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I was searching my network for a rogue DHCP server because devices that booted before my router had IP from 192.168.0.x range while it should be 192.168.1.x.
After a lot of unplugging devices I found out that this is one of those DSP 215 smart plugs.
How the hell is it possible and what can I do about it? Is ot possible that someone modified firmware to access my network?
Have you factory reset the DSP and then set up from scratch and reconnect it to your existing network? It should maintain its connect to the network and use the IP address string it gets from the main host router?
What is the mfr and model# of the main host router your using?
It is getting IP adress from router and work just fine but before router boots up it is working as DHCP server screwing up half of my network. Today this situation happened again and I unplugged second (and the last) one. I will power cycle my home tomorrow and check if it solved the issue.
I do not see how it is possible the DSP is issuing IPs to devices on your network. It is a client. Are only wireless devices getting 192.168.0.x? Do you have any other wireless routers, extenders, or access points? Have they ever connected to a neighbor's network?
If Ethernet devices are getting 192.168.0.x then you have another router or server with DHCP enabled.
If there is some kind of rogue firmware on the DSP you need to reset it immediately and setup from scratch. Download the latest dlink firmware and reflash it.
I do not know how is it possible either. Every device is getting IP even wired ones. There is no other device with DHCP server.
Unplugging second DSP W215 resolved the issue- after power outage devices connected to my APs but without IP addresses.
What was also leading to W215 was the IP address of DHCP server: 192.168.0.60.
There is just no way the DSP can act as a DHCP server and give out IP addresses being a client. How can it give IPs to your wired clients? So strange.
Did you reset it or reflash the firmware? if someone hacked it this will fix it.
Make sure your AP does not have DHCP enabled.
Do your clients get this IP address when the router is off?
What is the gateway IP address of your clients when getting 192.168.0.x? That should be the server IP issuing the IPs.
I will reflash it later when I will have some time and check it.
I only get those IPs when the router is off or booting and DHCP server, DNS server and gateway IP is 192.168.0.60.
Unplugged the router just now and plugged DSPs.
Even my PC after ipconfig/release renew received IP from it. IP adress leased from DSP over WiFi to AP and then to switch and to wired devices.
So your wireless devices are connecting to the AP then to a switch then to the controller?
What switch do you have? Is it a managed switch?
With the DSP plugged in, can you go to http://192.168.0.60? What comes up?
Does the DSP perform normally when on?
It sounds like the AP or the switch (if managed) is issuing IPs BUT since the gateway/MAC is pointing to the DSP something strange is going on to say the least.
Definitely re-flash the firmware as soon as you can.
yes, when router is up it just get it's own IP and work like nothing happened.
But I have a problem, I connect to DSP, go to 192.168.0.60, login with Admin and PIN from sticker, and all I have is some information about device but no option to upload firmware.


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Lockdown (4/13/2008)
By Dandy, April 2, 2008 in TNA Wrestling
Dandy 0
Top 32 poster in 2009
Lockdown is in 11 days. Card will be updated as matches are changed/added.
TNA World Heavyweight Championship
KURT ANGLE © vs. SAMOA JOE
Lethal Lockdown
TEAM TOMKO (Tomko, AJ Styles, Team 3D, James Storm) vs. TEAM CAGE (Cage, Sting, Nash, Rhino, Matt Morgan
X CHAMPIONSHIP XSCAPE MATCH
Black Machismo © vs. Curry Man vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. Johnny Devine vs. Shark Boy vs. ??
MIXED TAG TEAM MATCH
Booker T & Sharmell vs. Robert Roode & Payton Banks
FORMER PARTNERS COLLIDE
BG James vs. Kip James
WOMENS TAG TEAM MATCH
Awesome Kong & Raisha Saeed vs. Gail Kim & ODB
QUEEN OF THE CAGE
Angelina Love vs. Velvet Sky vs. Salinas vs. Rhaka Khan vs. Traci Brooks vs. Christy Hemme vs. Jacqueline vs. Roxxi Laveaux
Steviekick 0
Imperious Rex
Seems like its going to be a decent PPV. Is the Kip vs. BG match going to be a loser leaves TNA stipulation?
Isn't it rather odd that there's no mention of those four being on the next two Impact tapings right before Lockdown?
The Ghost of bps21 0
Owns All
They tape a lot of backstage interviews and video packages that the crowd doesn't see at the tapings...so that's probably where stuff that isn't in the spoilers will get moved along I'd imagine.
Hell...Kip/BG haven't been in the Impact Zone for a long time and they're getting a better build because of it. ...Just a shame they have to have the match...
Man, I was pissed there was no Stone Cold Shark Austin at the last TNA taping. No, seriously. I was on the fuckin line for merch when Curry Man came out, so I missed the two things I wanted to see the most.
Hell, there was no Machismo and you wouldn't have known there was an Xscape the cage match at Lockdown at all based on the build.
Yes, out of all the things in TNA, I wanted to see Curry Man and Sharky.
Updated the card.
SamoaRowe 0
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Anyone else going to this thing live?
cd213 0
Victor Crowley Lives!!
Location:College Point, New York
If I didn't have to work that morning, I would have gone up to MA to see it. I'm looking forward to the PPV (as always since I have ordered every monthly PPV except for 2 or 3), but this one looks rather stacked. I'm excited for many of the matches on the card.
Australian Pride 0
Location:Brisbane, Australia
I think BG and Kip may surprise in their match. A lot of shortcuts can be taken in the cage environment, and if they sell it like there's genuine hatred there it could be something.
Jericholic82 0
Can't think of a witty caption today :(
I am, my friend and I will be making the drive into "enemy territory" lol. Actually I have never been to the Boston area (or any of New England for that matter) so it's a first for me. Only problem is driving the 4 hours plus home after the show ends. I sure wish I was closer so I could go to the fanfest on Sat. Anyhow, I decided to go in the hopes of seeing Joe finally take home the gold, considering I used to see Joe live in the socal indies when he was a rookie about 8 years ago or so, so it's cool to see him progress.
I wanted to take the drive from Buffalo like I did when Bound For Glory was in Detroit...but it wasn't to be. They really need to get around here at some point. Buffalo was good for ECW and we still draw people to the ballpark brawl shows and that's indy guys with a few old timers and a random TNA guy thrown in. Damn them for not getting here yet.
King Cucaracha 0
Coleminer
They're actually doing something with Cheerleader Melissa finally? Who'd have thought it!
The fact they've got 14 women competing on the card has to be some sort of record for a North American PPV too, surely?
ChrisMWaters 0
Oh no you didn't...
Are you counting "WOW Unleashed" in that number?
I'm sure there were more than 14 women there.
Fair point.
Here's my obligatory preview:
This Sunday TNA presents their 4th annual Lockdown pay per view. When they announced the all cage nature of the show in 2005 pretty much everyone scoffed at the concept. 3 Lockdown's later it seems that the concept has been generally accepted. Lockdown is portrayed as one of the company's "big 3" shows along with Slammiversary and Bound For Glory. This year's edition will take place in Lowell, Massachusetts and TNA is expecting it's largest crowd for a pay per view event yet.
Let's take a quick peak at Lockdown history:
Lockdown 2005: Orlando, Florida.
Best Match: AJ Styles defeated Abyss in the main event.
Worst Match: Jeff Jarrett, Kip James & Monty Brown vs. DDP, Sean Waltman @ BG James
Things of note: * Unfortunately this show saw Chris Candido's final wrestling match. He would be injured in the opening match (teaming with Lance Hoyt against Apollo and Sonny Siaki) and the resulting surgery would lead to his death.
* The first ever Xscape match took place with Shocker taking the victory. The Xscape match would become a staple of the Lockdown show.
* Overall this was a really decent show. AJ/Abyss delivered a hell of a main event. The undercard matches (Jeff Hardy vs. Raven, AMW vs. Team Canada, Christopher Daniels vs. Elix Skipper and the Xscape match) were fun and all had a different feel despite all being (obviously) in a steel cage.
Lockdown 2006: Orlando, Florida
Best Match: TIE: Lethal Lockdown and X-Cup preview
Worst Match: Konnan vs. Bullet Bob Armstrong (arm wrestling)
Things of Note: *The first ever Lethal Lockdown took place with Team Sting defeating Team Jarrett.
