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Greetings good citizen, it's only TREASON when you're disloyal to THEM, when they do it it's something different...worse, it's considered/treated as 'business as usual'

Navy repeatedly dismissed evidence that ‘Fat Leonard’ was cheating the 7th Fleet

By Craig Whitlock December 27 at 6:49 PM

This undated photo shows Leonard Glenn Francis, also known as Fat Leonard, a defense contractor who supplied U.S. Navy vessels in Asia for a quarter-century. He pleaded guilty in January in U.S. federal court to bribing “scores” of Navy officials with prostitutes, cash and luxury travel in exchange for sensitive information on Navy business practices.

The Singapore-based contractor, Leonard Glenn Francis, found it especially easy to outwit the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), the renowned law enforcement agency that has inspired one of the longest-running cop shows on television.

Starting in 2006, in response to a multitude of fraud complaints, NCIS opened 27 separate investigations into Francis’s company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia. In each of those instances, however, NCIS closed the case after failing to dig up sufficient evidence to take action against the firm, according to hundreds of pages of law enforcement records ­obtained by The Washington Post under the Freedom of ­Information Act.

Justice Department officials say there is no end in sight to the investigation and that 200 people have fallen under scrutiny. Among them are about 30 current or retired admirals, according to Navy ­officials.

After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, for instance, most NCIS agents who specialized in financial crimes were reassigned to the counterterrorism division.

Federal authorities said they caught a lucky break by narrowly winning a race to gain access to Francis’s emails, which contained years of incriminating message exchanges with his paid Navy informants.

Although one of his moles had warned him repeatedly to erase the email traffic, an overconfident Francis was slow to cover his tracks, according to copies of Francis’s text messages contained in court records. By the time he finally acted, the Justice Department had sent a warrant to Google a few days beforehand.

“If we were a couple of days late, if the fax machine at Google didn’t work, we’re not here today,” Young, the federal prosecutor, said at a court hearing in October. “Leonard is still under contract with the Navy, and tens of millions of dollars are continuing to evaporate into thin air.”

It would be naïve in the extreme to point to Morning in America and claim that's when corruption became capitalism's modus operandi of choice...but I believe most of us who have lived through those times would agree it marks when the 'pretense of propriety' was dropped.

Forgive the broken record good citizen but 'civilization' itself is based on 'trust'. THERE'S A REASON BETRAYAL OF TRUST IS A CAPITOL CRIME!

Yet anyone in a 'position of power' seems prone to betraying the trust placed in them...and many more don't give a crap because, as this news item demonstrates, the 'traitors' [that enriched themselves at the public's expense] got off easy with termination and a 'black mark' on their employment history.

Which is not to say that at least SOME of the 'Flag Officers' caught up in the swindle didn't land lucrative jobs in the private sector, where they will continue to use their military 'connections' to enrich their new employers.

Again I ask you, how do we 'fix' problems like this? Do we take the 'Libertarian approach' and pay those in positions of trust like kings so they are 'beyond corruption'?

How sad is it anyone who believes this is even remotely a 'solution' doesn't understand human nature very well. Corruption starts with abusing power just because they can! The 'reward' is baked in to the deed.

That's why it's important to remove this capability from the reach of the self-interested.

The 'Your money is for you' policy is one that protects you in more ways than one. Remember, humanities 'character flaw' is opportunism.

We need not create the opportunity, leave the pieces lying around and our clever self-servers will create it themselves...and be damn proud of it too!

One more time, slow and in English, the system is BROKEN, THE FIX NEEDS TO BE HOLISTIC!

It's not possible to patch what we've got, the whole thing needs to be replaced!

Too many weevils embedded in the current fabric, we need a 'fresh start' so the weevils will be trapped and rendered helpless by the new material.

The Lessons learned by what is sadly almost universal under 'rabid capitalism' is our civilization is collapsing under the predatory regime that's motto is, in essence, 'hooray for me and fuck the rest of you!'

We MUST put a stop to the exploitation of humans by those who believe [it's gone well beyond 'thinking'....] they're 'better' than the rest of us.

Fail to acknowledge this and suffer the consequences.

If you couldn't come up with something to 'reflect upon' here at the end of the year...no charge.

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner