[MSN] The Justice Department unsealed a fresh indictment Tuesday charging eight current and former Navy officials -- including an admiral -- with corruption and other crimes in the "Fat Leonard" bribery case, escalating an epic scandal that has dogged the Navy for the past four years.
Among those charged were Rear Adm. Bruce Loveless, a senior Navy intelligence officer based at the Pentagon, several Navy captains and a retired colonel from the Marine Corps. The charges cover a period of eight years, from 2006 through 2014. Sadly, there is much more.
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...If found guilty, those O6s and 07s need to do hard time at Leavenworth, in addition to losing all the bennies. That will get people's attention.
Mike
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Regarding the Admiral, Bruce Loveless: I work with a woman who was in his class at Annapolis. She said he has been working at the Pentagon for three years WITHOUT A CLEARANCE!
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Regarding the Admiral, Bruce Loveless: I work with a woman who was in his class at Annapolis. She said he has been working at the Pentagon for three years WITHOUT A CLEARANCE!
Which means he's been assigned to 'F Troop' (probably Pentagon off-site location in Crystal City) pending the outcome of an investigation, enjoying full pay and allowances. Obviously the investigation has been ongoing, but now culminating under a Republican administration.
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Loveless has been working in a supervisory position in naval intel over people who are not allowed to show him things because he had his clearances pulled.
No $hit.
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While I welcome this development, I cannot fathom how much our national security was compromised during HRC's time as SoS. It blows my mind that her mealy-mouth non-excuses have thus far allowed her and every single soul associated with that time to evade charges.
[AlAhram] Eni expects the first gas to start flowing from Zohr by the end of 2017
A bigwig with Italia's oil and gas company Eni says the discovery of a huge natural gas deposit in Egyptian waters has boosted hopes of other such finds in the eastern Mediterranean that could help meet Europe's energy needs.
Eni Chief Exploration Officer Luca Bertelli told a gas conference Tuesday that his company's "milestone" discovery of Zohr, estimated to hold 30 trillion cubic feet of gas, has reinvigorated the interest of other major oil and gas companies in the region.
He said waters off Cyprus hold potential for new discoveries while exploration opportunities are coming up with Leb and Israel soon offering offshore areas, or blocks, to bidders for exploration licensing.
Bertelli said Eni expects the first gas to start flowing from Zohr by the end of 2017.
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The Med near Syria is a tight box of overlapping claims with Turkey, puppet North Cyprus, Cyprus, Syria, and Lebanon. Is part of Turkey's plays in Cyprus and N. Syria to leverage a bigger slice of the offshore pie?
[Defensetech] The U.S. has increasing security concerns about China’s first overseas military base close to the hub of operations for U.S. Africa Command in Djibouti, a U.S. commander told Congress Thursday.
Marine Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, commander of AfriCom, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he expected the Chinese base on the Horn of Africa to be operational later this summer.
Without getting specific, Waldhauser said he recently met with Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh "and expressed our concerns about some of the things that are important to us about what the Chinese should not do at that location."
The Chinese base would be about four miles from the U.S. base at Camp Lemonnier, one of the Pentagon’s largest and most important foreign military installations, where about 3,000 U.S. military personnel and contractors are assigned to Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa.
Camp Lemonnier is also home to Special Operations Command (Forward) ‐ East Africa, which has carried out operations against Al Shabab militants in Somalia and the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula group in Yemen.
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A Jew in Djibouti one Christmas,
Enjoying a new Chinese business,
Encountered his chaplain.
"Verklempt, eh?" asked Kaplan.
"No, kafir, it's just my strabismus."
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Me too. A couple of the ancestors (not Jews but sharpies from polyglot environment who picked up whatever they heard) spoke some, but I rarely saw them. Pidgin German and old records usually gets me the gist, but yeah, it'd be fun to do it for real. The catch has always been that crazy alphabet. And laziness. Maybe it's time.
[MAXIM] Next time you pass by a sexy stranger, rather than imagining her identity or fanciful ideas of your future life together, simply snap her photo and track down her Facebook. Hey, it's not creepy or invasive at all! Requires annual (15 April) updating. Use Form 4868 if an extension is required.
A new app developed by British entrepreneur Jack Kenyon called "Facezam" is seeking to become the Shazam of faces. While the latter lets you identify music you like through audio recognition, Facezam matches your photos of strangers with their Facebook accounts.
It works scanning billions of Facebook profile shots by second and can reportedly match up with the right out in just 10 seconds and with 70 percent accuracy. "He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead." Revelation 13:16
The technology could help reduce crime by making everyone identifiable, Kenyon had claimed, adding that the public implications of the app couldn't be predicted. "There may be a mix of positives and negatives," he said.
The Biometric Automated Toolset (BAT) and the Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIIDE) system also are used in Iraq and Afghanistan. Link
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It is creepy and invasive and borders on or is stalking. "You don't know me but I took your picture in a crowd, looked you up on Facebook, and tracked you down. Do you want to go out?"
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#3 Time to buy that paste on groucho mustache and ugly pair of sun glasses...
Was playing the other day with a neural network to recognize images. Got me wondering about using bold streaks of face paint to defeat facial recognition. Rather like dazzle camouflage for ships back before radar became The Next Big Thing.
