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2021-07-02 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Ashli Babbit's Killer is a Dangerous Incompetent
Gateway photo posted last evening by our own Woodrow. Here is the link and story.
[Gateway] A picture is worth a thousand words. So these two pictures tell you two thousand words worth of Ashley Babbit’s. He is demonstrably incompetent.

Shooter or not, are there more like him in there ?

Secret Service? Private security agent? Interrupted drug delivery? Dominion SW source code? Little wonder no one wishes to discuss the issue.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11145 views ]  Top

#1 But he couldn't leave his Magnum, PI lunchbox behind!
Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-02 00:22||   2021-07-02 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Heh. What *is* that thing?
Posted by SteveS 2021-07-02 00:27||   2021-07-02 00:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Careful Protestors, big brother is tracking comments on the Capitol Protest. Stupid articles like these are for data gain only. Keep your mouth shut.
Posted by Spoter B 2021-07-02 00:43||   2021-07-02 00:43|| Front Page Top

#4  ^#2 "go-box" include the "go-bag" which is an 'essentials' bag of items needed for evacuations or quick departures. Go-box is a name used for a number of electronic devices.

The "Go-Box" is often a box, crate, carry-case, modified briefcase or similar construction containing electronic equipment pre-setup and ready to function. The box can then be taken into the field or placed at a remote site with minimal effort.
Posted by Albemarle Unesh2455 2021-07-02 02:39||   2021-07-02 02:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Mindset
Posted by Grumble Untervehr8237 2021-07-02 03:49||   2021-07-02 03:49|| Front Page Top

#6 

Posted by Grumble Untervehr8237 2021-07-02 04:01||   2021-07-02 04:01|| Front Page Top

#7 



note object on lapel 3rd man right
Posted by Grumble Untervehr8237 2021-07-02 04:11||   2021-07-02 04:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Close-up (Mr. DeMille)

Posted by Grumble Untervehr8237 2021-07-02 04:15||   2021-07-02 04:15|| Front Page Top

#9 
Posted by Grumble Untervehr8237 2021-07-02 04:20||   2021-07-02 04:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Posted in honor of Ashley Babbit, may this help in bring her killer to justice.
Posted by Grumble Untervehr8237 2021-07-02 04:23||   2021-07-02 04:23|| Front Page Top

#11 The Vice President’s Residence & Office Links to The White House Web Site

Other Information:
She has several of them. she has a home office at his official residence, the Naval Observatory, located at One Observatory Circle.

She has an office in the Senate Wing of the Capitol Building which she uses in his Constitutional capacity as President of the Senate.

The Office of the Vice President, run by a Chief of Staff, is an official US Government department and is headquartered in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (before that the Old Executive Office Building and before that the State, War and Navy Building), just across West Executive Drive (sort of a private driveway on the WH campus) from the West Wing of the White House.

In addition, at the direction of the president, she has an office in the West Wing as well. Not all presidents have wanted their veeps so close and some have been exiled into the EOB, but Pence had space in the West Wing.

Many long term Beltway hands have “hideaway” offices in various government buildings; places they can go for secret meetings and just some quiet time. These are generally the office they occupied as a younger and less powerful version of themselves they just decided to keep when they moved on and pulled the required strings. I doubt Pence has one; before he was Governor he did 6 terms in the House, but 12 years isn’t all that long a tenure in the Beltway. But other veeps have had them; LBJ for example
Posted by Albemarle Fillmore3735 2021-07-02 05:10||   2021-07-02 05:10|| Front Page Top

#12 USSS - United States Secret Service
Attire:
Special agents and special officers of the Secret Service wear attire that is appropriate for their surroundings, in order to blend in as much as possible. In most circumstances, the attire of a close protection shift is a conservative suit, but it can range from a tuxedo to casual clothing as required by the environment. Stereotypically, Secret Service agents are often portrayed wearing reflective sunglasses and a communication earpiece. Often their attire is customized to conceal the wide array of equipment worn in service. Agents wear a distinctive lapel pin that identifies them to other agents.

Lapel Pin
Blackinton & Co., which primarily makes badges for police departments, “is the sole proprietor that has the expertise in manufacturing lapel emblems that have new security enhancement technology feature [redacted],” the latest Secret Service purchasing document says.

David Long, Blackinton’s COO, says it is “the only badge manufacturer in the world” that offers a patented authentication technology it calls the “SmartShield.” Each one contains a tiny RFID transponder chip that links to an agency database listing all the necessary information needed to verify that the person with the badge is the one authorized to be carrying it and that the badge itself is authentic.
Posted by Albemarle Fillmore3735 2021-07-02 05:25||   2021-07-02 05:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Thank you for your imput and snaps Grumble.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-02 06:30||   2021-07-02 06:30|| Front Page Top

#14 Your Welcome Brother Visitor

Grumble Untervehr8237
aka Albemarle Fillmore3735
aka Albemarle Unesh2455
and aka Shogum Dribble8648
Posted by Shogum Dribble8648 2021-07-02 06:51||   2021-07-02 06:51|| Front Page Top

#15 /\ I miss those days of $140 per day M&IE :-)
Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-02 07:04||   2021-07-02 07:04|| Front Page Top

