At LibertyCon in Chattanooga, trying to learn how to write better, and seeing some folks.
Panels all day, and half the night. I expect to be back to regular blogging about Tuesday when I get back home.
So, ice cream machine is in for the annual cleaning, go read the folks on the sidebar…
If I get a chance, I’ll throw something up here.
Yes, this is an ad, but it’s two beautiful warbirds and pilots having fun!
And the eye candy isn’t bad either…
Soooo… Hildabeast talks to the Fibbies on Saturday, Sunday it’s announced that BO will campaign with Hillary today…
And FBI director Comey comes out with a damning statement including the following-
He added it was possible that people hostile to the U.S. had gained access to her personal email account.
“Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,” he said.
Comey said the FBI found that 110 emails were sent or received on Clinton’s server containing classified information and seven email chains were classified at the “Top Secret/Special Access Program level” when they were sent and received on Clinton’s server.
“There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation,” Comey said.
And the final recommendation-
“Our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case,” Comey said.
Here is 18 U.S. Code § 798 – Disclosure of classified information, which anyone with a clearance is briefed on…
(a) Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information—
(1) concerning the nature, preparation, or use of any code, cipher, or cryptographic system of the United States or any foreign government; or
(2) concerning the design, construction, use, maintenance, or repair of any device, apparatus, or appliance used or prepared or planned for use by the United States or any foreign government for cryptographic or communication intelligence purposes; or
(3) concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United States or any foreign government; or
(4) obtained by the processes of communication intelligence from the communications of any foreign government, knowing the same to have been obtained by such processes—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
(b) As used in subsection (a) of this section—
The term “classified information” means information which, at the time of a violation of this section, is, for reasons of national security, specifically designated by a United States Government Agency for limited or restricted dissemination or distribution;
The terms “code,” “cipher,” and “cryptographic system” include in their meanings, in addition to their usual meanings, any method of secret writing and any mechanical or electrical device or method used for the purpose of disguising or concealing the contents, significance, or meanings of communications;
The term “foreign government” includes in its meaning any person or persons acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of any faction, party, department, agency, bureau, or military force of or within a foreign country, or for or on behalf of any government or any person or persons purporting to act as a government within a foreign country, whether or not such government is recognized by the United States;
The term “communication intelligence” means all procedures and methods used in the interception of communications and the obtaining of information from such communications by other than the intended recipients;
The term “unauthorized person” means any person who, or agency which, is not authorized to receive information of the categories set forth in subsection (a) of this section, by the President, or by the head of a department or agency of the United States Government which is expressly designated by the President to engage in communication intelligence activities for the United States.
18 U.S. Code § 793 – Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
(a) Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation, goes upon, enters, flies over, or otherwise obtains information concerning any vessel, aircraft, work of defense, navy yard, naval station, submarine base, fueling station, fort, battery, torpedo station, dockyard, canal, railroad, arsenal, camp, factory, mine, telegraph, telephone, wireless, or signal station, building, office, research laboratory or station or other place connected with the national defense owned or constructed, or in progress of construction by the United States or under the control of the United States, or of any of its officers, departments, or agencies, or within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, or any place in which any vessel, aircraft, arms, munitions, or other materials or instruments for use in time of war are being made, prepared, repaired, stored, or are the subject of research or development, under any contract or agreement with the United States, or any department or agency thereof, or with any person on behalf of the United States, or otherwise on behalf of the United States, or any prohibited place so designated by the President by proclamation in time of war or in case of national emergency in which anything for the use of the Army, Navy, or Air Force is being prepared or constructed or stored, information as to which prohibited place the President has determined would be prejudicial to the national defense; or
(b) Whoever, for the purpose aforesaid, and with like intent or reason to believe, copies, takes, makes, or obtains, or attempts to copy, take, make, or obtain, any sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, document, writing, or note of anything connected with the national defense; or
(c) Whoever, for the purpose aforesaid, receives or obtains or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain from any person, or from any source whatever, any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note, of anything connected with the national defense, knowing or having reason to believe, at the time he receives or obtains, or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain it, that it has been or will be obtained, taken, made, or disposed of by any person contrary to the provisions of this chapter; or
(d) Whoever, lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it; or
(e) Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it; or
(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
(g) If two or more persons conspire to violate any of the foregoing provisions of this section, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be subject to the punishment provided for the offense which is the object of such conspiracy.
So, according to ‘my’ training, she is in violation of multiple sections of both 793 and 798, along with Mills, Abedin, Kennedy and ???
The other elephant in the room is this- WHO was responsible for extracting these materials from the SCIFs, stripping off the classification and putting it on the email???
Compare and contrast what happened to Patraeus, HERE.
Does anybody really believe the fix isn’t in??? If any of us ‘peons’ with a clearance had done anything even approaching this, we would already be in Leavenworth, for 10 years per COUNT!!! Like this sailor, HERE.
