A Comprehensive List Of Obama’s Worst Executive Orders

A Comprehensive List Of Obama’s Worst Executive Orders 

 http://www.westernjournalism.com/a-comprehensive-list-of-obamas-worst-executive-orders/

Petraeus and Serdyukov: Cupids or Stupids?

Petraeus and Serdyukov: Cupids or Stupids?    
letter, found in the wastebasket at the World Bank yesterday??
CLIK HERE 4 page letter    http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?storyid=9812

Since the mainstream media has decided Petraeus-gate is more important than the U.S. fiscal cliff, the Greek collapse, or the brewing Sino-Japanese war, we thought we should let readers take a look at this Since the mainstream media has decided Petraeus-gate is more important than the U.S. fiscal cliff, the Greek collapse, or the brewing Sino-Japanese war, we thought we should let readers take a look at this letter, which our contributor David Apgar claims he found in the wastebasket of his mysterious Uzbek officemate at the World Bank yesterday. of his mysterious Uzbek officemate at the World Bank yesterday.

What We Don't Know About the Petraeus Scandal: Questions for the FBI

 Questions for the FBI    

 

The David Petraeus scandal has moved on to General John R. Allen, commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan and sender of 20,000 to 30,000 pages of apparently questionable emails to Jill Kelley, the second woman, along with Paula Broadwell, at the center of this crazy story. I am stuck, though, on how this whole investigation got started and how it proceeded. Questions for the FBI:

1) Why did Jill Kelley's complaint launch an investigation in the first place? She got a half-dozen or so anonymous emails that everyone is calling "harassing." But from what we know so far, the messages don't sound alarming or threatening. From a Daily Beast source: "More like, 'Who do you think you are? … You parade around the base … You need to take it down a notch.'" From the Wall Street Journal: "One asked if Ms. Kelley's husband was aware of her actions, according to officials. In another, the anonymous writer claimed to have watched Ms. Kelley touching 'him' provocatively underneath a table, the officials said."

That was seriously enough to get the FBI involved? My reporting on cyberbullying tells me that if Kelley had gone to the cops in any decent-sized city, they'd have told her politely not to worry about it. And that's as it should be: Without anything like an explicit threat—and without any direct reference whatsoever to Petraeus or anyone else in a sensitive position of power—why should law enforcement pry with so little reason to think a crime has been committed? Stalking and harassment are broad charges, sure, and that can cause problems. But those statutes shouldn't trigger an investigation based on so little evidence. We now know, of course, that the FBI agent Kelley complained to has been accused of sending shirtless photos of himself to her. He's now himself under investigation. If he got this all rolling to show off to Kelley or to court her, then that is the real scandal. Even if you don't know much J. Edgar Hoover history, you can see that this is not what the power of the FBI is for. Maybe there is more to justify the FBI's entry: I'd like to know what persuaded the cybercrimes unit Mr. Shirtless informed to take the next step.

2) Did the government get a warrant to search Paula Broadwell's email account? Conflicting reports on this one, as Julian Sanchez has noted. The Wall Street Journal says yes but Reuters says no: "The FBI investigation into the emails was fairly straightforward and did not require obtaining court orders to monitor the email accounts of those involved, including the personal email account of Petraeus." What? Yes, the FBI can read the emails Kelley turned over to them without a warrant. But to go snooping further, shouldn't investigators have to get one? This is not a legal nicety. Warrants are the basic constitutional check on the power of law enforcement and prosecutors to search and seize.

3) Once the FBI established that neither Broadwell nor Petraeus had committed a crime, why did they tell Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and the White House? This question comes from law professor Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy. I get that once the FBI found sexually explicit emails between Broadwell and Petraeus (given the potential for blackmailing the head of the CIA), the investigators had to press on. And when Broadwell gave them her computer and they found classified material on it, they had to determine whether it came from Petraeus. But then the Department of Justice reportedly concluded that no crime had been committed. And yet, as Orin writes.....    FOLLOW THE LINK FOR MORE    http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/11/13/fbi_investigation_of_david_petraeus_and_john_allen_did_the_fbi_have_a_good.html

Gen. David Petraeus CIA director

Gen. Petraeus    

Best interview about the book http://video.wttw.com/video/2191815578/

 

 

Another interview just after the book..

JUST IN :
       CIA director David Petraeus resigns      http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/11/09/paula-broadwell-david-petraeus-affair-2012/

Why good policy now matters

OUR Canada 20?? ... policy... Policy ...POLICY!

