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- William R. Barker
- Pearl River, NY High School Class of '81; Northeastern University, Boston, MA Class of '87.
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* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131&singlePage=true
Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating the remnants of roadside bombs recovered from Iraq and Afghanistan.
* LET IN BY WHO... BY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S STATE DEPARTMENT?
The discovery in 2009 of two al Qaeda-Iraq terrorists living as refugees in Bowling Green, Kentucky - who later admitted in court that they'd attacked U.S. soldiers in Iraq - prompted the bureau to assign hundreds of specialists to an around-the-clock effort aimed at checking its archive of 100,000 improvised explosive devices collected in the war zones, known as IEDs, for other suspected terrorists' fingerprints.
* HOW MANY MAN HOURS? WHAT HAS THE COST BEEN?
"We are currently supporting dozens of current counter-terrorism investigations like that," FBI Agent Gregory Carl, director of the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC), said in an ABC News interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC News' "World News with Diane Sawyer" and "Nightline".
"I wouldn't be surprised if there were many more than that," said House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul. "And these are trained terrorists in the art of bombmaking that are inside the United States; and quite frankly, from a homeland security perspective, that really concerns me."
As a result of the Kentucky case, the State Department stopped processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011, federal officials told ABC News – even for many who had heroically helped U.S. forces as interpreters and intelligence assets. One Iraqi who had aided American troops was assassinated before his refugee application could be processed, because of the immigration delays, two U.S. officials said. In 2011, fewer than 10,000 Iraqis were resettled as refugees in the U.S., half the number from the year before, State Department statistics show.
* IN 2009 HRC WAS SECRETARY OF STATE. IN 2011 HRC WAS SECRETARY OF STATE.
An intelligence tip...
* FROM WHO...???
...initially led the FBI to Waad Ramadan Alwan, 32, in 2009.
* 2009... THE ERA OF OBAMA/CLINTON.
The Iraqi had claimed to be a refugee who faced persecution back home - a story that shattered when the FBI found his fingerprints on a cordless phone base that U.S. soldiers dug up in a gravel pile south of Bayji, Iraq on Sept. 1, 2005. The phone base had been wired to unexploded bombs buried in a nearby road.
An ABC News investigation of the flawed U.S. refugee screening system, which was overhauled two years ago, showed that Alwan was mistakenly allowed into the U.S. and resettled in the leafy southern town of Bowling Green, Kentucky, a city of 60,000 which is home to Western Kentucky University and near the Army's Fort Knox and Fort Campbell. Alwan and another Iraqi refugee, Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, 26, were resettled in Bowling Green even though both had been detained during the war by Iraqi authorities, according to federal prosecutors.
* "MISTAKENLY" ALLOWED INTO THE U.S. AND RESETTLED WHEN... IN 2009... BY THE CLINTON STATE DEPARTMENT...???
In 2009 Alwan applied as a refugee and was allowed to move to Bowling Green...
* I'LL TAKE THIS AS A "YES" TO MY PREVIOUS QUESTION...
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
...where he quit a job he briefly held and moved into public housing on Gordon Ave., across the street from a school bus stop, and collected public assistance payouts, federal officials told ABC News.
* PUBLIC HOUSING...?!?! PUBLIC ASSISTANCE PAYOUTS...?!?!
"How do you have somebody that we now know was a known actor in terrorism overseas, how does that person get into the United States? How do they get into our community?" wondered Bowling Green Police Chief Doug Hawkins, whose department assisted the FBI.
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Peter Boogaard said in a statement that the U.S. government "continually improves and expands its procedures for vetting immigrants, refugees and visa applicants, and today [the] vetting process considers a far broader range of information than it did in past years."
* OH, YES, FOLKS... ALMOST FORGOT... "BIG SIS" OVER AT HOMELAND WAS BACKING UP HRC AT STATE!
