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Note from Kenneth E. Lamb: By now you know the government is out-of-control. It no longer matters what the Constitution says; the NSA scandal shows it does whatever it wants to do with impunity.
When Nixon's WH was found to be behind the Watergate break-in, it resulted in the resignation of the president.
What will happen if this break-in is found to be from the NSA or other US government agency under the authority of the president?
By John Hudson
Foreign Policy site
The offices of a Dallas law firm representing a high-profile
State Department whistleblower were broken into last weekend. Burglars stole
three computers and broke into the firm's file cabinets. But silver bars, video
equipment and other valuables were left untouched, according to local Fox affiliate KDFW, which aired security
camera footage of the suspected burglars entering and leaving the offices
around the time of the incident.
The firm Schulman & Mathias represents Aurelia Fedenisn, a
former investigator at the State Department's Office of the Inspector General.
In recent weeks, she raised a slew of explosive allegations against the
department and its contractors ranging from illicit drug use, soliciting sexual favors from minors and prostitutes
and sexual harassment.
"It's a crazy, strange and suspicious situation," attorney Cary
Schulman told The Cable. "It's clear
to me that it was somebody looking for information and not money. My most
high-profile case right now is the Aurelia Fedenisn case, and I can't think of
any other case where someone would go to these great lengths to get our
information."
According to the KDFW report, the firm was the only suite
burglarized in the high-rise office building and an unlocked office adjacent
was left untouched.
The State Department, which has repeatedly disputed Fedenisn's
allegations, denied any involvement in the incident. "Any allegation that the
Department of State authorized someone to break into Mr. Schulman's law firm is
false and baseless," spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
After assessing the surveillance footage, Schulman said he
believed the motivations were likely political, but did not suspect department
involvement. "It wasn't professional enough," he said. "It is possible that an
Obama or Hillary supporter feels that I am unfairly going after them. And the
timing of this is right after several weeks of very public media attention so
it seems to me most likely that the information sought is related to that case.
I don't know for sure and I want the police to do their work."
Fedenisn's case, in particular, has gained attention not just
because of the substance of the allegations, but for her insistence that internal investigations into
misconduct were "influenced, manipulated or simply called off" by senior State
Department officials. The suppression of investigations was noted in an early
draft of an Inspector General report she gave to CBS News, but softened in the
final version.
Last month, her lawyers told The Cable
that the department tried to intimidate her into silence. "They had law
enforcement officers camp out in front of her house, harass her children and
attempt to incriminate herself," claimed Schulman.
Schulman said the purpose of the visit was to get Fedenisn to
sign documents admitting that she stole State Department documents -- a charge
Fedenisn denies.
Schulman & Mathias represent a range of
clients on matters from fraud to wrongful death to bad faith insurance
practices to medical malpractice. Any number of those cases could've exposed the
firm to such a break in, but Schulman said he was skeptical. "I'm involved in
other cases locally, but those cases are rather stale."
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For the complete story, comments, and a video about this break-in go to this link:
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/07/07/cameras_catch_mystery_break_in_at_whistleblowers_law_firm
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