Indonesia has transferred a convicted US citizen to its so-called execution island, prompting fears among rights organisations that the government may be preparing another round of firing squads.
Human Rights Watch said Frank Amado, who faces the death penalty for drug trafficking, had been moved to facilities on Nusa Kambangan island, the site of previous recent executions.
It's not how I'd handle drug traffickers but how many such folk don't understand how serious Indonesia (and Singapore) is?
Indonesian press is reporting six other foreign nationals on death row may have moved along with him, including Chen Weibiao, Xiao Jin Zeng and Lo Tin Yau, from China; Malaysian citizen E Wee Hock; Frank Nwaomeka from Nigeria; and Lai Siu Cheung Anika, from Hong Kong.
No US citizen has ever been executed by the Indonesian government.
“This is a worrying development. But we can’t be entirely certain if these transfers are part of preparations for new executions, due to the lack of transparency that is just one of many problems with Indonesia’s penal system,” said Ricky Gunawan, director of the Community Legal Aid Institute, an organisation in Jakarta that has worked with Human Rights Watch to monitor Amado’s case.
“The most recent executions were preceded by transfers to Nusa Kambangan, which is often called execution island here, but the government also sometimes moves prisoners there for other reasons.
“There are serious irregularities in Indonesia’s death penalty system and we call for a halt to this round of executions with a view to implementing a new moratorium and then abolition.”
After a halt on executions between 2009 and 2012, Indonesia has carried out three rounds of executions, the last of which took place in July 2016. Four of 14 death row prisoners were executed, and legal experts in the country are still unsure why the other 10 had their deaths postponed.
Human Rights Watch and Gunawan say Amado technically has one more appeal round available to him, but that in the past the Indonesian government has carried out the death sentence in similar situations.
These two groups are not working closely with the other death row prisoners reportedly transferred recently, but like many international organisations they call for a stop to all executions in the country.
Amado has said in previous interviews that he was involved in the storing of shabu, a local name for a drug similar to crystal meth, but that since his arrest in 2009, he has seen that the Indonesian justice system is marked by abuse and corruption.
In 2011, US government representatives said they would not intervene in the case.
Neither the US embassy in Jakarta nor the Indonesian attorney general’s office immediately responded to requests for comment.
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Does a US Citizenship exempt one from the laws of a sovereign nation? I think not.
Little different than the AFG sex trafficers in the UK. Hang'em high.
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Not surprised the State Department washed their hands of him. Doesn't matter if he's innocent, they HATE dealing with American citizens abroad. Hate our guts.
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It's not how I'd handle drug traffickers but how many such folk don't understand how serious Indonesia (and Singapore) is?
Nasty old no-talent Charlie Daniels cheer-leads for exactly this approach. Lots of his fans nod their heads in agreement in between binges on granmama's oxy pills...
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Frank Amado's case will make a very good episode on "Locked Up Abroad" on NatGeo. No happy endings for this one.
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Cry me a river.
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Not all "Franks" are great guys....
ask my ex
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h/t Instapundit
As the northeastern U.S. gets pummeled by Winter Storm Stella, it’s worth remembering The New York Times published an op-ed predicting the "end of snow" more than three years ago. Newspaper of Record
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That's why they now call it "climate change" instead of the old "global warming". C'mon, you guys. Try to keep up.
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If you make enough outlandish predictions, you will eventually get one right and can tell everyone "I told you so!". For sufficiently large values of 'eventually.
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I recall in the 1970's that the so called 'climatologists' were screaming and hollering about how "we're all gonna freeze!" due to temperature dropping world wide.
[Free Beacon] A group of leading senators is calling on newly installed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to immediately launch an investigation into efforts by the Obama administration to sway foreign elections by sending taxpayer funds to "extreme and sometimes violent political activists" that promote leftist causes, according to a copy of the letter.
The lawmakers disclosed multiple conversations with foreign diplomats who outlined active political meddling by the Obama administration's State Department, including the use of taxpayer funds to support leftist causes in Macedonia, Albania, Latin America, and Africa.
A portion of this State Department funding appears to have gone to organizations supported by the controversial liberal billionaire George Soros, according to the letter, which was authored by Republican Sens. Mike Lee (Utah), Jim Inhofe (Okla.), Thom Tillis (N.C.), Ted Cruz (Texas), David Perdue (Ga.), and Bill Cassidy (La.).
The senators are asking Tillerson to launch a full-scale investigation into these funding efforts in order to determine how exactly the Obama administration sought to promote left-leaning causes and political parties across the globe.
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A portion of this State Department funding appears to have gone to organizations supported by the controversial liberal billionaire George Soros....
#5
Can it be the first sign of ValJar's fingerprints begin to emerge? Consider each issue in light of how it affects Iran's needs and influence, not American interests.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[MSN] The Justice Department unsealed a fresh indictment Tuesday charging eight current and former Navy officials -- including an admiral -- with corruption and other crimes in the "Fat Leonard" bribery case, escalating an epic scandal that has dogged the Navy for the past four years.
[MAXIM] Next time you pass by a sexy stranger, rather than imagining her identity or fanciful ideas of your future life together, simply snap her photo and track down her Facebook. Hey, it's not creepy or invasive at all! 