 
 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/canada-in-2060-why-good-policy-now-matters/article5150559/  
      
  OECD REPORT  2060 
 http://www.oecd.org/newsroom/balanceofeconomicpowerwillshiftdramaticallyoverthenext50yearssaysoecd.htm

19 Signs That America Is Being Systematically Transformed Into A Giant Surveillance Grid

19 Signs That America Is Being Systematically Transformed Into A Giant Surveillance Grid 
         http://theintelhub.com/2012/09/25/19-signs-that-america-is-being-systematically-transformed-into-a-giant-surveillance-grid/

  
note (sorry this article is rather long)

By Michael SnyderSept 25, 2012
You are being watched.  The control freaks that hold power in the United States have become absolutely obsessed with surveillance.
They are constantly attempting to convince the American people that we are all “safer” when virtually everything that we do is watched, monitored, tracked and recorded.
Our country is being systematically transformed into a giant surveillance grid far more comprehensive than anything George Orwell ever dreamed of.
If you still believe that there is such a thing as “privacy” in this day and age, you are being delusional.  Every single piece of electronic communication is monitored and stored.
In fact, they know that you are reading this article right now.  But even if you got rid of all of your electronic devices, you would still be constantly monitored.
As you will read about below, a rapidly growing nationwide network of facial recognition cameras, “pre-crime” surveillance devices, voice recorders, mobile backscatter vans, aerial drones and automated license plate readers are constantly feeding data about us back to the government.
In addition, private companies involved in “data mining” are gathering literally trillions upon trillions of data points about individual Americans each year.
So there is no escape from this surveillance grid.  In fact, it has become just about impossible to keep it from growing.  The surveillance grid is expanding in thousands of different ways, so even if you stopped one form of surveillance you would hardly make a dent in the astounding growth of this system.
What we desperately need is a fundamental cultural awakening to the importance of liberty, freedom and privacy.  Without such an awakening, the United States (along with the rest of the planet) is going to head into a world that will make “1984″ by George Orwell look like a cheery story about a Sunday picnic.
The following are 19 signs that America is being systematically transformed into a giant surveillance grid….
#1 New Software That Will Store And Analyze Millions Of Our Voices
Did you know that there is software that can positively identify you using your voice in just a matter of seconds?
Law enforcement authorities all over the U.S. are very eager to begin using new Russian software that will enable them to store and analyze millions of voices….
‘Voice Grid Nation’ is a system that uses advanced algorithms to match identities to voices. Brought to the US by Russia’s Speech Technology Center, it claims to be capable of allowing police, federal agencies and other law enforcement personnel to build up a huge database containing up to several million voices.
When authorities intercept a call they’ve deemed ‘hinky’, the recording is entered into the VoiceGrid program, which (probably) buzzes and whirrs and spits out a match. In five seconds, the program can scan through 10,000 voices, and it only needs 3 seconds for speech analysis. All that, combined with 100 simultaneous searches and the storage capacity of 2 million samples, gives SpeechPro, as the company is known in the US, the right to claim a 90% success rate.
#2 Unmanned Aerial Drones Will Be Used Inside

TO CONTINUE READING  clik the link at top of article

U.S. Leaders Cite Partnership as Key to Cybersecurity

U.S. Leaders Cite Partnership as Key to Cybersecurity

http://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/ic-in-the-news/187-ic-in-the-news-2012/732-u-s-leaders-cite-partnership-as-key-to-cybersecurity

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October. 2, 2012

By Cheryl Pellerin
American Forces Press Service

As the cyber threat intensifies over time from exploitation to disruption to destruction, responsible U.S. agencies and industries can fight back using cooperation and transparency, the commander of U.S. Cyber Command said here yesterday.

Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander, who also serves as director of the National Security Agency, was part of a panel on cybersecurity at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars.

“For the last 10 years, what we’ve seen on our networks has been essentially exploitation, [such as] theft of intellectual property and crime,” the general said. “Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen distributed denial-of-service attacks, so we’re seeing the threat grow from exploitation to … disruption, and my concern is it’s going to go from exploitation and disruption to destruction.”

He defined destruction as physical harm to computer devices on a network that would cause the networks to fail, or the loss of a significant amount of data that would impair the ability of a company -- a stock exchange or a power grid -- to operate.

“I believe that’s coming our way,” Alexander said. “We have to be out in front of this for a whole host of reasons. The Defense Department’s reason is that we depend on critical infrastructure to do our jobs. We depend on the power grid, [and] we depend on the Internet to operate.”

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Read the full article at Defense.gov.