FBI Raids Offices of Obama's Chief Technology Officer<br>Update: An Official (Not the CTO) Arrested in Bribery Sting

FBI Raids Offices of Obama's Chief Technology Officer
Update: An Official (Not the CTO) Arrested in Bribery Sting

Pretty much that's all there is for the moment. No reason offered as to why.

Somewhat related -- Obama decided to appoint Tony Ward, John "American Taliban" Lindh's zealous lawyer, to the Justice Department's Civil Rights division.

And also related: the San Francisco Police Union accuses Bill Ayers and Bernie Dorhn of direct involvement with the police station bombing that killed St. Brian McDonnell.

On Feb. 16, 1970, a bomb placed on a window ledge of Park Station killed Sgt. Brian McDonnell and injured eight other officers, the Chronicle reported.
The union said it had not been in contact with investigators nor did it have new evidence, but it cited Larry Grathwohl, who works with the conservative organization America’s Survival of Maryland and claims that he infiltrated Weather Underground as an FBI informant and heard Ayers confess, the Chronicle reported.
“There are irrefutable and compelling reasons to believe that Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn … are largely responsible for the bombing of Park Police Station,” the Feb. 24 letter reads, according to the Chronicle.

This is old evidence, and not very strong evidence; the Politico and CNN wouldn't even report that Bill Ayers had "confessed" to babysitting Obama's kids based on one person's memory of it.

Still. What a crew.

Busted: Yusuf Acar arrested. It's a bribery case, apparently.

An official in the D.C. government's office of the chief technology officer has been arrested in a federal bribery sting, according to law enforcement sources.
Yusuf Acar, 40, was taken into custody this morning by FBI agents at his home in Northwest Washington, the sources said. The nature of the charges could not be determined. Channing Phillips, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, declined to comment on the arrest, saying the case "is under seal."
Acar serves as an information systems security officer in the D.C. government. He worked for Vivek Kundra, the District's chief technology officer. Kundra recently left D.C. government to become President Obama's federal chief information officer.

Posted by: Ace at 10:33 AM

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1 Any bets on whether Johnny Taliban walks after O's term?

Posted by: ECM at March 12, 2009 10:35 AM (q3V+C)

2 I dunno, but I'm guessing if he walks, he won't be walking long.

Posted by: Farmer_Joe at March 12, 2009 10:36 AM (z4es9)

3
Yay!?

Posted by: Darling, just an entertainer at March 12, 2009 10:36 AM (fJdbo)

4 The story at Politico says they arrested one particular fellow. They may have raided the office, but it doesn't say that the particular nominee was the target of an investigation. Just to have that straight.

Posted by: nickless at March 12, 2009 10:37 AM (MMC8r)

5
Put Fitz on it!

Where is Fitz anyway? Stand up Fitz. Oh my bad, he's a gimp. Everyone stand up for Patrick Fitzgerald...God bless 'im.

Has Fitz been relocated to Fairbanks, AK? Remember when Fitz said that he's never so much corruption as he did in Chicago politics? Yet he's only got two indictments and his case/investigation seems to have mysteriously stalled.

Posted by: Darling, just an entertainer at March 12, 2009 10:40 AM (fJdbo)

6 Last year's business.

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 12, 2009 10:41 AM (5aa4z)

Somewhat related -- Obama decided to appoint Tony Ward, John "American Taliban" Lindh's zealous lawyer, to the Justice Department's Civil Rights division.

Not Civil Rights, dude, it's the Civil Division.

Posted by: Attila (Pillage Idiot) at March 12, 2009 10:41 AM (rfaI6)

8 I think this guy works for the DC government, not Obama: http://tinyurl.com/bndzd4

Posted by: Brewdog at March 12, 2009 10:42 AM (jg+Fr)

9 Help us, Yellowstone Kenobi. You're our only hope.

Posted by: eman at March 12, 2009 10:43 AM (f0dGF)

10 The outgoing Chief Technology Officer, Vivek Kundra, was appointed last week Chief Information Officer by the Obama administration.

Is this guy really going to get the necessary security clearance require to job ?

Posted by: Neo at March 12, 2009 10:44 AM (Yozw9)

11 Hopefully they're investigating all the overseas donations to Obama's camp via his website and the fact the filters designed to prevent foreign donations were disable. McCain's website had a similar filter system that rejected overseas donations.