We’re so screwed… Just stick a fork in us now…
Vito has the duty… Anytime Kaya cries, he licks her, just like he did with Jace.
And a little bit better pic of Kaya Jean…
According to PP, I’m amazed she got a pic without a fist in Kaya’s mouth… Apparently she is one ‘hungry’ little girl!
PP thanks all that wished her and the baby well, and she appreciates the good thoughts.
240 years ago, this country was founded on these words…
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world…
Today, IMHO, we find our country in the throes of a division caused by partisan politics, usurpation of the Constitution by the current administration, and enforcement or ignoring laws at the whim of the administration. Any disagreement is used to charge those as racist, homophobic, sexist, etc…
THE UNITED STATES FLAG CODE
Title 4, Chapter 1
§ 8(a)The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
Most individuals who have served in military service of our nation should recognize this signal. And today, I think it is appropriate. This is NOT the country I spent 20+ years defending…
THIS is the world I remember, where patriotism was openly displayed, and political games and PC police didn’t exist…
And THIS…
Spend the time with friends and family, enjoy the fireworks if you get the chance, and remember those fireworks symbolize the bombs bursting in air, and our flag still being there…
It is the late summer of 1940, and the Battle of Britain is at it’s height. Racing for the coast, following a bombing mission over southern England, a straggling He111 of KG55 has been attacked by a Spitfire of RAF Fighter Command. The bomber is badly damaged, but in the nick of time a pair of Me109s of JG26 have come to the rescue, sending the Spitfire diving into the Channel. If they are lucky the Heinkel crew may still make it back to their base in France.
Iceland signed yesterday a joint declaration on defence matters with the United States – including a “temporary presence of the US Army” in Iceland.
The declaration is an addendum to the deal signed back with the US Government back in 2006 putting an end to permanent US military presence. It states that “the security situation in Europe and the North Atlantic region has changed” since the US Army left.
From the Iceland Monitor, HERE.
Note- It does say ASW, and last time I looked the US Army doesn’t ‘quite’ have that capability… Of course the Icelanders consider all services to be US Army. We loved that, because it meant THEY got the blame in the press, not us…
Ah yes, the fun days in Kef, the smell of drying fish… Snowing sideways at -30… The nearest divert 2+ hours away…
And with the Brits and Dutch out of the ASW game, it falls back on the US, Canada, Spain and Germany to pick up the load of the GIUK gap… They French are too busy drinking wine in the back of the bus to bother to participate, and the Portuguese are waiting to pick up the targets south of the dog box…
Good times… 🙂
Looks like PPP is now back to just PP…
Kaya was born just after noon today 8lbs 11.5oz. Baby and momma are both doing well.
NOW it’s gonna get interesting for Vito…LOL
And I’m a grandpa again… Sigh…
In the wake of the Orlando atrocity, and Istanbul, we have new polls out…
In a new Gallup poll released, a nearly two-to-one margin of Americans (64 to 34 percent) think that increasing the number of people carrying concealed handguns will help prevent terrorism. Even 45 percent of Democrats agree.
This comes from a National Review piece by John Lott, HERE.
Even the Brits are carrying the polls, like the Independent, HERE. But there are some notable errors, like the shooter only reloading once, but shooting over 100 times…
I think the Brit reporter has watched too many Hollyweird movies…
And of course the Dems did a ‘protest’/fund raiser by doing a sit-in on the floor of the House (I believe both of these are actually illegal according to House Procedures), and pouted because ‘their’ special little gun bill didn’t get reviewed… sigh…
Sooo… The left continues to push their agenda, regardless of what the PEOPLE want. They continue to rely on push polling, and ‘leaders’ to expound on what is ‘best’ for us peons…
Hellloooo… You ‘might’ want to take a look at what just happened in England with the Brexit vote… Or not…
I swear these people are so insulated from reality, they wouldn’t know reality if it slapped them up side the head…
Of course, THEY are protected by people with guns…
Lastly, on the bad news side, apparently the TN law everyone ‘thought’ was going into place holding business owners responsible if they posted no gun signs, apparently got watered down. Say Uncle has the update HERE.
The REAL agenda ‘should’ be to celebrate our country’s independence, since it IS the 4th of July weekend, but since the PC police are frothing at the mouth about all kinds of perceived slights, etc. I wonder what the celebrations will be like.
If you’re taking off to enjoy the weekend, have fun and stay safe!
It’s summer time, and coming up on the 4th… Fireworks and…
For whatever reason (maybe it’s the damn near 100 degrees), I’ve been thinking about home-made, hand cranked ice cream…
We used to do this at all the family reunions, and any ‘other’ time, like 4th of July, we could get away with it! My personal favorite was home-made peach ice cream, with fresh freestone peaches right off the trees!
What was yours?