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If I was having a dispute with a neighbor and they called in the Secret Service, I'm not entire sure what i'd do.
I'm guessing the dispute involved the high ranking government person doing something egregiously wrong or just plain illegal and the neighbor complained.
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The US Secret Service has two jobs. Protective Details and fraud/check/treasuries investigations.
They are generally assigned to the President, his family members, the VP, and his family members and protection of certain foreign dignitaries (for instance if the President of PM of some country comes to visit the US).
The Protective Details are high stress, very sought after jobs.
Doing checking fraud, and things like credit card fraud aren't as "fun".
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Speaking of "Secret Service"..... not exactly, but close enough.
Ex-Treasury Sec. Geithner: White House told me to lie for Sunday news shows
Posted by gulfdogs on May 12, 2014
Posted in: crime, DNC, GOV, progressive, propaganda. 2 Comments
In a memoir released Monday, former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner recounts his view of the financial crisis and how administration officials chose to deal with the public. One telling paragraph, among excerpts published by Politico, shows how seriously President Obama’s political operation takes its responsibility to tell the truth to the American people.
Not surprisingly, they don’t take it that seriously at all. Here’s how Geithner describes the lying process:
“I remember during one Roosevelt Room prep session before I appeared on the Sunday shows, I objected when Dan Pfeiffer wanted me to say Social Security didn’t contribute to the deficit. It wasn’t a main driver of our future deficits, but it did contribute. Pfeiffer said the line was a ‘dog whistle’ to the left, a phrase I had never heard before. He had to explain that the phrase was code to the Democratic base, signaling that we intended to protect Social Security.”
It’s refreshing to hear leftists using “dog whistles” to describe what they’re up to for a change, since it’s a phrase they generally use to accuse Republicans of being secret racists. But it’s disheartening to get such crystal clear evidence of how politically charged White House appearances on Sunday news shows are.
It’s the line of thinking that directed former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to go on five news shows days after the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. outpost in Benghazi and lie about the deaths of four Americans.
Rice’s marching orders were to convince viewers that the havoc that killed an American ambassador and three other men had nothing to do with the Obama administration’s failures.
Geithner was told his job was to convince viewers the Democrat lodestone of Social Security wasn’t a burden on the nation’s deficit.
Both positions are premeditated lies, but at least we know how and why Obama officials are prepped to lie to the American public on Sunday mornings.
And Jay Carney has to get a day off sometime.
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/05/...s-shows-118478
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Report: State Department Stockpiles Massive Quantities of Explosives: “C4, Liquid Explosives, Blasting Caps, Detonating Cords”
In recent years it has come to light that the Department of Homeland Security has amassed an arsenal that includes billions of rounds of ammunition, high-powered assault rifles, riot gear and armored vehicles. But according to a new report from WND, they’re not the only ones preparing for a future conflict that may involve law enforcement, military and intelligence assets.
The U.S. State Department has now joined the mix, having recently placed purchase orders for everything from plastic and liquid explosives to detonating cords and fuse igniters. It’s not clear what the State Department, whose responsibility is to oversee international relations and foreign policy via embassies around the world, intends to do with hundreds of pounds of explosives that are likely to be shipped outside of the United States, but it’s clear that whatever the mission may be, it’s not exactly peaceful.
State’s specific mode of distributing the explosive materials remains unclear, as its Diplomatic Pouch Policy explicitly prohibits the shipment of explosives through DPM/U.
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State specifically is purchasing – and sending to Sterling, Virginia – 450 pounds of C4 M112 explosives, nearly 2,600 containers of liquid explosives, 188 feet of “linear-shaped charges” and more than 8,000 blasting caps
via Solicitation No. FY14-GC-273.
A separate procurement,
Solicitation No. FY14-GC-281, calls for 225 pounds of C4 plastic explosives, five pounds of C2 “sheet explosives” and 144 bottles of high-energy liquid explosives. Thousands of additional feet of detonating cord – plus 18,000 feet of military-grade safety fuses and hundreds of blasting caps and fuse igniters – are likewise part of this order.
A third procurement,
Solicitation No. FY14-GC-282, seeks another combination of C4 block, sheet and liquid explosives with accompanying caps, igniters and related blasting equipment.
