Monday, October 3, 2011
State Department story on hold until at least tomorrow.
Sorry, guys, I got pulled off of it by other events. But they are DAMN FINE EVENTS, I must say!
Scratch one AG -- Perjury! A whole room full of walking, smoking guns! CBS: Eric Holder Briefed on Fast & Furious in JULY 2010!
You know, I bet someone fifty bucks that Holder would be gone by Christmas. Seemed like a risk at the time. Not now. Scratch one Attorney General.
Perjury!
Remember this?
ATF Fast and Furious: New documents show Attorney General Eric Holder was briefed in July 2010.
New documents obtained by CBS News show Attorney General Eric Holder was sent briefings on the controversial Fast and Furious operation as far back as July 2010. That directly contradicts his statement to Congress.
On May 3, 2011, Holder told a Judiciary Committee hearing, "I'm not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks."
Yet internal Justice Department documents show that at least ten months before that hearing, Holder began receiving frequent memos discussing Fast and Furious.
Read the new documents:
Read the July 5, 2010 memo
Read the "It's a tricky case" email
Read the memo to AG Holder from Asst. AG Lanny A. Breuer.
The documents came from the head of the National Drug Intelligence Center and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer.
In Fast and Furious, ATF agents allegedly allowed thousands of weapons to cross the border and fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
It's called letting guns "walk," and it remained secret to the public until Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered last December. Two guns from Fast and Furious were found at the scene, and ATF agent John Dodson blew the whistle on the operation.
Ever since, the Justice Department has publicly tried to distance itself. But the new documents leave no doubt that high level Justice officials knew guns were being "walked."
Two Justice Department officials mulled it over in an email exchange Oct. 18, 2010. "It's a tricky case given the number of guns that have walked but is a significant set of prosecutions," says Jason Weinstein, Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division. Deputy Chief of the National Gang Unit James Trusty replies "I'm not sure how much grief we get for 'guns walking.' It may be more like, "Finally they're going after people who sent guns down there."
The Justice Department told CBS News that the officials in those emails were talking about a different case started before Eric Holder became Attorney General. And tonight they tell CBS News, Holder misunderstood that question from the committee - he did know about Fast and Furious - just not the details.
OK, no durance vile today.
I am posting this at the library just down from the courthouse.
We have been granted an evidentiary hearing in the next few weeks before proceeding.
The issue at hand is this: the Jefferson County prosecutor's office refuses to tell us the name of the "road rager" in a suit who leaped from his car and yelled "He's got a gun!" That was, after all, their probable cause in arresting me. This was the same road rager, mind you, who was seen laughing and chatting with Deputy Cornelius after I was in handcuffs. The same Deputy Cornelius who told me "shut your fucking mouth" (among other things) when I asked who the guy was at the scene. Without knowing who the road rager was and who he works for (and thus being able to find out if the Counties were merely willing tools of the Feds) I am unwilling to cop the plea and have my son's Taurus PT Millenium Pro .45 ground up (or, more likely, given how arms and ammunition disappear from the corrupt county lock-up, turning up in Deputy Cornelius' gun safe at home).
I think they counted on my poverty making this an easy one, but your subscriptions made it possible for me to take the decision to proceed. God bless you all for that.
Mike
III
We have been granted an evidentiary hearing in the next few weeks before proceeding.
The issue at hand is this: the Jefferson County prosecutor's office refuses to tell us the name of the "road rager" in a suit who leaped from his car and yelled "He's got a gun!" That was, after all, their probable cause in arresting me. This was the same road rager, mind you, who was seen laughing and chatting with Deputy Cornelius after I was in handcuffs. The same Deputy Cornelius who told me "shut your fucking mouth" (among other things) when I asked who the guy was at the scene. Without knowing who the road rager was and who he works for (and thus being able to find out if the Counties were merely willing tools of the Feds) I am unwilling to cop the plea and have my son's Taurus PT Millenium Pro .45 ground up (or, more likely, given how arms and ammunition disappear from the corrupt county lock-up, turning up in Deputy Cornelius' gun safe at home).
I think they counted on my poverty making this an easy one, but your subscriptions made it possible for me to take the decision to proceed. God bless you all for that.
Mike
III
Off to the stand in dock of the Jefferson County Criminal Court for the charge of being armed without government permission.
More later.
Maybe much later. ;-)
Maybe much later. ;-)
After the party. "Occupy Wall Street" protester signs. Various ruminiations on cannibalism, gov't monopoly of violence and "fasicism."
The New York Observer provides a glimpse into the protesters' demands.
'If you are out of work and hungry, eat a hedge fund manager.'
Small point, but is it not somewhat important to be able to spell that which you are denouncing? Maybe they're mad at these people?
If so, they've got the wrong symbol:
Then there's this one:
CSGV's Josh Horwitz dropped his sign.
'If you are out of work and hungry, eat a hedge fund manager.'
Small point, but is it not somewhat important to be able to spell that which you are denouncing? Maybe they're mad at these people?
If so, they've got the wrong symbol:
Then there's this one:
CSGV's Josh Horwitz dropped his sign.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Back home from a trip to Mississippi to see the girls play soccer.
