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From: nicky@devinnunes.net
To: ennis10@ocs.net, Mike Ennis
Subject: Recognition Cattleman and Woman
Date: 13-Oct-2009 11:09
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Mike,
I don't know if anyone has already contacted you/supervisors about getting

certificates for the Cattleman and Cattlewoman of the year. If not, here it
is. The dinner is Friday night.
John Dofflemyer Cattleman of the Year
Marian Guthrie Cattlewoman of the Year
Hope to see you there - if you are not coming I can pick them up from
you/the office and take them.
Thanks,
Nicky
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Mike,
I don’t know if anyone has already contacted you/supervisors about getting certificates for the
Cattleman and Cattlewoman of the year. If not, here it is. The dinner is Friday night.
John Dofflemyer Cattleman of the Year
Marian Guthrie Cattlewoman of the Year
Hope to see you there – if you are not coming I can pick them up from you/the office and take
them.
Thanks,
Nicky
MAIL
From: Damon.Nelson@mail.house.gov
To: Steven Worthley
Subject: RE: Letter from the Corps on Success Dam
Date: 11-Mar-2010 14:27
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Also, we got your letter on putting land into trust for Indians. I have
taken your letter and sent it to the Republican staff at the committee.
They told me that you aren't the only one with concerns and that they
will try and make changes to the Democrats bill.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Worthley [mailto:SWorthley@co.tulare.ca.us]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:40 PM
To: Nelson, Damon
Subject: RE: Letter from the Corps on Success Dam
Thanks. That's about what I got out of it too. Thanks for the
confirmation. Steve.
>>> "Nelson, Damon" <Damon.Nelson@mail.house.gov> 3/11/2010 1:28 PM >>>

Absolutely nothing! Reading between the lines -- "we will try".
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:27 PM
To: Nelson, Damon
Subject: Re: Letter from the Corps on Success Dam
Thanks, Damon, but what does it mean? Steve Worthley
>>> "Nelson, Damon" <Damon.Nelson@mail.house.gov> 3/11/2010 9:15 AM >>>

I thought you might want to see this as a follow up to our meeting in
Washington.
Damon
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Damon Nelson
Deputy Chief of Staff & Legislative Director
Congressman Devin Nunes
1013 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
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To: John Gong
Subject: Re: This Friday
Date: 22-Sep-2010 14:00
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Hi John,
Good afternoon. Hope your day is going well.
What time do you think the bust is taking place? Just want to figure out my schedule for the day.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Pete
Supervisor Vander Poel
From: "Gong, John" <John.Gong@mail.house.gov>
To: Pete Vander Poel <PVanderpoel@co.tulare.ca.us>
Sent: 9/22/2010 10:58:53 AM

Subject: This Friday
Are you attending the Regional Council of Rural Counties? If not, are you interested in going out on a marijuana bust with
TCSO?
John A. Gong
Director of Constituent Services
21st Congressional District - California
113 North Church Street, Suite 208
Visalia, CA 93291
559.733-3861 (p)
559.733.3865 (f)
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Date: 22-Sep-2010 14:10
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Sounds great! I'm in. Look forward to seeing you then.
Pete
Sent: 9/22/2010 2:04:48 PM

Subject: RE: This Friday
This should take maybe 2 hours at tops.
From: Pete Vander Poel [mailto:PVanderpoel@co.tulare.ca.us]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 2:00 PM
To: Gong, John
Hi John,
Pete
Sent: 9/22/2010 10:58:53 AM

TCSO?
John A. Gong
Visalia, CA 93291
559.733-3861 (p)
559.733.3865 (f)
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From: John.Gong@mail.house.gov
To: Pete Vander Poel
Subject: RE: This Friday
Date: 22-Sep-2010 14:04
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We are meeting TCSO 730am at the govt center then going to Lindsay where the grove is located. Our office, Connie's
and I believe that the CAO and DA's office have been invited.
From: Pete Vander Poel [mailto:PVanderpoel@co.tulare.ca.us]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 2:00 PM
To: Gong, John
Hi John,
Pete
Sent: 9/22/2010 10:58:53 AM

TCSO?
John A. Gong
Visalia, CA 93291
559.733-3861 (p)
559.733.3865 (f)
MAIL
To: Steven Worthley
Subject: RE: Levee vegetation
Date: 22-Nov-2010 13:50
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Thanks. I'm not sure the Congressman will be signing onto a letter from three members that have done everything they
can to take water away from us. With that said, the Congressman did personally talk to the Secretary about it. Also, there
is discussion about doing a Republican letter because some of the language they use in their letter doesn't sit well with a
number of folks in the delegation.

Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 2:49 PM
To: Nelson, Damon
Cc: dwetmore@carpiclay.com; Carol Pightling; Debbie Vaughn; Jean Rousseau
Subject: Levee vegetation
Damon,
Below is an e-mail and copy of the revised letter regarding the levee vegetation issue. We appreciate the discussion you
had with the Assistant Secretary regarding the vegetation policy and would also like to request Congressman Nunes'
signature on the revised letter. As outlined in the attached, Congressman Garamendi's office is coordinating the
signatures.
Steve Worthley, Chairman

Tulare County Board of Supervisors
TO: County Public Works Directors

CEAC Flood Control Committee
FROM: Mitch Avalon, Chair, CEAC Flood Control Committee

Karen Keene, CSAC Staff
The following letter from Representatives Garamendi, Matsui and Miller is being circulated among the House Democrats.
Please contact your House Representative and urge them to sign onto the letter. They may do so by contacting
Congressman Garamendi's office. Please note that the deadline to sign on is COB Tuesday, Nov. 23rd. Any questions
should be directed to: Josh Franco (Rep. Garamendis staff person) at
josh.franco@mail.house.gov<mailto:josh.franco@mail.house.gov>.
Thanks!
.
________________________________
November XX, 2010
The Honorable Jo-Ellen Darcy
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
108 Army Pentagon, Room 3E446

Washington, DC 20310-0108
Dear Assistant Secretary Darcy,
We write to convey our concern about the Army Corps of Engineers levee vegetation policy, which we believe is
inconsistent with overall Corps policy and practice, and which appears to be in conflict with longstanding federal, state,
and local statutes and policies applicable in our congressional districts.
Our local governments have made it clear that removing all trees and shrubs from federally constructed levees along
rivers and streams, as the new guidelines would require, is not a workable policy. The new guidance has the potential to
impact thousands of miles of levees across California, compromise our already fragile ecosystems, place a large financial
burden on our struggling economy, ignore region-specific conditions, and negatively impact public safety.
The State of California and a number of local governments are in the midst of upgrading hundreds of miles of levees that
protect urban cities, rural agricultural areas and the Delta. The Army Corps levee vegetation policy may result in stripping
valuable ecosystem habitat from our state, as well as force projects to be redesigned at higher costs to taxpayers. This
levee vegetation policy could actually decrease the stability of levees. It is also in conflict with federal environmental
agency protections of endangered species.
The 1996 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) provided appropriate direction to the Corps for developing levee
vegetation guidelines, and California has led the way to help resolve these issues, with support from the Corps, through
such processes as the California Levee Roundtable.
We ask that the Army Corps work with local and state officials - and with your regional divisions and the regional offices of
other relevant federal agencies - to enhance public safety and ensure the viability of riparian vegetation, trees, and shrubs
for the health of terrestrial and aquatic species. Additionally, we believe that a balanced approach can be reached that
ensures public safety and allows much-needed flood protection work to proceed without compromising valuable natural
resources.
We look forward to your response and working together.
Sincerely,
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Thanks. I’m not sure the Congressman will be signing onto a letter from three members that have done
everything they can to take water away from us. With that said, the Congressman did personally talk to the
Secretary about it. Also, there is discussion about doing a Republican letter because some of the language
they use in their letter doesn’t sit well with a number of folks in the delegation.

Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 2:49 PM
To: Nelson, Damon
Cc: dwetmore@carpiclay.com; Carol Pightling; Debbie Vaughn; Jean Rousseau
Subject: Levee vegetation
Damon,
Below is an e-mail and copy of the revised letter regarding the levee vegetation issue. We appreciate the discussion
you had with the Assistant Secretary regarding the vegetation policy and would also like to request Congressman
Nunes' signature on the revised letter. As outlined in the attached, Congressman Garamendi's office is coordinating the
signatures.
Steve Worthley, Chairman

Tulare County Board of Supervisors
TO: County Public Works Directors

CEAC Flood Control Committee
FROM: Mitch Avalon, Chair, CEAC Flood Control Committee

Karen Keene, CSAC Staff
The following letter from Representatives Garamendi, Matsui and Miller is being circulated among the House
Democrats. Please contact your House Representative and urge them to sign onto the letter. They may do so by
contacting Congressman Garamendi's office. Please note that the deadline to sign on is COB Tuesday, Nov. 23rd. Any
questions should be directed to: Josh Franco (Rep. Garamendis staff person) at josh.franco@mail.house.gov.
Thanks!
.
________________________________
November XX, 2010
The Honorable Jo-Ellen Darcy
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
108 Army Pentagon, Room 3E446

Washington, DC 20310-0108
Dear Assistant Secretary Darcy,
We write to convey our concern about the Army Corps of Engineers levee vegetation policy, which we believe is
inconsistent with overall Corps policy and practice, and which appears to be in conflict with longstanding federal, state,
and local statutes and policies applicable in our congressional districts.
Our local governments have made it clear that removing all trees and shrubs from federally constructed levees along
rivers and streams, as the new guidelines would require, is not a workable policy. The new guidance has the potential
to impact thousands of miles of levees across California, compromise our already fragile ecosystems, place a large
financial burden on our struggling economy, ignore region-specific conditions, and negatively impact public safety.
The State of California and a number of local governments are in the midst of upgrading hundreds of miles of levees
that protect urban cities, rural agricultural areas and the Delta. The Army Corps levee vegetation policy may result in
stripping valuable ecosystem habitat from our state, as well as force projects to be redesigned at higher costs to
taxpayers. This levee vegetation policy could actually decrease the stability of levees. It is also in conflict with federal
environmental agency protections of endangered species.
The 1996 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) provided appropriate direction to the Corps for developing levee
vegetation guidelines, and California has led the way to help resolve these issues, with support from the Corps, through
such processes as the California Levee Roundtable.
We ask that the Army Corps work with local and state officials - and with your regional divisions and the regional offices
of other relevant federal agencies - to enhance public safety and ensure the viability of riparian vegetation, trees, and
shrubs for the health of terrestrial and aquatic species. Additionally, we believe that a balanced approach can be
reached that ensures public safety and allows much-needed flood protection work to proceed without compromising
valuable natural resources.
We look forward to your response and working together.
Sincerely,
MAIL
From: JRousseau@co.tulare.ca.us
To: Debbie Vaughn, David Wetmore
Subject: Re:
Date: 10-Nov-2011 13:20
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I heard the same story this morning on NPR. Should we send a letter of support from the BOS?
Take care,
Jean
>>> On 11/10/2011 at 12:26 PM, in message