*Christian Cage successfully defended his NWA title against Abyss
*LowKi returned to the company with his new name: Senshi
*The first and only meeting of Samoa Joe and Sabu, as Sabu would put Joe over on his way to the WWE
*Overall…another good show from the Lockdown format. Most of the matches range from pretty good to good…and you get a ridiculous spot from AJ Styles on top of a ladder…on top of the cage ceiling.
Lockdown 2007: St. Louis, Missouri
Best Match: Lethal Lockdown
Worst Match: Chris Harris vs. James Storm (Blindfold match)
Things of Note: * TNA took Lockdown on the road for the first time.
* Gail Kim defeated Jackie Moore in a match that would serve (IMO anyway) as the launching pad for the Knockouts division 6 months later.
* Team 3D won the NWA Tag Team titles defeating LAX. They made history by becoming the only team to hold the WWE, NWA, ECW and (well…arguably) WCW Tag Team titles. But the match is remembered mostly for the ridiculous "electrified" cage gimmick that did not work.
* Not as good as the previous years…but there's some decent matches here (The Xscape match, Gail Kim vs. Jackie Moore, Senshi vs. Austin Starr, Christopher Daniels vs. Jerry Lynn) and the Lethal Lockdown delivered big again.
Lockdown 2008: Lowell, Massachusetts
I've gone on record as saying it…and I will reiterate it here: This year's Lockdown has more build than any pay per view in the history of TNA. The top matches on the show all have longer histories than your usual one month build…and the undercard matches have all been featured prominently on TV storylines for that month build instead. Let's take a look from bottom to top:
Cuffed in the Cage: LAX vs. Motor City Machineguns vs. Scott Steiner and Petey Williams vs. The Rock N' Rave Infection vs. Eric Young and Kaz vs. Black Reign and Rellik
Holy tag teams, Batman. The added gimmick here is that whenever someone is pinned or submits they are handcuffed to the cage until there is only 1 guy left. It's a silly gimmick…but if they manage to play it up right I could see it working a little with teams no longer able to do their combo moves (especially MCMG and LAX) and a guy having to fend for himself. There's an awful lot of talent in that ring. LAX and the Guns always go out to do something memorable…and I'm calling the annual Scott Steiner top rope frankensteiner spot (it rules). Even though there's so many people in this match, they have some storyline stuff to play off with Eric Young and the monsters. I'd kind of like to see Kaz standing at the end…but with Steiner cashing in his briefcase for next month's main event…I think we'll see a Steiner victory. Mostly I think we'll be seeing Hernandez and Steiner tossing around Jimmy Rave.
Queen of the Cage: Velvet Sky vs. Angelina Love vs. Salinas vs. Traci vs. Christy Hemme vs. Jacqueline vs. Rhaka Khan vs. Roxxi Laveaux
It's a reverse cage match! They start outside the ring and the first two women to get into the cage will then have a singles match to crown the first ever Queen of the Cage. I see Roxxi making the match because I think she's the most ready to be moved into the bigger knockouts program…but the other person that makes it in could be anyone. Traci and Jacqueline probably deserve it more than the others. Either way…the Knockouts always bust their ass out there and it's cool that they're finding a way to get them all onto the show this month.
Kip James vs. BG James
If you would have told me 6 weeks ago that I wasn't going to hate the idea of Kip vs. BG going into this show I would have laughed in your face. But…even though I know these guys haven't had anything resembling a memorable match in years…here I am. TNA did a masterful job building this match on TV. Instead of putting these guys in the ring and having them do the usual builds of attacks and pull aparts…they tried something new. Their Rough Cut segments were short, to the point, interviews cut together with both guys telling their versions of the same story. When it was over…I knew everything about both guys motivations, feelings towards each other, and hopes for the match. It was pretty much the best thing anyone could have come up with for this feud. Now…the hard part. After those Rough Cut promos they actually have some hype to try and deliver on. This SHOULD be a bloody bloody mess of a match. Now…these guys are veterans and the nature of a cage match allows them all kinds of shortcuts…so if they fail to deliver a decent showing it's all on them. I've said before that this is kind of the big chance for these guys to justify their existence in a company that is focused more on fast paced and hard hitting action.
Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed vs. Gail Kim and ODB
Saeed is Cheerleader Melissa…who I've never seen wrestle…but have been told is really good. Everything Kong touches turns to gold. She's like Joe when he was in the X division, knowing exactly how to bump and sell for her smaller opponents to make it believable and build drama. Kong and Kim have transcended storylines at this point. There doesn't need to be a buildup for people to get excited about then squaring off. That's a credit to all the good work they've done in the last 6 months. I would expect this to be another good chapter in this long running feud between the top gals in the Knockouts division.
Booker T and Sharmell vs. Robert Roode and Payton Banks
Having the women involved in the match certainly makes sense storyline wise. Part of me wishes it was just one on one so they could blow off the Roode/Booker feud. Another part of me thinks that Robert Roode is at his best when he's being a scumbag and attacking women. Booker and Roode's matches have been decent but not great thus far…and it's the promos and angles that have been keeping this feud going thus far. It's billed as a mixed tag match so it might actually benefit them to have Sharmell on the apron to throw in some Roode being a prick story into the action.
Xscape Match for the X division title: Jay Lethal vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. Curry Man vs. Shark Boy vs. Johnny Devine vs. Consequences Creed
Lethal hasn't defended that title in a long time. The rules of the match are that it is an elimination match until they get to the final 2 men…and then you can only win by escaping the cage. The 3 previous Xscape matches have been fun showcases for the X division guys. I could really see anyone in the match winning accept for Devine. Will Sonjay finally turn on Lethal? Will Creed win gold in his first attempt? Will Daniels win another X title…with a different gimmick? Are they serious enough about Shark Boy's gimmick and push to give it gold? (And if so…don't you just want a smoking fish skull version of the title?) Will Dutt steal Lethal's title like he's trying to steal his woman? Will Lethal overcome the odds again to continue his reign? Fast action and no obvious result. Perfect midcard stuff.
Lethal Lockdown: Team Cage (Christian, Sting, Rhino, Kevin Nash and Matt Morgan) vs. Team Tomko (Tomko, AJ Styles, Team 3D and James Storm)
The rules of Lethal Lockdown are that 2 men start out and the teams alternate new entrants until the last man is in. Then the top of the cage lower with weapons tied to the top. Both previous Lethal Lockdowns have been good, fun matches…and Styles usually does something crazy. In fact…the last time James Storm was in a Lethal Lockdown he and Styles ended up on top of the cage…with Styles putting Storm through a table…from the ceiling. Literally. This is also Matt Morgan's in ring debut for TNA. I think they're going to play up Morgan as a player and we'll see him use Styles like a rubber ball. The heels should win here. I don't know how since the faces have more "name" value…but Team Cage doesn't need to win this. If Morgan comes out of this looking impressive and Team Tomko can pull a victory out…they'll have accomplished a good amount. Team Cage probably wins though…the good guys usually do win these types of matches.
Kurt Angle vs. Samoa Joe V
It's title vs. career time. There's a separate thread on the board that previews this match…so I won't waste the space here. But this match is the big one. Will Joe finally win his first TNA World title? I expect this match to blow away everything on a show that looks good. I read that Angle wants this match to be more like his match with Nagata from Global Impact (more hard hitting and submission based) which the MMA style workouts and buildup would explain. Yeah…that would be tremendous. Anyway they go I think this will deliver and Joe will get his happy ending. Frank Trigg will be providing commentary for the match with Tenay and West…which is great since he was tremendous on the live Impact.
Feel free to leave predictions in this thread leading up to Sunday Night...and if you're watching the show we can, obviously, discuss it here.
If you're on the fence about ordering...I'd say give this one a shot. They've put a lot of time into building it up...and I think Joe/Angle is going to be worth the money on its own. I feel like (for the first time in a while) TNA has "earned" a buy here.
Hunter's Torn Quad 0
Lifetime Triple Crown Champion
The one thing I still remember from Lockdown in 2005 is the inexplicable decision for Waltman to pin Monty Brown. Brown was still red hot; even though he turned heel, which was just as inexplicable, a month or two before, he was still massively over with the fans. And then he gets pinned clean by Waltman. Why? Why not beat Jarrett to set up an NWA Title match? Why not beat Kip James who doesn't need protecting?
As for Lockdown this year, I'm sufficiently interested in the main event that I'll avoid spoilers until I'm able to download it. The rest of the card, even the Lethal Lockdown match, does nothing for me.
