UPDATED: DEA And Secret Service Agents Charged With Money Laundering And Wire Fraud (DEA Agent Also With Theft Of Government Property And Conflict Of Interest) Allegedly Committed Investigating Notorious "Silk Road" Dark Web Black-Market Drug / Other Contraband Bitcoin Sales Site Founder

     Wednesday, 1 April 2015, NEW YORK, NY - The United States government Monday in San Francisco federal court criminally charged DEA Special Agent Carl Mark Force IV and Secret Service Agent Shaun W. Bridges with unlawfully enriching themselves while conducting an undercover investigation of the founder Ross W. Ulbricht allegedly aka "Dread Pirate Roberts" of the popular notorious virtually untraceable Silk Road dark web black-market website infamous for its equally virtually untraceable sales by a thousand drug dealers of hundreds of kilograms of illegal drugs to 100,000 buyers and other contraband also with equally virtually untraceable Bitcoin currency sales transactions often delivering such items by mail right to people's doors according to a former FBI agent interviewed on CNN's "Inside Man" who related that shortly after the site was shut down in 2013 it simply re-emerged shortly thereafter as Silk Road II. DEA Special Agent Force resigned in 2014 and Secret Service Agent Bridges in March 2015 both upon learning they were under investigation by the U.S. government for corruption.
     Following a Manhattan-based investigation site founder Mr. Ulbricht was charged and despite maintaining his innocence in ongoing operations of Silk Road except being pulled back in as a "fall guy" was convicted last month on "numerous" counts according to the New York Times article linked to below with upcoming sentencing at which he faces life in prison. While Mr. Ulbricht's attorney contends that the charges brought by the U.S. government against its own recently resigned agents undermine the government's case brought against Mr. Ulbricht the U.S. government contends that the criminally charged DEA and Secret Service Agents worked out of a Baltimore-based task force while the Manhattan-based investigation proceeded on an "separate and independent" track.
     Although Mr. Ulbricht's attorney complained that the U.S. government had not revealed the extent of its DEA and Secret Service Agents' alleged corruption during the investigation the Court ruled that evidence of it could be kept out of Mr. Ulbricht's trial on charges still pending from the allegedly "separate and independent" track of the Baltimore task force investigation as the Court ruled the charges related only to U.S. government agents' corruption.
     The criminal complaint unsealed in San Francisco federal court Monday alleged that U.S. DEA Agent Force in the course of the investigation "stole and converted to his personal use a sizable amount of Bitcoins," the currency used in the undercover investigation, totaling at least $778,000. "Rather than turning the Bitcoin over to the government, Force deposited them into his own personal accounts." DEA Agent Force also in addition to allegedly attempting to extort $250,000 from Dread Pirate Roberts upon telling him he was a U.S. government agent did in fact allegedly receive a $50,000 payment from Dread Pirate Roberts for providing him with allegedly "inside" law enforcement information. Meanwhile the federal government charged in its unsealed San Francisco complaint that its Secret Service Agent Bridges a computer forensics expert diverted more than $800,000 to his own personal account in the course of the undercover investigation.
       Readers interested in more information can refer to the link to the New York Times article below which itself contains details of and a link to more information of the concluded case against Mr. Ulbricht as well as a link to a copy of the U.S. government complaint unsealed Monday in San Francisco federal court against its former DEA Agent Force and Special Service Agent Bridges who maintain their innocence.
      [UPDATED] In the newly added second link below readers may find further details from the complaint unsealed in San Francisco including some of the scenes playing out behind the scenes regarding the undercover investigation including its impacts on the case brought in New York federal court against Mr. Ulbricht resulting in his conviction on several counts for which as mentioned above he may face life in prison.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/nyregion/silk-road-case-federal-agents-charges.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/nyregion/agent-was-secretly-investigated-during-silk-road-trial.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-1&action=click&contentCollection=Technology&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article

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America's First African-American President Obama Finally Acts On Some Campaign Promises To People Who Elected Him. Can Obama Still Redeem Himself, Treatment Not Prison, Peace Not War, AMA Not DEA, Basketballs Not Bombs?

     Saturday, 7 September 2013, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Ninth Amendment of late has surprised itself and expressed, we really are not sure why, some few harbored still surviving expectations that President Obama finally may have after all initiated at least some minor long ago we thought for sure forgotten promises desperately needed most by many of those who got him elected in 2008 and even again on faith in 2012 as their last ditch hope to save them, their children and their country on the very, very long road to salvation after the seemingly unsurmountable relentlessly calamitous series of national policy blunders and and ruinous global actions of the unelected Bush "the small shrub's" Administration as he tap-danced the United States off the ''cliff of history" in the greatest experiment ever known in governing the United States under a "Constitution" stripped in the dead of night of all its key provisions.
    This accompanied by the apparent announcement of the resignation from politics by the man who had long been doing the same domestically to Texas, the Nation's second largest state. It just had to be too good to be true. Finally, even George "the little Shrub" of late seeming to have come around of sorts even favoring meaningful immigration reform (before mostly deaf Republican ears). Last but not least the final decimating blow from former Chairman of the Board (and Vice-President) Dick Cheney not even attending the inauguration of Bush' library and video arcade.
    And amidst all this time for premature celebration the Ninth Amendment being denied in the absolutely ultimate blow the protection of one of its other very favorites, the First Amendment, as documented with absolute truth below and in the posts it has gotten out in the past couple months nonetheless. Worry not readers as we study how so-inclined readers may repay our modest work over these past years as we even now assess the real possibility of the formation of a Nonprofit Corporation, LLC or whatever mechanism most appropriate to fully support the best investigators, advocates and prosecutors of our Constitutional Rights against all who would deny us them leaving a trail which cannot be erased but only will be found by the best. So do stay tuned, all the facts you have heard before as summarized again below, will we promise be most compelling when pursued to their ultimate conclusion:

