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Fifth passport peeker charged
Washington Examiner ^ | Aug 10, 2009 | Freeman Klopott

Posted on 08/10/2009 3:44:58 AM PDT by SvenMagnussen

A former State Department employee has become the fifth person charged witih illegally accessing the confidential passport information of elected officials and celebrities.

Karal Busch has been charged with the unauthorized access of passport files related to "various celebrities and their families, actors, professional athletes, musicians, models and other individuals identified in the press," court documents filed in the District's federal court said. No attorney information for Busch was listed in court records.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: birth; justice; obama; passport
Busch is accused of peeking at passport applications, which according to the Department of Justice contain the applicant's full name, and date and place of birth.
1 posted on 08/10/2009 3:44:58 AM PDT by SvenMagnussen
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To: SvenMagnussen

Only the Klintons and their cronies have the right to illegally access FBI files.

Anyone doubt the messiah is doing the same thing?


2 posted on 08/10/2009 3:49:12 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: SvenMagnussen

Guy that took a peek at Hussein’s passport file turned up dead.


3 posted on 08/10/2009 3:51:52 AM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301

Shouldn’t we ask Barry why this guy is dead?


4 posted on 08/10/2009 3:58:40 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: SvenMagnussen

Hillary’s people are still at work.


5 posted on 08/10/2009 4:02:11 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Obama's lies make Bill Clinton's lie small)
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To: fso301

Who turned up dead? What did I miss?


6 posted on 08/10/2009 4:04:32 AM PDT by sneakers
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To: SvenMagnussen
WND confirms Anna Obama Seattle address from Polk Directory, 1961-1961. Anna Obama Seattle address
7 posted on 08/10/2009 4:07:45 AM PDT by SvenMagnussen (Clever tagline can only be seen on the other internet.)
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To: SvenMagnussen
Hillary's lover after taking his own life (sic):


8 posted on 08/10/2009 4:11:10 AM PDT by jws3sticks (Sarah Palin forever!)
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To: jws3sticks

9 posted on 08/10/2009 4:26:07 AM PDT by SvenMagnussen (Clever tagline can only be seen on the other internet.)
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To: sneakers; freekitty
Who turned up dead? What did I miss?

What should be an explosive story that receives virtually no attention anywhere.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/apr/19/key-witness-in-passport-fraud-case-fatally-shot/

10 posted on 08/10/2009 4:40:41 AM PDT by fso301
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To: freekitty

Yep, and others.


11 posted on 08/10/2009 4:49:24 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ez 38 Pray.)
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To: SvenMagnussen
I'd love to see a similar letter with Zer0’s signature on it, written in his native Swahili. That would be Way Cool.
12 posted on 08/10/2009 5:02:09 AM PDT by jws3sticks (Sarah Palin forever!)
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To: fso301

Well, we know that we are ruled by criminals who consider themselves above the law, and which experience tells us are, in fact, above the law; a prime example: John Murtha, who has been protected by the courts from slander charges, and who has NOT been tried for Treason.


13 posted on 08/10/2009 5:23:20 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: sneakers

Reminds me of this... though a stretch (right?)

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/23/wow-hillary-sticking-around-in-case-obama-gets-shot/comment-page-2/


14 posted on 08/10/2009 6:08:51 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ez 38 Pray.)
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To: SvenMagnussen

This article fails to mention that a witness in this case (another peeker?) was found shot to death in his car parked in front of a Baptist church in DC the day before he was supposed to testify.

A glaring omission, I’d say.


15 posted on 08/10/2009 6:23:05 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: SvenMagnussen; Fred Nerks; null and void; stockpirate; george76; PhilDragoo; Candor7; BP2; ...
Ping to THIS and related stories:

Obama Part of Group Locked Up at Russian Airport
http://blog.kievukraine.info/2005/08/obama-part-of-group-locked-up-at.html
August 29, 2005 (Mon) -- original source: Chicago Sun-Times


SNEAKS PEEKED AT OBAMA, CLINTON PASSPORT FILES
http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nypost.com%2Fseven%2F03212008%2Fnews%2Fnationalnews%2Fsneaks_peeked_at_obama_file_102896.htm
March 21, 2008 (Sun)

Passport official quits amid probes
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/apr/05/passport-official-quits-amid-probes/print/
April 5, 2008 (Sat)

Passing On Passports at the State Department
http://lawhawk.blogspot.com/2008/04/passing-on-passports-at-state.html
April 05, 2008 (Sat)


