Geee... wonder why?
[SacBee] Gov. Jerry Brown's administration is using federal security regulations written to thwart terrorism to deny public access to records that experts say could guide repairs to the Oroville Dam and provide insight into what led to the near catastrophic failure of its emergency spillway. Uh huh... right... terrorism.
The administration also is blocking public review of records that would show how Brown's office handled the February crisis at Oroville Dam that led to the two-day evacuation of nearly 200,000 Northern Californians. And there is the real reason as the office had its head up its ass
Days after the evacuation orders were lifted in February, The Sacramento Bee filed requests to the state under the California Public Records Act. In one request, the newspaper sought design specifications, federal inspection reports, technical documents, the results of rock sampling and other information. Outside engineers told The Bee such records would likely provide an accounting of what caused a gaping chasm to form in the dam's main concrete spillway on Feb. 7 and the near collapse of the dam's emergency spillway a few days later.
The Bee also sought internal communications and emails from Brown's office. Those records could show how Brown and his top staff members were coordinating the ongoing crisis with each other, with outside agencies and with members of the public. I'm honestly surprised at someone in the press doing journalistic stuff instead of being a mouthpiece for the demoncrats
The administration denied the request for technical information about the dam and provided a limited response to the request for internal communications. Its secrecy has outraged state and federal lawmakers representing the people living below the dam, who frantically fled the area after officials warned of a "30-foot wall of water" cascading down the Feather River when the dam's emergency spillway nearly gave way on Feb. 12.
"This is very, very disturbing to me," said Assemblyman James Gallagher, R-Yuba City. "We just want transparency. We want to know what happened up there and why this happened in the first place." Why? The government is corrupt and ignored warnings then fucked up the response until it was almost too late.
Oroville resident Beth Bello said the state owes it to residents to provide full disclosure of what happened. Bello's cellphone video of concrete debris and water blasting off the crumbling spillway in February went viral during the crisis. She said Tuesday she is far more concerned about state officials' inability to maintain their facilities than she was about terrorism.
"The terrorist issue is irrelevant – completely irrelevant – to what happened to the spillway and the damage to it," she said. "The structural integrity of it is much more of a threat than ever a terrorist, especially at this point in time."
In denying the request for information about the dam itself, Brown's Department of Water Resources cited provisions in state and federal law that allow government officials to block certain records because of security concerns. And protect their asses from the voters.
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Should still be able to go over the accounting books and determine how much was spent over the years on maintenance, and the recent emergency repairs.
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The key here is the inspection and deferred maintenance records. That ramp was steep, and I'm betting it was a long time since some CA DWR civil servant really walked the actual ramp and looked at the condition of the concrete and inspected the terrain along the spillwY for signs of leaks and undercutting. The cost of the massive cleanup lies on that set of failures I'm betting. This is just ass covering by OES and DWR, I know many of the people and the mentality of senior management.
This is very true. If terrorists knew what was wrong, they would design a dam just like Oroville, and administer it in a way that would ensure a catastrophe could happen.
If we keep this secret, nothing bad like this would ever happen, of course.
[WASHINGTONPOST] The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.
The FBI and the Justice Department obtained the warrant targeting Carter Page’s communications after convincing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge that there was probable cause to believe Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power, in this case Russia, according to the officials.
This is the clearest evidence so far that the FBI had reason to believe during the 2016 presidential campaign that a Trump campaign adviser was in touch with Russian agents. Such contacts are now at the center of an investigation into whether the campaign coordinated with the Russian government to swing the election in Trump’s favor.
Page has not been accused of any crimes, and it is unclear whether the Justice Department might later seek charges against him or others in connection with Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The counterintelligence investigation into Russian efforts to influence U.S. elections began in July, officials have said. Most such investigations don’t result in criminal charges.
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In January 2017 Page was under investigation by the FBI, CIA, NSA, ODNI, and FinCEN. Page has said that he has done nothing wrong.[21]
My guess is, if he'd done anything wrong we would have heard about it by now.
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Russians meddled in our elections? Projection by Donks? Under Obama there was plenty of meddling in other countries elections. Brexit (BHO), Israel (BHO), Palestine (HRC), Haiti (HRC), and Honduras (HRC) to name a few.
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That's right, JohnQC. And when they couldn't meddle in an election they'd just have the leaders of other countries overthrown, by kinetic means if necessary.
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No Russians means no basis for the surveillance means it's all kak. The Russian conspiracy will have to be torn from their cold, dead hands.
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Sorry, Media, you'll have to tear up those already-written stories
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Bottom post uses the word 'test'. Well instead of a 24 hour news cycle of comeback, this will now sink before dawn in the massive Donk media propaganda machine.
[FREEBEACON] An organization funded by liberal billionaire George Soros ...the secretive Hungarian born Ernst Stavro Blofeld-like billionaire who seems to fund every horrible progressive organization you can think of... and chaired by Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren's daughter is fighting lawsuits brought forth by election integrity groups in a number of cities.
Demos, a New York City-based progressive public policy organization, is assisting unions in pushing back against election lawsuits filed in North Carolina and Florida. The group is also writing letters of interest in another lawsuit in Pennsylvania. Amelia Warren Tyagi, Warren's daughter, chairs the board of Demos.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation, an Indiana-based legal group that litigates to protect election integrity, filed a lawsuit against Wake County, N.C., on behalf of Voter Integrity Project NC, a research organization dedicated to fair elections, after the county had failed to accurately maintain their voter rolls.
The county also failed to provide records related to the maintenance of their voter rolls and possible noncitizen voting, as required by federal law.
"According to publicly-available data, Wake County has more registered voters on the rolls eligible to cast a ballot than it has citizens who are alive," PILF wrote. "The complaint states that ’voter rolls maintained by the Defendant for Wake County contain or have contained more registrants than eligible voting-age citizens. The number of registrants in Wake County, North Carolina has been over 100 percent of eligible voting-age citizens."
A motion to dismiss the lawsuit was filed February 21 by the Wake County Board of Elections and three attorneys. Senior U.S. Judge W. Earl Britt ruled in favor of the Voter Integrity Project and denied the request.
Cameron Bell, a legal fellow at Demos, is assisting the attorneys on the case. One of the main goals of Demos is to reduce the role of money in politics and to guarantee "the freedom to vote," according to its website. Demos received hundreds of thousands in funding from George Soros' Open Society Foundation.
Individuals from the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, a progressive nonprofit in North Carolina, are also assisting on the lawsuit. The Southern Coalition for Social Justice has also received funding from Soros.
PILF filed a separate lawsuit in Broward County, Fla., against Brenda Snipes, the county's supervisor of elections, for violations of federal roll maintenance. PILF brought the lawsuit forward on behalf of the American Civil Rights Union, an Alexandria, Va.-based legal group that has been described as the conservative ACLU.
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An organization funded by liberal billionaire left-wing extremist and subversive George Soros and chaired by Elizabeth Warren's daughter fighting voter integrity lawsuits. FIFY
I don't know whether to call this irony or blatant chutzpah (read as brass balls).
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Voter fraud? What?! All liberals I see on TV scoff at the idea, citing statistics they pulled out of their @$$ saying that only two suspicious cases of something that may have been interpreted as voter fraud have ever happened in the last 350 years of US history!
[Independent] People in Oregon might be surprised what they are being asked to vote for or against at the next state election.
Republicans have proposed to scrap the 172-year-old ban on duels for public officials in an attempt to highlight how many arcane laws are still upheld by the state constitution.
"They decided that it would not be very civil if two members of the legislature disagreed and then shot each other on the front steps of the provisional capitol," Republican Senator Brian Boquist said at the first committee hearing.
If his proposal, known as Senate Joint Resolution 44, passes both houses in the state Senate, the people of Oregon will have the final say, rather than the Governor.
Under the current constitution, Article II, Section 9 states that anyone who offers, accepts, or knowingly participates in a "challenge to fight a duel ... or who shall agree to go out of the State to fight a duel, shall be ineligible to any office of trust, or profit."
The rule came into effect in 1845, more than four decades after US Vice President Aaron Burr shot dead the first Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton after a bitter rivalry.
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Politician duels might replace pro-football on TV. Pro football has gotten much too racist and political and IMAO not worth watching anymore. Imagine, two politicians who you feel screwed you, both going at it in a duel--hmmm, it just might sell. Term limits for one of them. Also, bring back caning to the Senate--CSPAN could carry it (cynicism).
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In Portland, it could be 'dueling bongs and dildos'.
Not so much fun to watch........for me anyway.
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Portland is a little different. It's been a long time since I've been there but it was a little different in the early 70s too. Portland got shanghaied a long time ago.
[RT] President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... himself is getting involved in a special election in Kansas, as Republicans face an unexpectedly strong challenge for the House of Representatives seat vacated by Mike Pompeo when he became director of the CIA.
Republicans are running State Treasurer Ron Estes in Kansas’s 4th Congressional District, but internal polls show him barely ahead of Democrat James Thompson, the Kansas City Star reported.
"I’ve heard people whose opinions I respect tell me they think it would be single digits," Clay Barker, the executive director of the Kansas Republican Party, told the paper.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) stumped for Estes in Wichita on Monday, while Vice-President Mike Pence and even Trump himself recorded calls to Republican voters in the district, urging them to turn out and vote.
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oops, FOAD, RT
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Estes won the election over Thompson 52to 46.3%.
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