Paul Barben, a special agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, looked through the bars of the Northglenn Police Department holding cell at the man he had spoken to almost every day for more than a year.
He stated the date: Sept. 12, 2012. Then he severed ties.
"Demetrius Trujillo, you are no longer an ATF confidential informant," Barben told Trujillo, who had been arrested on a murder warrant.
"It's like that, huh, Paulie?" Trujillo said as Barben turned to walk away with another ATF agent and a Northglenn detective.
That conversation, later memorialized in court testimony, brought to a close Trujillo's 19 months of work on behalf of the ATF — a time that highlights both the benefits and perils of law enforcement reliance on confidential informants.
While police use informants to catch criminals, those informants also are prone to go off the rails, causing death and crime — just as Trujillo did.
Trujillo's work was instrumental in securing indictments and convictions against fellow gang members, but then he killed Christopher Garduno, a gangster he promised federal officials he would help them catch.
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Any cop will tell you that the biggest problem with using CI's (confidential informants) is that, while you try to use them, the sure and certain knowledge that they're trying to use you back. Otherwise they wouldn't play at all.
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The Eritreans are fleeing a brutal regime which dragoons young men into military conscription and maintains a semi-permanent war footing with neighboring Ethiopia. Syrians and Iraqis are fleeing the war and atrocities committed by the self-described Islamic State, Palestinians the open prison that is Gaza, and West Africans the crushing poverty that has framed many of their lives ...
Oh, boo hoo. So now they're gonna bring their problems to Europe.
I'm not sure why State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf became a spokeswoman.
She's certainly an intelligent young woman --
-- you're assuming something that isn't evident to me --
and opinionated, self-righteous, and condescending, as any good young liberal should be. Fine, at least she has some sizzle. State Department briefings have previously been legendary for their watching-paint-dry excitement.
But a spokesperson really has to be able to take themselves out of the equation. You are speaking for someone else, after all. And while it's fine to inject some personality into your briefings and remarks, you really have to resist the temptation to give your own opinions and react to reporters in ways that can undermine your message. And that, Marie Harf cannot do.
Here she letting AP's Matt Lee under her skin. Jock itch ?
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Her inability to grasp the profound nature of the issues she comments on, and the consequent condescension she displays because she thinks she knows things, are what make her so amusing and yet annoying. She cannot see how iconic her pronouncements are in the twit hall of fame.
[Bloomberg] The Barack B.O. regime has estimated for years that Iran was at most three months away from enriching enough nuclear fuel for an atomic bomb. But the administration only declassified this estimate at the beginning of the month, just in time for the White House to make the case for its Iran deal to Congress and the public.
Speaking to news hounds and editors at our Washington bureau on Monday, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz acknowledged that the U.S. has assessed for several years that Iran has been two to three months away from producing enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon. When asked how long the administration has held this assessment, Moniz said: "Oh quite some time." He added: "They are now, they are right now spinning, I mean enriching with 9,400 centrifuges out of their roughly 19,000. Plus all the . . . . R&D work. If you put that together it's very, very little time to go forward. That's the 2-3 months."
Brian Hale, a front man for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, confirmed to me Monday that the two-to-three-month estimate for fissile material was declassified on April 1.
Here is the puzzling thing: When Obama began his second term in 2013, he sang a different tune. He emphasized that Iran was more than a year away from a nuclear bomb, without mentioning that his intelligence community believed it was only two to three months away from making enough fuel for one, long considered the most challenging task in building a weapon. Today Obama emphasizes that Iran is only two to three months away from acquiring enough fuel for a bomb, creating a sense of urgency for his Iran agreement.
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Champ regime now shamelessly using Bibi Iran timeline graphic.
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If you're estimating that something is 3 months away for years ... doesn't that mean your estimate is a little bit off?
Does it mean that Iran has gotten themselves to a point where they just need to say "go" and *then* it takes 3 months to have a bomb, but they are just waiting to say "go" for a while now?
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Two to three months was it? About the same time the Russians have indicated they need to make their S-300's Air Defense Missiles in Iran fully operational.
Probably just a coincidence. Anything else would be purely conspiratorial.
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Paul Barben, a special agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, looked through the bars of the Northglenn Police Department holding cell at the man he had spoken to almost every day for more than a year.
I'm not sure why State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf became a spokeswoman.
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Champ regime now shamelessly using Bibi Iran timeline graphic. 
