Comments on: The Jeff Sessions-BushCo Mutual Protection Racket

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:55:36 +0000

WO, I wonder how standard you assess the crew statement of work June 2003 is. This is the summer when Jennifer Mayfield still worked for Libby, v. her and her sister’s endorsement letters in the sentencing materials. Also perhaps standard practice would be subcontracting to DoD for much of the work if what had happened with the EOVP MZM contract had pleased EOP as well, which might explain what the $250.MM over 5 years to MZM helped deploy, though I have no idea what work they did; that contract was let as MZM completed the first work in that same year. Obviously there are parallel architectures in that branch of government. In some of the US attorney purge literature there was mundane metion of the need for a ‘Hatch’ compliant parallel universe, i.e., RNC server pathway, but IT filtering for transgressions should be fairly exoterically delineated in a statement of work; so I am still wondering what fragments we are reviewing, from a large enterprise architecture design vantage. So to me the issue is more amorphous than a simple Sessions attempt to sweep all under a security rug, or alternately perhaps a Sessions wish that the presidential records act could be amended to redact all material Bush has sequestered, likely beginning from key residua from the Reagan administration which Bush2 sequestered in 2001. Obviously, Cheney is going to want to sequester stovepipes populated with neocons, the WHIG and several Bolton workgroups, and some of the Libby allied temporary groups. But the recognition early that there needed to be three parallel systems may be an interesting IT perspective for evaluating email archival, logging, routing, etc.; I liked some of the comments a writer left about the morphing storage area network, as well. Likely these offices went first class, so assessing them could be a learing and fun process. I began to read the header stripping and content compositing part of the email discussion in the report entitled “EOP-OA-OCIO-CR&SE-ECRMS-SO- W v06″ in the file set, grateful I never had to deal with Notes. Being the 1-2-3 inhouse wizard was enough for me in that epoch. Also, looking at one block diagram, as predicted W2k NT and Notes all coexisted in the architecture then, pretty late for people to have remained dedicated to their messaging app and/or GUI of choice, but predictable, given government budget processes.

By: watercarrier4diogenes

watercarrier4diogenes — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:06:20 +0000

No doubt. Their current ‘Oh MY!! Earmarks are BAD, BAD, BAD!’ is just verse one in their upcoming song and dance. Hopefully, they’ll keep singing it while the Dems lock in ethics and accountability structures that will completely expose their MO to even their pathetic base.

By: Citizen92

Citizen92 — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:47:51 +0000

Nice find WO. Anything else interesting in CREW’s database?

By: Sedgequill

Sedgequill — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:27:30 +0000

If a Democrat wins the presidency, it won’t be long until there will be a Republican outcry to bring accountability to presidential actions and sunshine to presidential records.

By: dsalexan

dsalexan — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:54:26 +0000

As valid could be an ethics panel hearing on Sessions’ doings brought up in the new Congress – if a sufficient outcry is raised, and were we to have leaders installed who were both clean AND comprised of enough spine to go wherever any concurrent or subsequent, broad-based investigation into illegal acceptance of funds might lead – including to Dems…

By: WilliamOckham

WilliamOckham — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:14:49 +0000

Ok, sorry for the off-topic comment, but I just discovered (on CREW’s site) the documentation for the proposed Exchange-ARMS interface that has been discussed. The link is to the government’s response to the FOIA request. This proposal was apparently rejected.

The other geeks here may want to take a look. After a quick glance, I think it may answer a number of questions I have. I’m going to examine this thing in-depth on my lunch hour.

By: sailmaker

sailmaker — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:10:12 +0000

After all, the politicized Bush Administration made sure Sessions didn’t get tagged with the influence peddling charges that Don Siegelman got indicted with.

Just because it bears repeating. Not because there is any better way to say it or comment that can expand on it.

Is there a statute of limitations on influence peddling at the state level? Have they successfully run the clock on this? Thanks.

By: BillE

BillE — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:07:09 +0000

The Cheneyites have always looked for ways to control people who can burn them. They started the TIA program 2 wks into holding power. Jeff Sessions is wholly owned lock stock and barrel. He has also dropped supposedly secret stuff to the media that was used as an excuse to not share info with congress. Nice scheme they got going.

By: darclay

darclay — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:54:11 +0000

Watching Jed Babbin on c-span Washington Journal, he just said that “THE DEMOCRATS are obstructing the FISA bill and the Protect America Act.
Glad you are blogging!!

By: Gracchus

Gracchus — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:35:22 +0000

I suppose we’ll now have to see whether Harry Reid still only respects holds placed by Republicans on progressive legislation.

Hey, Harry! We’re watching…