars banged against her leg and blood trickled from a gash.
“My sock was soaked with blood,” she said. “I was bleeding like a pig.”
But the TSA assures us that Procedures Were Followed, We Care For Your Dignity, etc.
You want further reason why Israel doesn't trust Obama? And why some liberal Jews here are getting fed up?
“A distinction should be made between traditional anti-Semitism, which should be condemned and Muslim hatred for Jews, which stems from the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians,” Gutman reportedly said, according to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. “He also argued that an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty will significantly diminish Muslim anti-Semitism.”
According to the account in the Israeli paper, “The legal experts at the event were visibly stunned by Gutman’s words, and the next speaker offered a scathing rebuttal to the envoy’s remarks.”
Gutman was a major fundraiser for President Obama’s 2008 election campaign. He bundled $500,000 for Obama, according to OpenSecrets.org, personally giving at least $2,300 to the campaign.
And Obama made him ambassador to Belgium, where he can say crap like this.
Added:
Earlier, Gutman also presented participants with a short video clip showing him received with warm applause at a Muslim school in Brussels. While he did not mention what prompted the warm reception, his message was that this is the kind of welcome given to a Jew who supports President Obama’s policy of openness to Islam.
Approached by Yedioth Ahronoth, the US envoy was asked whether Obama’s policy did not cause America to lose its influence in the region. Gutman responded by saying that the Arab world appreciates Obama following his speech in Cairo, referring to an address delivered by the president in 2009.
Friday, December 02, 2011
If you're thinking of acquiring a Crimson Trace for your piece,
they've got a discount right now.
If you're not familiar with revolvers, a pretty good 'Do this/don't do THAT!' on the subject.
First found at Uncle, second here
If you're not familiar with revolvers, a pretty good 'Do this/don't do THAT!' on the subject.
First found at Uncle, second here
When a piece of 'gun nuts' whining hits the second paragraph
like this:
Though he had said nothing about gun control in the campaign*, Obama, to a certain kind of person, appeared to be a grave threat to the Second Amendment. He was urban — Chicago, not the kind of place where a man could shoot a coyote with a laser-sighted Ruger while on his daily jog, as Gov. Rick Perry claims to have done. He was professorial, with scholastic braising at that home of confiscatory consensus, Harvard. And he’d made that statement about rural people clinging to guns and religion.
you pretty much know exactly what's coming. It's as if his pre-White House 'Ban this, license that, restrict everything else' record doesn't exist. Oh, and Gunwalker started under BOOOOSH!, and this was done the same way but we let BOOOOSH! get away with it, and it really was just a flawed LE action, and... etc.
*My note: he also seems to have forgotten that "Even if I wanted to take your guns away, I don't have the votes!" line; we haven't. Nor what it means.
Though he had said nothing about gun control in the campaign*, Obama, to a certain kind of person, appeared to be a grave threat to the Second Amendment. He was urban — Chicago, not the kind of place where a man could shoot a coyote with a laser-sighted Ruger while on his daily jog, as Gov. Rick Perry claims to have done. He was professorial, with scholastic braising at that home of confiscatory consensus, Harvard. And he’d made that statement about rural people clinging to guns and religion.
you pretty much know exactly what's coming. It's as if his pre-White House 'Ban this, license that, restrict everything else' record doesn't exist. Oh, and Gunwalker started under BOOOOSH!, and this was done the same way but we let BOOOOSH! get away with it, and it really was just a flawed LE action, and... etc.
*My note: he also seems to have forgotten that "Even if I wanted to take your guns away, I don't have the votes!" line; we haven't. Nor what it means.
Ah, a Friday afternoon Gunwalker document dump!
Just found these links at Drudge, haven't had time to read them yet:
The Justice Department on Friday provided Congress with documents detailing how department officials gave inaccurate information (as in LIED)to a U.S. senator in the controversy surrounding Operation Fast and Furious, the flawed law enforcement initiative aimed at dismantling major arms trafficking networks on the Southwest border.
The Justice Department released documents today detailing how officials prepared a Feb. 4 letter to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that Attorney General Eric Holder has since admitted contained false information about Operation Fast and Furious, a botched gun operation under investigation by Congress.
In a letter last February to Charles Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Justice Department said that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had not sanctioned the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser and that the agency makes every effort to intercept weapons that have been purchased illegally. In connection with Operation Fast and Furious, both statements have turned out to be incorrect.
