Booz Allen Hamilton should be investigated in addition to PRISM

[thewayne]

Edward Snowden did a heck of a job breaking the law, and he will be investigated to the Nth degree. But his employer, Booz Allen? Wow. They have a bad habit of repeatedly screwing the Feds over billing and also over leaking data.

Will this happen? Yah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/14/edward-snowden-investigate-booz-allen

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[silveradept]

Perhaps the iconic phrase should now be "Prosecutions are for little people"?

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Robert Blake, upon being exonerated for ordering the murder of his wife, said "In America, you're innocent until found broke." I heard a European, perhaps a Brit (IIRC), say largely the same thing.

My wife was telling me two contrasting stories that she found on the same site that was talking about the Walmart bi-racial "kidnapping". The subject was Florida's Stand Your Ground law. The first story was a 70 y/o man who walked in on neighbors in his house having sex, he shot the man in the back three times and killed him. Second story was a woman who had called 911 multiple times about her abusive husband, finally began divorce proceedings, got a restraining order, moved out with the kids. She went to their still-shared home to gather a few things, hubby came home in a rage and started pursuing her. She fled to the garage, it was locked and she couldn't get out. She had a legal firearm, and fired a warning shot into the ceiling.

She got 20 years. She would have been better off killing him.

The difference was that the 70 y/io was white, and the woman was black. It took the jury about 15 minutes of deliberation to convict her.

So not only are prosecutions for the little people, they're for the little non-white people.

[silveradept]

I heard about those ones as well, and yes, it looks like the rules are increasingly only being applied to the marginalized. It's a giant step backwards from even a few years ago. (Either that, or things were never actually as good as I thought they were.)