Mr. S£im Citrus 0
You'd like to THINK that, wouldn't you?
I'm interested to see whether Saeed can keep that getup on in the ring, or are they going to have Kong basically work handicap style, ala Demolition/Colossal Connection at WM6?
TheBostonStrangler 0
Superstation
I'll be there live with some friends. I haven't seen much TNA lately, but a chance to see Joe finally win the title is enough to get me to attend.
The fact that I read in Random Thoughts about Karen Angle attending Lockdown has killed my hopes of Joe winning.
I'll make my predictions:
Scott Steiner wins the cuffed in the cage match because he should be kept strong for Sacrifice
Roxxi wins the Queen of the Cage
Kip James
I'll go with Awesome Kong and Saeed. It probably goes the other way...but if you pick Kong to win all the time you'll end up with a pretty good success rate.
I'll pick Booker and Sharmell...but I could see Roode winning too. Roode won the last ppv match...Booker won on TV... I don't know...always bet on black.
I'll pick Lethal in the Xscape match but could honsestly see almost anyone winning
I'm picking Team Tomko because they need the win more I think... unless they close the show with it (which Lethal Lockdown always has) then I'll take Team Cage
luke-o 0
This is a MUMORPUGER!
Location:Reading, England
Cuffs in the Cage - I don't really care and I really like tag teams. So whatever. I'll pick Petey and Steiner.
Queen of the Cage - I'd like to see Roxxi win, but it would be nice to give Traci something.
BG vs Kip - The build has been great, the match will not. I see Kip winning and then going onto a new gimmick.
X-Scape - Now we're talking, I'm pushing for a Creed win, bringing a new injection of life into the division. A more serious injection.
Booker T and Sharmell vs Robert Roode and Payton Banks - I'm pushing for a Roode win. I don't know why, but I kinda like the guy.
Raisha Saeed and Kong vs Kim and ODB - I don't know how to call this one. I don't know much about Melissa, but by her name, I'm guessing shes not from the Middle East. Isn't that a bit racist?
Lethal Lockdown - Team Tomko need the win, I see Tomko pinning Cage. But I'd like to see Storm pushed hard in this match.
Joe vs Angle V - The build has been nice and the match will most likely be excellent, but because this is the fifth time these guys have faced off, I'm not all that into it.
For the main event, I'll pick Joe to win after Karen Angle interferes. She won't necessarily be helping Joe as much as hurting Kurt. It won't make any sense, it won't add anything to match, and it will end up hurting the match, but things like that don't seem to matter to TNA.
As for the Lethal Lockdown match, with the babyfaces coming out on top so much on TV leading up to the PPV, that would suggest the heels are winning. So, while I will pick the heels to win, I'll add the TNA trademark of the pointless swerve, and say that we'll see a heel turn to set up Team Tomko's win. Who'll turn heel? Nash or Morgan. Or maybe both.
If there going to pull a heel turn...they should go the full monty and turn everyone but Christian.
He's fucked over everyone in the company at some point or another. Maybe not turn everyone...but they should at least abandon him to get his ass kicked.
iggymcfly 0
Free Ron Mexico
Location:Missoula, MT
Well, Nash did act all hurt the first Impact after Final Destination when Christian tried to make Rhino his partner instead of him. And then he gave the promo tonight where he was saying he was all about the money. If anyone was going to turn it would be him. At this point, that definitely seems pointless though. The match is for nothing but bragging rights, Nash can't join Team Angle since he just broke with Angle a month or two ago, and Nash joining with Team 3-D or with Storm would just be ridiculous. Also, it would be like the 10th time someone's turned on Christian this year. I think the faces just come out with a clean victory.
On Lockdown, the one thing that really turns me off is how they've telegraphed the result of the championship match. This should be the epic "clash of the titans" that can go either way, but with the retirement stip in effect, it's super obvious that Joe's going over. They could have even done the contract signing angle, had Joe say "he wasn't sure if he'd re-sign if he lost to Angle" and then gone from there or maybe added a stip that said "Joe would never get another title shot while Angle was champion". But this "never wrestle again in any company unless he pins Angle or makes him submit" thing is just way too obvious. It boggles my mind that people still think there's a decent chance Angle goes over.
I have to say, I'm actually kinda looking forward to Sacrifice already. Steiner/Joe and Angle/AJ should both be great matches.
USC Wuz Robbed! 0
Real #1
Because TNA is so faithful to their stipulations, right? On the off chance Joe loses, he's going to appear on Impact anyways and act like nothing happened. That's the TNA/WCW way.
Christophe Daniels has not come back!
Anyway...I like that they added that contract signing since it's a great heel move by Angle to put Joe in that position based off of something that Joe said. Does it telegraph a win? Absolutely. Which I think is the point. I think more people will order if their sure Joe's finally winning than if they think he's going to get screwed again.
...of course...he could always get screwed again. Getting fired opens up a whole bunch of new ways for the creative team to mess with his character.
Larry Zbysko never came back either!!!
On the off chance Joe loses, he's going to appear on Impact anyways and act like nothing happened. That's the TNA/WCW way.
They already ruined that part of the deal anyway; he showed up a couple of weeks ago, despite vowing never to do so until he won the world title. If Joe simply said he was taking a break from wrestling to train for the match at Lockdown, and then Kurt challenged him to show up, that would have been fine because then you wouldn't have had your top babyface making a vow and then breaking it two weeks later. Who books their top babyface to make a vow and then has him break it two weeks later?
It's not just TNA's disregard for stipulations that has people thinking Kurt might win. It's also the fact that TNA PPV main events, with few exceptions, are all based around run-ins and screwjobs. It's never about if one guy is better than his opponent; it's always about whether a third party is going to go screw someone over. Yes, with the build up to Joe vs. Angle at Lockdown, they've seemed to make it clear that it's just about Joe and Angle. But TNA have been doing pointless swerves and screwjobs in their main events for almost two years straight. It's going to take a lot more than a few weeks of hype for people to stop worrying that a PPV main event is going to end up with some kind of run-in, pointless swerve or screwjob.
I'm feeling good about tonight.
Could someone interfere in the match? Of course. It would be like them to do it.
But I think we're getting out of this one clean.
I'm looking forward to the fact that they aren't in Orlando tonight too. The road ppvs always "feel" better and I'm looking forward to the crowd. I wish I'd have taken the drive.
Scroby 0
The Rocky Horror Norcal Pro Wrestling Ref/Techie
Location:Bay Area, California
Melissa is pretty good in the ring. Infact I wouldn't be surprised if her working with Gail Kim and Traci Brooks at the WrestleFanFest in Oct. helped land her, her current gig. Though it is kinda funny that Cheerleader Melissa is a white girl, under a vail, speaking with a accent, and isn't allowed to be herself, with that being said...she's kind of a stand offish..I'm gonna stop right there.
I'm thinking about ordering Lockdown, it looks like a pretty solid card and I really do like cage matches as I feel it gives wrestlers a lot of freedom to just really have a good match using the cage or not. Is anyone else going to order it?

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WGT Holiday Gift Guide 2012
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McIlroy Breath Of Fresh Air For Golf
By Lewine Mair for GlobalGolfPost
Some bemoaned the fact that there was not a tighter finish to the Race to Dubai; rather more saw the week of the DP World Championship as a celebration of a thrilling young talent.
On or off the course, the 23-year-old Rory McIlroy is never dull. His every round is lit with a couple of believe-it-or-not recoveries while, when it comes to his press conferences, he always laces diplomacy with a delicious – if inadvertent – touch of the unexpected.
In which connection, his proud father, Gerry, will tell you that not too much has changed. While watching his offspring last week, he recalled one of those precious Sundays of 15 or so years ago when he would take a rest from juggling the three jobs which helped him to fund Rory's golfing sorties.
On the Sabbath in question, he had played his usual nine holes with the child and accompanied him to the driving range before finally slumping in his chair. That was when Rory approached and insisted they return to the range – he had more work to do.
"No, Rory," protested Gerry. "We've done enough." To which Rory hit back with an unanswerable, "Don't you want me to get better?"
McIlroy's coach, Michael Bannon, threw in a favourite old story of his own. It concerned how, when he handed Rory a scorecard for one of his first nine-hole children's competitions at Holywood GC, he noticed that the little lad had labeled himself "Rory Nick Faldo McIlroy."
Bannon, the Holywood professional for 15 years before moving on to Bangor GC, mentioned in passing that any jealousy towards McIlroy in those early days was short-lived; the culprits recognised almost at once that they were not in his league. "The jealousy would switch to awe," he remembers.
It has been much the same across McIlroy's triumphant first five years on the European Tour. Listen to Anders Hansen on the subject: "If anyone feels anything in the way of resentment after what Rory's done for the Tour, they would have to be mad," suggested the Dane.
Everything about McIlroy startled Hansen at the outset. "I first saw this curlyhaired kid on the putting green at a British Masters and didn't have a clue whether it was a boy or a girl," he began. "Long before I saw Rory hit a shot, I could see he was something special. Everything came so naturally to him.
"What makes him even more admirable," he continued, "is that he's one of the nicest guys out here. I wouldn't say that of a lot of them but he really is that nice. Where he has it over Tiger is that he's more approachable. He's a good boy who carries his stardom better than anyone I know in any sport. I can't think of anyone who comes close."
McIlroy interacts with spectators during his practice rounds – and always they return for the tournament days. Again, he is friendly with the photographers. They can snap him and he never snaps back.
Dave Cannon, the supremo among cameramen, cites a day at the Open when his state-of-the-art-camera went off on its own on the 18th tee as McIlroy was about to hit. McIlroy pulled out of his drive and waited patiently for him to sort things out. "Are you ready now, Dave?" he asked.
Matthew Harris, another photographer par excellence, said that McIlroy passes the ultimate test: "Even if he's had a 76, he'll stick with arrangements. Others, after a bad round, will give you a brief 'Not today' at best."
When, at the start of last week, George O'Grady awarded McIlroy – a five-times winner this season – his gold money-clip for 2013, no-one could have responded more graciously. "I'll always be loyal to the European Tour," he promised.
He carried on saying all the right things and it was only when someone hit on the theme of how his wrapping up of The Race to Dubai had stripped the tail-end of the season of its excitement that he slipped up a tad. Asked if he would find it tough to get motivated for the week, he came up with an engagingly truthful, if rather too forthright, explanation as to why that would not apply.
"Obviously, I've got to hang on till the end (to collect his Race to Dubai winner's loot) so I might as well make the tournament count by winning a second trophy."
Another moment to savour came when he was asked about his switch – allegedly for $250 million over ten years – to Nike. Was he at all wary of changing clubs?
The answer was in the negative.
"Today's clubs," he began, "are all much the same and they're mostly all made up at the same factories."
Warming to his theme, he added that he could probably get by with a hockey stick and an orange.
You had to feel for those Nike club-makers who might even then have been working on the finishing touches to the world No. 1's new set. Mind you, the chances are that they would have given a knowing nod to what the young man was saying.
He is that gifted.
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Hither and Yeon
By Brian Hewitt for GlobalGolfPost
Yani Tseng is still No.1 in the rankings. Stacy Lewis was clearly and fairly the LPGA's 2012 Player of the Year. But the early-line favorite for 2013 No. 1 and POY might just be Korea's willowy Na Yeon Choi.
The LPGA concluded its official season with a stirring Florida duel Sunday between the most recent U.S. Women's Open winners – Choi and So Yeon Ryu.
Choi pulled away at the end and reminded us again how good she can be – like when she scorched Blackwolf Run at the Women's Open in early July with a third-round 65 on a day when the field scoring average was closer to 77.
Meanwhile in Australia, Adam Scott won his country's Masters while Brit Luke Donald triumphed in Japan and Henrik Stenson came up big in South Africa.
Finally, it all went wrong in Hong Kong for Rory McIlroy in his last tune-up for this week's Race to Dubai finale.
McIlroy stumbled to eight bogeys and a four-putt double in 36 holes to miss the cut by three shots. Unfortunately for him, when you are world No. 1 and the presumptive Player of the Year on two major Tours, this is news.
Clearly, global Rory is either a) Homesick, b) Lovesick, c) Human or d) All of the above and burned out, too. The vote here is d) All of the above and burned out, too.
The winner in Hong Kong? That colorful Spanish bon vivant, Miguel Angel Jimenez.
Stay thirsty, my friend.
Talking The Talk On The LPGA
By Mike Purkey for GlobalGolfPost
It's great and everything that Stacy Lewis is the first American woman in 18 years to win the Rolex Player of the Year award on the LPGA Tour. But the most groundbreaking, wide-ranging, hand-clapping event to happen to the LPGA in years took place in a minute or less on Golf Channel during the telecast of the CME Group Titleholders last Thursday.
In that segment, So Yeon Ryu and Sun Young Yoo (yes, as a matter of fact, I did have to go look up their names) talked – in remarkable English – about the differences in their names, their games and their personalities. I found out more about two prominent Korean players on the LPGA Tour in 30 seconds than I knew in the past five years.
In case you were wondering, So Yeon Ryu is this year's Rookie of the Year even though she won the U.S. Women's Open last year. And Sun Young Yoo won the Kraft Nabisco, the first of the women's major championships, earlier this year. Yeon and Young sound alike, while Yoo and Ryu are pronounced the same way. And on Golf Channel, the players had fun telling us about the differences and similarities.
Whoever thought of this should get an expensive bottle of wine, a steak dinner and next weekend off. And they should be asked to do it again – and again. We've been waiting a long time for someone to tell us more about the young (or is it Yeon?) women on the LPGA Tour who come from Korea.
Everyone knows about the language barrier. Until now, the Korean women have been reticent to learn English. Carolyn Bivens, the previous LPGA commissioner, was right even though her bedside manner was wrong when she said that the Koreans needed to make an effort to bridge the gap.
Yani Tseng, the current No. 1 on the Rolex World Ranking, comes from Taiwan and knew little or no English when she first appeared on the LPGA Tour. But she has worked tirelessly on her second language and is wonderful in interviews both on television and in print. She proved it could be done.
Now, if this Golf Channel segment is any indication, more progress is being made. The Koreans aren't the only foreign-born players on the LPGA Tour. The continental Europeans – Suzann Pet-tersen, Sandra Gal and Azahara Muñoz, for instance, were taught English in school and their command of the language is practically flawless.
But it's apparently much more difficult for the Koreans because the languages are so different and they don't get any training in school. Yet, that's not an excuse. Like it or not, the LPGA Tour is based in the U.S. and most all the pro-am participants speak English, so the Koreans owe it to the Tour to at least make an effort to make a contribution off the course by learning the language.
It's no accident the LPGA uses its most prominent American players in its television advertising campaign. Like it or not, Paula Creamer, Natalie Gulbis, Morgan Pressel, Michelle Wie, and Brittany Lincicome, among others, are the faces of the Tour. And, along with Cristie Kerr and Lexi Thompson, the Tour needs marquee Americans to win more often to drum up more interest for women's golf in this country.
Which is why Lewis' four victories and 16 top-10 finishes this year was such a boost to the game. Not since Beth Daniel in 1994 has an American been Player of the Year. Granted, in between we've had Annika Sorenstam, Lorena Ochoa and Tseng, with Laura Davies and Karrie Webb sprinkled in, who dominated the Tour during those years.
This is not to imply that Lewis is the next dominant player. But she is wonderful for the women's game. Her story is inspiring: She had scoliosis as a child and spent seven years, 18 hours a day in a body brace before she had spinal fusion surgery at age 18, with the possibility that she might never play golf again.
Remarkably, she has five wins on Tour, including last year's Kraft Nabisco. She is the top-ranked American player at No. 2. However, the LPGA Tour is full of talented players and the pool is deep with women from all over the world.
Inbee Park leads the money list, Pettersen won in back-to-back weeks in Asia, Jiyai Shin is back to good form, Kerr got back into the winner's circle and Tseng is working her way out of a slump.
But that alone doesn't solve the problems of the LPGA Tour. It still needs more events, particularly in the U.S., and in an uncertain economy, title sponsors in this country are harder and harder to come by.
The product, however, is in its best shape in years, thanks to the quality of players on the course and off. If the players keep finding ways to be embraced by fans and sponsors alike, the women's game can, in turn, find ways to grow.
Success, which comes through winning by everyone involved, is easily translated into any language.