Anybody else get the feeling there's a bunch of "Ok, so we lied, but we're confessing in weasel-words now so you can't do anything to us!" ass-covering going on?
The Justice Department on Friday provided Congress with documents detailing how department officials gave inaccurate information (as in LIED)to a U.S. senator in the controversy surrounding Operation Fast and Furious, the flawed law enforcement initiative aimed at dismantling major arms trafficking networks on the Southwest border.
The Justice Department released documents today detailing how officials prepared a Feb. 4 letter to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that Attorney General Eric Holder has since admitted contained false information about Operation Fast and Furious, a botched gun operation under investigation by Congress.
In a letter last February to Charles Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Justice Department said that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had not sanctioned the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser and that the agency makes every effort to intercept weapons that have been purchased illegally. In connection with Operation Fast and Furious, both statements have turned out to be incorrect.
Anybody else get the feeling there's a bunch of "Ok, so we lied, but we're confessing in weasel-words now so you can't do anything to us!" ass-covering going on?
Once again: Holder & Napolitano lied under oath
And they're still lying. Along with a bunch of other ATF and FBI and DEA and DHS people, all of whom should be prosecuted for perjury.
And let it not be forgotten: Codrea and Vanderboegh are the ones who made sure this mess didn't fall down the DC memory hole.
And let it not be forgotten: Codrea and Vanderboegh are the ones who made sure this mess didn't fall down the DC memory hole.
Ilario Pantano cleared: and every sonofabitch in the Marine Corps and NCIS
involved in screwing this man over ought to be canned.
At the Dover morgue a year later, Mr. Rodriguez was troubled by all the murmuring of “guilty” he heard from investigators as he began to scrutinize the skeletons of Ali Hamaady Kareem and Tahah Ahmead Hanjil.
He also wondered why the Marine Corps lodged premeditated murder charges against Lt. Pantano without benefit of an autopsy of the two dead men — the chore he was now performing after the officer endured a grueling pretrial hearing.
“I think there was a rush to judgment,” Mr. Rodriguez, who retired last month, told The Washington Times.
“In a case like this, if I was charged with something, I would insist that the forensic evidence be looked at before I would be found guilty. They were looking at really going after him, making an example of him.
“People were kind of second-guessing the soldier in the field in a wartime situation. That to me, personally, upset me for people try to second-guess a soldier who’s in the field facing danger every day, not knowing who is their friend or foe.”
...
“When the remains arrived, I didn’t expect the large crowds of people to [be] present at the mortuary,” Mr. Rodriguez said. “Most were NCIS agents and various representatives of the Marines.
“Prior to the exams, there was much discussion concerning the case, talk of court-martial, prosecution and being guilty. The image that came to my mind … was that of a lynch mob: ‘Let’s make an example of him.’ “
Charles Gittins, the civilian lawyer who represented Mr. Pantano, said it is unusual for a military medical examiner to take on the high command.
“The medical examiner’s letter underscores the fact that [the] government proceeded to murder charges and the hearing without doing their homework,” he said. “For the medical examiner to contact Ilario Pantano demonstrates a concern the doctor had for the political ramifications for the case.”
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On May 12, 2005, a Marine hearing officer recommended that the Corps drop the murder charges. He said Mr. Pantano’s chief accuser was disgruntled over being demoted within the platoon and repeatedly changed his story.
No autopsy reports were submitted into evidence. Mr. Gittins said he was told that it was too dangerous for Navy investigators to try to exhume the bodies.
After the hearing verdict jolted and embarrassed the high command, things changed. The military won approval from the wives and village elders and dug up the remains.
And found the accuser lied. Repeatedly, and under oath. Which, if this so-called 'investigators' had done their friggin' jobs, would have been known a long time ago. Of course, that would have required the lawyers and politicians in uniform to be more concerned with FINDING THE FACTS instead of doing what they thought would make them popular with the 'right' people...
This kind of shit puts a really nasty stain on the Corps.
At the Dover morgue a year later, Mr. Rodriguez was troubled by all the murmuring of “guilty” he heard from investigators as he began to scrutinize the skeletons of Ali Hamaady Kareem and Tahah Ahmead Hanjil.
He also wondered why the Marine Corps lodged premeditated murder charges against Lt. Pantano without benefit of an autopsy of the two dead men — the chore he was now performing after the officer endured a grueling pretrial hearing.
