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Lousy, good-for-nothing teenagers. Always hanging around everywhere, causing trouble and whatnot. Setting a bad example for the young ones, the only ones that actually look up to them. I tell you, teenagers have never done anything for the greater good. If they aren't out in the middle of the night causing trouble, chances are they're laying around in the basement doing drugs or something of the sort. Teenagers are the reason I decided to never have kids of my own, just didn't want 'em to end up like that, rotten hoodlums. Never do nothing for nobody, just out there causing trouble, day and night... lousy teenagers.
Ah, they been around for almost as long as I have I suppose. Didn't start getting real bad 'til after I was in school. As soon as I graduated, people started hearing "Oh those teenagers been causing trouble at the football games again," or, "Oh, them teenagers are complaining about 'so and so' again." Things really started to go downhill after the war though, all them young soldiers coming back and doing whatever it is them and their wives did, I'm not sure I wanna know.
Anyway, then they started having all these kids, they were everywhere, and I started to dread the day they became their parents age; figured they be just the same, or worse. Well, the day finally came along, and they turned out to be worse than the ones that came before them. Damn hippies, started complaining about the governments, and the wars, that's all those damn kids ever did. Complain, complain, complain.
I still held out some hope that things would get better after the war and everything, but as soon as the soldiers came back, they all just started being rude. Refused to respect the men for what they did, just decided to shun them instead. Lousy teenagers...
Work Ethic
Work ethic? What work ethic? I haven't seen a teenager with a work ethic since back when I was a boy. Yeah, I'll tell you 'bout a work ethic. Back then we'd have to wake up at 4:30 and go out in the bitter cold to feed the animals, milk the cows, collect the chicken eggs, and help make breakfast. Finally, after all that, we'd walk 10 miles uphill, both ways, in the freezing rain, to go to school so we could get ourselves a proper education, and provide for our future families. But nowadays, nowadays the kids ain't got no work ethic, they wake up 10 minutes after school started and go hassle their parents for a ride.
Sure are spoiled, never do anything for themselves, always gotta get someone else to do it for 'em. If I would've acted the way they do when I was a kid, I surely could've expected a proper whipping. I suppose it doesn't help that their parents keep buying them all sorts of fancy gizmos and such, and yet expect nothing back from the lazy bums. I sure hope they learn a thing or two before they become adults, otherwise the entire society's gonna be poor, and all we'll all look like a bunch of chickens running around with their heads cut off. Lousy teenagers...
Social Complex
Not very complex, if you ask me. Pretty simple really... just sit around and talk on the phone all day, and if they ever even bother to get outside the house they always got those damn 'Celular phones' with 'em. Never much care about anyone but themselves, even when they're in a relationship they always neglect each other and never seem to be with each other, not much of a relationship if you think about it. If they do get together, it's always with a bunch of other ones, and they just go and cause trouble for everybody. It's true, one teenager's bad enough, but if you get a few of them together... it's hell.
Other than just hanging out in their little groups, you do see 'em alone walking around town sometimes. I used to try to be polite, greet them and all, but they'd never say anything back, always just keep on walking. So now, as you can imagine, it's only fair that I treat them the same way. Step on their toes, cane 'em in the knee, whatever I can think of to get back at 'em for all those years they took from me. I'm not the only one neither, nope, just about everyone I know feels the same way, even my bingo partners. Everybody agrees that the world would be a better place if it weren't for them lousy teenagers...
Not all those drugs, and alcohol, and whatever else. I mean their sleeping habits and such. I'd rather not even speak of those other habits, makes me sick. All those stupid girls, going to parties and coming back home pregnant. Hell, I'd feel sorry for them if it weren't their fault, but it always is. Dumb things get all drunk and everything, what'd they expect to happen? Ah, well, suppose I won't live much longer, shouldn't have to go through that generation.
Sleeping Habits
Well, those teenagers don't usually go to sleep until the wee hours of the morning, I should know, I live next-door to a few. They claim they're studying their books and things of the sort. But I figure if they actually studied those they'd get better grades and do something with their life, 'stead of just lying around. Anyway, since they don't get to sleep 'til 3 or 4 in the morning, they usually don't wake up 'til 10 or 11.
They might show up to school late and blame it on studying, but they normally just don't bother. End up sitting in the basement some more, blaring music so loud everyone in town can hear. Better than the weekends I 'spose, they tend to stay up about twice as late those nights, and they're always a lot more rowdy with their 'parties.' They ain't like no parties I ever seen before, I'll tell you that much. There is an upside to the weekends though, that is I don't have to see 'em during the day when I'm out and about. Still have to endure that damn music though... lousy teenagers...
Eating Habits
Well, the eating habits are probably the most-interesting thing, which isn't saying much I guess. They're only interesting cause they vary so much. You see, the guys will eat pretty much anything in sight, cause they all wanna be big and strong... imbeciles.
Anyway, the guys all wanna be big and strong, but the girls all like to be small and skinny, think it makes them prettier or something. Strange thing is though, they never seem to eat in front of each other, too embarrassed I guess. I always see 'em alone at home, munching on whatever they can find usually. What they eat is never very healthy, always chips, or cookies, or mac n' cheese. They don't seem to worry much about their health; doesn't bother me a bit, the sooner they leave this earth, the better as far as I see it. Lousy teenagers...
Role in Society
Them teenagers don't do anything at all to help the community, except when they're caught shoplifting and have to do them community service. It doesn't work to educate them, but at least they can't cause harm when they're at it, I 'spose... Talking 'bout shoplifting, those damned teenagers only seem to do bad to the society, if you think about it... always breaking the law by smoking and drinking and doing drugs and transpassing and loitering and, of course, stealing stuff.
Those police officers don't seem to do anything at all to catch those damned teenagers... "They're just kids", they say. Yea, that's because police officers are getting younger and younger, almost teenager-like. Can't defend no-one, if you ask me, those damed teenagers. Can't even rescue a cat from a tree, them, hehe... Anyways, their 'role in society' is to be the pain in our necks, that's what it is. Always skateboarding on them walkways, those lousy teenagers...
Overall, well... Overall teenagers aren't much good for anything. Not good for working, not good for teaching, not good for talking to. Like I said, pretty much not good for anything, other than the occasional cane-beating, I 'spose. Those lousy teenagers...Template:ArticleFH


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New 'Viking: Battle for Asgard' Screens Don't Reveal Much
We have been throwing screenshots at you left and right for Viking: Battle for Asgard since August, and while they do indeed look pretty darn cool, the ones they sent us today seem a bit repetitive. At first glance that is. On the surface, they look like more of the same – blurry blood-soaked battle images featuring a hoard of men and creatures hacking at each other in an endless gore fest. While this is always a good thing, the screens do not reveal much else about the game more than what we already know. Granted, we get an up-close and personal view of a horrid looking monster who looks as though he could smash you into the dirt leaving nothing but a greasy spot on his foot and a shot showing a flying menace swooping through the air that appears to be either a dragon or a dragon teradactyl hybrid. Yet, nothing else that would give us an idea of gameplay mechanics, weapon usage, or an broader idea of what the storyline entails.
