Elizabeth de la Vega ( Former Federal Prosecutor, btw ) makes a wonderful case for pretty much the entire White House getting perp-walked for violations of 18 USC 371.
After reading her book, I've come to the conclusion that ONE, just ONE United States Attorney going before a Grand Jury could make the case, and have them ALL picked up by U.S. Marshals.
I also don't wonder why it was so damn important for all the US Attorneys to be "Loyal Bushies".
Add to that the COMPLETE undercutting of their mantra "Don't have to retrain..." with the inclusion of Ribbon Bars in O2K7, and the addition of ANOTHER layer of TMTOWTDI to the Windows UI.
Nice. For those of you still pissed off about it, allow me to point out that Open Office continues to sport a "File->Save" menu option.
"Your reminder about preservation of evidence, of course, cuts both ways. Since my client's hard drive completely exculpates him, functionally compels dismissal, and opens the door to substantial recovery, he is doing everything in his power to preserve and protect his evidence. In our part of the world, that is a mid-six to low seven figure piece of computer gear."
referring to the value of the hard-drive's value due to the absence of the alleged copyrighted content.
I give the settlement offer SIX STARS, our highest rating. Especially the review of various courthouses.
How is it subject to the Handschu Agreement if it's not being reviewed as PER the Handschu Agreement. *A* Single Police Official is NOT the 3 person review board, is it?
And how is a court settlement modified without the agreement of the original parties?
11. Pursuant to the Constitution, their oaths of office, their status as Executive Branch employees, and their presence in the United States, BUSH, CHENEY, RICE, RUMSFELD, and POWELL, and their subordinates and employees, are required to obey Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, which prohibits conspiracies to defraud the United States.
12. As used in Section 371, the term "to defraud the United States" means "to interfere with or obstruct one of its lawful government functions by deceit, craft, trickery, or at least by means that are dishonest." The term also means to "impair, obstruct, or defeat the lawful function of any department of government" by the use of "false or fraudulent pretenses or representations."
13. A "false" or "fraudulent" representation is one that is: (a) made with knowledge that it is untrue; (b) a half-truth; (c) made without a reasonable basis or with reckless indifference as to whether it is, in fact, true or false; or (d) literally true, but intentionally presented in a manner reasonably calculated to deceive a person of ordinary prudence and intelligence. The knowing concealment or omission of information that a reasonable person would consider important in deciding an issue also constitutes fraud.
14. Congress is a "department of the United States" within the meaning of Section 371. In addition, hearings regarding funding for military action and authorization to use military force are "lawful functions" of Congress.
15. Accordingly, the presentation of information to Congress and the general public through deceit, craft, trickery, dishonest means, and fraudulent representations, including lies, half-truths, material omissions, and statements made with reckless indifference to their truth or falsity, while knowing and intending that such fraudulent representations would influence Congress' decisions regarding authorization to use military force and funding for military action, constitutes interfering with, obstructing, impairing, and defeating a lawful government function of a department of the United States within the meaning of Section 371.
It looks like it would take a SINGLE United States Attorney with the guts to do their job, as per their oath, and the ENTIRE administration would be perp-walked at the same time.
Explains why Bush will ultimately give away whatever he's asked. That's a hella big club to hold over his head.
And it's not like the C-SPAN logo isn't prominently displayed on the bottom of he screen and on the crawl in the first place. It's like it attributes itself.
Don't fool yourself, NASA ain't the shining boy who once, long ago, sent people to strange and interesting places like the Moon.
Today they are just another Federal bureaucracy. The goals are a) Hire Government Employees and b) CYA c) Oversee contracts. Any success is purely accidental.
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Just get UPS to bring them to Florida, they can take it from there.
REAL Dustbusters are so cheap, we can send dozens.
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This is not a showstopper.
Additionally, shooting these "Astronauts" into space isn't getting us anywhere.
We need to send Norm Abrams. And hell, send some of them other remodeling people. Send some of those makeover people. Send Flav, Vern, and Janice Dickenson and some other b/c listers, sell the rights and the whole damn thing is self financing.
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Elizabeth de la Vega ( Former Federal Prosecutor, btw ) makes a wonderful case for pretty much the entire White House getting perp-walked for violations of 18 USC 371.
After reading her book, I've come to the conclusion that ONE, just ONE United States Attorney going before a Grand Jury could make the case, and have them ALL picked up by U.S. Marshals.
I also don't wonder why it was so damn important for all the US Attorneys to be "Loyal Bushies".
Add to that the COMPLETE undercutting of their mantra "Don't have to retrain..." with the inclusion of Ribbon Bars in O2K7, and the addition of ANOTHER layer of TMTOWTDI to the Windows UI.
Nice. For those of you still pissed off about it, allow me to point out that Open Office continues to sport a "File->Save" menu option.
AND it's all about a trip less than 250 miles away, to a toy-space station that doesn't even have any hookers.
I suggest we put the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce in charge of developing a REAL moonbase.
Pierce that Corporate Veil! Yeah Baby!
Sounds like SOMEONE'S got a case of the "Should-as"....
The purpose of Government is to hire Government Employees.
Everything else is secondary.
Hey, why not just issue a DMCA Takedown Notice on their ISP?