“I think there was a rush to judgment,” Mr. Rodriguez, who retired last month, told The Washington Times.
“In a case like this, if I was charged with something, I would insist that the forensic evidence be looked at before I would be found guilty. They were looking at really going after him, making an example of him.
“People were kind of second-guessing the soldier in the field in a wartime situation. That to me, personally, upset me for people try to second-guess a soldier who’s in the field facing danger every day, not knowing who is their friend or foe.”
...
“When the remains arrived, I didn’t expect the large crowds of people to [be] present at the mortuary,” Mr. Rodriguez said. “Most were NCIS agents and various representatives of the Marines.
“Prior to the exams, there was much discussion concerning the case, talk of court-martial, prosecution and being guilty. The image that came to my mind … was that of a lynch mob: ‘Let’s make an example of him.’ “
Charles Gittins, the civilian lawyer who represented Mr. Pantano, said it is unusual for a military medical examiner to take on the high command.
“The medical examiner’s letter underscores the fact that [the] government proceeded to murder charges and the hearing without doing their homework,” he said. “For the medical examiner to contact Ilario Pantano demonstrates a concern the doctor had for the political ramifications for the case.”
...
On May 12, 2005, a Marine hearing officer recommended that the Corps drop the murder charges. He said Mr. Pantano’s chief accuser was disgruntled over being demoted within the platoon and repeatedly changed his story.
No autopsy reports were submitted into evidence. Mr. Gittins said he was told that it was too dangerous for Navy investigators to try to exhume the bodies.
After the hearing verdict jolted and embarrassed the high command, things changed. The military won approval from the wives and village elders and dug up the remains.
And found the accuser lied. Repeatedly, and under oath. Which, if this so-called 'investigators' had done their friggin' jobs, would have been known a long time ago. Of course, that would have required the lawyers and politicians in uniform to be more concerned with FINDING THE FACTS instead of doing what they thought would make them popular with the 'right' people...
This kind of shit puts a really nasty stain on the Corps.
Dallas Democratic State Representative Roberto Alonzo: you're full of crap
Brinsdon said she stood her ground by staying seated when first-year Spanish 3 teacher Reyna Santos assigned her class to stand and recite Mexico's pledge of allegiance.
Students stood with right arms straight out and palms down, which is how the school district says Mexicans say their pledge.
is NOT 'learning an aspect of what is Texas'. Unless you think reciting the Mexican pledge, while standing at attention, is; being a modern effing Democrat, you might well.
Speaking of modern Democrats,
“I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have,” Mayor Bloomberg said.
When politicians start referring to the police as 'my own army', that's a definite warning sign.
And I don't care that he changed his letter to 'R', he's still the nanny-state NSD he's always been.
"Every single thing that we care about is at stake in the next election," he told one donor group. "The very core of what this country stands for is on the line."
Yes, it is, you socialist bastard, just not in the way you mean.
I wonder: is there any limit to the idiocy of the Federalized Professionals of the TSA?
Probably not.
TSA isn't budging on the handbag, arguing the phony gun could be considered a "replica weapon." The TSA says "replica weapons have prohibited since 2002."
It's a rule that Vanessa feels can't be applied to a purse.
"Common sense," she said. "It's a purse, not a weapon."
'Common sense'? From the TSA?
Google: "Don't be evil. Unless it benefits us."
And from Tam, on the idea of government having a monopoly on force:
Students stood with right arms straight out and palms down, which is how the school district says Mexicans say their pledge.
is NOT 'learning an aspect of what is Texas'. Unless you think reciting the Mexican pledge, while standing at attention, is; being a modern effing Democrat, you might well.
Speaking of modern Democrats,
“I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have,” Mayor Bloomberg said.
When politicians start referring to the police as 'my own army', that's a definite warning sign.
And I don't care that he changed his letter to 'R', he's still the nanny-state NSD he's always been.
"Every single thing that we care about is at stake in the next election," he told one donor group. "The very core of what this country stands for is on the line."
Yes, it is, you socialist bastard, just not in the way you mean.
I wonder: is there any limit to the idiocy of the Federalized Professionals of the TSA?
Probably not.
TSA isn't budging on the handbag, arguing the phony gun could be considered a "replica weapon." The TSA says "replica weapons have prohibited since 2002."
It's a rule that Vanessa feels can't be applied to a purse.
"Common sense," she said. "It's a purse, not a weapon."
