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It can not be changed.
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That is its only lasting residual.
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Obama, Clinton And McCain's Passports Breached: Two State Dept Officials Fired, Investigation Underway
in 2007, Stanley opened a passport processing center in Bill Clinton's former home town Hot Springs, Arkansas and will open another one in Tucson in John McCain's home state of Arizona this spring.
Stanley's official statement about the passport file breaches distances the company from the breaches of passport files for Hillary Clinton and John McCain.
[/tinfoil off]
Stanley, Inc. is headed by one Phil O. Nolan. This diarist over at Le Grand Orange dug up Nolan's political contributions. There are an awful lot of donations to Republican Congressman Tom Davis.
According to Congresspedia, Davis is linked to one David Safavian, former chief of staff of the United States General Services Administration and convicted criminal in l'affaire Jack Abramoff. The link is through Safavian's wife Jennifer, who is the chief investigative counsel to the House Committee on Government Reform, which Davis chairs. The committee, handles procurement issues.
posted 03/22/2008 at 11:53:03
OMG ?
WhAT ?
John O. Brennan, a former CIA agent who is an adviser
to Mr. Obama"s presidential campaign
The third employee, who has not been fired, worked for
the Analysis Corporation (TAC), which is headed by
John O. Brennan, a former CIA agent who is an adviser
to Mr. Obama"s presidential campaign on intelligence
and foreign policy.
TAC, a McLean-based information firm that has helped
the State Department automate the Terrorist Watchlist
over the last several years, issued a statement last
night saying it had been notified earlier in the day
that one of its contractors had acted improperly. The
firm said it had honored a State Department request
not to fire its consultant to help the investigation.
"This individual's actions were taken without the
knowledge or direction of anyone at TAC and are wholly
inconsistent with our professional and ethical
standards," the company wrote.
Calls to the Obama campaign about Mr. Brennan were not
returned.
Mr. McCormack said yesterday that there was a fourth
person who breached the passport records, although he
described a case of inadvertance. He said a passport
office trainee last year was learning how to work with
passport electronic records and searched for Mrs.
Clinton's file as a test, but was "immediately
admonished, and it didn"t happen again."
Working-level supervisors confronted the three
employees after a computer alarm system was triggered
by the effort to access Mr. Obama's records.
"What didn't happen is that that information didn't
rise up to senior management levels, so that we could
be made aware of it. That should have happened," Mr.
McCormack said.
If senior officials were alerted to the intrusions,
additional safeguards would have been used to protect
the data, Mr. McCormack said.
Officials said the computer alarm signal that the
improper intrusions set off includes a notification
mechanism that should have alerted State's inspector
general. However, it is not clear whether the IG
reviewed the improper computer activities, the
officials said.
improperly copied, altered or removed from the
database during the intrusion
TAC, a McLean-based information firm that has helped
the State Department automate the Terrorist Watchlist
over the last several years, issued a statement last
night saying it had been notified earlier in the day
that one of its contractors had acted improperly. The
firm said it had honored a State Department request
not to fire its consultant to help the investigation.
http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080321/NATION/243762495/1002
posted 03/22/2008 at 11:23:00
WhAT ?
John O. Brennan, a former CIA agent who is an adviser
to Mr. Obama"s presidential campaign
The third employee, who has not been fired, worked for
the Analysis Corporation (TAC), which is headed by
John O. Brennan, a former CIA agent who is an adviser
to Mr. Obama"s presidential campaign on intelligence
and foreign policy.
TAC, a McLean-based information firm that has helped
the State Department automate the Terrorist Watchlist
over the last several years, issued a statement last
night saying it had been notified earlier in the day
that one of its contractors had acted improperly. The
firm said it had honored a State Department request
not to fire its consultant to help the investigation.
"This individual's actions were taken without the
knowledge or direction of anyone at TAC and are wholly
inconsistent with our professional and ethical
standards," the company wrote.
Calls to the Obama campaign about Mr. Brennan were not
returned.
Mr. McCormack said yesterday that there was a fourth
person who breached the passport records, although he
described a case of inadvertance. He said a passport
office trainee last year was learning how to work with
passport electronic records and searched for Mrs.
Clinton's file as a test, but was "immediately
admonished, and it didn"t happen again."
Working-level supervisors confronted the three
employees after a computer alarm system was triggered
by the effort to access Mr. Obama's records.
"What didn't happen is that that information didn't
rise up to senior management levels, so that we could
be made aware of it. That should have happened," Mr.
McCormack said.
If senior officials were alerted to the intrusions,
additional safeguards would have been used to protect
the data, Mr. McCormack said.
Officials said the computer alarm signal that the
improper intrusions set off includes a notification
mechanism that should have alerted State's inspector
general. However, it is not clear whether the IG
reviewed the improper computer activities, the
officials said.
improperly copied, altered or removed from the
database during the intrusion
TAC, a McLean-based information firm that has helped
the State Department automate the Terrorist Watchlist
over the last several years, issued a statement last
night saying it had been notified earlier in the day
that one of its contractors had acted improperly. The
firm said it had honored a State Department request
not to fire its consultant to help the investigation.
http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080321/NATION/243762495/1002
posted 03/22/2008 at 11:23:00
Stanley Corp's main passport office is in Hot Springs Ark. posted 03/22/2008 at 10:58:08
my understanding is that this company made the software
and controls every aspect of these files ?
Maybe this "LOW LEVEL employee did not have higher privileges,
but i am curious as to exactly HOW "low-level " they really were ?
BTW, heres a press release by the Analysis Corp
http://www.theanalysiscorp.com/docs/dosissue.html
Also worth reading is an article written by someone in that company...
The Analysis Corporation in The Washington Times
The Internet has become the "seductive hypermedia" for radical Islamic terrorists...
http://web.archive.org/web/20061110042913/http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20061007-104915-3656r.htm
Loks to me like from the top down these peole are very tech savy, and very Neo-Conish... posted 03/22/2008 at 10:55:53
and controls every aspect of these files ?
Maybe this "LOW LEVEL employee did not have higher privileges,
but i am curious as to exactly HOW "low-level " they really were ?
BTW, heres a press release by the Analysis Corp
http://www.theanalysiscorp.com/docs/dosissue.html
Also worth reading is an article written by someone in that company...
The Analysis Corporation in The Washington Times
The Internet has become the "seductive hypermedia" for radical Islamic terrorists...
http://web.archive.org/web/20061110042913/http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20061007-104915-3656r.htm
Loks to me like from the top down these peole are very tech savy, and very Neo-Conish... posted 03/22/2008 at 10:55:53
FYI
The guy who wrote this article is part of The Analysis Corp
Defeating Internet terrorists
By Joshua Sinai
October 8, 2006
The Internet has become the "seductive hypermedia" for radical Islamic terrorists, with official and unofficial Web sites, forums and chatrooms that appeal to supporters worldwide. Most Web sites are intended to advance a group's propaganda to increase their supporting audience, while some have operational intentions. But how do we defeat such terrorism in cyberspace?
An eclectic group of international experts in terrorist use of the Internet and graphic design specialists met recently in Israel's southern resort city of Eilat to formulate a comprehensive response campaign that deserves wide attention.
As explained by Gabriel Weimann, of Israel's Haifa University, terrorists "narrow-cast" their messages to "trap" selected audiences of adherents. Taking this further, Boaz Ganor, of the Israeli Interdisciplinary Center, showed how the "captured" adherents are then indoctrinated into radicalization by emphasizing a problem, such as threats posed by a common enemy or humiliation suffered by Muslims at the hands of their adversaries. Emphasizing the religious obligation of Muslims to confront their enemies and the challenge to their faith is the common denominator that binds the audience into their new virtual community. Segments of this community are then activated into a variety of activities on behalf of the terrorist group, such as fund-raising, recruitment, training and warfare.
The different types of terrorist activities on the Internet require appropriately differentiated responses. As outlined by Mr. Weimann, one such response is based on what he terms a "MUD" approach (Monitoring, Using and Disrupting).
Joshua Sinai is program manager, counterterrorism studies,
The Analysis Corp., McLean, Va.
read the rest here
http://web.archive.org/web/20061110042913/http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20061007-104915-3656r.htm
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2006_10.php posted 03/22/2008 at 10:25:48
The guy who wrote this article is part of The Analysis Corp
Defeating Internet terrorists
By Joshua Sinai
October 8, 2006
The Internet has become the "seductive hypermedia" for radical Islamic terrorists, with official and unofficial Web sites, forums and chatrooms that appeal to supporters worldwide. Most Web sites are intended to advance a group's propaganda to increase their supporting audience, while some have operational intentions. But how do we defeat such terrorism in cyberspace?
An eclectic group of international experts in terrorist use of the Internet and graphic design specialists met recently in Israel's southern resort city of Eilat to formulate a comprehensive response campaign that deserves wide attention.
As explained by Gabriel Weimann, of Israel's Haifa University, terrorists "narrow-cast" their messages to "trap" selected audiences of adherents. Taking this further, Boaz Ganor, of the Israeli Interdisciplinary Center, showed how the "captured" adherents are then indoctrinated into radicalization by emphasizing a problem, such as threats posed by a common enemy or humiliation suffered by Muslims at the hands of their adversaries. Emphasizing the religious obligation of Muslims to confront their enemies and the challenge to their faith is the common denominator that binds the audience into their new virtual community. Segments of this community are then activated into a variety of activities on behalf of the terrorist group, such as fund-raising, recruitment, training and warfare.
The different types of terrorist activities on the Internet require appropriately differentiated responses. As outlined by Mr. Weimann, one such response is based on what he terms a "MUD" approach (Monitoring, Using and Disrupting).
Joshua Sinai is program manager, counterterrorism studies,
The Analysis Corp., McLean, Va.
read the rest here
http://web.archive.org/web/20061110042913/http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20061007-104915-3656r.htm
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2006_10.php posted 03/22/2008 at 10:25:48
what i am wondering is exactly how "Low Level" those persons really were ?
Anyway heres some info, probably nothing, but just in case
The Jeddah connection peaked my interest.
There was a LOT of passport / VISA stuff in Jeddah surrounding the 911 hijackers.
Heres a bit of it...
---
"Mr. Brennan began his career as an intelligence officer in 1980 with the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations as a Career Trainee. After joining the Directorate of Intelligence in 1981, he served with the Department of State as a political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Jeddah,"
=======
J. Michael Springmann, formerly chief of the visa section at the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, has testified that he rejected hundreds of suspicious visa applications by Saudi Aabian men similar to those named as the 9/11 "Hijackers Patsies"
when we was head of the consular section of the US embassy in Jeddah,
but C.I.A. officers repeatedly overruled him and ordered the visas to be issued.
Springmann protested to the State Department, the Office of Diplomatic Security, the F.B.I., the Justice Department and congressional committees, but was told to shut up. He later realized that this was a CIA operation, and wrote about it in the Spring 1997 issue of the journal Unclassified.
After 9/11, Springmann observed that 15 of the 19 Hijackers Patsies got their visas
from the very same CIA controlled consulate in Jeddah
(]US News and World Report 12/12/01).
"Only one of the 15 provided an actual address - and that was only because his first application was refused. The rest listed such not-so-specific locations as "California," "New York," "Hotel D.C.," and "Hotel." One terrorist amazingly listed his U.S. destination as simply "No." But he still got a visa. Nikolai Wenzel, one of the former consular officers who analyzed the forms, declares that State's issuance of the visas "amounts to criminal negligence. The law is clear: "Every alien shall be presumed to be an immigrant until he establishes to the satisfaction of the consular officer, at the time of application for a visa, that he is entitled to a nonimmigrant ." State's Deputy Press Secretary Phil Reeker remarks that 214(b) is "quite a threshold to overcome" - it just wasn't for Saudi applicants..."
http://911review.org/Wiki/CiaVisasForPatsies.shtml
http://911review.org/Wiki/SpringmanInterview.shtml
posted 03/22/2008 at 10:05:11
Anyway heres some info, probably nothing, but just in case
The Jeddah connection peaked my interest.
There was a LOT of passport / VISA stuff in Jeddah surrounding the 911 hijackers.
Heres a bit of it...
---
"Mr. Brennan began his career as an intelligence officer in 1980 with the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations as a Career Trainee. After joining the Directorate of Intelligence in 1981, he served with the Department of State as a political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Jeddah,"
=======
J. Michael Springmann, formerly chief of the visa section at the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, has testified that he rejected hundreds of suspicious visa applications by Saudi Aabian men similar to those named as the 9/11 "Hijackers Patsies"
when we was head of the consular section of the US embassy in Jeddah,
but C.I.A. officers repeatedly overruled him and ordered the visas to be issued.
Springmann protested to the State Department, the Office of Diplomatic Security, the F.B.I., the Justice Department and congressional committees, but was told to shut up. He later realized that this was a CIA operation, and wrote about it in the Spring 1997 issue of the journal Unclassified.
After 9/11, Springmann observed that 15 of the 19 Hijackers Patsies got their visas
from the very same CIA controlled consulate in Jeddah
(]US News and World Report 12/12/01).
"Only one of the 15 provided an actual address - and that was only because his first application was refused. The rest listed such not-so-specific locations as "California," "New York," "Hotel D.C.," and "Hotel." One terrorist amazingly listed his U.S. destination as simply "No." But he still got a visa. Nikolai Wenzel, one of the former consular officers who analyzed the forms, declares that State's issuance of the visas "amounts to criminal negligence. The law is clear: "Every alien shall be presumed to be an immigrant until he establishes to the satisfaction of the consular officer, at the time of application for a visa, that he is entitled to a nonimmigrant ." State's Deputy Press Secretary Phil Reeker remarks that 214(b) is "quite a threshold to overcome" - it just wasn't for Saudi applicants..."
http://911review.org/Wiki/CiaVisasForPatsies.shtml
http://911review.org/Wiki/SpringmanInterview.shtml
posted 03/22/2008 at 10:05:11
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