Posted by: Blue Balls The Pirate at March 12, 2009 10:45 AM (uw+0A)

I remember a bit by Bill Cosby (I think) about the need to spank your kids daily, because if you don't know what they did, THEY DO. I think this applies to leftists as well. Toss them all in jail or shoot them - if we don't know what they did, THEY DO.

Posted by: Reactionary at March 12, 2009 10:46 AM (H7yZC)

Chas Freeman says it's obviously a big JOOOOOO Conspiracy.

Which part?

All of it. They are sneaky that way.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 12, 2009 10:47 AM (B+qrE)

14

Should a candidate with even MINOR ties to domestic terrorists be asked EVEN ONE FUCKING TIME about it?

NO?

But, "Ken Lay! Ken Lay! Ken Lay!" shrieked the cowards in the idiot media.

Fucking assholes!

Amazing the SNL can't find one fucking funny thing about this chump moron.

Not one thing...Will Ferrell has to bash Bush, but not one funny thing about Barry "Mr. Time-Life DVD Collection" O'Butthead.

Posted by: Sen. Gov. E. Buzz Miller, PhD at March 12, 2009 10:49 AM (0Th9m)

15 It's like Barack Obama was the candidate of America's enemies, both foreign and domestic, or something.

Posted by: Methos at March 12, 2009 10:51 AM (IvOqJ)

16 It's almost as if he had no significant executive experience.

Posted by: Techie at March 12, 2009 10:51 AM (QYuCD)

It's almost like some chickens of ill-repute are, shall we say, coming home to roost.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 12, 2009 10:52 AM (69J41)

"Hopefully they're investigating all the overseas donations to Obama's camp via his website and the fact the filters designed to prevent foreign donations were disable. McCain's website had a similar filter system that rejected overseas donations."

My heart just skipped a beat... That would simply be too good to be true.

Posted by: reason at March 12, 2009 10:53 AM (q/kmn)

19 There are other reports the Chief security officer for DC was arrested in a bribery sting. Espionage it is. It's fine they got this guy but what went out already and to who prior to the FBI offering him a bribe. It's only DC but they have to have lots of info on federal buildings.

I would put it at even odds that they just found out how the plans for marine One got onto that Iranian laptop.

Posted by: Rocks at March 12, 2009 10:53 AM (Q1lie)

20 I hope Bush is enjoying some lemonade or something.

Posted by: tachyonshuggy at March 12, 2009 10:54 AM (TXp3z)

21

Barry O'Dimbulb, President of the US, as well as President of all the US' enemies.

Maybe that's what the idiots meant when they said he would be President of the World, they weren't talking in nice little happy world-thingy terms.

Posted by: Sen. Gov. E. Buzz Miller, PhD at March 12, 2009 10:55 AM (0Th9m)

And apologies for being picky and possibly infringing ont he copyright for the old Snickers spot:

What's a "Cheif"?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 12, 2009 11:00 AM (B+qrE)

23 Goddamn America, Day 52.

Posted by: Warden at March 12, 2009 11:00 AM (KXbGD)

24 So this is how you drain a swamp?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 12, 2009 11:01 AM (ZGhSv)

She said two men, Yusuf Acar and Sushil Bansal, had been arrested.

Acar is an information security officer who was also, according to online requests for proposals, responsible for contracting. Bansal is listed on the city's procurement website as the CEO of the Advanced Integrated Technologies Corporation, which was awarded two technology contracts last year worth a total of $350,000.

Whoa. I checked out AITC's website.

"Advanced Integrated Technologies Corporation ( AITC) is an end-to-end Technology and Business Process Outsourcing Services company, serving the Government and Commercial sectors in the global market through multiple onshore and offshore centers, based out of USA and India"

They might as well say "outsourcing to India as much as we can". I think that's fine, especially since America has decided that law school graduates are more important and lucrative than, ya know, people that actually produce value to the economy, but it might not be great PR for all of Obama's union buddies.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 12, 2009 11:01 AM (T0NGe)

26 We need to lay off so Obama can finish his waffles.

Posted by: adolfo_velasquez at March 12, 2009 11:04 AM (bM61X)

27 Anybody looked into Obama's "Green Jobs Czar", Van Jones?

Here's a video of his from a SF anti-war protest where he alleges police brutality:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdbQfXsLIVU

Posted by: Nice Deb at March 12, 2009 11:08 AM (MHx40)

28 Evidently it is Jake Tapper's neighbor. He posted about the arrest on Twitter this morning.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at March 12, 2009 11:09 AM (UEEex)

29 Why do you keep bringing up Ayers? Next thing you know, you're going to tell us that his previous associations are going to serve as an indication that Obama is nothing but some left wing radical who wants to jack up government spending to outrageous heights, implement socialist policies, and fundamentally change the US, all while dumping money into organizations like ACORN in order to ensure a permanent Democrat majority. That's just silly. So why don't you go back to your trailer park where you can listen to Rush Limbaugh until the great Obama can shut him down.

