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Obama and the mob: Combating organized crime takes backseat in White House
Examiner ^ | 12/17/09 | Jim Kouri

Posted on 12/18/2009 8:00:50 AM PST by AtlasStalled

There is a feeling that permeates throughout the law enforcement community that organized crime gangs are getting a free ride during the Obama Administration. While most of the focus of federal law enforcement is on counterterrorism, counterintelligence and cyber crime, federal police agencies must still contend with more traditional anti-crime operations including emerging organized crime gangs.

"I may sound cynical, but I believe because [President Barack Obama] is from Chicago -- a city noted for it's history of organized crime -- he may be used to what's known as 'the Chicago way' and the casual relationship between organized crime and politicians in the Windy City," said a detective-investigator from the New York County District Attorney's Office who requested anonymity.

Criminal enterprises represent a near and long-term threat to our nation. The criminal activities of these enterprises are increasing in scope and magnitude as they network with each other to expand operations worldwide. The geopolitical and technological changes of the last decade have allowed these enterprises to flourish globally, and their impact on the United States is expected to increase over the next five years.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicagocorruption; cultureofcorruption; dontaskdonttell; obamaadministration; obamalegacy; obamascandals; organizedcrime; payback; racketeering; rico; themob; uniongoons

1 posted on 12/18/2009 8:00:51 AM PST by AtlasStalled
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To: AtlasStalled

Democrats ARE the mob.


2 posted on 12/18/2009 8:01:54 AM PST by noblejones (Obama rules!)
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To: AtlasStalled

Keep those votes coming in and everything will be fine.


3 posted on 12/18/2009 8:03:30 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: noblejones
Democrats ARE the mob.

Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner!

4 posted on 12/18/2009 8:08:05 AM PST by rhombus
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To: noblejones

Yeah, isn’t the WH the very epitome of organized crime?

As an aside, is this guy a journalist who never learned the diff between its and it’s? Sheesh.


5 posted on 12/18/2009 8:09:26 AM PST by GnuHere
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To: AtlasStalled
Obama is too busy crusading for global warming and health care. Crime, employment and the economy will have to wait.
6 posted on 12/18/2009 8:17:09 AM PST by oyez ( damnant quod non intelligunt)
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To: AtlasStalled
This white house has put HOMELAND SECURITY on the issue of protecting Hollyweird copyrights from piracy.

Our nation is not secure.

Big Media Meets Law Enforcement at White House; Biden Announces Focus on Intellectual Property Theft (BroadbandandBreakfast ^ | December 16th, 2009 | Andrew Feinberg and Eli Evans)

7 posted on 12/18/2009 8:19:18 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Question authority!Who is the University of East Anglia to drive the 'Global Climate Change' agenda?)
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To: GnuHere

Yes, good article, but I’m not sure I dare send it out to my list. Not just confusion between “it’s” and “its.” How about starting an article with the phrase “permeates throughout.” Strunk & White would scream “Redundant!” It’s worse than “very perfect” or “very unique.”

I suppose the argument is more important than the style and syntax. But if you write like a dim fourth grader raised by an illiterate family, then you are undermining your argument.


8 posted on 12/18/2009 8:23:54 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: AtlasStalled

By pussyfooting around with these gangs Bummer is buying media time when they do not appear in headlines. He wants such headlines to happen to the GOP.


9 posted on 12/18/2009 8:26:32 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America.)
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To: oyez
Too busy

Shirley, you jest!   These are exchanged favors, and I wouldn't doubt for a moment that the unions are involved as well. (More likely, I was being redundant there.) Soetero's protecting his thugs who either have paid him back or will, perhaps many times over.

Barry likes it when the citizens have things of which they live in fear.

HF

10 posted on 12/18/2009 8:26:49 AM PST by holden
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To: AtlasStalled

Yet, according to our own federal government, the most dangerous organized crime in this country are the illegal alien Mexican drug cartels, and what a surprise, they’re really active in Chicago!

They’re finding pockets all over the country that are directly taking orders from Mexico’s deadly drug cartels. Phoenix, Az is the kidnapping capital of the world, second only to Mexico.

‘La Familia’ North of the Border (Mexico’s Narcoterror is here)
Fri Dec 4
In an indictment handed down Nov. 20 ....accused 15 individuals of being involved in the trafficking of cocaine and other narcotics in the Chicago area. .... What is certain, at this point, is that there is now a precedent for Mexican DTOs to have a greater influence over their lower-level supply-chain operations in the United States. ....and prove that at least one, “La Familia,” is taking a very hands-on approach.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/aliens/index?tab=articles

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Officials: Meth ring smashed, 28 arrested

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/79055347.html?cmpid=15585797

The sales were part of drug dealing triangle connecting South Jersey, Ohio and Mexico that moved thousands of pounds of marijuana, methamphetamine and an occasional weapon, into the greater Camden area since 2008, officials said as they announced the arrest of 28 suspects today.

Sixteen defendants live in Hammonton, N.J., the self-proclaimed “Blue Berry Capital of the World.” But the drugs were sold throughout the South Jersey area, said Camden County Prosecutor Warren W. Faulk.

The marijuana arrived two to four times a week in 20 and 30 pound packages at post offices throughout South Jersey. It was grown in Mexico and mailed to this area from the Texas border town of McAllen. The crystal meth traveled by car from Ohio in a four to six pound packages every seven days.

“This was a consistent, organized operation,” said Faulk. Cracking it took the efforts of the FBI, ITS, state and local police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

Twenty of the defendants face state charges in New Jersey, and eight face federal charges. Of those eight, six are in the country illegally.....(AMNESTY CANDIDATES!!!)


11 posted on 12/18/2009 8:32:04 AM PST by AuntB (If Al Qaeda grew drugs & burned our forests instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: Cicero

Yesterday, one of my friends saw a story that described the Bengals player in the accident as being “very unresponsive” and thought that was like saying someone is “very beautiful.” (Of course later he was “very” dead.)


12 posted on 12/18/2009 8:46:06 AM PST by GnuHere
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To: AtlasStalled

That’s becaues this White House IS organized crime....


13 posted on 12/18/2009 8:56:30 AM PST by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: AtlasStalled

Capone’s head stone should read I WON.


14 posted on 12/18/2009 9:10:08 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: GnuHere

You’re allowed to say “very dead” when you’re joking. Even “still dead.” But I do wish that someone would give these news writers an education.


15 posted on 12/18/2009 10:00:42 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: holden
Fear makes a dandy political tool.
16 posted on 12/18/2009 10:03:15 AM PST by oyez ( damnant quod non intelligunt)
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To: holden
Fear makes a dandy political tool.
17 posted on 12/18/2009 10:03:15 AM PST by oyez ( damnant quod non intelligunt)
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To: AtlasStalled
emerging organized crime gangs

The majority of who's members are from where? Can you say May He Ko? I knew you could. But we won't build a fence. That would deprive the gangs of their right to earn a living, and their right of freedom of association.

18 posted on 12/18/2009 10:14:06 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Maureen Dowd is right. I DON'T like our President's color. He's a Red.)
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To: Cicero

Even most sincerely dead!


19 posted on 12/18/2009 11:03:02 AM PST by GnuHere
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