Finally, an array of “explosive entry systems,” “blasting tubes” and inert C4 and dynamite are sought under
Solicitation No. FY14-GC-272.
State separately
is buying hundreds of thousands of rounds of live 9mm “ball” ammunition as well as a lesser amount of non-lethal simulated ammo.
Full reports at WND Coupled with recent revelations that individuals with ties to terrorism and extremists movements are being allowed into the United States, one can’t help but wonder what the State Department is up to.
Would it be out of the question to suggest that some of these explosives are destined to be delivered into the hands of organizations in the middle east and elsewhere that could use them against western-friendly targets? Of course, the State Department, like the ATF during Operation Fast and Furious, will be sure to track the delivery and transfer of such munitions, so concerns that we’re supplying terrorists with weapons and bombs are probably unfounded.
Maybe it’s just us, but we’re somewhat bewildered at the fact that a law abiding American purchasing a few boxes of ammunition and paying cash can be red flagged as a terrorist, while the actual terrorists (like Mexican drug cartels, et. al.) are being armed by our very own government and purposely kept off of terrorist watchlists that are designed to prevent their entry into America.
Somethin’ just ain’t right.
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Just Us Department at it again.
HOLDER SAYS VA HOSPITALS NOT ON HIS RADAR
Posted on May 14, 2014
Holder: “Well, obviously these reports if they’re true are unacceptable, and the allegations are being taken very seriously by the administration. But I don’t have any announcements at this time with regard to anything that the Justice Department is doing.” He said the VA is on his radar although there are no thoughts about investigating.
More hospitals have turned up hiding lists and they will continue to the point where Americans can no longer live with veterans be murdered.
Eventually it will become obvious, the redundancy in this administration, nothing is investigated; Stimulus, Black Panther, GM, Solyndra, Fast and Furious, Gitmo releases, Tea Party 503C, Dream Act, Benghazi, ObamaCare…
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DM: DOJ won’t investigate deaths of veterans placed on VA hospital’s secret waiting list ‘at this time’
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Time to stop the nonsense. They gonna gun down some cows or something?
USDA Orders Submachine Guns with 30 Round Magazines
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A May 7th solicitation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture seeks “the commercial acquisition of submachine guns [in] .40 Cal. S&W.”
According to the solicitation, the Dept. of Agriculture wants the guns to have an “ambidextrous safety, semiautomatic or 2 round [bursts] trigger group, Tritium night sights front and rear, rails for attachment of flashlight (front under fore group) and scope (top rear), stock collapsible or folding,” and a “30 rd. capacity” magazine.
They also want the submachine guns to have a “sling,” be “lightweight,” and have an “oversized trigger guard for gloved operation.”
The solicitation directs “all responsible and/or interested sources…[to] submit their company name, point of contact, and telephone.” Companies that submit information in a “timely” fashion “shall be considered by the agency for contact to determine weapon suitability.”
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This Is Why They Should Knock First: Multiple Cops Shot, One Killed in No Knock Raid
Melissa Melton
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A lot of people — innocent people — and their pets have wound up dead during no knock raids in recent years in this country.
A no knock raid is when officers can serve a warrant on a house without notifying the residents first. At all. Period. Without ringing the doorbell, calling first, a knock, nothing. Police typically do it in the middle of the night or in the wee hours of the morning, too, when people are more likely to be asleep. The majority of these raids aren’t even for violent crimes or imminent threats to life and limb, but drug crimes.
So a lot of people tend to die. It’s a pretty stupid way to enforce laws.
We live in a country where the citizenry are armed. If it’s the middle of the night and you hear someone busting through your front door, and if you exercise your 2nd Amendment rights by owning a firearm, your first reaction is going to be to draw that firearm to protect yourself and your family.
If you do that when a burglar or worse is breaking into your house to possibly cause harm to you and your family and property, then you’ve done the wise thing. That’s called self-defense.
