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2014 Moms' Picks: Best baby monitors
1 / 62014 Moms' Picks: The votes are in
Overwhelmed by choice? Not surprising, given how big the baby products market is. To determine the best of what's out there, we asked the experts: moms. The BabyCenter Moms' Picks Awards are the result of a survey of more than 4,200 moms, who rated dozens of baby and toddler products on quality, value, ease of use, and style. Before you head to the store, find out what other moms had to say.
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Summer Infant Baby Touch Digital Color Video Monitor
Why it's a winner
This monitor is super popular because of all of its features – including a camera that tilts, pans, and zooms remotely; a talk-back feature; and a screen that can be dimmed at night – but also because it's easy to carry around. Moms note that the picture and sound quality are both excellent.
Cost: $220
What moms say
"Love that I can watch my baby, talk through monitor, and move the camera if needed."
"I enjoy the sound indicator – even when screen is off, I can tell if my baby is crying."
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Motorola Digital 2.8" Video Monitor MBP33
Why moms love it
This video monitor won overall with moms. They also gave it winning marks in ease of use, particularly because of the ability to talk back to your baby through the monitor. Moms appreciate the room temperature sensor, LED sound alerts, night vision, and five built-in lullabies, though as is case with the majority of the monitors, they reported a short battery life and some interference.
Cost: $150 to $180
What moms say
"The picture is very clear. It is easy to use and I like the music options."
"I love everything about this monitor! We have recommended it so much that several friends have purchased it for their children as well!"
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Motorola Digital 3.5" Video Monitor MBP36
Why moms love it
This has similar features to the Motorola Digital 2.8" Video Monitor – a room temperature sensor, LED sound alerts, infrared camera for night vision, and lullabies – but ranked higher in looks. The monitor has a larger video screen, and the ability to tilt and pan the camera remotely.
Cost: $200 to $250
What moms say
"It really puts my mind at ease. I do wish there was a dimmer function for the screen, it takes a while for my eyes to adjust in the middle of the night."
"The picture quality is excellent."
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Angelcare AC401 Baby Sound Monitor
Why moms love it
This sophisticated sound-only monitor endears itself to moms with its reliability and durability, along with bells and whistles like a room temperature display, a vibration mode, and a sensitivity adjustment if you don't need to hear every little rustle your child makes.
Cost: $98 to $110
What moms say
"It was reliable and easy to use for anyone who was babysitting – grandparents, sitter, etc."
"It rarely gets static feedback, it has a good battery life, and carries soft noises well."
6 / 6Discover all our real-mom product recommendations
You'll find a complete overview of BabyCenter's Moms' Picks winners in our 2014 Moms' Picks guide, including all the products that were nominated for the best-of-the-best voting.
If you'd like to submit a product for consideration for a review or for next year's Moms' Picks voting, find out how on our Products & Gear guidelines page.
Finally, if you're expecting and want to know what you'll need and why – from big ticket items like strollers and highchairs to the little things you'll need for diapering and feeding – visit our ultimate baby registry checklist.BabyCenter Moms' Picks and Editors' Reviews are not endorsements. BabyCenter does not endorse any specific product. BabyCenter Moms' Picks are based on a nationwide survey and online voting on BabyCenter.com that allow parents to voice their opinions about and share their experience with the key products and gear of parenting. For details, read about BabyCenter Moms' Picks. BabyCenter Editor Reviews are experiential reviews based on personal experience and publicly available information, and do not substitute for opinions of safety organizations like the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. For more information, read how BabyCenter's Products & Gear works.


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Oh, boy, this is definitely an experiment...
This morning I went against the best player in my flight. I was able to work out the double fault issues mostly, but ended up losing 2-6, 3-6.
The opponent hit pretty hard and when we were trading blows, it was great. But I had no backhand. Everything floated long on my backhand and I just couldn't get any rally going. However, there were several balls where I was sure I hit long and gave up on the play but my opponent kept playing on. That was definitely unusual.
In the second match, I went against the opponent that I probably could have beaten with my regular racquet, but ended up losing 4-6, 2-6. I just couldn't hit more than 3 shots in a row. Pretty much every defensive shot I hit was going long. I just couldn't control the depth on my service returns.
It got to the point where I was trying to brush up so hard that I started mis-hitting and dumped a ton of balls into the net. It was not pretty.
Man, I do see a ton of potential with this racquet. My volleys are just solid and few of my kickers were going over the shoulders of my opponent. But I am not sure if I can get as consistent with this racquet as I can with my Pure Drive.
I definitely will keep using this racquet for my doubles matches. Will have to see if I can tame this beast for singles. I have one more match tomorrow. Let's see if I get any better.
BTW, after 3 hours or so, 4G is starting to move around. Pretty disappointing as all poly string jobs usually don't slide this much this early for me usually. I think I am going to need to experiment with other strings.
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Many property owners are aware that one can sell investment property, at a profit, and reinvest the sales proceeds in replacement investment property, without having to pay tax on the sale. Such transactions are known as "tax-deferred exchanges" or "1031 exchanges" (1031 being the Internal Revenue Code section that authorizes the transactions). Certain requirements must be satisfied, such as (in the case of a nonsimultaneous exchange) identifying the replacement property and acquiring the replacement property within specified time periods after the sale of the first investment property. The tax on the sale of the first investment property is essentially deferred, and is generally payable upon the subsequent sale of the replacement property.
The recent Tax Court cases of Reesink v. Commissioner and Adams v. Commissioner indicate that investment property can include property that is later converted into the owner's residence or that was previously the owner's residence.
In the Reesink case, Mr. Reesink and a relative sold a San Francisco apartment building for $1,400,000. Mr. Reesink made a profit of approximately $425,000. With the sale proceeds, he purchased a single-family home in Sonoma County, California, and attempted to locate renters for the Sonoma home. Some eight months later, after failing to rent out the Sonoma home, Mr. Reesink and his family moved into the home as their personal residence. Mr. Reesink did not pay tax on the profit from the sale of the San Francisco apartment building, claiming that the sale of the apartment building and purchase of the Sonoma home was a 1031 exchange. The IRS disagreed, asserting that Mr. Reesink purchased the Sonoma home not as replacement investment property, but with the intent to make it his personal residence. The Tax Court noted that Mr. Reesink had attempted to rent out the Sonoma home, concluded that it was purchased as investment property, and ruled in favor of Mr. Reesink. Notwithstanding the court's decision, many advisors may feel that an owner of replacement investment property should hold it as investment property for considerably more than eight months, to demonstrate investment intent, before converting it to the owner's personal residence. This view is based on various IRS private letter rulings (which are not legal precedent), which have approved a two-year holding period as demonstrating investment intent.
