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Hi....first time Africa visitor. Have done much research with several companies but wanted to put it to the experts here for advice. any initial thoughts or outrage at this possible itinerary?
travelling from NYC.
day 1: arrive JNB 840. fly to Maun 1140. 7 day botswana safari, ending again in JNB.
day 8. arrive early in JNB, stay the day.
day 9: drive JNB-Kruger. Stay 3 or 4 nights in Arathusa or Elephant plains.
day 12 or 13: either drive or fly back to JNB. overnight again. next am, JNB back to USA.
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Hi....first time Africa visitor. Have done much research with several companies but wanted to put it to the experts here for advice. any initial thoughts or outrage at this possible itinerary?
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What time of year? My recommendations will depend greatly on the timing. Camp selection is especially important in Botswana where some places vary tremendously throughout the year in the quality of the animal viewing.
Why Kruger last instead of first? I have my opinion but would like to hear why you have it this way.
Craig Beal - owner - Travel Beyond
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It's a fine itinerary. Not sure about your budget - Bots is expensive, and then going to the less expensive camps in Sabi Sand (greater Kruger, not Kruger!!). Just know that you will likely have full safari vehicles, up to 9 people!, after being in Bots where they will not likely be full. There are very few rhino in Bots, so definitely add someplace where you might see them, like SS. Why drive?
Just a little confused about why you are budgeting the way you are.
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It all depends on what is on jpNY's list in Bots, christabir.
If it's some lousy water camps and then some lodge in the center of Kasane, driving around in only the busiest part of Chobe, then he/she's still going to have a wonderful time in Sabi Sands. It will be the highlight of the vacation at that point.
Throwing Sabi Sands (or Timbavati or Klaserie) into a first-time safari itinerary is almost always a good idea, as it's THE place were both leopards and rhino are easy to be seen close up. At least if you pick the right camp and if it fits into your itinerary (ic if your "hub" is Johannesburg, and not somewhere in East Africa).
Also, for a first-time visitor, I'm sure a "full" vehicle in a private reserve will not be a problem. Every seat is still a "front row seat" with any animal sighting. Quite different then being in a (often less well adapted) vehicle that drives around on the roads in the National Park itself).
I assume it's different if you're into (semi-)pro photography and/or if safari trips have become your "hobby" and not just a holiday. Still, both things are the case for me, and I didn't have a problem with EP. I had room to put my bag, and was able to take good photographs at every sighting. Also; the vehicle was never completely full. Typically 7 or 8 people, but not 9 or 10. This is because most lodges only max occupancy rates of 85-90%; the last room is always difficult to sell as it's availability often does not fit completely into the potential customer's itinerary.
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For expert advice on all of the camps and lodges of the Kruger National Park area, consult Sherreen McLintock locally based, independent and owner of Pride Lodges, who will find something to suit your budget and your likes! www.pridelodges.com
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Why do people start threads and then never come back to check on the advice being offered, provide any follow-up, or thank anyone for their time?
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J - I am not against full vehicles. Some of my favorite game drives were shared with 9 "friends" (yes, chock full at a camp mentioned by the OP). I just don't know what is included on this itinerary - it's vague. I tend to forget that Bots can include some "non-exclusive" camps. Not my idea of Botswana.
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"Why do people start threads and then never come back to check on the advice . . . ."
Maybe jpNY needs another week?
But agree, too many impolite, ungrateful people around. Wonder if they've ever heard of they "Golden Rule?
regards - tom
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I apologize to those offended for not returning to this thread as quickly as I intended. An unexpected week. I appreciate the feedback and will take additional time at the drawing board based on your suggestions. I will probably focus more on one destination or the other. Will report back, with many more questions of course. Thanks all.
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jpNY - A couple of years ago we flew in the same route except we landed in Livingstone, Zambia, did Victoria Falls and on to Botswana and back. The one thing that we found was that there weren't a lot of flights daily from Botswana to Jo'burg and even fewer on weekends. So, when you say 'arrive early in JNB, stay the day' you should check the regional airlines (usually SAA) to see if that is possible before you design your itinerary around it.
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An interesting site, probably more typical of Elizabethan lifestyle than a lot of the big surviving castles! A magnificent great hall, interesting kitchen, quaint little chapel (don't forget the squirrel carvings on the pew ends), restful gardens. An site that typifies late Tudor gentry life. Well worth a visit
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Very few rooms but enthusiastic staff and interesting video on the history of the castle, some activities for children and some outdoor games
Hello, thank you for reviewing your recent visit to Compton Castle. I'm pleased to see that you enjoyed your visit, and enjoyed the video and the activities for children. I will pass on your praise of our enthusiastic team; they will be so pleased to hear about it.