"Our procedures continue to check applicants' names and fingerprints against records of individuals known to be security threats, including the terrorist watchlist, or of law enforcement concern... These checks are vital to advancing the U.S. government's twin goal of protecting the world's most vulnerable persons while ensuring U.S. national security and public safety," the statement said.
Last year, a Department of Homeland Security senior intelligence official testified in a House hearing that Alwan and Hammadi's names and fingerprints were checked by the FBI, DHS and the Defense Department during the vetting process in 2009 and "came in clean."
* 2009... 2009... 2009...
After the FBI received the intelligence tip later that year, a sting operation in Kentucky was mounted to bait Alwan with a scheme hatched by an undercover operative recruited by the FBI, who offered Alwan the opportunity to ship heavy arms to al Qaeda in Iraq. The FBI wanted to know if Alwan was part of a local terror cell - a fear that grew when he tapped a relative also living in Bowling Green, Hammadi, to help out.
(*CLAP...CLAP...CLAP*)
* FOLKS... I'LL LET YOU READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE FOR YOURSELVES. (HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT, HUH...?)
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/190797-ryan-says-there-will-not-be-a-january-shutdown
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Tuesday that the country doesn’t need to worry about another government shutdown in January when the current stopgap spending bill runs out.
The government shutdown lasted for 16 days in October, after Republicans demanded that President Obama defund his signature healthcare law.
To avoid another shutdown, Ryan said either he and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) would strike a budget deal or Congress would pass a stopgap keeping existing spending levels.
* KEEPING EXISTING SPENDING LEVELS AT 2013 LEVELS... OR... 2013 LEVELS PLUS INFLATION... OR... 2013 LEVELS PLUS "SCHEDULED" GROWTH?
* FUNNY HOW NEITHER THE REPORTER NOR EDITOR COULD THINK TO ASK THE QUESTION, HUH?
“Either of those two scenarios will prevail, and we will not have a government shutdown,” he said at the Wall Street Journal annual CEO Council. “We will keep the government funding at the current level if need be.”
* AND REMIND ME... WHAT IS THIS "CURRENT LEVEL?" DO WE HAVE THE FINAL FY 2013 DEFICIT NUMBERS... ADDED DEBT NUMBERS...?
* AGAIN, FOLKS... WOULDN'T IT BE "NICE" TO HAVE SUCH BASIC CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION INCLUDED WITHIN THIS "PROFESSIONAL NEWS" ARTICLE?
Ryan said that he does not believe there will be any brinkmanship over the debt ceiling in February either. He said Republicans now understand that a shutdown won’t stop ObamaCare because it is a mandatory program, not a discretionary agency budget line item.
* SO... RYAN IS TRYING TO SAY REPUBLICANS JUST... er... "DIDN'T UNDERSTAND" THAT PRIOR TO TODAY...?!?!
* FOLKS... THIS IS MORE SMOKE AND MIRRORS. THERE ARE IN TRUTH NO TRUE "MANDATORY" PROGRAMS vs. "DISCRETIONARY" PROGRAMS. THE ONLY SPENDING THAT IS CONSTITUTONALLY MANDATED IS U.S. DEBT REPAYMENT. PERIOD. CONGRESS JUST REFUSES TO DO ITS JOB... REFUSES TO PRIORITIZE... REFUSES TO LIMIT OUTFLOW OF MONEY TO INFLOW OF MONEY!
“ObamaCare is an entitlement, they are not related,” he said.
* AGAIN... RYAN IS FULL OF SHIT.
Ryan said that some progress has been made with Murray, but fundamental disagreements remain over entitlement reform, taxes and whether a deal would cut the deficit below the current path. “We are farther than we were when we started,” he said, adding that “they [Democrats] are signaling they are not willing to do entitlement reform in any form.”
* TRUE... BUT IT'S RYAN'S JOB TO OVERCOME THE DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE! AND SINCE REPUBLICANS CONTROL THE HOUSE...
(*SHRUG*)
* FOLKS... RYAN IS "ONE OF THEM." SAD... BUT TRUE.
Ryan also argued that closing tax loopholes now would hurt bipartisan attempts to reform the tax code.
* WHY...?!?! (THAT'S A TOTALLY RIDICULOUS THING TO SAY!)
Deficit reduction from such changes should be used to lower rates, he argued.
* DEFICIT REDUCTION...? WHY NOT DEFICIT ELIMINATION...?!?!
“If we take tax loopholes and put them in this budget process, we are shortchanging tax reform,” Ryan said.
* NONSENSE.
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/364322/very-dangerous-game-thomas-sowell
New York City police authorities are investigating a series of unprovoked physical attacks in public places on people who are Jewish, in the form of what is called “the knockout game.”
The way the "game" is played: One of a number of young blacks decides to show that he can knock down some stranger on the streets, preferably with one punch, as they pass by. Often some other member of the group records the event, so that a video of that “achievement” is put on the Internet to be celebrated.
The New York authorities report a recent series of such attacks and, because Jews have been singled out in these attacks, are considering prosecuting these assaults as “hate crimes.”
* "JEWS...?!" HOW'BOUT "WHITES?!"
Many aspects of these crimes are extremely painful to think about, including the fact that responsible authorities in New York seem to have been caught by surprise, even though this “knockout game” has been played for years by young black gangs in other cities and other states, against people besides Jews — the victims being either whites in general or people of Asian ancestry.
* THIS IS THOMAS SOWELL NOTING THIS...
Attacks of this sort have been rampant in St. Louis.
* RAMPANT.
But they have also occurred in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and elsewhere.
(In Illinois the game has often been called “Polar Bear Hunting” by the young thugs, presumably because the targets are white.)
The main reason for many people’s surprise is that the mainstream media have usually suppressed news about the “knockout game” or about other and larger forms of similar orchestrated racial violence in dozens of cities in every region of the country.
* S*U*P*P*R*E*S*S*E*D...
* SUPPRESSED AND DELIBERATELY UNDERREPORTED... MISREPORTED...
(*PURSED LIPS*)
Sometimes the attacks are reported, but only as isolated attacks by unspecified “teens” or “young people” against unspecified victims...
* AND THAT'S THE WAY MY BUDDY "HE WHOSE NAME DARE NOT BE MENTIONED LIKES IT!" (YEAH... I'M BEING SERIOUS! HE JUST DOESN'T WANT TO HEAR THE TRUTH. HE'S TOLD ME POINT BLANK HE JUST TUNES IT OUT.)
...without any reference to the racial makeup of the attackers or the victims — and with no mention of racial epithets used by the young hoodlums exulting in their own “achievement.”
* AGAIN... "HEAR NO EVIL, SEE NO EVIL, READ NO EVIL" EQUALS "ACKNOWLEDGE NO EVIL" TO SOME. (TO MANY, ACTUALLY...)
(*SHRUG*)
Despite such pious phrases as “troubled youths,” the attackers are often in a merry, festive mood.
(*NOD*)
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
In a sustained mass attack in Milwaukee, going far beyond the dimensions of a passing “knockout game,” the attackers were laughing and eating chips, as if it were a picnic. One of them observed casually, “white girl bleed a lot.”
That phrase — “White Girl Bleed a Lot” — is also the title of a book by Colin Flaherty, which documents both the racial attacks across the nation and the media attempts to cover them up, as well as the local political and police officials who try to say that race had nothing to do with these attacks.
* NOT A BOOK "HE WHOSE NAME DARE NOT BE MENTIONED" WOULD READ. (DOCUMENTATION...? MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. HECK... HE WON'T EVEN READ LOTT!)
Chapter two of the 2013 edition is titled “The Knockout Game, St. Louis Style.” So this is nothing new...
(*SIGH*)
[H]owever new it may be to some in New York, thanks to the media’s political correctness.
Nor is this "game" just a passing "prank." People have been beaten unconscious, both in this "game" and in the wider orchestrated racial attacks. Some of these victims have been permanently disabled and some have died from their injuries.
But most of the media see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil. In such an atmosphere, the evil not only persists but grows.
Some in the media, as well as in politics, may think that they are trying to avoid provoking a race war by ignoring or playing down these attacks. But the way to prevent a race war is by stopping these attacks, not trying to sanitize them.
* ONE WOULD THINK...
If these attacks continue, and continue to grow, more and more people are going to know about them, regardless of the media or the politicians. Responsible people of all races need to support a crackdown on these attacks, which can provoke a white backlash that can escalate into a race war. But political expediency leads in the opposite direction.
What is politically expedient is to do what Attorney General Eric Holder is doing — launch campaigns against schools that discipline a “disproportionate” number of black male students.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
New York City’s newly elected liberal mayor is expected to put a stop to police “stop-and-frisk” policies that have reduced the murder rate to one-fourth of what it was under liberal mayors of the past.
* HE'S NOT A "LIBERAL." HE'S A LEFTIST.
Apparently political correctness trumps human lives.
* U.S. ATTORNEY GENERALS AND NYC MAYORS HAVE ARMED BODYGUARDS.
Providing cover for hoodlums is a disservice to everybody, including members of every race, and even the hoodlums themselves. Better that they should be suppressed and punished now, rather than continue on a path that is likely to lead to prison, or even to the execution chamber.
* YA LISTENING, BUDDY...?!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/20/new-photos-benghazi-attack-aftermath-show-widespre/
Never-before published photos of the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, show ransacked offices, cars and buildings on fire and Arabic graffiti — all wreaked by well-armed terrorists who killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in an hours-long assault.
* AN HOURS LONG ASSAULT THAT WAS NOT "SERIOUS" ENOUGH TO BE MET - AND DEFEATED - BY AMERICAN RESCUE FORCES OR ALLIED RESCUE FORCES BEING SENT IN.
The pictures, which have been verified by the State Department, offer mute testimony to the events of that night and lend urgency to questions still swirling about the U.S. mission and the Obama administration’s response to the attacks and their aftermath.
* THERE IS NO URGENCY. MOST AMERICANS COULD CARE LESS. WE HAVE BECOME A PEOPLE I NO LONGER IDENTIFY WITH... A NATION I NO LONGER RESPECT. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SPOKE CLEARLY IN NOVEMBER OF 2012 - THEY RE-ELECTED BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. THERE'S SIMPLY NO GETTING AWAY FROM THIS SIMPLE AND DISGUSTING FACT.
Dylan Davies, a British security contractor assigned to the U.S. mission, took photographs of the crime scenes the day after the attacks, and has provided those photos to The Washington Times.
* A BRITISH SECURITY CONTRACTOR...
* FOLKS... YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP...
His photos, which have been submitted to U.S. authorities investigating the attacks, have never before been published in their entirety. Other news outlets have published only a few of the snapshots.
Soon after the Benghazi attacks, Mr. Davies was debriefed by the State Department and FBI, and subsequently gave them all of the photos.
The State Department in June released seven of the photographs, under a Freedom of Information Act request by the government watchdog group Judicial Watch, and did not identify Mr. Davies as the photographer. He has provided The Times an interview about the evidence he delivered to U.S. authorities.
* WHY DOES IT TAKE A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST BY JUDICIAL WATCH? WHY IS EVERYTHING ALWAYS A BATTLE WITH THESE PEOPLE? WHY DO THEY TRY TO HIDE EVERYTHING FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE...? (PONDER THAT QUESTION, MY FRIENDS...)
http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/video.html?freewheel=91074&sitesection=breitbartprivate&VID=25375142
* YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS VIDEO
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/North-Texas-Drivers-Stopped-at-Roadblock-Asked-for-Saliva-Blood-232438621.html
* IS THIS YOUR AMERICA...???
Some drivers along a busy Fort Worth street on Friday were stopped at a police roadblock and directed into a parking lot, where they were asked by federal contractors for samples of their breath, saliva and even blood.
* POLICE HAVE NO RIGHT TO INTERFERE WITH A PERSON'S TRAVEL ABSENT SUSPICION THAT WOULD PASS LEGAL MUSTER THAT A CRIME HAD TAKEN PLACE, WAS ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE, OR THAT THE PERSON'S ACTIONS WERE A THREAT TO HIMSELF OR OTHERS. (IN OTHER WORDS, TRAFFIC VIOLATION OR SAFETY EMERGENCY.)
It was part of a government research study aimed at determining the number of drunken or drug-impaired drivers.
"It just doesn't seem right that you can be forced off the road when you're not doing anything wrong," said Kim Cope, who said she was on her lunch break when she was forced to pull over at the roadblock on Beach Street in North Fort Worth.
* THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING... LEGALLY... THEY CAN'T! BUT THEY HAVE AND THEY NO DOUBT WILL AGAIN. THIS IS NO LONGER AMERICA.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is spending $7.9 million on the survey over three years, said participation was "100% voluntary" and anonymous.
* IN THAT CASE IT'S NOT A LEGITIMATE SCIENTIFIC SURVEY AND THESE BASTARDS ARE SIMPLY PISSING AWAY ANOTHER $7.9 MILLION OF OUR MONEY!
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
But Cope said it didn't feel voluntary to her - despite signs saying it was.
"I gestured to the guy in front that I just wanted to go straight, but he wouldn't let me and forced me into a parking spot," she said.
* I KNOW USING THE WORD "KIDNAPING" SOUNDS OVERBOARD... BUT THAT'S WHAT THIS WAS.
Once parked, she couldn't believe what she was asked next.
"They were asking for cheek swabs," she said. "They would give $10 for that. Also, if you let them take your blood, they would pay you $50 for that."
At the very least, she said, they wanted to test her breath for alcohol.
She said she felt trapped.
"I finally did the Breathalyzer test just because I thought that would be the easiest way to leave," she said, adding she received no money.
Fort Worth police earlier said they could not immediately find any record of officer involvement but police spokesman Sgt. Kelly Peel said Tuesday that the department's Traffic Division coordinated with the NHTSA on the use of off-duty officers after the agency asked for help with the survey. "We are reviewing the actions of all police personnel involved to ensure that FWPD policies and procedures were followed," he said. "We apologize if any of our drivers and citizens were offended or inconvenienced by the NHTSA National Roadside Survey."
* FOLKS... THE CONSTITUTION WAS VIOLATED! LET THE NHTSA MARKET VOLUNTARY RESEARCH STUDIES LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!
NBC DFW confirmed that the survey was done by a government contractor, the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, which is based in Calverton, Md.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
[A] Fort Worth attorney who is an expert in civil liberties law questioned whether such stops are constitutional. "You can't just be pulled over randomly or for no reason," said attorney Frank Colosi.
* WELL, DUH! (IT DOESN'T TAKE AN ATTORNEY TO KNOW THIS! I KNOW THIS!)
He also noted the fine print on a form given to drivers informs them their breath was tested by "passive alcohol sensor readings before the consent process has been completed." "They're essentially lying to you when they say it's completely voluntary, because they're testing you at that moment," Colosi said.
* FOLKS... YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP!
He also questioned the results of the "voluntary" survey - speculating that drivers who had been drinking or using drugs would be more inclined to simply decline to participate.
* DUH! (ISN'T THAT WHAT I SAID UP ABOVE?!)
Cope said she is troubled by what happened.
"It just doesn't seem right that they should be able to do any of it," she said. "If it's voluntary, it's voluntary, and none of it felt voluntary."
