Obama Corruption & Scandal Thread - Solyndra and other crimes.

[Agnostic007]

Yeah ok bro - tell yourself that.   

I was in court this morning and this poor schmuck in front of me had to take a day off of work because some pofs dirtbag cop wrote a ticket for 56/55 on 87 - NYS Thruway. 

Jusdge was so pissed off at the cop she tossed the ticket and everyone just shook their head in disgust. 

riiiiight........ 

[Soul Crusher]

riiiiight........ 

Greenburgh, N.Y., Village Court, Judge Friedman.   Call up the chambers and you can confirm it. 

[Agnostic007]

Greenburgh, N.Y., Village Court, Judge Friedman.   Call up the chambers and you can confirm it. 

I'm on it 

[blacken700]

when were you in court you were on here all day  

[Soul Crusher]

when were you in court you were on here all day  

I post mostly from my blackberry.  Had traffic court, then short appearance in NY Supreme, Westchester Co., then back to the office. 

 

[blacken700]

holy shit even when your out your on here  man get a life 

[Soul Crusher]

holy shit even when your out your on here  man get a life 

Nice attempt to derail - care to weigh in on F&F? 

[blacken700]

Nice attempt to derail - care to weigh in on F&F? 

i just can't believe someone can't leave this site for more an hour

[Soul Crusher]

i just can't believe someone can't leave this site for more an hour

Yet you have no problem w obama and holder running guns and grenades to Mexico to drug cartels and deaths of border agents.   Nice.   

[Agnostic007]

Yet you have no problem w obama and holder running guns and grenades to Mexico to drug cartels and deaths of border agents.   Nice.   

No way you are a lawyer, making ludicrous statements like that..oh wait...traffic court..nevermind

[Soul Crusher]

No way you are a lawyer, making ludicrous statements like that..oh wait...traffic court..nevermind

What part of what I said is wrong? 

[tu_holmes]

LOL! I don't think the general public hates the police, just a small psycho fringe

I think you are mistaken... I'd bet it's easily 50/50.

[Soul Crusher]

Fast and Furious: Feds Forced Gun Store Owner to Make Illegal Sales
Big Government ^ | 9/12/11 | Publius
Posted on September 12, 2011 10:32:32 PM EDT by Nachum

In the fall of 2009, ATF agents installed a secret phone line and hidden cameras in a ceiling panel and wall at Andre Howard’s Lone Wolf gun store. They gave him one basic instruction: Sell guns to every illegal purchaser who walks through the door.

For 15 months, Howard did as he was told. To customers with phony IDs or wads of cash he normally would have turned away, he sold pistols, rifles and semiautomatics. He was assured by the ATF that they would follow the guns, and that the surveillance would lead the agents to the violent Mexican drug cartels on the Southwest border.

When Howard heard nothing about any arrests, he questioned the agents. Keep selling, they told him. So hundreds of thousands of dollars more in weapons, including .50-caliber sniper rifles, walked out of the front door of his store in a Glendale, Ariz., strip mall.

He was making a lot of money. But he also feared somebody was going to get hurt.

“Every passing week, I worried about something like that,” he said. “I felt horrible and sick.”

(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...

[Agnostic007]

I think you are mistaken... I'd bet it's easily 50/50.

I would expect you to believe that...  

[Agnostic007]

CITIZEN RATINGS OF POLICE: The difference Contact Makes   

Recent surveys repeatedly indicate that the public holds favorable attitudes toward the police. This analysis suggests positive public evaluations of the police may be in part the result of citizen satisfaction with police actions in handling specific incidents. Citizen-police contacts are found to be relatively common, and in the majority of these contacts, citizens are found to rate police actions favorably. Four types of citizen-police contacts are analyzed: contacts resulting from victimizations, assistances provided by the police, stops initiated by police, and citizen calls to the police for information. Contact type alone is found to have relatively little influence on citizen evaluations of the police services provided to their neighborhoods. But citizen satisfaction with police handling of contacts has a stronger impact, which appears to vary with contact type.

[Soul Crusher]

BREAKING: Third Fast & Furious gun at Terry murder scene covered up
Seattle Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 9 September, 2011 | Dave Workman



Fox News is reporting that a third gun apparently found at the murder scene of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was linked to Operation Fast and Furious, but its existence may have been deliberately concealed by the FBI to protect the identity of an informant “who works inside a major Mexican cartel.”

That informant, according to the report by Fox reporter William Lajuenesse, “provided the money to obtain the weapons used to kill Terry.” This tends to support statements made by Kenneth Melson, former acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, to congressional investigators in a behind-closed-doors interview on July 4, as reported by this column.

Fox News is reporting that a third gun apparently found at the murder scene of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was linked to Operation Fast and Furious, but its existence may have been deliberately concealed by the FBI to protect the identity of an informant “who works inside a major Mexican cartel.”

That informant, according to the report by Fox reporter William Lajuenesse, “provided the money to obtain the weapons used to kill Terry.” This tends to support statements made by Kenneth Melson, former acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, to congressional investigators in a behind-closed-doors interview on July 4, as reported by this column.


Sources say emails support their contention that the FBI concealed evidence to protect a confidential informant. Sources close to the Terry case say the FBI informant works inside a major Mexican cartel and provided the money to obtain the weapons used to kill Terry.—Fox News



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[Soul Crusher]

Napolitano, FBI Give Non-Answers to Questions Surrounding Operation Fast and Furious
Townhall.com ^ | September 13, 2011 | Katie Pavlich



Despite ATF Special Agent William Newell admitting in sworn testimony that mutiple government agencies, including the FBI and DHS, were responsible for the development and implementation of Operation Fast and Furious, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitiano and FBI Director Robert Mueller denied knowing anything about the operation until Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed with guns from the program and avoided getting into details about their involvement by referring the case to the Inspector General in the Justice Department and citing an "on-going investigation" when asked by Arizona Senator John McCain recently on Capitol Hill. On top of Newell's testimony, President Obama called for a complete review of current gun control policies in April 2009:


“Our focus is to work with Secretary Napolitano, Attorney General Holder, our entire Homeland Security team, ATF, border security, everybody who is involved with this to coordinate with our counterparts in Mexico to significantly ramp up our enforcement of existing laws. In fact, I’ve asked Eric Holder to do a complete review of how our current enforcement operations our working and make sure we are cutting down on the loop holes that are causing some of these drug trafficking problems."
The Operation Fast and Furious questioning starts at 2:50:

"I don't have specifics." -Mueller

SENATOR JOHN McCAIN AT THE HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

Keep in mind, Operation Fast and Furious is an Obama Justice Department program. Although other agencies were involved, the officials most heavily involved are from ATF (which falls under the jurisdiction of the Justice Department) and the DOJ. In fact, internal emails show information about the program coming directly from Washington D.C. An internal investigation from the DOJ Inspector General will get us nowhere. Luckily, we have Rep. Darrell Issa and Senator Chuck Grassley to get us some answers as they are investigation the DOJ, not conducting an investigation with the DOJ. This "on-going internal investigation" is just a way for officials within the Obama Justice Department and the White House to buy time, and cover up what really went on with Fast and Furious.

A little reminder at 2:27:


"We are investigating you, your organization. The Executive Branch above the Phoenix office is what we are investigating. We want to know what felony stupid, bad judgement led to allowing this program at the highest level." -Rep. Issa
Video

[Soul Crusher]

‘Fast and Furious’ scandal has Obama administration in full cover-up mode
The Daily Caller ^ | 09/12/2011 | Chris Cox



The more we learn about the “Fast and Furious” scandal — in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) illegally facilitated the transfer of thousands of guns to violent drug cartels in Mexico — the more apparent it is that we are witnessing a large-scale cover-up of epic proportions.

In fact, it’s getting difficult to keep up with all of the shuffling of key agency personnel who were involved in the deadly scandal. Here is a brief run-down of what transpired over the past two weeks:

* BATFE director Kenneth Melson was reassigned by Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department to a new senior advisor role at the agency’s headquarters in Washington.

* Dennis Burke, the U.S. attorney for the District of Arizona, resigned from his post.

* Thanks to the tenacious investigations being led by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-IA), it is now apparent that the lead prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office in Arizona, Emory Hurley, initially sought to cover up the fact that at least two illegal “Fast and Furious” guns were found at the murder scene of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. The Justice Department recently transferred Hurley out of its criminal division to its civil division.

* We now know that White House officials knew more about the deadly “Fast and Furious” operation than they previously disclosed. Three White House officials — Kevin O’Reilly, Dan Restrepo and Greg Gatjanis — all received back-channel communications about “Fast and Furious” from BATFE’s then-special agent in charge of Phoenix, Bill Newell. Newell, as you might recall, was recently reassigned to a new job at Justice Department headquarters.

The Obama administration’s continued stonewalling and seemingly orchestrated cover-up of the “Fast and Furious” scandal is only adding to the overall tragedy of this situation.

It’s tragic that this harebrained scheme cost people their lives, including a brave American Border Patrol agent. It’s also tragic that at the same time the Obama administration was purposefully arming Mexican drug lords, Obama, Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were blaming American gun owners and our Second Amendment rights for violent crime in Mexico.

But as White House officials continue to hide details related to this scandal, they are now doing serious damage to the rule of law upon which our republic was built.

The longer this drags on, the more lasting the damage will be — not only to our overall institution of government but also to the ability of future leaders to hold federal agencies accountable and protect the sanctity of our freedoms.

For this reason, it’s time for an independent prosecutor to be assigned to this case. Only then will we have any chance of learning the truth so we can fix the problem.

Chris W. Cox is the Executive Director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) and serves as the organization’s chief lobbyist.

[tu_holmes]

I would expect you to believe that...  

http://www.popcenter.org/library/crimeprevention/volume_12/03-van_Dijk.pdf

"Less than half of the reporting victims are satisfied with the police response. In the transitional and developing countries the satisfaction rate is below 40%. For police forces in these nations, victims are hard to satisfy if the investigation is unsuccessful. Victims of prop- erty crimes are therefore more likely to be dissatisfied with the police response in less affluent countries. Their main reason for dissatisfac- tion is that the police fail to recover their property. In all regions many victims of contact crimes are also dissatisfied with the services delivered. If dissatisfied, they are more likely to say the police treated them impolitely or incorrectly. Such complaints are the most common among female victims of violence."

[Agnostic007]

http://www.popcenter.org/library/crimeprevention/volume_12/03-van_Dijk.pdf

"Less than half of the reporting victims are satisfied with the police response. In the transitional and developing countries the satisfaction rate is below 40%. For police forces in these nations, victims are hard to satisfy if the investigation is unsuccessful. Victims of prop- erty crimes are therefore more likely to be dissatisfied with the police response in less affluent countries. Their main reason for dissatisfac- tion is that the police fail to recover their property. In all regions many victims of contact crimes are also dissatisfied with the services delivered. If dissatisfied, they are more likely to say the police treated them impolitely or incorrectly. Such complaints are the most common among female victims of violence."

I can't speak for other countries

[Agnostic007]

Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2010
CITIZEN SATISFACTION SURVEY

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On March 20th and 21st, 2010 the Planning Division conducted a random telephone survey of the approximately 49,000 residential telephone numbers in the City of Newport News. We employed the survey module in our CityWatch telephone alert notification system to gauge citizens’ overall satisfaction with the Newport News Police Department via a nine-question, touchpad telephone survey. Each participant was also supplied with a voicemail phone number where they could call in and leave comments regarding the agency and/or the survey. The only comments received were related to the time the respondent was called on a Saturday, and a question regarding a specific Professional Standards inquiry.

