| An internal investigation by the Central Intelligence Agency has criticized the agency for penetrating a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee in preparing its report on the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program. |
| In a statement issued Thursday morning, a C.I.A. spokesman said that agency’s Inspector General had concluded that C.I.A. officers acted inappropriately by accessing the computers. |
| The statement said that John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director, had apologized to the two senior members of the Senate Intelligence Committee and would set up an internal accountability board to review the matter. The board will be led by former Senator Evan Bayh, Democrat of Indiana. |
| The statement gave almost no specifics about the findings of the report, written by David Buckley, the agency’s inspector general. |
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SMART ASS ANSWER #6
It was mealtime during an airline flight. 'Would you like dinner?', the flight attendant asked John, seated in front. 'What are my choices?' John asked. |
SMART ASS ANSWER #5
A flight attendant was stationed at the departure gate to check tickets. As a man approached, she extended her hand for the ticket and he opened his trench coat and flashed her.
Without missing a beat, she said, 'Sir, I need to see your ticket, not your stub.'
SMART ASS ANSWER # 4
A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store but she couldn't find one big enough for her family. She asked a stock boy, 'Do these turkeys get any bigger?'
The stock boy replied, 'No ma'am, they're dead...'
SMART ASS ANSWER # 3
The police officer got out of his car as the kid who was stopped for speeding rolled down his window. 'I've been waiting for you all day,' the officer said.
The kid replied, Yeah, well I got here as fast as I could.'
When the cop finally stopped laughing, he sent the kid on his way without a ticket.
SMART ASS ANSWER # 2
A truck driver was driving along on the freeway and noticed a sign that read: Low Bridge Ahead. Before he knows it, the bridge is right in front of him and his truck gets wedged under it. Cars are backed up for miles.
Finally a police car comes up. The cop gets out of his car and walks to the truck driver, puts his hands on his hips and says, 'Got stuck, huh?'
The truck driver says, 'No, I was delivering this bridge and I ran out of gas.'
SMART ASS # 1 ANSWER OF THE YEAR!
A college teacher reminds her class of tomorrow's final exam. 'Now class, I won't tolerate any excuses for you not being here tomorrow. I might consider a nuclear attack or a serious personal injury, illness, or a death in your immediate family, but that's it, no other excuses whatsoever!'
A smart-ass student in the back of the room raised his hand and asked, 'What would you say if tomorrow I said I was suffering from complete and utter sexual exhaustion?'
The entire class is reduced to laughter and snickering. When silence was restored, the teacher smiled knowingly at the student, shook her head and sweetly said, 'Well, I guess you'd have to write the exam with your other hand.'A BONUS EXTRA
A woman is standing nude looking in the bedroom mirror. She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband, 'I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly... I really need you to pay me a compliment.'
The husband replies, 'Your eyesight's damn near perfect!'
I recommend to click on the little picture to the left.
You can download this photo as a PDF in good resolution. This is
necessary, because that will allow you understand what I am describing
here. The facts speak clear and loud and are beyond the realm of
speculation: The cockpit shows traces of shelling! You can see the
entry and exit holes. The edge of a portion of the holes is bent
inwards. These are the smaller holes, round and clean, showing the entry
points most likely that of a 30 millimeter caliber projectile.
The edge of the other, the larger and slightly frayed exit holes
showing shreds of metal pointing produced by the same caliber
projectiles. Moreover, it is evident that at these exit holes of the
outer layer of the double aluminum reinforced structure are shredded or
bent – outwardly! Furthermore, minor cuts can be seen, all bent outward,
which indicate that shrapnel had forcefully exited through the outer
skin from the inside of the cockpit. The open rivets are are also bent
outward.
So what could have happened? Russia recently published radar recordings, that confirm at least one Ukrainian SU 25 in close proximity to MH 017.
This corresponds with the statement of the now missing Spanish
controller ‘Carlos’ that has seen two Ukrainian fighter aircraft in the
immediate vicinity of MH 017. If we now consider the armament of
a typical SU 25 we learn this: It is equipped with a double-barreled
30-mm gun, type GSh-302 / AO-17A, equipped with: a 250 round magazine of
anti-tank incendiary shells and splinter-explosive shells (dum-dum),
arranged in alternating order. The cockpit of the MH 017 has evidently
been fired at from both sides: the entry and exit holes are found on the
same fragment of it’s cockpit segment!
Palestinian
women from the Sehweel family survey damage to a classroom after a
United Nations-run school was reportedly hit by Israeli artillery shells
at the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Photograph: Wissam
Nassar/The New York Times| In an escalation of the confrontation between the United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo over the governor’s cancellation of his own anticorruption commission, Mr. Bharara has threatened to investigate the Cuomo administration for possible obstruction of justice or witness tampering. |
| The warning, in a sharply worded letter from Mr. Bharara’s office, came after several members of the panel issued public statements defending the governor’s handling of the panel, known as the Moreland Commission, which Mr. Cuomo created last year with promises of cleaning up corruption in state politics but shut down abruptly in March. |
| Mr. Bharara’s office has been investigating the shutdown of the commission, and pursuing its unfinished corruption cases, since April. |
| In the letter, sent late Wednesday afternoon to a lawyer for the panel, Mr. Bharara alluded to a number of statements made by its members on Monday, which generally defended Mr. Cuomo’s handling of the commission. The statements were released on the same day Mr. Cuomo first publicly responded to a report in The New York Times that described how he and his aides had compromised the commission’s work. |
| At least some of those statements were prompted by calls from the governor or his emissaries, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation who were unwilling to be named for fear of retribution from the governor’s office. |
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