FYI: the man's NAME is Lieutenant — it's NOT his Rank
Informant Gunned Down Amidst 5D Violence
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0408/512644.html
April 18, 2008 (Fri), 8:52 pm - Washington

Man Fatally Shot in Northeast Had Been Charged in Fraud Case - Passport Information Was Used to Obtain Bogus Credit Cards
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/19/AR2008041901891.html
April 20, 2008 (Sun) - Washington Post, The (DC)

Lieutenant Quarles Harris Jr. Shrine
http://dcshrines.blogspot.com/2008/05/lieutenant-quarles-harris-jr-shrine.html
May 8, 2008 (Thur)

Thread on Free Republic: Key witness in (presidential) passport fraud case fatally shot


Security breach of passport applications
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/01/security-breach-threatens-passport-applicants/print/
November 1, 2008 (Sat)

Barack Obama nominates Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/politics&id=6531032
December 01, 2008 (Mon) 8:42 PM

Obama’s Intelligence Adviser Involved in Security Breach
http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/brennan_passport_breach/2009/01/12/170430.html
January 12, 2009 (Mon) 1:46 PM

Passport Snoop Snared
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0113091passport1.html
State Department employee illegally accessed celebrity applications
Jan 13, 2009 (Tue)

Former State Department Employee Sentenced for Illegally Accessing Confidential Passport...
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS140362+23-Mar-2009+PRN20090323
Mar 23, 2009 (Mon) 11:32am EDT

EXACT same headline, but different story 3 1/2 months later (curious)
Former State Department Employee Sentenced for Illegally Accessing Confidential Passport...
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS165456+08-Jul-2009+PRN20090708
Jul 8, 2009 (Wed) 1:22pm EDT

16 posted on 08/10/2009 6:30:38 AM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: fso301

OMG!! So Obama had this guy offed because he saw the passport and knew the truth!

The loser occupying the White House is the chief Chicago mobster! Move over Al Capone!


17 posted on 08/10/2009 6:31:07 AM PDT by sneakers
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To: sneakers

I can name four more....but won’t on open thread.


18 posted on 08/10/2009 6:44:20 AM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: SvenMagnussen

What do we know about Busch? State Department employee under who’s administration? For how long? What is the political party of the individual? Who do they have connections to? IS THIS DICK CHENEY’S FAULT? ;~)


19 posted on 08/10/2009 6:51:11 AM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: hoosiermama

Bookmark.


20 posted on 08/10/2009 6:52:37 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (A message to our elected representatives: "DON'T JUST STAND THERE, UNDO SOMETHING!")
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To: EternalVigilance; Fred Nerks; null and void; stockpirate; george76; PhilDragoo; Candor7; BP2; ...

ping


21 posted on 08/10/2009 7:34:35 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 200 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: SvenMagnussen

Bump for later.


22 posted on 08/10/2009 7:34:55 AM PDT by SunTzuWu
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To: SvenMagnussen

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/hmabstracts/region3hm.htm
Office of Family Assistance
Healthy Marriage Demonstration Grant

Name of Grantee: Aish HaTorah of Washington, D.C., Inc
Federal Project Officer: Karal Busch (202) 205-****

Target Population: District of Columbia residents of all racial, socio-economic and religious backgrounds
Federal Award Amount: $498,654/year
Program Name: BLISS Marriage Enrichment Seminars
Project Period: 9/30/2006 - 9/29/2011
Priority Area: 3 (five or more allowable activities)

Allowable Activities: Public advertising campaign (#1); pre-marital education and marriage skills training for engaged couples and for couples interested in marriage (#4); marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs for married couples (#5); divorce reduction programs that teach relationship skills (#6); and marriage mentoring programs which use married couples as role models and mentors in at-risk communities (#7).

Organization Description: Aish HaTorah of DC is an “international educational organization dedicated to bringing the wisdom of Judaism into the everyday lives of all people.” It’s a non-profit organization, whose main focus is education. Aish HaTorah of DC created the BLISS Marriage Enrichment Seminar, an interactive, multi-media PowerPoint presentation.

Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: BLISS is an 8 hour seminar, which is presented in 4 two-hour sessions. Participants will walk away with 10 skill-sets following the seminar, which include: effectively and positively communicating with your spouse, conflict resolution techniques, intimacy, etc. The project expects to serve approximately 500 couples for the first year and a total of 23,546 people over the course of 5 years.