     First let us take a brief surveillance video back at the corners of Market and Van Ness streets in San Francisco : Right across the street from the SFMTA, well known by San Francisco residents and visitors there, the three-wheeled motorcycle triad, streetsweeper tow truck whose ticket and tow fees are all that really keeps the City of San Francisco running (it's so hard!). Yes back there at Cal-Nitwits I.P. snooper as identified in an earlier post here.They really must hand out that new Nolo Presss copyright 2011 "Criminal Law" Handbook at p. 284. If those well-documented hackers of our Google log and other e-mails service(s) who have left such huge cybertrails they could be "cybersleuthed" by even a Boy Scout, say Texas Idiot Governor Rick Perry, they might learn that under the so aptly named "Patriot Act" that "breaking into and damaging any internet connected computer, is punishable by up to 20 years in prison" (emphasis added). Ow!

     Thank goodness patient readers that is about all we have, or to say, right now, but we sure were beginning to wonder if President Obama was EVER going to come through or if these Great United States after the likes of the Bush Administration from Hell with its "little shrub" Bush in power who had been like a deer in the headlights ever since they gave him the skull and bones tap, and he refused to ever even pick a name for himself in that august institution situated on the grounds of the gloomiest gothic urban shambles of a college ever to grace the quaint hamlet of New Haven. "Luxury and Truthness" the Bush clan motto.
     Now this Google-powered blog has taken on a mind of its own or maybe the fifteen national "security" agencies are downstairs unable to agree today with Texas Idiot Governor Rick Payback Perry's henchmen what to order from lunch from BaBa-Ramen where all the Beltway bandits practice eating their prison meals.
     Anyway it was getting to look rather grim as President Barack Obama in his first term and a half in office has seemed largely inclined to do no less than break every promise he made to run the country differently than the tap-dancing little shrub Bush even adopting his predecessor's drug enforcement plan wholesale without even changing a single item line or even pretending to pay lipservice to his so-called emphasis on "treatment" after admitting to America solo on CNN that he Barack Obama used to use drugs because he was "selfish". Or did he say he used drugs because he slightly more accurately "caught dealing".
     In any case we knew we could rest easy once the TSA was reined in and told to stop accepting trinkets for allowing pain pills and handguns go through "security". Well as we said it has been looking pretty grim for the Nation's first African-American President when FINALLY someone must have told him it probably would be a good idea to live up to at least a single campaign promise from ONE of his campaigns to the people who really got elected.
     Low and behold United States Attorney General Eric Holder finally reportedly has sent a letter around to all the U.S. Attorneys in major cities of the states whose citizens have voted to decriminalize marijuana to STOP enforcing federal marijuana possession laws most especially not bringing prosecutions of of draconian minimum sentencing marijuana laws that have help increase the United States prison population to 800% of what it had been when that cynical crook Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon declared the "war on drugs" after his other wars like the "Christmas bombing of the civilian population a neutral country for being next to one with which we were at undeclared war".
     The Gulf of Tonkin resolution was the one that tricked Congress into what was (now there is one that found itself straight into North Korea's playbooks) to become one of the favorite Presidential ploys of modern times to get a reluctant Congress and Country to go to war by LYING to the American people and the Legislative Branch of their federal government. No doubt that one has become one of the very favorite provisions of the United States Constitution, the one that says the President can lie to the Congress and the "National Security Agencies" can lie to the President if and only if it is necessary to get the country into a waronnothing with bonus points if there happens to be a handy Republican vice-President crook who needs to make some money off a criminal (preferably construction) deal and then finish it off with a pardon for the coup de grace.
       Well Google we must say Google the once-vaunted academic bastion of computer "truth search" function later to become "sponsored truth function" has sure made it hard just for a bunch of folks from the local town meeting to make their voices heard throughout America and around the world what with having to form so many identities and "users" that it just makes your head spin. Last we hear "Big M" was our Editor-In-Chief. Next thing we know some hack Max Money is writing our posts when he is not teaching blogs on how to "game the search results."
     Well we must admit all these new terms do have a certain ring to them. President Obama with his fleet of CIA and other drones now stretching around the world and even down into the "Dark Continent" - no, not Detroit when the power plant runs out of coal! Used to be that was the CIA's trip. Now President Obama gets to make the call directly with the help of (no, not his hit men but rather the "lethal surveillance team") one bad guy, two wives, three playing children and a cow. Boom!
       Our thanks to Max Money we do not know where you came from and we do not know where you are going. But thanks Google for sending him to our blog. Not to mention the California Department of Technical Services, DIT-mis, whose IP address can be found amongst other places like illegally taking "Administrator" functions of our blog with an its IP address at Market and Van Ness meet in San Francisco.
      Right across the street from the SFMTA, you know San Francisco residents and visitors there, the ones whose ticket and tow fees are all that really keeps the City of San Francisco running (it's so hard!). They really must hand out that new Nolo Press copyright 2011 "Criminal Law" Handbook at p. 284. If those well-documented hackers of our Google log and other e-mails service(s) who have left such huge cybertrails they could be "cybersleuthed" by even a Boy Scout, say Texas Idiot Governor Rick Perry, they might learn that under the so aptly named "Patriot Act" that "breaking into and damaging any internet connected computer, is punishable by up to 20 years in prison" (emphasis added). Ow!