However, if you pull your gun in the same scenario, only replacing the burglar with a SWAT officer, it’s very likely you, and possibly your family and pets, might end up dead. Really dead. Shot 22 times and left to bleed to death dead, like this Marine:
U.S. Marine Jose Guerena was shot twenty-two times by a SWAT team planning to execute a search warrant. He retrieved a legally possessed rifle in response to sudden intruders, and the SWAT team opened fire on him before establishing any communication. The team later retracted its initial claims he had opened fire when it was established that Guerena had never fired and his safety was still on. The police refused to allow paramedics to access Guerena for more than hour, leaving Guerena to bleed to death, alone, in his own home. Members of the SWAT team subsequently hired legal defense and a large following of fellow Marines held a memorial service at his home with his widow.
Or you might end up charged with capital crimes because you thought you were defending yourself but you didn’t realize the people breaking into your home were actually police officers.
Here is just another example of exactly why no knock raids are stupid.
Killeen, Texas resident Marvin Louis Guy is currently being held at the Killeen City Jail on a $3 million bond for opening fire on a Killeen Tactical Response Unit and a Central Texas Organized Crime Unit that jointly descended on his home at 5:30 in the morning without knocking first to serve a narcotics search warrant last Friday.
Multiple officers were hit. Detective Charles Dinwiddie later died from his injuries.
Based on this excerpt from the Killeen Police Department’s press release, the officers weren’t even going in through the front door:
On Friday May 9, 2014, just after 5:30am, members of the Killeen Police Department Tactical Response Unit and the Bell Organized Crime Unit were attempting to serve a narcotics search warrant. The TRU was beginning to breach the window when the 49 year old male inside, opened fire striking four officers.
While police may refer to this as a “dynamic entry,” it really just seems like a dumb idea — especially in Texas — or at the very least, a bad idea for a gang of armed men to break in through someone’s window at the crack of dawn and not expect a response in-kind.
The cop was killed because he was shot in the face. He was shot in the face because he was trying to crawl through these people’s window while they were sleeping like a common criminal would.
And why is all this deemed necessary over some drugs? No one’s life was in immediate danger here. It begs the question why these officers couldn’t have waited for this man to leave his apartment to go to the grocery store to arrest him, because certainly that would have happened at some point. Now one of those officers had to die over it. Was it worth it?
Is it ever worth it?
What happened to cops who protect and serve? These officers aren’t soldiers, but they dress up like them to fight a phony war on drugs which, like the war on terror, will never be won. Prohibition has never historically worked. Besides, if cases can’t be made without paramilitary style no-knock raids conducted on sleeping people in their homes, perhaps the officers don’t have a very good case to begin with.
We live in a country of increasingly militarized police forces. Over 90% of towns with 50,000 people or more have SWAT teams now. Why exactly are our government agencies doling out billions of dollars in military weapons to our local police departments? The American Civil Liberties Union makes a pretty good point: towns don’t need tanks.
During the commission of these no knock raids, many innocent people have been gunned down. Children and pets have been shot and killed all across the nation. Elderly people who attempted to protect themselves have been slain in their homes and officers later found out they weren’t even in the right homes to begin with.
When the officers do it, it’s considered their “duty”; they were just doing their jobs when someone’s eight-year-old accidentally gets killed during a raid. On the other hand, when the average citizen fires under what they thought was the guise of self-defense on people they did not know were officers for breaking into their homes unannounced in the middle of the night, well…those people get charged with capital murder.
Although, sometimes the Grand Jury fails to indict. Capital murder charges were recently dropped against 28-year-old Henry Goedrich Magee after he shot and killed a cop during a no knock raid on his Central Texas home over some marijuana plants he had been accused of growing. The state ultimately couldn’t prove Magee knew it was police and not intruders who were entering his home before he opened fire nor could they disprove that he was acting in self-defense…because he was.
Some 40,000 of these no knock raids happen every year in this country. The CATO Institute not only released an interactive map of botched paramilitary raids, but a white paper with an extensive catalog of mistaken raids and abuses that, at 103 pages, is long enough to prove that no knock raids are a horrible pratice that needs to stop.
This writer knows that she lives in America, so we at least have the superficial appearance of a Constitution and Bill of Rights that includes a Fourth Amendment which is supposed to protect the nation’s citizens from unreasonable search and seizure. Just having probable cause a crime was committed doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have to at least ring the doorbell first.
