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Fast and Furious Scandal Cries Out for Answers

Fox News
Dec. 8, 2011


The "Fast & Furious" scandal is getting messier and messier. New e-mails finally
released late this past Friday reveal that the Department of Justice personal
viewed the then-secret operation as a way to push for more gun control laws.
Despite administration promises to the contrary, whistleblowers have endured
"isolation, retaliation and transfer."

Meanwhile the operation's managers have done pretty well, some have even
received promotions.

Thursday Attorney General Eric Holder admitted that the operation was "wholly
unacceptable," but he still offers absolutely no explanation to explain why the
program was instituted.


Related Video: New reaction to Fast, Furious testimony

Statement from Fast and Furious hearing

What's going on here? Let's see…

- You have a government agency ordering gun dealers to make sales to suspected
criminals that the dealers didn't want to sell to.

- You have government agents testifying that the being purchased were not being
traced. No attempt was made to even alert the Mexican government that the United
States of America was given guns to drug gangs in their country.

Up until now the only justification from the Obama administration for this
"program" is that the Bush administration supposedly did the same thing with
operation "Wide Receiver."

In fact, it is a defense that the Justice Department and Congressional Democrats
have raise multiple times. Congressman Elijah Cummings' office just made this
defense on Wednesday.

But the "Fast & Furious" and "Wide Receiver" programs are not remotely similar
on the most important fact: The Bush administration tried to trace the guns and
informed the Mexican authorities when the guns went across the border, but the
Obama administration did not.

And it is well-known how ineffective tracing programs have been anyway.

The problem is that if "Wide Receiver" failed in tracing the guns and was
subsequently shutdown, why is the solution to not even bother to try tracing the
firearms? Holder's conclusion in testimony before Congress was simply: "Guns
lost during this operation will continue to show up at crime scenes on both
sides of the border."

Would Holder have been as forgiving if a gun dealer had been caught
intentionally doing the same thing that the Obama administration has been caught
doing?

The new e-mails documenting Justice Department discussions on the political
benefits from the "Fast & Furious" program are disturbing and they are only
going to give more ammunition to conspiracy theorists for why the Obama
administration instituted the program to begin with.

People who haven't trusted the Obama administration on this issue have already
pointed out that "Fast & Furious" started pushing guns into Mexico at the same
time that the Obama administration was making its inaccurate claims about the
United States being a major source of Mexican crime guns.

The new internal messages reveal that in early January this year, a month before
there was any publicity about "Fast & Furious," Department of Justice personnel
were pointing out: "this case ["Fast & Furious] could be a strong supporting
factor [for new regulations] if we can determine how many multiple sales of long
guns occurred during the course of this case."

More evidence has also surfaced showing how uncomfortable gun dealers were in
selling these guns that they didn't want to sell. One dealer wrote BATF
officials in April 2010: "[W]e were hoping to put together something like a
letter of understanding to alleviate concerns of some type of recourse against
us down the road for selling these items. We just want to make sure we are
cooperating with ATF and that we are not viewed as selling to the bad guys."

Unfortunately, Holders' testimony Thursday didn't make things any clearer. His
definition of "lying" depending on one's state of mind sounded positively
Clintonian.

But ultimately the Obama administration still faces a bigger problem. Can they
ever come up with any remotely plausible explanation for why anyone would have
started a program to push untraceable guns into Mexico? The longer it takes to
provide an explanation, the more plausible the conspiracy theorists sound that
this was all done for politics.

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Best Ways To Detect Advanced Threats Once They Invade

If attackers want to get in, it's likely they will find a way; security experts
offer advice on how to detect the intrusion
Dark Reading
By Robert Lemos, Contributing Editor
Dec 05, 2011

Significant attacks against major technology companies have underscored that,
while good defenses can make it hard for an attacker to penetrate a network, a
persistent attacker will find a way in.

The list of attacks that have resulted in leaked corporate data grew longer this
year: security firm RSA, marketing firm Epsilon, entertainment giant Sony, and
others acknowledged breaches  in 2011. Little wonder, then, that while
defense-in-depth has long been a mantra of the security industry, vendors and
consultants are now more strident about recommending that companies look to
shore up their abilities to detect attacks that have succeeded.

"When all else fails and there is some chance of the attacker getting in, the
question becomes, how are we going to detect them?" says Bret Hartman, chief
technology officer for RSA and an EMC fellow.

Unlike more general detect attacks, targeted and persistent attackers tend to
focus on quiet reconnaissance and infiltration of their victims, making
detecting the threats that much more difficult.

"These things are not exploding into your network — gone are the days of your
Nimdas and your Slammers," says Jim Walter, manager of the McAfee's Threat
Intelligence Service (MTIS).

To be ready for the attackers already inside the company network, security
managers need to take a few steps, say experts.

1. Know The Network

The most important tool in the detection drawer is a solid baseline
understanding of the network. Knowing how systems are configured, how they
connect, and what ports and services are available on each is a necessary step
to detecting when something changes maliciously, says Jim Walter, manager of the
McAfee's Threat Intelligence Service (MTIS).

"If you don't know exactly how many machines are on your network, where they
are, what they are doing, and how they are connected, you are absolutely
exposed," Walter says.

Companies should continually revisit their understanding of the network and the
interconnected systems to incorporate changes. Checking the integrity of files
is a key tool, but ensuring that configurations are hardened and follow company
policy is also important, says Dwayne Melancon, chief technology officer of
security firm Tripwire.

"Once they get in, they are in, but knowing how things looked before they got in
gives you the upper hand in being able to figure out what happened and how to
stop them," Melancon says.

2. Cordon Off The Data

In addition to having a comprehensive picture of the network, companies should
also put their critical data in well-monitored digital "vaults." By restricting
access to important data, any malicious attempts to copy or steal the data
become more obvious, says Joe Stewart, director of malware research at Dell
SecureWorks.

"You have to plan ahead of time," he says. "And having your sensitive data in a
separate enclave where you have stricter policy enforcement is a good idea."

In addition, companies can borrow a technique from insider defenses, creating
honeypot or decoy files that look interesting, but result in an alarm when
copied or accessed.

"It is really equivalent to detecting an insider attack because the attacker is
already operating from the inside," RSA's Hartman says.

3. Monitor Hosts, Logs, And Network Traffic

Once defenders have a baseline understanding of their networks, threats can be
detected by finding anomalous behavior in log files, host behavior, and network
traffic.

Companies that do not regularly examine their log files are more likely to get
breached. In the latest edition of its Data Breach Investigations Report, for
example, Verizon found that 69 percent of the breaches it investigated in a year
could have been detected by analyzing log data. Instead, almost seven out of
every eight breaches were discovered, not by the victim, but by a third-party
firm — a trend that is far less likely to happen in the case of stolen
intellectual property.

Monitoring network traffic can also lead to the discovery of an attack.
Moreover, systems that record network data for later analysis can help a
company's analysis of a potential threat, Hartman says.

"You might, in a log file, see that file XYZ has been exfiltrated," he says.
"But a good attacker will delete the file, so you won't know what they took.
With the packets, you can discover what was stolen."

Finally, host-based intrusion detection systems that go beyond antivirus and
reactive signature detection are also key to figuring out what may be causing
the anomalies — whether a malicious attacker or a malfunctioning program.

"Logs are great, network traffic is great, but those two don't give you a view
of what the programs are doing," Hartman says.

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The Most Notorious Cybercrooks Of 2011 — And How They Got Caught

A torrent of attacks from groups like Anonymous, LulzSec, Goatse Security, and
Antisec has made it a busy year for cybercrime investigators
By Ericka Chickowski, Contributing Editor
Dark Reading
Dec 07, 2011

While there are plenty of elusive hackers that will forever manage to outrun the
law, the good guys scored some impressive arrests, indictments, and convictions
in 2011.

Here are some of the highest profile cases to hit the headlines this year.

1. Anonymous and LulzSec Hacker: Ryan Cleary

Police raided the home of 19-year-old Brit Ryan Cleary and arrested him this
summer for allegedly using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to take
down the British Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) website this year, plus
websites for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry the
British Phonographic Industry last year. His arrest was heralded by authorities
as part of a crackdown against LulzSec, but the loosely organized group
associated with Anonymous disavowed him as its leader. Cleary for sure had some
affiliation with Anonymous, though. Acrimony between him and other Anonymous
members for hacking into the group's AnonOps website and exposing its members IP
addresses led to Anonymous exposing Cleary's full name, address, phone number,
and IP on its site. These details were used by authorities to eventually find,
arrest, and indict him.

2. Ivy League Academic Content Turbo Downloader: Aaron Swartz

A programmer and fellow at Harvard University's Safra Center for Ethics,
24-year-old Aaron Swartz faced indictment this year after he downloaded more
than 4 million academic articles from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) network connection to Jstor, an online academic repository. Swartz used
anonymous log-ins on the network in September 2010 and actively worked to mask
his log-ins when MIT and Jstor tried to stop the massive drain of copyrighted
material. After Jstor shut down access to its database from the entire MIT
network, Swartz visited the campus and directly plugged in a laptop the
infrastructure at an MIT networking room and left it hidden there as it
downloaded more content. It was this visit in the flesh that got him nabbed;
authorities had been tipped off by an IT admin about the laptop and after
searching the laptop left it there along with a hidden webcam to catch Swartz
when he came back for his computer. But not everyone thought his actions were
criminal.
3. DNSchanger Creators: Vladimir Tsastsin, Timur Gerassimenko, Dmitri Jegorov,
Valeri Aleksejev, Konstantin Poltev and Anton Ivanvov



Vladimir Tsastsin

In a cybercrime bust that some security pros called one of the biggest ever, the
six masterminds behind the DNSchanger malware were arrested in November for
operating one of the longest running and most costly botnets to afflict the
Internet. Lead by Tsastsin, this gang of thieves is accused of developing the
DNSchanger malware to help perpetrate a profitable clickjacking scheme that
netted it $14 million in stolen advertising views. The malware pioneered the
method of using social engineering techniques to deliver unobtrusive payloads
used to hijack victims' DNS settings in order to set up revenue streams based on
their manipulated browsing. Law enforcement closed in on the takedown after a
multiyear, public-private investigation it dubbed "Operation Ghost Click," which
was initiated nearly five years ago after researchers with Trend Micro brought
the gang's botnet to the attention of the Feds.

