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Blago probably has the democratic nomination for governor wrapped up. Eisendrath is a pipe dream, nothing more. Same for Judy Barr-Topinka on the other side. Everyone else is a pretender to the nomination.
No, they only place where we can make any sort of impact (and it's not much of an impact) is the race for Cook County Board President. There's either Stroger (the consummate Machine career politician, more likely than not completely unable to fulfill his duties of office) versus Claypool (a purported reformer but in reality, a former Daley insider, an "outside" guy in the loosest sense of the word). The only thing you can say about Claypool is that he isn't Stroger and he isn't supported by the Machine. We suppose any change is good for a little while, until the indictments come down and shake the entire process out of it's stupor. So if you pull a Democratic ballot, vote Claypool - he's the lesser of two evils.
Blago probably has the democratic nomination for governor wrapped up. Eisendrath is a pipe dream, nothing more. Same for Judy Barr-Topinka on the other side. Everyone else is a pretender to the nomination.
No, they only place where we can make any sort of impact (and it's not much of an impact) is the race for Cook County Board President. There's either Stroger (the consummate Machine career politician, more likely than not completely unable to fulfill his duties of office) versus Claypool (a purported reformer but in reality, a former Daley insider, an "outside" guy in the loosest sense of the word). The only thing you can say about Claypool is that he isn't Stroger and he isn't supported by the Machine. We suppose any change is good for a little while, until the indictments come down and shake the entire process out of it's stupor. So if you pull a Democratic ballot, vote Claypool - he's the lesser of two evils.
posted by SCC at 12:10 AM
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Have no fear for the future, it will obviously be in capable hands.
I keep hearing John Farrell is a great boss, which he is. Let's name some others so they don't change.
seiser is the boss
Make the politicians FEAR US!
FEAR SEISER
second city cop????? who is first city cop?? you think CHICAGO is a second city to new york or something???? explain. seiser demands it.
here is some advise..don't vote
Down, down, down the tube. Flush...
F.B.I. Agent Testifies Superiors Didn't Pursue Moussaoui Case
By NEIL A. LEWIS
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20
The F.B.I. agent who arrested and interrogated Zacarias Moussaoui just weeks before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks told a jury on Monday how he had tried repeatedly to get his superiors in Washington to help confirm his certainty that Mr. Moussaoui was involved in an imminent terrorist airline hijacking plot.
But, said the agent, Harry Samit, he was regularly thwarted by senior bureau officials whose obstructionism he later described to Justice Department investigators as "criminally negligent" and who were, he believed, motivated principally by a need to protect their careers.
Mr. Samit's testimony added a wealth of detail to the notion that officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation played down, ignored and purposely mischaracterized the increasingly dire warnings from field agents in the Minneapolis office that they had a terrorist on their hands in Mr. Moussaoui.
"I accused the people in F.B.I. headquarters of criminal negligence" in an interview after Sept. 11, Mr. Samit acknowledged under intense questioning by Edward B. MacMahon Jr., Mr. Moussaoui's chief court-appointed lawyer.
Mr. Samit confirmed that he had told Justice Department investigators that the senior agents in Washington "took a calculated risk not to advance the investigation" by refusing to seek search warrants for Mr. Moussaoui's belongings and computer. He testified that he had come to believe that "the wager was a national tragedy."
Mr. Samit was a witness for the prosecution, which is trying to have Mr. Moussaoui executed for the deaths that occurred on Sept. 11. In his direct testimony more than a week ago, he bolstered the prosecutors' case by saying that had Mr. Moussaoui answered his questions honestly when he arrested him for immigration violations, it would have set off a chain of inquiries that could have foiled the Sept. 11 plot.
But under Mr. MacMahon's questions, Mr. Samit provided much new evidence and testimony suggesting strongly that the more significant factors in the failure to learn of the plot from Mr. Moussaoui involved the decisions of senior F.B.I. officials.
Mr. Samit's testimony paralleled the complaints of Coleen Rowley, an agent and lawyer in the Minneapolis office who sent a letter on May 21, 2002, to the bureau director, Robert S. Mueller III, bitterly criticizing the performance of F.B.I. headquarters agents in handling the Moussaoui case.
