Unfortunately, I often only have a short time in the early morning each day to post stories on this blog. Given the pressures of classes, litigation, and traveling, I will often miss typos or automatically “corrected” words that are errors. I apologize for those errors, but we have no staff or copy editors on this blog. We welcome any suggested corrections. Thanks again for your help and your understanding.
In Re: Needles in meat story. This seems to be a misfire:
“He was appropriated arrested by Special Agent Cook.”
Was that supposed to be “appropriately” or “apprehended,” or something else?
There was some artilce on here about Obumbo this morning and then it was pulled. Did someone sneak a faux article onto the blog?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2707733/Man-threatened-jail-cop-shot-dog-prevented-taking-bleeding-animal-treatment.html
Man ‘threatened with jail by cop who shot his dog and then prevented him from taking the bleeding animal for treatment’
Doctor, a nine-year-old German Shepherd, was accidentally shot in the jaw by a police officer on Thursday
The cop then refused to allow the owners to take their bleeding do to the vet and prevented them from leaving the neighborhood
Company tries to trademark ‘MH17’ just 24hrs after plane got shot down..
Perfect sociopaths.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/aviation/mh17-the-musical-mysterious-company-seeks-australian-trademark-20140724-zwapd.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/rieder/2014/07/14/fighting-obama-administrations-information-control/12628905/
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/11/the-ultimate-goal-of-the-nsa-is-total-population-control
The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control
At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US, says whistleblower William Binney – that’s a ‘totalitarian mentality’
(An important story, Bob, Esq. By the time people “get it”, it may well be too late.)
“Lunging “pit bull” fatally shot by Coeur d’Alene officer was a black lab”
http://www.krem.com/news/Pit-bull-fatally-shot-by-Coeur-dAlene-officer–266483721.html
For the Obama Administration Attacks on Press Freedoms file:
NSA chief knew of Snowden file destruction by Guardian in UK
Revelation contrasts markedly with White House efforts to distance itself from UK government pressure to destroy disks
July 11, 2014
General Keith Alexander, the then director of the NSA, was briefed that the Guardian was prepared to make a largely symbolic act of destroying documents from Edward Snowden last July, new documents reveal.
The revelation that Alexander and Obama’s director of national intelligence, James Clapper, were advised on the Guardian’s destruction of several hard disks and laptops contrasts markedly with public White House statements that distanced the US from the decision.
White House and NSA emails obtained by Associated Press under freedom of information legislation demonstrate how pleased Alexander and his colleagues were with the developments. At times the correspondence takes a celebratory tone, with one official describing the anticipated destruction as “good news”.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/11/nsa-chief-knew-snowden-file-destruction-guardian-uk
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/world/americas/chilean-court-rules-us-had-role-in-murders.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
By PASCALE BONNEFOY
JUNE 30, 2014
SANTIAGO, Chile — The United States military intelligence services played a pivotal role in setting up the murders of two American citizens in 1973, providing the Chilean military with the information that led to their deaths, a court here has ruled.
The recent court decision found that an American naval officer, Ray E. Davis, alerted Chilean officials to the activities of two Americans, Charles Horman, 31, a filmmaker, and Frank Teruggi, 24, a student and an antiwar activist, which led to their arrests and executions.
The murders were part of an American-supported coup that ousted the leftist government of President Salvador Allende. The killing of the two men was portrayed in the 1982 film “Missing.”
The ruling by the judge, Jorge Zepeda, now establishes the involvement of American intelligence officials in providing information to their Chilean counterparts. He also charged a retired Chilean colonel, Pedro Espinoza, with the murders, and a civilian counterintelligence agent, Rafael González, as an accomplice in Mr. Horman’s murder.
The two men, along with Mr. Davis, were indicted in 2011. Mr. Davis, who died in 2013, was commander of the United States Military Group in Chile.
“The judge’s decision makes clear,” said Janis Teruggi Page, Mr. Teruggi’s sister, “that U.S. intelligence personnel who aided and abetted the Chilean military after the coup remain a co-conspirator in this horrible crime.”