Visited whilst on holiday with our four children.
The property isn't large enough for a day out, but we spent a few hours here after visiting Totnes
The castle is lovely and have a children's trail (the younger one have to spot the teddy bear in each room which kept our ones occupied!).
The gardens are lovely and there are...
Thank you for your review of Compton Castle, we're glad you enjoyed your visit. It's nice to hear that the children enjoyed the squirrel trail - we often hear that it entertains adults too!
This is a lovely quaint medieval castle.
Being named as a castle it gives the impression of being a large building, however being a medieval building it is small when compared to today's idea of a castle. Although this does not detract from the building and it's history.
Staff were chatty and knowledgeable about the property.
This is a good...
Thank you for your lovely review of Compton Castle. We're so glad that you found the staff chatty and knowledgeable - we hope they added to your experience.
We were told that this place was a ruin, but being members of the National Trust we thought we would pay it a visit anyway. Pleasantly surprised to see that the Building is actually quite intact. Not actually a Castle in in the true sense of the word, but a fortified Tudor Mansion House. Don't feel disappointed though as it...
Hi there, thank you so much for taking the time to write such a positive, comprehensive review. Compton Castle is indeed an impressive place to behold and we love the small-but-perfectly-formed garden too.
Yes, Compton castle is on the small side as far as National Trust locations go.
You can complete your visit in an hour or so easily and much of the premises is off limits but it's still a fascinating example of a rare fortified Tudor manor house with a perfect little garden.
We made this into a half day trip...
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The Moose Lodge has great food,my dad is a member...sounds easy'r
The farmers in North West Arkansas are having problems with the Elk because of destroyed fences and their eating the hay fields. It is great for hunters but the farmers are having all sorts of problems.They are free ranging and go where they want to.
Don't they pay the farmers for there destroyed fences and fields...
No, it is the Elks fault, our game and fish commission has the White Earp syndrome like a lot of federal and state employees. That is my opinion. The farmers are on their own yet federal and state money are paying to restock the Elk. I still can have a opinion.
Right now in That area of VA is you see an elk in VA you can shoot it and use a deer tag to claim it.
I heard that VA was upset at one time that a few KY Elk made it over? I think having Elk on the East is great. Now if I could only get a tag
Don't get me wrong, but it's hard to "restore" something that isn't indigenous. What they are doing is shipping in really large animals, creating an artificial environment to support their survival, and drawing in people to shoot them from air conditioned hunting stands complete with Jacuzzis, 300" televisions, hot and cold running strumpets and a chef. It was just a couple years ago when I read a story about a guy shooting a huge elk in New York State. It was effectively a pet, but the guy holds the state record.
My apologies to anyone I might offend, but taking game that wouldn't otherwise be there if not for the intentional baiting (Feeders, corn/bean/clover plots planted by the "Herd Managers") and other such conveniences intended to make it quick and easy and comfortable, and this insipid concept of dragging foreign species into an area just because there's a profit to be made is not hunting. It's McHunting. It's like raising marlins in a damned swimming pool.
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Hell- for that, I would leave the rifle at home, and go for the jacuzzi, the strumpets, and the chef. Throw in a bottle of Merlot, and we have a deal!


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By lanceb
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Comments about Whirlpool Portable Dishwasher - Black on Black:
More room and much quieter than our old model. Easy to move around and has a nice long cord.
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I bought a new dishwasher in February as soon as our old one quit after about 16 years. We got the same exact one. It is quiet, washes the dishes until they sparkle and we couldn't be happier.
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I bought this portable dishwasher a month ago and it is awesome! Works great and is quiet! Definitely worth the money. I wish I would have bought it sooner!
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By Cdemmers
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Was very happy with the performance of this product for the first few weeks until it began not cleaning dishes. Thought it was the detergent packs we were using so we switched to liquid after first service call when we were told the dishwasher was working properly. Well we opened the dishwasher only to find that the detergent was in a puddle at the bottom of the door. Hoping the second service call this afternoon will fix it!
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I bought this portable D/W for my son and daughter-in-law who live in a small apartment which had no D/W. They are very pleased with the operation. It works very well.
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I like the one hour wash,it seems to do a great job.It Itakes a little longer than my old one,by soaking then washing repeatedly,but it saves a lot more water using this method.this dishwasher is very quite to me-my wife says I have selective hearing-your right dear. Holds a lot of dishes/tall platters and very easy to move around.
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I love Global Threat Hearings and curse you Richard Burr for holding the Senate Intelligence Committee's hearing in secret.