In the Adams case, Mr. Adams purchased a home in San Francisco for $26,000 and lived there for many years. He eventually moved to Sonoma County, California and rented his San Francisco home to a family friend. He continued to rent out the San Francisco home for a number of years until he sold it for $572,000. Mr. Adams reinvested the sale proceeds in a home in Eureka, California, which he rented to his son. Mr. Adams did not pay tax on the profit from the sale of the San Francisco home, claiming that the sale of the San Francisco home and purchase of the Eureka home was a 1031 exchange. The IRS disagreed, asserting that the rental arrangement between Mr. Adams and his son was in the nature of a gift, and the Eureka home was not investment property eligible for a 1031 exchange. The Tax Court noted that the son paid fair rental value for the Eureka home, concluded that it was purchased as investment property, and ruled in favor of Mr. Adams.
These cases tell us that investment property that qualified for a 1031 exchange can be converted into one's residence and that one's residence can be converted into investment property that qualifies for a 1031 exchange.
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it would lose its deli license, I'm sure.
Bottle appearance:
Very unassuming bottle.
Soda appearance:
Looks just like ginger ale with a fast-dying head.
Smells exactly like celery.
First Impression of taste:
My initial take on this is of ginger. Greg thinks it tastes like a flat Vernors.
Second Impression:
The celery seed kicks in quickly, but it's not as gross as you might be thinking.
Just like the name and ingredients imply, it tastes like celery. It is fresh and clean and really tasty.
Med/high - fast forming and fast-dying head, nice prickle as you drink it.
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This isn't a gimmicky drink like some of the exotic sodas - it is just a celery seed flavored soda that has been around for years. I really like it, but I used to drink it back in college all the time. It tastes great despite the fact that a vegetable based soda isn't "normal". Greg is clueless on this one - he can't taste the celery at all and just feels it's a wimpy ginger ale.
Greg and I don't agree on this one, but as I mentioned above, he doesn't have a very refined nose or pallet. He gives it an apathetic 4 and I give it a 5 - I love this stuff!


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In aging China, old woman sues children for care
Tuesday - 10/22/2013, 4:20pm EDT
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FUSHENG, China (AP) -- The daughter-in-law smashes the cockroach under her foot and rolls open the rusted metal doors to the garage. Light spills onto a small figure huddled on a straw mattress in a dank room. A curious face peers out.
The face is the most infamous in this village tucked away in the lush green mountains of southwest China. It's the face of Kuang Shiying's 94-year-old mother-in-law -- better known as the little old lady who sued her own children for not taking care of her.
The drama that is playing out inside this ramshackle house reflects a wider and increasingly urgent dilemma. The world's population is aging fast, due to longer life spans and lower birth rates, and there will soon be more old people than young for the first time in history. This demographic about-turn has left families and governments struggling to decide: Who is responsible for the care of the elderly?
This story is part of an occasional series by The Associated Press on elder neglect and abuse, based on hundreds of interviews and dozens of studies.
A handful of countries, such as India, France and Ukraine, require adult children to financially support their parents, mandating what was once a cultural given. Similar laws are in place in 29 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and most of Canada, though they are little known and rarely enforced because government funds help support the old. In Singapore, parents can sue their adult children for an allowance; those who fail to comply can face six months in jail.
In China, where aid is scarce and family loyalty is a cornerstone of society, more than 1,000 parents have already sued their children for financial support over the last 15 years. But in December, the government went further, and amended its elder care law to require that children also support their parents emotionally. Children who don't visit their parents can be taken to court -- by mom and dad.
The law pits the expectations of society against the complexities of family and puts courts in the position of regulating the relationship between parent and child.
Which then begs the question: How do you legislate love?
Zhang Zefang hardly looks like the vindictive matriarch many assume she must be. A tiny woman with blotchy skin, she stares at visitors through half-blinded eyes.
Zhang is one of about 3,800 people who live in the village of Fusheng, where life seems frozen in a long-ago era. Mothers trudge up steep roads with babies in bamboo baskets strapped to their backs. Farmers balance poles across their shoulders to lug crops over hills and past orange groves. The pace is slow and the atmosphere placid.
But inside Kuang and Zhang's home, there is war.
Resentment hangs in the air, acrid and sharp like the stench from the urine-filled bucket next to Zhang's bed. The cluttered storage space she calls home is as loveless as it is lightless. This is the epicenter of a family feud that erupted amid accusations of lying, of ungratefulness, of abuse and neglect and broken promises.
Zhang wants you to know this: She never wanted to take her children to court. She never wanted any of this.
"I never thought about whether my kids would take care of me when I was old," she says. "I just focused on taking care of them."
Her eyes begin to water. Inside her room, there is no heat to ward off the damp chill, no window to the outside world. Zhang spends her days alone in the dark, accompanied only by the roaches, the mess and the memories of a life that started out tough and seems destined to end the same way.
She has all the time in the world to tell her side of the story. From the shadows, she begins to speak.
It used to be in China that growing old meant earning the respect of the young, and the idea of filial piety, or honoring your parents, was instilled from birth. Parents cared for their children, and their children later cared for them. Neither side had a choice.
A Chinese proverb calls filial piety "the first among 100 virtues," and the ancient philosopher Confucius credited it as the bedrock of social harmony. Examples of family loyalty abound: A popular song urges grown children to visit their parents often. Communities celebrate Seniors' Day and hold "best children" contests, complete with cash prizes. One county even made filial piety a condition for the promotion of local officials.


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Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan
Over the past 40 years, the 71-year-old Gaddis had written several books on Cold War policy. But prior to "George Kennan," he had never written about an individual life.
As he researched and wrote Kennan's story, the historian decided to educate himself by offering a class in biography - not a lecture, but one centered on discussion.
During a recent class at Yale, the assigned book was Robert Caro's "Means of Ascent," the second and most controversial of Caro's series on Lyndon Johnson. "Means of Ascent" portrayed a politician so boorish and unscrupulous that former LBJ aides accused Caro of trying to destroy Johnson's reputation.
But Gaddis, a low-key instructor with an even, probing style, notes that the book is prefaced by Caro's vivid portrait of one of Johnson's noblest moments - the 1965 civil rights speech he gave as president, when he brought tears to the eyes of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others by invoking the title of the protest movement's anthem, "We Shall Overcome."
So what kind of man was LBJ, Gaddis asks 20 undergraduates seated around a conference table? And what kind of system did he work in? Could the achievements of his presidency have been possible without the misdeeds of the Senate race years earlier? Is life ever without compromise? The students reach no conclusion, and Gaddis wasn't expecting one. After the class, he explains that of all the lessons he's taken in as a biographer, none is more important than leaving some questions unanswered.
"A really good biography does not have to resolve all issues," Gaddis says. "It can leave contradictions there. It can just say these contradictions were there and were important and the subject of the biography never completely resolved them." The subject of the biography himself was torn by contradictions. And this is certainly true of George Kennan."
Some critics allege Gaddis turned against his subject. In The New York Review of Books, Frank Costigliola's analysis was titled "Is This George Kennan?" He called the book "monumental and absorbing" but worried about the "perspective and balance," noting Gaddis never mentioned that in 1968 Kennan endorsed an anti-war Democrat, Eugene McCarthy, for president.
"The biography suffers from this neglect," Costigliola writes.
Gaddis acknowledges that he could have included Kennan's support for McCarthy, but said he found it more important to write about Kennan's televised Senate testimony in 1966, when he called the Vietnam commitment "unsound" and chastised the United States for acting like "an elephant frightened by a mouse." The book, Gaddis emphasizes, does not fit any political category.
Conservatives think highly of Gaddis, and liberals disapprove, but he says he's a registered independent who has voted for Democrats and Republicans, from Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Bill Clinton in the 1990s to Ronald Reagan in 1984 and George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004. (He voted for Barack Obama in 2008, but remains undecided for this year).
During his seminar, Gaddis spoke warmly about the New Deal and the civil rights movement. In his books, he has expressed great skepticism about the Vietnam War, dismay at the "outright deception" of Kissinger and Richard Nixon and disappointments about the Iraq war. He says during his interview that it "was a great failing of the Bush administration" not to know more about the culture of Iraq before invading and for relying on bad intelligence.


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By RAJES PAUL
It was a day of mixed fortunes for Malaysia when local hope Liew Daren crashed out while back-up shuttlers Goh Soon Huat and Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin assured the hosts a place in the men's singles final.
The 25-year-old Daren was sent packing 10-21, 20-22 by Chen Yuekun of China in the men's singles quarter-finals of the Malaysian Open Grand Prix Gold at Stadium Juara in Bukit Kiara yesterday.
Daren had a chance to turn things around towards the end of the second game but a hasty return at 20-21 saw the 23-year-old Chinese thrilled to bits at setting up a date with Indonesian Alamsyah Yunus in the semi-finals today.
"This was my first meeting against him. I couldn't follow him in the first game and made lots of mistakes. I regained my momentum in the second game but did not have a good finishing," said Daren.
While Daren was downcast, national coach Hendrawan's charges – Soon Huat and Iskandar – were jumping for joy after finally achieving breakthrough results.
The 23-year-old Soon Huat, ranked 71st in the world, dumped seventh seed and All-England semi-finalist Tanongsak Saensom-boonsuk of Thailand 21-18, 21-13 in the third round and followed it up with another superb 21-17, 21-15 win over Chan Yan Kit in the last eight.
"I grew confident after beating Tanongsak. The Thai is a strong attacking player but I'm good in defence. Today, I was able to rattle him," said Soon Huat.
"I lost narrowly to Chan in the German Open but this time I was better prepared. To beat two higher ranked players in a day for the first time is certainly an achievement for me."
Soon Huat was glad that all the hard work he has put in over the last four years under Hendrawan has paid off.
"I've cried in pain after tough trainings and there have been frustrating moments after all the early knockouts all these years. Finally, there is a breakthrough ... hopefully, this will be the start of better things to come," he said.
"I'll be up against team-mate Iskandar for the first time in an international tournament and I reckon it'll be a close affair as we know each other so well."
Iskandar, who had beaten Lee Dong-keun of South Korea 21-12, 15-21, 21-19 in the third round and India's R.M.V. Gurusaidutt by default yesterday, was thrilled with his exploits.
Gurusaidutt was trailing 19-21, 2-5 when he conceded a walkover due to an injury.
"I've never reached the quarter-final of an Open tournament before. The win against the Korean was the turning point for me," said former World Junior runner-up Iskandar.
"I am happy that Soon Huat and I have assured a ticket for Malaysia in the final. It can be anyone's game tomorrow (today)."
Malaysia are also assured a place in the men's doubles final when top pair Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong set up a last four clash against former internationals Mohd Zakry Abdul Latif-Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari.
Malaysia's interest in the women's doubles is still alive when Goh Liu Ying-Lim Yin Loo defeated Fu Mingtian-Shinta Mulia Sari of Singapore 21-15, 21-17 to set up a meeting with top seeds Pia Zebadiah Bernadeth-Rizki Amelia Pradipta of Indonesia.
(Malaysians unless stated)
Third round: Chen Yuekun (Chn) bt Beryno Wong Jiann Tze 21-6, 21-7; R.M.V. Gurusaidutt (Ind) bt Riichi Takeshita (Jpn) 21-19, 21-16; Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin bt Lee Dong-keun (Kor) 21-12, 15-21, 21-19; Liew Daren bt K. Srikanth (Ind) 21-17, 22-20; Alamsyah Yunus (Ina) bt Chan Kwong Beng 21-16, 21-16; Wei Nan (Hkg) bt Derek Wong Zi Liang (Sin) 21-15, 21-16; Goh Soon Huat bt Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk (Tha) 21-18, 21-13; Chan Yan Kit (Hkg) bt Sameer Varma (Ind) 21-15, 21-19.
Quarter-finals: Goh Soon Huat bt Chan Yan Kit (Hkg) 21-17, 21-18; Chen Yuekun (Chn) bt Daren Liew 21-10, 22-20; Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin bt R.M.V. Gurusaidutt (Ind) 21-19, 5-2 rtd; Alamsyah Yunus (Ina) bt Wei Nan (Hkg) 21-18, 15-21, 22-20.
Second round: Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong bt Ronald Alexander-Selvanus Geh (Ina) 21-16, 21-11; Bodin Issara-Pakkawat Vilailak (Tha) bt Takuto Inoue-Yuki Kaneko (Jpn) 21-17, 21-18; Andrei Adistia-Gideon Markus Fernaldi (Ina) bt Chooi Kah Ming-Ow Yao Han 21-19, 21-17; Alven Yulianto-Markis Kido (Ina) bt Maneepong Jongjit-Nipitphon Puangpuapech (Tha) 21-18, 22-20;
Mohd Zakry Abdul Latif-Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari bt Hardi Hardianto-Agripinna Prima Rahmanto Putra (Ina) 22-20, 21-16; Goh V Shem-Lim Khim Wah bt Terry Hee-Terry Yeo Zhao Jiang (Sin) 21-15, 22-20; Chow Pak Chuu-Tan Bin Shen bt Gan Teik Chai-Ong Soon Hock 21-17, 24-22; Hoon Thien How-Tan Wee Kiong bt Chen Zhuofu-Kai Lu (Chn) 21-16, 21-19.
Quarter-finals: Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong bt Bodin Isara-Pakkawat Vlailak (Tha) 21-16, 21-7; Mohd Zakry Abdul Latif-Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari bt Chow Pak Chu-Tan Bin Shen 25-27, 21-12, 21-12; Alven Yulianto-Markis Kido (Ina) bt Hoon Thien How-Tan Wee Kiong 21-15, 21-11; Lim Khim Wah-Goh V Shem bt Andrei Adistia-Gideon Markus Fernaldi (Ina) 14-21, 21-19, 21-18.
Second round: Hera Desi (Ina) bt Lydia Cheah 21-12, 21-17; Gu Juan (Sin) bt Maria Febe Kusumastuti (Ina) 21-17, 10-21, 21-18; Busanan Ongbumrungpan (Tha) bt Sarita Suwannakitborihan (Tha) 21-13, 21-11; Aya Ohori (Jpn) bt Nichaon Jindapon (Tha) 21-10, 21-19;
Sapsiree Taerattanachai (Tha) bt Yao Xue (Chn) 12-21, 21-15, 21-14; Tee Jing Yi bt Xing Aiying (Sin) 21-12, 21-17; Kana Ito (Jpn) bt Liang Xiaoyu (Chn) 21-16, 14-21, 21-12; P.V. Sindhu (Ind) bt Cheung Ngan Yi (Hkg) 11-21, 21-18, 21-10.
Quarter-finals: P. V. Sindhu (Ind) bt Hera Desi (Ina) 21-17, 21-17; Busanan Ongbumrungpan (Tha) bt Kana Ito (Jpn) 21-18, 21-12; Sapsiree Taerattanachai (Tha) bt Tee Jing Yi 22-20, 21-13; Gu Jun (Sin) bt Aya Ohori (Jpn) 15-21, 21-18, 21-19.
Second round: Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella-Vita Marissa (Ina) bt Shella Devi Aulia-Khairunnisa Imma Muthiah (Ina) 21-18, 21-19; Pia Zebadiah Bernadeth-Rizki Amelia Pradipta (Ina) bt Payee Lim Peiy Yee-Lim Zhean Peiy 21-3, 21-6; Chow Mei Kuan-Lee Meng Yean bt Soyoka Yamaguchi-Saya Yamamoto (Jpn) 21-9, 12-21, 21-14; Melati Daeva Oktaviani-Rosyita Eka Putri Sari (Ina) bt Amelia Alicia Anscelly-Soong Fie Cho 22-20, 21-17;
Vanessa Neo Yu Yan-Yao Lei (Sin) bt Gu Juan-Liang Xiaoyu (Sin) 21-15, 21-10; Goh Liu Ying-Lim Yin Loo bt Luo Yu-Yaqiang Huang (Chn) 21-11, 13-21, 21-12; Vivian Hoo-Woon Khe Wei bt Chochuwong Pornpawee-Sapsiree Taerattanachai (Tha) 21-11, 21-13; Fu Mingtian-Shinta Mulia Sari (Sin) bt Serithammarak Artima-Peeraya Munkitamorn (Tha) 21-14, 21-17.
Quarter-finals: Vanessa New Yu Yan-Yao Lei (Sin) bt Vivian Hoo-Woon Khe Wei 21-13, 13-21, 21-19; Pia Zebadiah Bernadeth-Rizki Amelia Pradipta (Ina) bt Chow Mei Kan-Lee Meng Yean 21-13, 21-18; Goh Liu Ying-Lim Yin Loo bt Fu Mingtian-Shinta Mulia Sari 21-15, 21-17; Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella-Vita Marissa (Ina) bt Melati Daeva Oktaviani-Rosyita Eka Putri Sari (Ina) 24-22, 21-9.
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Quarter-finals: Chan Peng Soon-Goh Liu Ying bt Kai Lu-Luo Yu (Chn) 21-12, 21-19; Praveen Jordan-Vita Marissa (Ina) bt Edi Subaktiar-Gloria Emanuelle Wijaja (Ina) 21-17, 21-16; Gideon Markus Fernaldi-Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella (Ina) bt Lukhi Apri Nughoro-Annisa Saufika (Ina) 21-19, 23-25, 21-15; Tan Aik Quan-Lai Pei Jing bt Chan Yun Lung-Tse Ying Suet (Hkg) 25-27, 21-16, 21-18.
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The NYT has a report on an IG Report from May that reveals the Postal Service has been doing a lot more "mail covers" (that is, tracking the metadata from letters) than it had previously revealed.
In a rare public accounting of its mass surveillance program, the United States Postal Service reported that it approved nearly 50,000 requests last year from law enforcement agencies and its own internal inspection unit to secretly monitor the mail of Americans for use in criminal and national security investigations.
The number of requests, contained in a little-noticed 2014 audit of the surveillance program by the Postal Service's inspector general, shows that the surveillance program is more extensive than previously disclosed and that oversight protecting Americans from potential abuses is lax.
Among the most interesting revelations is that USPS previously lowballed the number of covers it does in response to a NYT FOIA by simply not counting most of the searches.
In information provided to The Times earlier this year under the Freedom of Information Act, the Postal Service said that from 2001 through 2012, local, state and federal law enforcement agencies made more than 100,000 requests to monitor the mail of Americans. That would amount to an average of some 8,000 requests a year — far fewer than the nearly 50,000 requests in 2013 that the Postal Service reported in the audit.
The difference is that the Postal Service apparently did not provide to The Times the number of surveillance requests made for national security investigations or those requested by its own investigation and law enforcement arm, the Postal Inspection Service. Typically, the inspection service works hand in hand with outside law enforcement agencies that have come to the Postal Service asking for investigations into fraud, pornography, terrorism or other potential criminal activity.
The report led Ben Wittes to engage in a thought experience, predicting the response to this revelation will be muted compared to that of the phone dragnet.
All of this raises the question: Will this program generate the sort of outrage, legal challenge, and feverish energy for legislative reform that the NSA program has? Or will it fall flat?
I have this feeling that the answer is the latter: The Postal Service's looking at the outside of letters at the request of law enforcement just won't have the same legs as does the big bad NSA looking at the routing information for telephone calls. The reason, I suspect, is not that there are profound legal differences between the two programs. Yes, one can certainly argue that the difference between a program that aspires to be totalizing and one that is notionally targeted, even if very large, is fundamental enough to justify regarding the former with great skepticism and tolerating the latter with a shrug. On the other hand, one could just as easily argue that a program that involves the active perusal of tens of thousands of people's metadata without strict controls is far more threatening than one that involves tight procedures under judicial oversight and involves initial queries of only a few hundred people's data.
The reason, I suspect, that this program will not excite the same sorts of passions as does the NSA's program is that it involves old technology—paper—and it's been going on for a long time.
I agree with Wittes that this won't generate the same kind of outrage.
The fact that few noticed when Josh Gerstein reported on this very same report (and revealed that the USPS was trying to prevent the report's release) back in June (I noticed, but did not write on it) supports Wittes' point.
All that said, Wittes' piece serves as an interesting example. Partly because he overstates the oversight of the phone dragnet program. Somehow Wittes doesn't think the watchlisting of 3,000 presumed American persons with no First Amendment review until 2009 is not an example of abuse. Nor the preservation of 3,000 files worth of phone dragnet data on a research server, mixed in with Stellar Wind data, followed by its destruction before NSA had to explain what it was doing there (which is a more recent abuse than Joe Arpaio's use of the mail dragnet to target a critic, reported in the NYT).
But also because Wittes misconstrues what a true comparison would entail.
To compare phone dragnet, generally, with the mail dragnet described by the NYT (now including both its national security and Postal Inspection searches), you'd have to compare Title III and local law enforcement phone metadata searches (which number in the hundreds of thousands and include the use of Stingrays to track phone location), Hemisphere (which must number in the 10s of thousands and not only undergo no court review, but are explicitly parallel constructed), the use of NSLs to obtain phone metadata (which number in the 10s of thousands, and which are not overseen by a court, have been subject to abuse, also miscount the most important requests, and access new kinds of data that probably aren't really covered under the law), the Section 215 dragnet, the FBI bulk PRTT program, as well as the far far bigger EO 12333 phone dragnet.
That is, Wittes wants to compare the totality of the mail dragnet with a teeny segment of even the NSA phone dragnet, all while ignoring the state, local, and other federal agency (including at least FBI, USMS, and DEA) phone dragnets entirely, and declare the former roughly equivalent to the latter (better in some ways, worse in others). If you were to compare the totality of the mail dragnet (admittedly, you'd have to add Fedex and other courier dragnets) with the totality of the phone dragnet, the latter would vastly exceed the former in every way: in abuse, in lack of oversight, and in scale.
And to measure the "passions" mobilized against the phone dragnet, you'd have to measure it all. Attention to the various parts has been fleeting: today there's more focus on Stingrays, for example, with comparatively less attention to the Section 215 phone dragnet, along with a focus on Hemisphere. There's so much phone dragnet to go around, it's like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole.
Or perhaps more appropriately, of that old fable of the 6 blind men and the elephant, where each of a series of blind men describe an elephant. These men each feel one part of the elephant and see a pillar, a rope, a tree branch, a hand fan, a wall, and a solid pipe. Together, they fail to conceive of the elephant in its entirety.
Wittes' partial view of the phone dragnet describes just one part of one part of the dragnet elephant. At both the NSA, the FBI, and local JTTFs (at a minimum) you're not conceiving the dragnet unless you understand the implications of matching your phone records and email records to your financial purchases and Internet search cookies — and, your snail mail, which is ultimately just a part of the larger dragnet. Each of those dragnets has several interlocking forms, too. More Title III orders, more NSLs, more Section 215 orders, and more EO 12333 collection. All dumped into a black box that — even for the Section 215 phone dragnet — undergoes no apparent oversight.
But Wittes is by no means alone in his partial view of the dragnet elephant. We all suffer from it. Since the very start of the Snowden leaks, I have been trying hard to track how NSA data gets shared with other agencies (see, for example, NCTC, FBI and CIA, "Team Sport," ATF). I suspect I've got as good an understanding of how this data worms its way through the government as anyone outside of some corners of government, but it still looks like an elephant trunk to me.
That, to me, is the real lesson from the focus on yet another dragnet available to yet more intelligence and law enforcement agencies. None of us yet have a good sense of the scope of the dragnet. It is, quite literally, inconceivable. And we have even less of an idea of what happens after the dragnet feeds all that data into a series of black boxes, most subject to very little oversight.
With each new elephant body part identified, we'd do well to remember, it's just one more body part.
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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.
Edward Snowden's revelations have shed much light on how secret government programs are collecting huge amounts of telephone, email and other electronic data generated by every US citizen even though, as Marcy has shown repeatedly, claims that collecting all of this data have enabled the capture of terrorists turn out to be significantly overblown. Sadly, it's not just records of our communications that the government is collecting. The FBI is taking the lead in putting together what it calls Next Generation Identification. This program will expand the conventional FBI fingerprint database to include significant amounts of biological, or biometric data. From the FBI's own description:
The future of identification systems is currently progressing beyond the dependency of a unimodal (e.g., fingerprint) biometric identifier towards multimodal biometrics (i.e., voice, iris, facial, etc.). The NGI Program will advance the integration strategies and indexing of additional biometric data that will provide the framework for a future multimodal system that will facilitate biometric fusion identification techniques. The framework will be expandable, scalable, and flexible to accommodate new technologies and biometric standards, and will be interoperable with existing systems. Once developed and implemented, the NGI initiatives and multimodal functionality will promote a high level of information sharing, support interoperability, and provide a foundation for using multiple biometrics for positive identification.
Wait. See that "etc." in the "voice, iris, facial, etc"? Given the government's behavior on electronic data, throwing in an "etc." on biometric data is pretty unnerving. Impressive work is being done by the Electronic Privacy Information Center to shed light on just what the government is up to with Next Generation Identification. Here is their description of the program:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is developing a biometric identification database program called "Next Generation Identification" (NGI). When completed, the NGI system will be the largest biometric database in the world. The vast majority of records contained in the NGI database will be of US citizens. The NGI biometric identifiers will include fingerprints, iris scans, DNA profiles, voice identification profiles, palm prints, and photographs. The system will include facial recognition capabilities to analyze collected images. Millions of individuals who are neither criminals nor suspects will be included in the database. Many of these individuals will be unaware that their images and other biometric identifiers are being captured. Drivers license photos and other biometric records collected by civil service agencies could be added to the system. The NGI system could be integrated with other surveillance technology, such as Trapwire, that would enable real-time image-matching of live feeds from CCTV surveillance cameras. The Department of Homeland Security has expended hundreds of millions of dollars to establish state and local surveillance systems, including CCTV cameras that record the routine activities of millions of individuals. There are an estimated 30 million surveillance cameras in the United States. The NGI system will be integrated with CCTV cameras operated by public agencies and private entities.
So just as the government has moved far beyond tapping communications only with a warrant to include the communications of innocent civilians, biometric identifiers of innocent civilians will be included in NGI alongside identifiers of known criminals. And what could possibly go wrong with our information being assembled in this way? Here's how EPIC says the database will be built and maintained: Continue reading
Chuck Grassley just released a summary of violations of NSA authority he requested back in August.
The data is pretty meaningless. As I have shown, NSA's own internal reporting shows about 9% (and up to 20% in some categories) of its violations are "due diligence" violations, which are violations of rules that an analyst knows (human error, intelligence error, and training are treated as distinct violations). If today's hearing was any indication, the Senate Intelligence Committee seems to have no understanding that 9% of all violations are willful violations of rules.
All that said, of the 12 incidents the NSA reported (there are 3 incidents still under investigation), fully half appear to be committed by members of different agencies (though one of those was a military person reported to NSA). That's a lot of other agency personnel abusing SIGINT authorities they're granted access to.
And note, DOJ has never prosecuted any of these. In just about all cases where DOJ gets a referral, the person resigns before being charged. The UCMJ does better — DOD has punished two people.
Jim Comey has officially been in charge of the FBI for less than two weeks.
Today, in honor of Constitution Day, the ACLU just released a report showing how the FBI's expanded mandate since 9/11 has led to Constitutional abuses.
Most of the details of the report have been reported here in depth. But the Big Data section includes some details I haven't covered. It explains:
FBI collects Suspicious Activities Reports that duplicate — but lower the standard for — an existing database
Another major problem is that eGuardian effectively competes with another federal government SAR. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 established the Information Sharing Environment (ISE) to serve as the conduit for terrorism-related information sharing between state and local law enforcement and the federal government.114 A March 2013 Government Accountability Office report found that though the two programs share information between them, eGuardian uses a lower evidentiary threshold for inclusion of SARs, which creates risks and privacy problems.
The Government Accountability Office found that "many fusion centers have decided not to automatically share all of their ISE-SARs with eGuardian" because eGuardian doesn't meet ISE standards.115 One fusion center said it would never provide SARs to eGuardian because of the fusion center's privacy policy.116 The Government Accountability Office also found that the two systems "have overlapping goals and offer duplicative services."117
FBI will soon have the equivalent of 20 pieces of intelligence on every American — and they share this broadly
An FBI budget request for fiscal year 2008 said the FBI had amassed databases containing 1.5 billion records, and two members of Congress described documents predicting the FBI would have 6 billion records by 2012, which they said would represent "20 separate 'records' for each man, woman and child in the United States."119
According to a 2012 Systems of Records Notice covering all FBI data warehouses, the information in these systems can be shared broadly, even with foreign entities and private companies, and for a multitude of law enforcement and non-law enforcement purposes.133
There's far more in the report, chronicling the slow creep of abusive FBI techniques since 9/11.
Sadly, given that this has all been treated as legal, I doubt that Comey will do anything about it, even with ACLU's demonstration that the dragnet has led FBI to miss real crimes.
Last night, The Smoking Gun and then CBS reported on the latest sting carried out by our government to keep us safe from people too stupid for their own good. This time, instead of the FBI setting up the security theater sting, it was an undercover agent for ICE, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement within the Department of Homeland Security. The criminal complaint (pdf) filed yesterday is written by an ICE Special Agent working out of Miami (I'll return later to the ironic job position she holds).
Once again, as we see repeatedly in the government's adventures in security theater, we appear to have ensared a small-time hustler but will undoubtedly play this up as a major interdiction of international terrorism. The hustler this time is one Patrick Campbell, who stands accused of brokering a deal to sell U3O8 to Iran. Campbell apparently was promising to ship 1000 tons of the processed uranium ore, but was arrested in New York
yesterday Wednesday when he entered the country from Sierra Leone, where he reportedly lives.
How was Campbell caught? Here is how the complaint describes the elaborate trap ICE devised:
Yup. Everybody knows that Iran absolutely would go shopping for uranium on alibaba.com. Note that ICE does not appear to be able to get their high-tech document production equipment to produce subscripts. There really is no such thing as Uranium 308 or U308. Writing it that way makes it look like they are referring to a uranium isotope. The naturally occurring isotopes of uranium are listed here, where we see that the atomic masses range from 232 (= U-232) to 238 (=U-238). The isotope of interest is U-235, which occurs in nature as only 0.7% of the uranium atoms. Uranium is mined as raw ore which is chemically treated to produce U3O8, which is otherwise known as yellowcake. For further processing, the yellowcake is then converted to UF6 gas and then put into gas centrifuges where the mixture is selectively enriched for the U-235 isotope. Low-grade enriched uranium has the U-235 enriched from the naturally occurring 0.7% to the range of 3-5%. Iran has also produced mid-grade uranium at 20% U-235 for its research reactor used to produce medical isotopes, but this still falls short of the 90% or so U-235 needed for a nuclear weapon.
It would appear that ICE ran this scam on such a short budget that they wouldn't even front Campbell the money for travel to the US from Sierra Leone. In his negotiations with the undercover agent, Campbell demonstrated a pitiful level of awareness of operational security. The complaint notes many communications with Campbell by email, telephone and Skype. There is no indication that any of the communications were encrypted. The extent of his op-sec appears to be his brilliant use of an acronym to refer to the transaction:
Campbell finally made it to New York
yesterday Wednesday, where he was promptly arrested. Here is how The Smoking Gun opened their report:
A foreigner who agreed to sell undercover Homeland Security agents 1000 tons of yellowcake uranium for shipment to Iran was arrested yesterday when he flew into the United States with uranium samples hidden inside the soles of shoes in his luggage, The Smoking Gun has learned.
Wow. He tried to hide his yellowcake samples in the soles of his shoes, which he then put into checked baggage.
This whole episode is stupid and wasteful on a wide range of levels.
First, Iran purchased huge stockpiles of yellowcake back in the days of the Shah. Continue reading
One of the more colorful revelations in today's Guardian scoop is the newsletter piece that describes increased sharing of PRISM (Section 702) data with FBI and CIA.
The information the NSA collects from Prism is routinely shared with both the FBI and CIA. A 3 August 2012 newsletter describes how the NSA has recently expanded sharing with the other two agencies.
The NSA, the entry reveals, has even automated the sharing of aspects of Prism, using software that "enables our partners to see which selectorsthe National Security Agency has tasked to Prism".
The document continues: "The FBI and CIA then can request a copy ofPrism collection of any selector…" As a result, the author notes: "these two activities underscore the point that Prism is a team sport!"
But that's something that has actually been built into the program for years. While the Joint IG Report on the illegal wiretap program claimed,
NSA also was responsible for conducting the actual collection of information under the PSP and disseminating intelligence reports to other agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) for analysis and possible investigation.
The Draft NSA IG Report explained,
Coordination with FBI and CIA. By 2004, four FBI integrees and two CIA integrees, operating under SIGINT authorities in accordance with written agreements, were co-located with NSA PSP-cleared analysts. The purpose of co-locating these individuals was to improve collaborative analytic efforts.
And the minimization procedures released by the Guardian (which date to 2009), make it clear NSA can provided unminimized content to CIA and FBI on whatever selectors they request.
(1) NSA may provide to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) unminimized communications acquired pursuant to section 702 of the Act. CIA will identify to NSA targets for which NSA may provide unminimized communications to CIA. CIA will process any such unminimized communications received from NSA in accordance with CIA minimization procedures adopted by the Attorney General, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, pursuant to subsection 702(e) of the Act.
(2) NSA may provide to the FBI unminimized communications acquired pursuant to section 702 of the Act. FBI will identify to NSA targets for which NSA may provide unminimized communications to the FBI. FBI will process any such unminimized communications received from NSA in accordance with FBI minimization procedures adopted by the Attorney General, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, pursuant to subsection 702(e) of the Act.
And none of that should be surprising, given the tasking slide — above — that was first published by the WaPo. FBI, at least, is solidly in the midst of this collection, for a program deemed to be foreign intelligence collection.
There have been a variety of claims about all this team sport participation. But I'm not convinced any of them explain how all this works.
And in perhaps related news, the Fifth Circuit today said that Nidal Hasan could not have access to the FISA material on him, in spite of the fact that William Webster published a 150 page report on it last year. Legally, that material should be utterly distinct from PRISM, since a wiretap on Anwar al-Awlaki would require a specific FISA warrant (and the latest Guardian scoop refers to expanded cooperation since 2012). But I suspect the reason Hasan, the FISA evidence against whom has already been extensively discussed, can't see it is because we would see what this actually looks like from the FBI side.
DOJ has to protect its team, you know.
I've been focusing on Edward Snowden's NSA revelations, but I didn't want this tidbit of news to go unnoticed. Among the other documents EFF has gotten in its FOIA on drones in the United States is a planning document for Customs and Border Patrol's use of the Predator drone. In it, there's one line that suggests future upgrades (the report dates to 2010) might include non-lethal immobilization technology.
A Customs & Border Protection (CPB) report, released in response to EFF's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the agency, shows CBP has considered adding weapons to its domestic Predator drones.
The report, titled "Concept of Operations for CBP's Predator B Unmanned Aircraft System" and submitted to Congress on June 29, 2010 shows that, not only is the agency planning to sharply increase the number of Predator drones it flies and the amount of surveillance it conducts by 2016 (detailed further in a separate blog post tomorrow), but it has considered equipping its Predators with "non-lethal weapons designed to immobilize" targets of interest. (p. 63).
And remember: CBP loans out its drones to other Federal agencies. I suspect when Robert Mueller testified recently that FBI had used drones he had CBP ones in mind.
So the next time LAPD uses loaner drones in a manhunt across Southern California, that drone may well be armed with industrial sized tasers.
As I noted, the WaPo makes it clear one of the most sensitive parts of the government's surveillance programs is the collection of Internet metadata.
But the thing is, it doesn't come out and explain whether and if so how it continues to go on.
This passage, written in the present tense, sure seems to suggest it continues.
MARINA and the collection tools that feed it are probably the least known of the NSA's domestic operations, even among experts who follow the subject closely. Yet they probably capture information about more American citizens than any other, because the volume of e-mail, chats and other Internet communications far exceeds the volume of standard telephone calls.
The NSA calls Internet metadata "digital network information." Sophisticated analysis of those records can reveal unknown associates of known terrorism suspects. Depending on the methods applied, it can also expose medical conditions, political or religious affiliations, confidential business negotiations and extramarital affairs.
What permits the former and prevents the latter is a complex set of policies that the public is not permitted to see. "You could do analyses that give you more information, but the law and procedures don't allow that," a senior U.S. intelligence lawyer said.
Yet buried in the last paragraphs of the story, WaPo's sources suggest "the NSA is no longer doing it." Or — as elaborated — doing "it" under the guise of and with the oversight of the FISA court.
As for bulk collection of Internet metadata, the question that triggered the crisis of 2004, another official said the NSA is no longer doing it. When pressed on that question, he said he was speaking only of collections under authority of the surveillance court.
"I'm not going to say we're not collecting any Internet metadata," he added. "We're not using this program and these kinds of accesses to collect Internet metadata in bulk."
I keep saying this: sources on this story are trying hard to get us to focus on a few programs managed by FBI and NSA under two particular provisions of law that happen to have (secret, limited) court oversight, Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act and the FISA Amendments Act. But that leaves out several other likely candidates to conduct such intelligence analysis, notably the NCTC. And it leaves out other potential sources of collection, such as cybersecurity in the name of self-defense.
The discussion about the various "NSA" programs we've seen so far have discussed only how NSA works with FBI. FBI requests the dragnet phone information and hands it over to NSA. NSA negotiates direct access to internet companies that allow FBI to make direct queries.
We've heard from Keith Alexander about what NSA does — its only use of Section 215, he said, was the phone records.
We heard from Robert Mueller who gave less clear answers about what FBI does and does not do.
But we have yet to have direct testimony from James "least untruthful too cute by half" James Clapper. Mind you, we've gotten several fact sheets and Clapper's hilarious interview with Andrea Mitchell. Just no specific public testimony.
And curiously, in the DNI's own fact sheets, he doesn't specify who does what, aside from describing the statutory role his position and the Attorney General play in authorizing FAA 702 orders. He doesn't say what FBI does, what NSA does … or what his own organization does.
That's important, because in addition to overseeing all intelligence, Clapper's office also includes the National Counterterrorism Center. And the NCTC is the entity in charge sharing data. Indeed, it is statutorily required to have access to everything.
[The National Security Act] provides that "[u]nless otherwise directed by the President, the Director of National Intelligence shall have access to all national intelligence and intelligence related to the national security which is collected by any federal department, agency, or other entity, except as otherwise provided by law, or as appropriate, under guidelines agreed upon by the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence.
That means, presumably, that NCTC is doing a lot of the work that NSA and FBI are making narrow denials about.
But it also means that NCTC can play with these databases — the dragnet and the access via PRISM to 702 data — as well as any other data in the Federal government, including databases that John Brennan gave it the ability to go get.
So here's the thing. When Keith Alexander gives you pat reassurances about how limited NSA's access to Americans' call data is, that may disclose a whole lot more intrusive data mining over at James Clapper's shop.
Remember, here is what James Clapper was initially asked.
Wyden: Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?
Clapper: No, sir.
Wyden: It does not?
Clapper: Not wittingly. There are cases where they could, inadvertently perhaps, collect—but not wittingly." [my emphasis]
His first attempt to walk back that lie went like this:
What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. [my emphasis]
His second attempt to walk it back went like this:
ANDREA MITCHELL: Senator Wyden made quite a lot out of your exchange with him last March during the hearings. Can you explain what you meant when you said that there was not data collection on millions of Americans?
JAMES CLAPPER: First– as I said, I have great respect for Senator Wyden. I thought, though in retrospect, I was asked– "When are you going to start– stop beating your wife" kind of question, which is meaning not– answerable necessarily by a simple yes or no. So I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner by saying no.
And again, to go back to my metaphor. What I was thinking of is looking at the Dewey Decimal numbers– of those books in that metaphorical library– to me, collection of U.S. persons' data would mean taking the book off the shelf and opening it up and reading it.
ANDREA MITCHELL: Taking the contents?
JAMES CLAPPER: Exactly. That's what I meant. Now–
ANDREA MITCHELL: You did not mean archiving the telephone numbers?
All of those efforts were, by context at least, limited exclusively to NSA. They don't address, at all, what NCTC might do with this data (or, for that matter, FBI).
So what does the NCTC do with the data that NSA and FBI have issued careful denials about?
Update: I'm going to replicate a big chunk of this post on the oversight over NCTC's use of other agencies data, complete with the bit about how the guy in charge of it thought Cheney's illegal program was the shit.
Back when John Negroponte appointed him to be the Director of National Intelligence's Civil Liberties Protection Officer, Alexander Joel admitted he had no problem with Cheney's illegal domestic wiretap program.


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March 23, 2010
Blue Cheese-Stuffed Chicken with Buffalo Sauce ala Cooking Light!
Ok, this is just a generic version of the updated blog. Last evening when I was playing around with it I changed it by accident! So, you are seeing a somewhat updated new look - however this is not the final look.
I am short on time this morning but I really wanted to share this Cooking Light meal we had last evening with you! Blue Cheese-Stuffed Chicken with Buffalo Sauce from the March 2010 issue! Oh my, this was yummy! I will definitely be making it again! I followed the recipe until it came to the sauce....and all I did there was add more Franks Red Hot as all it called for was 1 teaspoon....and Grumpy and I both need more heat than that with our Buffalo Chicken :)
If you want to try this check the recipe out by clicking HERE. You won't regret it!
22 comments :
- pegasuslegend said...
You are a genious~ I love this recipe, my husband is going to go nuts over this one~ we both love all the flavors here, cant wait to try this...off thursday, and now I have my menu~ thank you~~~~
- March 23, 2010 at 6:51 AM
- pegasuslegend said...
By the way yours looks 100 times better~~~ xxxxooooo
- March 23, 2010 at 6:52 AM
- Leslie said...
lol lol lol...Grumpy looks, well...so GRUMPY!!!!! lol
Love it!
- March 23, 2010 at 7:48 AM
- Patsyk said...
First off... I love the sneak peak at the updated look!
This dish looks fabulous... I'm gonna have to add it to my list of recipes to try! Yum!
- March 23, 2010 at 8:00 AM
- Grumpy & HoneyB said...
Thanks! LOL, Leslie, isn't that the purpose? he he.
- March 23, 2010 at 8:12 AM
- Cristine said...
This looks fantastic, Shelby!
- March 23, 2010 at 8:18 AM
- The Duo Dishes said...
Franks and Red Rooster are top hot sauces! Love to see them in any recipe.
- March 23, 2010 at 8:32 AM
- Aggie said...
Love your header Shelby!!!
The chicken looks and sounds delicious!
- March 23, 2010 at 8:40 AM
- Debbie said...
Yep, the chicken does look great! and I, too, love your new header. It's cute, cute, cute!
- March 23, 2010 at 9:32 AM
- Bellini Valli said...
I am loving the new look Shelby and the chicken goes without saying.
- March 23, 2010 at 9:34 AM
- Cajun Chef Ryan said...
The cartoon is great! And the recipe looks like a winner too!
I like the new blog look and feel!
- March 23, 2010 at 11:12 AM
- Megan said...
I've been waiting for a sneak peak and I love it! Are you going to Wordpress?
I have to try this chicken. I got the CL issue but haven't even opened it. Glad you did cause this looks amazing!
- March 23, 2010 at 11:14 AM
- Bugaboo said...
I really dig the new blog look --- can't wait to see the finished version. Also, the recipe sounds super tasty, and I love that it's from Cooking Light. Definitely gonna have to try this one out! Thanks! :o)
- March 23, 2010 at 11:27 AM
- Susie said...
Shelby - I love the new look... even if it isn't final! This is so going on my meal plan next week!
- March 23, 2010 at 11:59 AM
- Bob said...
Looks great, I would have added more hot sauce too. Heh. 1 tsp of hot sauce does not Buffalo make.
- March 23, 2010 at 12:02 PM
- Pam said...
Love your header! Pretty creative! And I love this chicken dish even more. Everything is right with some blue cheese added! Yum!!!
- March 23, 2010 at 1:51 PM
- Joanne said...
If you're going to have buffalo chicken, it had better be spicy! This looks delicious. I can taste the red hot hot (almost) as I type...and I like it.
- March 23, 2010 at 2:26 PM
- Peter M said...
Buffalo is just south of Toronto and we love our Buffalo wings here too. Thanks for a novel way to get more of this flavour with other cuts of chicken.
- March 23, 2010 at 3:57 PM
- Pam said...
This is my kind of chicken dish - it looks wonderful Shelby. I am also loving the new look of your blog.
- March 23, 2010 at 7:09 PM
- Gera @ SweetsFoodsBlog said...
Love your cartoon lol! and the cheesy chicken is making my mouth water :)
Also like a lot your new layout!
Have a great week,
- March 23, 2010 at 7:14 PM
- Jamie said...
Hi Shelby! I love the update to your blog, looking forward to the finished product.
I saw this recipe in the new CL magazine and had it bookmarked. Now I know I will make it sooner than later. Looks great!
- March 23, 2010 at 7:43 PM
- Sippity Sup said...
Nice new digs! GREG
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With 10 players in the semifinals in various age categories in the boys' and girls' sections, India is set to win a few medals in the ongoing Asian junior individual squash championships, being held in Iran.
Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, Jordan are the participants.
The highlight of the Indians' performance inlcude Asita Bhengra's win over second-seeded Si Yi Ma (Mas) in four games and Vijay Kumar Meena's ousting 3/4 seed from Malaysia Mohd. Kamal after being two games down and 4-7 in the decider.
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U-17: Uravshi Joshi (Ind) lost to Pansy Pui Hei Chan (Hkg) 3-0; Lakshya Ragavendran (Ind) bt Uen Shan Choi (Hkg) 0-3.
U-19: Anaka Alankamony (Ind) bt Ankita Sharma 3-0; Sachika Ingale (Ind) lost to Ka Po Ho (Hkg) 3-0; Aparajitha Balamurukan (Ind) lost to Ka Hei Chu (Hkg) 3-0.
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