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LONDON 2012 SEX WORK POLICING SLAMMED IN NEW REPORT
by stephenpaterson
A NEW report harshly critical of the Metropolitan Police's approaches to the capital's sex industry in the Olympics run-up has been delivered to London Mayor Boris Johnson.
The report slams the Met's key anti-trafficking section, SCD9, for its gung-ho approach in raiding brothels and alienating sex workers, resulting in a reluctance by them to report serious assaults and robberies.
Meanwhile, victims from a major source of sex trafficking – Nigeria – go ignored as they are to be found in closed markets known only to their traffickers and their contacts – as distinct from brothels – the report says.
In this respect it echoes comments made by police themselves following the publication of Setting the Record – SCD9's attempt to estimate the number of sex trafficked persons in England and Wales – which found no cases of sex trafficked Africans but which explored only brothels. This suggests SCD9 failed to respond to those comments after the 2010 report.
Commenting in the Guardian, Georgina Perry, who manages the Open Doors NHS project helping sex workers in East London, said:
There has been a sharp increase in raids and brothel closures in the Olympic boroughs. As a result, women have been displaced to areas where they have no access to support and services. The police approach has been very heavy handed and mistrust and fear of them amongst sex workers is at an all time high.
Women are terrified to report violent crimes that take place against them for fear of being arrested. This situation neither helps to bring real criminals to justice nor gives intelligence that may combat trafficking.
Much like the Poppy Project's radical feminist initiatives, SCD9's approach in the capital could have come straight out of How to Make Enemies and Alienate People, it seems, with brothels Read more…
How not to start in sex work….
The last 72 hours has been an interesting. I've been following closely a fragment of the 60-hour or so long career of a young English escort.
Her name wasn't Carrie (but very nearly was), but I'll use that to cover her ID.
I was playing around, as is my wont occasionally, on the UK's AdultWork site. This currently boasts some 1,600 plus profiles ostensibly of women marketing their escorting services around this sceptered isle, many of whom actually exist, and many of whom don't, but that's another story for another post.
Now as regular readers know I'm neither a sex buyer nor seller, but I do like excellent presentation and perhaps that's why I have a thing about the absolutely appalling general quality of AdultWork's photographs. I'm sure I'm not alone. Or perhaps it's because I spent a period of my life cropping and treating photos for publication (not, I hasten to add, of the AdultWork variety).
Now AdultWork – alongside, perhaps, the Women's Institute – is one of the last sites on the planet you'd go to for porn, innumerable examples of which of far better quality are – as we all know – freely available on tap elsewhere. You go there to see who's on the game in your neck of the woods using its search facility, and you don't even have to join the site to use its search.
Because I'm not a client, I very rarely contact any of the lasses whose labour is on offer, as the site is notorious for time wasters, and on the exceptional occasions when I do write I think it only fair to make it very clear up front it's not a booking. One such exception was Carrie.
Carrie was – is, if we accept her profile – an attractive dark-haired Sagittarian lass of Read more…
He Who Would Valiant Be: Escorts & their partners
I came across a couple of escort posts this week, from two continents, which both illustrate beautifully what I imagine is a common escorting dilemma – relationships with partners.
Readers should note that I offer no silver bullet. It goes without saying that every escort, each of their partners and every relationship is unique, and all I aim to do is to flag up what I suspect are some potential common issues. I'm sure there are lots of wonderful escorts out there, many with equally wonderful partners, either or both of which can give much better advice than moi, so I shall stick to flagging up issues and making a few observations on them, and hope for some readers' comments to latch on to.
The first post I read was Jenna's, who is an agency escort in the southern US. Jenna has just started her Sweet Courtesan blog. Over to Jenna:
My dilemma:
shall I simply lay it out?
the bf "rescued" me from sex work
he was first a client, now a bf and somewhat provider
but, i don't think it is ever going anywhere…and there are things i need to do to provide for myself and my children…
so, aargh! i hate the lying that comes with this whole industry!
i don't mind so much the role playing, the acting ~ but the lying to those closest to me is so damn hard
and i'm not great at lying, or maybe it's that i'm too good at it when i want to be that i really don't want to be; does that even make sense?
Now Jenna, in a previous post, revealed that she has been through the wars. She got into escorting with the full backing of her then husband, but says the Read more…
HOME OFFICE PREPARES NEW GROUND OVER TRAFFICKING LAWS
The UK's Home Office ministers have announced they aim to complete a review of the dog's dinner they've made of the nation's human trafficking laws by the end of this year.
All has seemed relatively quiet on the Home Office front since the Tories took office, with New Labour's flow of 'legislative diarrhoea,' as Chris Huhne famously put it, apparently stemmed and the hopeful restoration of at least some semblance of order, if not exactly law.
The fallout, however, continues, with even venerable judges finding great difficulty in sorting out which laws are in effect and which not, as in the tragi-comical case of David Shields, a rapist released because (said the Daily Mail) "the charge brought against him was for breaching a 'sex offender order' under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 – a provision which was superceded by the 2003 Sexual Offences Act, which introduced Sopos."
'Sopos' are 'Sexual Offences Prevention Orders.' As distinct from Sex Offender Orders. So Mr Shields, despite apparently being a "significant risk to female members of the public," walks free courtesy of Home Office Rebranding Exercise Number whatever-it-was, all for the lack of a suitably timed Sexual Offences Prevention Orders Prevention Order.
