They could and should have done more, but I’m happy that Congress was able to get their act together to put more juice in the Freedom of Information Act. It should be easier now to pry information out of the government, and they’ll have a hard 25 year limit on what they can hide.
This has been the worst Congress of my lifetime, and they’ve accomplished almost nothing. This is something they can be proud of and it will benefit the people in immediate and longterm ways.
`I would have done 5′: Nashville cop busted for callous post about Philando Castile
08 JUL 2016 AT 20:04 ET
Police officers in two Tennessee cities were swiftly disciplined for social media activity following the fatal shootings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling this week.
In Nashville, Officer Anthony Venable, an eight-year veteran of the force, was “decommissioned” after posting, “Yeah. I would have done 5,” in a Facebook conversation regarding the shooting death of Castile, who was shot four times during a traffic stop. Venable said the comment was meant to be sarcastic.
“The police department is treating this matter very seriously and took immediate action, regardless of what he claims the context to have been,” Police Chief Steve Anderson told The Tennessean. Anderson had previously told The Tennessean that he was concerned that people were judging all police by the actions of the police officers involved in the shootings of Sterling and Castile.
“I am extremely concerned and disturbed by the videos and the accounts we have heard thus far coming from Baton Rouge and Falcon Heights,” Anderson said.
A vigil and protest is planned for Friday night in Nashville, and Anderson said that the vigil should go on as scheduled, despite the massacre of police in Dallas Thursday night. Anderson indicated his support for people to express their concerns. He insisted that Venable was not representative of the Nashville force.
He told Nashville Public Radio: “What he said does not in any way represent the men and women of this police department It was a disservice to the city of Nashville. It was a disservice to this police department. It was a disservice to every individual officer on the street. It’s something that can’t be tolerated.”
Meanwhile, over in Memphis, the Commercial-Appeal reported that Memphis Interim Director Michael Rallings had suspended two officers for a social media post. The officers posted an image on Snapchat that was an illustration of a white hand pointing a gun at an emoji depicting a black child.
When will people stop posting on Facebook?
Idiots! Like the idiots that are astonished that they get fired for what they say about their boss on Facebook.
HOW is this anything BUT….
RACIAL PROFILING?
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“he looks like one of our suspects just cause of his wide-set nose” – police audio of Philando Castile’s traffic stop
ST PAUL – The uncle of Philando Castile said the police scanner audio we obtained is an example of racial profiling.
KARE 11 has attempted to confirm the authenticity of the recording with police officials, but so far they have not responded.
We have verified that the license plate mentioned by police in the recording matches the plate of the car Castile was driving. The location the officer gives also corresponds to the locations of the traffic stop.
“I’m going to stop a car,” the officer says on the recording. “I’m going to check IDs. I have reason to pull it over.”
“The two occupants just look like people that were involved in a robbery,” the officer says. “The driver looks more like one of our suspects, just `cause of the wide set nose,” the officer continues.
Philando dead because of wide set nose
Sterling dead because he wouldn’t give a bum harassing him any money .
It’s Saturday Morning:
1. Where is the Official Dallas Police report about what happened to those other ‘suspects’ that were detained?
Where is there anything about them being released?
2. They’ve admitted that Dallas officers discharged their weapons.
So, how many of the Dallas officers killed, were killed by ‘ friendly fire’?
3. Where is the ‘ DRONES DRONES DRONES DRONES’ crowd that’s been screeching the entire time of the Obama Presidency about this man being BLOWN UP by a DRONE?
( Yeah, I won’t waste my breath waiting for you…you are EXACTLY who I thought you were.)
A few years ago the New Black Panthers Party was behaving like a foil for right-wingers. They’ve got the credibility of the Symbionese Liberation Army. As long as the average knucklehead doesn’t see he’s being manipulated the propaganda shows will continue.
Just try to figure out where we’re all being pushed.
And now it’s normal to kill and not arrest, so get used to robots killing people. When cops look like the military and act like the military, and use military weapons then martial law is merely a formality.
By the way, listened to NPR this a.m. Does Corey Flintoff get his paychecks directly from the Pentagon?
http://www.ep.tc/realist/98/
Giving Paul Fucking Bremer a microphone to dissemble about his own role (“de-Baathification”, dissolving Iraqi army, recruiting unqualified rightwing ideologues to run the occupation, etc.) in the post-invasion chaos.
But the very worst came very first. The very first words out of Bremer’s mouth were this enormous lie
A bald-faced lie which Lynn Neery proceeded to not challenge in any way, shape, or form. (This is the process by which journalistic malpractice lets lies turn into accepted “history”.)
In simple point of fact, the “case” for invasion had already collapsed BEFORE Bush pulled the trigger on the War Crime of invading under false pretenses a sovereign nation which had not attacked us and was clearly no imminent threat to do so. Some specifics:
And those are just the most obvious examples I recall from off the top of my head.
Bremer’s line has of course been the standard one from Bushies and their apologists, which isn’t that surprising. What’s appalling is the media’s ongoing enabling of this CYA lie.
But I stay up nights worrying about Russia invading Lithuania.
I heard that bit of journalistic malpractice this morning. Bremer didn’t belong on the air; hell, he doesn’t belong in polite company. It was made worse that Neary didn’t push back on him much.
significant negatives of Obama’s let-bygones-be-bygones (“look forward, not back” was how he put it IIRC) decision against, not only any U.S.-initiated prosecutions of the perps of that War Crime, but even of any investigation even of the rigor of the Chilcot report just out that quite rightly condemned Poodle Blair. (If I heard correctly, Bremer’s appearance on NPR was premised on an op-ed — I haven’t read it — that he got published in, I think, The Guardian more or less defending Blair in response to that report.)
A choice against accountability which, of course, left the door wide open to this sort of historical revisionism by Bremer et al. attempting, with significant success, to whitewash his own and others’ crimes, continue to avoid accountability, and even rehabilitate to some extent their rightly tarnished reputations.
Aided and abetted by Neery/NPR et al.!!!
More incentive for government officials to limit further what they put in writing and record in USG systems.
No kidding. That hole in the hoop for white collar crime prosecutors just got even smaller, no?
Mens rea being caged out of existence for fun and profit. https:/www.americanprogress.org/issues/criminal-justice/report/2016/03/11/133113/three-ways-c
ongressional-mens-rea-proposals-could-allow-white-collar-criminals-to-escape-prosecution
They can always just use a private e-mail server and delete whatever they want when they leave office. Like 30,000 “personal” e-mails.
It’s not a crime.
Sometimes an allusion is enough. More direct statements brings out those that can defend anything if it’s done by one they love. Allusions either go over their heads or they opt to ignore them and not draw attention to it.
Is it difficult to maintain your attitude of rectitude and moral superiority?
Marie3 has cited Judicial Watch as an organization which has pinned Hillary and her staffers to the wall on the email issue. She’s very excited about what they’ve done. Here’s what Marie3’s pal has to say about the issue now:
Per Marie3’s comment above, improvements in FOIA law are counterproductive. Perhaps she will claim I have misinterpreted her statement. She is welcome to reinterpret her statement here, but that’s how it reads. She offers no support for this Congressional action.
You lie. You won’t find any comments from me stating what you claim. BTW, from the JW depositions of Clinton staffers, they haven’t pinned anyone to the wall.
Long before there was a JW lawsuit concerning Clinton’s emails or long before I was aware that such a lawsuit existed, I very clearly stated my criticism of Clinton conducting government on her personal server and only turning over those emails she considered relevant after being asked to do so almost two years after she left office. The State Dept review of this matter was highly critical. (It was not a subject of the FBI investigation.)
There was no excuse for Rove and his team to use the GOP server for their emails and when that became public information, I, along with most right thinking people, were livid. For the precise reason that those communications were lost and would never be seen by the public. It was expected that his would not be repeated by a high government official. And Rove didn’t even directly control that server nor did he have some outside interest that could raise questions about deals that he was approving.
CREW generally focuses its efforts on Republicans (JW goes exclusively after Democrats). Should an honest Republican (if there are any left) dismiss an effort by CREW that they happen to agree with and one that Republicans want to bury? Are you happy that all the GWB/Cheney records on the Iraq War remain hidden? While the Chilcot report directly exposed the deceit of Blair, Cameron also didn’t want that information released. Thus at the highest levels of government, some things are bipartisan. A fact your strictly partisan lenses precludes you from seeing.
Marie, I remember clearly that you were happy in the wake of having read Judicial Watch’s deposition of Cheryl Mills, and I think you mentioned the depo of Huma Abedin as well. I agree they didn’t get anything incriminating, but I specifically recall you gleefully expressed your belief that Mills’ testimony in the depo showed she lacked moral credibility because of how apparent it was that she was being protective of Clinton.
Drawing CREW and JW into any form of parallel discussion is appalling. One organization acts in good faith; the other does not. I wouldn’t entertain a reading of a deposition from Judicial Watch; they don’t pursue the truth. That’s not because of their partisanship, it’s because of their extreme ideology and unhinged rhetoric. You may as well point us to a legal claim against Hillary from Jay Sekulow.
I’m not happy about Hillary’s behavior with the email system, not at all. I just don’t think she should be disqualified from the Presidency for it. And we can all see that Clinton has suffered significant political damage for having done it.
I’m happy about any true tightening up of FOIA that we can accomplish, and I wouldn’t wish to dismiss its significance.
We knew very well that the actions taken by the British government administered by Straw, Blair and others in the run-up to the Iraq war were corrupt well before the Chilcot report. For that matter, we very well know these things about the Bush Administration as well.
I would like to think the revelations in the report will lead to prison time for Straw, Blair and Co. Will it? Will it lead to better decisions by the British government in the future when they consider their foreign policies and their use of military force? I hope Chilcot, as long as it took to arrive, works to improve their and our foreign policy considerations in the future.
Maintaining one’s principles is extremely easy. Try it some time.
OT, but some good news for future efforts to support:
Key Findings
* All providers translated the WorkAdvance model into a set of concrete services, but it took time
— more than a year for some components and providers — and a substantial amount of technical
assistance and support. As a result, at some sites, later study enrollees were more likely
than earlier ones to experience a fully implemented and “mature” WorkAdvance program.
* Overall, WorkAdvance resulted in very large increases in participation in every category of
services, as well as in training completion and credential acquisition, compared with what would
have happened in the absence of the program. Expenditures for the operation of WorkAdvance
fell between $5,200 and $6,700 per participant at the four providers delivering the program.
* WorkAdvance providers increased earnings, with variation in results that closely matched the
providers’ experience in running sector-based programs and the extent to which the services
they offered were demand driven. The most experienced sectoral provider, Per Scholas, had
large and consistent impacts on both primary and secondary outcomes. Madison Strategies
Group and Towards Employment, providers new to sectoral training, had promising but less
consistent results that grew stronger for later enrollees. One provider, St. Nicks Alliance, did not
produce positive impacts. The results did not differ dramatically across subgroups, though encouragingly,
WorkAdvance was able to increase earnings among the long-term unemployed
http://www.mdrc.org/sites/default/files/WorkAdvance_2016_PreviewSummary.pdf