"By the way, in the report it said, it is -- the government may have to put in more troops to be able to get to that position. And that's what we do. We put in more troops to get to a position where we can be in some other place. The question is, who ought to make that decision? The Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear -- I'm a commander guy."
From what I understand, this an HD-DVD decryption key. Some folks are upset that it's out there. That's unfortunate. Don't be mean, people. If you see the number sequence "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0″ just look away and do not spread it around or tell anyone. Especially in a blog.
09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 is bad, too.
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CAMP PENDLETON, California — As they carried out the killing of an Iraqi civilian, seven Marines and a Navy medic used their understanding of the military's airborne surveillance technology to spoof their own systems, military hearing testimony charges.
"These are people who every day deal with such things and understand how the images are gathered, as much as understand other tactical and weapons issues," says defense attorney David Brahms, who represents a Marine who's pleaded guilty to conspiracy and kidnapping in the case. "They are warriors and this is what warriors do."
The April 26, 2006, killing of disabled police officer Hashim Ibrahim Awad has been the subject of eight months of military hearings at Camp Pendleton near San Diego. Three defendants have pleaded not guilty and are awaiting court martial on murder charges. Five others have entered guilty pleas to lesser charges, receiving prison sentences from one to eight years. As part of their plea bargains, they've agreed to testify against the three remaining Marines.
The case is remarkable for the fact that the killers nearly got away with their alleged crime right under the eye of the military's sophisticated surveillance systems. According to testimony, at least three times the warriors took deliberate, and apparently effective, measures to trick the unmanned aerial vehicles — UAVs in military parlance — that watch the ground with heat-sensitive imaging by night, and high-resolution video by day.
The other day I was shot in the head. I was told that I was going to be shot with a shotgun, Instead a pistol bullet surprised my dome. Normally situations such as this dictate some kind of happiness because I was able to escape for the most part unscathed. This form of homicidal subterfuge is unacceptable. All I ask is that you say what you mean, and shoot with me what you say you are going to. Why the hell do I get shot with a pistol when I was expecting a shotgun blast to my brain box?
The onus is on you, furtim(editors note: lowercase to promote lack of importance and stature) I am coming for you and your guns of brixton. Grigg heights will fall. I am coming for you, I have your scent and the smell of your flesh on my cilia. You cannot quench the thirst the (currently) undead feel.
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By itself, it's pretty nifty. And scary. Though, as with all things of this nature, I only have to think about the people who will be put in charge of this thing and their fondness for things like "protest zones" and the like…
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Feb 6, 2007 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve sent record payouts of more than $4 billion in cash to Baghdad on giant pallets aboard military planes shortly before the United States gave control back to Iraqis, lawmakers said on Tuesday.
The money, which had been held by the United States, came from Iraqi oil exports, surplus dollars from the U.N.-run oil-for-food program and frozen assets belonging to the ousted Saddam Hussein regime.
Bills weighing a total of 363 tons were loaded onto military aircraft in the largest cash shipments ever made by the Federal Reserve, said Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
"Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone? But that's exactly what our government did," the California Democrat said during a hearing reviewing possible waste, fraud and abuse of funds in Iraq.
On December 12, 2003, $1.5 billion was shipped to Iraq, initially "the largest pay out of U.S. currency in Fed history," according to an e-mail cited by committee members.
President Bush and his new military chiefs have been saying for nearly a month that they would "surge" an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq, in a last, grand push to quell the violence in Baghdad and in Anbar Province. But a new study by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says the real troop increase could be as high as 48,000 -- more than double the number the President initially said.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Exxon Mobil Corp. Thursday reported the biggest annual profit on record for a U.S. corporation - earning more than $75,000 every minute of 2006 on the back of record oil prices.
The world's biggest publicly traded company by revenue posted net earnings of $39.5 billion on revenue of $377.6 billion last year, topping its previous profit record of $36.1 billion in 2005, which at the time was the largest for any U.S. company.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel today reversed its own August decision that employees have no protection against searches by the government, an unusual move that grants both employees and their employers additional rights against government searches, legal experts said.
In August, a three-judge panel decided that the child pornography recovered from the work computer of Jeffrey Ziegler, who worked at an online transaction company called Frontline, could not be thrown out on Fourth Amendment grounds simply because the government never got a warrant. The court reasoned that since his company provided and monitored the computer, Ziegler had no reasonable expectation of privacy, which is a necessary part of the test of whether a search violates the Fourth Amendment.
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Feb 6, 2007 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve sent record payouts of more than $4 billion in cash to Baghdad on giant pallets aboard military planes shortly before the United States gave control back to Iraqis, lawmakers said on Tuesday.