I wish I was surprised. I'm not. I know no lawyers who would be in the least bit surprised. The deluge of criminal justice legislation since 1997 would be well beyond the scope of any system to cope. Speed readers lost track somewhere back in 2003 and are still catching up.
And it really has been of such appalling quality. Now I must confess that there are areas of the Judeo-Christian ethos which elude me, but the notion that new laws should be personally carved out on rocks and then hauled down from the summit of, say, Mount Snowden, by whatever Home Secretary is thinking of proposing them, seems to have a very great deal to commend it. There would be every reasonable hope that they would be as succinct as they would be rare, especially if they could be repealed with considerably greater ease.
If ten bullet points was enough for the Almighty, why can't they suffice for the likes of Messrs Straw, Blunkett, Clarke, Reid, Smith, Johnson and May?
Turning from the Bible back to the very unholy mess that is UK human trafficking law, it would indeed begger the belief of the Almighty how the Home Office has achieved such a complete and utter mess, and it says little for our media that it has not only been so little publicised, but that the media itself has been so proactive in perpetuating the myths.
It was some time around the millennium that the global powers that be, including the UK, defined human trafficking in Article 3 of the Palermo Protocol. We did, of course, sign up to it.
Proper co-signatories with grown up legislatures then went away, cut and pasted the definition into their domestic laws, attached a nasty big penalty to anyone breaching it, and moved on, the job, insofar as the legislation's concerned, done (enforcement, of course, is another matter). Examples include the USA, Ireland and most of Europe.
Not so in the UK, of course. The heart of the UK mistake seems to have lain in asking the Home Office to do something, instead of, well, just about any other group of people who live on this rock. Faced with the mammoth task of cutting and pasting, the Home Office freaked out. It presumably found the new legislation insufficiently diarrhetic.
For a start it decided to have two pieces of legislation – one for persons deemed to be sex trafficking and another for persons deemed trafficking people for anything else. It then twisted and utterly mangled the definition of sex trafficking until any semblance of the internationally agreed definition had truly vanished.
At the same time, the police, the media and the politicians have constantly portrayed sex trafficking by the international definition, thus we think of it as involving some form of force, coercion or fraud, pressurising young women into prostitution. And sometimes it is. But very often it is not.
For this is one of the distinctive qualities of the UK Sexual Offences Act 2003 definition – in the Home Office cock-up the volition of those involved – normally, but not always, women – is ignored. Well, they're only women after all.
Thus if one knowingly drives a young lady to a brothel, it makes no difference whatsoever to the Home Office whether you're holding a gun to her sobbing head as she sits petrified at the experience that lies ahead, or whether you're going out of your way on her behalf gratis and fending off pleas from her to drive quicker because she's running late and she might miss out on clients. You're a sex trafficker either way, and Parliament will let you be locked up for 14 years.
If a willing sex worker, the young lady, incidentally, commits no offence even if the place is a brothel, as she of course has to play the role of victim – willing or not – and be duly deemed 'rescued' in order to bolster the self-images of MPs, the dinosaurs of the criminal justice system and various other do-gooders.
At the same time as imprisoning the innocent at considerable public cost, the HO manages to completely let off the hook many persons who are internationally defined sex traffickers.
It is concerned purely with those involved in arranging the transport of persons into, around and out of the country (irrespective, as we've seen, of whether those persons wish to be transported). Among the categories of internationally defined sex traffickers it ignores are those involved in transferring, harbouring or receiving people against their will if they are not involved in the transport process.
The peculiar and perverse nature of the Home Office 'review', however, is what stamps it as particularly British. According to the Guardian, we hear of a new and exciting Home Office rebranding exercise strategy:
The strategy recognises that there are some problems caused by the fact that trafficking for sexual exploitation is prosecuted under the 2003 Sexual Offences Act while labour trafficking comes under the 2004 Asylum and Immigration Act which has a different standard of proof.
"While there have been successful prosecutions under both, there are some disparities which make the legislative framework less straightforward than it could be for prosecutors. In addition, the different levels of proof mean that it is more difficult to prosecute for labour exploitation," says the new strategy.
In other words, the labour trafficking legislation has that annoying characteristic of requiring some evidence that someone has actually been, as the world understands it, trafficked, while the sexual trafficking legislation doesn't, and it's always easier to get convictions without that annoying and expensive chore of having to produce evidence that something of any consequence has actually occurred. So let's muck around with the definition to get the numbers up and impress people with what a large number of 'traffickers' we've caught, rather than taking on the Herculean task of teaching first and second division civil servants how to cut and paste. My God, we'll be requiring them to tie their own shoelaces next.
Back to the Grauniad and to its Home Affairs editor Alan Travis's piece. It's pretty obvious on the face of it that Alan prefers simple rewrites of Home Office press releases to a decent day's work.
Only some 40 men have been prosecuted for the new offence of paying for sex with trafficked women since April last year, he tells us. Err, no Alan, sorry, the offence is not 'paying for sex' but arranging it, no money has to change hands, no sex has to take place and they do not have to be trafficked women but anyone – woman or not – who has been coerced.
But it's the whole angle of the story that is unduly depressing: "The failure of police and prosecutors to enforce a law that criminalises men who pay for sex with trafficked women is jeopardising the attempt to tackle human trafficking into Britain."
More spin than a centrifuge. And what a weird angle. For a start, it's wrong to conflate all human trafficking with sex trafficking, which is what is being written about. Now these are 40 prosecutions, which is certainly not the same as 40 convictions, and the fact that only 40 cases could be found could be interpreted in other ways. A more obvious interpretation is that cases of coercion are a lot fewer and farer between than whoever took Alan to lunch would have us believe.
"..and that includes prosecutions of kerb crawlers," says Alan. My guess is that it almost comprises prosecutions of kerb crawlers.
Here's a different angle, which would have been at least as valid:
"The tendency of the media and the Home Office to alienate the hearts and minds of sex workers' clients is jeopardising the attempt to tackle sex trafficking into Britain."
Probably a lot truer. Might not get you as good a lunch, though.
Pontifications on England's brothels
I CAME across a blog post yesterday on the subject of the brothels of Bournemouth, posted by a student named Dawn at the resort's Uni. Update: she's now removed it as a result of this post (see comments).
Anyway, it's cached here.
I found it well-intentioned but depressing and above all, ill-informed and full of stereotypes. "The dark and dangerous world of prostitution on our doorsteps," it verblessly proclaimed at the beginning.
Now to be fair to her, she seems a sweet and well-meaning person judging from the speed with which she withdrew it, and it was apparently written for a "Writing for the Media" assignment, so it could be that she had the subject thrust upon her. Nevertheless, if this is the stuff of tomorrow's media, I for one will cancel my copies.
"Just Google 'Bournemouth's brothels' and with the first few results it's blatantly evident that there is a serious problem in the area," we read.
What the problem is, we never discovered, so presumably it's either that they exist or that there's a shortage.
You would presume that if there was a brothel on your doorstep, there would be bright flashing lights, loud noise, and the stench of disgrace in the air. However this is not the case, Read more…
MSNBC to aid London's October Films bailout by screening fraudulent documentary
AMERICA'S MSNBC network is due to air a fraudulent documentary on Monday entitled Sex Slaves UK.
This is a rehash of the notorious The Hunt for Britain's Sex Slaves by October Films, and comprises the fraudulent nonsense a film company in London comes up with to get itself out of the shit after it's devoted months of film crew time and footage into a police anti-trafficking operation (Pentameter 2) that got precisely nowhere.
Basically, it lies its teeth out….
Pentameter 2 famously convicted ZERO persons for human trafficking as internationally defined. But just after the start of it – and nothing whatsoever to do with Pentameter 2 – a Danish client in a brothel in Plymouth UK rescued a trafficked woman, leading to the convictions of an international gang.
The facts – that a client was necessary to achieve the escape – would, of course, ruin the pitch. After all, it's supposed to be all the fault of clients, just like the international banking crisis would never have happened if naughty people didn't have bank accounts.
So the documentary crew skirt the facts with a bit of careful editing, and Whoopie! – another blockbuster to befuddle Joe Public and TV executives with and keep the dollars rolling in, both for the 45 NGOs dealing with the plights of 90 confirmed sex trafficking victims a year in the UK, but above all, of course, for the film company.
MSNBC?….duh….
The Poppy Project and the empathy gap
"Our priority is to look after the needs of people and we gain nothing if we marginalise or distance ourselves from the very people we desire to serve."
Salvation Army van ad
So spoke Major Phillip Maxwell of the Salvation Army following a short run-in with the sex workers' organisation Scarlet Alliance. The occasion was the publication of an advertisement telling of the Sally Army's rescuing of a boy after he left a message in one of its vans. But sex workers took offence, and the Salvation Army was savvy enough to respond.
"The potential was that [the advert] could seriously damage the relationship that we have in providing services," Maxwell told ABC News. The ad was promptly pulled.
The incident, two years back, was not big news in Sydney, but to imagine such a speedy retraction and apology to sex workers by a 'rescue' organisation in the bear-pit of London's gender politics today requires a vivid imagination indeed. The event is pertinent now as the Salvation Army takes over the UK Justice Department's trafficking aftercare portfolio from radical feminist organisation Eaves/Poppy.
A posting last September by sex worker Jasmin, who blogs as indiandelightlondon, starts to illustrate the polarisation that exists between the 'rescuers' of the Poppy Project and those among the capital's sex workers who seem highly resistant to compulsory victimhood.
Here she tells the story of her perhaps naive but nevertheless brave Read more…
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StreamlineMD and its team will be attending the 2019 RBMA Paradigm Conference April 14-17 in Colorado Springs. Below is a summary of StreamlineMD radiology coder Kristen Bickel Sliwinski's coding presentation on Saturday April 13, 2019.
We are looking forward to seeing our clients and prospects at the upcoming SIR.
There are new, revised, and deleted codes for 2019. The most influential code sets that could affect your practice are the PICC line placements (36568-36573) and the new FNA biopsy codes (10004-10021). The wRVUs may be lower, but that should not influence your documentation of guidance used with these procedures.
Codes changed along with a reduction in reimbursement. CPT 10022 (RVU 1.88) Fine needle aspiration with imaging guidance was deleted in 2019 but it was replaced with new codes that specified the type of guidance (e.g., ultrasound, fluoro, CT, MR) used. Also, new add-on codes were added for when more than one distinct lesion was treated.
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Congratulations to StreamlineMD Coder Kristen Sliwinski, CCA RCC, for being invited by the RBMA to be the coding speaker at the national RBMA Paradigm Conference at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, CO in April 2019. Kristen is doing a great job on the national RBMA Coding Committee and her expertise has clearly been noticed. Super job Kristen - we are very proud of you!
Important for Interventional Radiologists doing E/M Consults. CMS proposed moving away form the current documentation guidelines to a more time-based and complexity method.