<7DB8323B342E3C4FA223ACE04098E18753E42F6020@AUSP01VMBX30.collaborationhost.net>, David Wetmore
<dwetmore@carpiclay.com> wrote:
Please see (highlighted) reference near end of story regarding Feinstein activity. As you probably know, Nunes also
serves on the House Intelligence Committee.
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Federal intelligence agencies may help target pot growers
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Lawmakers soon may enlist the nation's spymaster to help fight Mexican drug traffickers and others who use federal land
in California and elsewhere to grow marijuana.
A provision of the 2012 intelligence authorization bill calls on the director of national intelligence to assess and report on
how federal intelligence agencies can help park rangers, fish and wildlife wardens, and other U.S. land managers weed
out pot gardens and other activities operated by foreign drug traffickers.
The bill, now before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, also directs the top spy to consult with federal
public land managers to identify intelligence and information-sharing gaps related to drug trafficking. The House passed
its version of the bill, HR 1892 ( http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS.../pdf/BILLS-112hr1892pcs.pdf ), in September.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., who wrote the provision, said the nation’s intelligence apparatus needs to address
marijuana grown on public land because of thepresence of foreign drug traffickers and the accompanying threat of
violence.
“We don’t know what they’re doing with the money, where the money goes, whose bank account it ends up in,” he said of
foreign drug traffickers who operate on public land. “They’re here ruining our national resources, and they’re putting our
citizens at risk. Hikers can’t go into the field for fear they’ll be harmed. Wildlife doesn’t have a chance.”
U.S. law enforcement believes that hundreds of millions of dollars generated from public-land gardens flows to Mexico,
said David Prince, assistant special agent in charge of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San
Francisco.
While federal officials suspect that Mexican organized crime bosses might be involved, authorities say they have not
proven a direct link between marijuana gardens on U.S. public lands and the major Mexico-based drug cartels.
"The amount of money being generated by this activity can't possibly be happening without Mexican cartels wanting to get
their hands on it," Prince said. “My presumption is money can’t be made without cartels knowing and taxing at a
minimum.”
The intelligence world previously has tried to help with domestic eradication efforts. In the 1980s, state and federal law
enforcement in California used the high-altitude U-2 spy plane to help spot pot gardens, with limited success.
The U.S. Forest Service and the Interior Department, which includes the national parks, already work with intelligence and
law enforcement agencies to fight marijuana growing. The Interior Department also has representatives at the National
Counterterrorism Center and a major drug intelligence-sharing hub. Other spy agencies, such as the National Geospatial-
Intelligence Agency, have been assigned in individual cases.
This broader involvement, however, would be a new development in the battle against marijuana growers who have
exploited remote public lands and a dearth of law enforcement to reap billions of dollars in profits, according to federal law
enforcement officials.
A spokesman for James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, declined to comment on pending legislation, as did
Interior Department and Forest Service spokesmen.
Tommy LaNier, who directs the White House-funded ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/marijuana ) National Marijuana
Initiative, said land managers need assistance to take on a bigger role in addressing the problem, as 65 to 70 percent of
pot eradicated nationwide – and as much as 80 percent in California – comes off federal land.
“Bringing in the (intelligence community) to help public land managers have a better understanding of the threats is an
essential part of managing the problem of marijuana cultivation on public lands,” LaNier said.
Others, however, question involving the director of national intelligence. They say there are greater security threats that
require the office’s attention. Other agencies, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration and the White House drug
czar’s office, already know the issue. There also are civil liberties and transparency concerns about having the intelligence
community involved in domestic issues.
The provision comes as more federal attention has turned in recent months toward curbing marijuana production in
general and on public lands specifically. As law enforcement has stepped up raids, some growers have moved their
operations ( http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/armed-volunteers-clean-garbage-toxins-left-marijuana-growers-10831 )
to vast tracts of private farms and timberland. Meanwhile, California Gov. Jerry Brown cut funding in the 2012 budget for
the nearly 30-year-old marijuana eradication program known as the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting.
The four U.S. attorneys in California last month announced a coordinated effort (
http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/landlords-property-owners-are-new-targets-anti-pot-strategy-12967 ) to attack the
state’s pot industry – including operators who claim to be in compliance with local medical marijuana laws. The top federal
prosecutors set a statewide enforcement strategy that lists distributors with ties to international drug cartels as one of their
priority targets, according to a February 2011 internal memo.
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has called a Senate drug caucus hearing next month on marijuana cultivation on
federal public and tribal lands. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which Feinstein leads, is expected to take
up the authorization bill – and support Rep. Thompson’s provision – in the coming weeks.
Among the intelligence agencies that could be tapped if the bill becomes law are the National Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency for its unclassified satellite imagery of public lands and the Treasury Department’s intelligence office to track illicit
money, LaNier said. The National Security Agency could be assigned, on a limited basis, to intercept public two-way radio
communications. The CIA would not be involved.
While the provision targets a specific problem rather than a nebulous issue, such as terrorism, it’s another example of the
blending of intelligence and law enforcement in the decade after 9/11, said Steven Aftergood, who directs the Project on
Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists.
“The barriers between federal intelligence and domestic security that existed in the past have all but disappeared,” he said
in an e-mail. “We have a right to ask for greater transparency.”
Jeffrey Richelson, a senior fellow with The National Security Archive, said there is a difference between an occasional
task for spy agencies and direct consultation through a full-scale program.
“The question is, what specific constraints are there on the use of imagery – pictures of individuals and their activities?” he
said. “Inevitably, it gets you into the area of domestic spying by using overhead surveillance for law enforcement
purposes. It always raises questions of what’s the next step? Where does it go next?”
Ronald Brooks, who leads the federally funded Northern California High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program,
acknowledged concerns raised by civil liberties groups, but said the threat of foreign drug traffickers warrants the use of
spy equipment focused on federal public land, where there’s no reasonable expectation of privacy. Domestic marijuana
eradication, however, is not a traditional intelligence community role, he said.
Brooks said the DEA or White House drug czar may be a better fit to tackle the issue than the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence. Tom Gorman, director of the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program, said
another report isn’t necessary, as other agencies already are doing threat assessments.
“I would tell you everything they need to know, they already have,” Gorman said. “If the executive branch doesn’t pay
attention (to the report), they just wasted a bunch of time.”
An earlier version of the bill passed by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence also required the spy chief
to develop a strategic plan to address the issue. The House stripped out that language because Congress didn’t want the
intelligence community to overreach into domestic jurisdictions, Thompson said.
“We’re calling on them (the intelligence community) to provide us with some expertise in dealing with this issue so we can
all be working from the same sheet of music,” Thompson said. “It only seems reasonable that we collaborate and we work
together at every level.”
Thompson pointed to an anti-marijuana growing operation in and around Northern California's Mendocino National Forest
as an example of the growing threat of foreign drug traffickers. Dubbed Operation Full Court Press (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWVqF1WxlSk ), the crackdown caught 131 suspects, all but 11 of whom were foreign
nationals, according to ICE records. Most were men from the western Mexican state of Michoacán. Less than a third of
those arrested were charged with marijuana-related crimes.
Another recent operation in California’s Central Valley netted 86 defendants, almost all of whom were in the country
illegally, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Sacramento.
In a separate case that began last year in Shasta County, a sheriff’s office and DEA investigation has led to indictments of
27 people involved in growing marijuana on both public and private lands. Defendants include U.S. citizens and foreign
nationals, a third of them in the country illegally or with an undetermined immigration status, according to court
documents.
ICE officials anticipate their agency will focus more on domestic marijuana production, a crime that in the past was not a
priority for investigators. That's changed in the last two years, as ICE agents have seen more undocumented growers and
other crimes, like weapons possession and smuggling of bulk cash and humans.
David Wetmore | Carpi Clay & Smith
tel 202.822.6610 | mobile 202.306.9533 | fax 202.822.8315
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I heard the same story this morning on NPR. Should we send a letter of support from the BOS?
Take care,
Jean
>>> On 11/10/2011 at 12:26 PM, in message <7DB8323B342E3C4FA223ACE04098E18753E42F6020@AUSP01VMBX30.