The one thing the new screens do reveal is a female who will be making an appearance in the game. We do not know if she will be a protagonist who fights along side of Skarin, the Viking Goddesses Freya or Hel incarnate, or some sort of antagonistic Lolita out to destroy our hero. Whoever she is, she is in the game, and they sent us some artwork depicting her along with a blurry screen of her standing in a blaze.
Viking: Battle for Asgard is expected to hit retail shelves in March for the PS3 and Xbox 360. In the meantime, be sure and check back with us often as more info on Creative Assembly and SEGA's latest hack and slash is sure to head our way as it gets closer to release. You can view more of the new screens here.

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Divorce has never looked so good as it does on J-Lo, though she is an old pro at it by now. The thrice divorced superstar recently showed up to Glamour's 2011 Women of the Year Awards demanding all the attention in her sultry gown.
Lopez proved she's here to stay as she rocked a stunning pale gray, high neck gown with a daring slit and gorgeous detail. She certainly knows how to pair her cosmetics with her ensembles and this event was no different. Lopez chose to rock nude lipstick with a lip gloss finish and applied tangerine and bronze blush to her cheeks to accentuate her naturally high cheekbones. She went for drama on her eyes, opting for a bold smokey eye in shades of brown, plum and silver eyeshadow. She added black eyeliner to her upper and lower lids and tons of jet black mascara.
Her good looks were almost lost in the beauty and intricacy of her gown. The neutral color looked fabulous against her naturally tan skin. The dress boasted a large flower on her shoulder in the same fabric as the rest of the gown, though the addition of silver gems made it stand out. The petal pattern continued down one side of the dress, resembling the delicate feathers on a bird. While one side showed drama through the adorned petals, the other side held its own - as the gown opened up with a thigh-high slit - showing off J-Lo's killer gams.


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During the election, Candidate Obama said that his social and economic policies (the stimulus package, Obamacare, etc.) would actually reduce the national debt and provide long-term economic stability. (Never mind the fact that he was doing the same tax and spend plan that most progressives think is the cure for all of society's ills.) He said his budget plan, would actually reduce the deficit in | Read More »


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Despite Mick Jagger's lively prancing—his energetic frontmannery—a Rolling Stones concert is above all a sonic affair, rather than a visual event. A concert film, then, would seem pretty straightforward, at best: something to hear, but not much to look at—the sort of thing that goes straight to DVD or PBS.
Martin Scorsese, however, through his ever-moving concert cam, manages to make Shine a Light both. Through fast-paced editing and vigorous camera movement, Scorsese and his team imbue the par for the course proceedings with palpable energy, without ever lapsing into cheap concert-movie cliché. (There are no canted shots of Keith Richards from below, for example.) The Rolling Stones may be commanding showmen, but on a screen they would be little more than clownish, costumed dinosaurs without Scorsese, who understands how to translate their performing prowess to film. (See: the Bridges to Babylon DVD.) Together, the two are a hell of an entertaining pair. Shine a Light doesn't so much provide a "you are there" experience as a distinct experience all its own; it's not just a document, but a living document—a loud, dizzying and overwhelming experience of pure cinema, all shaky close-ups and dancing tracking shots.
Coordinating such a complexly choreographed film was no easy task, logistically and otherwise, Scorsese is sure to let us know. The first fifteen minutes are dedicated to the concert and the film's arrangements, a choppy and comical behind the scenes/making of—a special feature built into the film—in which Scorsese and Jagger risibly butt heads. Making a movie is tough! Especially when it involves a neurotic New Yorker dealing with easygoing, non-committal burnouts. Finally, someone tries to explain it to Scorsese: "this is rock n' roll."
Those first 15 minutes are about all the back-stage/offstage footage we get, distinguishing Shine a Light from its most obvious antecedent, 1978's The Last Waltz, in which Scorsese spends a good deal of film interviewing the Band and watching them shoot pool or jam. But why waste time, Scorsese's and the Stones', shooting B-roll with a band that has decades worth in the vaults? Every two or three songs, Scorsese punctuates the concert (two concerts actually, at the Beacon Theater in Fall 2006) with archival interview footage that superficially fills in the Stones' backstory, usually some ironic clip of an interviewer asking a question along the lines of, "how long do you fellas think you can keep this up?"
A long time, obviously! All yuks aside, that's the point—the Rolling Stones are old but the band still sounds tight, demonstrating the sort of fine-tuned collaboration that gets honed over 45 years on the road, and Jagger is still as limber as a teenager. Not only that, but the boys, even if they're mugging a bit for the conspicuous cameras, give off the feeling that they genuinely love one another, that they have a blast doing what they do and doing it together. That seems a rare enough occurrence—"the rock n' roll band that didn't break up," as rare as two people staying married for 50 years—as to warrant a filmic record. In the end, Shine a Light is a celebration of perseverance from a long-working director who only recently got his best director Oscar—a tribute to doing what you love for as long as you can still do it. In the Rolling Stones, Scorsese has found himself, despite their superficial dissimilarities.


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Governments in countries like the United Kingdom have destroyed much of their manufacturing industry through currency depreciation, while Germany contrasts with a history of engineering excellence and a firm currency. The German business owner in the post-war years had relative certainty of economic calculation, allowing him to build up his productive wealth; while the British business lobby resorted to encouraging successive governments to keep costs down by devaluing the pound, rather than investing their own resources in more efficient production.Reducing costs by managing the currency is, to put it less politely, all about robbing the workforce of the purchasing power of its wages. But the workforce is, in economic terms, made up of individual entrepreneurs selling their skills and labour to employers. They are the unconscious victims of devaluation as indeed are small businesses, but at least in the short-term the central planners manipulating fiat money congratulate themselves that jobs have been saved.The cost comes later, as consumers – who in turn are also entrepreneurs and savers – pay the bill through higher prices and lose on their savings through lower interest rates and monetary value. So where's the benefit?None. The history of nations whose governments respect sound money, such as Germany and Japan in the post-war years, has been one of persistent economic progress, despite otherwise economically incompetent governments. This is in contrast with the UK and some European countries, whose continual devaluations were always accompanied by economic underperformance. Since then all governments have increased their currency debasement efforts. Nevertheless, it is striking that businesses do better with a stable currency in the long run than with the supposed benefits of these continual devaluations.
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Why Won't This New Mom Wash Her Hair?
The fascinating postpartum customs of women from around the world.
Some journal articles urge cultural sensitivity: Let's make sure, they reasonably exhort, that Latin American women can cover their heads in the hospital and that Chinese women are not served ice water. At the same time, as even some of these ambassadors of pluralism agree, elements of each tradition may carry risks. In the cuarentena, there is concern that wrapping the abdomen too tightly with a faja could occlude blood vessels. The alcohol in rice wine involved in doing-the-month can get into breast milk. One study found that staying indoors could cause vitamin D deficiency and rickets in women and babies. Rest is good, but too little activity can be problematic, as can the restrictions on bathing.
Observers have tended to assume that the customs protect against postpartum depression, but the evidence is inconclusive. A meta-review of studies of doing-the-month found no clear protective effect, and in some cases a negative one, particularly when mothers-in-law were the primary caretakers (imagine your opinionated MIL or bossy aunt camped out in your guest room for a month). In researcher Lisa Waugh's study of Mexican-American mothers, the subjects expressed appreciation for the cuarentena, but also anxiety about the perils their mothers invoked. Like any tradition, it can be both comforting and constricting, and plenty of women pluck the parts they like and discard the rest.
Americans who hear about the customs seem to be most envious of the support womenreceive from relatives. Familial tensions notwithstanding, many women in studies (and in my informal survey) are very grateful for the help—with everything from laundry to child-care coaching—they receive. Yet this aspect may be eroding, as immigration separates family members, and as traditions inevitably fade in a new country. Another twist is a move toward institutional arrangements. In Taiwan, pricey hotel-like "doing-the-month centers" have become popular among affluent women.
There are a number of such centers in Los Angeles, like the one that was recently busted. In January, I visited one of these. Smaller than the one that closed, it housed five women and their husbands and babies. In a ground-floor nursery, five carriages were lined up against the wall. Older Chinese women staffed the center, cooking, cleaning, and showing the new mothers how to change diapers. In addition to foreign visitors, these centers typically also serve immigrants who have no family in the area—or who prefer a center and can afford it.
Evelyn's cuarentena may be a quintessentially modern example. Her mother and two of her sisters live nearby, but they haven't had time to offer much assistance. Her husband does what he can, helping to clean and picking up Chinese food. While he's at work, her help meet is her 7-year-old daughter, watching the Disney show Suite Life on Deck in the bedroom and drawing, but ready to answer the door for guests like me and fetch bottles of ibuprofen for her mother. The newborn is calm for the duration of my visit, either nursing or asleep, her only motion to yawn charmingly.
Despite the tranquil scene, Evelyn says, "I never rest like I'm supposed to rest." As for the other aspects, she is resolute about abstinence (to her husband's half-mock chagrin), but otherwise less strict. Her version of a faja—traditionally made of cotton or muslin cloth—is a pair of lycra stretch pants. Although she hasn't washed her hair yet, she's confessed that she may cave any day, overriding her grandmother's admonitions. After all, she has to go out in public to shop for groceries; her grandmother didn't.


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On this page we've listed summaries of the most important news events of February 2005
February 26, 2005 - Romantic evenings? Forget it - 50 percent of Americans would be prepared to abstain from sex for a year in exchange for a big online poker win, reports a recent national survey. How big is "big"? $2.1 million.
InterPoker to send 145 players to the 2005 World Series of Poker
February 26, 2005 - The countdown for this year's action poker has begun. This June, more players than ever in the history of the game will descend on the Rio Las Vegas for the biggest game in town, the 2005 World Series of Poker.
William Hill Poker sponsors the European Poker Rankings
February 26, 2005 - In any sport, people always want to know who's top dog, and the phenomenal rise in the popularity of poker has led to a strong demand among casual and professional players alike for stats to decide just who is the King of the Chips.
Poker wagers $60 billion in 2005 according to MECN
February 26, 2005 - According to a study released this week by MECN, online poker is one of the hottest topics in the gambling industry. The study includes the results of a survey MECN conducted among more than 100 industry experts who offered their unique insights and assessments.
Hendon Mob Poker League launched
February 19, 2005 - On Tuesday, February 15, 2004 The Hendon Mob and StansPoker, a Prima Poker card room, officially kick off the Hendon Mob Poker League with the first of twelve (12) $25 + $2.50 No-Limit Texas Holdem tournaments. StansPoker from Stan James will add $1000 to the prize pool for the February 15th event and at least $500 to each monthly prize pool.
Full House Poker progressing well
February 19, 2005 - Full House Entertainment, the newest player in online poker development, reports today that phase one beta testing of its new online multiplayer poker system Full House Poker ® V-1.3. is progressing well.
Prima Poker Sponsors 'The Hendon Mob'
February 19, 2005 - Prima Poker, the world's largest online poker network, announced today its $1.25 million sponsorship of The Hendon Mob, four of Britain's top professional poker players. The sponsorship will send the fabulous foursome jet-setting on the 2005 Prima Poker Tour that includes 15 of the most exciting poker tournaments of the year. The Mob will be kicking off this month's tournaments on February 18th in Los Angeles, CA for the televised, WPT Poker Classic.
2005 Prima Poker Tour schedule
February 19, 2005 - Prima Poker, the world's largest online poker network, announced today its $1.25 million sponsorship of The Hendon Mob, four of Britain's top professional poker players. The sponsorship will send the fabulous foursome jet-setting on the 2005 Prima Poker Tour that includes 15 of the most exciting poker tournaments of the year. The Mob will be kicking off this month's tournaments on February 18th in Los Angeles, CA for the televised, WPT Poker Classic.
World Poker Tour launches third TV season
February 19, 2005 - The World Poker Tour (WPT) will launch its third smash-hit TV season on March 2 this year on The Travel Channel, awarding a record-breaking $70+ million in prize money.
NBC Sports to air National Heads-Up Poker Championship
February 19, 2005 - Capitalizing on the popularity of poker and previous poker broadcasts on NBC, NBC Sports in May will air the first poker tournament to appear on a major television network.
New poker room: Banner Poker
February 19, 2005 - Latest poker site coming online is Banner Poker.com which is part of a new and probably multi poker room network powered by IKO-Soft. Another brand on the network is likely to be Crown City Poker.com.
Futurebet enters poker arena
February 19, 2005 - Futurebet licensees are being offered a poker room facility through a sub-licensing deal with Poker Room.com's Ongame developer, according to information posted by a casino owner this week.
State votes for regulated internet poker
February 19, 2005 - Last week, InfoPowa reported on the legislative moves in North Dakota to recognize Internet poker as a skills game offering wide tax potential for a regulating State. After glowing speeches about its potential for economic development, jobs and unique opportunities this week, the House voted Wednesday for companies that host worldwide live Internet poker.
Financial markets bullish on Poker
February 13, 2005 - Shares of UK companies that own online gambling sites have soared this year on speculation of mergers and acquisitions and the profit potential of online poker, reports Dresdner Bank analyst Andrew Lee this week.
WPT boot camp for aspirant world champions
February 13, 2005 - Latest development in U.S. online and offline poker playing is the WPT Boot Camp, where for a fee aspirant world champions can learn all the wrinkles from expert poker players over a weekend.
Paddy Power joins Tribeca Tables network
February 13, 2005 - Irelands largest bookmaker Paddy Power has signed an online poker deal with turnkey provider Tribeca Tables Europe Limited, joining other major licensees using the software like Blue Sq, Victor Chandler, Golden Palace and Doyles Room.
Poker bigger than Ice Hockey ?
February 13, 2005 - One of the more interesting mainstream media interviews (Canada.com) touching on the Internet gambling industry this week was with PokerRoom.com and Ongame CEO Patrick Selin.
PokerRoom.com tops Inside Edge poll
February 13, 2005 - Hot on the heels of the Canada.com story on PokerRoom.com came the news that the huge poker room has picked up the Best Online Poker Site award at the inaugural Inside Edge magazine awards 2005.
First annual Intercollegiate Poker Championship
February 13, 2005 - World Poker Exchange is busy organizing the first annual Intercollegiate Poker Championship encompassing 100 top universities throughout the United States.
New poker supply company: MoneyMaker Gaming
February 13, 2005 - Online poker and World Series of Poker champion Chris Moneymaker held a press conference at Jacksonville Landing last weekend to start his own poker supply company.
World Poker Tour luxury poker chest
February 6, 2005 - If you want to win the heart of your poker playing wife, husband or lover this year, than U.S. Playing Card has just the thing...The "Official World Poker Tour(TM)" (WPT) Luxury Poker Chest" -- a newly released 1,000 chip set in a hand-made fine wood case that is "the nuts" as they say in poker...the ultimate!
World Poker Tour goes mobile
February 6, 2005 - WPT Enterprises and MFORMA Group have unveiled an innovative poker project that will enable mobile users to install Texas Hold Em to their phones.
Poker Pulse reports $180 million wagered at poker everyday
February 6, 2005 - Television coverage has fueled the phenomenal growth in the poker industry in recent years and nowhere more so than in the virtual gaming rooms on the Internet.
WPC Showdown to be held at Taj Mahal
February 6, 2005 - Womens Poker Club revealed this week that its next WPC Showdown Tournament will be held between April 14 - 16, 2005 at Trumps Taj Mahal in Atlantic City.
InterPoker to advertise at Super Bowl
February 6, 2005 - Look out for InterPoker ads this Sunday - the company has clinched a major mainstream advertising deal to display 147 thirty second advertisements for its new play for fun site, InterPoker.tv at Super Bowl and other prominent sporting events throughout the year.
SunPoker's first $50,000 downtime tournament
February 6, 2005 - Sun Poker.com seems to be backing its claim to top efficiency with cold, hard cash.


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And while it's easy to look at the raw numbers and say Microsoft beat Nintendo's new console, it's more likely that supply limitations prevented the Wii U from posting higher numbers. (Nintendo, earlier this week, said the system was "essentially sold out" at retail.)
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Taylor Kitsch, Garrett Hedlund and Armie Hammer are reportedly battling it out for the role of Finnick Odair in Catching Fire.
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Not sure if you are talking about them needing a specific substrate or if they can be left completely out of the substrate? If the later, those do need to be planted in the substrate. Most any substrate will do though, sand/small gravel/specific plant substrate/etc. They are heavy root feaders so whatever substrate you chose they will benefit from a root tab or two about 2" from the crown to encourage the roots to seek it out.
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E3 2012: Assassin's Creed III Bundles Coming Later This Year
Posted by Jay in Assassin's Creed III, Assassin's Creed III: Liberation, E3 2012, Hardware Bundles, Media on June 5th, 2012
First, I will start off with saying that the PlayStation Vita will be getting a spin-off of Assassin's Creed III, subtitled Liberation, which stars, for the first time in the series, a female lead role. Her name is Aveline, a woman with a French and African heritage. Since the game takes place in Louisiana, around 1765, the area will about to be handed over from the French to the Spanish, but an ultimately unsuccessful rebellion will try to stop it. Aveline, it seems, is part of this rebellion. Some standout weapons in Aveline's arsenal include dueling pistols, a poison dart blow pipe, and a machete.
As for Assassin's Creed III (PS3), we'll be seeing four exclusive missions for that as well. On a related note, check after the jump for a gameplay trailer featuring Connor as a ship captain in the Caribbean (showing that there is some naval warfare; there is also a premiere trailer for Liberation). One last tidbit, according to Jack Tretton, if you link both PS3 and Vita games, you'll unlock Connor's tomahawk, a new character skin, a new multiplayer character (how much do you want to bet it will be Aveline?), and fully upgraded ammo pouches.
Now, with that out of the way, Ubisoft and Sony have once again teamed up for some bundles. There will be a PlayStation 3 bundled with Assassin's Creed III, of course, but Assassin's Creed III Liberation will also be bundled with a crystal white wifi PlayStation Vita (and a 4GB memory card). They will launch alongside the games on October 30th.
E3 2012: Assassin's Creed III Gameplay Trailer
Posted by Jay in Assassin's Creed III, E3 2012, Media on June 4th, 2012
Assassin's Creed III is making a presence at E3 (obviously), and this time, we have a relatively lengthy gameplay trailer, showing some of the combat, environment navigation and, at the start of it, Connor's hunting skills (in an effort to score some meat for a nearby town's store). If you've been wanting to see how the game looks, check out the trailer after the jump. If not, you can also see the CGI trailer here.
Assassin's Creed 3 Gameplay Trailer
Posted by Oly in Assassin's Creed 3, Assassin's Creed III, Media on May 10th, 2012
The newest trailer for Assassin's Creed III gives a deeper look at the franchise's new hero. Trapped between two worlds, Connor dons the mantle of the Assassin in the fight for justice against the Templars. Sentinel, outsider, and champion, Connor defends the land against those who would infringe upon freedom and liberty.
Assassin's Creed on the Kinect – Great April Fools Video
Posted by Oly in Assassin's Creed 3, Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed III, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Assassins Creed: Brotherhood, Media, QuickNews on April 1st, 2012
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It's bumper to bumper on the campus of Tallahassee Community College as students look for open parking spaces.
"It's bad, just look around you. It's horrible. There is no parking. What are you going to do?" asked TCC student Daniel Vasseur.
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I have recently been investigating a case where the British, French and American intelligence agencies joined together in a conspiracy to assassinate Lenin in August 1918. It is nearly 100 years ago that this event took place and although we know virtually the whole story now, it is not because of the release of official documents.
In 1993 Gordon Brook-Shepherd decided that he would investigate the case. The former intelligence officer worked as a journalist for the Daily Telegraph and was in a good position to discover what had happened as he was trusted by the British establishment. After all, all the people concerned were long dead and the basic outline of the conspiracy had been revealed in 1931 when the wife of one of the agents involved in the conspiracy published an account based on the diaries of her husband, George Reilly, who had been executed in 1925 by the Russian Secret Police (Cheka) for his part in the assassination attempt. In the next couple of years, two other British agents involved in the plot, Robert Bruce Lockhart and George Alexander Hill, published their accounts of the conspiracy. However, the British government refused to release MI6 files that would have confirmed the story.
Brook-Shepherd had a meeting with an unnamed government minister, who had been a close friend for many years. He later recalled that "over several lengthy sessions, I was briefed on everything that had survived in our closed archives on the subject I was dealing with". Eventually he was allowed to see the official documents held by the British intelligence services. He became suspicious when he could not find one reference to Ernest Boyce, the MI6 station chief in Moscow in the summer of 1918 when the conspiracy took place. Brook-Shepherd writes about finding a file headed "Anti-Bolshevik Activities in Russia" but when opened he found it to be completely empty. He eventually reached the conclusion that every document relating to the assassination plot had been destroyed.
Brook-Shepherd had no more luck examining the French archives. All the Deuxieme Bureau archives, along with other special security and diplomatic files, were carted off to Berlin by the Germans after the fall of France in 1940. These archives were taken by the Red Army after they seized the German capital in May 1945 and transported to Moscow. After the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union high-level negotiations took place about these archives. An accord was duly signed between the French and Russian governments on 12th November 1992. The first delivery took place on December 1993 and over the next five months an estimated 140 tons of paper arrived in Paris. However, Brook-Shepherd could find no documents relating to the 1918 conspiracy to kill Lenin. According to the French authorities, the Russian government is still holding about 5% of their classified documents.
The situation is even more difficult concerning the American involvement in the assassination plot. It is claimed that the Americans did not have an intelligence service in 1918. According to President Woodrow Wilson, the government was opposed to the whole idea of spies and intelligence agents. In a speech he made to Congress on 2nd April 1917, he claimed that in the past it had been used by monarchies and aristocracies to guard their privileged existence and had no place in the new democratic order where the people were entitled to know everything: "Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbour states with spies." Maybe he was unaware that the State Department had dispatched a series of spies and saboteurs into neighbouring Mexico on missions which included an attempt to assassinate the revolutionary leader Pancho Villa.
President Wilson was also officially opposed to intervention against the Bolshevik government at the time of the plot. This was partly because he did not want to do anything that increased the power of the British and French empires. Secondly, as a democrat, he had no desire to help the return of the Russian monarchy. In March 1918 he sent a telegram to the Bolshevik government, via the American consulate in Moscow: "The whole heart of the people of the United States is with the people of Russia in the attempt to free themselves for ever from an autocratic government and to become the masters of their own fate."
In reality, the Americans had a team of agents in Russia in 1918. The spymaster was Dewitt Clinton Poole, the Consul General in Moscow. America's main agent was Xenophon Kalamatiano, who was condemned to death by the Russian courts for his part in the conspiracy (if you do a Google search for these two men you will see what a great job the American authorities had done in trying to remove details of their involvement in this conspiracy).
Despite the efforts of these intelligence services to keep the conspiracy secret we now have the full story. However, it was not until 2001 that all the details were published. The information came from Alexander Orlov, a senior figure in the Russian Secret Police. He was a figure close to Joseph Stalin and was responsible for obtaining the false confessions from Lev Kamenev and Gregory Zinoviev in 1936. During the Spanish Civil War Orlov had the task of eliminating the supporters of Leon Trotsky fighting for the Republican Army and the International Brigades.
In July 1938 Orlov was ordered back to the Soviet Union by Stalin. Aware of the Great Purge that was going on and that several of his friends had been executed, Orlov fled to France with his wife and daughter before making his way to the United States. Orlov sent a letter to Nikolai Yezhov, the head of the NKVD, that he would reveal the organizations secrets if any action was taken against him or his family.
Orlov was interviewed by the FBI when he arrived in America. He was of course was an excellent source of information on the Show Trials that had been taking place in the Soviet Union (you have to remember at the time the media was reporting that there was indeed a Trotsky inspired plot to overthrow Stalin). However, it was not only events in Russia in the 1930s that he knew about. In 1918 he had been a junior officer in Cheka and actually took part into the investigation of Xenophon Kalamatiano.
Orlov was allowed to stay in America but he was told that he could not publish any information about his work in the Soviet Union without permission. After the death of Joseph Stalin he published The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes (1953). This did not include details of the plot to kill Lenin. He had written about it but was refused permission to publish it. Orlov died in Cleveland, Ohio, on 25th March 1973.
One of the FBI agents who interviewed Orlov was a man named Edward P. Gazur. He befriended Orlov and he inherited his unpublished memoirs. He allowed this material to be seen by Gordon Brook-Shepherd, who used it to help him write Iron Maze: The Western Secret Services and the Bolsheviks (1998). The book reveals that the plot had been instigated by Colonel Eduard Berzin, a senior commander of the Lettish (Latvian) regiments that had been protecting the Bolshevik Government ever since the revolution. That was true but he was also an agent of Cheka.
Berzin had his first meeting with Robert Bruce Lockhart, the Head of Special Mission to the Soviet Government with the rank of acting British Consul-General in Russia on 14th August, 1918. Lockhart, who described Berzin as "a tall powerfully-built man with clear-cut features and hard steely eyes" was impressed by Berzin. He told Lockhart that he was a senior commander of the Lettish (Latvian) regiments that had been protecting the Bolshevik Government ever since the revolution. Berzin insisted that these regiments had proved indispensable to Lenin, saving his regime from several attempted coups d'état.
On 25th August 1918, Consul-General Dewitt Clinton Poole attended a meeting with French Consul-General Joseph Fernand Grenard where the plot was discussed. Poole arranged for 200,000 rubles to be contributed to the operation. Colonel Henri de Vertemont, the leading French intelligence agent in Russia also contributed money for the venture. Over the next week, Sidney Reilly, Ernest Boyce and George Alexander Hill had regular meetings with Colonel Belzin, where they planned the overthrow of the Bolshevik government. During this period they handed over 1,200,000 rubles. Unknown to MI6 this money was immediately handed over to Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of Cheka. So also were the details of the conspiracy.
Berzin told the conspirators that his troops had been to assigned to guard the theatre where the Soviet Central Executive Committee was to met. A plan was devised to arrest Lenin and Leon Trotsky at the meeting was to take place on 28th August, 1918. Robin Bruce Lockhart, the author of Reilly: Ace of Spies (1992) has argued: "Reilly's grand plan was to arrest all the Red leaders in one swoop on August 28th when a meeting of the Soviet Central Executive Committee was due to be held. Rather than execute them, Reilly intended to de-bag the Bolshevik hierarchy and with Lenin and Trotsky in front, to march them through the streets of Moscow bereft of trousers and underpants, shirt-tails flying in the breeze. They would then be imprisoned. Reilly maintained that it was better to destroy their power by ridicule than to make martyrs of the Bolshevik leaders by shooting them." Reilly's plan was eventually rejected and it was decided to execute the entire leadership of the Bolshevik Party.
The British government selected the man who they wanted to be the head of the new Russian government. His name was Boris Savinkov. It was a controversial decision as Savinkov had a very dubious past. He was a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party and had been involved in several acts of terrorism and had been involved in the assassination of Vyacheslav Plehve, the Minister of the Interior, in 1904. Savinkov had been a member of the Provisional Government in 1917 and had a deep hatred of the Bolsheviks.
Winston Churchill, the Minister of War, was a passionate supporter of intervention, and on the advice of Sidney Reilly, had selected Savinkov was the best man to lead the government. Prime Minister David Lloyd George had doubts about trying to overthrow the Bolsheviks: "Savinkov is no doubt a man of the future but I need Russia at the present moment, even if it must be the Bolsheviks. Savinkov can do nothing at the moment, but I am sure he will be called on in time to come. There are not many Russians like him." The Foreign Office was unimpressed with Savinkov describing him as "most unreliable and crooked". Churchill replied that he thought that he "was a great man and a great Russian patriot, in spite of the terrible methods with which he has been associated". Churchill rejected the advice of his advisors on the grounds that "it is very difficult to judge the politics in any other country".
At the last moment, the Soviet Central Executive Committee meeting on 28th August, 1918, was cancelled. Three days later Dora Kaplan attempted to assassinate Lenin. It was claimed that this was part of the British conspiracy to overthrow the Bolshevik government and orders were issued by Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of Cheka, to round up the agents based in British Embassy in Petrograd. The naval attaché, Francis Cromie was killed resisting arrest. According to Robin Bruce Lockhart: "The gallant Cromie had resisted to the last; with a Browning in each hand he had killed a commissar and wounded several Cheka thugs, before falling himself riddled with Red bullets. Kicked and trampled on, his body was thrown out of the second floor window."
Ernest Boyce and Robert Bruce Lockhart were both arrested but Sidney Reilly had a lucky escape. He arranged to meet Cromie that morning. He arrived at the British Embassy soon after Cromie had been killed: "The Embassy door had been battered off its hinges. The Embassy flag had been torn down. The Embassy had been carried by storm." Reilly now went into hiding and after paying 60,000 rubles to be smuggled out of Russia on board a Dutch freighter.
George Alexander Hill also managed to escape. Consul-General Dewitt Clinton Poole, who was on a visit to Siberia at the time, managed to get to Finland when he heard of the other arrests. His main agent in Russia, Xenophon Kalamatiano, was not so lucky and was arrested. Alexander Orlov was there when Kalamatiano was interviewed. He refused to answer questions but one of the officers noticed that he never parted with the cane he held in his hands. The officer asked to see the cane and began to examine it closely. Orlov told the FBI: "Kalamatiano turned pale and lost his composure. The investigation soon discovered that the cane contained an inner tube and he extracted it. In it were hidden a secret cipher, spy reports, a coded list of thirty-two spies and money receipts from some of them."
On 2nd October, 1918, the British government arranged for Robert Bruce Lockhart and Ernest Boyce to be exchanged for captive Soviet officials such as Maxim Litvinov. After his release the remaining plotters were put on trial. They were all found guilty and Xenophon Kalamatiano and Colonel Alexander V. Friede were condemned to death. The court also passed death sentences on Lockhart, Sidney Reilly , Joseph Fernand Grenard and Colonel Henri de Vertemont, noting that "they had all fled". They would all be shot if ever found on Soviet soil. Friede was executed on 14th December but Kalamatiano was sent to Lubyanka Prison. In the early weeks of his incarceration he was taken out several times into the courtyard for a mock execution. However, Felix Dzerzhinsky had decided that Kalamatiano was more use alive than dead.
Negotiations for Kalamatiano release began straight away. The Bolshevik government told American officials that "Kalamatiano had committed the highest crime against the Soviet state, was properly tried according to Russian revolutionary law and is still considered dangerous to Soviet Russia." It was made clear that Kalamatiano would remain in custody as long as the American government gave support to the White Army in the ongoing Russian Civil War.
On 19th November 1920 Kalamatiano managed to send out a message to the man who recruited him as an intelligence agent, Professor Samuel N. Harper: "Just a few words to tell you, and whichever of my friends you run across, that I am still very much alive - although skinny... Yesterday celebrated my 30th month of imprisonment in various institutions... However, as whatever happens outside finally is concentrated here I consider I have been given a box seat to watch the revolution and am not complaining of such an unusual opportunity. Several of your acquaintances have been here at various times. I trust sometime to tell you more about them all. At the present, names on paper are odious things... If I pull out alive, and I have every hope of doing so now - although at one time chances seemed to be rather on the undertaker's side - I hope we will have a chance of talking things over."
In the summer of 1921 famine was raging in the country and over 25 million Russians were facing starvation. On 27th July, the American Secretary of State, Charles Evans Hughes, warned the Soviet Foreign Minister, Maxim Gorky, in writing: "It is manifestly impossible for the American authorities to countenance measures of relief for the distress in Russia while our citizens are detailed." Three days later, the Bolsheviks agreed to release their American prisoners in return for American Relief Administration emergency help. Kalamatiano and five other Americans were released on 10th August 1921.
Kalamatiano was warned by Dewitt Clinton Poole that he must not tell anyone about his activities in Russia. He was dismissed from the State Department in December 1921 and given a job as a foreign language instructor at the Calver Military Academy. Despite official dissuasion, he did write his memoirs but no publisher was willing to accept his manuscript.
Xenophon Kalamatiano was a keen hunter and after one expedition in the winter of 1922 he suffered a frozen foot. It turned poisonous and toes had to be amputated. "I am departing the world in particles" he wrote from hospital to his old mentor, Professor Samuel N. Harper. The poison continued to attack his body and eventually damaged his heart. He died on 9th November 1923 of a condition certified by the doctors as "sub-acute septic endocarditis". He was forty-one years old.
The final part of the story was revealed in Alexander Orlov: The FBI's KGB General, a book published in 2001. FBI agent Edward P. Gazur, who interviewed Alexander Orlov, claims that Ernest Boyce the MI6 section head in Russia in 1918 was actually a double agent and in the pay of the Soviets. Nigel West has argued that "the reason why this hasn't come out until now is that Orlov, who was not debriefed by British intelligence, never told anybody but Edward Gazur."
Orlov's The March of Time, Reminiscences, was not published until 2004. Gordon Brook-Shepherd, the author of Iron Maze: The Western Secret Services and the Bolsheviks (1998) has pointed out: "Entitled The March of Time, Reminiscences by Alexander Orlov, it is 655 pages long and deals in twenty-nine chapters with episodes in his career as a soldier and Soviet secret service man, from those first years of Bolshevik rule down to his own break with Stalin in 1939 and his adventurous flight from his final post in Spain to North America. Much of that Spanish story and his escape from Stalin's clutches had already appeared in print. This account of the earlier period had never been published or even circulated. It covered half the book, much of it on that first decade of Bolshevik power with which I was concerned. (The whole of Chapter Five, for example, gives the real story, over seventy-six pages, of the entrapment of Boris Savinkov, the 'great conspirator', and the most dangerous of all the Bolsheviks' Russian foes.) I have quoted extensively from both of these sections, not only because of the fascinating human detail they provide, but because I came to regard them, after frequent counter-checks, as totally reliable."
John Scarlett, the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, announced in the run up to its centenary that MI6 would "commission an independent and authoritative volume on the history of the Service's first forty years". Keith Jeffery, the Professor of British History at Queen's University, Belfast, was chosen to carry out the task and MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service: 1909-1949 was published in 2010. The book includes some details of the activities of MI6 agents in Russia in 1918 but there is no mention of what is now known as the "Lockhart Plot".
The book does have one reference to Ernest Boyce. It accuses Boyce of sending Sidney Reilly back into Russia in September 1925 to have secret meetings with the leaders of Monarchist Union of Central Russia. "Boyce had to take some of the blame for the tragedy. Back in London, as recalled by Harry Carr, his assistant in Helsinki" he was "carpeted by the Chief for the role he had played in this unfortunate affair." He does not add that the group had been set up by Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Soviet Secret Police, in order to gain revenge for the plots against Lenin. Only a few months earlier, Boris Savinkov, the man who the British government wanted to become the new leader of the Russian government, after the assassination of the Bolshevik leaders, had been trapped in the same way. Savinkov died in police custody on 7th May, 1925, Reilly was executed on 5th November.
The reasons why the intelligence services of Britain, France and United States covered up the Lockhart Plot was not so much because they were carrying out illegal acts such as the assassination of foreign leaders. The main concern was to hide the fact that they were so easily duped by Cheka and that one of their key officers was a double agent.
Could this also true of the non-release of CIA and FBI files on the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Maybe they are just covering up their own incompetence.
Posted 08 March 2014 - 03:09 AM
It wasn't that long after that Stalin had carried out the aims of 'Reilly's plan" (to have the leaders of the bolchevics executed). Naturally it make me curious about Stalins relationships to the plotters. Perhaps in time something can be found there, perhaps not. As an aside it seems Somerset Maugham had contacts with Boris. Perhaps in his papers there is something worth looking at, similarly other peripheral, as yet unknown, actors as well.
Posted 10 March 2014 - 09:14 AM
It wasn't that long after that Stalin had carried out the aims of 'Reilly's plan" (to have the leaders of the bolchevics executed). Naturally it make me curious about Stalins relationships to the plotters. Perhaps in time something can be found there, perhaps not. As an aside it seems Somerset Maugham had contacts with Boris. Perhaps in his papers there is something worth looking at, similarly other peripheral, as yet unknown, actors as well.
In fact there was a British plan to assassinate Stalin in 1918 but was rejected because at the time he was considered not important enough (that was only to change six years later).
The important point I was making is that intelligence services have been planning political assassinations for a long time and they always make sure the documentation is always destroyed. Therefore, if the CIA and FBI were involved in the assassination, it is highly unlikely that they have allowed any documents that proove this to survive.
Posted 11 March 2014 - 12:05 PM
It wasn't that long after that Stalin had carried out the aims of 'Reilly's plan" (to have the leaders of the bolchevics executed). Naturally it make me curious about Stalins relationships to the plotters. Perhaps in time something can be found there, perhaps not. As an aside it seems Somerset Maugham had contacts with Boris. Perhaps in his papers there is something worth looking at, similarly other peripheral, as yet unknown, actors as well.
In fact there was a British plan to assassinate Stalin in 1918 but was rejected because at the time he was considered not important enough (that was only to change six years later).
The important point I was making is that intelligence services have been planning political assassinations for a long time and they always make sure the documentation is always destroyed. Therefore, if the CIA and FBI were involved in the assassination, it is highly unlikely that they have allowed any documents that proove this to survive.
I doubt if there is any incriminating evidence in either the CIA or FBI files.That would have been purged long ago.But I expect someone who was involved,may have had some incriminating evidence has a insurance policy.Its possible that this may make its way into the public realm at some point.But any named names in Governments hands will be long gone.
Could you imagine the kickback,if the truth,really came out.It would rock the Government to its core.And perhaps some other Governments to.
Posted 12 March 2014 - 10:42 AM
In this article is : in red
CIA Search of Congressional Computer Sparks Constitutional Crisis
Two top Senate leaders declared Tuesday that the CIA's recent conduct has undermined the separation of powers as set out in the Constitution, setting the stage for a major battle to reassert the proper balance between the two branches.
Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), in a floor speech (transcript; video) that Judiciary Committee chair Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) immediately called the most important he had heard in his career, said the CIA had searched through computers belonging to staff members investigating the agency's role in torturing detainees, and had then leveled false charges against her staff in an attempt to intimidate them.
"I have grave concerns that the CIA's search may well have violated the separation of powers principle embodied in the United States Constitution, including the speech and debate clause," she said. "It may have undermined the constitutional framework essential to effective congressional oversight of intelligence activities or any other government function."
She concluded: "The recent actions that I have just laid out make this a defining moment for the oversight of our intelligence community. How Congress responds and how this is resolved will show whether the Intelligence Committee can be effective in monitoring and investigating our nation's intelligence activities, or whether our work can be thwarted by those we oversee. I believe it is critical that the committee and the Senate reaffirm our oversight role and our independence under the Constitution of the United States."
She also accused the CIA of obstructing her committee's torture inquiry in general, and of disputing findings that its own internal inquiry had substantiated.
The document at the heart of this confrontation is an internal review conducted by the CIA of the materials it had turned over to Feinstein's committee during the course of the four-year congressional investigation into the Bush-era torture practices.
Feinstein said the document, which has become known as the Panetta Review after then-director of the CIA Leon Panetta, was first discovered by committee staff using CIA-provided search tools in 2010. It became particularly relevant later, after the committee completed a scathing 6,300-page report in December 2012, and the CIA sent its official response in June 2013.
The committee's detailed report is still classified, but it is known to be highly critical of both the CIA's role in the torture regime and its campaign to deceive Congress about it. The CIA vehemently took issue with those conclusions.
"Unlike the official response, these Panetta review documents were in agreement with the committee's findings. That's what makes them so significant and important to protect," Feinstein said.