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Does Your Website Designer Know About Internet Marketing?
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Q: Database Duplicate Value Issue ( Filtering Based on Previous Value) Earlier this week I ask a question about filtering out duplicate values in sequence at run time. Had some good answers but the amount of data I was going over was to slow and not feasible.
Currently in our database, event values are not filtered. Resulting in duplicate data values (with varying timestamps). We need to process that data at run time and at the database level it's to time costly ( and cannot pull it into code because it's used a lot in stored procs) resulting in high query times. We need a data structure that we can query that has this data store filtered out so that no additional filtering is needed at runtime.
Currently in our DB

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*'F07331E4-26EC-41B6-BEC5-002AACA58337', '1', '2008-05-08 04:03:47.000'

*'F07331E4-26EC-41B6-BEC5-002AACA58337', '0', '2008-05-08 10:02:08.000'

*'F07331E4-26EC-41B6-BEC5-002AACA58337', '0', '2008-05-09 10:03:24.000' (Need to delete this) **

*'F07331E4-26EC-41B6-BEC5-002AACA58337', '1', '2008-05-10 04:05:05.000'

What we need

*

*'F07331E4-26EC-41B6-BEC5-002AACA58337', '1', '2008-05-08 04:03:47.000'

*'F07331E4-26EC-41B6-BEC5-002AACA58337', '0', '2008-05-08 10:02:08.000'

*'F07331E4-26EC-41B6-BEC5-002AACA58337', '1', '2008-05-10 04:51:05.000'

This seems trivial, but our issue is that we get this data from wireless devices, resulting in out of sequence packets and our gateway is multithreaded so we cannot guarantee the values we get are in order. Something may come in like a '1' for 4 seconds ago and a '0' for 2 seconds ago, but we process the '1' already because it was first in. we have been spinning our heads on how to implement this. We cannot compare data to the latest value in the database because the latest may actually not have come in yet, so to throw that data out we'd be screwed and our sequence may be completely off.  So currently we store every value that comes in and the database shuffles itself around based off of time.. but the units can send 1,1,1,0 and its valid because the event is still active, but we only want to store the on and off state ( first occurrence of the on state 1,0,1,0,1,0).. we thought about a trigger, but we'd have to shuffle the data around every time a new value came in because it might be earlier then the last message and it can change the entire sequence (inserts would be slow).
Any Ideas?
Ask if you need any further information.
[EDIT] PK Wont work - the issue is that our units actually send in different timestamps. so the PK wouldn't work because 1,1,1 are the same.. but there have different time stamps. Its like event went on at time1, event still on at time2, it sends us back both.. same value different time.

A: If I understand correctly, what you want to do is simply prevent the dupes from even getting in the database. If that is the case, why not have a PK  (or Unique Index) defined on the first two columns and have the database do the heavy lifting for you. Dupe inserts would fail based on the PK or AK you've defined. You're code (or stored proc) would then just have to gracefully handle that exception.

A: Here's an update solution.  Performance will vary depending on indexes.
DECLARE @MyTable TABLE
(
  DeviceName varchar(100),
  EventTime DateTime,
  OnOff int,
  GoodForRead int
)

INSERT INTO @MyTable(DeviceName, OnOff, EventTime)
SELECT 'F07331E4-26EC-41B6-BEC5-002AACA58337', 1, '2008-05-08 04:03:47.000'
INSERT INTO @MyTable(DeviceName, OnOff, EventTime)
SELECT 'F07331E4-26EC-41B6-BEC5-002AACA58337', 0, '2008-05-08 10:02:08.000'
INSERT INTO @MyTable(DeviceName, OnOff, EventTime)
SELECT 'F07331E4-26EC-41B6-BEC5-002AACA58337', 0, '2008-05-09 10:03:24.000'
INSERT INTO @MyTable(DeviceName, OnOff, EventTime)
SELECT 'F07331E4-26EC-41B6-BEC5-002AACA58337', 1, '2008-05-10 04:05:05.000'

UPDATE mt
SET GoodForRead =
CASE
  (SELECT top 1 OnOff
   FROM @MyTable mt2
   WHERE mt2.DeviceName = mt.DeviceName
     and mt2.EventTime < mt.EventTime
   ORDER BY mt2.EventTime desc
  )
  WHEN null THEN 1
  WHEN mt.OnOff THEN 0
  ELSE 1
END
FROM @MyTable mt
    -- Limit the update to recent data
--WHERE EventTime >= DateAdd(dd, -1, GetDate())

SELECT *
FROM @MyTable

It isn't hard to imagine a filtering solution based on this.  It just depends on how often you want to look up the previous record for each record (every query or once in a while).

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Visitors to Harrogate International Nursery Fair are invited to visit these finalists on the BPA's Concept & Innovation stand in Hall H where they can see and discuss the entries and give feedback about the designs. The winners will be presented with their awards by a Sarah Ludlam, intellectual property and commercial lawyer for 3volution during the Awards Dinner which takes place on Sunday 20th March 2016 at the Majestic Hotel. The winners will receive prizes each of £750 worth of legal services.


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Kobe Bean Bryant (born August 23, 1978) is an American retired professional basketball player and businessman.[3] He played his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He entered the NBA directly from high school and won five NBA championships with the Lakers. Bryant is an 18-time All-Star, 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, and 12-time member of the All-Defensive team. He led the NBA in scoring during two seasons, and ranks third on both the league's all-time regular season scoring and all-time postseason scoring lists. He holds the NBA record for the most seasons playing with one franchise for an entire career.
The son of former NBA player Joe Bryant, Kobe Bryant enjoyed a successful high school basketball career at Lower Merion High School in Pennsylvania, where he was recognized as the top high school basketball player in the country. He declared for the NBA draft upon graduation, and was selected with the 13th overall pick in the 1996 NBA draft by the Charlotte Hornets, who traded him to the Los Angeles Lakers. As a rookie, Bryant earned himself a reputation as a high-flyer and a fan favorite by winning the 1997 Slam Dunk Contest, and he was named an All-Star by his second season. Despite a feud between them, Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal led the Lakers to three consecutive championships from 2000 to 2002.
In 2003, Bryant was accused of sexual assault in Colorado, but the charges were eventually dropped, and a civil suit was settled out of court. After the Lakers lost the 2004 NBA Finals, O'Neal was traded to the Miami Heat. Bryant became the cornerstone of the Lakers, and he led the NBA in scoring during the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons. In 2006, he scored a career-high 81 points against the Toronto Raptors, the second most points scored in a single game in league history behind Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game in 1962. Bryant was awarded the regular season's Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) in 2008. After losing in the 2008 NBA Finals, he led the Lakers to two consecutive championships in 2009 and 2010, earning the Finals MVP Award on both occasions. He continued to be among the top players in the league through 2013, when the 34-year-old Bryant suffered a torn Achilles tendon. Although he recovered, his play was limited the following two years by season-ending injuries to his knee and shoulder, respectively. Citing his physical decline, he announced that he would be retiring after the 2015–16 season.
At 34 years and 104 days of age, Bryant became the youngest player in league history to reach 30,000 career points. He is also the all-time leading scorer in Lakers franchise history. Following his second year in the league, Bryant was chosen to start every All-Star Game until his retirement for a record 18 consecutive appearances, and his four All-Star MVP Awards are tied for the most in NBA history. At the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, he won gold medals as a member of the U.S. national team. Sporting News and TNT named Bryant the top NBA player of the 2000s.
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Chuck Grassley: Insider Threat Program Poses Threat to Whistleblowers
April 11, 2014 /16 Comments/in Leak Investigations /by emptywheel
Chuck Grassley rarely gets the credit he deserves for championing whistleblowers. But, while there have been notable exceptions, Grassley has long defended both generalized protections for whistleblowers, as well as whistleblowers themselves.
Yesterday, he gave a long speech on the Whistleblower Protection Act. As part of it, he laid out a number of ways President Obama's Insider Threat detection program threatened whistleblowers.
He described how the FBI has refused to explain whether Insider Threat Program training adequately distinguishes between whistleblowers and inside threats. Just last week, FBI walked out in the middle of a briefing for Grassley and Pat Leahy!
Meanwhile, the FBI fiercely resists any efforts at Congressional oversight, especially on whistleblower matters. For example, four months ago I sent a letter to the FBI requesting its training materials on the Insider Threat Program. This program was announced by the Obama Administration in October 2011. It was intended to train federal employees to watch out for insider threats among their colleagues. Public news reports indicated that this program might not do enough to distinguish between true insider threats and legitimate whistleblowers. I relayed these concerns in my letter. I also asked for copies of the training materials. I said I wanted to examine whether they adequately distinguished between insider threats and whistleblowers.
In response, an FBI legislative affairs official told my staff that a briefing might be the best way to answer my questions. It was scheduled for last week. Staff for both Chairman Leahy and I attended, and the FBI brought the head of their Insider Threat Program. Yet the FBI didn't bring the Insider Threat training materials as we had requested. However, the head of the Insider Threat Program told the staff that there was no need to worry about whistleblower communications. He said whistleblowers had to register in order to be protected, and the Insider Threat Program would know to just avoid those people.
Now I have never heard of whistleblowers being required to "register" in order to be protected. The idea of such a requirement should be pretty alarming to all Americans. Sometimes confidentiality is the best protection a whistleblower has. Unfortunately, neither my staff nor Chairman Leahy's staff was able to learn more, because only about ten minutes into the briefing, the FBI abruptly walked out. FBI officials simply refused to discuss any whistleblower implications in its Insider Threat Program and left the room. These are clearly not the actions of an agency that is genuinely open to whistleblowers or whistleblower protection.
Grassley raises concerns that the monitoring of intelligence community employees will help the IC track whistleblowers who communicate properly to Congress.
Like the FBI, the intelligence community has to confront the same issue of distinguishing a true insider threat from a legitimate whistleblower. This issue could be impacted by both the House- and Senate-passed versions of the intelligence authorization. Both include language about continuous monitoring of security clearance holders, particularly the House version.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper seems to have talked about such procedures when he appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on February 11, 2014. In his testimony, he said:
We are going to proliferate deployment of auditing and monitoring capabilities to enhance our insider threat detection. We're going to need to change our security clearance process to a system of continuous evaluation. . . . What we need is . . . a system of continuous evaluation, where . . . we have a way of monitoring their behavior, both their electronic behavior on the job as well as off the job, to see if there is a potential clearance issue. . . .
Director Clapper's testimony gives me major pause. It sounds as though this type of monitoring would likely capture the activity of whistleblowers communicating with Congress.
A federal employee has every right to make protected disclosures anonymously, whether at work or off the job. Every member of this body should realize that without some safeguards, there is a chance their communications with whistleblowers may be viewed by the Executive Branch.
These same considerations apply in the intelligence community. The potential problems are heightened if electronic monitoring extends off the job, such as Director Clapper mentioned. We have to balance detecting insider threats with letting whistleblowers know that their legitimate whistleblower communications are protected. With continuous monitoring in place, any whistleblower would understand that their communications with the Inspector General or Congress would likely be seen by their agency.
The rest of Grassley's speech details more threats to whistleblowers: He describes how Obama successfully undermined legal protections to IC whistleblowers by passing a Presidential Policy Directive. He describes how stripping sensitive but unclassified employees of Merit Board protection makes it easier to target whistleblowers.
And he pitches changes that are in the current Intelligence Authorization bill.
Both Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden claim they tried to raise attention to abuses they saw. While it's not clear their employers would ever had treated these abuses as such . But until such time as there is a safe way for whistleblowers to raise concerns, the country will see more people who go the route of Manning and Snowden.
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https://www.emptywheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Logo-Web.png 0 0 emptywheel https://www.emptywheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Logo-Web.png emptywheel2014-04-11 09:23:002014-04-11 09:27:00Chuck Grassley: Insider Threat Program Poses Threat to Whistleblowers
It seemed pretty clear when it first was reported that the Insider Threat program was created precisely to spot potential whistleblowers.
bloopie2 says:
God, this is scary. These actions would be right at home in North Korea.
I wonder if his children will have any fond memories of good ol' Dad when they grow up.
chronicle says:
quote:"Unfortunately, neither my staff nor Chairman Leahy's staff was able to learn more, because only about ten minutes into the briefing, the FBI abruptly walked out. FBI officials simply refused to discuss any whistleblower implications in its Insider Threat Program and left the room. "unquote
Insider Threat Program. McCarthy must be rolling on the floor in gut splitting laughter.
The FBI is as unaccountable as it ever was under Hoover. As is the entire executive branch.
I'd submit Grassley ought to bring Contempt charges against the Director of FBI. These scumbags think they are above accountability. Same with every other agency in the USG. Time for some heads to roll.
john francis lee says:
Grassley needs to bring impeachment proceedings against CIA's Manchurian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate slash constitution burner Barack Obama. And his boss John Brennan.
Clapper: "we have a way of monitoring their behavior, both their electronic behavior on the job as well as off the job"
Huh. Good to know that federal employees have no right to a private life.
Admittedly, Clapper and his henchmen don't believe anyone on the planet, aside from themselves, has a right to privacy, but still, that is an extraordinary right for an employer to assert. I wonder how Clapper imagines he can "protect" the United States, when he is so profoundly ignorant of the Constitution upon which it is based.
and where is our wimp of a prez in all this:
he's a dodger,
a well-known dodger,
just dodgin' his way thru the world.
sen grassley:
".. Unfortunately, neither my staff nor Chairman Leahy's staff was able to learn more, because only about ten minutes into the briefing, the FBI abruptly walked out. .."
this extraordinary behavior for a government employee/official.
are there precedents for a group of federal officials telling members of the congress to fuck off?
Peterr says:
Yes. Nixon, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, and others did just that for quite some time. It was only when Congress stood up for themselves and got Judge Sirica and a unanimous SCOTUS to back them up that the obstruction ended.
wwljhd ? **
** "what would lyndon johnson have done?"
i' ll tell you what senate majority leader johnson would have done; he would have cut the doj's next budget by 25% with the promise of more cuts to come if they didn't fall in line – right now.
harry byrd?
Another sternly-worded letter.
harry reid, not harry byrd.
i' ll tell you what senate majority leader johnson would have done; he would have cut the doj's next budget by 25% with the promise of more cuts to come if they didn't fall in line –
Ditto. The only reason the Congress doesn't cut the FBI and the rest of the BOONDOGGLE department budgets is …
1. The FBI has some dirt on every single member of Congress
2. The NSA has some dirt on every single member of Congress
3. The CIA has some dirt on every single member of Congress
4. We'll all die.
7. See#1
dutch says:
"We're going to need to change our security clearance process to a system of continuous evaluation. . . . What we need is . . . a system of continuous evaluation, where . . . we have a way of monitoring their behavior, both their electronic behavior on the job as well as off the job, to see if there is a potential clearance issue. . . ."
What Clapper desires is 24/7 surveillance of IC employees. Think about an agency whose employees spend all day every day just watching each other. The Washington elites are so detached from reality that they just can't recognize the insanity of what they say or do anymore.
ArizonaBumblebee says:
Unless libertarians and progressives join together to put an end to this crap, the freedoms we all have enjoyed in the past will disappear into history and usher in a dark age for America. And it isn't just the Insider Threat Program. Look what has been happening in Nevada (First Amendment zones – are you kidding me!) and what happened two decades ago at Waco – not to mention the ongoing abuses of the War on Drugs, particularly in minority communities. In the fifties, it took the Army-McCarthy hearings to finally bring an end to the character assassinations and wild accusations of Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn. In that instance, several courageous senators from both parties finally joined together to put an end to what was going on by censoring the senator from Wisconsin. Today, except for a handful of senators from both parties, I don't see any evidence that President Obama will pay a price for the misconduct of his subordinates, which explains why they openly display their contempt for Congress. All of this makes me wonder just how much authority President Obama really has over his subordinates in the deep state.
Westcoaster says:
Let's not forget what the FBI did to Sibel Edmonds for trying to tell the truth about espionage within the agency. She's right up there with Snowden and Manning in my book, and whistleblowers must be shielded from the fucks doing the dirty deeds! BTW Sibel's website is http://www.boilingfrogspost.com
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Sea Life Offers New Insight into Underwater Adhesives
by Bridget Cunningham
Underwater adhesives are used extensively in the medical field, helping to heal and treat the human body — a very wet environment. In their pursuit to design stronger waterproof substances, researchers have drawn upon the natural adhesives produced by organisms living in the sea.
A Survival Tool for Sea Life
Maintaining stability amidst the harsh conditions of the ocean is often a challenging task for organisms. From the pull of tides to the crashing of waves, species of the sea are constantly subjected to the ocean's shifting currents. For some organisms, the key to resisting this turbulence and pressure is through the production of underwater adhesives.
Take mussels, for instance. These creatures create thin, stretchy threads by first extending part of their foot outside of their shell. The mussel then takes the bit of flesh from the foot that is touching the surface and rolls it into a tube. Proteins known as peptides and other ingredients are discharged into the tube to create the fibers, which then prompts a chemical reaction that makes the materials inside the tube insoluble.
Mussels produce natural adhesives to keep themselves grounded against pressure from the ocean current. Image by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
For the sandcastle worm, glue really does hold its world together. Found on the beaches of California, these organisms produce a sticky adhesive from an organ on their head and use it to build the tube they inhabit. The tube is comprised of small pieces of sand and shells glued together. The oppositely charged proteins in the adhesive create the glue bonds, forming a fluid denser than water. The establishment of strong bonds results in a tube that manages to stay intact underwater, providing shelter for the worm.
Sandcastle worms use natural adhesives to build a tube that provides them with shelter. Image by Fred Hayes for the University of Utah. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
This got researchers thinking — could the components of these natural adhesives be replicated in a synthetic form to build stronger underwater adhesives? The answer is yes.
From Natural to Synthetic: Underwater Adhesives
Recognizing the potential of these natural adhesives, a research team at MIT developed waterproof glue based on mussel foot proteins. To make this substance, an engineered bacteria was used to create a hybrid material comprised of mussel proteins and a bacterial protein that is found in biofilms. The combination of the naturally sticky mussel proteins and the slimy layers formed by the bacteria resulted in a strong underwater adhesive — an adhesive even stronger than that of the mussels.
Featuring a normal but flexible structure, the hybrid material was found to strongly bind to dry and wet surfaces. In addition to potential use in ship repairs, this synthetic glue is also noted as a possible method for healing wounds and incisions from surgeries.
At the University of Utah, researchers from the Department of Bioengineering created synthetic polymers mimicking the chemistry of the adhesives produced by the sandcastle worm. The polymers are charged and join spontaneously to form a "water-immiscible fluid". The synthetic adhesive does not mix with water and, consequently, does not swell. The polymer was also noted for its strength as well as its relative inexpensiveness.
While this particular research focused on the use of the adhesive in treating fetal membrane ruptures, additional studies have also recognized the use of similar adhesives in repairing heart tissue and shattered bones.
Next Steps in Research
By drawing on the natural adhesives created by organisms in the sea, researchers have paved the way for the development of more reliable underwater adhesives. With previous testing successfully conducted on animals, future research seeks to build upon this foundational work and ensure the safety of such substances within the human body. With its wide use in the medical field, adding components to ensure the control of infections will also be an area of focus for researchers.
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By BP Staff , Dec 3, 2015
On Saturday, December 12, the Benefit for Tony MacAlpine concert – featuring the stellar line-up of Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde, Mike Portnoy, Billy Sheehan, Derek Sherinian, and John 5 – will take place at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. That Metal Show host Eddie Trunk will serve as master of ceremonies.
Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine), Nuno Bettencourt (Extreme), and Richie Kotzen (The Winery Dogs) are joining this incredible line-up as part of the all-star jam.
In addition to this extraordinary musical event, a wealth of items will be available for auction at the show. Non LA-based fans can also bid by visiting tonymacalpine.com/benefitfortony day-of-show through December 19.
Auction items include:
Personal guitars donated by Steve Vai, KISS, Steve Lukather, Joe Satriani, Steven Stevens, Paul Gilbert, Joe Bonamassa, John Petrucci, Tom Morello, Richie Kotzen, Vinnie Moore, and Jeff Loomis
Signature snare drums from Simon Phillips, Gregg Bissonette, Mike Portnoy, and Eric Singer
Signature bass from Billy Sheehan
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MacAlpine's gear manufacturers – Ibanez, Hughes & Kettner, EMG, Ernie Ball, Source Audio, Voodoo Lab, and Xotic Effects – have also generously donated equipment to be raffled off at the show.
All proceeds will be collected on behalf of guitar/keyboard virtuoso Tony MacAlpine, who was recently diagnosed with colon cancer, and his family (his wife was recently diagnosed with breast cancer).
Tickets are on sale now via LiveNation.
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