But unlike Ms. Rowley, who has since left the bureau, Mr. Samit remains an agent and tried on Monday to adopt a defensive posture on its behalf. Nonetheless, his testimony provided a vivid condemnation of the bureau, as he was obliged to confirm how he had told investigators of his belief that his superiors had tried to sidestep their responsibilities.
Mr. Samit said two senior agents had declined to provide help in obtaining a search warrant, either through a special panel of judges that considers applications for foreign intelligence cases or through a normal application to any federal court for a criminal investigation.
As a field agent in Minnesota, he said, he required help and approval from headquarters to continue his investigation. He acknowledged that he had asserted that Michael Maltbie, a supervisor in the bureau's Radical Fundamentalist Unit, had told him that applications for the special intelligence court warrants had proved troublesome for the bureau and that seeking one "was just the kind of thing that would get F.B.I. agents in trouble."
Mr. Samit wrote that Mr. Maltbie had told him that "he was not about to let that happen to him." During that period, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court had complained about improper applications from the bureau.
Mr. Samit also acknowledged that he had asserted to investigators that David Frasca, Mr. Maltbie's superior, had similarly blocked him from seeking a search warrant under the more common route, a criminal investigation. Some of the special court's complaints dealt with the idea that law-enforcement officials were sometimes exploiting the lower standard required for warrants in intelligence investigations and then using the information that they obtained in criminal cases.
Mr. Frasca, Mr. Samit explained, believed that once the Moussaoui investigation was opened as an intelligence inquiry, it would arouse suspicion that agents had been trying to abuse the intelligence law to get information for a case they now believed was a criminal one.
Mr. Samit's comments, which were made to investigators for the Justice Department's inspector general and in a subsequent memorandum to the F.B.I., had not been made public before. The report by the inspector general on the bureau's Sept. 11 performance was released in June 2005 but had substantial deletions.
Mr. Samit said senior bureau officials had even been told he was trying to prevent someone from flying a plane into the World Trade Center.
William Carter, an F.B.I. spokesman, said that neither the bureau nor Mr. Maltbie nor Mr. Frasca, who are still employed there, would have any comment.
The cross-examination of Mr. Samit was delayed after his initial testimony when the trial was interrupted following disclosures that a government lawyer had improperly coached several aviation security officials who were to testify.
Judge Leonie M. Brinkema ruled that because of the coaching, the prosecution would be unable to use those witnesses to make the case that security could have been bolstered, possibly foiling the plot, if Mr. Moussaoui had told Mr. Samit about his knowledge of plans by Al Qaeda to fly planes into buildings.
Judge Brinkema's sanctions on the prosecution for Ms. Martin's behavior nearly wrecked the government's case. But on Friday, Judge Brinkema ruled that the government could try to find new untainted aviation security witnesses.
Rumour has it that SEISER got married over the weekend at a secret villa along Lake Michigan to Christine Hitney....photos comming soon!!
Any Exempt changes yet?? if so...please post all mighty SCC god!!
Why will so many Mayor Daley supporters vote for John Stroger?
Because Stroger is now a Daley clone, both are incoherent, unable to speak a whole sentence and have 1/2 a brain that works.
I heard that a certain female Sgt. who has been shown on SCC in many of pictures has a new love bush design shaving. Many of sources have related that her love bush has now been shaven into voter's ballot box. When asked why she did this, this Sgt. related, "Just like a voter's ballot box, I like my box stuffed to the limit!"
Vote for one of our own here:
www.amw.com/allstar/2006/detail.cfm?id=486
Microphone found in 016th district car. Be very very careful...
Hey find the guys from CFD who transported John Stroger to the hospital. Ask them was he dead when the got to the hospital? Only the city that works would tell everyone someone is alive when in fact they were dead.
If you're white, you aint right!
Just to remind everyone:
Stroger is on record, in the form of a pamphlet distributed to African-Amrican wards, supporting the initiative that would allow Fred Hampton to honored by a street sign.
Vote Claypool.
Anonymous said...
Microphone found in 016th district car. Be very very careful...
3/21/2006 08:12:39 AM
Bullshit. Like everything else posted here.
Hope the retard who keeps posting about the A/2 gun team keeps up his usual 10 posts IN A ROW in every thread.
Between him and all the complete bullshit rumors ( see above ) this place becomes less and less informative each day. EXACTLY what the bosses would like!