The longer these raids continue, the more people are going to needlessly die. What justice are these ill-advised tactics possibly serving?
It’s just…stupid.
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No knock raids are almost never necessary.
I know a couple guys that are friends of friends that are on "dynamic entry" teams and they come up with a million reasons why these are necessary. I dismiss almost every one of the reasons as the made up BS that they are.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
If you dress up in a black ninja outfit with an armored RV, you need to break down some doors and cap a few dogs to make it feel like "you're doing something".
I'll also add that if you question them the response is "How many raids have you been on? How many criminals have you taken down" etc. It's not an argument defending the idea, it's an argument from authority that attempts to suppress questions.
The "They'll flush the evidence" excuse always comes up.
If there is so little drugs in the house that they can be flushed, YOU DON'T NEED TO DO A NO KNOCK RAID! If they've got several bales of pot or a few dozen kilos of coke...try flushing that.
I understand though, the most important thing is for the office to go home at night.
Quote:
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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When you are questioning the tactics of "the other side" and they come back with questions like "How many raids have you been on? How many criminals have you taken down" they are merely diverting attention from themselves.
In EVERY case, EVERY, SINGLE CASE it means they are hiding something. No exceptions.
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Albuquerque, Citizen's Arrest, excessive force, police brutality, police chief, police state
For many citizens of Albuquerque, New Mexico, the shooting by police officers of James Boyd, 38, a mentally ill homeless man, was the last straw.
Unfortunately, Boyd was not the last to be killed by officers who, the U.S. Justice Department charges, “too often use deadly force in an unconstitutional manner in their use of firearms.”
The community is up in arms, with activists announcing their intent to make a citizen’s arrest on the police chief and city officials blocking protests at council meetings.
Under fire over 39 police shootings involving 24 fatalities in the city since 2010, the Albuquerque Police Department was accused by Justice of a pattern of excessive force. The report concluded the majority of officer-involved shootings resulting in fatalities from 2009 to 2012 were “unconstitutional.”
Additionally, officers were accused of frequently using less-than-lethal-force in an unconstitutional manner. Cited was the example of a Taser used on a man who had doused himself in gasoline. The discharged spark from the electronic weapon ignited the fuel, setting the man on fire. Other instances of police escalating situations in which force could have been avoided were charged.
Police departments are acquiring major battlefield equipment that emboldens officials to strong-arm those they should be protecting. “Police State USA: How Orwell’s Nightmare is Becoming our Reality” (Autographed) chronicles how we got to this point.
Perhaps most notable was the shooting of Boyd in March.
Boyd, who was found illegally camping in the Sandia Mountains, was confronted by police. An argument followed in which Boyd was said to have acted erratically. Police shot and killed him as he appeared to be surrendering. The incident was captured on camera.
For Mayor Richard J. Berry, Boyd’s death was a “game changer,” reported Esquire, and he proposed “sweeping changes” to be implemented by the police chief. Among them was the requirement that officers wear and use lapel cameras during every interaction with the public.
But that didn’t help Mary Hawkes, 19, foster daughter of a retired judge. She was fatally shot last month after allegedly stealing a car and pointing a gun at an officer. The officer’s account cannot be confirmed because his lapel camera “wasn’t working.” It also proved defective in two previous incidents where possible excessive force was used.
Public anger spilled over in demonstrations following the Boyd shooting – protesters turned violent, blocking traffic, throwing rocks and bottles and damaging property. Last week, protesters took over the weekly city council meeting, shouting down council members and issuing a “people’s arrest warrant” for the chief of police, charging him with “harboring fugitives from justice at the Albuquerque Police Department” and for “crimes against humanity” in connection with recent police shootings. The police chief quickly left the city council meeting after the citizen’s arrest was announced, and no protesters tried to apprehend him.
Authorities said, had the protesters attempted to execute their “warrant,” they could have faced charges of battery on a police officer.
When several protesters conducted a silent protest last Thursday at the rescheduled meeting, they were removed, cited and banned from returning to council chambers for 90 days.
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Wasn't it an AB police office that saw a man "clench his butt" and had him anally raped several times with digits and an endoscope? No drugs found?
Clearly they are out of control.
How do you know if an AB cop is about to go out of control? His lapel cam malfunctions.