4. Sony Hacker: Cody Kretsinger

This September, authorities detained and indicted Cody Kretsinger (a.k.a.
"recursion") for allegedly carrying out the summer attack against Sony Pictures
on behalf of LulzSec. Authorities apparently hunted down Kretsinger through the
U.K.-based HideMyAss proxy server service provider he used to help him
"anonymously" carry out his SQL injection attack against Sony. The provider
coughed up the logs to the authorities that allowed them to match time-stamps
with IP addresses to pinpoint Kretsinger as the suspect in question.

5. Anonymous' Inside Man at AT&T: Lance Moore

Former AT&T Mobility contractor Lance Moore allegedly handed over to Anonymous
tens of thousands of phone numbers, confidential server names with IP addresses,
usernames, and passwords to log into them, plus corporate emails, presentation
documents, and intellectual property that was used by the LulzSec/Antisec
movement in a public data dump this summer. According to his indictment soon
thereafter, his misdeeds were discovered through the robust network auditing and
log management run by his employer. AT&T was able to use its various logging and
intelligence capabilities to connect the dots between an AT&T VPN connection
used to upload documents to FileApe.com at the same time that unauthorized
access was made to sensitive information. The IP address used was assigned to a
group of less than 20 contractors and further investigation by security staff
showed that Moore's account was the only one used to access both FileApe and the
servers with the stolen digital goods. What's more, Web monitoring software
showed that he used his account to search on Google for information on uploading
files and file hosting.

6. Apple iPad Snoop: Andrew Auernheimer

Authorities indicted Andrew Auernheimer (a.k.a. "weev"), a vocal member of
Goatse Security, for his involvement in exposing a flaw in AT&T's Web security
that the group used to acquire 114,000 email addresses belonging to iPad users,
including notable celebrities, politicians, and businesspeople. The attack was
carried out when Auernheimer and Goatse hackers realized they could trick the
site into offering up the email address of iPad users if they sent an HTTP
request that included the SIM card serial number for the corresponding device.
Simply guessing serial numbers — a task made easy by the fact that they were
generated sequentially during manufacturing — generated tons of sensitive
addresses. Auernheimer and Goatse released details about the attacks to Gawker
Media, and shortly thereafter the FBI arrested Auernheimer in connection with
the breach.

7. Celebrity Hackerazzi: Christopher Chaney

Celebrity-obsessed hacker Christopher Chaney took cyberstalking to a new level
when he used publicly available information from celebrity blog sites to help
him guess passwords to hack Google and Yahoo emails owned by 50 different stars,
including Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, and Christina Aguilera. Using his
access he set up email-forwarding to send himself of all email received by each
celebrity. Chaney was responsible for the release of nude Scarlett Johansson
photos that circulated the Internet. Though FBI investigators did not release
the details of exactly how they managed to track Chaney down, they did report
that they were piecing the details together during an 11-month investigation
they dubbed "Operation Hackerazzi."

8. Gucci Hacker: Sam Chihlung Yin

Fired after being accused of selling stolen Gucci shoes and bags on the Asian
gray market, the former Gucci IT employee allegedly managed to set up a VPN
token using a bogus employee name on his way out the door. A forensics
investigation found that after he left the job, he called the company's IT
department posing as the fake employee to get his former co-workers to activate
the fob, and from there he used that access to perpetrate digital mayhem,
deleting servers, destroying storage set-ups ,and wiping employee mailboxes —
essentially cutting off employee access to files and email across the U.S. for
nearly an entire business day.

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Pro Grade (3D Printer-Made?) ATM Skimmer

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Dec 11, 2011


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In July 2011, a customer at a Chase Bank branch in West Hills, Calif. noticed
something odd about the ATM he was using and reported it to police. Authorities
who responded to the incident discovered a sophisticated, professional-grade ATM
skimmer that they believe was made with the help of a 3D printer.

Below is a front view image of the device. It is an all-in-one skimmer designed
to fit over the card acceptance slot and to record the data from the magnetic
stripe of any card dipped into the reader. The fraud device is shown sideways in
this picture; attached to an actual ATM, it would appear rotated 90 degrees to
the right, so that the word "CHASE" is pointing down.

On the bottom of the fake card acceptance slot is a tiny hole for a built-in spy
camera that is connected to a battery. The spy camera turns on when a card is
dipped into the skimmer's card acceptance slot, and is angled to record customer
PINs.

The bottom of the skimmer device is designed to overlay the controls on the cash
machine for vision impaired ATM users. On the underside of that space is a data
port to allow manual downloading of information from the skimmer.

Looking at the backside of the device shows shows the true geek factor of this
ATM skimmer. The fraudster who built it appears to have cannibalized parts from
a video camera or perhaps a smartphone (possibly to enable the transmission of 
PIN entry video and stolen card data to the fraudster wirelessly via SMS or
Bluetooth). It's too bad so much of the skimmer is obscured by yellow plastic.
I'd welcome any feedback from readers who can easily identify these parts based
on the limited information here.

Here's a closer look at the circuit board on top, which looks like some type of
Flash storage device:

Here's another look at the electronic parts wedged into the back of the skimmer:

It appears from the following image that the data storage capacity on the device
is connected directly to the mag stripe reader (top, silver wire), while the
device's video camera is wedged behind the pinhole (bottom, gold wires).

The investigator I spoke with about the incident didn't know much about the
innards of the device, and said that those responsible have not yet been caught.
But he did have something interesting to tell me about the origins of the
skimmer: "It is believed that the green skimmer was made with the
Stereolithography process." Translation: The cops think thieves produced the
card skimmer molds with the help of 3D printers.

These hi-tech and costly machines take two dimensional computer images and build
them into three dimensional models by laying down successive layers of powder
that are heated, shaped and hardened. In September, I detailed how U.S.
investigators had arrested four men in Texas who allegedly built their ATM
skimmers using a 3D printer they'd purchased with the proceeds of their skimming
business.

In related news, New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance earlier this
month announced an 81-count indictment against three men suspected of planting
skimmers at ATM machines in Manhattan. The indictment alleges that the men used
the skimmers to steal the debit card numbers of nearly 1,500 individuals, and
then exploited the stolen debit card numbers to make more than $285,000 in
fraudulent transactions.

In the press release that accompanied the indictment, the district attorney
released several images of the skimmer devices allegedly planted by the
Manhattan trio. While these devices relied on a separate façade that held a
hidden video camera to record customer PINs, there is little question that the
same Chase ATM design was targeted. In the picture below, the hidden camera is
the squarish silver block mounted vertically to the left of the PIN pad. An
enlarged picture of the camera façade follows this one.

A compromised ATM in Manhattan. Image: NYCDA.

A hidden camera and card skimmer part seized by authorities in Manhattan.

Hidden camera footage of a customer entering his PIN. Image: NYCDA.

If you visit a cash machine that looks strange, tampered with, or out of place,
then try to find another ATM. And remember, the most important security advice
is to watch out for your own physical safety while using an ATM: Use only
machines in public, well-lit areas, and avoid ATMs in secluded spots. Also,
cover the PIN pad with your hand when entering your PIN: That way, if even if
the thieves somehow skim your card, there is less chance that they will be able
to snag your PIN as well.

If you liked this post, consider checking out the other stories in my ATM
skimmer series, All About Skimmers.



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Government Agencies Harbor The Most Vulnerable Applications

Newest Veracode State of Software Security report finds SQL injection flaws
declining overall in all industries
Dark Reading
By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Dec 08, 2011

Software applications running in U.S. federal, state, and local government
agencies contain more vulnerabilities than in other industries — and only 16
percent of applications overall from government as well as other industries aced
their security tests in the first pass, according to a new report from Veracode.

Veracode adopted a more stringent, zero-policy approach to testing applications
for cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection flaws this time in its newly
published State of Software Security Report, which analyzed testing data from
the past 18 months for 9,910 applications submitted to the testing firm.

Why the zero-tolerance approach to XSS and SQL injection now? "It's not
acceptable anymore" to have these low-hanging fruit vulnerabilities, says Sam
King, vice president of product marketing at Veracode. "More than eight in 10
applications failed with the new policy."

That's down from the 68 percent pass rate for apps under Veracode's previously
more permissive policy that allowed for a minimal number of the flaws. "Our
objective is increasing the sense of urgency for people to take action," King
says.

Government applications had more vulnerabilities, with 40 percent of agency Web
apps containing SQL injection issues versus 29 percent of apps in the finance
industry and 30 percent in the software industry. One bit of good news: SQL
injection overall is diminishing in all apps, but remained flat in government
compared to previous reports. SQL injection vulnerabilities in apps had dropped
from 38 percent two years ago to around 32 percent, according to Chris Wysopal,
CTO of Veracode.

"SQL injection is trending downward [due to more] awareness of it. More
organizations are doing something about it," Wysopal says. "Cross-site
scripting, on the other hand, is flat … the same number of apps are affected by
it."

Another bright spot in the report: Eighty percent of the organizations were able
to fix their software's flaws within one week. "If you take action, it's not
hard to improve app security," Wysopal says.

Bob Tarzey, director and analyst with Quocirca, says Veracode's report shows
that there are a lot of vulnerabilities in applications today, but that they
"can be fixed pretty quickly."

Meanwhile, Veracode's King says the relatively poorer performance by government
apps was a bit unsettling. "Those are alarming findings," she says. "In more
instances, they were more frequently exploited than other industries were."

One explanation, she says, might have to do with the mix of Web programming
languages employed in government agencies. "They tend to make greater use of
ColdFusion as a Web app development language, which tends to be used by less
experienced developers," King says.

Among other findings by Veracode: More than 40 percent of Android apps contain
hard-coded encryption keys in them, while around 17 percent of other Java apps
did. Because Android apps are simple to decompile, an attacker could easily grab
and leak the keys, for instance, according to Veracode. "In Web apps, an
embedded encryption key is risky, but only the admin has access to that key,"
Veracode's Wysopal says. "With mobile apps, every single user who installs the
app has access to the key, so it's a more serious problem."

This could expose a healthcare patient app, for instance, he says. "People don't
like to type in a password on a mobile device every time, so for usability, a
lot of app developers are embedding the key that give access to the back-end Web
service," Wysopal says. "But that's inherently insecure. Anyone who gets access
to the app can authenticate to that service, which is OK if it's a public app,
but not if it [handles] patient information."

As mobile app adoption increases by enterprises, so will the number of flaws,
Quocirca's Tarzey says. "Look for a continued increase in mobile application and
firmware vulnerabilities," he says.


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If you do not find a 'Keys' investigator, I have members of my staff who reside
in South Florida who can handle the assignment.

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It is important that we all know that Justia.com might not be as complete
and accurate as we have been led to believe.  The topic of this case is not
the issue but rather the discoveries made therein.

December 14, 2011
JustiaGate: 'Natural Born' Supreme Court Citations  Disappear
By _Dianna  C. Cotter with L. Donofrio Esq_
(http://www.americanthinker.com/dianna_c_cotter_with_l_donofrio_esq/)



Did Justia.com deliberately aid Barack  Obama in 2008 by helping to hide
the one legal case that might prevent him from  legally qualifying for the
presidency?
On October 20, 2011, New Jersey attorney Leo  Donofrio accused online legal
research behemoth _Justia.com_ (http://www.justia.com/)   of surgically
redacting important information from their publication of 25 U.S.  Supreme
Court opinions which cite Minor v. Happersett, an 1874 decision  which arguably
contains language that appears to disqualify anyone from  presidential
eligibility who wasn't born in the country to parents who were  citizens.
According to the decision in  Happersett:
At common-law, with the nomenclature of  which the framers of the
Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that  all children born in a
country
of parents who were its citizens became  themselves, upon their birth,
citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born  citizens, as distinguished
from aliens or foreigners.  (Minor v.  Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, 167 [1874])
Justia is a _Google  Mini_
(http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/mini.html) -powered website which has
singled itself out as  one of the most
comprehensive and easy-to-search legal sites on the  internet.  Other legal
resources such as Lexis can cost as much as $5,000 a  month for a subscription,
and it's impossible to hyperlink to cases which  include copyrighted headnotes
and analysis.  This is why powerful law firms  such as Perkins Coie (where
former Obama White House Counsel _Bob  Bauer_
(http://www.perkinscoie.com/rbauer/)  practices law) have _cited_
(http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/look-who-cited-to-justia-for\
-supreme-court-holding/)  Justia's
pages.
The Wayback Machine, run by  InternetArchive.Org, is the means by which the
changes made at Justia were  documented over time.  Among the first
responses from Justia regarding this  controversy was to _block_
(http://www.examiner.com/civil-rights-in-portland/justiagate-the-cover-up-contin\
ues-1)  its
Supreme Court Server from being  viewed by the Wayback Machine.
Click the following link for _an image_ (htt
p://www.americanthinker.com/articles/assets/Help%20Larrey.png)  documenting the 
pattern of changes made to
one of those 25 cases, Luria v. U.S., 231  U.S. 9 (1913).  Notice that the
case name "Minor v. Happersett"  has been removed, minimizing the case
searchability.
The cover-up simply reeks.  While  Justia owner Tim Stanley told _CNET_
(http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20124882-281/was-legal-site-rewrite-a-liberal
-plot-not-quite/)  that there were more cases which had also  been
"mangled," there is no way to identify how much bogus law was published by 
Justia
over the three-year period in question.  Minor v.  Happersett simply
disappeared from cases which cited it, minimizing its  footprint on the internet
at
a critical juncture in history -- the election of  2008.
McCarthy v. Briscoe,  429 U.S. 1317 (1976)
On Nov. 3, 2008, one day before the  election, Donofrio _petitioned_
(http://blogtext.org/naturalborncitizen/article/29380.html?NEW+JERSEY+VOTER+VS.+\
OBA
MA+AND+McCAIN+ON+"NATURAL+BORN+CITIZEN"+STATUS+NOW+BEFORE+SUPREME+COURT+-+ST
)  the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the  ballots in New Jersey from being
used the next day in the case Donofrio v.  Wells, claiming that the eligibility
of both Obama and McCain had not been  verified by the NJ secretary of
State as required by  law.
In his research, Donofrio had found a  reference to McCarthy v. Briscoe,
429 U.S. 1317 (1976), an important  precedent which allows the Supreme Court
-- or even one justice acting alone if  an emergency stay is requested -- to
order a  secretary of state to insert a name on the ballot.  The holding of
the case implies a reciprocal power to remove names from ballots for  the
several secretaries of State, as well as the U.S. Supreme  Court.
Back in '08, Donofrio couldn't find the  in chambers decision anywhere
online.  Forced to go old-school, he  procured it from a brick-and-mortar law
library.  But to this day,  McCarthy v. Briscoe remains elusive at Justia.  If
you look in  their "Volume" database and click "429," all of the in
chambers  opinions are mysteriously absent.
In chambers opinions generally  begin on pg. 1,301, but not every official
volume has them.  For example,  Volume 428 has no in chambers opinions, but
429, 434, and 439 do.   Justia's database for Volumes 434 and 439 do exhibit
the in chambers  opinions, but Volume 429 has them scrubbed.
If you search Justia's Cases & Opinions by Year in 1976, McCarthy v.
Briscoe is listed.  There are two cases, an insignificant one-page  opinion at
page 1,316, followed by the relevant decision on pg. 1,317.   There are links
to the preview as well as "Full Text."  However, all of the  links are
broken, leading back to Justia's front page.
Additionally, Justia's publication of a  following 1977 5th Circuit case,
553 F.2d 1005, includes a hyperlink  back to 429 U.S. 1317, and that link is
also mysteriously  broken.
It would be instructive to track the  timeline of changes in the Wayback
Machine, but Justia is steadfastly preventing  that transparency.
Furthermore, if Justia continues its previous pattern,  the links (eg:
http://supreme.justia.com/us/429/1317/)  will be restored upon publication of
this article.
Take your screenshots  now.

With numerous state-level challenges  being prepared by opponents of
Obama's eligibility for 2012, McCarthy v.  Briscoe will be a required citation.
That it continues to be  unavailable at Justia seriously calls into question
Stanley's contention that  the cases on Justia's servers were mangled by an
innocent coding  error.
This claim of innocent technical _error_
(http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/justiagate-ceo-tim-stanley-c\
laims-innocense-after-blocking-
access-to-wayback-machine-snapshots-of-all-supreme-court-cases-published-by-
justia/)  was debunked by Dr. David Hansen, a Ph.D.  in computer  science.
McCarthy v. Briscoe, 429 U.S. 1317  (1976) at Justia shows a completely
different pattern of information removal  from what could be explained away by
a single coding error which erased case  names.
The removal of prior versions of cases  from the Wayback Machine by Justia
amounts to nothing less than supreme  hypocrisy considering Stanley's high
stature as a leading light championing  transparency of legal information for
the public.
Use at your own  risk
Justia in 2008 tangled with the State of  Oregon when it downloaded and
republished the State Statutes without either  informing the state or gaining
its permission, in violation of copyright  law.  Dexter Johnson, the head of
the Office of Oregon State _Legislative Counsel  Committee_
(http://www.lc.state.or.us/)  reported that the Committee received  information
that the
State Statutes were available at a website other than the  state.  Upon
investigation, the Committee ultimately decided not to pursue  legal action
against
Justia for copyright violation; instead, "the committee  decided to waive
its copyright on the Oregon Revised Statutes going forward,"  said Johnson in
a phone interview.
It is left to a user of Justia to verify  the information to be found
within its pages, despite a disclaimer of "Full Text  of Case" on its pages.
Upon inquiry with the U.S. Supreme Court, Patricia  McCabe Estrada, deputy
public information officer of the U.S. Supreme Court,  responded that "the
official opinions of the Supreme Court are posted on the  Court's Website and we
don't generally monitor other  sites."
Johnson says Oregon also does not have a  monitoring policy in place.  When
asked how a person using Justia's  services would know if he were receiving
accurate information or not, Johnson  replied:
The only way, it seems to me, would be  to compare that with what's on the
legislature's website. In which case you  might as well go directly to the
legislature's website. It's one of the reasons  why we had originally
suggested that they have their website simply point in the  direction of our
own.
Justia publishes SCOTUS cases with the  positive affirmation "Full Text of
Case."  Clearly this was not done with  regards to the specific opinions it
redacted and covered up.  Whether a  violation of law or not, various
non-profit agencies, students, law firms, and  private researchers who relied
upon
Justia's services remain in the dark, unable  to determine if their
research materials were altered by Justia, as the company  has released neither
what it redacted nor in what cases.  Without an  effective means of verifying
accuracy, Justia's transparency and credibility are  questionable.
Public.Resource.Org
It turns out that Justia received _additional help_
(http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/justiagate-say-it-aint-so-ca\
rl-malamud/)  from
their close counterpart in  the open government information movement,
Public.Resource.Org (PRO), founded and  run by Carl Malamud.  Malamud was also
the
chief technology  officer for The Center for American Progress, a
progressive  think-tank funded in part by none other than George Soros.  Tim 
Stanley
is on the Board of Trustees at Public.Resource.Org, and Justia is PRO's
top benefactor.  Stanley is also a co-convenor of Malamud's Law.gov
organization, which, despite appearances, is not a government  entity.
PRO makes available a huge database of  court cases to other organizations
such as the Cornell Legal Institute, which  has now been dragged into the
Justia mess through a case that cements Minor  v. Happersett as defining
"Natural Born Citizen."  Ex Parte:  Lockwood  states:
In Minor v. Happersett, 21 Wall. 162,  this court held that the word
'citizen' is often used to convey the  idea of membership in a nation, and, in
that sense, women, if born of citizen  parents within the jurisdiction of the
United States, have always been  considered citizens of the United States, as
much so before the adoption of the  fourteenth amendment of the
constitution as since[.]"  (Emphasis  added.)
However, at Cornell, the opinion is cut  off right after "Minor v.".
Someone searching for "Minor v. Happersett"  will be detoured from this case and
its holding in support of Minor's  precedence.  Cornell's version of Ex
Parte: Lockwood is completely  mangled.  Yet Lockwood helps prove that the
decision in Minor  created a legal definition of "Natural Born Citizen,"
something the national  narrative states that no Supreme Court Case has ever
done,
in part because  Minor's importance was effectively obscured.
There has been a deliberate, targeted  effort to minimize if not erase the
legal importance of Minor v.  Happersett in defining the term "Natural Born
Citizen."  Justia and  PRO champion freedom of information yet at the same
time hypocritically redacted  the law to suit a political goal.  Justia and
Tim Stanley butchered these  cases and, when caught, removed Wayback
Machine's access to Justia's entire  Supreme Court server.  The only thing
hidden
now is the evidence of  Justia's deliberate scrubbing, as the cases are
available in the public  domain.
Tim Stanley has not returned messages  asking for comment on this story at
time of publication.  Sometime last  week, Justia added a _disclaimer_
(http://supreme.justia.com/us/88/162/case.html)  at the bottom of its SCOTUS
case
  texts:
Official Supreme Court caselaw is only  found in the print version of the
United States Reports. Justia caselaw is  provided for general informational
purposes only, and may not reflect current  legal developments, verdicts or
settlements. We make no warranties or guarantees  about the accuracy,
completeness, or adequacy of the information contained on  this site or
information linked to from this site. Please check official  sources.
The disclaimer speaks volumes about the  credibility and accuracy of
Justia.com.





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REALLY, WHO CARES!


> To: freekali@yahoogroups.com; infoguys-list@yahoogroups.com
> From: suesarkis@...
> Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:18:48 -0500
> Subject: [infoguys-list] Attorneys need to know this
>
>
>
> It is important that we all know that Justia.com might not be as complete
> and accurate as we have been led to believe. The topic of this case is not
> the issue but rather the discoveries made therein.
>
> December 14, 2011
> JustiaGate: 'Natural Born' Supreme Court Citations Disappear
> By _Dianna C. Cotter with L. Donofrio Esq_
> (http://www.americanthinker.com/dianna_c_cotter_with_l_donofrio_esq/)
>
>
>
> Did Justia.com deliberately aid Barack Obama in 2008 by helping to hide
> the one legal case that might prevent him from legally qualifying for the
> presidency?
> On October 20, 2011, New Jersey attorney Leo Donofrio accused online legal
> research behemoth _Justia.com_ (http://www.justia.com/) of surgically
> redacting important information from their publication of 25 U.S. Supreme
> Court opinions which cite Minor v. Happersett, an 1874 decision which arguably
> contains language that appears to disqualify anyone from presidential
> eligibility who wasn't born in the country to parents who were citizens.
> According to the decision in Happersett:
> At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the
> Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a
country
> of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth,
> citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished
> from aliens or foreigners. (Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, 167 [1874])
> Justia is a _Google Mini_
> (http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/mini.html) -powered website which has
singled itself out as one of the most
> comprehensive and easy-to-search legal sites on the internet. Other legal
> resources such as Lexis can cost as much as $5,000 a month for a subscription,
> and it's impossible to hyperlink to cases which include copyrighted headnotes
> and analysis. This is why powerful law firms such as Perkins Coie (where
> former Obama White House Counsel _Bob Bauer_
> (http://www.perkinscoie.com/rbauer/) practices law) have _cited_
>
(http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/look-who-cited-to-justia-for\
-supreme-court-holding/) Justia's
> pages.
> The Wayback Machine, run by InternetArchive.Org, is the means by which the
> changes made at Justia were documented over time. Among the first
> responses from Justia regarding this controversy was to _block_
>
(http://www.examiner.com/civil-rights-in-portland/justiagate-the-cover-up-contin\
ues-1) its
> Supreme Court Server from being viewed by the Wayback Machine.
> Click the following link for _an image_ (htt
> p://www.americanthinker.com/articles/assets/Help%20Larrey.png) documenting the
pattern of changes made to
> one of those 25 cases, Luria v. U.S., 231 U.S. 9 (1913). Notice that the
> case name "Minor v. Happersett" has been removed, minimizing the case
> searchability.
> The cover-up simply reeks. While Justia owner Tim Stanley told _CNET_
>
(http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20124882-281/was-legal-site-rewrite-a-liberal
> -plot-not-quite/) that there were more cases which had also been
> "mangled," there is no way to identify how much bogus law was published by
Justia
> over the three-year period in question. Minor v. Happersett simply
> disappeared from cases which cited it, minimizing its footprint on the
internet at
> a critical juncture in history -- the election of 2008.
> McCarthy v. Briscoe, 429 U.S. 1317 (1976)
> On Nov. 3, 2008, one day before the election, Donofrio _petitioned_
>
(http://blogtext.org/naturalborncitizen/article/29380.html?NEW+JERSEY+VOTER+VS.+\
OBA
> MA+AND+McCAIN+ON+"NATURAL+BORN+CITIZEN"+STATUS+NOW+BEFORE+SUPREME+COURT+-+ST
> ) the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the ballots in New Jersey from being
> used the next day in the case Donofrio v. Wells, claiming that the eligibility
> of both Obama and McCain had not been verified by the NJ secretary of
> State as required by law.
> In his research, Donofrio had found a reference to McCarthy v. Briscoe,
> 429 U.S. 1317 (1976), an important precedent which allows the Supreme Court
> -- or even one justice acting alone if an emergency stay is requested -- to
> order a secretary of state to insert a name on the ballot. The holding of
> the case implies a reciprocal power to remove names from ballots for the
> several secretaries of State, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court.
> Back in '08, Donofrio couldn't find the in chambers decision anywhere
> online. Forced to go old-school, he procured it from a brick-and-mortar law
> library. But to this day, McCarthy v. Briscoe remains elusive at Justia. If
> you look in their "Volume" database and click "429," all of the in
> chambers opinions are mysteriously absent.
> In chambers opinions generally begin on pg. 1,301, but not every official
> volume has them. For example, Volume 428 has no in chambers opinions, but
> 429, 434, and 439 do. Justia's database for Volumes 434 and 439 do exhibit
> the in chambers opinions, but Volume 429 has them scrubbed.
> If you search Justia's Cases & Opinions by Year in 1976, McCarthy v.
> Briscoe is listed. There are two cases, an insignificant one-page opinion at
> page 1,316, followed by the relevant decision on pg. 1,317. There are links
> to the preview as well as "Full Text." However, all of the links are
> broken, leading back to Justia's front page.
> Additionally, Justia's publication of a following 1977 5th Circuit case,
> 553 F.2d 1005, includes a hyperlink back to 429 U.S. 1317, and that link is
> also mysteriously broken.
> It would be instructive to track the timeline of changes in the Wayback
> Machine, but Justia is steadfastly preventing that transparency.
> Furthermore, if Justia continues its previous pattern, the links (eg:
> http://supreme.justia.com/us/429/1317/) will be restored upon publication of
this article.
> Take your screenshots now.
>
> With numerous state-level challenges being prepared by opponents of
> Obama's eligibility for 2012, McCarthy v. Briscoe will be a required citation.
> That it continues to be unavailable at Justia seriously calls into question
> Stanley's contention that the cases on Justia's servers were mangled by an
> innocent coding error.
> This claim of innocent technical _error_
>
(http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/justiagate-ceo-tim-stanley-c\
laims-innocense-after-blocking-
> access-to-wayback-machine-snapshots-of-all-supreme-court-cases-published-by-
> justia/) was debunked by Dr. David Hansen, a Ph.D. in computer science.
> McCarthy v. Briscoe, 429 U.S. 1317 (1976) at Justia shows a completely
> different pattern of information removal from what could be explained away by
> a single coding error which erased case names.
> The removal of prior versions of cases from the Wayback Machine by Justia
> amounts to nothing less than supreme hypocrisy considering Stanley's high
> stature as a leading light championing transparency of legal information for
> the public.
> Use at your own risk
> Justia in 2008 tangled with the State of Oregon when it downloaded and
> republished the State Statutes without either informing the state or gaining
> its permission, in violation of copyright law. Dexter Johnson, the head of
> the Office of Oregon State _Legislative Counsel Committee_
> (http://www.lc.state.or.us/) reported that the Committee received information
that the
> State Statutes were available at a website other than the state. Upon
> investigation, the Committee ultimately decided not to pursue legal action
against
> Justia for copyright violation; instead, "the committee decided to waive
> its copyright on the Oregon Revised Statutes going forward," said Johnson in
> a phone interview.
> It is left to a user of Justia to verify the information to be found
> within its pages, despite a disclaimer of "Full Text of Case" on its pages.
> Upon inquiry with the U.S. Supreme Court, Patricia McCabe Estrada, deputy
> public information officer of the U.S. Supreme Court, responded that "the
> official opinions of the Supreme Court are posted on the Court's Website and
we
> don't generally monitor other sites."
> Johnson says Oregon also does not have a monitoring policy in place. When
> asked how a person using Justia's services would know if he were receiving
> accurate information or not, Johnson replied:
> The only way, it seems to me, would be to compare that with what's on the
> legislature's website. In which case you might as well go directly to the
> legislature's website. It's one of the reasons why we had originally
> suggested that they have their website simply point in the direction of our
own.
> Justia publishes SCOTUS cases with the positive affirmation "Full Text of
> Case." Clearly this was not done with regards to the specific opinions it
> redacted and covered up. Whether a violation of law or not, various
> non-profit agencies, students, law firms, and private researchers who relied
upon
> Justia's services remain in the dark, unable to determine if their
> research materials were altered by Justia, as the company has released neither
> what it redacted nor in what cases. Without an effective means of verifying
> accuracy, Justia's transparency and credibility are questionable.
> Public.Resource.Org
> It turns out that Justia received _additional help_
>
(http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/justiagate-say-it-aint-so-ca\
rl-malamud/) from
> their close counterpart in the open government information movement,
> Public.Resource.Org (PRO), founded and run by Carl Malamud. Malamud was also
the
> chief technology officer for The Center for American Progress, a
> progressive think-tank funded in part by none other than George Soros. Tim
Stanley
> is on the Board of Trustees at Public.Resource.Org, and Justia is PRO's
> top benefactor. Stanley is also a co-convenor of Malamud's Law.gov
> organization, which, despite appearances, is not a government entity.
> PRO makes available a huge database of court cases to other organizations
> such as the Cornell Legal Institute, which has now been dragged into the
> Justia mess through a case that cements Minor v. Happersett as defining
> "Natural Born Citizen." Ex Parte: Lockwood states:
> In Minor v. Happersett, 21 Wall. 162, this court held that the word
> 'citizen' is often used to convey the idea of membership in a nation, and, in
> that sense, women, if born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction of the
> United States, have always been considered citizens of the United States, as
> much so before the adoption of the fourteenth amendment of the
> constitution as since[.]" (Emphasis added.)
> However, at Cornell, the opinion is cut off right after "Minor v.".
> Someone searching for "Minor v. Happersett" will be detoured from this case
and
> its holding in support of Minor's precedence. Cornell's version of Ex
> Parte: Lockwood is completely mangled. Yet Lockwood helps prove that the
> decision in Minor created a legal definition of "Natural Born Citizen,"
> something the national narrative states that no Supreme Court Case has ever
done,
> in part because Minor's importance was effectively obscured.
> There has been a deliberate, targeted effort to minimize if not erase the
> legal importance of Minor v. Happersett in defining the term "Natural Born
> Citizen." Justia and PRO champion freedom of information yet at the same
> time hypocritically redacted the law to suit a political goal. Justia and
> Tim Stanley butchered these cases and, when caught, removed Wayback
> Machine's access to Justia's entire Supreme Court server. The only thing
hidden
> now is the evidence of Justia's deliberate scrubbing, as the cases are
> available in the public domain.
> Tim Stanley has not returned messages asking for comment on this story at
> time of publication. Sometime last week, Justia added a _disclaimer_
> (http://supreme.justia.com/us/88/162/case.html) at the bottom of its SCOTUS
case
> texts:
> Official Supreme Court caselaw is only found in the print version of the
> United States Reports. Justia caselaw is provided for general informational
> purposes only, and may not reflect current legal developments, verdicts or
> settlements. We make no warranties or guarantees about the accuracy,
> completeness, or adequacy of the information contained on this site or
> information linked to from this site. Please check official sources.
> The disclaimer speaks volumes about the credibility and accuracy of
> Justia.com.
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>________________________________
>From: Vic Negron <vicpi@...>
>To: infoguys-list@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 4:05 PM
>Subject: RE: [infoguys-list] Attorneys need to know this
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>REALLY, WHO CARES!
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>> To: freekali@yahoogroups.com; infoguys-list@yahoogroups.com
>> From: suesarkis@...
>> Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:18:48 -0500
>> Subject: [infoguys-list] Attorneys need to know this
>>
>>
>>
>> It is important that we all know that Justia.com might not be as complete
>> and accurate as we have been led to believe. The topic of this case is not
>> the issue but rather the discoveries made therein.
>>
>> December 14, 2011
>> JustiaGate: 'Natural Born' Supreme Court Citations Disappear
>> By _Dianna C. Cotter with L. Donofrio Esq_
>> (http://www.americanthinker.com/dianna_c_cotter_with_l_donofrio_esq/)
>>
>>
>>
>> Did Justia.com deliberately aid Barack Obama in 2008 by helping to hide
>> the one legal case that might prevent him from legally qualifying for the
>> presidency?
>> On October 20, 2011, New Jersey attorney Leo Donofrio accused online legal
>> research behemoth _Justia.com_ (http://www.justia.com/) of surgically
>> redacting important information from their publication of 25 U.S. Supreme
>> Court opinions which cite Minor v. Happersett, an 1874 decision which
arguably
>> contains language that appears to disqualify anyone from presidential
>> eligibility who wasn't born in the country to parents who were citizens.
>> According to the decision in Happersett:
>> At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the
>> Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a
country
>> of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth,
>> citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished
>> from aliens or foreigners. (Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, 167 [1874])
>> Justia is a _Google Mini_
>> (http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/mini.html) -powered website which
has singled itself out as one of the most
>> comprehensive and easy-to-search legal sites on the internet. Other legal
>> resources such as Lexis can cost as much as $5,000 a month for a
subscription,
>> and it's impossible to hyperlink to cases which include copyrighted headnotes
>> and analysis. This is why powerful law firms such as Perkins Coie (where
>> former Obama White House Counsel _Bob Bauer_
>> (http://www.perkinscoie.com/rbauer/) practices law) have _cited_
>>
(http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/look-who-cited-to-justia-for\
-supreme-court-holding/) Justia's
>> pages.
>> The Wayback Machine, run by InternetArchive.Org, is the means by which the
>> changes made at Justia were documented over time. Among the first
>> responses from Justia regarding this controversy was to _block_
>>
(http://www.examiner.com/civil-rights-in-portland/justiagate-the-cover-up-contin\
ues-1) its
>> Supreme Court Server from being viewed by the Wayback Machine.
>> Click the following link for _an image_ (htt
>> p://www.americanthinker.com/articles/assets/Help%20Larrey.png) documenting
the pattern of changes made to
>> one of those 25 cases, Luria v. U.S., 231 U.S. 9 (1913). Notice that the
>> case name "Minor v. Happersett" has been removed, minimizing the case
>> searchability.
>> The cover-up simply reeks. While Justia owner Tim Stanley told _CNET_
>>
(http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20124882-281/was-legal-site-rewrite-a-liberal
>> -plot-not-quite/) that there were more cases which had also been
>> "mangled," there is no way to identify how much bogus law was published by
Justia
>> over the three-year period in question. Minor v. Happersett simply
>> disappeared from cases which cited it, minimizing its footprint on the
internet at
>> a critical juncture in history -- the election of 2008.
>> McCarthy v. Briscoe, 429 U.S. 1317 (1976)
>> On Nov. 3, 2008, one day before the election, Donofrio _petitioned_
>>
(http://blogtext.org/naturalborncitizen/article/29380.html?NEW+JERSEY+VOTER+VS.+\
OBA
>> MA+AND+McCAIN+ON+"NATURAL+BORN+CITIZEN"+STATUS+NOW+BEFORE+SUPREME+COURT+-+ST
>> ) the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the ballots in New Jersey from being
>> used the next day in the case Donofrio v. Wells, claiming that the
eligibility
>> of both Obama and McCain had not been verified by the NJ secretary of
>> State as required by law.
>> In his research, Donofrio had found a reference to McCarthy v. Briscoe,
>> 429 U.S. 1317 (1976), an important precedent which allows the Supreme Court
>> -- or even one justice acting alone if an emergency stay is requested -- to
>> order a secretary of state to insert a name on the ballot. The holding of
>> the case implies a reciprocal power to remove names from ballots for the
>> several secretaries of State, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court.
>> Back in '08, Donofrio couldn't find the in chambers decision anywhere
>> online. Forced to go old-school, he procured it from a brick-and-mortar law
>> library. But to this day, McCarthy v. Briscoe remains elusive at Justia. If
>> you look in their "Volume" database and click "429," all of the in
>> chambers opinions are mysteriously absent.
>> In chambers opinions generally begin on pg. 1,301, but not every official
>> volume has them. For example, Volume 428 has no in chambers opinions, but
>> 429, 434, and 439 do. Justia's database for Volumes 434 and 439 do exhibit
>> the in chambers opinions, but Volume 429 has them scrubbed.
>> If you search Justia's Cases & Opinions by Year in 1976, McCarthy v.
>> Briscoe is listed. There are two cases, an insignificant one-page opinion at
>> page 1,316, followed by the relevant decision on pg. 1,317. There are links
>> to the preview as well as "Full Text." However, all of the links are
>> broken, leading back to Justia's front page.
>> Additionally, Justia's publication of a following 1977 5th Circuit case,
>> 553 F.2d 1005, includes a hyperlink back to 429 U.S. 1317, and that link is
>> also mysteriously broken.
>> It would be instructive to track the timeline of changes in the Wayback
>> Machine, but Justia is steadfastly preventing that transparency.
>> Furthermore, if Justia continues its previous pattern, the links (eg:
>> http://supreme.justia.com/us/429/1317/) will be restored upon publication of
this article.
>> Take your screenshots now.
>>
>> With numerous state-level challenges being prepared by opponents of
>> Obama's eligibility for 2012, McCarthy v. Briscoe will be a required
citation.
>> That it continues to be unavailable at Justia seriously calls into question
>> Stanley's contention that the cases on Justia's servers were mangled by an
>> innocent coding error.
>> This claim of innocent technical _error_
>>
(http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/justiagate-ceo-tim-stanley-c\
laims-innocense-after-blocking-
>> access-to-wayback-machine-snapshots-of-all-supreme-court-cases-published-by-
>> justia/) was debunked by Dr. David Hansen, a Ph.D. in computer science.
>> McCarthy v. Briscoe, 429 U.S. 1317 (1976) at Justia shows a completely
>> different pattern of information removal from what could be explained away by
>> a single coding error which erased case names.
>> The removal of prior versions of cases from the Wayback Machine by Justia
>> amounts to nothing less than supreme hypocrisy considering Stanley's high
>> stature as a leading light championing transparency of legal information for
>> the public.
>> Use at your own risk
>> Justia in 2008 tangled with the State of Oregon when it downloaded and
>> republished the State Statutes without either informing the state or gaining
>> its permission, in violation of copyright law. Dexter Johnson, the head of
>> the Office of Oregon State _Legislative Counsel Committee_
>> (http://www.lc.state.or.us/) reported that the Committee received information
that the
>> State Statutes were available at a website other than the state. Upon
>> investigation, the Committee ultimately decided not to pursue legal action
against
>> Justia for copyright violation; instead, "the committee decided to waive
>> its copyright on the Oregon Revised Statutes going forward," said Johnson in
>> a phone interview.
>> It is left to a user of Justia to verify the information to be found
>> within its pages, despite a disclaimer of "Full Text of Case" on its pages.
>> Upon inquiry with the U.S. Supreme Court, Patricia McCabe Estrada, deputy
>> public information officer of the U.S. Supreme Court, responded that "the
>> official opinions of the Supreme Court are posted on the Court's Website and
we
>> don't generally monitor other sites."
>> Johnson says Oregon also does not have a monitoring policy in place. When
>> asked how a person using Justia's services would know if he were receiving
>> accurate information or not, Johnson replied:
>> The only way, it seems to me, would be to compare that with what's on the
>> legislature's website. In which case you might as well go directly to the
>> legislature's website. It's one of the reasons why we had originally
>> suggested that they have their website simply point in the direction of our
own.
>> Justia publishes SCOTUS cases with the positive affirmation "Full Text of
>> Case." Clearly this was not done with regards to the specific opinions it
>> redacted and covered up. Whether a violation of law or not, various
>> non-profit agencies, students, law firms, and private researchers who relied
upon
>> Justia's services remain in the dark, unable to determine if their
>> research materials were altered by Justia, as the company has released
neither
>> what it redacted nor in what cases. Without an effective means of verifying
>> accuracy, Justia's transparency and credibility are questionable.
>> Public.Resource.Org
>> It turns out that Justia received _additional help_
>>
(http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/justiagate-say-it-aint-so-ca\
rl-malamud/) from
>> their close counterpart in the open government information movement,
>> Public.Resource.Org (PRO), founded and run by Carl Malamud. Malamud was also
the
>> chief technology officer for The Center for American Progress, a
>> progressive think-tank funded in part by none other than George Soros. Tim
Stanley
>> is on the Board of Trustees at Public.Resource.Org, and Justia is PRO's
>> top benefactor. Stanley is also a co-convenor of Malamud's Law.gov
>> organization, which, despite appearances, is not a government entity.
>> PRO makes available a huge database of court cases to other organizations
>> such as the Cornell Legal Institute, which has now been dragged into the
>> Justia mess through a case that cements Minor v. Happersett as defining
>> "Natural Born Citizen." Ex Parte: Lockwood states:
>> In Minor v. Happersett, 21 Wall. 162, this court held that the word
>> 'citizen' is often used to convey the idea of membership in a nation, and, in
>> that sense, women, if born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction of the
>> United States, have always been considered citizens of the United States, as
>> much so before the adoption of the fourteenth amendment of the
>> constitution as since[.]" (Emphasis added.)
>> However, at Cornell, the opinion is cut off right after "Minor v.".
>> Someone searching for "Minor v. Happersett" will be detoured from this case
and
>> its holding in support of Minor's precedence. Cornell's version of Ex
>> Parte: Lockwood is completely mangled. Yet Lockwood helps prove that the
>> decision in Minor created a legal definition of "Natural Born Citizen,"
>> something the national narrative states that no Supreme Court Case has ever
done,
>> in part because Minor's importance was effectively obscured.
>> There has been a deliberate, targeted effort to minimize if not erase the
>> legal importance of Minor v. Happersett in defining the term "Natural Born
>> Citizen." Justia and PRO champion freedom of information yet at the same
>> time hypocritically redacted the law to suit a political goal. Justia and
>> Tim Stanley butchered these cases and, when caught, removed Wayback
>> Machine's access to Justia's entire Supreme Court server. The only thing
hidden
>> now is the evidence of Justia's deliberate scrubbing, as the cases are
>> available in the public domain.
>> Tim Stanley has not returned messages asking for comment on this story at
>> time of publication. Sometime last week, Justia added a _disclaimer_
>> (http://supreme.justia.com/us/88/162/case.html) at the bottom of its SCOTUS
case
>> texts:
>> Official Supreme Court caselaw is only found in the print version of the
>> United States Reports. Justia caselaw is provided for general informational
>> purposes only, and may not reflect current legal developments, verdicts or
>> settlements. We make no warranties or guarantees about the accuracy,
>> completeness, or adequacy of the information contained on this site or
>> information linked to from this site. Please check official sources.
>> The disclaimer speaks volumes about the credibility and accuracy of
>> Justia.com.
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Published Sun,  Dec 18, 2011 03:59 AM
Modified Sun, Dec 18, 2011 05:53 AM
Judges' decision in  Peterson case puts SBI in tough spot over former agent
Deaver








Shawn Rocco - srocco@...
Michael Peterson's lawyer David Rudolf questions Tom Bevel  during
Peterson's hearing at the Durham County Courthouse on  Tuesday.


BY JOSEPH NEFF The News and Observer

When Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson ordered a new trial for Durham
author Michael Peterson, he uttered a phrase seldom used by a judge describing
  the conduct of an SBI agent on the witness stand: "perjured testimony."
Hudson ruled Wednesday that former State Bureau of Investigation agent
Duane  Deaver repeatedly misled Hudson and the jury at Peterson's 2003 murder
trial.
Joseph Kennedy, an expert on criminal law at UNC law school, found Deaver's
  misconduct "mind-boggling" and was especially troubled because Deaver was
an  expert witness in a circumstantial case with no confession and no
eyewitnesses.  Peterson's guilt or innocence turned on forensic expert
testimony,
Kennedy said.









The jury had to rely on forensic experts to interpret complicated evidence
such as the bloodstains on Peterson's clothes and on the staircase where
his  wife, Kathleen Peterson, was found dead.
"To perjure oneself as an expert in a circumstantial murder trial is the
gravest sort of perjury that I can think of," Kennedy said. "If this doesn't
deserve a perjury prosecution, I can't imagine one that does."
Deaver's "perjured testimony" occurred in Durham,  where District Attorney
Tracey Cline is the county's top prosecutor. Cline, who  defended Deaver's
work in the hearing, declined to say whether she would  investigate Deaver,
saying only that perjury was a difficult crime to  prove.
Hudson expressed interest in an investigation, but North Carolina law does
not allow Superior Court judges to appoint a special prosecutor for
perjury. He  could, however, charge Deaver with contempt of court and appoint a
special  prosecutor.
The office of Attorney General Roy Cooper, which supervises the SBI, is so
entangled with Deaver in court that it will not answer questions about
whether  it would seek a perjury investigation - or about why it took the bureau
so long  to stop an agent whose work has now been discredited in multiple
cases.
Similarly, SBI officials did not return phone calls. Cooper's spokeswoman,
Noelle Talley, said neither the attorney general nor anyone at the SBI
would  discuss Deaver while litigation is pending.
In one case, the attorney general is fighting Deaver, who was fired in
January and is suing to get his job back at the SBI. In another, the office is
defending Deaver in a lawsuit brought by Greg Taylor, a Raleigh man
declared  innocent in 2010 by the state's Innocence Inquiry Commission.
Deaver's failure to report the results of blood tests  was crucial to
Taylor's exoneration, the first time in the United States that an  independent
agency overturned a conviction and declared someone  innocent.
The Attorney General's office has also been asked to oppose the Peterson
retrial decision on appeal.
Pattern of bias
The Peterson hearing provided evidence that SBI supervisors knew from the
start of Deaver's career that he had a strong bias toward the prosecution.
In  1988, soon after being hired, Deaver participated in a mock courtroom
exercise  to prepare him for testifying at trial.
His supervisor at the SBI crime lab noted several  weaknesses, including "a
strong bias towards the prosecution."
That was inappropriate; forensic scientists are tasked with being unbiased,
  using science to find facts irrespective of whether the truth helps
prosecution  or defense.
That same supervisor, Mark Nelson, told SBI internal investigators that
"Deaver could never admit being wrong."
SBI records show that bias continued in recent cases.
In 2009, Deaver attended a meeting with a prosecutor and two SBI lab
analysts  to discuss the Greg Taylor case, which was scheduled to be heard by
the
Innocence Inquiry Commission. The two lab analysts had re-tested physical
evidence that Deaver had tested in the early 1990s. Taylor had insisted on
his  innocence since his first encounter with police.
One analyst, Kristin Hughes, said she was shocked and angered by the
pro-prosecution comments Deaver made at the meeting: "He's guilty." "He did it."
"He's where he needs to be." "He'd never survive a hearing."
Hughes said Deaver tried to get the second analyst, Russell Holley, to
testify that a stain seen in a photograph was blood. Holley refused, saying
they  needed lab tests, not a picture, to identify blood.
Hughes said Deaver shot back in a condescending  attitude: "Well, why not?
You're a trained analyst. You should have enough  experience to say there's
blood in the picture."
Diane Savage, a Chapel Hill lawyer, had repeatedly  complained to the SBI
starting in 1997 about Deaver's misconduct in the Johnston  County capital
trial of George Goode. A federal judge agreed, ruling in 2009  that Deaver had
provided false and misleading testimony.
Much of the information on Deaver presented last week was developed during
the SBI's internal investigation in 2010. Peterson's lawyer, David Rudolf,
complimented the SBI on a thorough and comprehensive investigation.
But Rudolf was puzzled that the SBI failed to mention the serious findings
from its investigation when the agency fired Deaver. For example, the SBI
cited  a comment Deaver made on videotape at the end of a bloodstain
experiment:  "That's a wrap, baby!" But the agency did not cite the underlying
experiments,  which have been uniformly derided by leading experts in the field.
"In my opinion, they fired him for the wrong reasons," Rudolf said. "The
remark pales in comparison with his actual work and conduct."
54, not 500
Michael Peterson was convicted of the murder of Kathleen Peterson, a Nortel
  Networks executive who was found dead at the bottom of a bloodstained
staircase  in their Forest Hills mansion in 2001. Jurors have said Deaver's
testimony was  crucial to their deliberations and verdict.
At the 2003 trial, Hudson allowed Deaver to testify as  an expert witness
in bloodstain pattern analysis. Regular witnesses testify  about facts.
Expert witnesses can give opinions, and Deaver testified about his  experiments
and analysis of bloodstains in the staircase and on Peterson's  clothes. His
opinion: Michael Peterson murdered his wife on the  staircase.
To support his expert qualifications, Deaver testified that he had worked
on  500 bloodstain pattern analysis cases, had written reports in 200 cases
and  testified in 60.
The SBI searched its records and found 54 bloodstain cases that Deaver
worked  on.
Deaver testified that before the Peterson case he had worked on 15 cases
where a fall allegedly occurred. SBI records contained none, according to Ron
  Guerette, a private investigator who reviewed all of Deaver's bloodstain
cases  for Peterson's legal team.
Deaver testified that his methodology and experiments were consistent with
other experts. At the recent hearing, three national experts said Deaver's
work  in the Peterson case was unscientific and unacceptable.
'A dark hole'
N.C. Central law professor Irving Joyner said Cline, the district attorney,
  would be the appropriate party to launch an investigation into perjury or
obstruction of justice.
"From the politics of the situation, I think she will not file charges,"
Joyner said. Prosecutors work on an ongoing basis with law enforcement
agencies,  including the SBI.
"The chief justice or governor should convene a  commission to look into
the betrayal of trust by prosecutors and investigators  that has dumped the
respect and credibility of the criminal justice system into  a dark hole,"
Joyner said. "Its respect and credibility is at the lowest point  I've ever
seen."
Neff: 919-829-4516





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Sincerely  yours,
Sue
________________________
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(est. 1976)
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Since some of you really like a variety of "Easter Eggs", Google has
furnished us with a good one.  Go to either the Firefox or Google Chrome 
browser
and type in the words LET IT SNOW.  Eventually the search button  turns
into a defrost button.

Have fun.




Sincerely  yours,
Sue
________________________
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Sarkis Detective Agency

(est. 1976)
PI  6564
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Good morning,

To begin with as we are in the holiday season I would like to take a
moment to wish everyone a Happy Chanukah,a Merry Christmas and happy
holiday to all.

Also I wish that you all have a very Happy and Healthy New Year and it should be
safe and prosperous for all.


We are up to 14,489 members today and have added over 200 just this week
  alone. Without a doubt the fastest growing Credit and Collection group
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We have started a mailing list website so that we will be able to send
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We will be moving our physical office over the next 2 weeks to beautiful
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with conference rooms.
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Is your company hiring for 2012? The jobs tab here is great and i see
that growing in leaps and bounds. You can get some great talent from the
  network here.

My resume is still at http://sbtresume.weebly.com


 
Steve Taylor
President
RZD Investigative Group, Inc
Skiptrace Consultants 
P.O Box 741342
Boynton Beach, Fl 33474

(954)722-0473

FL License A2600003
http://www.skiptraceconsultants.com
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I am trying to find registration information on a domain URL. I check whois
  and there is no record. It may be for a business located in Ireland. I
checked  whoisIreland and no record.  Can any one give me a little direction as
to  where I might look
Thank you and Happy Holidays


Gil

Gil  Whitlock
Associated Research & Investigations, Ltd
800-720-8955
_www.associated-research.com_ (http://www.associated-research.com/)


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Holiday Greetings & Salutations from G.E. Investigations


It is that time of year again.

It seems like 2011 began only yesterday, and here we are facing 2012.

I know it has been a very difficult year economically, but I hope all of you
well, and that the New Year finds you all in the best of health and more
PROSPEROU$!

As we have done for the past eight years, we have a NEW 2011 Holiday Video Card
for your enjoyment.

This year we created a new "comic book" style holiday treat for your enjoyment.


And we have also included the links for the 2003 to 2010 Holiday Video Cards for
your convenience.


Here is the G.E. Investigations, LLC Blog link:
http://geinvestigations.com/blog/2011/12/holiday-salutations-from-g-e-investigat\
ions-holiday-card/

or if you prefer the direct link: www.GeInvestigations.com/holiday2011


We wish you all a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays & Happy
Festivus!

And "Best Wishes" for a Safe and Joyous New Year!


Professionally,

G.E. Investigations, LLC
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Good morning,

As we bring the year to a close and this is my final email for the year I
  would like to take the time to wish everyone a happy, healthy, and
prosperous new year.

In the last 12 months we have grown from about 8000, members to 14,705
members that we have today. We have just been growing in leaps and
bounds.

We have introduced several new programs. Our biggest success is the
Credit and Collections Vendor Recommendation site. We are getting an
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Please visit http://creditandcollectionsvendorrecommendations.weebly.com/

Are you looking for a new job or career change in 2012? Let people know
and post your resume in  The Credit & Collection Resume Place.  My
resume is at http://sbtresume.weebly.com

Will you be seeking a new agency or law firm for your collections and don't know
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Will you be outsourcing your skips or POE searches? Please visit:
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Does your firm need skiptrace training? Please visit
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Would you like to join our mailing list?  We are in the process of
building that at this moment and would welcome everyone on board.

Please link in with us as well. The more contacts we have the stronger we
become.

Once again please have a happy, healthy, safe new year and you can hopefully
look forward to seeing us back in 2012.
 
Steve Taylor
President
RZD Investigative Group, Inc
Skiptrace Consultants 
P.O Box 741342
Boynton Beach, Fl 33474

(954)722-0473

FL License A2600003
http://www.skiptraceconsultants.com
http://skiptraceconsultant.wordpress.com
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http://thepoelocator.weebly.com
http://thedebtcollectionconnection.weebly.com
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____________________________________
  From: SherlockHomz@...
To: servenow-process-servers@yahoogroups.com,
process-servers-network@yahoogroups.com, pps@yahoogroups.com, 
PIgroup@yahoogroups.com,
infoguys-list@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 12/27/2011  8:32:07 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
Subj: (no subject)



I have a Citation to be served personally on the Director & resident  of a
DDSO on Stone Road. Must be done by January 15. If you handle  this area and
are interested please contact me by e-mail _sherlockhomz@..._
(mailto:sherlockhomz@...) . with your tat and  price. I will provide
affidavits
or you may use your own, they must be  notarized. Thanks




Martin  Lichtig
Private Investigator/Process Server
P. O. Box 525
Shrub Oak,  NY 10588
914-420-3737
NYS Licensed Private Investigator License #  11000051467
NYC Licensed Process Server License #  0965095
sherlockhomz@...




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____________________________________
  From: SherlockHomz@...
To: servenow-process-servers@yahoogroups.com,
process-servers-network@yahoogroups.com, pps@yahoogroups.com, 
PIgroup@yahoogroups.com,
infoguys-list@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 12/27/2011  8:32:07 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
Subj: (no subject)



I have a Citation to be served personally on the Director &  resident of a
DDSO on Stone Road. Must be done by January 15. If  you handle this area and
are interested please contact me by e-mail _sherlockhomz@..._
(mailto:sherlockhomz@...) . with your tat  and price. I will provide
affidavits
or you may use your own, they must be  notarized. Thanks


Sorry for the duplicate messages but Yahoo bounced the messages. Happy New
Year






Martin  Lichtig
Private Investigator/Process Server
P. O. Box 525
Shrub  Oak, NY 10588
914-420-3737
NYS Licensed Private Investigator License  # 11000051467
NYC Licensed Process Server License #  0965095
sherlockhomz@...



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As a member of this group I would like to personally thank all of the people
whom switched over to www.skipmax.com from IRB, Locate Plus and Merlin.  It is
obvious yousee the value in our services and have taken advantage of our price
roll back.  The respomse is truly overwhelming and appreciated as thousands of
you have chosen to stop paying HIGH prices and monthly fees to access your data.
Please watch for new
and exciting products at SkipMax.


Terry Sweet
COO
National Data Research
sales@...
www.skipmax.com

If she loses in court, hopefully she will have the power behind  her to
appeal the matter.  The NY prosecutors have never, ever pursued the  Sullivan
Act beyond the appellate court regardless of who won the appeal.   They know
full well what the SCOTUS would tell them to do with the Act.   However, in
recent times the juries have been acquitting.
Tennessee tourist arrested for bringing pistol into 9/11 Memorial
By JAMIE SCHRAM, C.J. SULLIVAN and DAREH GREGORIAN
Last Updated: 8:01 AM, December 29, 2011
A tourist from Tennessee waltzed into one of the most  secure sites in the
city — and politely asked a cop if she could check her  weapon.

Instead, she was dragged out in cuffs.
Now, Meredith Graves, 39, is facing at least three years in prison for
thinking New York’s gun laws are anything like those in the Bible Belt.
Graves, a fourth-year medical student, showed up at the memorial on Dec. 22
  to pay her respects during a trip north for a job interview.
She didn’t realize that the loaded .32-caliber pistol in her purse would be
a  problem until she saw a sign at the site that read, “No guns allowed,”
sources  said.


“She remembered she had the gun on her,” a source said.  She walked up to
a security guard and said, “I have this gun. Where can I check  it?”


