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The Media is CLUELESS about Barry Bonds and the Real Issue

So the media still has no clue about the legal issues facing Barry Bonds. Let me help EVERYONE OUT. It does not matter one iota whether Barry Bonds did steroids. He's not charged with possession of steroids, use of a performance enhancing agent, sales of a controlled substance. He's charged with perjury folks. Here's the Indictment. That's it. That's all there is to this.

The charges facing Barry Bonds are similar to those Kobe Bryant faced in Colorado. Do we remember? Kobe didn't say he didn't have sex with the accuser. He says it was consensual, so the issue isn't whether he did or didn't have intercourse with her. The issue was whether it was consensual.

Barry Bonds has gone on record saying he never "knowingly" took steroids. Keep in mind the "knowingly" aspect. There are so many angles to this, it absolutely astonishes me that the Media, particularly SFGate.com and KGO who have so called legal analysts make a big whoop-to-do about the fact that the Government in its response to Barry's Motion to Dismiss, state Barry Bonds tested positive for steroids in 2001. SO WHAT!!! Yeah he tested positive, because he was using "The Clear" and "the Cream". He may or may not have been "knowingly" using them. Greg Anderson may have never informed him of it. Who knows, but the issue is DID HE KNOWINGLY USE STEROIDS.

It's about perjury folks, that's all, nothing more, nothing less. On a completely side note, his record should stand because the batters using steroids were hitting a ball that was thrown by a pitcher using human growth hormone and steroids. It was a pretty even playing field.

Indictment

Motion to Dismiss Indictment

US response to Bonds Motion to Dismiss

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Hillary Clinton Rented Out Her Donor Mailing List

It must be hard to run a campaign against Obama with Norman Hsu in custody and unable to bundle donations for her. Oh, what a shame... Well there is a very interesting article I found from Muckraker that cites NPR about Hillary's renting of campaign donor lists to Info U.S.A.'s CEO.

Info U.S.A.'s CEO Vin Gupta, currently under investigation with the S.E.C. has spent $900,000 flying the Clintons on private jets, donated more than $1 million to the Clinton's New Year's party, contributed more than $1 million to Bill Clinton's presidential library, and paid Bill Clinton millions in consulting fees.

The article written by Peter Overby is titled Clintons' InfoUSA Ties Scrutinized Go check it out. If you want to stay up to date with what's going on, please subscribe the RSS feed for my blog. Thanks.

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U.S. Defense Analyst leaked secrets to China

A U.S. Defense Department analyst, Gregg William Bergersen, 51, of Alexandria, Virginia, has been arrested and charged with espionage, accused of passing American military secrets to the Chinese government. Bergersen is WAS a weapons systems policy analyst at the Defense Department's Defense Security Cooperation Agency in Arlington, Virginia. He is charged with conspiracy to disclose national defense information illegally to unauthorized individuals. Also in the Virginia case, two Chinese immigrants -- Tai Shen Kuo, 58, and Yu Xin Kang, 33, both of New Orleans, Louisiana -- were charged with conspiracy to disclose national defense information to a foreign government.

Bergersen and Kuo, a naturalized U.S. citizen, are scheduled to appear later Monday in federal court in Alexandria. Kang, a permanent U.S. resident, will make her initial appearance Monday in a federal court in New Orleans.

Justice Department officials said Kuo cultivated friendships with Bergersen and others at the direction of an unidentified official of the Beijing government. Kuo allegedly "gathered national defense information on behalf of the government" of China from January 2006 to this month.

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GREAT TIP for Bloggers, Investigators, Paralegals and Attorneys

In the Daily Journal’s January 31, 2008 edition an article jumped off the page and spoke volumes to me.

While the Daily Journal is a legal newspaper I find its information to be priceless at times, minus the typographic errors and shoddy proofreading. It’s ironic that the title of the article is, “Proofreading is Crucial to Avoid critical Errors, Tarnished Reputations” by Joe M. Davidson and Nick Unkovic.

To summarize the article I find that the advice would benefit bloggers, investigators, paralegals and attorneys. “An attorney’s reputation can be enhanced or tarnished based on written work product.” Just insert your job where it says ‘attorney’. As the old carpenters saying goes, “Measure twice, cut once.” Bloggers, investigators, paralegals and attorneys should proofread twice, print once.

They cite a recent 9th Circuit case where counsel for a debtor in a bankruptcy case listed the incorrect social security number on the debtor’s petition and notice to the California Franchise Tax Board. The court ruled that the notice was not proper because of the typographical error and thus the taxes owed were not discharged. See Ellett v. Stanislaus, 506 F.3d 774 (9th Cir. 2007). Here is the opinion. Another blog that mentions the case.

Obviously the point I’m trying to make is to take the time to make sure your written work-product accurately represents what your thoughts reflect. (Please don’t count my grammatical errors and so forth...)

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There's a NEW Public Records Blog in the works

Okay, I can't leak the details yet, but there is a new Blog coming on Public Records and various other Investigator related commentaries. It's in the design phase, so I once it launches, I'll post about it.

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Get Out and VOTE.

Today is Super Tuesday where 24 states will hold primaries or caucuses, with 52 percent of all pledged Democratic Party delegates and 41 percent of the total Republican Party delegates at stake.

I won't ask which candidate you're voting for, but I will ask that you go vote. Take the time to learn the issues, positions, and projected forecast. Go out and VOTE. Please. Subscribe to my feed to get notified of my next post.

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