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Ninth Amendment Defies Experts Screams To Top Of Charts New Keywords HAARP, Denver Airport Swastika, Qaddafi Shell Casing, F-35 $1 Trillion, Snowden Stumps NSA

     Sunday, 25 August 2013, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK - First and foremost our hearts go out to all living beings threatened by the Yosemite National Park blaze including any and all scattered landowners grandfathered or otherwise in the vicinity of the historic park first named as a "National Monument" by President Theodore Roosevelt. The fire has been deemed enough of a threat to the water supply of San Francisco stored in Hetch Hetchy Reservoir that California Governor Jerry Brown had at last reports available to the Ninth Amendment log called a state of emergency.
     Hetch Hetchy Dam was constructed in the early years of the 20th Century over the lifelong protestations of naturalist and foremost friend of the Earth John Muir who as chronicled in an outstanding PBS (yes another bane of the "Modern" Republican Party) television documentary recounting the historic visit of Theodore Roosevelt (himself a Republican) to Yosemite Valley at which visit he eschewed his planned state dinner at the Ahwautaukee Lodge and instead spent the night speaking with and sleeping in sleeping bags beneath the great rock walls of Yosemite Valley beside the great naturalist John Muir.
     This story is here revisited from an earlier post a couple years back on this log which recounts the great coup of President Theodore Roosevelt which followed. Apparently completely in awe of the natural wonder to which he awoke President Roosevelt experienced a cathartic moment in which the realization overtook him that the transcendent natural beauty of the land of the country, his and John Muir's country that he saw stretching in all directions was not something to be conceptualized as some transitory possession as might be consistent with the prevalent robber baron views of the time.
     What stood before the two men was the representation of a sacred trust they held not just to a few or perhaps even the citizens of a single country, but rather an enduring timeless part of the Earth to which they held a sacred duty to preserve for all peoplekind. In any case the "coup" which unfolded in the furious following months was unparalleled in history. The emboldened and inspired President Theodore Roosevelt returned aglow to Washington, D.C. and in a some might call sleight of hand that bordered on the magical or mystical convinced the United States Congress to bestow upon the President alone the power under the enacted "National Antiquities Act" to with maps of the United States in hand with the stroke of a pencil (we believe he however used a pen) "suggested" a remarkable collection of "National Monuments" to forever be preserved and saved from the petty and transitory destruction of commercial pillage.
     Before the United States Congress knew what had hit it President Theodore Roosevelt had used the presumably modest powers of the Act to mark off reasonably restrained preserves around the country the President instead with the guidance of John Muir and others had with great strokes of his pen forever (one hoped) marked off wide swaths of land in places near and far and encompassing the most spectacular lands of the Country for designation as National Monuments which later were to become the very heart of this Nation's National Park System.
     Alas John Muir did NOT succeed in his one greatest quest to save Hetch Hetchy from being dammed and the valley which the naturalist described unbelievably as being even MORE breathtaking, spectacular, and beautiful than its parallel Yosemite Valley was indeed dammed to satisfy the commercial interests of the burgeoning city of San Francisco. John Muir is said never to have recovered from this most terrible blow and to have then carried for the relatively few more years that he survived to his grave. To this day people still speak of undoing the damage and removing the damn.     
     The agricultural and other interests say impossible. Curiously to this day San Francisco is said to waste far more precious pristine Sierra Mountain water each morning just watering Golden Gate Park with virgin water than ALL such water (carefully reclaimed) used by its supposedly rapacious neighbor to the south, Los Angeles, the City of the Angels.  
     Well darn the Ninth Amendment editorial board has really wandered afar this time. To those readers who have held on the past couple of days and nights we have been in the midst of a GRAND EXPERIMENT. Rather than merely an onslaught of algorithms, keywords, megatrends, search optimizations and so on of which we know, well, very little at this point the Ninth Amendment Log instead has attempted to attract a growing readership (somewhat disturbed shall we say by untoward events of  recent weeks past) amongst its worldwide audience by presenting merely a bit of hopefully decent and interesting writing.
     Surprise! The scheme in the past days would appear actually to have worked as amidst some of our usual digressions we have stuck more or less faithfully to the interesting and even to some intriguing secrets of the profession of Private Investigator. With neither compensation nor remuneration of any kind we have shared as "fair comment" portions of "The Private Investigator's Handbook" by Chuck Chambers, P.I. So after all this it only seems fair that we continue on here for those still with us with a few tidbits from Chapter Eight, "How To Shake A Tail". Particularly as Mr. Chambers seems to have specifically connected these bits to his concern for the safety of women. To wit (per Mr. Chambers):
   
     o   Number of reported stalking cases in the United States each year:  1,006,970

     o    Number of women battered yearly:  6,000,000

     o    Percentage of murdered women each year killed by a current or former spouse:  52

     o    Percentage of clients who come to me because they want to avoid being followed:   3

     Readers of the Ninth Amendment first are referred to previous posts of the past couple days which by inference clearly suggest certain ways to shake a vehicular tail.