The guard told her that she was in luck because of “law enforcement day” —
  and led her to another area.
When she got to that section, she asked another cop, “We have this gun —
can  we check it in here? We [my husband and I] are not law-enforcement.”
That’s when she was arrested.
Graves, who has a full legal carry permit in Tennessee, was locked up on a
weapons-possession charge and held on $2,000 bond that she posted
yesterday. She  is due in court on March 19.
She’ll soon find out exactly how serious New York City is about illegal
guns.  The Manhattan DA’s Office is pursuing a conviction on felony gun
possession —  carrying a minimum sentence of 3 1/2 years.
Mayor Bloomberg, with the help of the five district attorneys, has crusaded
  against the flow of illegal guns, especially from the South.
Out-of-state weapons have been used in a slew of homicides, including the
murder of NYPD cop Peter Figoski on Dec. 12.
Sources don’t believe Graves’ intentions were sinister.
She and her husband, Richard Disharoon, drove to New York because Graves, a
  registered nurse, had an interview for a residency at Brookhaven Memorial
Hospital on Long Island, sources said.
“You’d think states would reciprocate with the Second Amendment. She has a
  license to carry in Tennessee,” said her mother-in-law, who lives in
Manchester,  NJ.
“Everyone down there carries, and she just forgot,” said the woman, who
would  not give her name. “She was being honest, and this is the treatment
they give  innocent people.”
Graves, who has no prior criminal record, could not be reached for comment,
  and her Legal Aid lawyer did not return calls.
The case resembles the ordeal of Jonathan Ryan, a Florida man who was
arrested for gun possession in 2010 after driving up north to help his
girlfriend move — and ended up beating the rap at trial.
Ryan’s lawyer, Mark Bederow, said yesterday New York’s gun laws are too
tough  on people like Graves and his client.
“There may be technical guilt in some of these cases, but the law is not
designed to deal with them,” he said.
Meanwhile, a loaded .38-caliber handgun was discovered Tuesday on the
ground  near the metal detectors at the memorial, sources said.


Read  more:
_http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/pistol_whipped_at_wtc_1x32hgT52UNh\
xkP36ZYAgJ#ixzz1hzA7e7t4_
(http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/pistol_whipped_at_wtc_1x32hgT52UNh\
xkP36ZYAgJ#ixzz1hzA7e7t4)


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I have been fighting against these redevelopment agencies for years.   One
of Glendale's biggest builders took off to India with 14 MIL in taxpayer
dollars and Glendale seems to be doing very little to try and go after  him.
The fraud and abuse statewide was staggering when it was  revealed.


FOR IMMEDIATE  RELEASE:  December 29, 2011
California’s  Redevelopment Nightmare Coming To An  End
California Supreme Court Upholds Law  Abolishing Redevelopment Agencies
Arlington, Va.—In a  landmark victory for private property owners in the
Golden State, the California Supreme Court today  _upheld  a statute_
(http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=3614380&msgid=933235&act=NQ5S&c=15501\
9&des
tination=http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S194861.PDF)
abolishing the nearly 400 redevelopment agencies across the  state.  The court
also struck down a law that would have allowed these  agencies to buy their
way back into existence.  The final outcome of the  case is that, in 2012,
California’s decades-long redevelopment  nightmare will finally come to an
end.
California redevelopment agencies have been  some of the worst abusers of
eminent domain for decades, violating the private  property rights of tens of
thousands of home, business, church and farm owners.  The _Institute  for
Justice_
(http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=3614380&msgid=933235&act=NQ5S&c=15501\
9&destination=http://www.ij.org/)  has catalogued more than 200
abuses of eminent domain across  California  during the past ten years
alone.  In _California Scheming: What Every Californian Should  Know About
Eminent Domain Abuse_
(http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=3614380&msgid=933235&act=NQ5S&c=15501\
9&destination=http://castlecoalition.org/images/publicati
ons/californiaschemingfinal.pdf) , the  Institute for Justice exposed the
enormous amounts of taxpayer money used to  fund these illegitimate land
grabs.  In fiscal year 2005-2006 alone,  redevelopment agencies’ revenues were
an astonishing $8.7 billion.  In  other words, 12 percent of all property
taxes in California that year were sent to these  bureaucrats.
As part of the state’s  response to its fiscal emergency and to stop this
drain on the state’s  resources, the legislature passed, and Governor Jerry
Brown signed, two laws:  Assembly Bill 1X 26, which dissolves redevelopment
agencies, and Assembly  Bill 1X 27, which exempted agencies that agreed to
make payments into funds  benefiting the state’s schools and special
districts.  The California  Redevelopment Association and the League of
California
Cities, among others,  challenged both laws, arguing that they violated the
California  Constitution.
The court held that AB 1X  26, the law barring the agencies from engaging
in new business and providing for  their windup and dissolution, was “a
proper exercise of the legislative power  vested in the Legislature by the state
Constitution.”   The court  concluded that the Legislature has both the
power to create such agencies “and  the corollary power to dissolve those same
entities when the Legislature deems  it necessary and proper.”  In contrast,
the court concluded that AB 1X 27,  which allowed the agencies to continue
to exist if they made certain payments,  violated a provision of the
California Constitution that prohibits the  Legislature from requiring payments
from
redevelopment agencies to the  state.
“This decision represents  the worst of all worlds for California
redevelopment agencies—and the best of all worlds for California property 
owners an
d renters,” said Dana Berliner, a senior attorney with the Institute  for
Justice.  “The agencies managed to achieve a decision that upholds  their
dissolution while striking down a law that gave these agencies a way to  stay in
existence.  The agencies’ arrogance, so often employed against  property
owners, finally proved their undoing.”  The Institute for Justice  is a public
interest law firm that is the nation’s leading defender of victims  of
eminent domain abuse—when the government seizes perfectly fine property not 
for
public use, but for private development—across the country, including in
California.
While the decision focused  on specific provisions of the California
Constitution, its practical effect  represents a significant victory for
California property owners.   “Redevelopment in California has been a
billion-dollar,
  state-subsidized boondoggle that has completely eroded private property
rights  through the abuse of eminent domain for private gain,” said Christina
Walsh, the  Institute’s director of activism and coalitions.  “With the
court’s  decision, redevelopment has finally met its long-overdue end, and
property  owners who have been living in terror across the state can finally
rest safe in  what they’ve worked so hard to own.”
IJ attorney Bill Maurer  said, “Today’s decision reaffirms the
common-sense conclusion that state  agencies do not have a constitutional right
to
perpetual existence.  More  importantly, it means that California is no longer
lagging behind the  rest of the country in respecting private property.
Rather than  interfering with California’s recovery, this decision should
encourage it, as  people considering moving to or staying in California now know
that their  property cannot be seized and transferred to a private entity by
out-of-control,  unaccountable redevelopment agencies.”

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Court OKs immunity for telecoms in wiretap case
December 30, 2011| Jason  Dearen, Associated Press
A federal appeals court has ruled as constitutional a law giving
telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the government with its
email and telephone eavesdropping program.
Thursday’s unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court decision regarding the 2008 law.
The appeal concerned a case that consolidated 33 different lawsuits filed
against various telecom companies, including AT&T, Sprint Nextel, Verizon
Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. on behalf of these companies’
customers.
For the rest of the story:
_http://articles.boston.com/2
011-12-30/business/30573711_1_telecom-surveillance-sprint-nextel_
(http://articles.boston.com/2011-12-30/business/30573711_1_telecom-surveillance-\
sprint-nextel)

Sincerely  yours,
Sue
________________________
Sue  Sarkis
Sarkis Detective Agency


(est. 1976)
PI  6564
_www.sarkispi.com_ (http://www.sarkispi.com/)

1346 Ethel  Street
Glendale, CA 91207-1826
818-242-2505

"one Nation under God" and "in GOD we  TRUST"

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A  story in _USA Today reports_
(http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/taxes/story/2011-12-29/prisoners-preparing-\
taxes/52275800/1)  that inmates, some
of them serving  life sentences, have applied to the IRS to be tax preparers.
Most of them did  not reveal that they were incarcerated. It’s good to know
that prisoners are  trying to be productive members of society. It’s kind
of like Andy Dufresne in  Shawshank Redemption (1994) who does the books for
the warden and the  prison guards.
While  Andy was innocent of the crime of murder that got him into prison,
he used his  considerable financial skills to turn the tables on the corrupt
warden. He  learned how to be a criminal while in prison. It’s quite a story
worth watching.  I suggest that you watch an edited version since the
language and some of the  scenes are kind of rough.
Maybe  these incarcerated prisoners got their inspiration from watching
Shawshank.
The  inmates and ex-cons were among thousands of applicants who got the
identification numbers from the IRS from September 2010 through July 2011 as
the  agency began phasing in a 2009 congressional mandate that requires many
preparers to file tax returns electronically.
There  is just one problem. The prisoners will have access to the social
security  numbers of the tax returns they’re working on.

If  the prisoners have access to the internet, and they have Social
Security numbers  at their disposal, who knows what kind of mischief they will
be
able to get  into, especially if they have someone on the outside to help
them.

It’s  kind of appropriate that criminals want to work for the IRS. They’ll
fit right  in.

The  IRS is trying to fix the problem:

         “Our  report shows that the problem of misuse of the tax system by
prison inmates  continues,”
         said  J. Russell George, who heads the inspector general’s office. “
Based on our  report, the
         IRS  is working on solutions for suspending preparer identification
numbers obtained  by
         prisoners  and preventing future applicants who are prisoners from
receiving a preparer
         ID  number. They must persevere in these efforts … especially given
the prison  inmate
         population’s  determination to misuse the system.”

“[E]specially  given the prison inmate population’s determination to
misuse the system.” What  an understatement.

So  if you are using an outside organization for this year’s tax return,
you might  want to ask if the preparer is in a jail  somewhere.





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