#16 
Yes, but the travel accounting was the pits, especially in the paper form days -80's & 90s, couldn't be off by a penny.
Posted by Shogum Dribble8648 2021-07-02 07:11||   2021-07-02 07:11|| Front Page Top

#17 /\ Yes, contracting is definitely the preferred method. Contractors generally don't have legions of needle-dick USG bean counters to contend with. They trust you to get the task accomplished and pay you promptly for your efforts.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-02 07:18||   2021-07-02 07:18|| Front Page Top

#18 
Agree, But providing the accountants with translations for the receipts generally ticked me off...Russian, German, Arabic, Somali, Italian, French, Japanese...(list goes on) Please Boys its a receipt for a taxi - laundry, hookers (incindental entertainment) ;-), food, shop supplies...
Posted by Shogum Dribble8648 2021-07-02 07:29||   2021-07-02 07:29|| Front Page Top

#19 /\ Yes, bank 'currency exchange receipts' drew particular scrutiny. Don't lose them. SCAN that stuff and save it. With cards, probably no longer an issue.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-02 07:36||   2021-07-02 07:36|| Front Page Top

#20 Ordered Evy's book. Thanks again.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-02 07:39||   2021-07-02 07:39|| Front Page Top

#21 Welcome - Might suggest a "Book Report" post for the Burg, if you are willing; enjoy your 4th of July in Georgia.
Posted by Shogum Dribble8648 2021-07-02 07:48||   2021-07-02 07:48|| Front Page Top

#22 Video Shows Black Man In Suit Shooting Ashli Babbitt, Strong Resemblance To Capitol Police Lieutenant
Posted by Jomotle Phomoth3265 2021-07-02 08:19||   2021-07-02 08:19|| Front Page Top

#23 Do you like x-word puzzles?
Major League Baseball
M: Pepsi's Jackson
L: Bad bad Brown (baddest man in the whole damn town)
B: good ol' Democrat Senator Robert the ex-kl*xxer from the mountaineer state
Posted by Rupert Choluger7880 2021-07-02 08:42||   2021-07-02 08:42|| Front Page Top

#24 Suspect
Capitol Cop Who Murdered Ashli Babbitt Identified as Michael Leroy Byrd". Some progressives defend Byrd's actions, saying that his execution of Ashli was a split second decision. Actually, he took careful aim of her neck, from 4 feet away
Posted by Ebbavise Dingle9760 2021-07-02 09:25||   2021-07-02 09:25|| Front Page Top

#25 #3 above, are you saying the article is a dangle?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-07-02 13:52||   2021-07-02 13:52|| Front Page Top

#26 Dangle? Definition please.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-07-02 14:02||   2021-07-02 14:02|| Front Page Top

#27 Dangle: An elicitation technique used to catalogue comments, IP addresses, users, locations, etc.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-02 14:07||   2021-07-02 14:07|| Front Page Top

#28 Wilderness of Mirrors TW, makes one a very suspicious cynic....
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-07-02 15:16||   2021-07-02 15:16|| Front Page Top

#29 Got it. Probably a good thing nobody ever hired me to be a spy or even discreet. (Mr. Wife just doesn’t tell me things that are supposed to be confidential, so I don’t have to remember who not to say anything to.) Anybody tracking me is going to be bored to tears — though perhaps they’ll learn more about the news from Afghanistan, Somalia, and Israel than they did before.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-07-02 16:28||   2021-07-02 16:28|| Front Page Top

#30 For years I maintained and managed the numbered War plan for a particular nation for which my unit was preplanned. Routinely read and directed traffic for senior planners and logisticians [pertinent to the area. I was read in at the highest levels of classification for that country, but had trouble over time being able to differentiate between the classified traffic and the content of the Washington Post, NYT. etc.... so the only solution was to never utter a word about that area outside a SCIF.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-07-02 16:38||   2021-07-02 16:38|| Front Page Top

#31 
SCIF. Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (pronounced "skiff"), a U.S. Department of Defense term for a secure room. It can be a secure room or data center that guards against electronic surveillance and suppresses data leakage of sensitive security and military information.
Posted by Sherelet Ebbating9359 2021-07-02 18:12||   2021-07-02 18:12|| Front Page Top

#32 Typical US Gov't SCIF:

Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-02 18:16||   2021-07-02 18:16|| Front Page Top

#33 ^ I can TASTE the rubber chicken
and the burnt-out bitter coffee
Posted by Slaviling Creack4604 2021-07-02 18:37||   2021-07-02 18:37|| Front Page Top

#34 Worked over half my AF career in SCIFs. Usually one small area to one or more full floors of a building. Biggest one I worked in was Bldg 213 at the Washington Navy Yard, aka NPIC - National Photographic Interpretation Center.
Posted by Old Patriot 2021-07-02 19:53||   2021-07-02 19:53|| Front Page Top

#35 /\ Nothing much good came from the follow-on National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) and NGA mergers, as you may well know. One old man's opinion anyway. All we ever wanted was some good 1:50000-scale maps. No money in paper maps however. And so it goes, or so it went.

Thank you for your hard work.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-02 20:24||   2021-07-02 20:24|| Front Page Top

#36 I was in a band. What a blast.

We were so good, they let us play in mosques.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-07-02 23:02||   2021-07-02 23:02|| Front Page Top

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