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Hmmm
Maybe there should be multiple cops with news media riding along from now on?
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More on Albuquerque...
There is something very, very wrong with the Albuquerque, New Mexico police department, and the citizens have just about had enough. Before I get into the heart of this story, I need to provide you with a little background. The Albuquerque Police Department (APD) is well known for its outrageous and inappropriate use of violence. So much so that it has been under investigation by the Department of Justice, which wrote a letter to the Mayor of Albuquerque on April 10, 2014 condemning the police force. Here’s an excerpt from the letter:
Based on our investigation, we have reasonable cause to believe that APD engages in a pattern or practice of use of excessive force, including deadly force, in violation of the Fourth Amendment and Section 14141. Our investigation included a comprehensive review of APD’s operations and the City’s oversight systems. We have determined that structural and systemic deficiencies—including insufficient oversight, inadequate training, and ineffective policies— contribute to the use of unreasonable force. At the conclusion of this letter, we outline the remedial measures that we believe are necessary to ensure that force is used in accordance with the Constitution. In some instances, these recommendations build on measures and initiatives that are already underway within the department.
Just prior to the release of the letter, APD officers shot in the back and killed a homeless man named James M. Boyd, who was camping in the Albuquerque foothills. More recently (and after the DOJ’s letter was sent), 50-year-old Air Force veteran Armand Martin was killed outside of his home by a SWAT team in a standoff with police. It seems the APD is incapable of solving any sort of dispute without a citizen ending up dead.
It makes you wonder what is up with law enforcement in New Mexico in general. If you recall, earlier this year I highlighted a horrific incident in Deming, New Mexico in my post: How a Routine Traffic Stop in New Mexico Turned into a Nightmare of Torture for David Eckert.
So back to Albuquerque. The people are rightfully very upset, which led to a city council meeting being taken over on May 5th by protesters. This display of civil disobedience even led to an attempt to serve Police Chief Gorden Eden with an citizen’s arrest warrant. As a result of the protest, the city council moved to prevent protests at their latest meeting, which may lead to free speech related lawsuits. You have to watch the following video:
People have just about had enough, and civil disobedience will only grow greater in the months and years ahead. This is what happens when a nation morphs into a deranged, oligarchic police state. This is also why the Bundy Ranch standoff was such a huge deal, as I noted in one of my most popular posts of 2014: Why the Standoff at the Bundy Ranch is a Very Big Deal.
In Liberty,
Michael Krieger
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Chief Mark Kessler Readys For Waco Like Attack On His Home!
Friday, May 16, 2014 6:49
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Recently dismissed Police Chief of Gilberton, Pennsylvania Mark Kessler, is currently prepping a perimeter inside his home literally as this is being composed. In case you are not familiar with Chief Kessler’s other endeavors? Kessler is the CEO & Founder of B.O.G III%, also CEO & the Founder of Constitutional Security Force. So what could the ex-chief be readying for next? Kessler was recently informed via his contacts within the Law Enforcement community that a Waco, Texas like attack could be pending on his home and family.
Kessler’s statement about this threat.
“Federal agencies have been threatening to Waco me AT my home in Pennsylvania, BECAUSE OF MY VIDEOS !!!!! if this act of domestic terrorism occurs I WILL FIGHT TILL MY LAST BREATH ! AND THAT’S A FACT! I WILL NOT SIT IDLE AS I ALONG WITH MY FAMILY IS ASSAULTED BY FEDERAL AGENTS, THAT WILL FIRE UPON MYSELF AND UNARMED CHILDREN WITHOUT HESITATION, IF THIS OCCURS , I ASK ALL MILITIAS FROM ACROSS THE NATION TO TAKE A STAND, I WILL HOLD MY OWN TILL HELP ARRIVES BUT IM ONLY ONE FIGHTING POSSIBLE HUNDREDS” – Mark Kessler
Kessler followed up on his statement with…
“Going off line, will be prepping perimeter and inside of home. I’m not expecting anything tonight , I will get more intel from my law enforcement friend” – Mark Kessler
I think this guy is super paranoid and if the government is indeed going to raid his home its probably because he keeps making threats to people and probably has a ton of guns and ammo in his house. Not that that is illegal in and of itself but between his statements and hi armament would give them probably cause to raid his place. America or not, you can’t threaten politicians while toting a ton of guns and expect to not get a visit from Uncle Sam.