Based on the CIA's extensive record of removal and destruction of evidence, which Feinstein detailed in her floor speech, committee staff decided "there was a need to preserve and protect" a copy of the review, which meant bringing it back from the CIA-leased offices in Virginia where staff had been forced to conduct their investigation to secure facilities in a Senate office building.
In December of 2013, Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) revealed that the intelligence committee was aware of the internal report, which he noted "is consistent with the Intelligence committee's report, but amazingly it conflicts with the official CIA response."
Feinstein said that a month later, John Brennan, the current director of the CIA, informed her that CIA personnel had conducted a search of the committee's computers in the Virginia facility, including the standalone network that contained the committee staff's own internal work product and communication.
The senator was outraged, she said, and fired off a letter expressing her concerns that the action was illegal and unconstitutional.
"I have asked for an apology and a recognition that this CIA search of computers used by its oversight committee was inappropriate. I have received neither," she said.
"Besides the constitutional implications, the CIA search may also have violated the Fourth Amendment, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, as well as Executive Order 12333, which prohibits the CIA from conducting domestic searches or surveillance."
Feinstein said she later learned that the CIA's own inspector general had made a criminal referral to the Justice Department regarding the search of the congressional computers by CIA personnel.
But what seemed to really set her off was the CIA's counter-charge, made through acting CIA general counsel Robert Eatinger, that her staff had illegally accessed and removed the document.
"Our staff involved in this matter have the appropriate clearances, handled this sensitive material according to established procedures and practice to protect classified information, and were provided access to the Panetta Review by the CIA itself," she said.
"As a result, there is no legitimate reason to allege to the Justice Department that Senate staff may have committed a crime. I view the acting counsel general's referral as a potential effort to intimidate this staff, and I am not taking this lightly."
She added: "I should note that for most if not all of the CIA's detention and interrogation program, the now-acting general counsel was a lawyer in the CIA's counterterrorism center, the unit within which the CIA managed and carried out this program. From mid-2004 until the official termination of the detention and interrogation program in January 2009, he was the unit's chief lawyer. He is mentioned by name more than 1,600 times in our study.
"And now, this individual is sending a crimes report to the Department of Justice on the actions of Congressional staff — the same Congressional staff who researched and drafted a report that details how CIA officers, including the acting general counsel himself, provided inaccurate information to the Department of Justice about the program."
Feinstein's fighting words were in stark contrast to her role as a champion of NSA surveillance. In most cases, Feinstein has served as an example of how badly oversight over the intelligence community has failed, serving as an accessory to the very kind of excesses her committee was established, in the 1970s, to prevent.
But torture has been the exception for Feinstein, who in stark contrast to President Obama has demanded an authoritative, official accounting of what happened during the Bush years.
Feinstein made it clear that she is eager for her committee's report to become public. "If the Senate can declassify this report, we will be able to insure than an un-American, brutal program in interrogation and distension will never again be permitted."
When Feinstein concluded, Leahy called for dramatic action. "We are supposed to be the conscience of the nation," he said of the Senate. "Now let's stand up for this country."
In a statement, Leahy later continued: "This is not just about getting to the truth of the CIA's shameful use of torture. This is also about the core founding principle of the separation of powers, and the future of this institution and its oversight role. The Senate is bigger than any one Senator. Senators come and go, but the Senate endures. The members of the Senate must stand up in defense of this institution, the Constitution, and the values upon which this nation was founded."
Brennan, in remarks at a Council on Foreign Relations, said the CIA wants to put the torture controversy behind it. "Even as we learn from the past, we must also be able to put the past behind us."
Misrepresenting Feinstein's charge as one of CIA "hacking", he denied it. "Nothing could be further from the truth," he said. "We wouldn't do that. That's beyond the scope of reason."
And he said he would leave it to the Justice Department to sort out the dueling referrals, and figure out who was in the wrong.
UPDATE: Virginia Sloan, president of The Constitution Project, a bipartisan legal watchdog group, issued the following statement:
We are outraged by Senator Feinstein's description of repeated efforts by the CIA to thwart critical and legitimate congressional oversight through delays, attacks, intimidation and attempts to conceal. This is not a partisan issue. Such conduct strikes at the heart of our nation's constitutional system of separation of powers.
This is truly a defining moment, not only for congressional oversight of the intelligence community, but also for President Obama's legacy on torture. The White House cannot allow the CIA to drive this process any longer. The president must ensure that the committee's report is declassified to the fullest extent possible, as well as the CIA's response to the committee's study and the so-called Panetta review. But President Obama should not stop there; he should declassify the rendition, detention and interrogation program itself.
Statement from Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.):
The actions the chairman outlined are the latest events that illustrate why I directly pushed CIA Director Brennan to acknowledge the flaws in and misrepresentations about the CIA's brutal and ineffective detention and interrogation program. Unfortunately, the CIA responded by trying to hide the truth from the American people about this program and undermine the Senate Intelligence Committee's oversight role by illegally searching committee computers. The U.S. Constitution is clear and Coloradans agree: The separation of powers and aggressive oversight are fundamental to our democracy, and Coloradans can count on me to continue to protect these foundational pillars no matter who is in the White House.
Statement from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.):
I commend Chairman Feinstein for shining a light on the unprecedented invasion by the CIA into computers used by Senate Intelligence Committee investigators. The CIA's own recent court filing makes clear that the work product on these computers was and is 'the property of the Committee.' I share her concern that this search may have violated both federal law and the US Constitution. In addition to the grave implications for the Constitutional separation of powers, I am extremely troubled that the CIA leadership has neither responded to specific questions about this search nor even acknowledged that it was inappropriate. This is simply not acceptable in a democracy.
I will continue to support Chairman Feinstein's efforts to get more answers and accountability from the CIA about this search. In my judgment, the Intelligence Community leadership's misleading statements on interrogation and many other issues has undermined their credibility. I will continue to work with my colleagues to ensure that the facts about the CIA's detention and interrogation program are made public, so that the American people can make up their own minds about what happened and prevent the mistakes of the past from being repeated.
White House spokesman Jay Carney, meanwhile, said "The president has great confidence in John Brennan and confidence in our intelligence community and in our professionals at the CIA."
Also see: The Inverse of Oversight: CIA Spies On Congress, March 5, 2014
Posted 12 March 2014 - 05:30 PM
In many respects it is not what the documents say, as much as what they don't say...
The blanks and the reading between the lines has led to discovery that the documents in most cases are the first and front line of the deception.
The concepts of knowledge and truth are very ellusive...
In our world, Truth is what has been sold and accepted - even in the face of overwhelming evidence...
We will still hear how Bin Laden was the cause of 911, thought the FBI never charged him with it due to lack of evdience
or that "Saddam was involved in 911" is still considered TRUTH despite it all...
What do the school books in the UK say about JFK, RFK, MLK, Iraq, etc.... as opposed to the school books in Russia, China, Korea, etc....
TRUTH may be absolute... KNOWLEDGE... not so much.
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