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cronewit commented on the diary post Purdue Must Investigate Indiana State Board of Education Member Gwendolyn G. Adell for Academic Dishonesty by Doug Martin.
Doug, I emailed you earlier this evening with a lengthy comment that I tried to post here, but got an error message for. If you want to re-post that comment here, feel free. But you had put a burr under my saddle, and I spent sometime poking around the InterToobs. Here’s an interesting finding: In [...]
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cronewit commented on the diary post FBI Investigating Gülen Charter Schools: Gülen Leaders Lavish Gifts And Dinners on Mitch Daniels and Other Indiana Officials by Doug Martin.
Well, Doug, my mind is boggled. I’d love to make a substantive comment, but all I may be capable of right now is adding some links to articles I’ve just read about Gulen, the Gulen movement, and schools in Arizona and Utah. This last hour or so of reading has shown me that there are [...]
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cronewit commented on the diary post American Prophet- Eugene Debs by Daveparts.
Thanks for your excellent article on Debs! Especially for the lengthy quotes from his ‘Canton Speech’.
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cronewit commented on the diary post The Mind Trust: The Celebrity-Corporate-Government Plan To Privatize Indiana Education by Doug Martin.
Doug, this will be 50% off-topic, 50% on — but I think you’re gonna love it. It’s a ‘two-fer’ day at TalkingPointsMemo.com re: Mitch Daniels. First: Remember my first comment on one of your articles here, where I digressed into a long rant about how Daniel’s attempt to privatize IN’s Food Stamp and Medicaid administrations [...]
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cronewit commented on the diary post The Mind Trust: The Celebrity-Corporate-Government Plan To Privatize Indiana Education by Doug Martin.
What I came away with was (a) an incestuous tangle of government (GOP) with big-money corporations (and, in IN, Lilly is the biggest, in terms of clout) and (b) that the Charter Schools will test to the abysmal ISTEP tests and replace seasoned teachers with younger, cheaper, and ‘ideologically pure’ teachers. If you haven’t done [...]
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cronewit commented on the diary post Friday Constitutional 11 – 1st And 2nd Amendments by Bill Egnor.
You arguments are intriguing, Imka, in that they challenge me to consider just how absolute an ‘inherent right’ is/should be. I’ve been pondering that lately. The historical intent of the citizens who refused to allow their representatives to ratify the Constitution (the ‘Articles’) would support the kind of absolutist view that you describe. As I [...]
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cronewit commented on the diary post President Obama: Step In to Protect the Constitutional Rights of Veterans and Citizens by KevinZeese.
This is one of those situations where making suggestions seems useless, since the Quantico folks are locked in a feraful bunker mentality. But here are some thought that went through my head . . . If they area afraid of flower arrangements (which could in a crazy bunker world, contain explosives) — what if each [...]
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cronewit commented on the diary post Saturday Night Massacre: Obama Axes PJ Crowley for Telling the Truth about Bradley Manning by Phoenix Woman.
The ‘smock’ has bothered me as another example of a new degradation. A ‘smock’ is a dress or, I suppose in this case, a nightgown. A girly-girl garment. In the extremely macho military world, where basic training (and after) is full of calling recruits/soldiers ‘girly-girl’ names as a way of shaming them. As far as [...]
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cronewit commented on the diary post No Charter School Left Behind: Mitch Daniels, Tony Bennett, and Dennis Bakke’s Imagine Schools by Doug Martin.
Doug, ‘harvey’ appears to be defunct. You should be able to find my email in my profile here. Drop me a note, and I’ll send the file. Thx
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cronewit commented on the diary post No Charter School Left Behind: Mitch Daniels, Tony Bennett, and Dennis Bakke’s Imagine Schools by Doug Martin.
Hi Doug. Just found your message. I made a note (on paper! haha) of your fake email, will look for the file LIHEAP file. Will be in touch over the next few days. I’m opening your IN Govt site as I type. Doing OK, thanks. Actual sunshine today, all day long! Felt like a miracle. [...]
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cronewit commented on the diary post No Charter School Left Behind: Mitch Daniels, Tony Bennett, and Dennis Bakke’s Imagine Schools by Doug Martin.
Ya know, Doug, I gathered some info last Fall about a changed that Mitch made to the LIHEAP application procedures that has the effect of either excluding people with zero income from LIHEAP, or making them document what was previously ‘non-reportable’ income (small, sporadic gifts and/or one-time receipts). The new procedure is, of course, contrary [...]
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cronewit commented on the diary post No Charter School Left Behind: Mitch Daniels, Tony Bennett, and Dennis Bakke’s Imagine Schools by Doug Martin.
An impressive piece of work, Doug! Keep stockpiling information on Daniels, in case he decides to run for Prez.
Good work!
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cronewit commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Micah Sifry, Wikileaks And The Age Of Transparency
Always linking to OpenCongress.org when mentioning Congresspeople’s names — a great idea! I’ll share that at dKos, and credit you, Micah, saying I read you at FDL. Thanks!
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cronewit commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Micah Sifry, Wikileaks And The Age Of Transparency
Sharing FDL’s info-analysis models — YES PLEASE, with good instructions and open-source free software that can be used by people with old computers (like XP on dialup)
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cronewit commented on the blog post Nine Years of Nudity in American Detention
I got the same ‘Soviet bad/US good’ indoctrination from (mainly) Reader’s Digest. Another point was ‘Under Soviet rule, people can be persecuted for speaking their minds or reading unauthorized materials, and all the news they get has been pre-authorized by the central government.’
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cronewit commented on the blog post Nine Years of Nudity in American Detention
THANK YOU for awesome Brandeis quote!
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cronewit commented on the blog post A Narrative Chronology of Bradley Manning’s Alleged Leaks
MadDog, I’m new here so hope I haven’t missed a relevant part of ongoing discussion. But you say that USB access would have been prevented by software. Do you have a source for that? Not a snarky question ,an honest one, because I just posted a link (and quote) from a Dec 2010 article saying that DOD had never installed the McAfee component that would have prevented USB access/downloads. Would genuinely appreciate it if you could point em to a link (or several) demonstrating adequate software/hardware protections against downloads on SIPRnet.
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cronewit commented on the blog post A Narrative Chronology of Bradley Manning’s Alleged Leaks
I’m no technogeek. But I keep running across trade-magazine type articles that lead me to think that DOD has failed to secure it’s cyber-information. I wrote a little about the problem of classified items (such as the entire Pentagon IT backbone, including passwords) through peer-to-peer (P2P) network sharing in the only diary I’ve mananged to write on FDL so far.
In regard to the SIPRNet, I’ve also found several articles that lead me to think that DOD’s failure to establish controls and safeguards could mean that they have no way to tell what may or may not have been accessed or downloaded through any computer. (I feel I’m premature in even writing this comment, but maybe by posting this some other folks will begin looking.)
Here’s one example, from http://www.c4isrjournal.com/story.php?F=5209879 –
The Pentagon started upgrading thousands of computers with data loss-prevention software in 2008 but chose not to turn on the software, which would be able to sound alarms in cases like the WikiLeaks incident, an industry official said.
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The loss-prevention and thumb-drive tools are elements of the Host Based Security System (HBSS), which is now installed on 60 percent of SIPRNet computers, according to the Defense Department. The HBSS software, produced by BAE Systems with McAfee as a subcontractor, links network security officials to classified desktop computers. HBSS has the “capability of monitoring unusual data access and usage,” the department said in statement released on the day WikiLeaks began publishing thousands of State Department diplomatic cables.
DISA decided to upgrade HBSS in 2008 after a computer virus was introduced into a Central Command network via a flash drive. The HBSS software now includes a Device Control Management tool that allows security officials to remotely disable USB drives. The Host Data Loss Prevention software was included in the same package, but the Defense Department did not license the loss prevention part of the suite.To keep this comment from getting huge, I’ll just post a few of the links I’ve found dealing with SIPRnet’s absence of controls.
I don’t know if this will help Bradley or not, but in terms of the Espionage Act there’s been a distinction made between info that is (just) marked ‘classified (at whatever level) and whether or not, classified material is ‘closely held’ (I’ve also seen ‘closely held’ phrased as ‘under custody and control’ or ‘under the control’ of the responsible Govt dept. (many govt regs, also US v Heine 1945 & US v Morison 1988)
So this lead me to wonder — if DOD’s classified info is NOT ‘closely held’ (and I’ve read enough of their regulations to know that their standards are not met), and if the entire world can access classified infor through P2P, and SIPRnet had no controls — no passwords, no way to tell if someone was downloading, etc — Well, does DOD’s failure to control obviate Espionage Act (and similar military regs) because the documents were (or could have been) available to unauthorized people both before and after the alleged Manning leaks?
Sorry to ramble. Wanted to get the question & thoughts out there.
A few more links re SIPRnet openness–
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/30/AR2010123004962.html
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cronewit commented on the diary post Eugene V. Debs Day at the Indiana Statehouse: A History Lesson for Mitch Daniels by Doug Martin.
Hi Doug. Thanks for your concern. My health limitations are what they are, and unfortunately ‘getting better’ is unlikely. However, I remain relatively stable, within a certain range of capabilities, as long as I don’t overdo — and it takes very little to ‘overdo’. I think a Debs day is a great idea. But it’s [...]
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cronewit commented on the diary post Eugene V. Debs Day at the Indiana Statehouse: A History Lesson for Mitch Daniels by Doug Martin.
Hi Doug. Sorry I’m so slow to reply. I think your ideas for both more info on Debs, and for a progressive think tank, are great. Unfortunately, I have health problems that slow me down and that really limit both my reliability and the amount of time I can commit to ongoing efforts. So, in [...]
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