'Common sense'? From the TSA?
Google: "Don't be evil. Unless it benefits us."
And from Tam, on the idea of government having a monopoly on force:
Central governments have managed to turn murder from a hobby pursued at home by individual craftsmen into a wholesale industry churning out slipshod and substandard corpses in numbers that can’t be read without sounding like Carl Sagan.Even the worst serial killer has to operate at a retail level; you need uniforms and flags and stylish logos to go truly wholesale.
More 'We're Winning' and Sad Panda news
Gun dealers flooded the FBI with background check requests for prospective buyers last Friday, smashing the single-day, all-time high by 32%, according to bureau records.
Deputy Assistant FBI Director Jerry Pender said the checks, required by federal law, surged to 129,166 during the day, far surpassing the previous high of 97,848 on Black Friday of 2008.
The actual number of firearms sold last Friday is likely higher because multiple firearms can be included in a transaction by a single buyer. And the FBI does not track actual gun sales.
And what will make the pandas even sadder?
Some gun industry analysts attributed the unusual surge to a convergence of factors, including an increasing number of first-time buyers seeking firearms for protection and women who are being drawn to sport shooting and hunting.
Awww, hear the sad panda:
Dennis Henigan, acting president of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said he was "skeptical" of the Black Friday gun surge.
"I think there may be no real signifcance at all," Henigan said. "It's possible that gun companies are just catching on to creating a Black Friday frenzy for themselves."
Yeah, because everyone knows how the Triangle Of Death manipulates numbers before the FBI puts them out.
Deputy Assistant FBI Director Jerry Pender said the checks, required by federal law, surged to 129,166 during the day, far surpassing the previous high of 97,848 on Black Friday of 2008.
The actual number of firearms sold last Friday is likely higher because multiple firearms can be included in a transaction by a single buyer. And the FBI does not track actual gun sales.
And what will make the pandas even sadder?
Some gun industry analysts attributed the unusual surge to a convergence of factors, including an increasing number of first-time buyers seeking firearms for protection and women who are being drawn to sport shooting and hunting.
Awww, hear the sad panda:
Dennis Henigan, acting president of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said he was "skeptical" of the Black Friday gun surge.
"I think there may be no real signifcance at all," Henigan said. "It's possible that gun companies are just catching on to creating a Black Friday frenzy for themselves."
Yeah, because everyone knows how the Triangle Of Death manipulates numbers before the FBI puts them out.
So can this miserable bastard in a black robe
actually get some punishment? Probably not:
Blackwood said he was unaware of the extent of Baumgartner's criminal activity when, in March, he opted to place Baumgartner on judicial diversion for a single count of felony official misconduct. That decision not only allowed Baumgartner to avoid jail but to keep his pension.
Oh, of COURSE the clown in a black robe got this kind of consideration from another clown in a black robe. Nice to be connected, isn't it?
Blackwood said he was unaware of the extent of Baumgartner's criminal activity when, in March, he opted to place Baumgartner on judicial diversion for a single count of felony official misconduct. That decision not only allowed Baumgartner to avoid jail but to keep his pension.
Oh, of COURSE the clown in a black robe got this kind of consideration from another clown in a black robe. Nice to be connected, isn't it?
Thursday, December 01, 2011
To anyone familiar with Meprolight tritium sights
Friend had an idea: take a Meprolight tritium shotgun sight, like this one, and mount it on a semi-auto pistol to replace the original tiny blade. Seems like it should work; my question is, anyone know if the shock of being on a slide instead of a barrel would be a problem for it?
So the story was that Brian Terry was killed in a 'chance encounter';
then it may have been cartel killers looking for Border Patrol people; now, something else comes to light:
Sources now tell PJ Media that neither version of events is accurate: the rip crew was not waiting for a chance encounter with other illegals, nor did the members intend to engage American law enforcement agents.
The rip crew was in Peck Canyon that evening with the intention of stealing money and drugs from a specific shipment of which they had prior knowledge.
Sources claim the Department of Justice has been trying for almost a year to hide the key information — how the rip crew knew the shipment was coming through that night.
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The rip crew knew to be in Peck Canyon that December evening becau
se a CI working for the FBI found out about a smuggling run — from the FBI.
It is not clear if the information was provided intentionally, but a possible motivation for the FBI to provide the information is known to exist: the CI had previously lost a shipment of drugs, and wanted to regain the trust of the cartel with an offering of drugs or money. The other possibility is that the FBI mistakenly allowed the CI to discover the information.
