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Posted: 16 Oct 2013 05:03 PM PDT
 By Emily MillerWashington Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier seems to think that gun-control laws don’t apply to the liberal elite. The police chief helped Sen. Dianne Feinstein acquire “assault weapons,” which are illegal to possess in the District, for a news conference early this year to promote a ban on these firearms, then tried to cover up the police involvement. Now, a response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveals Chief Lanier’s shocking willingness to bend the rules for partisan and ideological purposes. Lobbyist Chuck DeWitt emailed Chief Lanier on Christmas Eve last year. “Sen. Feinstein has asked us to bring examples of assault weapons used in the worst incidents over the past few years.” The CEO of the Lafayette Group told the chief that the guns would be put on display at a media event and asked, “Could you put me in touch with your person who would have any of these weapons?” Chief Lanier’s response was not turned over. However, a week after Mr. DeWitt’s request, Mrs. Feinstein’s press secretary, Tom Mentzer, asked the commander of the police department’s Crime Scene Investigation Division, Keith Williams, for 10 specific firearm models used in high-profile mass shootings, including a Bushmaster XM-15, Tec-9 handgun, Smith & Wesson M&P15 and a Glock 19 with a “high-capacity magazine.” Since Cmdr. Williams did not have all the firearms the senator sought, Mr. DeWitt asked Philadelphia police to provide the missing ones, which meant bringing “the P15 and the Glock extended magazine” to Washington. All of these firearms are illegal in the city — even on federal property — owing to the District’s law banning rifles with a detachable magazine and such features as a pistol grip or folding stock and all firearms with a magazines capacity of more than 10 rounds. Chief Lanier wanted to help Mrs. Feinstein, but didn’t want the media to know. Cmdr. Williams emailed Mr. Mentzer to put a “bug” in his ear that the police would “prefer that no mention of the fact that the weapons came from D.C. or were recovered by MPDC in the official language or speeches.” Mr. Mentzer replied, “By not mentioning where the weapons came from, we open ourselves up to the same charge against David Gregory.” He was referring to the anchor of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” who knowingly procured an illegal 30-round magazine in the District as a stunt for his TV show, but was not charged. Read More Here |
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Posted: 16 Oct 2013 05:02 PM PDT
 China’s
largest search engine Baidu – also known as the “Google of China” – has
become the first service of its kind to accept the crypto-currency
Bitcoin.Baidu said on Tuesday that its security division Jiasule began supporting the virtual currency on October 14. “Jiasule, as the innovator of the internet, has become the first cloud services vendor to support bitcoin, giving us richer payment methods and experience,” the company said in a statement. Jiasule is an anti-DDoS (distributed denial of service) and firewall security product that is aimed at protecting websites from malicious attacks that attempt to crash them by overloading the site. However, the adoption of Bitcoin is not across the entire company. Instead, it is only for the protection service, which can be compared to CloudFlare in the United States. Baidi is the fifth most visited website in the world, according to data from Alexa Traffic Rank – a subsidiary of Amazon.com. The site has a market cap of over US$53 billion and is probably the largest one to accept the crypto-currency. Following the Silk Road scandal – dubbed the “Amazon.com of illegal drugs” – where the virtual online currency was used by website customers to buy and sell illicit goods and services, the currency has made an impressive stride towards going mainstream. Bitcoin has basically made up its value after it dropped in the wake of Silk Road’s seizure. On Wednesday, the virtual currency stood at around US$155 according to Mt.Gox (USD) on Bitcoin charts. Bitcoin is the first implementation of the crypto-currency concept which uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks. The managing of transactions and the issuing of Bitcoin is carried out collectively by a consensus network. Source |
