Treason...

Probation for former FBI agent after sharing information with friend

By Mary Pat Flaherty

A former FBI agent from Alexandria was sentenced Tuesday to four years of probation for his part in acquiring confidential information while an agent and passing it along to a friend, prosecutors said.

Ivan Stantchev, 43, was sentenced on a misdemeanor in federal court in Newark, N.J. He had previously pleaded guilty to causing another to exceed authorized access to an FBI computer when he contacted a colleague at the FBI to help him get information for his friend, prosecutors said.

The information the friend ultimately received — and then passed along to others in New Jersey, prosecutors say-- included the existence of an ongoing FBI investigation in Newark, and the existence of an undercover “law enforcement” operation in the city, the name of the FBI’s operation and the federal offenses being investigated.

The friend had asked Stantchev to check four telephone numbers and find out about the people linked to them, according to federal court records.

Stantchev contacted an FBI colleague in the New York area in June 2011 with the phone numbers and, by the end of the month, got back an e-mail from the colleague through the FBI system with information that Stantchev then gave to his friend, court filings show.

Barbara Woodruff, an FBI spokeswoman in Newark, has previously said the breach did not compromise any investigation. Woodruff has said Stantchev joined the FBI in 2005 and had worked most recently in Newark after assignments at FBI headquarters and in New York.

David Laufman of the District, Stantchev’s attorney, said at the time of the guilty plea that the information his client relayed “was in no way classified and did not involve national security.”

So...this person was hired by the FBI, took an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies... and was discovered to have revealed the presence of an FBI investigation to the target of the investigation, which revealed the identities of Undercover Agents.   

What about the FBI Special Agents and the United States Attorney who investigated the dirty Special Agent - did they take an oath?  Did they investigate if he did anything else?  Did they look to see how ?

One Big Fat Rant...

I was reading a blog where a helpy-helperton was giving advice...while trying to be nice (and she was).    I started to leave a comment, and realized anybody who reads my comment there will not want to hear facts, they will just think I'm mean.

Why are people overweight.?  Why are 66% of Americans overweight?  Why are our "poor" overweight?  Why are our elderly overweight?  Why are close to 33% of Americans "obese?"

Its not because they each gave birth to 10 babies, and its not genetics.

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Its because they eat too much food.

So return the diet books, send back the DVDs, stop paying money to go to the gym, and stop blaming the babies! (You can blame them for so much more, like 1) Why you can't go to the movies anymore, 2) Why you can't eat at nice restaurants, 3) Why you don't get a full nights sleep, 4) Why you can't go on fancy vacations...)

Food in America is plentiful, inexpensive, and everywhere (they didn't always sell it in gas stations and pharmacies you know).  And - most of it is not even food! Its made in a factory, and made to look like food, but read the ingredients, if you can't pronounce it - DON'T EAT IT!

But Race, my grocery bill is huge, and a gallon of milk is $4!  Yes, but that's because you buy too much food, and drink too much milk.  And in our whacked society, to buy 'fresh' food without packaging, without all the sugar and additives...costs more.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't be overweight - that is your choice.  I'm saying you shouldn't wonder why.

Schatzi...may she rest in peace...

The Best Super Bowl Add...

...were you really paying attention?

 

10 Years Ago...

Crumb & Get It....

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Remember this:



At the time, they didn't have a website to order from, they do now.  I have never ordered food over the internet, but like those Secret Service Agents who went back to buy a cookie and support a guy for doing the right thing, why don't you click on the link, and send me some cookies...

Atlas is Shrugging...

State Stops Sale of Cheap Milk
Supermarket told price regulated

BY MICHELLE MILLHOLLON

Capitol news bureau

January 25, 2013

For Lafayette stockbroker Kenneth Daigle, buying a gallon of milk is no longer the bargain it used to be on Tuesdays at Fresh Market.

The upscale supermarket chain yanked milk from its $2.99 once-a-week promotion after a state auditor objected to the low price. A gallon of whole milk was priced at $5.69 Thursday at the Fresh Market in Perkins Rowe.

State Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain said Fresh Market violated state regulations by selling milk below cost as part of a promotion.

The supermarket routinely sells a gallon of skim, 1 percent, 2 percent or whole milk for $2.99 on Tuesdays, limiting the quantity to four per customer.

State law requires retailers’ markups to be no less than 6 percent of the invoice cost after adding freight charges.

The Dairy Stabilization Board oversees milk prices in Louisiana. The board was established after Schwegmann, a New Orleans-area grocery chain, launched a legal battle in the 1970s with the Louisiana Milk Commission to buy milk from out-of-state suppliers because it was cheaper.

The issue over Fresh Market’s milk involves the cost of milk to consumers rather than the price paid to farmers.

“They can sell it 6 percent over cost all day long. It’s when they sell it below cost that it becomes a problem,” Strain said.

During the second week of January, the price for a gallon of whole milk in Baton Rouge ranged from $4 to $6.89.

Strain said his office dispatched an auditor to the Fresh Market in Mandeville after receiving a complaint about the Tuesday promotion. His press office declined to identify the complainant.

During the visit, the auditor explained the regulations to store officials, Strain said.

Daigle learned about the change in price when he plunked down a gallon of milk at the cash register Tuesday at the Fresh Market two blocks from his office.

He routinely buys two gallons of milk at the sale price. He puts one gallon in the refrigerator and freezes the other.

This time, the milk rang up at the nonsale price. When Daigle questioned the price tag, the cashier told him the state had come down on the store.

Fresh Market’s corporate headquarters referred media questions to the Atlanta-based BRAVE Public Relations.

BRAVE released a prepared statement from Drewry Sackett, Fresh Market’s marketing, public relations and community relations manager.

Sackett said the promotion applied to the store’s private label, rBST-free milk.

“Because milk is a commodity product with regulated costs that are subject to change, at the current cost, due to Louisiana state law, we are unable to honor the $2.99 Tuesday deal for (Fresh Market) milk ... Because the cost of milk fluctuates, it is possible that we will be able to offer the $2.99 deal on milk again in the future,” Sackett said.

Daigle said he is outraged that the state would intervene in order to control a retail store’s prices.

“Should we do the same thing with bread? Should we do the same thing with soft drinks?” he asked.

Strain said the regulations exist to keep the price of milk as low as possible.

Allowing a supermarket to sell milk below cost could drive competitors out of business, allowing the store to then increase the price of milk, he said.

Daigle disagrees with Strain’s approach.

He said it is understandable for states to regulate the wholesale price, ensuring that farmers receive fair compensation for their labor.

Controlling the price on the grocery store shelf is heavy-handed, Daigle said.

“If retailers want to take a loss, so be it,” he said.

Against All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic...

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

They were not talking about hunting rifles, or pistols, or limited capacity non-pistol grip replicas.  They were saying that the citizens have the RIGHT to KEEP and BEAR the same weapons that a military would have.

From the Preamble to the Bill of Rights:  "The Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added:  And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution."

...in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers...

So they made it nice and simple.

...and it is required, that the President, Congress, members of the Military...and Federal Law Enforcement Officers, swear an oath to protect and defend it.