     -     The first Make a U-Turn readers may remember is to head for the nearest four-lane highway and make a u-turn there. "After a short distance, maneuver to the left lane and look for the first available break in the median strip where you can safely do a u-turn. Naturally you're looking for any vehicle that makes the same u-turn behind you". As Mr. Chambers says the other car faces a dilemma, and either you've made the tail and/or discouraged them for today.

     -     The second readers will remember is to Head for a Dead-End, one of the "best methods" according to Mr. Chambers unless of course one thinks "there is any element of danger involved". Once the tail follows you into the dead-end street, go into the last residence and pull into the driveway. You now have the tail in a bottleneck and can put your car in reverse and head back out the street. "At this point, you're in a position where you can either confront the person or you can fall in behind him or her and take their tag number. The predator has to pass within a few feet."
            "Your tail knows the jig is up, and with the tag number you can identify who the driver is. If the tag comes back a licensed PI" call your lawyer.

     -     Technique three is Residential Turns which requires paying attention. "If you make three consecutive turns in a residential area and the same car is still behind you, the chances are you're under surveillance. Make a u-turn to shake the tail."

     -     Techniques four, five and six we will simply name and leave to our readers to pursue should they wish. They are: Left Turns, For Sale Sign (Get Ahead Out of Sight Pull Into For Sale Driveway Lie Across Front Seat And Let Tail Pass Which Will Make Most PIs Give Up After About Ten Minutes, next is The Yellow Light which we will bet our readers can figure out if they can gauge their speed then leave the tail at a red, next is Look For A Second Tail, and Finally Is Collect Evidence Of A Tail When Safe To Do So.

     Finally finally from your editorial board at the Ninth Amendment the recently repeated reminder has of late unfortunately become important again -- young women DO NOT STOP for apparent police marked or unmarked lights or no lights up top on dash whatever in ANY kind of an isolated area. Proceed to a nearby police station if you know where one is otherwise calmly continue until you are in a VERY WELL LIT AND VERY OCCUPIED PLACE. When in doubt ALWAYS USE YOUR CELL PHONE FOR 9-1-1 IN OR OUT OF YOUR SERVICE AREA, YOU WILL BE CONNECTED AND NOT HAVE TO PAY.
    
     Remember keep your car moving until you are sure as sure can be you are safe, and never, ever, let anyone get you off of the street into a vehicle. Tear out their eyes and scream bloody murder. Did we say that? Well we must have meant it.

     Now let us continuing growing the audience readership, what do our readers say? Sorry but at this point we will just keep those extra keywords in the title until next times, when there are always more topics to turn to, always more stories to tell, always more things to learn. Knowledge is power. POW!

     Stick around here, and we are going to tell our readers how to get the best education money can buy, absolutely for free. Promise. God Bless America where anyone can still go to the Best Boarding Schools, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the Best Law Schools, yeiks they really can, and we will tell you how we did (without even getting arrested -- in most cases!) Or readers can spend a trillion dollars for a bunch of airplanes. If anyone would care to fly them, that is.9

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Worldwide Ninth Amendment Readership Escalation Cements Investigator's Handbook Algorithmic Theoretical Hypothesis Even As San Francisco Sierra Emergency Declared

       Sunday, 25 August 2013, FT. LAUDERDALE, FL - First off readers NO intention to be alarmist here although the above headline would seem justified in light of California stalwart Governor Jerry Brown's declaration of an extended State of Emergency in light of an apparent possible water shortage threat posed by San Francisco's Hetch Hetchy Reservoir's proximity to the current Yosemite Sierra Rim fire.
       Alas as of this hour most news seems nevertheless to be emanating from New York via Facebook rather than what might otherwise be expected under the circumstances where presently all remains ostensibly quiet in San Francisco but for the parking meter scooters revving up for the infamous trendsetting Sunday morning early Church service parking sweep.  (Unfair that meter sweep actually now takes place on Sunday afternoons to the delight of all San Francisco shopkeepers in the Nation's only city where so many people see things so much more alike than the rest of the Country yet manage to incessantly argue about every nitpicky detail.)
     In any case the Ninth Amendment editorial staff and news bureaus not currently being informed of any further imminently actual threat to life or limb at the moment have decided to go ahead with the sociological pseudo-semi-scientific study of viral audience readership commenced just hours ago as we have watched the number of readers if not race at least ploddingly circle the globe in our examination of the relative success of substantive reading in comparison to statistical manipulative slight of hand.
     Our insomniac readers no doubt will recall that earlier this evening rather than focus on the latest slew of keywords, megatrends, algorithms and the like the Ninth Amendment instead decided to just go ahead and electronically publish some content that was arguably written in some sort of English hastily edited derivative rather "fair comment" material derived from "The Private Investigator's Handbook" copyright 2005 Chuck Chambers P.I. So as not to risk creating too much commotion with unknown events perhaps still unfolding we indeed shall stick to the perhaps predominantly (but not necessarily) male-oriented topic of "tailing the mark" as our readers will recall.
       And here offered as fair comment again without any compensation or other remuneration whatsoever is the Ninth Amendment's continuing recommendation of Mr. Chamber's work as stated by the Private Investigator himself under the topic "Tailing Tactics":
     "From your vantage point of two car lengths back, grit your teeth as your mark drives right past the gym where they claimed to be working out every morning. So where is the bastard going? You have to follow to find out. Here are some basic tactics for tailing with a car:

     o   Two-lane road: Remain at least two car lengths behind.

     o   Four-lane road: Travel in the lane beside the target, either right or left but not behind them.          Ninety percent of drivers who are suspicious of being following or feeling guilty about their destination will check the center rearview mirror as opposed to the sidemirrors. They are generally concerned with the car immediately to their rear.

     o  Approaching an intersection: Change lanes to move temporarily behind the mark in case they decide to make a turn. If the target doesn't turn, move back to the side lane.

     o  Congested traffic:  Remain two car lengths behind in the side lane.

     o  Thinning traffic patterns: Drop back three or four lengths.

     o   Dead end. If the mark turns down a dead-end street, do not follow them! If your target made a wrong turn, he or she will most certainly see you on the way out, as you were traveling in. If it turns out that your target doesn't come back, the mystery destination may be down that street. You'll know soon enough when the mark's car doesn't come back out."