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Last year, I wrote about a full weekend of a visiting friend and I going to what I felt were the best of the best in Portland's food, fun, and beverage scene. He returned this year and I needed to recreate the experience with an entirely new set of locations, making sure it felt fresh, but still great. I picked what I thought were the most enjoyable locations while staying within a reasonable budget and also keeping the Uber rides to a minimum. Here's how our weekend played out.
On Friday afternoon, he arrived and I figured beer would work well for both of us. We headed out to Industrial Way to check out a smorgasbord of breweries. We each started at Foundation Brewing Company with a four ounce IPA for $2 and picked up a Kobayashi Dog – grilled hot dog, katsuobushi, benishoga, scallions, nori, kewpie, okonomi sauce – at Mami food truck sitting nearby.
The hotdog was full of Japanese flavors and went just fine with our beers. It was delicious and the reckless abandon with which we shoved it into our faces proved it. We finished the dog and the small beer and moved on Battery Steele Brewery in the same building. A five ounce pour of stout was $2. We sat for a few and once that was done, Austin Street Brewery next door provided another five ounce IPA again for only two bucks.
After three brewery stops, we had one left, crossing the street to visit one of my absolute favorites – Allagash Brewing Company. The great part about Allagash is that they have four samples per day and they offer four ounces of all of them for free. Allagash makes some of the best beer around and the ones on tap that day were great as are most of their beers.
Seven "samples" of delicious local beer and one gourmet hot dog cost us $11 bucks apiece and kept us happy for the better part of the afternoon. If you're rolling into town ready to try some of what Portland has to offer, I'd suggest you make your way over to Industrial Way where the beer is plentiful, inexpensive, and some of the best around.
With Friday evening upon us, we again looked to keep the costs low and the fun factor high. Mash Tun on Wharf St. was an obvious choice. With their massive beer list and outstanding, simple food, I was excited to pay them a return visit even though I'd been there recently. With a small bit of thought, we wasted no time selecting our brews. He went with a stout and I with a double IPA.
Our beers were delivered and we ordered some food. We went with the awesome Cheese Plate – Bally Shannon Cheddar Cheese, honey Dijon, Strawberry Jam, Toasted Points – to share. I wanted to try something new and ordered the Tacos Al Pastor – red cabbage, cilantro. He ordered the Grass Fed Burger with cheese and bacon added.
The cheese plate was awesome as always. He raved about the burger. My tacos were pretty basic, but the sauce on them was just perfect. Sweet, salty, and not remotely overpowering, the pork was well balanced. The cabbage and herb added some crunch and a nice overtone of freshness. Mash Tun is never less than stellar and they served us a bit of happiness for a grand total of $50 including tip.
After the beer bar, we made our way to Bayside Bowl to check out the new rooftop bar. We went straight to the top of the building past a sign which stated "no glassware, no smoking, no dogs, yes sunsets". Unfortunately, there wasn't much sun that evening. Still, we ordered a beer and some food, splitting the $5 Fish Tacos – crispy local Pollack, pickled cabbage, avocado crema – and $4 Chips with house red salsa from the Mexican themed food shack.
We waited for the food and then sat down to eat. Then tacos were delicious and the cream in particular was refreshing and bold. The salsa with the chips was mediocre. I felt it could have been a little more flavorful. Nonetheless, we finished everything and went inside to warm up a little and also reserved a lane to bowl a few strings. After that we called it quits and made our way home.
Saturday morning brought hunger and I knew the perfect place to satisfy it was Bayou Kitchen. The southern-themed breakfast and lunch joint serves up super food and their breakfast always kills it. I am consistently intrigued by their three daily chalkboard specials which usually include a couple savory omelet types and a sweet offering.
My buddy and I both skipped the white chocolate macadamia pancakes in favor of another special. We went with the Omelet with polish sausage, provolone, caramelized onions, and roasted red peppers. I chose the home fries for a side and the jalapeno cheddar cornbread as my "toast". Then I picked a hot sauce from the wall full of them.
The food came out quickly and my omelet was excellent from the first bite. There were no shortage of ingredients folded into the egg and the hash browns were super crispy. The cornbread had outstanding flavor. It was definitely the best flavored cornbread I'd had. I used a little hot sauce on some of my omelet and that threw a nice change into the mix. We ate our last morsels and were full for only 29 bucks.
Later in the morning, we made our way to Thompson's Point. Arriving there around 11, we were a little worried that nothing would be open. Fortunately, Stroudwater Distillery had just started summer hours the week before and were happily accepting walk-ins. We took a seat at the bar and started looking at the menu for a late morning cocktail.
We both had a serious craving for some bourbon and finally decided on the Windigo – Stroudwater Distillery Bourbon, agave, orange bitters, cherry bitters, orange twist. With a leaning toward an Old Fashioned, the drink was a beautiful display of the spirit. We took our time drinking and got out for $26 after tip.
Even though it wasn't that long after we ate breakfast, our next stop was J's Chicken Shack. We loaded up on lots of food, ordering three Traditional Tenders with cheddar chive biscuit and pickles, three Portland Hot Tenders with white bread and pickles, a small Tijuana Street Corn, and a large Mac and Cheese. It put us out only about another $26.
Our food appeared and we immediately dug into it. The tenders were both tasty. The sweet/mildly hot Portland version were a little hotter than I remembered and the traditional, which were new to me, had a moderate seasoning. The corn was a last second choice when ordering, but turned out to be a good one as the heavily seasoned, well-sauced half ears were utterly brilliant. Combined with the creamy mac, it all made for a well rounded meal.
Next, we went to Bissell Brothers for some beer. I ordered the Reciprocal, an Australian IPA they they had released that day. He went with the Barrel Aged Umbra oatmeal stout. Those cost us a total of $5 and we met some visitors from MA who were stocking up on some BB brothers beer to take home and make all their friends jealous.
Our final stop at Thompson's Point was Cellar Door Winery. I chose the four most full-bodied reds. My buddy chose two whites and two reds for some variety. Intermingling one ounce pours of wine and snack crackers provided the pleasure of feeling slightly refined. The wines at Cellar Door are great, but it's the knowledge of the staff that really makes a visit there so fun. It was well worth the $16 we spent.
Saturday evening started with a trip to Hot Suppa. We were seated right away and with just a glance at the menu, decided on a Sazerac – Pernod coated glass with rye, simple syrup, Peychaud's bitters. We had been discussing their greatness earlier in the day, though I wasn't sure I had ever had one. From there, we had to make some decisions about food. The tough part about that was that the menu was full of outstanding choices.
After some serious consideration we went with a starter of Charbroiled Oysters – Creole garlic butter, parmesan, French bread. Then I ordered the Pulled Pork Mac and Cheese – caramelized onions, South Carolina barbeque sauce, tobacco onions. He chose one from the specials board, Fried Stuffed Calamari. We waited for those while sipping our beverages.
From the first oyster, I was very pleased. The cheesy, buttery mollusks were awesome, but the parting gift was dipping the bread into the remaining butter on the bottom of the plate. Each of the six oysters made us more and more excited about our main courses and they came out shortly after the final bite of bread was consumed.
My mac and cheese was creamy and rich with the pork and onions the perfect mix-in. The flavor was plentiful and the cheese nearly endless. As I stuffed my face, my counterpart raved about his calamari. We both took our time savoring all the food, and eventually decided that dessert wasn't in our immediate future. The tab was very reasonable at $58 including tip.
Next up was Arcadia National Bar on Preble St. The classic arcade with killer drinks is always a great time. We started our fun with The Covfefe – Absolute Citron, lemon, Canton maple syrup, and constant negative press. As I walked away laughing with the drink in hand, we headed toward the change machine for quarters and then proceeded to play some games.
The drink was both strong and sweet, giving us enough power to win at everything. We spent the better part of a couple hours feeding quarters to pinball machines and arcade games, spending $9 each on the drink and probably $15 total on games. I hated to leave, but I could spend endless hours in front of those machines, so it was best to head out when we did.
After a little bit of walking around the city, we made a stop at Rosie's. The place was packed with customers drinking and eating late and we decided to do both too. We quickly decided on a stout and after a long decision making process, I ordered the Jumbo Soft Pretzels served with honey mustard dipping sauce. He went with the Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie. I was a little jealous, but didn't want anything sweetRe.
Two large pretzel sticks accompanied by a creamy honey mustard suited me just fine as a final bite to eat. I ate them while admiring the pie on the other side of the table. The Irish stout made a good complement to my salty snack. We both finished our food, paid the tab which ended up somewhere in the $20 range, and we made our way home for the night.
Before he had to leave on Sunday morning, my wife and I took my buddy to Silly's for their brunch. It was a beautiful morning and having arrived shortly after they opened, we were the first people sitting on the terrace. We gathered our thoughts and looked through the menus. I wanted something new and looked carefully at what was right for me.
I eventually picked The Full Monty – Silly's potato bread done "French toast style" stacked with smokey ham slices and melted cheese with candied maple bacon on top, home fries. He went with the Holla-Daised and Confused and Mrs. Portlandeater chose the EggCeption which is one of her regular orders. She also added a mango mimosa a few minutes later.
To say the least, my meal was well thought out as my French toast ham and cheese sandwich tasted like it had syrup on it because of the pile of candied bacon on top. It was so delicious and so large, I knew it was the absolute perfect way to cap off a weekend of insane food and drink. Was it too much? Nah…it was just enough.
As is always the case when we go to Silly's, everyone gave two thumbs up to their meal and we sat there with looks that said we knew we had made a great decision. Our final tab of the weekend was in the $55 range before tip and it was worth every penny. We had a great meal and were excited to sit on the terrace for the first time this year.
My buddy headed out after our brunch. I felt comfortable that I had shown him some of the best of what Portland had to offer and kept it on the low end of the cost spectrum. It's hard to go wrong with any of the places we went to and, while there are plenty of great places beyond these, the ones we got to suited our need for food, drink, and fun exactly as we needed them. If you come to Portland, or even if you're already here, you'd do well to visit any of these great locations.


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EXCLUSIVE: Investigation underway after State Dept. contractor died at Arlington facility
ARLnow.com December 13, 2021 at 10:10am
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Unanswered questions remain after a security contractor was killed at the U.S. State Department's National Foreign Affairs Training Center in Arlington.
The incident happened the evening of Tuesday, Nov. 16, at the 65-acre campus near the intersection of Arlington Blvd (Route 50) and N. George Mason Drive.
Arlington's 911 dispatch center received multiple calls shortly after 6 p.m. for a pedestrian struck on the P2 lot of the campus. Callers were asked to start CPR on the victim, who was then rushed via ambulance to Virginia Hospital Center in cardiac arrest, according to fire department radio traffic.
The exact circumstances around who struck the victim and with what type of vehicle remain unclear. The dispatches reference a large amount of blood on the scene.
Arlington County police and fire department spokespeople deferred comment to federal authorities.
The State Department confirmed that the victim, a security contractor, died.
"We can confirm the death of a uniformed protection officer (UPO) with the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) on November 16, 2021," a spokesperson said in a statement, in response to an inquiry from ARLnow. "The officer was assigned to the National Foreign Affairs Training Center in Arlington, Virginia. The officer was a contractor whose job duties included domestic facilities protection. The Department of State extends its deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of the deceased."
The State Department's Diplomatic Security Service arm, which is based in Rosslyn, is leading the investigation.
"We do not comment on ongoing investigations due to privacy and law enforcement sensitivity considerations," the State Department spokesperson said. "There is no further information we can provide at this time."
The spokesman did not respond to a question seeking more clarity on what exactly happened.
ARLnow is told that the contractor who was killed was a 22-year-old former high school football player from Waldorf, Maryland. His funeral was held earlier this month.
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CLEARANCES don't equate to ACCESS
It's a SECURITY LEVEL, not a Clearance!
We keep seeing this drivel on the concept of CLEARANCES and Trump's canceling of Brennan's CLEARANCE, and suddenly, everyone who can spell it is suddenly an EXPERT.
A clearance is like a driver's license; you are tested, you are then granted authority for ACCESS to restricted information ranging from FOUO to Top Secret/SCI.
Our experience derives from commanding a unit composed of Intelligence Special Agents who trained others and conducted background investigations to determine the suitability of candidates for CLEARANCES, and all that entails.
We will now share with you the exciting details of what a CLEARANCE entails so you can SHARE with all the EXPERTS with whom you come in contact, and recognize the depths of buffoonery you see on all the "news" programs.
1) US Citizens [and an occasional foreign national] are eligible for a CLEARANCE adjudication.
2) To obtain a CLEARANCE, one undergoes a background investigation, ranging from a LAC [Local Agency Check] and/or NAC [National Agency Check] to determine if one has a criminal or subversive background and is suitable for a position of Trust and Responsibility in the Military or in the Government, even for the lowest ACCESS.
A two-year SPECIAL BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION [SBI] may determine if one qualifies and be ADJUDICATED for Top Secret/SCI ACCESS, and categories above.
[Notably,the background investigation on Senator Obama produced a recommendation
that he not be granted a Clearance due to his association with known terrorists, and the
lack of true documentation on his personal history; as such, he was denied access to
classified information while he was in the Senate. As POTUS, he became the ultimate
adjudicator and declared ACCESS for himself -- although much
Intelligence was withheld from him]
3) The CLEARANCE means you have passed the first level of the background investigation, when the investigator determines that one is recommended
"... for a position of TRUST AND RESPONSIBILITY.
THAT IS ALL THE CLEARANCE IS!
IF THERE IS REASONABLE DOUBT FOLLOWING THE DETERMINATION OF THE SUITABILITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL,
the recommendation is downgraded to UNSUITABLE, and all ACCESSES are revoked!
The dividing line here is ACCESS! The CLEARANCE procedure allows the adjudicator to open the door to varying levels of ACCESS on the basis of NEED TO KNOW.
[As some of you may recall, Top Secret ACCESS was afforded, by Obama, to his driver, whom he then appointed to the National Security Council.]
LEVELS OF ACCESS:
1) FOUO: Basic administrative data pertaining to employees, their addresses and phone numbers.
2) CONFIDENTIAL [US or NATO], routinely granted to the lowest level of employment on the basis of exposure to some sensitive data -- e.g., family information of officials; basic information on Military units or logistics; SOPs, etc., generally it is information which is preferable to not release in the public domain.
[unauthorized release is punishable by fines and/or imprisonment]
3) SECRET, (US or NATO)which entails occasional exposure to SENSITIVE material, the exposure of which could damage national security. There are multiple categories and compartments here, to include NOFORN (No Foreign Dissemination), LIMDIS [Limited Distribution], EYES ONLY (limited to only a few recipients], etc.
4) TOP SECRET [there are multiple categories/compartments here].
ACCESS is restricted to a small percentage of those with CLEARANCES FOR ACCESS TO EXTREMELY SENSITIVE INFORMATION. This category requires extensive background checks [SSBI], although a SECRET clearance can be administratively upgraded to a Top Secret level of ACCESS by a commander or senior executive
[For Example:
PVT Manning: Sex Change
Get Out of Jail Free!
Private Bradley Manning's clearance allowed him to access Confidential information, but was administratively upgraded to SECRET by his unit commander in the 10th Mountain Division to process Intelligence information.
Another administrative order inexplicably upgraded his ACCESS to Top Secret/SCI, during which he illegally delivered hundreds of thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks; he was court-martialed and sentenced to 35 years in prison -- but was pardoned by President Obama.
Manning's chain of command suffered no punishment for their laxity in management of Top Secret Intelligence Information; that criminal case has yet to be pursued, although the 10th Mountain Division also produced the series of Commandants and Superintendents of West Point which allowed communists to matriculate and be commissioned]
5) SCI (Sensitive Compartmented Intelligence [restrictions are based on Methods & Sources of the Intelligence]. Each compartment requires a "Read-In"and brief, with a signed Non-Disclosure Agreement [NDA] as it reveals the Method of Collection of this Intelligence.
Unauthorized disclosure has penalties in excess of $10,000 and/or 10 or more years in prison.
6) SAP (Special Access Program) One step above TS/SCI, requiring special conditions for ACCESS, frequently requiring a polygraph examination, and further background checks and updates.
7) Other [Special Access Black Programs]
An Adjudicator determines the CLEARANCE level of ACCESS. Another level of Adjudicator will determine ACCESS based on "NEED TO KNOW". These programs are conducted in the Special Operations arena, or, in highly technical operations (e.g., Project Blue Book).
The Need to Know caveat is extremely restrictive, and US Presidents [including Carter, Clinton, and Obama] were excluded from most of those programs.