The latest ruling concludes that Mr. Davis provided his Chilean liaison, Raúl Monsalve, a naval intelligence officer, with information on both Mr. Horman and Mr. Teruggi based on F.B.I. and other United States intelligence, compiled for an investigation into suspicions that the men were engaged in subversive activities. Mr. Monsalve, now dead, passed on this information to the Intelligence Department of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which ordered the men’s arrests.
The decision said the murders were part of “a secret United States information-gathering operation carried out by the U.S. Milgroup in Chile on the political activities of American citizens in the United States and in Chile.”
Sergio Corvalán, a lawyer for the families of the two slain men, said the ruling confirmed what the families had long believed.
“The Chilean military would not have acted against them on their own,” Mr. Corvalán said. “They didn’t have any particular interest in Horman or Teruggi, or evidence of any compromising political activity that would make them targets of Chilean intelligence agencies.”
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(And many/most Americans have no idea what’s going on domestically. Nor do many seem to care.)
Mr. Tuley, you have made no mistake! Would you PLEASE do a commentary on the DISMAL of GZ’s lawsuit against NBC?
THANKS!
“Before Shooting in Iraq, a Warning on Blackwater”
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/us/before-shooting-in-iraq-warning-on-blackwater.html?_r=1&referrer=
https://twitter.com/onekade/status/483440879924170752
For the more Nixonian than Nixon files…
IRS lost Lois Lerner’s emails in tea party probe
The IRS told congressional investigators Friday it cannot locate many of Lois Lerner’s emails prior to 2011 because her computer crashed that year. Lerner headed the IRS division that processed applications for tax-exempt status.
The IRS acknowledged last year that agents had improperly scrutinized applications for tax-exempt status by tea party and other conservative groups.
“The fact that I am just learning about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS’s response to congressional inquiries,” said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. “There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the inspector general.”
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-lost-lois-lerners-emails-in-tea-party-probe/
allison, people use this for story suggestions or tips also
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2655848/State-social-workers-say-Justina-Pelletier-DOES-belong-home.html
Victory for Justina’s parents? State social workers now say sick teen DOES belong at home
Justina Pelletier, 16, is currently in the custody of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families
But the state now believes she should be returned to her parents
The final decision rests with Judge Joseph Johnston who gave the state permanent custody of Justina Pelletier in March
The teen was taken away last year when when her parents’ decisions concerning her health care were questioned
The Pelletiers had been paying for her treatment for a rare genetic disorder at Tufts University, before they submitted her for evaluation at Boston Children’s Hospital
However, Boston Children’s Hospital doctors gave her a different diagnosis, saying she suffered from a psychological disorder
Justina has since been kept from her parents and is currently living at a residential medical center in Connecticut
Seriously. All these for a simple article on ‘corrections’ for mistakes? Seriously?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2650852/Boy-7-expelled-telling-teacher-accidentally-brought-toy-gun-school.html
Boy, seven, may be expelled after telling teacher he accidentally brought toy gun to school
Making things even more precarious for people like Clinton is that younger people have particularly rallied to the side of Snowden as a whistleblower).
people like Kerry?
However, as I have testified in Congress, the whistleblower system referred to by Clinton is a colossal joke.
might read: the whistleblower system [alluded to] by Kerry…
“Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Kerry To Snowden: “Man Up and Come Back to the United States.”
While President Obama implausible claimed
SR: implausibly
This Administration has continued to use of secret legal opinions and secret evidence in cases.
SR: continued the use
First, as Clinton must know (but did not mention), there are exceptions under the whistleblower laws for national security information
SR: as Kerry must know (but did not mention)
I noticed that you used a lot of material from your “Clinton Finds it Odd” piece from a month ago. (I just read it today) Are you working on another national column focusing on Washington’s hypocrisy regarding Snowden and whistleblowers in general?
Thanks Bob.
In the “Texas Teen Faces Five To Life” the following sentence occurs:-
“Lavoro was also found with 145 hash oil.”
I suspect you meant “grams” to follow “hash oil”.