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(N.Morgan) Here’s the live stream to Operation Spring for today!! Support our Patriots today and give them some prayers! A million self described revolutionary militia are heading to Washington DC with one very pivotal message, Obama regime, Get Out. They’re called the Operation American Spring — and they’re vowing to oust the likes of Mr. Obama, Mr. Boehner, Attorney General Eric Holder, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Raw Story reported.
The stream will start when the protest begins, be patient!!
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Blasting caps, ‘linear-shaped charges’ included in delivery order.
Two days after WND uncovered a U.S. State Department plan to buy hundreds of pounds of plastic explosives and thousands of containers of liquid explosives, the agency – which refuses to comment on the discovery – awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in contracts for the blasting supplies.
The explosives, including hundreds of pounds of C4, originally were to be shipped to Sterling, Virginia, home to the Diplomatic Pouch and Mail Unit, or DPM/U. The unit is tasked with sending secure pouches and crates to U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide, as previously reported.
The original contracting documents still mention the DPM/U shipping destination and list a State Department contracting office address in Dun Loring, Virginia, site of a diplomatic-security field office.
But the new contract awards suddenly identify the contracting office address as 1701 N. Ft. Myer Dr., Arlington, Virginia – headquarters of the Office of Security Management within the State Department Construction, Facility and Security Management Directorate.
The directorate is a division of State’s Bureau of Overseas Building Operations, or OBO, whose mission is to provide “safe, secure, and functional facilities that represent the U.S. government to the host nation and support our staff as they work to achieve U.S. foreign policy objectives.”
The State Department thus far has awarded contracts in two explosives-procurement actions. Both went to the Arkansas-based Omni Explosives.
Omni will get $320,000 via Contract Award No. 10524H1636 to provide State with 450 pounds of C4 M112 explosives, nearly 2,600 containers of liquid and aluminum-powder explosives, 188 feet of “linear-shaped charges” and more than 8,000 blasting caps and other equipment. The award satisfies Solicitation No. FY14-GC-273.
State will pay Omni an additional $30,000 via Contract Award No. 10524H0257 for another 225 pounds of C4 plastic explosives, five pounds of C2 “sheet explosives” and 144 bottles of high-energy liquid explosives.
Accompanying the order, which satisfies Solicitation No. FY14-GC-281, are thousands of feet of detonating cord plus 18,000 feet of military-grade safety fuses and hundreds of blasting caps and fuse igniters.
State has not yet awarded contracts in Solicitation No. FY14-GC-282, which seeks yet another combination of C4 block, sheet and liquid explosives with accompanying caps, igniters and related blasting equipment. Nor has it awarded a contract for “explosive entry systems,” “blasting tubes” and inert C4 and dynamite via Solicitation no. FY14-GC-272.
The State Department in the meantime appears ready, for reasons unknown, to privatize some of its diplomatic pouch-service functions.
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Diplomatic pouches are not allowed to be used to transport explosives.
That said, they're ignoring laws at every turn, what's another one.
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My thought from the first post on this munitions buy was the use as a means to build INTO a US compound abroad. The point being to blow up sensitive documents and hardware if a field station should fall to aggressor hands. In Benghazi, the compound yielded sensitive documents and CNN even found some things on their stroll through as I recall. Had there been explosives to detonate when it fell, a different story would have played out as far as documents and such. Maybe Benghazi is not the best example considering the implications of fail there, but you may see my point.
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Normally, embassies and places that have classified materials have a way to shred and destroy the said classified - without having to ship it in dip pouches.
Typically, the materials are stored on site, and can be used to destroy crypto gear to prevent it from falling into the hands of "commies". Of course, those days are gone, and the commies have access to everything now.
Does anyone ever wonder why everyone can hear and read our most sensitive information passing across the SIPRnet? Because people at high offices pass information to the bad guys all the damned time now. There's simply no other explanation for it in my opinion.
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Could it be high ranking officials looking to profit and turning a blind eye to do so? Nah, never happen :rolleyes: