UPDATED: Snowden Honored By Monument Soon After Removed By Authorities In New York In Act Of "Censorship" New York Times Reports

     Monday, 6 September 2015, BROOKLYN, NY - A monument honoring the United States National Security Agency (NSA) blatantly unconstitutional mass domestic surveillance whistle-blower Edward J. Snowden with a sculptured bust of Mr. Snowden's head atop and "SNOWDEN" at its base erected in Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park by an anonymous group was "censored" by New York authorities who soon covered and then removed it. Interested readers can go to the below link for more information including a photograph of the Snowden monument with his bust atop. The New York Times later published a second version of the story Tuesday, 7 April 2015 which readers can find at the second link below showing authorities in the act of covering the bust. Mr. Snowden currently is exiled in Russia.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/edward-snowden-is-honored-then-censored/?_r=0

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/edward-snowden-is-honored-then-censored/?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

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BREAKING NEWS: Four Star General David Petraeus Charges Referred By FBI To Department of Justice For Federal Criminal Prosecution For General Petraeus' Disclosure Of Classified Information While Serving As CIA Director

       Saturday, 10 January 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The FBI just has referred charges against Four Star General David Petraeus to the Department of Justice for federal criminal prosecution for disclosure of classified information in his capacity as Director of the CIA. The charges include allegations of his disclosure of classified information which Mr. Petraeus allegedly passed to his mistress Paula Broadwell while Petraeus was serving as Director of the CIA including from his in-house personal CIA computer.
       The married General Petraeus previously was found by an internal CIA investigation to have used his personal CIA office computer protected by only by a very weak password (such as e.g, named after his dog "Spot") itself in violation of CIA policy to have spent his time exchanging romantic emails with Patricia Broadwell with whom Petraeus was having an affair. Petraeus upon disclosure of this activity was either fired or forced to resign as CIA Director.
        The present CIA Director John Brennan among other things has been found to have ordered and/or conspired to commit acts of torture illegal under U.S. law and signatory international treaties and conventions the investigation of which Brennan and his CIA repeatedly have sought to obstruct by destroying and withholding evidence, claiming non-existent privileges seeking to impede and disrupt the investigation, lying to Congress and making false criminal charges against those sought with overseeing CIA activities which has turned out to be most likely a subterfuge while in fact Brennan and his CIA meanwhile actually have been hacking the computers of those on the Senate Intelligence Committee sought with CIA oversight among myriad other apparent criminal acts.
       Mr. Brennan to date is still in office as CIA Director and not yet in prison for these illegal activities. He may also be responsible for the probable murder of Rolling Stones investigative reporter Michael Hastings most likely through a cyber car attack as related in a previous recent Ninth Amendment post. Michael Hastings was responsible previously for reporting on the contempt expressed by General Stanley McChrystal and his senior aides in days spent with them making derogatory remarks about their Commander-In-Chief upon the publication of which General McChyrstal's military career effectively came to an end much as his senior four star General Petraeus' has following his complete lack of discretion in using his personal CIA computer with totally inadequate password to make love talk with his mistress while supposedly directing the affairs of the CIA.
       At the time of Mr. Hastings untimely death in a very suspicious single car accident a nearby video caught his Mercedes traveling at over one hundred miles per hour and swerving toward a tree before exploding in an horrific fireball which appeared to erupt before Hastings' car even hit the tree. Mr. Hastings on the day of his death had sent out frantic emails to all friends lacking his usual friendly salutations but expressing fear allegedly that "the FBI was following him". Later that day he was seen looking under his car before telling his wife that he was "on to something really big". Before he could tell anyone what that was Mr. Hastings was dead with his next investigative story scheduled to come out in just two weeks on CIA Director John Brennan. Although Rolling Stone announced it still would run Hasting's investigative report on Mr. Brennan on the originally scheduled date Rolling Stone in fact without explanation did not and never has subsequently.
        Meanwhile the FBI further just now as related above has charged former CIA Director Petraeus with the above-described disclosure of confidential information pursuant to the earlier CIA internal investigation following which President Obama either fired or forced the resignation of Petraeus as CIA Director. With the newly leveled FBI charges referred to the Department of Justice four star General Petraeus reportedly now holds the ignominious distinction of being the highest ranking U.S. military official ever found to have been charged with criminal behavior of anywhere approaching such a serious magnitude.
        To sum up General Petraeus served previously as Supreme Commander of United States and coalition forces over the entire Middle Eastern theater.  Petraeus now facing possible indictment in his previous military position was senior to the later disgraced General Stanley McChrystal who as commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan was fired or forced to resign by President Obama in the wake of the publication of the almost certainly later murdered Rolling Stone reporter's account of his time spent with General McChrystal and his senior aides in which General Petraeus and his senior staff reportedly repeatedly made derogatory comments about their Commander-In-Chief President Barack Obama.
       It is not known to the Ninth Amendment editorial board why the earlier CIA internal investigation did not result in CIA Director Petraeus' prosecution for passing of confidential information to Patricia Broadwell. Typically such an "internal" executive agency investigation would be performed by the agency's in this case CIA Inspector General (IG) who does not report to anyone in the CIA but to a separate and distinct IG hierarchy of outside officials.
       Should that have been the case at hand it is not known why the IG would not itself have passed on to the Department of Justice ifs findings presumably encompassing the disclosure of confidential information to Patricia Broadwell. The CIA certainly when it does not wish to pass on information which might implicate it or support the case for the imprisonment of its officials or operatives has not hesitated quite broadly to assert the "defense" of it being confidential information especially of some sort putting persons or operations at serious risk if disclosed thereby making the veracity of the claim nearly impossible to gauge in real time even though the CIA by law is required to pass on such information to its overseers who themselves are expected to be just as capable as the CIA of keeping confidential information confidential.
       In fact in the current case of the release by the Senate Intelligence Committee of a merely redacted  summary of the CIA's responsibility for the illegal use of torture in the so-called "Torture Report" the CIA has without hesitation sought to make claims of "confidential" information not to mention fabricating a variety of other made up other non-existent privileges. Not to mention the CIA becoming virtually apoplectic at the prospect of the release of the so-called CIA "Panetta Report" rumored not only to detail much more damning inhumane illegal CIA torture and possibly other activities but further exposing that the CIA has repeatedly lied to Congress.
       The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment just recently had occasion to learn from a Western al-Qaeda Yemen "recruit" the reason for his seemingly unthinkable decision that apparently hundreds or not thousands of Western recruits are making to join the ranks of al-Qaeda or ISIS. The prospect of joining either group appears to be very grim indeed. Yet the media pundits and "experts" now speak incessantly of the once esoteric but now commonplace explanation of "self-radicalization" being a major factor in recruitment. However the Western man the Ninth Amendment editorial board just recently heard offered neither the justification of a religious zealot or one caught up in some delusion of glory in joining one of these groups committing untold atrocities in some of the last places on Earth one would wish to live.
       All the young man referred to as his justification for seeking to join one of these terrorist groups was as a response to his hatred of the CIA's criminal use of torture. Has it ever occurred to the CIA that keeping human beings imprisoned in horrid conditions uncharged and with no known release date while seemingly to them abusing them randomly at will torturing them at any time might be enough to make just about anyone even if they had not before hated Americans and the West as they have never hated before and in fact become "radicalized by CIA"? The CIA's torture "program" in the opinion of the Ninth Amendment editorial board has served no purpose based on credible sources but to perpetuate terrorism and keep terrorists supplied with an unending stream of recruits as the CIA has proceeded in absolute contravention of all the core principles embodied in the United States Constitution and worthy of a fascist state. The CIA's use of criminal torture is no secret any longer to the American people and never was to terrorist groups who received detailed reports of CIA torture from "detainees" who were released from CIA custody.
       Finally the Ninth Amendment finds it curious that in the wake of the internal CIA investigation of Director Petraeus rather than the CIA IG it has ended up being the FBI that has referred charges against the CIA official rather than the IG provided that that is presumably within the purview of the IG. More broadly the Ninth Amendment must query if this means it would be the FBI charged with the task of taking into custody and charging CIA officials and operatives should that become necessary provided the CIA officials if facing the prospect of going to prisons so much more humane than their own will nevertheless go down shooting. On another front the Ninth Amendment has been somewhat confounded by the swift conclusion drawn by the FBI that North Korea was responsible for the Sony "The Interview' hack. This given the volume of illegal IT information unlawfully amassed by the NSA and its presumably top-notch cyber experts, not to mention the CIA's for that matter which agency if any would be expected to be in a turf war with the NSA over taking charge in cyber investigations.
       In the realm of the acronymed "National Security" and law enforcement agencies could we be seeing a turf war breaking out with the somewhat sleeping FBI now emerging as taking a leading role considering that the CIA by law if not practice is restricted to overseas rather than domestic activities and as for the NSA who knows it would seem it has become a rogue agency somewhat distastefully turned to by others considering the stink attached to it but whose mission seems to be anyone's to guess but mostly to use the latest technologies to devise the latest way to break national and international laws with abandon.

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Supreme Court Confirms Unsound Minds on Bench In Health Care Law Questionning, Assures Obama's Re-Election

       Wednesday, 28 March 2012, Washington, D.C. - The Ninth Amendment REMINDS OUR FAITHFUL READERS TO AVOID READING FREE UNLIMITED DIGITAL NEW YORK TIMES CONTENT SIMPLY BY SETTING READERS' FREE FIREFOX BROWSERS TO "PRIVATE BROWSING" especially now that the Times purports to have imminent plans to reduce "free" article reading from twenty (20) to a niggardly ten (10) a month.
       The editorial staff and global bureaus of the Ninth Amendment again apologize to our loyal readers as our game of cat-and-mouse with the National Security Agency continues. The NSA gets a new GPS system that tracks to the nearest centimeter, we get one that tracks to the nearest millimeter. The NSA gets new night vision combo infrared-10,000 candlelight gear that allows it from a satellite to read the date on a penny on the street in New York, we get new gear that allows us from the planet Pluto to read "LIBERTY" to the left of President Lincoln's head on a penny buried 30,000 feet in an ocean trench still covered with muck from Captain Hazelwood's Exxon Valdez mishap.(Still did not pay that $1 billion jury award after 25 trips to the Supreme Court, has Exxon?)
       The NSA gets frustrated and so has a very large contractor from the latest corporate iteration of Dick "Pig Heart" Cheney's "Blackdeath" outfit disguised as an African-American woman demanding $1.50 for a malt liquor toss one of our editors across the hood of a car speeding by on the main thoroughfare in "Hurricane" Carter's ("He could have been champion of the world. . . .") northern New Jersey hometown. And so it goes.
       Return from digression to note the news of the week as in the hallowed pure Italian marble halls of the Supreme Court the almost nine mentally unfit socio-psychopaths (word Copyright 2012 Big M and Little L) on the bench prepare to toss out Romneycare. Mr. Justice Scalia's incisive analogy of health insurance to broccoli making even the New York Times scratch its head. The black-robed gang glaring down from its bench in Fantasyland what do they care? They still get free care at Walter Reed, do they not? Though those in Washington, D.C. beginning to wonder if perhaps the standards have fallen somewhat there since they lost President Kennedy's brain. Or maybe that was the Smithsonian or Library of Congress, Thomas Pynchon might observe.
     No matter the brain-rotted denizens of the bench who have let Congress get away with any law under the "Commerce" or whatever clause (except of course outraged naturally finding a ban on handguns in schoolzones unconstitutional wildly beyond Congress' power). The Ninth Amendment predicts the Court's decision is a foregone conclusion, ninety-nine per cent of American's will hate this cast forever, and the Court will single-handedly insure President Obama's re-election. You read it here first. Take it to Vegas.

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Rich-Boy Romney Buys Arizona and Michigan Elections Promises Economic and Emotional Depression And More Potholes For the Poor