     So readers we thank Mr. Chambers for the rather lengthy quote offered as fair comment with the assurance that if this type of occupation is up one's alley (as it were) this is the best example one can get of the type of material and writing to expect in this book, and should readers decide to acquire it on their own we have in fact borrowed but a most small fraction of the text to give readers the flavor and quality of Private Investigator Chambers work and writing. All in all we recommend the Handbook as an interesting indeed fascinating at points read regardless of one's precise stake in the outcome of the maneuvering described in such detail. Their is something admittedly for us intriguing and engaging both in the author's voice and in the sociological phenomena revealed in the daily pursuits of the well-heeled Private Investigator.
     And so back to our statistics from which we will be sure to report the type of audience response this follow-up post engenders which admittedly we find a refreshing change from endless tomes on such topics as the vagaries of search engine optimization (SEO) and so on. In any case wishing our readers all the best until the next post and our heartfelt thanks for readers (hopefully) continuing interest in the Ninth Amendment Log. We do have a target ahead in our sites as well, as it were, and we shall see. . . .

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Hacker Barnaby Jack Dead In Mid-30's On Eve Of Expected Major Revelation - "Hacking Humans" Implantable Medical Devices

       Wednesday, 31 July 2013, LAS VEGAS - The Associated Press has reported that the famous "hacker" Barnaby Jack the young man who just tomorrow was to deliver the headline talk "Implantable Medical Devices:  Hacking Humans" at the Black Hat conference in this once-reputed Mob gamblers' mecca cum corporate family amusement town is dead of unknown or unreported causes allegedly in San Francisco.
       According to the AP Mr. Jack gained widespread notoriety after revealing at the same Black Hat conference in 2010 that after some years spent studying methods of hacking automatic teller machines ("ATMs") he had successfully devised two distinct techniques to hack "stand-alone" teller machines and direct them to dump their entire load of cash. The first technique stemmed from his discovery according to the AP that all ATM keys made by one manufacturer came with exactly the same key to unlock a compartment in the ATM. Mr. Jack then reportedly used a USB slot to deliver a program that ordered the ATM to unload its cache of cash.
     The second technique developed by Mr. Jack reportedly took advantage of a flaw in the method by which ATM manufacturers communicate with their cash machines via the internet. Although not explicitly stated in the AP report presumably the result was the same as when the first technique described above was employed. Apparently since the time of Mr. Jack's examination of the weaknesses of ATM's he most recently had been employed by computer security firm IOActive, Inc. Both Mr. Jack's employer and the San Francisco Coroner's office were tight-lipped as to the cause of Mr. Jack's untimely death describing it only as "under investigation".
     At tomorrow's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas in Hacker Barnaby Jack's headline talk "Implantable Medical Devices: Hacking Humans" Mr. Jack presumably was prepared to reveal his more recently developed information including concerning the vulnerabilities of pacemakers and other implantable medical devices to hacking. Sources have said the time when his address was to be given will be left open to allow colleagues to "[C]ommemorate his life and work".

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SFPD Critically Shoot One Man "Imagined" To Have Gun As Well As Man "Believed" To Be His Target

