U.S. sues controversial Arizona sheriff in civil-rights investigation

Justice Department officials say Maricopa County’s Joe Arpaio failed to turn over documents in a probe of his agency’s immigration enforcement operations. Among his tactics are ‘sweeps’ of immigrant-heavy neighborhoods.

Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Denver —
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced it had sued Joe Arpaio, the controversial sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona, for failing to turn over documents in a probe of whether his aggressive operations against illegal immigrants had violated civil rights.

The litigation came two months after a Justice Department lawsuit halted a tough new Arizona immigration law, which Arpaio strongly supported. The new lawsuit is unrelated to the immigration law and stems from an investigation into the sheriff’s immigration enforcement operations. The department said it was the first time in 30 years a police agency had not cooperated in a civil-rights probe.
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An Instant Visa Gets The Marine Into Moscow

THE JFK CASE: THE TWELVE THAT BUILT THE OSWALD LEGEND (Part 2: An Instant Visa Gets The Marine Into Moscow)

Bill Simpich/opednews.com

Oswald’s ties with US intelligence began as a radar operator for the U-2

Seventeen-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald began his first tentative steps into the intelligence milieu when he joined the Marines in late 1956 and obtained his qualifications as an aviation electronics operator. These credentials allowed him to perform basic radar functions, a post that requires above average IQ. For Oswald, with his spelling problems and a shaky education, this was a big deal. Keep in mind that Oswald may have been unwitting about some or all of the roles he would play for intelligence, although he seems to have been an agent in his own mind. He may have simply been manipulated for other purposes.
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Shorter Question Everything

Islamophobia | Oil: Gulf of Mexico | Douchebaggery

• READ: Fists Fly at the Hookah Bar: As we’ve been reporting, there have been a flurry of incidents around the country in recent weeks in which people have tried to intimidate or attack American Muslims or people they believed to be Muslims. But along with these ugly incidents there have been a backdrop of no less unfortunate cases of people who seemed to want to commit a hate crime but were either too drunk, too stupid or too disorganized to pull it off or even give a really clear idea of what they were trying to do.

Meet Kevin Morris, 31, of West Haven, Connecticut.

• READ: Oil Platform Explodes in Gulf of Mexico: An oil production platform in the Vermilion Bay exploded today around 9:30am, with 13 people on board. One crew member was injured, and 12 are in the water in immersion suits. As of 10:30am the rig was still on fire. The Coast Guard is now on dealing with the emergency and has dispatched helicopters and ships to the platform. Vermilion 398, owned by Mariner Energy, is not a drilling rig but an oil “fixed, manned production platform.” [USA Today]

• READ: Not all patriarchal control freaks are men: I haven’t written about MRAs (men’s rights activists) in awhile, because what is there to say about a group of men organized around the principle that women shouldn’t have the right to say no? Because that’s basically what pisses them off: women who think they get to say no to sex, to staying in abusive marriages, to having their time occupied by any man who demands it, to having a baby when they don’t want. And they hide behind patriarchal sentimentality to justify their strong desire to control women. Not much else to say, because going at it with them is a lesson in hearing undeserved self-pity from those who were dumped for reasons obvious to everyone but them, and who have endless amounts of time and energy to dedicate to throwing their own pity parade.

I bring it up, because while most people who play this game are men, some women do it, too.

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In Mexico, chupacabras are blamed for 300 goat beheadings


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For the past two months, shepherds in Mexico have been reporting hundreds of identical attacks on their goats. Multiple goats are beheaded “in a strange way.” Many are blaming the legendary chupacabra.

Inexplicata has a report on the sightings in Puebla and Guanajuato, Mexico:
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Shorter Question Everything

Beck | Viktor Bout | Gareth Williams | Wikileaks

• READ: Glenn Beck’s George Washington Whopper :
Beck also invoked Washington while describing the inspiring experience of visiting famous tourist destinations around the nation’s capital. “I have been going to Mt. Vernon,” he explained. Holding out his hands for emphasis, he declared with emotion, “I went to the National Archives, and I held the first inaugural address written in his own hand by George Washington.”

It was an eyebrow-raising revelation and certainly an original image: Beck cradling the actual words of the first president. But would the persnickety gatekeepers of the nation’s historical legacy at the National Archives allow some talk show bombthrower to put his mitts on a rare (and fragile) artifact? The answer, it turns out, is no way. Beck was not telling the truth.

Beck did receive a special VIP tour of the archives, arranged by an as-yet unidentified member of Congress. During that tour, he did get a peek inside the “legislative vault,” which isn’t open to ordinary visitors. But Archives spokeswoman Susan Cooper insists that Beck didn’t lay a finger on any precious documents, much less George Washington’s inaugural address. That would be a major violation of policy. “Those kinds of treasures are only handled by specially trained archival staff,” she explains. Cooper acknowledges that someone at the archives did show the document to Beck, but that was the extent of it. Regarding Beck’s claim that he held the document, Cooper says that seeing such documents for the first time can be a very emotional experience. “I’m certain it was a figure of speech,” she says.

Cooper is being charitable. Beck’s whopper gave his speech more heft and rhetorical flourish. It was high patriotic drama. But his fib stands in stark contrast to the point of the rally, which was all about restoring the principles of courage and honor that the nation was founded upon. In fact, one of Beck’s only prescriptions for fixing the country was to “tell the truth.”

• READ: Early Morning Swim: College Students Inteview Teabaggers at Beck Rally, Hilarity Ensues (VIDEO):
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The best part? Tucker Carlson’s rag is upset that these guys go to Wright State, because it sounds like “RightState” which is similar to “RedState” and therefore, they were able to trick these Teabaggers into saying lots of really stupid/crazy shit on camera.

• READ: Russian alleged arms dealer not to be extradited to U.S. until October 4: Russian suspected arms trader Viktor Bout will not be extradited to the United States until a hearing of the U.S. request to drop a second set of charges against him on October 4, Bout’s Thai lawyer Lac Nitiwat Wichan said on Wednesday.

The Thai Prosecutor General’s Office received a formal request from the U.S. on Tuesday to drop a second set of charges against Bout.

• READ: Body of MI6 worker Gareth Williams ‘locked in bag’: At the opening of the inquest into his death at Westminster Coroner’s Court, the coroner revealed the body was locked inside a sports holdall…BBC Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said details of the padlock “clearly indicates someone else was involved” in the incident.[well, no shit!]

• READ: Sweden reopens Wikileaks founder rape investigation : Last week prosecutors cancelled an arrest warrant for Mr Assange on accusations of rape and molestation, saying he was no longer suspected…It is the second time a Swedish prosecutor has been overruled by a prosecutor of higher rank in relation to the claims against Mr Assange.

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