Am beat. Court tomorrow morning. Will try to post before I go.
Praxis, Second Try: Here's the post from the RFID sniffer/cloner that was "account suspended."
Fortunately, I crapped out earlier this morning and rolled back to bed for some more sleep. When I did, I forgot to shut down the computer. Which allowed me to copy that text to the "account suspended" post and follow the link to the YouTube video.
Link.
EM4100 sniffer/cloner
Posted in Blog on Enero 28, 2010 by Admin
Well... as I told you, I have decided to publish how to add the bidirectional communications capability to the actual Open RFID Tag hardware (version 0.3).
I spent some time figuring how to do it with the least number of components and avoiding damage the PCB (without cutting any trace). Finally I manage to do it with one diode, one resistor and 3 capacitors.
I don't have time right now to publish the instructions for modifying the hardware, but I will do it the next week.
And this is the result:
100% passive cloner. Actually it can clone only the EM4100 family, but I will add support for others.
Link.
How the EM4100 cloner works.
Pressing button S1 when approaching the Open RFID tag to a RFID reader will boot the capture mode.
In this mode, the Open RFID Tag sniffs and decodes the communication between the RFID tag and the RFID reader. If an EM4100 memory map is correctly captured (the CRC and parity is checked), the memory map is stored and LED1 is switched on.
If S1 is not pressed, the Open RFID Tag emulates the latest RFID tag captured.
"Doesn't the New York Times care about dead Mexicans? "
Finally, The Cognoscenti Ask: What Could We Be Thinking? by Mark Steyn.
But sometimes Obama cronyism is murderous: Eric Holder, a man unfit to be attorney general of the United States, continues to stonewall the "Fast and Furious" investigation into taxpayer-funded government gun-running to Mexican drug cartels.
It is alleged that the administration chose to facilitate the sale of American weapons to crime kingpins south of the border in order to support a case for gun control north of the border. Evidence keeps piling up:
The other day, a letter emerged from ATF supervisor David Voth authorizing Special Agent John Dodson to buy Draco pistols to sell directly to known criminals. Over 200 Mexicans are believed to have been killed by "Fast and Furious" weapons — that is to say, they were killed by a U.S. government program.
Doesn't the New York Times care about dead Mexicans? Doesn't Newsweek or CBS News? Isn't Obamaism with a body-count sufficiently eye-catching even for the U.S. press? Or, three years in, are the enablers of Obama still so cynical that they accept it as a necessary price to pay for "change you can believe in"? You can't make a hopenchange omelette without breaking a couple hundred Mexican eggs?
Obama says America has "gotten a little soft." But there's nothing soft about a dead-parrot economy, a flat-line jobs market, regulatory sclerosis, "green jobs" multibillion-dollar squandering and a mountain of dead Mexicans. In a soft nation, "centrist" government is hard and cruel. Only the coverage is soft-focus.
Praxis: DIY RFID Cloner.
Link courtesy of Global Guerrillas. Now this is interesting.
Read this piece on The RFID Hacking Underground for an explanation of what this device can do.
Also see The difference between cloning and spoofing.
Read this piece on The RFID Hacking Underground for an explanation of what this device can do.
Also see The difference between cloning and spoofing.
Pamela Geller: "This makes Nixon and Watergate look like a prank"
Courtesy of Anthony Martin: Atlas Shrugs.
Protest against "Bev Chavez." for her suggestion that elections be suspended. "Tyranny is no joke."
Courtesy of Randy's Right.
When Democracy Turns To Tyranny . . .
Only the ARMED Citizen still gets to vote.
When Democracy Turns To Tyranny . . .
Only the ARMED Citizen still gets to vote.
"Mike Vanderboegh and David Codrea, when history is written, will make Watergate’s Woodward and Bernstein look like thumb suckers in diapers."
That's funny. I always did think that Woodward and Bernstein looked like thumb suckers in diapers anyway.
The JPFO David and Goliath Award Announcement.
The JPFO David and Goliath Award Announcement.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Should I perhaps change my name to Emanuel Goldstein? I am denounced, once more, by Rachel Madcow in her latest Two Minute Hate ritual.
Rachel Madcow struggles to find her inner Goebbels.
Link.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Well, I must admit that it's not as bad as THIS, but then I'm sure she'll work her way up there eventually depending upon how much the Gunwalker Scandal is perceived to be a threat to her Dear Leader.
Praxis: Pouch Improvisations
The interesting thing about the surplus market is that often you'll run across some item that a vendor has purchased from Government Liquidations on auction that came with something he/she wanted. They were willing to buy what they didn't want to get what they wanted. Which leaves them, of course, with stuff they didn't want -- sometimes a CRAP-TON of stuff they still don't want. Then, they'll make a deal. Sometimes you just have to ask. And just because it is an item you weren't particularly looking for doesn't mean that it isn't worth getting.
Case in point. A young, resourceful neighborhood defense leader just out of the Marines with two tours of Iraq and one of Afghanistan under his belt was talking to a gun store owner in South Alabama recently and discovered that the dealer was stuck with a few dozen of these:
The MOLLE Entrenching Tool Carrier, Woodland.