The POTUS does not determine Clearances, or revoke them. It's an Administrative process.
On occasion, the POTUS will determine special ACCESS, and he can end that as well. To be clear, former Presidents and political appointees do not need Clearances to be granted ACCESS after they leave office. In effect, the current POTUS can grant ACCESS if the expertise of these individuals is needed. [Mr Kissinger should never be granted such access].
No further ACCESS for Brennan
In Brennan's case, Mr Trump simply cuts off his ACCESS, as he should to all former government executives and appointees. He should also suspend "Clearance" granted to companies spawned by Obama appointees [e.g., Brennan and Clapper] to ensure they do not obtain ACCESS to classified material.
Jimmy Carter once granted ACCESS to a Colombian national on loan to the State Department; to our horror, he was granted ACCESS to the Bureau of Intelligence & Research [INR] Library where he was reading highly restricted Intelligence reports; when we complained to the Librarian, he advised that Carter himself had granted ACCESS - even though it was a national security violation.
As Editor of the Black Book at the Pentagon, our access was virtually unlimited since a NEED TO KNOW existed about the Intelligence we reported in the Black Book - each level of which was tailored to meet the NEED TO KNOW ACCESS of groups of recipients, all of whom had ACCESS to Top Secret Intelligence, but, each group had levels of ACCESS to certain types of Intelligence based on SOURCES and METHODS of collection.
Very often, we would determine the NEED TO KNOW of the members of the group, which include senior flag rank officers and senior executives.
Before retiring, we were offered the position of Inspector General of the BLACK PROGRAMs reporting to only one Assistant Secretary of Defense. On the advice of a close friend, we turned down the position since our friend advised that virtually all of those who had held the position were deceased -- indicating that, once one's NEED TO KNOW expired, one's utility expires as well. [Our friend died of an incurable decease the following year].
We recommend to Mr Trump that he REVOKE ACCESS to ALL former Obama appointees, to include Admiral McRaven, who has now disgraced himself in the National Security Arena.
Under the Obama Administration, background investigations were contracted out to private company [USIS]; the investigations generally consisted of a quick phone call to a listed friend or neighbor asking if they would recommend the subject for a clearance.
According to DOJ charges, USIS conducted 665,000 fake background checks between 2008 and 2012.
Among the USIS background checks were 3,900 IRS employees.
IRS and Congressional Insider Trading?
Testimony on Congressman Collins Insider Trading
This blog post is an extract from a NY Post story by John Crudele.
We've made a few edits to keep it short, but the basics are all included.
We highly recommend you read the entire story at the link below.
Crudele advises he was able to vet the Whistle-blower,
and is satisfied the story is accurate.
For full story, click here
New York Post, John Crudele [15AUG2018]
Ever wonder how a Congressman or Senator [or IRS official]
who earns less than $200,000 per year,
can have an annual income of several million dollars,
and retire into a lifetime of extraordinary wealth?
John Crudele explains below:
The IRS reportedly tipped off members of Congress to corporate takeovers and other pending actions so the elected officials could profit from Insider Trading. Allegedly, higher-level employees of the IRS also used that information to enrich themselves.
[Congressman Christopher Collins testified that an indicted Congressman talked others into buying a pharmaceutical stock and pushed legislation to help it; his son's girlfriend was just nailed on Insider Trading charges.]
Until a few years ago Members of Congress were not barred from trading stock based on information they got while performing their public duties. However, following scandalous headlines in 2012
[you remember, when the News Media was credible], the practice was officially banned.
Mrs Peter Strzok -
Deputy Director - SEC Enforcement
Interestingly, a page left unturned in this scandal is the one in which the wife of Peter Strzok [Melissa Hodgman] is the Deputy Director of the Securities & Exchange Commission Enforcement Division.
One might guess that in addition to blocking investigations into Hillary Clinton's money laundering schemes, Melissa might also have blocked inquiries into Congressional Insider Trading in exchange for Congress supporting Strzok's illegal activities and ignoring the criminal activities of senior officials at the DOJ and FBI.
It was assumed that Members of Congress were just profiting from what they happened to learn while working on their Committees — e.g., perhaps a drug about to be turned down by the FDA, or that a company was exploring to see how regulators would feel about a merger.
However, what the Whistleblower alleges goes well beyond that.
[ The Chris Collins story provides further details on Congressional Insider trading ]
Did the Whistleblower report his findings to "authorities"?
He did, but was told to "get lost". Apparently Congress was making too much personal profit to have some reported blow their illegal enterprises.
[Ever wonder why no criminal charges were brought against Lois Lerner?]
Chief IRS Scoundrel
Unprosecuted Sacrificial Lamb
According to the the Whistleblower, the IRS made their own illegal operation "legal".
"In 2003-05 an official Memo was created within the IRS noting who was permitted to participate in 'insider trading'. The memo noted that all IRS employees in the executive branch and those one step below (territory managers, etc.) were permitted to participate. I was below that rank by one step, i.e., a large-case manager at the IRS. However, as my evaluation showed, I was expected to inform my manager of any and all mergers."
In fact, the Whistleblower says he was fired for not doing so and was later the subject of retaliation. That was a lot of years ago. And the only people who could properly look into something like this — and hopefully determine that it couldn't possibly be true — would be in the IRS Inspector General's [TIG] Office of the IRS. That's who is supposed to investigate allegations of wrongdoing.
So, Crudele called the IRS Inspector General's media contact, planning to give them the information, and perhaps the IG could convince the Whistleblower to come forward or obtain more details in exchange for Crudele's getting an exclusive on the story if the allegations were verified.
Crudele's exchange with the IG's spokeswoman was unexpected:.
IG Spokeswoman: "Concerning..?"
Crudele: "A tip from a reader of mine about IRS wrongdoing"
IG Spokeswoman: "We get those on a regular basis; tell the tipster to contact the IRS Hotline.
Crudele: "The tipster doesn't wish to do that"
IG Spokeswoman: "All complaints are taken very seriously."
Crudele: "Is there an insider trading exemption for officials in the IRS?"
IG Spokeswoman: [Crudele advised] she said there wasn't such an exemption and sent him a brochure.
"Once again, thank you for contacting us. Let me know if we can help further"
Crudele: "I'm amazed at the lack of cooperation I am getting from you" commented, criticizing her laziness before finishing with "have a nice weekend".
IG Spokeswoman: "On background, we sorry you feel that way. We are not lazy…just careful"
Insider Information = Big Bucks
Crudele continued the Whistle-blower's story [details were excluded to protect his identity]:
"So then one day I was informed of a merger between (two big companies), I was the Case Manager on that audit; I refused to inform my manager. Well, that was a sad day for my career. He (the manager) first produced a memo and then suspended me for failing to inform him of the merger so he could tell his supervisor. It seemed that the supervisor had planned to pay off his home mortgage with the merger information to the tune of $1 million plus."
"There's something you need to understand. The IRS places its workers permanently inside many companies where they continually receive privileged information while doing audits. So there's plenty of money-making tips to go around. In addition my supervisor had planned on informing his manager who then could contact members of Congress so they could invest and profit from this information,. It was a way of securing a comfortable job on one of the boards like the Smithsonian once they retired."
Crudele advises:
Consider how many individuals could have had access to this information and profited while the average American is told that it is "illegal." The Whistleblower says he was pushed out of the IRS in 2004 and charges — trumped-up ones, he says — were brought against him. But he wouldn't be surprised if this insider trading continued.
According to the Whistle-blower:
"Unfortunately I doubt that this has stopped. One cannot allow this to take place and then suddenly end it. These individuals had planned and budgeted for these events to fund their lifestyle. That type of income generator just does not end. It's always hard to take away perks from employees. Just try stopping the free coffee at your office."
"On a final note, which you may find of interest, my previous manager had assigned another manager to [a highly prized international] office for two years because she gave him numerous inside information tips."
Assuming Mr Crudele's story of IRS corruption alarms you, you will appreciate his parallel tale of Congressional Insider Trading based on confidential information presented in Committee Hearings.
Mr Trump's "Draining of the Swamp" comes none too soon, and it will create some soon-to-be impoverished Congressfolk who have lived large off their corrupt practices -- but will likely face prosecution and substantial legal bills this Fall.
Editorial Note:
We concur with Mr Crudele's story since we are somewhat aware that the IRS has not been pure as the driven snow; so, his tale of corruption comes as no surprise.
