LInX UPDATE (click here): Testimony puts Rove at center of Justice firings

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DANGER...DANGER...DANGER WILL ROBINSON!

Spitting on the Constitution again, Navy Department detectives engage in civilian community police work.

Conspiracy involving gang yields 40 arrests

Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agents involved themselves in a civilian police action. Three Marines and one Navy sailor face attainder courts-martial.

THIS REMIMDER:

U.S. Attorney John McKay and the Justice Department - Defense Department partnership in civilian law enforcement - The LInX program:

As the Seattle P-I previously reported, the Naval Criminal Investigation Service had taken the lead on funding LInX from the FBI, which is part of the Justice Department.

Local participants were disgruntled for years because the program did not have access to the local FBI's investigative files. McKay complained at high levels of the Bush administration.

In a Nov. 29, 2003, story, McKay told the P-I that he was encouraged that the naval service had stepped up to fund the program but depressed that the FBI pulled its support. Almost a year later, the FBI committed to share a portion of its digitized records with local law enforcement agencies.

2008 John McKay briefing regarding the LInX program.

Defense Department / Justice Department law enforcement partnership

over U.S. citzens.

NCIS SPECIAL AGENT JAMES H. CONNOLLY
&
THE CAMP PENDLETON EIGHT
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FROM TODAY'S WALL STREET JOURNAL
AN OP-ED BY FORMER DOJ LUMINARY JOHN YOO

"If Senate Democrats really thought there was any crime here, then they ought to find somebody maliciously or politically prosecuted by a new U.S. attorney, or an FBI agent forced to drop a good case because of a new U.S. Attorney's partisan agenda."

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JAG HUNTER HERE:

U.S. Attorney John Mckay was working aggressively on the Law Enforcement Information Exchange program (LInX) in March 2005 when I filed my criminal complaint against NCIS Special Agent James H. Connolly. Connolly worked out of the Silverdale, Washington Pacific Northwest regional NCIS headquarters. Special Agent Scott Jacobs was in charge at the time, Conolly's boss.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service had resurrected the LInX program by providing funding the DOJ was hard pressed to pony up. SAC Scott E. Jacobs worked on the prototype LInX program using the Pacific Northwest geographic footprint as the initial test bed. NCIS, in fact, had taken the lead on the LInX project. Scott Jacobs was the NCIS program manager working closely with McKay. (More ABOUT LInX here and POWER POINT PRESENTATION here)

I filed my criminal complaint against Connolly with the local Silverdale office of the FBI (Special Agents Patrick Gann and Stephanie Gleason - both still here). Pursuing the criminal complaint against Connolly ran the risk of focusing bright sunlight on the operation of the NCIS in local communities (local policing), and on their overall operation. More than that, my criminal complaint opened up the door on an investigation into a much larger criminal business, and was sure to seriously threaten, if not quash outright the planned launch of the LInX program. So the FBI (DOJ), the NCIS, and the DODIG ignored and stonewalled the complaint of a felony crime.

Special Agent Scott E. Jacobs was handsomely awarded by way of promotion for his successfully development and launch of LInX. Navy admirals awarded U.S. Attorney John McKay, before getting fired, the highest citation that can be given a civilian. Special Agent Ernest A. Simon holds an equivalent NCIS management position for criminal investigations.

NCIS Special Agent James H. Connolly is the supervisory special agent in charge of the Camp Pendleton Eight (HAMDANIA, IRAQ) investigation and is expected to testify in a matter of days in the court-martial of Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins that begins tomorrow.

Here endth the lesson.

Beware the fury of the patient man!