     Tuesday, 9 April 2013 - SAN FRANCISCO - Zealous San Francisco police called out of their police bunker in the somewhat gentrified Mission District of this city apparently came out with guns blazing late Sunday night firing off what would be expected to be hollow-nosed rounds into a group directly across the street from their Mission Station when the SFPD allegedly imagined a man aiming a firearm at another which turned out to be an air gun. Perhaps seeking to outdo the NYPD which readers may recall last year mowed down many completely innocent New Yorkers walking and window-shopping on the sidewalks in the vicinity of the landmark Empire State Building the SFPD also quickly convinced San Franciscans who were not hit it was time to dive for the pavement.
     Latest reports to the Ninth Amendment's Bay Area bureau confirm that SFPD officers in fact critically wounded a man not with a gun but an air gun which they emphatically educated members of the press can shoot pellets when loaded with air. It is not believed to be the official policy of the SFPD also to shoot persons at whom the SFPD believe imagined guns are being pointed, but in this case the SFPD also did hitting the putative target as well apparently with hollow-nosed rounds quickly making him into an actual target who at last reports also was hospitalized in extremely critical condition along with the possible air shooter.
     Involved officer(s) nevertheless reportedly have been suspended regardless of Department policy for attempting to kill victims as well as perpetrators. Some citizens reportedly expressed concern if it was just a case of remarkably poor marksmanship and judgment rather than policy it nevertheless was disheartening and frightening to experience it enthusiastically practiced amidst groups of citizens. Readers may internet search the Mission District police for other perhaps troubling incidents such as SFPD's shooting a man several times in the back there and killing him a couple years ago. 
     The Ninth Amendment does not have access to the most recent information on the police shooting victims' conditions and/or survival and families, friends and interested others are urged of course directly to contact proper medical authorities for this information. Hollow-nosed bullets of late have been an issue in the forefront of the San Francisco political scene where the city council has been deciding whether ordinary citizens should be permitted to buy or possess them in the city.
     Medical personnel at hospitals such as the city's major trauma San Francisco General Hospital confirm that the hollow-nosed bullet which is designed to mushroom splatter immediately upon entering a human's tissue causes maximum lethal damage by making nearly every hit either extremely critical or catastrophically deadly by expanding exponentially in the human body tearing out tissue, blood vessels, bones, organs including much of the brain in head shots as the bullets rapidly expand pancaking into gaping exit wounds.
     Proponents of the hollow-nosed bullets argue they are actually much safer than a bullet with a "full metal jacket" which can pass through targeted humans but not necessarily immediately stop them and furthermore then continue on for some distance through, for example, bystanders even at some distance and structures such as building exterior and apartment walls into neighboring units. Unfortunately as demonstrated apparently in the SFPD's frenzied Sunday night shooting the theory of the "safer" hollow-nosed bullet does not hold true for anyone when it causes maximum life-threatening damage in persons shot wrongly, recklessly, negligently and/or accidentally.
     The Ninth Amendment wishes to emphasize that information on the incident is still developing. As always our hearts go out to all those possibly killed or injured without just cause and of course their families, loved ones and friends. Individuals with particular concerns should contact appropriate authorities. Finally the Ninth Amendment emphasizes that no final hearing has been initiated on any of the officer-involved shootings and whatever the outcome does not reflect on the SFPD as a whole. However as of this time the available reports do not sound encouraging as to the conduct of those involved and the consequences quite possibly sickeningly tragic for all involved including for the entire San Francisco community..

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Obama San Francisco Fly-By Courts Rich Demos Supports Pelosi Calls For Dumping Boehner

     Friday, 5 April 2013, SEA CLIFF, SAN FRANCISCO - President Obama Wednesday reportedly made a fund-raising trip to this exclusive San Francisco enclave perhaps best known as the home of actor Robin Williams. Obama reportedly did not hold a fundraiser at Mr. Williams home nor did he apparently take time to visit the nude beach below nor pay homage to the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson at Dr. Thompson's relatively nearby beloved Seal Rock Inn. President Obama reportedly buttressed efforts of ActBlue which has successfully raised large amounts of internet donations for the Democratic National Congressional Campaign Committee to counter Republican "Boner" Boehner's fundraising efforts among the small handful of billionaires who actually conspire to keep the Republican party afloat by relentlessly scheming to devise new manipulative strategies to trick mainstream Americans (the other 99.9%) through lies and deception mostly via blitz television advertising into believing that Republicans have anything to offer them except lives of misery, poverty, lousy public education and nutrition, and large-scale incarceration.
     For more on these topics the Ninth Amendment recommends Nobel Prize winning New York Times columnist  Professor Paul Krugman who reportedly writes for the publication without remuneration while also serving as Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Ironically Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School also serves as the country's major breeding ground for top CIA "officials".
     President Obama reportedly focused his San Francisco fundraising efforts on exclusive fundraising remarks at the homes of other Sea Cliff billionaires where he spoke on the need to knock the Republicans out of the House of Representatives and restore Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House so that he could actually get something done rather than deal with the moronic Tea Party crowd busily destroying what remains of the Republican Party (not really a party, more like a crack rave being the drug introduced to the United States by, yes of course, the CIA as long ago documented at length in the Los Angeles Times to finance its as usual ill-conceived and incidentally illegal Contra operation).
     Obama joked apparently that he could not see the Golden Gate Bridge from the rich people's houses until he was reminded that San Francisco is often enveloped in fog as it reportedly was that evening. As to why Obama then went on to make some perhaps off-color remark is unknown and merits further investigation. The President furthermore refrained from mentioning the much-hated Keystone XL Canada-to-Gulf of Mexico pipeline tar sands proposed super-pollution project. (As Texas Democratic Chair Hinjosa repeatedly has attempted to point out to Idiot Texas Governor Perry, jobs and cheap energy do not mean much to people when they are all dead.)
     As Obama's motorcade sped off through San Francisco's "Tenderloin" environmental protestors were kept at a distance by San Francisco Police. Republican protestors reportedly had already left leaving at most a hundred to two hundred, apparently scared off by the light rain which reportedly had begun to fall or threatened to fall.

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Texas Idiot Governor Rick "Six-Shooter" Perry Rises From The Dead (Of Mind) To Warm Bay Area Welcome