At least John McCain had the courage to invite James Clapper for what might have been (but weren't) hard questions in public in front of Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday.
Clapper started with a comment that was not prominent in (though it definitely underscored) his written testimony (Update: Here's the transcript of his as-delivered statement.)
Unpredictable instability is the new normal.The year 2014 saw the highest rate of political instability since 1992. The most deaths as a result of state-sponsored mass killings since the early 1990s. And the highest number of refugees and internally displaced persons (or IDPs) since World War II. Roughly half of the world's currently stable countries are at some risk of instability over the next two years.
It's a damning catalog. All the more so given that the US has been the world's unquestioned hegemon since that period in the early 1990s when everything has been getting worse, since that period when the first President Bush promised a thousand points of light.
And while the US can't be held responsible for all the instability in the world right now, it owns a lot of it: serial invasions in the Middle East and the coddling of Israel account for many of the refugees (though there's no telling what would have happened with the hundred thousand killed and millions of refugees in Syria had the second President Bush not invaded Iraq, had he taken Bashar al-Assad up on an offer to partner against al Qaeda, had we managed the aftermath of the Arab Spring differently).
US-backed neoliberalism and austerity — and the underlying bank crisis that provided the excuse for it — has contributed to instability elsewhere, and probably underlies those countries that Clapper thinks might grow unstable in the next year.
We're already seeing instability arising from climate change; the US owns some of the blame for that, and more for squandering its leadership role on foreign adventures rather than pushing a solution to that more urgent problem (Clapper, by the way, thinks climate change is a problem but unlike Obama doesn't consider it the most serious one).
There are, obviously, a lot of other things going on. Clapper talked admiringly of China's modernization of its military, driven by domestically developed programs, an obvious development when a country becomes the manufacturing powerhouse of the world. But China's growing influence comes largely in the wake of, and in part because of, stupid choices the US has made.
There was, predictably, a lot of discussion about cyberthreats, even featuring Senate Intelligence Committee member Angus King arguing we need an offensive threat (we've got one — and have been launching pre-emptive strikes for 9 years now — as he would know if he paid attention to briefings or read the Intercept or the New York Times) to deter others from attacking us with cyberweapons.
Almost everyone at the hearing wanted to talk about Iran, without realizing that a peace deal with it would finally take a step towards more stability (until our allies the Saudis start getting belligerent as a result).
Still, even in spite of the fact that Clapper started with this inventory of instability, there seemed zero awareness of what a damning indictment that is for the world's hegemon. Before we address all these other problems, shouldn't we focus some analysis on why American hegemony went so badly wrong?
Man, at some point Congress is going to have to declare the FBI legally contemptuous and throw them in jail.
They continue to refuse to cooperate with DOJ's Inspector General, as they have been for basically 5 years. But in Michael Horowitz' latest complaint to Congress, he adds a new spin: FBI is not only obstructing his investigation of the FBI's management impaired surveillance, now FBI is obstructing his investigation of DEA's management impaired surveillance.
I first reported on DOJ IG's investigation into DEA's dragnet databases last April. At that point, the only dragnet we knew about was Hemisphere, which DEA uses to obtain years of phone records as well as location data and other details, before it them parallel constructs that data out of a defendant's reach.
But since then, we've learned of what the government claims to be another database — that used to identify Shantia Hassanshahi in an Iranian sanctions case. After some delay, the government revealed that this was another dragnet, including just international calls. It claims that this database was suspended in September 2013 (around the time Hemisphere became public) and that it is no longer obtaining bulk records for it.
According to the latest installment of Michael Horowitz' complaints about FBI obstruction, he tried to obtain records on the DEA databases on November 20, 2014 (of note, during the period when the government was still refusing to tell even Judge Rudolph Contreras what the database implicating Hassanshahi was). FBI slow-walked production, but promised to provide everything to Horowitz by February 13, 2015. FBI has decided it has to keep reviewing the emails in question to see if there is grand jury, Title III electronic surveillance, and Fair Credit Reporting Act materials, which are the same categories of stuff FBI has refused in the past. So Horowitz is pointing to the language tied to DOJ's appropriations for FY 2015 which (basically) defunded FBI obstruction.
Only FBI continues to obstruct.
There's one more question about this. As noted, this investigation is supposed to be about DEA's databases. We've already seen that FBI uses Hemisphere (when I asked FBI for comment in advance of this February 4, 2014 article on FBI obstinance, Hemisphere was the one thing they refused all comment on). And obviously, FBI access another DEA database to go after Hassanshahi.