 

We selected a sample population of 1,771 randomly-selected phone numbers (excluding business phones) that was used as our sampling frame for this survey.

 

At the end of the two-day project, all 1,771 phone numbers had been called and a total of 196 citizens took the time to complete the survey. 

 


Based on the survey, 88 percent of those who completed a survey indicated that they felt the overall performance of the Newport News Police Department was satisfactory or better during the past 12 months. Below is a synopsis of our findings:

 

1.      During the past 12 months, have you or a member of your immediate family had formal contact with a member of the Newport News Police Department?

      YES = 27%         

      NO = 72%

 

2.   If formal contact did occur, was it the result of you or your immediate family member being a victim of a crime?

      YES = 11%

      NO = 36%

      NO FORMAL CONTACT = 52%

 

3.   If formal contact did occur, how would you rate your overall level of satisfaction with the overall quality of the contact?

      ABOVE SATISFACTORY = 25%*                         

      SATISFACTORY = 25%*           

      BELOW SATISFACTORY = 5%*

      DON'T REMEMBER = 44%*

      *Excludes those with no formal contact

 

4.   How would you rate the safety of your neighborhood during the day?

      VERY SAFE = 39%                         

      REASONABLY SAFE = 40%

      SOMEWHAT SAFE = 14%

      VERY UNSAFE = 3%           

      DO NOT KNOW = 4%


 

5.   How would you rate the safety of your neighborhood after dark?

      VERY SAFE = 23%                           

      REASONABLY SAFE = 40%

      SOMEWHAT SAFE = 23%

      VERY UNSAFE = 9%

      DO NOT KNOW = 5%

 

6.   Do you currently feel safer in your neighborhood than you did a year ago?

      YES = 46%*                         

      NO = 53%*

     *Excludes those with no opinion

 

7.   How would you rate the safety of our city's business areas during the day?

      VERY SAFE = 22%                                   

      REASONABLY SAFE = 52%

      SOMEWHAT SAFE = 19%

      VERY UNSAFE = 1%

      DO NOT KNOW = 7%

 

8.   How would you rate the safety of our city's buiness areas after dark?

      VERY SAFE = 5%                         

      REASONABLY SAFE = 35%

      SOMEWHAT SAFE = 35%

      VERY UNSAFE = 10%

      DO NOT KNOW = 15%

 

9.      How would you rate the overall performance of the Newport News Police Department?

      ABOVE SATISFACTORY = 25%*                           

      SATISFACTORY = 69%*

      BELOW SATISFACTORY = 5%*

[Soul Crusher]

"Fast and Furious" Corpses Pile Up
Human Events ^ | 09/15/2011 | John Hayward



The New York Times had better get some more ridiculous hit pieces cooked up against House Oversight chairman Darrell Issa, because some more dead bodies have turned up in connection with the Obama Administration’s plan to push American guns into Mexico. CBS News has been following “Operation Fast and Furious” like a hawk, and they’ve got the latest body count:


Weapons linked to ATF's controversial "Fast and Furious" operation have been tied to at least eight violent crimes in Mexico including three murders, four kidnappings and an attempted homicide.
According to a letter from U.S. Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich to Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the disclosed incidents may be only a partial list of violent crimes linked to Fast and Furious weapons because "ATF has not conducted a comprehensive independent investigation."

I can hardly wait for the full list of violent crimes linked to Fast and Furious to be compiled. So… what does it take to get the ATF cracking on one of those “comprehensive independent investigations?”

Among the crimes listed by CBS are a “confrontation between the Mexican military and an armed group,” which was armed with two Fast and Furious AK-47s, and “the terrorist kidnapping, torture, and murder of Mario Gonzalez Rodriguez,” whose sister was the attorney general of Chihuahua. She maintained her brother was kidnapped by corrupt police officers and cartel thugs.

The kidnappers released a video of armed and masked goons standing around Rodriguez, which became a sensation in Mexico. It’s possible some of the guns brandished in the video might have been provided courtesy of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. It’s hard to make out all the hardware carried by the terrorists, and there’s no way to get their serial numbers. The gang reportedly had...


(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...

[tu_holmes]

Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2010
CITIZEN SATISFACTION SURVEY

(710 KB) Click here!
On March 20th and 21st, 2010 the Planning Division conducted a random telephone survey of the approximately 49,000 residential telephone numbers in the City of Newport News. We employed the survey module in our CityWatch telephone alert notification system to gauge citizens’ overall satisfaction with the Newport News Police Department via a nine-question, touchpad telephone survey. Each participant was also supplied with a voicemail phone number where they could call in and leave comments regarding the agency and/or the survey. The only comments received were related to the time the respondent was called on a Saturday, and a question regarding a specific Professional Standards inquiry.

 

We selected a sample population of 1,771 randomly-selected phone numbers (excluding business phones) that was used as our sampling frame for this survey.

 

At the end of the two-day project, all 1,771 phone numbers had been called and a total of 196 citizens took the time to complete the survey. 

 


Based on the survey, 88 percent of those who completed a survey indicated that they felt the overall performance of the Newport News Police Department was satisfactory or better during the past 12 months. Below is a synopsis of our findings:

 

1.      During the past 12 months, have you or a member of your immediate family had formal contact with a member of the Newport News Police Department?

      YES = 27%         

      NO = 72%

 

2.   If formal contact did occur, was it the result of you or your immediate family member being a victim of a crime?

      YES = 11%

      NO = 36%

      NO FORMAL CONTACT = 52%

 

3.   If formal contact did occur, how would you rate your overall level of satisfaction with the overall quality of the contact?

      ABOVE SATISFACTORY = 25%*                         

      SATISFACTORY = 25%*           

      BELOW SATISFACTORY = 5%*

      DON'T REMEMBER = 44%*

      *Excludes those with no formal contact

 

4.   How would you rate the safety of your neighborhood during the day?

      VERY SAFE = 39%                         

      REASONABLY SAFE = 40%

      SOMEWHAT SAFE = 14%

      VERY UNSAFE = 3%           

      DO NOT KNOW = 4%


 

5.   How would you rate the safety of your neighborhood after dark?

      VERY SAFE = 23%                           

      REASONABLY SAFE = 40%

      SOMEWHAT SAFE = 23%

      VERY UNSAFE = 9%

      DO NOT KNOW = 5%

 

6.   Do you currently feel safer in your neighborhood than you did a year ago?

      YES = 46%*                         

      NO = 53%*

     *Excludes those with no opinion

 

7.   How would you rate the safety of our city's business areas during the day?

      VERY SAFE = 22%                                   

      REASONABLY SAFE = 52%

      SOMEWHAT SAFE = 19%

      VERY UNSAFE = 1%

      DO NOT KNOW = 7%

 

8.   How would you rate the safety of our city's buiness areas after dark?

      VERY SAFE = 5%                         

      REASONABLY SAFE = 35%

      SOMEWHAT SAFE = 35%

      VERY UNSAFE = 10%

      DO NOT KNOW = 15%

 

9.      How would you rate the overall performance of the Newport News Police Department?

      ABOVE SATISFACTORY = 25%*                           

      SATISFACTORY = 69%*

      BELOW SATISFACTORY = 5%*

You work for Newport News?

My Ex-wife's mom used to live there... was never too fond of the place.

[Agnostic007]

You work for Newport News?

My Ex-wife's mom used to live there... was never too fond of the place.

No, I work for Austin. I couldn't find any readily available surveys but Newport News and Austin are similar in many ways. 

[tu_holmes]

No, I work for Austin. I couldn't find any readily available surveys but Newport News and Austin are similar in many ways. 

I've been to both places... I don't see the similarity, but that's just me.

The next time I come to Austin for work we will have to grab a beer or something.