I normally vote against almost all judges, however, all police officers and their families should vote for Patrick O'Brien. He was the prosecutor in the Jacqueline Dowaliby child murder. Big balls, and calls it like it is. Don't know him personally but can't imagine him being anti-police. Not beholden to thieving sellot 11th Ward democrats.
So what put a mic in my car who gives a crap. They will only hear the truth.
3/21 10:14 CHILL DUDE. HAVE A SIP FROM YOUR LATTE, THOSE AREA 2 GUN GUYS ARE ON YOUR MIND 24/7, AREN'T THEY. NOW, NOW, IT WILL BE OKAY, JUST SIT BACK AND ENJOY YOUR LATTE. THATS RIGHT. NOW TURN OVER ON YOUR STOMACH, THATS RIGHT. GOOD. RELAX. THATS BETTER NOW. THIS WONT HURT A BIT. LOL.LOL.LOL.LOL.LOL.LOL.
Malcolm,
Fuck you and your "European American" bullshit!
MalcolmX's baby's momma said...
If you're white, you aint right!
3/21/2006 08:52:41 AM
Actually it goes "just cause you're white, don't make you right!"
John Stroger was brain dead long before he had his stroke!
Anonymous said...
Microphone found in 016th district car. Be very very careful...
3/21/2006 08:12:39 AM
BIG DEAL....
I found a camera and microphone in my squad car. And the stupid FBI mounted it all in plain view.
What do they think I am stupid, I know what that stuff is!
Hell they even let a monitor of camera UNCOVERED on the back seat!
Those FEDS are so stupid!
Come on SCC! How bout some info? Who's getting made exempt? Who's getting dumped? When and how big are the next Lts, Sgts, and dicks classes? When will current Sgts receive their retro checks? With our contract expiring next year, what is the big ticket item we will ask for from the city, and what will we be willing to give up? What's the capital of South Dakota?
Order a few dozen more 55-gallon drums of Kool-Aid for the boys and girls at 35th Street!
WWW.CPDSOCCER.COM
11:58
Pierre (pronounced PEER) is the capital of South Dakota.
Now shut up and chug your Kool-Aid.
Watch Cook County Democratic voters nominate a cadaver.
Don't ya just love it? "The people have spoken, yadda, yadda, yadda..."
One can never underestimate the absolute stupidity of the Chicago electorate.
VOTE FOR STROGER!
His remains have been endorsed by Daley, Durbin and Rush.
Chicago is really the third city. L.A. is the second-city. But Chicago's cops are 4th rate.
any truth to the microphone found in a 16th district car ? beat car ? unmarked ? just curious
It turned out to be a Mr. Microphone. I guess the previous watch cops were trying to pick up chicks with it.
EXEMPT CHANGES ARE OUT. JUST GOT THE FAX.
FEAR OLCAN...YOU SCHMUCKS
Just left the polling place,took a Democratic ballot (almost gagged) voted against all the incumbents it was my way of fucking little richie,may not count for much but I felt good about it,this November I'll vote straight Republican like I always do.
Well................exempt changes?
Who? Where? Well...we know why.
WOW Your numbers are way off.
How sad would it be for every blogger here if *SCC* kept inside info. on how often they blog and then threw it on the Blog and used it against the blogger?
Word out would be do not blog here it is not safe! Or is that the agenda? Go back to daycare.
KNOCK IT OFF
IRATE
I support any officer the right to speak their concerns on this blog.
Game playing WITH NUMBER REFERENCE can screw the blog and final the FLUSH. Draw up the number blogger not the messenger.
hey malcom x you say your african american, can you tell me when was the last time you were in africa. I believe the term african american is to please the dumb negro population.
I think the race codes should change, I am not white. I am european american. just like the stupid african american wording.
Hey you fogot one!
Arthur Jones, a former member of the American Nazi Party, when he ran for mayor Milwaukee in the 70's, is running in the Republican primary for Congress in the 3rd District which is Lipinski's district.
TROLLS playin race card nonsense.
Dont get sidetracked concentrate on police speak.
I rather have anybody instead of a Lipinski. Je was a big thief as an Alderman and got to be a bigger thief as a Congressman. Then hands the throne down to his bi-sexual, kiddy chasing son. The whole family are weasels.
What are the exempt changes?
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The exempt changes are...
all have been returned to civil-service rank. TMA's will take command of the department.
Part-time TMA's rule.
The city replaced all exempts with a private firm. The highly connected and well paid off Waste Management Corporation will now run the Chicago Police Department.
Joey "No Nose" Allupo will now run the department.
There will be three ranks:
Soldiers
Enforcers
and the most important BAGMAN
Nuthin worse than a blogger keepin their own count.
Give that assignment to the full duty stat keepers.
What is a SCC course?
A new Blog will pop up and then new threads. On and On we hope.
The Exempts said we never admit to anything.
These threads are fitting for
pre-election results. Chicago style!!!!
How soon after his victory will the family of John Stroger take him off the life support system artificially keeping him alive?
I heard Stroger was a organ donor. But his only wish is that a 14 year old male receive his organ, just like when he was alive.
Counting those days till retirement. Ya Ya Na Naaaaaaaa.
By the way overheard the exempts say, retraining for the whole lot.
Full 8 hrs. of Verbal Judo taught by the TMA's.
Amidst the cheers of such Democratic stalwarts as Mayor Daley, Senator Durbin, Congressmen Rush and Jackson, the hearse now approaches the victory celebration for the incumbent nominee.
A huge fixed smile appears on Mr. Stroger's face as he is wheeled towards the dais in full rigor mortis.
Only minutes ago, Forrest Claypool reportedly phoned Mr. Stroger to concede, only to be told that the Democratic nominee is not taking phone calls at this time.
The thunderous chant of the crowd is deafening. "Speech, speech, speech..."
To the anonymous who posted: "microphone found in 016 district car"...bullshit! Stop putting stuff out here to inply big brother is watching. The only microphones in the cars are for the car camera program.
Don't sweat it. The microphone they foudn was most likely the one to their Karoake machine, but they forgot all about it...
I found a microphone in my car !!! i looked over and this device on my partners shoulder kept talking to me. I heard voices and voices could hear my partner.
WATCH OUT if there is a person sitting next to you they might have one of these devices
on a serious note. G could put a mic anywhere like your radio or your partners, your PDT, ..... so on
THE NEW RADIOS THE CITY BOUGHT (MOTOROLA DIGITAL) AND MOST DISTRICTS ARE NOW USING, ARE CAPABLE OF BEING "KEYED-UP" A BOOTH AT OEC! IN ESSENCE, YOU AND YOUR PARTNER ARE IN YOUR CAR, AND ONE OF YOUR TWO RADIOS CAN BE KEYED-UP BY THIS SPECIAL BOOTH AT OEC, AND FOR 90 SECOND INTERVALS, WITHOUT YOU EVEN KNOWING IT, THEY CAN LISTEN TO YOUR CONVERSATION!
YOU DONT HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD FOR IT, JUST ASK A CPD SERGEANT AT OEC, OR ANY SUPERVISOR THERE ABOUT THIS "SPECIAL CONSOLE" AND THE CAPABILITIES OF THESE NEW RADIOS, AND THEN WATCH THEM SQIRM LIKE RATS AND DENY, DENY, DENY.
ITS 100% TRUE-THE CITY WILL NEVER ADMIT IT THOUGH, BUT ITS THERE AT OEC, IF YOU CAN GET IN THE BUILDING, ASK A SUPERVISOR AND THEN SNAP A PICTURE OF HIS FACE!
IF F.O.P., OR SOMEONE ELSE EVER PUSHES THE ISSUE, THE CITY WILL SAY THAT THIS IS PURELY FOR "SAFETY REASONS" AND NOT TO SPY!
YEAH RIGHT!!!
Vote Early Vote Offen, nothin has changed.
Radio's have been keyed since the 80's. When then known simply as 911 changed from teletype line up to call in line up.
3rd dist. on it's own zone was one of the 1st.
One way or another they have been hearing for awhile.
Now please do not fall apart.
For safety reasons is the exact statement used when city keyed at the start. The statement is correct.
The city will always use safety when it benefits them. They are so very crafty.
Im going to get to the doner organ program, im going to donate my Balls to Fatty Phil Cline, cause he dont have any.
They transplanted Sen Durbans Brain to John Strogers Head, now stroger is twice as dum as he was before.
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