So that may be the only reason why Horowitz needs the FBI's cooperation to investigate the DEA's dragnets.
Plus, assuming FBI is parallel constructing these dragnets just like DEA is, I can understand why they'd want to withhold grand jury information, which would make that clear.
Still, I can't help but wonder — as I have in the past — whether these dragnets are all connected, a constantly moving shell game.
That might explain why FBI is so intent on obstructing Horowitz again.
Loretta Lynch is an excellent nominee for Attorney General, and her prior actions in whitewashing the blatant and rampant criminality of HSBC should not be held against her, because she didn't know that at the time she last whitewashed that criminal enterprise, right?
No. Nothing could be further from the truth.
This is a cop out by Lynch's advocates. Lynch either knew, or damn well should have known. She signed off on the HSBC Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA), if she was less than fully informed, that is on her. That is what signing legal documents stands for….responsibility. Banks like HSBC, Credit Suisse, ING etc were, and still are, a cesspool of criminal activity and avoidance schemes. Willful blindness to the same old bankster crimes by Lynch doesn't cut it (great piece by David Dayen by the way).
But, all the above ignores the Swiss Alps sized mountains of evidence that we know Lynch was aware of and blithely swept under the rug by her HSBC DPA. So, we are basically left to decide whether Lynch is a bankster loving toady that is her own woman and cravenly whitewashed this all on her own, or whether she is a clueless stooge taking orders to whitewash it by DOJ Main. Both views are terminally unattractive and emblematic of the oblivious, turn the other cheek to protect the monied class, rot that infects the Department of Justice on the crimes of the century to date.
And that is only scratching the real surface of my objections to Lynch. There are many other areas where Lynch has proven herself to be a dedicated, dyed in the wool "law and order adherent" and, as Marcy Wheeler artfully coined, "executive maximalist". Lynch's ridiculous contortion, and expansion, of extraterritorial jurisdiction to suit the convenient whims of the Obama Administration's unparalleled assault on the Rule of Law in the war on terror is incredibly troubling. Though, to be fair, EDNY is the landing point of JFK International and a frequent jurisdiction by designation. Some of these same questions could have been asked of Preet Bharara (see, e.g. U.S. v. Warsame) Loretta Lynch has every bit the same, if not indeed more, skin in the game as Bharara, whether by choice or chance.
Lynch has never uttered a word in dissent from this ridiculous expansion of extraterritorial jurisdiction. Lynch's record in this regard is crystal clear from cases like US v. Ahmed, Yousef, et. al. where even Lynch and her office acknowledged that their targets could not have "posed a specific threat to the United States" much less have committed specific acts against the US.
This unconscionable expansion is clearly all good by Lynch, and the ends justify the means because there might be "scary terrists" out there. That is just dandy by American "executive maximalists", but it is toxic to the Rule of Law, both domestically and internationally (See, supra). If the US, and its putative Attorney General, are to set precedents in jurisdictional reach on common alleged terroristic support, then they ought live by them on seminal concerns like torture and war crimes under international legal norms. Loretta Lynch has demonstrated a proclivity for the convenience of the former and a toady like disdain for the latter.
And the same willingness to go along to get along with contortion of the Rule of Law in that regard seems beyond certain to extend to her treatment of surveillance issues and warrant applications, state secrets, over-classification, attack on the press and, critically, separation of powers issues. Those types of concerns, along with how the Civil Rights Division is utilized to rein in out of control militarized cops and voting rights issues, how the OLC stands up to Executive overreach, whether OPR is allowed to continue to shield disgraceful and unethical AUSAs, and whether she has the balls to stand up to the infamously insulated inner Obama circle in the White House. Do you really think Loretta Lynch would have backed up Carolyn Krass and OLC in telling Obama no on the Libyan War Powers Resolution issue?
For my part, I don't think there is a chance in hell Lynch would have stood up to Obama on a war powers, nor any other critical issue, and that is a huge problem. Krass and Holder may have lost the Libyan WPR battle, but at least they had the guts to stand up and say no, and leave a record of the same for posterity.
That is what really counts, not the tripe being discussed in the press, and the typically preening clown show "hearing" in front of SJC. That is where the rubber meets the road for an AG nominee, not that she simply put away some mobsters and did not disgrace herself – well, beyond the above, anyway (which she absolutely did) – during her time as US Attorney in EDNY. If you are a participant in, or interested observer of, the criminal justice system as I am, we should aspire to something better than Eric Holder. Holder may not have been everything hoped for from an Obama AG when the Administration took office in January of 2009, but he was a breath of fresh air coming off the AG line of the Bush/Cheney regime. Loretta Lynch is not better, and is not forward progress from Holder, indeed she is several steps down in the wrong direction. That is not the way to go.
The fact that Loretta Lynch is celebrated as a great nominee by not just Democrats in general, but the so called progressives in specific, is embarrassing. She is absolutely horrible. If Bush had put her up for nomination, people of the progressive ilk, far and wide, would be screaming bloody murder. Well, she is the same person, and she is a terrible nominee. And that does not bode well for the Rule of Law over the remainder of the Obama Administration.
And this post has not even touched on more mundane, day to day, criminal law and procedure issues on which Lynch is terrible. And horrible regression from Eric Holder. Say for instance pot. Decriminalization, indeed legalization, of marijuana is one of the backbone elements of reducing both the jail and prison incarceration rate, especially in relation to minorities. Loretta Lynch is unconscionably against that (See, e.g., p. 49 (of pdf) et. seq.). Lynch appears no more enlightened on other sentencing and prison reform, indeed, she seems to be of a standard hard core prosecutorial wind up law and order lock em up mentality. Lynch's positions on relentless Brady violations by the DOJ were equally milquetoast, if not pathetic (See, e.g. p. 203 (of pdf) et. seq.). This discussion could go on and on, but Loretta Lynch will never come out to be a better nominee for Attorney General.
Observers ought stop and think about the legal quality, or lack thereof, of the nominee they are blindly endorsing. If you want more enlightened criminal justice policy, to really combat the prison state and war on drugs, and to rein in the out of control security state and war on terror apparatus, Loretta Lynch is a patently terrible choice; we can, and should, do better.
In a follow-up to its release on the DEA's use of a license plate reader database the other day, ACLU reveals an email that shows ATF in Phoenix considered using the database to track people leaving gun shows in April 2009.
The April 2009 email states that "DEA Phoenix Division Office is working closely with ATF on attacking the guns going to [redacted] and the gun shows, to include programs/operation with LPRs at the gun shows." The government redacted the rest of the email, but when we received this document we concluded that these agencies used license plate readers to collect information about law-abiding citizens attending gun shows. An automatic license plate reader cannot distinguish between people transporting illegal guns and those transporting legal guns, or no guns at all; it only documents the presence of any car driving to the event. Mere attendance at a gun show, it appeared, would have been enough to have one's presence noted in a DEA database.
Responding to inquiries about the document, the DEA said that the monitoring of gun shows was merely a proposal and was never implemented.
Given the timing, location, and target — 2009, Arizona, and legal permanent residents, or Green Card holders — this consideration intersects interestingly with Fast and Furious.
But don't worry, DEA says, this was just a consideration, tracking the movements of legal gun show attendees didn't really happen.
All that said, I couldn't help but remember that among the more obvious intelligence agencies the President's Review Group into the NSA consulted in 2013 was ATF, which suggests that ATF is using at least some of the nifty toys NSA is using. As I noted at the time, that may be quite explicable, in that Section 215 has been used to track explosives precursors (and probably has been used to track acetone and hydrogen peroxide — where are TATP precursors, fertilizer, and maybe even pressure cookers).
But the fact that ATF is considering tapping into other agencies dragnets does raise further questions for me about why the PRG would need to consult with ATF.
A few weeks back, I emphasized that the dragnet the government admitted to using in the Shantia Hassanshahi case (and issued a narrow claim to have shut down) was a drug database. That is, a dragnet purportedly created to track drug trafficking had been used to police sanctions.
Yesterday, the WSJ broke the story revealed by documents liberated by an ACLU FOIA. One point made in both hasn't received enough emphasis. A 2009 document revealed that asset forfeiture was one of the primary goals of the program.
The Pilot National LPR Initiative has received enormous support from all several government and law enforcement entities and multiple request have been made to connect LPR devices from state and local law enforcement. In anticipation of the Pilot National LPR Initiative being utilized by all of DEA as well as Federal, State, and Local law enforcement throughout the United States, we must insure we can collect, manage, and maintain to the highest standards all data from the system as well as every other aspect of the LPR system. DEA has designed this program to assist with locating, identifying, and seizing bulk currency, guns, and other illicit contraband moving along the southwest border and throughout the United States. With that said, we want to insure we can collect and manage all the data and IT responsibilities that will come with the work to insure the program meets its goals, of which asset forfeiture is primary.
Funny. This passage doesn't mention drugs at all. On the contrary, this is about seizing things of value — not drugs — so the law enforcement agency can profit.
I have long believed that the government put Iran on its list of approved target countries under the Section 215 dragnet not to use for counterterrorism purposes (the terror Iran seems to have sponsored of late is largely US generated), but instead to support sanctions.
Yesterday, the government claimed it has been using a drug trafficking database (one described differently than Hemisphere) to support sanctions on Iran.
At least that's the implication of the declaration unsealed in the Shantia Hassanshahi case submitted in response to the judge's order for more information on how it had identified the defendant.
This database [redacted] consisted of telecommunications metadata obtained from United States telecommunications service providers pursuant to administrative subpoenas served upon the service providers under the provisions of 21 U.S.C. § 876. This metadata related to international telephone calls originating in the United States and calling [redacted] designated foreign countries, one of which was Iran, that were determined to have a demonstrated nexus to international drug trafficking and related criminal activities. This metadata consisted exclusively of the initiating telephone number; the receiving telephone number; the date, time, and duration of the call; and the method by which the call was billed. No subscriber information or other personal identifying information was included in this database. No communication content was included in this database.
In other words it's just like the Section 215 phone dragnet (and different in a few ways from Hemisphere, the drug-related database collecting US calls), but collected under 21 USC 876, the drug war's version of Section 215 tangible things provision, rather than Section 215. And they used it to go after sanctions violators, not drug traffickers.
The declaration goes on to say that this database got shut down — at least, shut down under this authority — in September 2013.
Use of the [redacted] database [redacted] that returned the 818 number was suspended in September 2013.1 This database [redacted] is no longer being queried for investigatory purposes, and information is no longer being collected in bulk pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 876.
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The NYT broke the story of Hemisphere on September 1, 2013, so the month this thing was shut down. September 2013 is also, conveniently enough, the month Hassanshahi was arrested.
But of course, the declaration doesn't even say it was shut down. There's the redacted footnote, saying who knows what about the suspension. And the declaration only says this stuff isn't collected in bulk under 21 USC 876, not that it's not being conducted in bulk.
Maybe the government has finally moved its Iran sanction phone dragnet under Treasury sanctions authorities, where it should be?
You know how conservatives (and education reform Democrats like Rahm and Obama and Cuomo) claim that they need to break up teacher's unions because they hurt children of color because they impede efforts to give them a better education?
You never see anyone make the same argument, that cops unions hurt children of color because they ensure that cops who shoot children never get punished for it.
Funny how shooting 12-year olds bearing toys is considered less damaging to children of color than working in an underfunded school.
And cops unions' role in the treatment of brown boys as presumptively criminal goes beyond just the shootings.
Cops unions lobbied to defeat bipartisan interest in demilitarizing cops.
According to Pasco, FOP members reached out to "maybe 80 percent of senators and half the House." Since militarization was at the greatest risk in the Democratic Senate, the disparity made sense. As McMorris-Santoro reported, the departing Senate's blockade on Republican amendments made it impossible for Paul to attach anything to a passable bill. And the clock's basically run out for reform. A new Congress is coming in, but the FOP doesn't see it as particularly likely to dismantle 1033.
And the Saint Louis Police Officers Association is now attacking 5 Rams players who entered the field yesterday with their hands raised in Stop Don't Shoot symbolism.
"The SLPOA is calling for the players involved to be disciplined and for the Rams and the NFL to deliver a very public apology. Roorda said he planned to speak to the NFL and the Rams to voice his organization's displeasure tomorrow. He also plans to reach out to other police organizations in St. Louis and around the country to enlist their input on what the appropriate response from law enforcement should be. Roorda warned, "I know that there are those that will say that these players are simply exercising their First Amendment rights. Well I've got news for people who think that way, cops have first amendment rights too, and we plan to exercise ours. I'd remind the NFL and their players that it is not the violent thugs burning down buildings that buy their advertiser's products. It's cops and the good people of St. Louis and other NFL towns that do. Somebody needs to throw a flag on this play. If it's not the NFL and the Rams, then it'll be cops and their supporters."
As Deadspin notes, SLPOA spokesperson Jeff Roorda has a history of submitting false statements to protect himself and other cops.
I am in no way doubting the importance of police unions. All public sector workers are under attack these days, and while cops are often spared the brunt of those attacks (and exempted from anti-union laws), they need to have representation to defend their interests. I absolutely support that.
But I am cognizant of how critical a cog cops unions increasingly play — and how perfectly this language of "cops against the thugs" captures — in what defense attorney Joseph Margulies describes as the toxic ideology behind our policing.
Policymakers who profess an interest in criminal justice reform have thus far declined to re-examine the ideological foundation on which the current system was built. They have not questioned, in other words, the essential disposition to view the great majority of offenders as "them"—marauders who must be separated from "us" by any means necessary and for as long as possible. They show no awareness that the entire system was built on a foundation that unleashed the police and directed them to divide, rather than restrained the police and enjoined them to unite. Like any dominant ideology, this foundation operates unseen and unquestioned.
Now that reform is finally in the air, we must acknowledge that the American criminal justice system is flawed at its ideological core, a flaw that no amount of tinkering will fix. The shooting of Michael Brown, like the shooting of so many unarmed African-American men, was the predictable product of the same punitive turn in American life that produced the misguided War on Drugs, the dangerous militarization of local police, and the shame of mass incarceration. Until policymakers are willing to revisit the destructive and divisive ideology of "us" and "them," and all that it implies, from police practice to sentencing to prison conditions, meaningful reform is impossible.
And the next grand jury will come to the same conclusion as this one.
At a time when so many other working people's civil society organizations are being attacked, this one remains, intact, a key part of the ideology that subjects the poor rather than protects them. And as income inequality grows, this function of police unions will grow increasingly valuable to the powers that be.
In the middle of a story about a masked US Marshal who was injured in an operation against the cartels in Mexico in July, Devlin Barrett reveals what was obvious, but never confirmed, at the time. US Marshals (and other US personnel) were involved in the operation that nabbed Chapo Guzmán.
The Marshals Service operations in Mexico are carried out by a small group sent for short, specific missions. The goal is to help Mexico find and capture high-value cartel targets.
One operation yielded a great success: The capture of cartel boss Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as " El Chapo, " earlier this year. It is unclear whether U.S. Marshals personnel were disguised as Mexican military men on the day he was caught.
Sometimes the Marshals Service targets a person Mexico would like to apprehend but who isn't wanted by U.S. authorities, the people familiar with the work said.
Marshals personnel on the ground dress in local military garb to avoid standing out and are given weapons to defend themselves.
The reason I was pretty certain at the time Americans were involved was because all of the "Mexican Marines" involved in the operation — at least the ones that showed up in pictures — were fully masked, so fully that they likely hid light hair as often as faces that might get people targeted by the cartels.
Barrett also makes clear that the toys the Marshals are using in the US under Pen Register authority are also being deployed when they work under cover in Mexico.
The Marshals Service works closely with the Mexican Marines because the U.S. agency has expertise at finding fugitives, in part through technology that detects cellphone signals and other digital signatures. That includes airplane flights operated by the agency carrying sophisticated devices that mimic cellphone towers, as reported last week by The Wall Street Journal. That technology works better with a ground presence.
The people familiar with the matter described the Marshals Service as a police agency affected by mission creep. More than five years ago, the Service flew small planes along the border to detect cell signals and locate suspects inside Mexico. About four years ago the flights crossed deep into Mexican airspace, the people said.
They added that, more recently, some flights have been conducted in Guatemala.
I would bet that the tech deployed against Chapo was even niftier than what the Marshals use here. That would allow them to test nifty new technologies against the most hardened targets, and do so without any legal niceties required, before they start conniving judges to authorize the same technologies against easier targets here. So if we look closely at the Chapo operation, we might learned what exotic new technologies are only beginning to be used here in the US.
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My hometown paper, the Arizona Republic, broke some critically important news a few minutes ago. The story by Dennis Wagner, a superb reporter at the Republic for a very long time, tells of a monumental shift in the policy of DOJ agencies in relation to interrogations and confessions of those in custody.
There was no news release or press conference to announce the radical shift. But a DOJ memorandum —obtained by The Arizona Republic — spells out the changes to begin July 11.
"This policy establishes a presumption that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the United States Marshals Service (USMS) will electronically record statements made by individuals in their custody," says the memo to all federal prosecutors and criminal chiefs from James M. Cole, deputy attorney general.
"This policy also encourages agents and prosecutors to consider electronic recording in investigative or other circumstances where the presumption does not apply," such as in the questioning of witnesses.
This has been a long time coming and is notable in that it covers not just the FBI, but DEA, ATF and US Marshals. Calling it a monumental shift may be, in fact, a bit of an understatement. In the course of a series of false confession cases in the 90's, attempts to get this instated as policy in the District of Arizona were fought by the DOJ tooth and nail. As other local agencies saw the usefulness of audio and/or video taping, DOJ authorities fought the notion like wounded and cornered dogs. That was not just their position in the 90's, it has always been thus:
Since the FBI began under President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908, agents have not only shunned the use of tape recorders, they've been prohibited by policy from making audio and video records of statements by criminal suspects without special approval.
Now, after more than a century, the U.S. Department of Justice has quietly reversed that directive by issuing orders May 12 that video recording is presumptively required for interrogations of suspects in custody, with some exceptions.
What has historically occurred is an agent (usually in pairs) did interviews and then recounted what occurred in what is called a "302" report based on their memories, recollections and handwritten notes (which were then usually destroyed). This created the opportunity not just for inaccuracy, but outright fabrication by overly aggressive agents. Many defendants have been wrongfully convicted, and some who were guilty got off because competent defense attorneys made fools of agents, and their bogus process, in court.
In short, presumptive taping is smart for both sides, and absolutely in the interests of justice. It still remains inexplicable why the DOJ maintained this intransigence so long when every competent police procedures expert in the world has been saying for decades that taping should be the presumption.
Now it should be noted that the policy will only apply to "in custody" interrogations and not ones where there has been no formal arrest which is, of course, a gaping hole considering how DOJ agents blithely work suspects over under the ruse they are not yet in custody. There will also clearly be an exigent circumstances/public safety exception which are also more and more frequently abused by DOJ (See: here, here and here for example).
So, we will have to wait to see the formal written guidance, and how it is stated in the relevant operation manuals for agents and US Attorneys, to get a full bead on the scope of change. And, obviously, see how the written policies are implemented, and what exceptions are claimed, in the field.
But the shift in interrogation policy today is monumental and is a VERY good and positive step. Today is a day Eric Holder should be proud of, and it was far too long in arriving.
UPDATE: When I first posted this I did not see the actual memo attached to Dennis Wagner's story in the Arizona Republic; since that time I have been sent the actual memo by another source, and it is also available as a link in the Republic story that broke this news. Here are a couple of critical points out of the actual memo dated May 12, 2014:
The policy establishes a presumption in favor o f electronically recording custodial interviews, with certain exceptions, and encourages agents and prosecutors to consider taping outside of custodial interrogations. The policy will go into effect on Friday, July 11, 2014.
By my information, the gap in implementation is because DOJ wanted to do some top down discussion and orientation on the new policy, which makes some sense given the quantum nature of this shift. My understanding is that this is already ongoing, so DOJ seems to be serious about implementation.
But, more important is the news about non-custodial situations. That was a huge question left unanswered initially, as I indicated in the original part of this post. That agents and attendant prosecutors will be encouraged to record these instances as well is, well, encouraging!
The exceptions, which are outlined is Section II of the memo are pretty much exactly as I indicated should be expected above.
Notable in the Presumptions contained in Section I of the memo is that the rule applies to ALL federal crimes. No exceptions, even for terrorism. Also, the recording may be either overt or covert, which is not different from that which I have seen in many other agencies that have long recorded interrogations. Section III specifically excludes extraterritorial situations from the rule. Frankly, I am not sure why that is necessary, the ability to record is pretty ubiquitous these days, extraterritorial should be no problem for presumptive recording.
Those are the highlights of the memo. It is short and worth a read on your own.
In its report on how the NSA collects every cell phone conversation that takes place in the Bahamas, The Intercept focuses on the use of such intercepts for drug investigations (indeed, one of the other countries targeted in the MYSTIC program is Mexico, which clearly has a DEA angle).
But one memo indicates that SOMALGET data is covertly acquired under the auspices of "lawful intercepts" made through Drug Enforcement Administration "accesses"– legal wiretaps of foreign phone networks that the DEA requests as part of international law enforcement cooperation.
When U.S. drug agents need to tap a phone of a suspected drug kingpin in another country, they call up their counterparts and ask them set up an intercept. To facilitate those taps, many nations – including the Bahamas – have hired contractors who install and maintain so-called lawful intercept equipment on their telecommunications.
Perhaps the most telling part of the article, however, is that NSA/DEA don't appear to be using this facility to track money launderers.
If the U.S. government wanted to make a case for surveillance in the Bahamas, it could point to the country's status as a leading haven for tax cheats, corporate shell games, and a wide array of black-market traffickers. The State Department considers the Bahamas both a "major drug-transit country" and a "major money laundering country" (a designation it shares with more than 60 other nations, including the U.S.). According to the International Monetary Fund, as of 2011 the Bahamas was home to 271 banks and trust companies with active licenses. At the time, the Bahamian banks held $595 billion in U.S. assets.
They're tracking pot, but not bothering to track the dollars that drive the pot.
So aside from the hubris of stealing off of the cell phone calls from Bahama, this is also a testament to the US' misplaced priorities, its inability to understand how its coddling of tax havens serve to drive the drug trade.


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