     Saturday, 09 February 2013, AUSTIN - Texas Idiot Governor Rick "Six-Shooter" Perry this week announced over radio commercials a shrewd plan next week to visit with San Francisco and Silicon Valley business executives as he had "heard it was impossible to start a business in California". Perry apparently therefore did not suffer any further brain impairment since his last appalling U.S. Presidential campaign called by James Carville "the worst ever in history" marred for Perry by such moments as a nearly one-minute Perry lapse in response to a question about an issue Perry himself had raised but apparently completely forgotten during a live televised campaign debate of Republican candidates which Perry very briefly had entered as the front-runner.
     In any case the indefatigable Perry armed with infamous coyote-killing laser-sighted six-shooter is expected sometime next week as noted although his public appearances may be limited. Calls to Texas revealed that many Texans were not aware that Perry was Governor nor was now holding that office for his fourth or fifth term.  He clearly is a man who knows how to get a job, and keep it, his earlier forays into animal husbandry apparently unsuccessful with his claimed Alma mater Texas A&M never acknowledging whether he ever  in fact had attended the University reportedly hoping to be a veterinarian. That aside Perry does now hold the dubious distinction of being the first human known to shoot a coyote to death which occurred during his morning run accompanied by his huge security detail   
     Texas Idiot Governor Rick "Six-Shooter" Perry is known to spend most of his time at the expense of Texas taxpayers in other countries and states other than Texas the "business" state which boasts the nation's dirtiest air among other dubious "accomplishments".
     Nevertheless by his own account Perry plans to visit business leaders in San Francisco and especially Silicon Valley where a warm response likely is guaranteed Perry from officers of some of the world's most successful high-tech corporations who may be looking for a new aesthetic living in the country's dirtiest environment populated by students who more often than not never graduate high school and are cut off in community college studies when it is learned that they largely are unable to pass third-grade English tests.
     Beyond unemployable unschooled workers unneeded by Bay Area companies who also may find it difficult to breath amidst the foul weather of Texas' alternating putrid hanging humid Gulf of Mexico air and freezing cold blasts shooting down from the far North,  a final consideration to some may be that Perry often threatens to secede Texas permanently from the United States presumably to regain its place as the northernmost province of Mexico. For many workers revoking their United States citizenship in order to have some unclear status in Mexico may prove less than compelling.

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Ed Lee San Francisco Mayor Lied Under Oath - "Bomb Scare" Cover-up Attempt

     Thursday, 7 February 2013, SAN FRANCISCO - Ed Lee current San Francisco mayor lied under oath during an Ethics Committee hearing last summer as all evidence tangible and circumstantial strongly supports. Feedback of reader response to our release of news regarding exposure of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee's unambiguous perjury now received and preliminarily analyzed by the Ninth Amendment editorial and technical staffs indicates either that we failed to live up to our responsibility to our readers by not sufficiently conveying the import of this buried news of the San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee's criminal act committed without so far any apparent consequence after the passage of nearly nine months since his lies made under oath with apparent obvious attempt to abort and/or cover them up..
     Alternatively our readers worldwide have limited interest in the latest admittedly perpetually juvenile "political" developments in this otherwise world-class city better watched for its sports than it's circus-like politics only rarely gone dangerously amok. Not since the late 1970's. No Jonestown massacres of underclass San Franciscans spirited off to the jungles of Guyana. Nor mayors nor supervisors murdered on the job replete with the usual hallmark oddities be they Twinkies or Kool-Aid. However our readers should note that the San Francisco they have known has become a much different place in terms of the focus and reconfiguration of the United States "intelligence" community to immerse and intertwine itself in the vast wealth of information flowing into and through this City. To wit, San Francisco is no joke.
     San Francisco it should be noted, apart from its historically strategic geographical situation, has found itself in the apparent vortex of the various forces taking place as we move into the twenty-first century with San Francisco and its immediate environs become home to the tremendous forces that developed and matured from the once-nascent computer technology industry largely come to be located here.
     Now constant developments in San Francisco strengthening the strategic forces of the constant advances of virtually limitless information collection regarding the activities of all not only all Americans but nearly all the population of the world have had the inevitable result of establishing San Francisco as a top "national security" justified bastion of United States "intelligence" agencies probably numbering now nearly a score of those that are just the best known and recognized. This is a grave threat to the Constitutional rights of all Americans as well as the fundamental human rights of all living persons in every corner of the planet.
     No place is safe technologically nor legally (especially since the Bush passage and the Obama endorsement of the so-called "Patriot Act") despite the completely misleading misimpression fostered in most consumers (i.e. nearly the entire population other than the world's largest percentage currently incarcerated and in many cases awaiting death administered by the State penal industries) of  "friendly" reassuring banal statements and disingenuous conduct by giants such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, and all the rest of the "social media" and related giants with just oh so friendly, clever and downright goofy names. Kind of like the New York Times renaming itself the KazooYou, (Oh, GoDaddy, that one is taken already?)
     Make no potentially ultimately fatal mistake about the future of our Country as We The People established it by compact under the United States Constitution, because as emphasized here when push comes to shove more of us have come to strongly suspect that with each day passing CIA EQUALS GOOGLE, pick your favorite national security agency and its intelligence resources too ALSO EQUAL Google, Zuckerboy's Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, and hundreds of other lesser-known supposed "fun innocently commercial" endeavors. Not to mention the wealth of your most personal information which is ALL available to the right people if you have communicated it on the internet, or in some cases, just exposed it to your used or unused telephone with camera, not to mention the camera atop your computer, or we can only guess how many other ways. Did you think the New York Times technology editor keeps the lens of the camera atop his computer covered with heavy black electrical tape when not in use?
     And where is the exponentially growing nexus of these intelligence-gathering capabilities and activities, be it by the CIA, FBI, or one of the score of other United States Executive Branch and military  "national intelligence" agencies, or of Google, Facebook, Twitter, or Yahoo, one of your "recreational" completely "voluntary" by deception or otherwise outlets on sites and in e-mails of your most private beliefs, thoughts, actions, contacts, preferred geographical locations, facial features, and so much more? The nexus dear readers is we believe most would agree and need recognize the City and County of San Francisco.
     There the Ninth Amendment editors rest their case (for the moment) as to why you may very well wish to know the details of last summer's phony bomb scare telephoned in to a private police line precisely at the moment that San Francisco Smiln' Lyin" Mayor Ed Lee was right at the moment in the process of commencing to perjure himself on the stand. And of all things, regarding his juvenile dispute with Sheriff Mikarimi. It was enough to show the big boys that Ed Lee is no genius, but perhaps whether an asset or not yet to be seen.
     In any case the Ninth Amendment urges readers to do at least a little simple research from that "Search" box on readers' monitors. You too may find yourself wondering why when the proceedings were then interrupted and police officers emptied the hearing room, it was but the solitary Mayor Ed Lee forgotten left sitting on the stand. Left by himself back there inside City Hall maybe sitting right on the bomb, forgotten, eventually only after about twenty minutes deciding to wander back to his City Hall office.
     Nothing to do but wait until it was "all clear" and all the others could be let back in the building and realize that, oops!", they had left the mayor behind. Now needed to hear the rest of his no-doubt reconsidered testimony, perhaps he wished almost in time to say "perjury-aborted". But Lee already had lied under oath. So who really runs San Francisco now -- the Ninth Amendment editorial board is confident that even Mayor Ed Lee now recognizes that it is not he. So who owns him? And does he stay or go?