* OBAMA'S AMERIKA, FOLKS...
http://www.wmal.com/common/page.php?pt=WATCH%3A+President+Obama+Leaves+Out+An+Important+Word+In+His+Reading+Of+The+Gettysburg+Address+-+God&id=55903&is_corp=0
As first reported on WMAL's Chris Plante Show Tuesday, the Commander-in-Chief joined a cast of 61 other noted lawmakers, politicians, news anchors and celebrities, including every living President, in reciting the Gettysburg Address, which President Abraham Lincoln delivered on November 19, 1863.
The dignitaries all delivered the address as Lincoln had written it, including the phrase, "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
Curiously, however, in his version of the address, President Obama omitted the words "under God."
You can see the President's reading of the Gettysburg speech here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm-vfxZyJwo - his omission is at the 1:35 mark.
Filmmaker Ken Burns gathered the celebrities' speeches as part of a PBS documentary. Burns edited the individual speeches into one final mashup that is available on his website, learntheaddress.org, as well as each celebrity's individual rendition.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/18/Exclusive-Border-Patrol-Agent-s-Killer-Was-Illegal-Alien-On-Supervised-Release-by-U-S-Authorities
A Mexican national who entered the U.S. illegally to kill a U.S. Border Patrol agent has been given a hefty sentence after prosecution by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
* WHY NOT THE DEATH SENTENCE...???
Marcos Rodriguez-Perez was previously given "supervised release" by U.S. authorities for illegally smuggling human beings into the U.S.
* WHY...?!?! WHY WAS HE GIVEN "SUPERVISED RELEASE?" WHO (THE NAME!) "AUTHORIZED" THIS...?!?!
While on supervised release, the illegal alien participated in the 2009 killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas, Jr., along with three other Mexican nationals who had also entered the U.S. illegally or otherwise played a role in the killing. The four admittedly took advantage of the unsecured U.S./Mexico border and lured, trapped, and murdered the young Border Patrol agent for the purpose of stealing his night-vision goggles.
Rodriguez-Perez will serve 56 years in a U.S. prison cell for his participation in the crime.
* WHY NOT LIFE IN PRISON? BETTER YET, WHY NOT THE DEATH PENALTY?
* AND AGAIN... WHY EXACTLY WAS RODRIGUEZ-PEREZ "OUT" IN THE FIRST PLACE...? WHO (THE NAME - OR NAMES) IS RESPONSIBLE FOR RODRIGUEZ-PEREZ BEING "OUT" SO AS TO BE AFFORDED AN OPPORTUNTY TO KILL BORDER AGENT ROSAS?
He pleaded guilty to “conspiracy to commit robbery and kidnapping, robbery of personal property of the United States, and use and carrying of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
* AND HIS PUNISHMENT IS TO BE FED, HOUSED, CLOTHED, BY THE U.S. TAXPAYER FOR THE NEXT 56 YEARS...??? (NOT TO MENTION MEDICAL TREATMENT...)
In a Breitbart news exclusive, National Border Patrol Council Vice President Shawn Moran stated: “The fact that this killer was on supervised release for alien smuggling compounds this tragedy. We need to take alien smuggling and immigration crimes seriously. This case belies the commonly held notion that illegal aliens are good people just coming to the U.S. to look for work.”
Moran also honored Border Patrol Agent Rosas and stated: “Robert Rosas is what every Border Patrol agent should aspire to be. A hard worker, a loving husband, and devoted father.” He added: “He served the nation he loved and fought with tenacity until his final moment. He serves now as a Border Patrol legend and will never be forgotten by his brothers and sisters in green.”
The death of Border Patrol Agent Rosas and the circumstances surrounding the ordeal have highlighted a number of recent issues facing the men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol. Many of them are alone in desolate areas where their radios do not work; they face constant threats from left-of-center efforts to prevent them from defending themselves; and U.S. authorities routinely decline to prosecute illegal aliens who attack Border Patrol agents, according to the National Border Patrol Council.
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://nypost.com/2013/11/18/census-faked-2012-election-jobs-report/
In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply — raising eyebrows from Wall Street to Washington.
The decline — from 8.1% in August to 7.8%in September — might not have been all it seemed. The numbers, according to a reliable source, were manipulated. And the Census Bureau, which does the unemployment survey, knew it.
Just two years before the presidential election, the Census Bureau had caught an employee fabricating data that went into the unemployment report, which is one of the most closely watched measures of the economy. And a knowledgeable source says the deception went beyond that one employee — that it escalated at the time President Obama was seeking reelection in 2012 and continues today. “He’s not the only one,” said the source, who asked to remain anonymous for now but is willing to talk with the Labor Department and Congress if asked.
The Census employee caught faking the results is Julius Buckmon, according to confidential Census documents obtained by The Post. Buckmon told me in an interview this past weekend that he was told to make up information by higher-ups at Census.
Ironically, it was Labor’s demanding standards that left the door open to manipulation.
Labor requires Census to achieve a 90% success rate on its interviews — meaning it needed to reach 9 out of 10 households targeted and report back on their jobs status.
Census currently has six regions from which surveys are conducted. The New York and Philadelphia regions, I’m told, had been coming up short of the 90%.
Philadelphia filled the gap with fake interviews.
(*SNORT*)
“It was a phone conversation — I forget the exact words — but it was, ‘Go ahead and fabricate it’ to make it what it was,” Buckmon told me.
* THE "ME" IN QUESTION IS JOHN CRUDELE, THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE. (GOOGLE HIM...)
Census, under contract from the Labor Department, conducts the household survey used to tabulate the unemployment rate. Interviews with some 60,000 household go into each month’s jobless number, which currently stands at 7.3%. Since this is considered a scientific poll, each one of the households interviewed represents 5,000 homes in the US.
Buckmon, it turns out, was a very ambitious employee. He conducted three times as many household interviews as his peers, my source said.
Buckmon said he filled out surveys for people he couldn’t reach by phone or who didn’t answer their doors. But, he was never told how to answer the questions about whether these nonexistent people were employed or not, looking for work, or have given up.
But people who know how the survey works say that simply by creating people and filling out surveys in their name would boost the number of folks reported as employed.
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
By making up survey results — and, essentially, creating people out of thin air and giving them jobs — Buckmon’s actions could have lowered the jobless rate.
Census never publicly disclosed the falsification. Nor did it inform Labor that its data was tainted.
“Yes, absolutely they should have told us,” said a Labor spokesman. “It would be normal procedure to notify us if there is a problem with data collection.”
Census appears to have looked into only a handful of instances of falsification by Buckmon, although more than a dozen instances were reported, according to internal documents.
In one document from the probe, Program Coordinator Joal Crosby was ask in 2010, “Why was the suspected … possible data falsification on all (underscored) other survey work for which data falsification was suspected not investigated by the region?”
On one document seen by The Post, Crosby hand-wrote the answer: “Unable to determine why an investigation was not done for CPS,” or the Current Population Survey — the official name for the unemployment report.
With regard to the Consumer Expenditure survey, only four instances of falsification were looked into, while 14 were reported.
I’ve been suspicious of the Census Bureau for a long time. During the 2010 Census report — an enormous and costly survey of the entire country that goes on for a full year — I suspected (and wrote in a number of columns) that Census was inexplicably hiring and firing temporary workers. I suspected that this turnover of employees was being done purposely to boost the number of new jobs being report each month. (The Labor Department does not use the Census Bureau for its other monthly survey of new jobs — commonly referred to as the Establishment Survey.)
Last week I offered to give all the information I have, including names, dates and charges to Labor’s inspector general.
I’m waiting to hear back from Labor.
I hope the next stop will be Congress, since manipulation of data like this not only gives voters the wrong impression of the economy but also leads lawmakers, the Federal Reserve and companies to make uninformed decisions.
To cite just one instance, the Fed is targeting the curtailment of its so-called quantitative easing money-printing/bond-buying fiasco to the unemployment rate for which Census provided the false information.
So falsifying this would, in essence, have dire consequences for the country.
* YA THINK...?!?!
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