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Source: Obama official on leave after FBI raids
Associated Press ^ | March 12, 2009 | DEVLIN BARRETT and NEDRA PICKLER

Posted on 03/12/2009 4:14:55 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON (AP) - An aide to President Barack Obama is on leave from his White House job after the FBI raided his old District of Columbia government office Thursday, arresting a city employee and a technology consultant on corruption charges, a White House official said.

The charges were lodged against the two men at a federal court hearing as the FBI finished searching the city's technology office, which was led until recently by Obama's new computer chief, Vivek Kundra.

Kundra is on leave from his White House job until further details of the case become known, according to a White House official speaking on condition of anonymity because the official did not want to publicly discuss personnel matters.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhocio; corruptdems; corruption; cultureofcorruption; democrats; democratscandals; first100days; kundra; obama; obamaadministration; obamascandals; vivekkundra; worst100days
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This is the scariest thing I have seen to date. How much of our nation security was compromised? At least some are resisting this coup. Nice job at the FBI. Time to takes some chances in the right direction for change.


81 posted on 03/12/2009 8:07:00 PM PDT by iThinkBig
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“Yusuf Acar, 40, who has worked in the technology office since 2004, was charged with bribery, conspiracy, money laundering and conflict of interest. Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Hibarger told a federal judge that Acar is a flight risk because agents seized $70,000 in cash in his house and because in recorded conversations, he boasted that he could easily flee to his native Turkey. Acar also told the informant that he could use computers to create fake D.C. birth certificates, Hibarger said.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/12/AR2009031201426.html

Like nobody could use a computer to create fake Hawaiian birth certificates. And easily flee to Kenya or Turkey.


82 posted on 03/12/2009 8:11:42 PM PDT by AH_LiveRight
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To: Free ThinkerNY

and 0bama takes another one in the.................................HA ha!!!

83 posted on 03/12/2009 8:15:05 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - Obama is basically Jim Jones with a teleprompter)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I wish a politically-astute artiste/cartoonist would create a deck of cards (like the Sadaam Hussein war-criminals deck) designing one card for each failed or corrupt Obama appointment/nomination as they mount up.

When 52 cards are reached, Obama should be impeached.

Leni

84 posted on 03/12/2009 8:17:47 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: AH_LiveRight

Comfort Food? Plums

Something wrong with that - be very suspicious.


85 posted on 03/12/2009 8:22:47 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Rut-Roh!
86 posted on 03/12/2009 8:48:27 PM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: abb; kcvl

Here is what that means. I am not a fan of the comPost, but:
“The scam began unraveling in March last year when Acar recruited an unidentified D.C. government employee, an Army veteran who has a master’s degree in electrical engineering, FBI agents wrote.” snip

“Last month, Sekela wrote, Acar intercepted an e-mail from the D.C. Office of Inspector General. He told the informant in a taped conversation that he had set up a computer system to intercept e-mails that mentioned his name and others, according to Sekela.

Sekela did not disclose what was in the e-mail, but something apparently was worrying Acar.

“Are we going to jail?” he asked the informant.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/12/AR2009031201426_2.html?sid=ST2009031201592

Big money says that the other names on the intercept included Vivek Kundra. How many H1B’s do we need installing redirectors on state and federal systems? Many thanks to all of the Army (and all of the other branches) veterans, as well as the civilian contractors, that did the right thing for our country. Islam is a pariah that must be excised from the face of the earth.


87 posted on 03/12/2009 8:50:26 PM PDT by AH_LiveRight
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To: AH_LiveRight; LucyT

Acar also told the informant that he could use computers to create fake D.C. birth certificates, Hibarger said.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/12/AR2009031201426.html

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Fake birth certificates........... Hmmmmm


88 posted on 03/12/2009 9:40:01 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: Freedom_Fighter_2001
telmarketer ! ? !

I think they mean spyware developer, don't they ?

How many trojans can come out of one horse anyway, shheeesh, this administration is like a virus

89 posted on 03/12/2009 10:08:41 PM PDT by KTM rider (the War On Terror has been superceeded by the War On Capitalism)
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To: GWMcClintock
Sounds like a plot from “24” doesn’t it?

Ya couldn't make this kind of stuff up, if ya tried... Any scriptwriter for Hollyweird who came up with something like *this* would have been summarily canned for gross stupidity...

the infowarrior

90 posted on 03/12/2009 10:35:22 PM PDT by infowarrior
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To: Free ThinkerNY

oBAMbi THE DUMB ASSSSS, put an Indian in charge of Computer Security.

Vivek Kundra was born in New Delhi, India. His parents immigrated to Tanzania, where he grew up. Kundra speaks Swahili as his first language. His family moved to the United States when he was 11

a cohort of his who worked for him

Yusuf Acar
a 40-year-old native of Turkey, had a $127,468-a-year position purchasing the city’s computer equipment and lining up contract workers for numerous city agencies, according to court documents.

H1b visas .... helping give jobs to help foreign spies because its something American’s don’t want to do.


91 posted on 03/12/2009 11:31:00 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well, if Obama can shut down SCOTUS like he did with his birth certificate, It wont be long before he shuts down the FBI as well.


92 posted on 03/12/2009 11:35:00 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: Kansas58

“And we are going to put THAT guy in charge of firewalls and Internet security for the entire White House??”

On the bright side, it would make it easier to hack the Teleprompters...


93 posted on 03/12/2009 11:35:53 PM PDT by decal (Too many people mistake "tolerance" for "approval.")
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To: decal
"On the bright side, it would make it easier to hack the Teleprompters..."

LOL

94 posted on 03/12/2009 11:49:11 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Free ThinkerNY

playing the devil’s advocate... der Schilchtmeister is American first, and smarter.


95 posted on 03/13/2009 2:10:28 AM PDT by Ancient Drive (will)
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To: AH_LiveRight
nu upgrayed should make room
96 posted on 03/13/2009 2:14:46 AM PDT by Ancient Drive (will)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
One part of the economy the Obama White House has stimulated, hiring is up in FBI offices, they are severely under staffed now as their case load has skyrocketed.
97 posted on 03/13/2009 2:16:57 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: khnyny

and this guy is giving and Indian the job of keeping the White House virtually protected??


98 posted on 03/13/2009 2:18:38 AM PDT by Ancient Drive (will)
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To: Ancient Drive

Being virually protected is like wishing you had used a condom.


99 posted on 03/13/2009 2:25:54 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: DB

“Yusuf Acar, the acting chief security officer in the city’s technology office, was ordered held without bond pending a hearing Tuesday. Prosecutors said $70,000 in cash was found during a search of Acar’s Washington home and that he posed a serious flight risk.”

Gee, I wonder where he’d flee.

How do people with these names land technology security jobs in the U.S. government?

I want to know who hired Yusuf Acar!!


100 posted on 03/13/2009 4:36:16 AM PDT by jilliane
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