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San Francisco Smilin' Lyin' Perjurer Mayor Ed Lee Prepares To Step Down And Pack For Prison

     Tuesday, 5 February 2013, SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee himself will finally be headed for prison our sources in San Francisco municipal building maintenance services report for committing perjury last summer. Lyin' Lee who almost beat the perjury rap by a supposed false bomb threat telephoned in just as Lee began forgetting his lines on the stand can expect to be escorted in handcuffs by his favorite San Francisco Sheriff Mirkarimi whom Lee selflessly has devoted more than his past year in office to battling while continuing San Francisco's city traditions of never picking up the garbage, supporting the City's growing deficit budget entirely on parking infractions more obscure and voluminous than any others known in history (now including the introduction of Sunday metered parking to help alienate churchgoers and all the small businesses of the city), and keeping up city workers cost of living increases at about ten times the rest of the world's and who unlike the mayor and city council actually get something done other than play musical chairs before if they are lucky heading off to lead this great Nation back in the Beltway..
     Some of the most comically notorious, but also tragically horrible as in the case of former Supervisor Dan White who stepped far out of his former job description in 1978 to fire off several rounds from his carefully prepared former police service revolver to shoot both Mayor George Moscone and former fellow Supervisor Harvey Milk in the head before serving three years for involuntary manslaughter by reason of Twinkies derangement only to return to San Francisco to commit suicide in his garage, have been San Francisco's municipal ("MUNI") bus drivers.
     In San Francisco it barely goes noted when other city workers perhaps some of the most colorful being bus drivers paid at overtime, vacation, and mental breakdown pay of about ten times everyone else's cost-of-living increases nevertheless enjoy the privilege of inexplicable absences including those known to begin right in the middle of shifts allowing drivers to abandon while singing to themselves moving buses several blocks off-route full of riders and need not return to work to explain such frequent odd occurrences for several work days following to dry out almost always without repercussion as well as desperate pleading by the City for several days amidst assurances that their absence will certainly accrue to sick and all others of the dozens of types of "leave" they enjoy before they retire rich with plenty of years left still to spend traveling the world (in their own Muni bus if desired!).
     But you read it here first in the Ninth Amendment log your one real source of news, former San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee will at least have to delay that world tour for a few years while he spends them instead doing time for perjury committed right on the stand of a San Francisco City Hall hearing last summer. The petition for Lyin' Mayor Lee's recall already is circulating on Change.org..

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Seal Rock Inn Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's Top Spot To Rock 'N Write In S.F.

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     Monday, 12 November 2012, LAND'S END, SAN FRANCISCO - "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."  Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Little L must be a Pro because according to the Ninth Amendment she really is Weird! Certain members of the Ninth Amendment editorial staff recently had a gonzo experience while dining at the "home away from home" of our most esteemed Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Little L at the Seal Rock Inn used her well-honed investigatory reporting skills to uncover the exact suite in which Dr. Hunter S. Thompson stayed while writing some of his most notable pieces for Rolling Stone magazine and many of his related books which followed.
     And what suite number would our Ninth Amendment readers request should they wish to retire in the very room where the venerable Dr. Thompson himself always made a point of staying while at Land's End in the City by the Bay? Well gentle readers would you think that the Ninth Amendment would ever withhold the truth from you? Readers themselves we trust will find the web address or the phone number of the Seal Rock Inn still owned by the same ownership should readers wish themselves to reserve (during San Francisco extended business hours) this still accessible piece of American Literary History.
     Although we understand the cost to be quite reasonable by San Francisco standards the Ninth Amendment further understands that on-site parking may be limited. One is advised to treat with respect the ice machine and all of the Seal Rock Inn's accommodations and furnishings.  Mementos or souvenirs should only be acquired through legitimate means where available from private business owners.
     Yes and by the way the Suite Number provided by the front desk is THREE-ZERO-FIVE, that is Suite 305.  This post is provided to readers without endorsement nor remuneration from the Seal Rock Inn.  Please treat this uniquely special opportunity with all due respect so that others may share it as well.  Little L reminds readers that should they be in search of either the most talented Bill Murray or Dr. Thompson's final close protege and friend fellow Kentucky native Johnny Depp that readers are on their own as to that.
   
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