We are also gratified for confirmation on just how corrupt our bureaucrats, and politicians [of both Parties] are, and how they've gotten wealthy through their corruption; it might also explain why we so much inaction on their part in pursuing the corruption of government bureaucrats and law enforcement officials.
During our post-IC career, one contractor told much the same story based on his consulting time with the IRS. Among his lurid tales were IRS rooms full of tax returns which employees dutifully were flushing down toilets; and, then there was a unique scam the IRS operated in which they sent out a computerized letter advising taxpayers in the upper-six figure income range that they had underpaid by $800 to $1,800, correctly assuming that the victims would simply pay the extra rather than waste time reviewing their taxes or fighting the penalty.
[We were one of those unsuspecting victims in 1997, and we paid the extra $800.]
We were also targeted by Lois Lerner's team, apparently purely out of spite since we have not been involved in a PAC, although we do admit to being a bit Conservative. We fought back, threatening to bring the case public and to Congress during the Lerner hearings, and the IRS relented.
Finally, recognize that the IRS [and FBI] places their officers in US Embassies around the world, as part of the Country Team [Ambassador, CIA Station Chief, Defense, Political/Commercial, Economic, Agricultural Attache's] - each privy to sensitive Intelligence briefings on country and regional political and financial issues. Officially, the IRS Advisor role is to ensure US citizens and companies operating abroad pay their taxes. However, passing along sensitive Intelligence information to friends and supervisors is likely part of the abuse of the access the Whistleblower above has reported.
Labels: #Trump, Angle. Ryan, Boehner, Clapper, Clinton, Congress, Deep State, Election, Explosion, FBI, Fraud, Holder, Maxine, McCabe, McCain, McConnell, Pelosi, Strzok
Brennan -- No Credentials
John, now here's what I want you to say next about Trump.
We offer another guest post by a respected writer with the
expertise for critical comment.
Charles Faddis is a retired CIA operations and case officer, and
the author of "Beyond Repair: The Decline And Fall Of The CIA".
AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. BRENNAN
By Charles Faddis
Published in andmagazine.com [July 24, 2018]
Obama and his CIA Director John Brennan
Dear Mr. Brennan,
I understand that you are a political opponent of the current President of the United States.
I understand that you are an American citizen, and you have the right to freedom of speech.
I encourage you to utilize that right. I encourage you to speak your mind.
I encourage you, as I do all Americans, to be heard.
I implore you, however, to cease and desist from continuing to attempt to portray yourself in the public media as some sort of impartial critic concerned only with the fate of the republic.
I beg you to stop attempting to portray yourself as some sort of wise, all-knowing intelligence professional with deep knowledge of national security issues and no political inclinations whatsoever.
None of this is true!
You were never a spy.
You were never a case officer.
You never ran operations or recruited sources or worked the streets abroad.
You have no idea whatsoever of the true nature of the business of human intelligence.
You have never been in harm's way.
You have never heard a shot fired in anger.
You were, for a short while, an intelligence analyst.
In that capacity, it was your job to produce finished intelligence based on basic intelligence provided to you by others.
The work of intelligence analysts is important; however in truth you never truly mastered this trade either. In your capacity as an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, while still a junior officer, you were designated to brief the President of the United States who was, at that time, Bill Clinton.
As the presidential briefer, it was your job to read to the President, each morning, finished intelligence, written by others, based on intelligence collected by yet other individuals.
While serving as presidential briefer, you established a personal relationship with then President Bill Clinton.
Everything that has transpired in your professional career since has been based on your personal relationship with the former President, his wife, Hillary, and their key associates.
Your connection to President Obama was, in fact, based on you having established yourself by the time he came to office as a reliable, highly political Democratic Party functionary.
All of your commentary in the public sphere is on behalf of your political patrons.
It is no more impartial analysis than would be the comments of a paid press spokesman or attorney. You are speaking each and every time directly on behalf of political forces hostile to this President.
You are, in fact, currently on the payroll of both NBC and MSNBC, two of the networks most vocally opposed to President Trump and his agenda.
There is no impartiality in your comments.
Your assessments are not based on some sober judgment of what is best for this nation.
They are based exclusively on what you believe to be in the best interests of the politicians with whom you have long since allied yourself.
It should be noted that not only are you, most decidedly, not apolitical, but that you have been associated during your career with some of the greatest foreign policy disasters in recent American history.
As CIA Director for Barack Obama you:
1) Presided over the Iran nuclear deal, which allowed Iran to escape from decades of containment and set the Middle East on fire.
2) Watched while Russia annexed Crimea and then reestablished itself as a hostile force in the Middle East.
3) Dithered and tinkered with organizational wiring diagrams at CIA Headquarters while China annexed and fortified the entire South China Sea.
The extent to which you are tied directly to the Clintons, Barack Obama and the Democrat Party is clearly evident in the emotional nature of your recent commentary.
Ever since President Trump was elected, there has been a concerted effort to delegitimize him and destabilize him. This has been an unprecedented attempt to undermine the stability of the Republic in order to achieve partisan political advantage.
You and your patrons have been complicit in this effort and at its very heart.
Now as the Mueller investigation collapses of its own weight and the extent of this conspiracy is beginning to become clear you are in evident panic.
You are free to do as you wish politically.
Stop representing to the American people that there is anything else at play.
You abandoned any hope of being a true intelligence professional decades ago and became a political hack.
Say so!
Meanwhile, Senator Rand Paul's assessment of you stands:
"John Brennan started out his adulthood by voting for the Communist Party presidential candidate. He's now ending his career by showing himself to be the most biased, bigoted, over-the-top, hyperbolic sort of unhinged director the CIA ever had."
Ed Note:
Having served with the CIA as a Case Officer, a guerrilla advisor, and as Regional Intelligence Advisor in Asia (1970-74), and having received, among other forms of recognition, the DCI Exceptional Intelligence Analyst Award, we feel qualified to add a few comments on Mr Brennan, based on both personal knowledge as well as feedback from colleagues in the CIA, DIA, FBI, DEA, and other IC agencies.
1) Mr Brennan first came to our attention when we observed him as the analyst at CIA's Terrorist Desk, which, at that time, was the lowest and least respected position in the analytical chain. He was then, as now, regarded as a simpleton, but, in that position, no one felt he could do harm. His co-workers had nothing positive to say about him. We all assumed he was a protected entity as his incompetence demanded he be fired, much the same as Bob Gates was viewed during his early years at CIA.
2) Dysfunctional and incompetent as an analyst, Brennan was inexplicably bumped up as an assistant briefer at the White House, again, presumably a position in which he could do no harm.
3) Alarm bells began going off when the professional Intelligence Community noticed he was was providing the Print Media opinion pieces on Intelligence - while a member of the Intelligence Community! This was a first, and an appalling breach of security as well as ethics for any officer still active in the IC.
4) Still, he toadied up to Bill Clinton, who recognized Brennan as a "useful idiot", and potential tool for the future.
5) When W arrived on the scene as the new POTUS, he recognized Brennan as a very useful tool, particularly in endorsing the bogus 9/11 scenario, pointing fingers at the IC for its failure. Not mentioned was the fact that the precise details of the attack had surfaced in a police raid in the Philippines as well as by several other elements of the IC -- and all reports were stifled. But, Brennan was quite willing to toady up to Bush in recounting the official version of the "attack" on the Twin Towers, in spite of the challenges to the story by highly experienced engineers who viewed the destruction of the Twin Towers as a carefully constructed "implosion".
6) And, like Bob Gates, he was well rewarded, and, without operational experience or CIA backing, Brennan was appointed as the Chief of Station in Saudi Arabia, coordinating with the Saudi Intelligence on US Intelligence, and ignoring the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood throughout the Middle East.
7) Although young toadies feel Brennan had some credibility, experienced professionals felt that Brennan had been emplaced from Day One by the Deep State to ascend to the highest level of the CIA in order to bolster as "Intelligence Community Fact" whatever nonsense was proposed by other IC leaders.
Notably, both Brennan and Clapper became documented perjurers while serving in their appointive positions.
We understand both their names are on several of the 50,000+ sealed indictments which will be served up in September.
We trust they will be comfortable in their Gitmo cells.
Labels: Brennan, Bush, Champlain, China, Clapper, Clinton, Deep State, Gates, Hillary, IC, Iran, Obama, Paul, Russia, Trump


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