Posted by: Beltway Republicans at March 12, 2009 11:23 AM (uj/0b)

30 These were not the incompetent criminals I thought I knew.

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 12, 2009 11:27 AM (X2xSP)

31 FBI plays ball with Obama, preemptively states that the Obama nominee is not a target. Remind anyone of the Blago scandal?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI raided the former office of Obama administration official Vivek Kundra in a corruption probe on Thursday but Kundra is not a target of the investigation, a spokeswoman for Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty said.

The FBI was searching the offices of the District of Columbia's chief technology officer, a position formerly held by Kundra, as it investigates employees for corruption there, spokeswoman Mafara Hobson said.

President Barack Obama named Kundra to be the federal government's chief information officer last week.

Posted by: Anti-Harkonnen Freedom Fighter at March 12, 2009 11:29 AM (5r0Tz)

Justice Department goes after Arizona's Sherrif Joe-

The letter continues: "The investigation will focus on alleged patterns or practices of discriminatory police practices and unconstitutional searches and seizures conducted by the MCSO, and on allegations of national origin discrimination, including failure to provide meaningful access to MCSO services for limited English proficient (LEP) individuals."

From Drudge.

Posted by: kidney the rock throwing chimp at March 12, 2009 11:41 AM (FgUFX)

33 Well, did he pay his taxes on that bribe? If so, I don't see a problem here.

Posted by: SlaveDog at March 12, 2009 11:41 AM (H6Jyg)

34 A sting, huh? What would be great was if Chris Hanson were covering it: "Can you take a seat, Mr. Acar? Just take a seat here."

Posted by: Filly at March 12, 2009 11:45 AM (SAoyy)

35 27 Anybody looked into Obama's "Green Jobs Czar", Van Jones?

Here's a video of his from a SF anti-war protest where he alleges police brutality:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdbQfXsLIVU

Posted by: Nice Deb at March 12, 2009 11:08 AM (MHx40)

No. I hadn't seen that one. Great... just fucking great. The Nuts have taken over the Nut White House.

Posted by: Damiano at March 12, 2009 11:51 AM (cfKer)

does this guy know anyone who isn't a crook, a commie, or a jew-hater?

maybe if there were organizations, empowered by the Constitution, to look into the backgrounds of political canidates before they were elected.....

call me a dreamer

Posted by: shoey at March 12, 2009 12:02 PM (IRh55)

This news gives me such a Tingly feeling in my gout TM

Posted by: Chris Matthews at March 12, 2009 12:06 PM (UxAb/)

38 Yusuf Acar
Fairfax

Hmmm.

Posted by: LiveFreeOrDie at March 12, 2009 12:07 PM (q6zPc)

39 espionage sounds most likely. if the One is in danger, they take action. if its his shady campaign donations, they avoid it. probably also avoiding the hacking of norm coleman's donor list and distribution of their credit card numbers, courtesy of wikileaks.

Posted by: A.G. at March 12, 2009 12:22 PM (0CrXo)

40 To show my dedication to running the leanest government possible, I am looking into seeing how we can tighten the budgets of certain key government agencies, such as the FBI...

Posted by: Orack Abama at March 12, 2009 02:02 PM (XMlGE)

41 Sarah Palin's wardrobe!!1111!!!!

Posted by: Diderot's Erg Slough at March 12, 2009 05:24 PM (GtdJ7)

42 What about that liberal bitch lawyer that got in trouble for running messages between her captured terrorist clients? Is Obama naming her NSA director?

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FBI Raids Offices of Obama's Chief Technology OfficerUpdate: An Official (Not the CTO) Arrested in Bribery Sting

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FBI Raids Offices of Obama's Chief Technology Officer
Update: An Official (Not the CTO) Arrested in Bribery Sting