On a side-note, was this little bit:
"Your reminder about preservation of evidence, of course, cuts both ways. Since my client's hard drive completely exculpates him, functionally compels dismissal, and opens the door to substantial recovery, he is doing everything in his power to preserve and protect his evidence. In our part of the world, that is a mid-six to low seven figure piece of computer gear."
referring to the value of the hard-drive's value due to the absence of the alleged copyrighted content.
I give the settlement offer SIX STARS, our highest rating. Especially the review of various courthouses.
EVERY single transaction will involve a haggle.
I ain't buying it for 149.95... I'll GIVE YOU 134.50 for it. Deal or No Deal?
I'm thinking they'll TAKE the offer.
How is it subject to the Handschu Agreement if it's not being reviewed as PER the Handschu Agreement. *A* Single Police Official is NOT the 3 person review board, is it?
And how is a court settlement modified without the agreement of the original parties?
It's more than that.
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There is no argument that USAs serve "At the pleasure of The President".
*IF* George Bush had simply asked them to resign, there would be no scandal.
*BUT* George Bush chose to lie about the reasons they were asked to leave, defaming those USAs who in fact had very highly rated performance reviews.
Pay attention to this simple fact:
It's not the action, it's the cover-up.
And the kicker here? NO COVER UP WAS NEEDED. They just did the cover-up move out of habit.
And then Gonzales lied to Congress. And it all fell apart.
Hmmm.. Why is it important for all the USAs to be "Loyal Bushies" to use the criteria Alberto Gonzales office was using according to their emails?
It's the simple fact that the entire administration is vulnerable to charges for violating 18 USC 371.
Let me excerpt a bit of Elizabeth de la Vega's book, from the Model Indictment she drew up. ( She's an ex-United States Attorney, btw. )
From USA v. Bush. http://www.amazon.com/United-States-George-Bush-a
11. Pursuant to the Constitution, their oaths of office, their status as Executive Branch employees, and their presence in the United States, BUSH, CHENEY, RICE, RUMSFELD, and POWELL, and their subordinates and employees, are required to obey Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, which prohibits conspiracies to defraud the United States.
12. As used in Section 371, the term "to defraud the United States" means "to interfere with or obstruct one of its lawful government functions by deceit, craft, trickery, or at least by means that are dishonest." The term also means to "impair, obstruct, or defeat the lawful function of any department of government" by the use of "false or fraudulent pretenses or representations."
13. A "false" or "fraudulent" representation is one that is: (a) made with knowledge that it is untrue; (b) a half-truth; (c) made without a reasonable basis or with reckless indifference as to whether it is, in fact, true or false; or (d) literally true, but intentionally presented in a manner reasonably calculated to deceive a person of ordinary prudence and intelligence. The knowing concealment or omission of information that a reasonable person would consider important in deciding an issue also constitutes fraud.
14. Congress is a "department of the United States" within the meaning of Section 371. In addition, hearings regarding funding for military action and authorization to use military force are "lawful functions" of Congress.
15. Accordingly, the presentation of information to Congress and the general public through deceit, craft, trickery, dishonest means, and fraudulent representations, including lies, half-truths, material omissions, and statements made with reckless indifference to their truth or falsity, while knowing and intending that such fraudulent representations would influence Congress' decisions regarding authorization to use military force and funding for military action, constitutes interfering with, obstructing, impairing, and defeating a lawful government function of a department of the United States within the meaning of Section 371.
It looks like it would take a SINGLE United States Attorney with the guts to do their job, as per their oath, and the ENTIRE administration would be perp-walked at the same time.
Explains why Bush will ultimately give away whatever he's asked. That's a hella big club to hold over his head.
The NYPD exhibiting "Bad Faith"?
Why am I not surprised?
The Music Business is treating it's Customers like it's ALWAYS treated it's Musicians.
I'm pretty sure those musicians are more concerned about being upside down in their contract.
There are no "Zero Day Expolits".
Just people who don't know they've been rooted.
Lone-Tar does a bit-level verify of the entire backup once it's done, then emails you the results.
There isn't even a clickthrough!
Even the most basic protections to safeguard whatever rights she might enjoy to that content are lacking.
Three simple words: Solar Beamed Microwave.
And I would expect it would be a trivial matter of simply running a single program against a mpeg file to strip out the offending bits before seeding.
I *suspect* it would take about 24-48 hours from release of this technology for it to be worked around.
Looks like they avoided all that pesky Due Diligence, too.
Is there a Perl module to access these .pst files?
And it's not like the C-SPAN logo isn't prominently displayed on the bottom of he screen and on the crawl in the first place. It's like it attributes itself.
Don't fool yourself, NASA ain't the shining boy who once, long ago, sent people to strange and interesting places like the Moon.
Today they are just another Federal bureaucracy. The goals are a) Hire Government Employees and b) CYA c) Oversee contracts. Any success is purely accidental.
Just get UPS to bring them to Florida, they can take it from there.
This is not a showstopper.
Additionally, shooting these "Astronauts" into space isn't getting us anywhere.
We need to send Norm Abrams. And hell, send some of them other remodeling people. Send some of those makeover people. Send Flav, Vern, and Janice Dickenson and some other b/c listers, sell the rights and the whole damn thing is self financing.
By Everybody... In HARMONY.