The CI used this information to organize an ambush of the drug convoy. A source tells PJM that the FBI knew from wiretaps that the CI was using their information to set up an ambush.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) — through its own CIs and communications intercepts — was also aware of the planned assault.
Neither the DEA nor FBI warned Border Patrol about the expected criminal activity.
And isn't THAT just a fucking wonderful thing to find out? Gets even more thrilling:
...The existence of a third recovered gun, an SKS carbine, has been disputed by the FBI despite the fact it had been talked about openly in the beginning of the investigation among federal agents.
Multiple sources tell PJM that this third weapon “disappeared” because it was the weapon carried by the FBI CI who ran the rip crew. When it was recovered near the scene of the murder and subsequently traced by the ATF, it traced back to the FBI CI via the gun shop in Texas where it was purchased.
Not Phoenix, not even Arizona: TEXAS.
In this case, the FBI and DEA failed to deconflict. Neither agency bothered to warn Border Patrol to keep their BORTAC teams out of Peck Canyon that evening. As a direct result of this FBI and DEA failure — combined with Homeland Security forcing BORTAC units to carry less-lethal beanbag rounds in some of their primary weapons — Brian Terry’s under-armed four-man unit walked into an ambush against a heavily armed rip crew, at least five of whom were carrying rifles.
Brian Terry’s murder was entirely preventable. The incompetence of the DEA and FBI let his Border Patrol unit walk into an ambush. After the ambush, it appears the FBI tampered with evidence to cover up that one of their informants was involved with the murder of a federal agent.
God damn these people. They KNEW. And bloody Holder and Napolitano and Mueller and Obama ALL KNEW. And some of them have lied under oath about it, and continue to lie. And literally God only knows how many people are dead because of their plans.
Sources now tell PJ Media that neither version of events is accurate: the rip crew was not waiting for a chance encounter with other illegals, nor did the members intend to engage American law enforcement agents.
The rip crew was in Peck Canyon that evening with the intention of stealing money and drugs from a specific shipment of which they had prior knowledge.
Sources claim the Department of Justice has been trying for almost a year to hide the key information — how the rip crew knew the shipment was coming through that night.
...
The rip crew knew to be in Peck Canyon that December evening becau
se a CI working for the FBI found out about a smuggling run — from the FBI.It is not clear if the information was provided intentionally, but a possible motivation for the FBI to provide the information is known to exist: the CI had previously lost a shipment of drugs, and wanted to regain the trust of the cartel with an offering of drugs or money. The other possibility is that the FBI mistakenly allowed the CI to discover the information.
The CI used this information to organize an ambush of the drug convoy. A source tells PJM that the FBI knew from wiretaps that the CI was using their information to set up an ambush.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) — through its own CIs and communications intercepts — was also aware of the planned assault.
Neither the DEA nor FBI warned Border Patrol about the expected criminal activity.
And isn't THAT just a fucking wonderful thing to find out? Gets even more thrilling:
...The existence of a third recovered gun, an SKS carbine, has been disputed by the FBI despite the fact it had been talked about openly in the beginning of the investigation among federal agents.
Multiple sources tell PJM that this third weapon “disappeared” because it was the weapon carried by the FBI CI who ran the rip crew. When it was recovered near the scene of the murder and subsequently traced by the ATF, it traced back to the FBI CI via the gun shop in Texas where it was purchased.
Not Phoenix, not even Arizona: TEXAS.
In this case, the FBI and DEA failed to deconflict. Neither agency bothered to warn Border Patrol to keep their BORTAC teams out of Peck Canyon that evening. As a direct result of this FBI and DEA failure — combined with Homeland Security forcing BORTAC units to carry less-lethal beanbag rounds in some of their primary weapons — Brian Terry’s under-armed four-man unit walked into an ambush against a heavily armed rip crew, at least five of whom were carrying rifles.
Brian Terry’s murder was entirely preventable. The incompetence of the DEA and FBI let his Border Patrol unit walk into an ambush. After the ambush, it appears the FBI tampered with evidence to cover up that one of their informants was involved with the murder of a federal agent.
God damn these people. They KNEW. And bloody Holder and Napolitano and Mueller and Obama ALL KNEW. And some of them have lied under oath about it, and continue to lie. And literally God only knows how many people are dead because of their plans.
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