Now he has determined that E-Tools are superfluous for his neighborhood defense mission, but he wanted his guys to have two canteens, two stainless steel cups and one stove of the type that nests on the bottom of the cup. From experience, he recognized that standard one quart canteen covers sometimes take a little work to get the canteen, cup and stove out of it, an awkward process when the canteen is behind you. There is also no more room in the standard canteen cover for fire starting materials, instant coffee packets, etc.
Previously, this young leader (and like most young leaders he didn't have a lot of resources to spread around) had picked up a couple of dozen 1 quart canteens at a flea market for a buck a piece. What he lacked was canteen covers.
"How much do you want for the E-Tool carriers?" he asked. The dealer replied that he could have them all for twenty bucks. Done. The young leader walked out of the store with 43 woodland E-Tool carriers for about fifty cents apiece.
They are tougher than the standard canteen cover, hold more stuff, and have the advantage of being dirt cheap.
Here's another pouch that you can find on the surplus market, often for cheap:
The R.A.C.K. AN/PRC-126 Radio Pocket.
Now, not many folks have an AN/PRC-126 radio that they need a pouch for. However, this particular pouch is just the right size and shape for a number of good uses. I know a fellow who picked up almost a hundred of these pouches in Woodland the other day for about $.70 each. I instantly recognized that they would make excellent pouches for Kalashnikov thirty-rounders. They also accommodate civilian pattern stainless steel sports bottles very nicely.
If you have any other pouch improvisations you would like to suggest, feel free to post them in the comments here.
Case in point. A young, resourceful neighborhood defense leader just out of the Marines with two tours of Iraq and one of Afghanistan under his belt was talking to a gun store owner in South Alabama recently and discovered that the dealer was stuck with a few dozen of these:
The MOLLE Entrenching Tool Carrier, Woodland.
Now he has determined that E-Tools are superfluous for his neighborhood defense mission, but he wanted his guys to have two canteens, two stainless steel cups and one stove of the type that nests on the bottom of the cup. From experience, he recognized that standard one quart canteen covers sometimes take a little work to get the canteen, cup and stove out of it, an awkward process when the canteen is behind you. There is also no more room in the standard canteen cover for fire starting materials, instant coffee packets, etc.
Previously, this young leader (and like most young leaders he didn't have a lot of resources to spread around) had picked up a couple of dozen 1 quart canteens at a flea market for a buck a piece. What he lacked was canteen covers.
"How much do you want for the E-Tool carriers?" he asked. The dealer replied that he could have them all for twenty bucks. Done. The young leader walked out of the store with 43 woodland E-Tool carriers for about fifty cents apiece.
They are tougher than the standard canteen cover, hold more stuff, and have the advantage of being dirt cheap.
Here's another pouch that you can find on the surplus market, often for cheap:
The R.A.C.K. AN/PRC-126 Radio Pocket.
Now, not many folks have an AN/PRC-126 radio that they need a pouch for. However, this particular pouch is just the right size and shape for a number of good uses. I know a fellow who picked up almost a hundred of these pouches in Woodland the other day for about $.70 each. I instantly recognized that they would make excellent pouches for Kalashnikov thirty-rounders. They also accommodate civilian pattern stainless steel sports bottles very nicely.
If you have any other pouch improvisations you would like to suggest, feel free to post them in the comments here.
Obama declaring executive privilege. When Hitler ordered the blitzkrieg on Poland, he didn't ask his generals what tactics they were going to use.
White House sends Hill Fast & Furious docs, but withholds some.
The White House sent another installment of documents to Congress on Friday detailing White House staffers' knowledge about the controversial "Operation Fast & Furious" gunrunning probe run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives.
However, the chief counsel to President Barack Obama, Kathryn Ruemmler, indicated that the White House was withholding an unspecified number of internal e-mails exchanged among three National Security Staff aides.
"These internal NSS emails are not included in the enclosed documents because the [Executive Office of the President] has significant confidentiality interests in its internal communications," Ruemmler wrote in a letter to House Oversight & Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). The letter, posted here, was obtained Friday by POLITICO.
The latest batch of 102 pages of records partially duplicated information previously sent to Congress and didn't appear to include any smoking guns showing that White House officials were aware that the operation involved allowing hundreds or thousands of guns to flow essentially unimpeded from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels.
"As today's production makes clear, none of the communications between ATF and the White House revealed the investigative law enforcement tactics at issue in your inquiry, let alone any decision to let guns 'walk,'" Ruemmler wrote in response to a letter to Issa and Grassley sent to National Security Adviser Tom Donilon earlier this month.
The White House now admits, "Yeah, we knew about it. Yeah, we talked about it. Yeah, we briefed our superiors about it. But we didn't KNOW guns were being walked." Of course, we cannot know that until we get all the internal emails, now can we?
I have only one other comment on this ridiculous "defense":
When Hitler ordered the blitzkrieg on Poland, he didn't ask his generals what tactics they were going to use.
"Welcome to the party, pal!"
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