     Tuesday, 28 March 2012, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, The Ninth Amendment welcomes back faithful readers after our Microbus disguised as a newspaper delivery truck finally gave our "bug drone" the slip (more on that below) and returned us temporarily to our regional headquarters to re-stock in a sewer someplace possibly beneath the New York Times building or maybe the National Security Agency "signals intelligence" research center and cafeteria. We remind readers to avoid BYPASSING THE TIMES MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR "PAYWALL" TO READ UNLIMITED FREE DIGITAL TIMES' CONTENT SIMPLY BY SETTING READERS' FREE FIREFOX BROWSERS TO "PRIVATE BROWSING".
     The fact for the day is that even newer generation CIA drones such as the "non-existent" drone shot down by Iran can be given the slip (and sometimes also captured and cleaned) by driving one's vehicle at high-speed through the car wash paying extra for super double wash and wax as car wash evasion was NOT included in the drones' budget contract. WARNING: This maneuver can prove dangerous and MUST be performed by a trained professional (preferably a Dick Cheney contractor from Cheney's BlackDeath Corporation which once again has had to be renamed to avoid enforcement of judgments and now casts itself as a global band of professors and educators in the burgeoning specialized fields of maniacal mercenary murder and professional government rip-offs for dangerously shoddy or simply totally unperformed work).
    Speaking of non-performance in other breaking news Mitt "the little sh*t" Romney just bought two more primaries in Arizona and Michigan on the standard Republican platform of driving the country further into the ground for the benefit of less than one per cent of our population. The hidden fact for the day is that New York Times star columnist-economist Nobel Prize winner Professor Paul Krugman yesterday presented the cover of his new book Stop the Depression Now! to come out in a few months. Dr. Krugman through his dogged persistence in responding to Republican garbage-think refuses to give up on his optimism born of a top-rate background in economics, a rigorous thought process and a tireless sacrifice to a continuous communication of his knowledge that we do have reason to be optimistic simply by systematically exposing the manifest falsehoods of Republican economic "theories" for what they really are, a ceaseless flow of rank manipulation with no grounding in truthful inquiry or valid solutions for our nation but only self-serving half-baked schemes to try to keep a tiny minority of people in power which to them translates to but one thing and one thing alone, money.
    The Times today digitally published the Ninth Amendment comment to Professor Krugman's announcement of the imminent publication of his new book Stop the Depression Now! here reproduced verbatim below:

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   • BigMartin
   • waronnothing

   Dr. Krugman the editorial staff and global bureaus of the Ninth Amendment log at www.waronnothing.blogspot.com comprise some of your most fervent admirers in the world and are delighted to see that you won the Nobel Prize in Economics already and yet still write so prolifically for the Times and have been busy writing a book with such a catchy title. We understand that people who win the Nobel prize such as you and President Obama get some spending cash so they do not even have to work if they do not wish to work. We on the other hand have not won the Nobel Prize, do not have cash, and still do not really work. Most impressively your "Depression" book looks like a self-help book with a very crafty title like the earlier blockbuster "Stop the Insanity" and retro-60's graphic a la "I'm Okay, You're Okay" in that some people will think it is about the economy, some will think it is about their emotional problems exacerbated by a world going down the tubes and others particularly in New York City most likely will think it is a do-it-yourself book for fixing potholes and dangerous dips in the pavement outside their apartments. When we receive our (hopefully) signed advance copies we intend to skim them very quickly so we can be the first to publish a review of your book and help to spread the love. Go, Dr. Krugman, go!

   • Feb. 28, 2012 at 10:03 a.m.

   
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Ninth Amendment Finds Itself Back to February 2012 Along With Google, the NSA, Signals Intelligence, Unrecognized Casualties of Afghanistan War

     Wednesday, 15 February 2012, BARBARY COAST - The Ninth Amendment reminds readers to avoid reading free unlimited New York Times content simply by setting readers' free Firefox browsers to "Private Browsing". The Ninth Amendment editorial staff and global bureaus have been gratified by our faithful readers who have doggedly continued to read this log daily although there allegedly have been no new apparent posts here in three months. But most especially gratified by our favorite advertiser Mitt Romney to whom Google still has persisted successfully in selling new advertising for the daily posts although the posts have been apparently unchanged the unless read according to algorithms known only to Google and renegade former employees.
      To paraphrase Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's sentiments when holding court here at Vesuvio's in the City at his "home away from home in Woody Creek" (just above Spec's, home of the martini rivaled only by surly Bruno's in the Haight who refused even to acknowledge that the 1960's literally exploded right outside his Persian Aub Zam Zam's front door on Haight Street). To paraphrase Dr. Thompson, "What it's February now? That happened to you too?"
     The fact for the day is that the Ninth Amendment has been with all our readers every day and now has returned to the 51st State of Consciousness after a seeming diversion to the booming field of "signals intelligence" as masterminded by the National Security Agency.. The hidden fact for the day is that the New York Times reported that last year more American private contractors were killed in Afghanistan combat than were United States military personnel, without public announcement, no ceremonial recognition by the United States Government, nor in most cases any survivors' benefits for their widows and orphans. Our hearts go out to them and all killed, wounded, and their loved ones left behind.God Bless America.
    
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