23 posted on 08/10/2009 7:44:13 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (I piddy da foo if JimmyT zots you)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

https://www.fatherhood.gov/healthymarriage/pdf/96contact_information.pdf

I did not open it:

There is a problem with this website’s security certificate.

The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website’s address.

Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or intercept any data you send to the server.


24 posted on 08/10/2009 7:46:41 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (I piddy da foo if JimmyT zots you)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
"“international educational organization dedicated to bringing the wisdom of Judaism into the everyday lives of all people.”

Hey,I'm all for "the wisdom of Judaism," but is this where our tax money should go?

25 posted on 08/10/2009 8:05:01 AM PDT by cookcounty ("Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." ---Yeats)
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To: null and void

Thanks, null & void. I don’t have a ping list, but I cross posted this over at the Orly BC thread — the 8000+ one.


26 posted on 08/10/2009 8:15:32 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: hoosiermama; LucyT; mojitojoe; null and void; BP2; Polarik; Las Vegas Ron; usmcobra; Beckwith; ...
Question: Did Lt. Quarles Harris work for the company which accessed the files, or was he the contact for the person in that company who accessed the files? Also, how would State Dept. unravel whether data was planted during one of those 'peeks' into Barry's passport files?

I am convinced that Barry entered Occi as Barry Soetoro or Barry Sutoro, and as an Indoensian or dual citizen with Indonesain citizenship used to aid his educational pathway. His mother was still elgally married to Lolo Soetoro in August 1979 when Barry entered and she didn't sue for and get her divorce until 1980, and in her divorce pleadings named two children Lolo was legally responsible for, one a minor (Maya) and one over eighteen needing educational support funds. It is therefore likely that Barry held an Indonesian passport in 1979 and beyond, and used that to travel to Pakistan, Indonesia and wherever. Until wee see evidence that he changed his name legally to Barack Obama, he is still Barry Soetoro or Barry Sutoro. No wonder the lying affirmative action bastard uses threat, extortion, and intimidation to keep media from digging into his history, he's probably not even an exclusive U.S. citizen! Not only would disclosure of the truth about this wicked bastard destroy his carefully constructed facade fabricated through 'Dreams From My Father', it would expose him as the criminal democrat he is!

27 posted on 08/10/2009 8:17:40 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: BP2

Thanks for clearing up that Lt. part. I was wondering about that.

I cross osted this newest story over at the long BC thread (8000+ posts). I don’t have a ping list — feel free to ping anyone you want over there. I’ll explore your other links later.


28 posted on 08/10/2009 8:18:31 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: MHGinTN

Under what name did he matriculate at Punahou (spelling?) School in Hawaii? Anybody know?


29 posted on 08/10/2009 8:20:16 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Use a little logic. Stanley Ann pleaded in 1980 that Lolo was legally responsible for Barry still. That would mean that he was still Barry Soetoro, adopted son of Lolo Soetoro when he left Indonesia on an Indonesian passport to travel back to be raised by his grandparents, the Dunhams. His legal name (since he was adopted by Lolo in Hawaii before moving the family to Indonesia) was Barry Soetoro when entering Hawaiian schools and remained legally Soetoro until at least 1980 when his mother made legal pleading that Lolo was rerpsonsible for him financially.


30 posted on 08/10/2009 8:24:28 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
Healthy Marriage Demonstration Grant

Read the details. This sounds like a front for a wife swapping club. I wouldn't put it past them to pull such a scam.

31 posted on 08/10/2009 8:25:02 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: MHGinTN

Makes sense to me, but does anyone know for sure? A long time ago I read some articles about his time at Punahou, friends he hung around (main one is drug addicted and in jail) etc. I don’t remember the source of the articles, although some of them ran in a series in the Chicago papers, I think. I just can’t remember what they called him then because they’ve used his names interchangeably and I don’t have access to the articles right now.

There seems to be a yearbook photo of him on a BBall team. Is his name in the caption? What do the Nordyke twins call him?


32 posted on 08/10/2009 8:30:52 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: hoosiermama

It’s not Cheney’s fault — it’s BUSCH’s fault! LOL.


33 posted on 08/10/2009 8:32:33 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Busch is the Project Officer...I would guess that this person gets to pass out the cash, rather than being a recipient.

This person is found abusing security trust and then lands a job like this handling massive amounts of cash

.....MUST HAVE FRIENDS IN VERY HIGH PLACES.


34 posted on 08/10/2009 8:39:01 AM PDT by cookcounty ("Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." ---Yeats)
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To: cookcounty

None of these perps got slapped very hard. Certainly not like the “plumbers” in the Watergate days. Almost seems like it is worthwhile to do these crimes under a Dem admin. I’ll be whomever is behind this pays the $5 grand fine, and they’ll all get some cushy activity to count for their community service. Perhaps handing out towels at the YMCA.


35 posted on 08/10/2009 8:48:48 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: SvenMagnussen; LucyT
WND confirms Anna Obama Seattle address from Polk Directory, 1961-1961. Anna Obama Seattle address

The purpose of this part of the inquiry is to figure out where Stanley Ann was located and when. The Polk directory assembles data, in those days from telephone listings, utility listings and the like. So in order to tell what the directory really represents you have to know when they got the data.

It looks to me as though there is a fair amount of documentation that placed her in an apartment in Seattle in 1962.

Question is when she got there--it may have been as early as October, 1961. It would be nice to see hard data on that issue.

36 posted on 08/10/2009 9:10:15 AM PDT by David (...)
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To: BP2
From one of your links - how interesting:

Obama's Intelligence Adviser Involved in Security Breach

"Obama’s top terrorism and intelligence adviser, John O. Brennan, heads a firm that was cited in March for breaching sensitive files in the State Department’s passport office, according to a State Department Inspector General’s report released this past July.

The security breach, first reported by the Washington Times and later confirmed by State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, involved a contract employee of Brennan’s firm, The Analysis Corp., which has earned millions of dollars providing intelligence-related consulting services to federal agencies and private companies.

During a State Department briefing on March 21, 2008, McCormack confirmed that the contractor had accessed the passport files of presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John McCain, and that the inspector general had launched an investigation.

Sources who tracked the investigation tell Newsmax that the main target of the breach was the Obama passport file, and that the contractor accessed the file in order to “cauterize” the records of potentially embarrassing information.

“They looked at the McCain and Clinton files as well to create confusion,” one knowledgeable source told Newsmax. “But this was basically an attempt to cauterize the Obama file.”

37 posted on 08/10/2009 9:19:38 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: SvenMagnussen
Karal Busch has been charged with the unauthorized access of passport files related to "various celebrities and their families, actors, professional athletes, musicians, models and other individuals identified in the press," court documents filed in the District's federal court said.

This may just be legal language, covering all the bases. But it may also be a red herring, widening the inquiry to take attention off the essential crime: access to Obama's passport records in order to destroy the evidence.

The perp who was shot was an Obama stooge, and I would guess was probably shot because they didn't trust him not to talk, and he knew too much about what sort of passports Obama had, before they were shredded and burned.

38 posted on 08/10/2009 9:21:35 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

Is it known whether Quarles worked for the firm doing the breach? Or was he a contactee for the data being used to generate accounts for the deposit of campaign funds from illicit donors? Or was he a contactee for passport data used to generate fake credit accounts? ... Do we know if he worked in the State department? Also, Busch may be an Israeli connection.


39 posted on 08/10/2009 9:31:47 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I wonder how many people will hear “Bush” and assume Bush. Too many.

But as a proud Freeper I will agree this breach was BUSCH’S fault. LOL!

“Busch peeked, lost his seat”


40 posted on 08/10/2009 9:37:23 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (I piddy da foo if JimmyT zots you)
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To: MHGinTN

I gather from the Wash Times article on his death that Quarles was working for a “contractor for the Department of State” and that he was working with someone who was a member of the Department of State. And I have read elsewhere, some time ago, that these players were apparently people with Obama connections, who looked at the clinton and McCain files probably for cover—or perhaps for different reasons, hoping to find some sort of dirt. That’s about all I know, and of course it’s not nailed down.


41 posted on 08/10/2009 11:43:35 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: SvenMagnussen

Public official passport files should be available to the public.


42 posted on 08/10/2009 11:45:57 AM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, passport, and school records.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Perhaps handing out towels at the YMCA.

They'll get jobs at major US universities making several hundred thousands of dollars a year, just like Anita Hill.

43 posted on 08/10/2009 11:52:25 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Madame Dufarge

I just know that freepers are eventually going to crack this case.


44 posted on 08/10/2009 11:54:54 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: Madame Dufarge; BP2; null and void; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; pissant; LucyT; ...

45 posted on 08/10/2009 1:17:50 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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