collaborationhost.net>, David Wetmore <dwetmore@carpiclay.com> wrote:
Please see (highlighted) reference near end of story regarding Feinstein activity. As you probably know, Nunes also serves on
the House Intelligence Committee.
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Federal intelligence agencies may help target pot growers
November 9, 2011|Andrew Beckerand Michael Montgomery,California Watch
Lawmakers soon may enlist the nation's spymaster to help fight Mexican drug traffickers and others who use federal land
in California and elsewhere to grow marijuana.
A provision of the 2012 intelligence authorization bill calls on the director of national intelligence to assess and report on
how federal intelligence agencies can help park rangers, fish and wildlife wardens, and other U.S. land managers weed
out pot gardens and other activities operated by foreign drug traffickers.
The bill, now before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, also directs the top spy to consult with federal
public land managers to identify intelligence and information-sharing gaps related to drug trafficking. The House passed
its version of the bill, HR 1892, in September.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., who wrote the provision, said the nation's intelligence apparatus needs to address
marijuana grown on public land because of thepresence of foreign drug traffickers and the accompanying threat of
violence.
"We don't know what they're doing with the money, where the money goes, whose bank account it ends up in," he said of
foreign drug traffickers who operate on public land. "They're here ruining our national resources, and they're putting our
citizens at risk. Hikers can't go into the field for fear they'll be harmed. Wildlife doesn't have a chance."
U.S. law enforcement believes that hundreds of millions of dollars generated from public-land gardens flows to Mexico,
said David Prince, assistant special agent in charge of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San
Francisco.
While federal officials suspect that Mexican organized crime bosses might be involved, authorities say they have not
proven a direct link between marijuana gardens on U.S. public lands and the major Mexico-based drug cartels.
"The amount of money being generated by this activity can't possibly be happening without Mexican cartels wanting to
get their hands on it," Prince said. "My presumption is money can't be made without cartels knowing and taxing at a
minimum."
The intelligence world previously has tried to help with domestic eradication efforts. In the 1980s, state and federal law
enforcement in California used the high-altitude U-2 spy plane to help spot pot gardens, with limited success.
The U.S. Forest Service and the Interior Department, which includes the national parks, already work with intelligence
and law enforcement agencies to fight marijuana growing. The Interior Department also has representatives at the
National Counterterrorism Center and a major drug intelligence-sharing hub. Other spy agencies, such as the National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, have been assigned in individual cases.
This broader involvement, however, would be a new development in the battle against marijuana growers who have
exploited remote public lands and a dearth of law enforcement to reap billions of dollars in profits, according to federal
law enforcement officials.
A spokesman for James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, declined to comment on pending legislation, as did
Interior Department and Forest Service spokesmen.
Tommy LaNier, who directs the White House-funded National Marijuana Initiative, said land managers need assistance to
take on a bigger role in addressing the problem, as 65 to 70 percent of pot eradicated nationwide - and as much as 80
percent in California - comes off federal land.
"Bringing in the (intelligence community) to help public land managers have a better understanding of the threats is an
essential part of managing the problem of marijuana cultivation on public lands," LaNier said.
Others, however, question involving the director of national intelligence. They say there are greater security threats that
require the office's attention. Other agencies, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration and the White House drug
czar's office, already know the issue. There also are civil liberties and transparency concerns about having the
intelligence community involved in domestic issues.
The provision comes as more federal attention has turned in recent months toward curbing marijuana production in
general and on public lands specifically. As law enforcement has stepped up raids, some growers have moved their
operations to vast tracts of private farms and timberland. Meanwhile, California Gov. Jerry Brown cut funding in the 2012
budget for the nearly 30-year-old marijuana eradication program known as the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting.
The four U.S. attorneys in California last month announced a coordinated effort to attack the state's pot industry -
including operators who claim to be in compliance with local medical marijuana laws. The top federal prosecutors set a
statewide enforcement strategy that lists distributors with ties to international drug cartels as one of their priority targets,
according to a February 2011 internal memo.
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has called a Senate drug caucus hearing next month on marijuana cultivation on
federal public and tribal lands. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which Feinstein leads, is expected to take
up the authorization bill - and support Rep. Thompson's provision - in the coming weeks.
Among the intelligence agencies that could be tapped if the bill becomes law are the National Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency for its unclassified satellite imagery of public lands and the Treasury Department's intelligence office to track illicit
money, LaNier said. The National Security Agency could be assigned, on a limited basis, to intercept public two-way
radio communications. The CIA would not be involved.
While the provision targets a specific problem rather than a nebulous issue, such as terrorism, it's another example of the
blending of intelligence and law enforcement in the decade after 9/11, said Steven Aftergood, who directs the Project on
Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists.
"The barriers between federal intelligence and domestic security that existed in the past have all but disappeared," he
said in an e-mail. "We have a right to ask for greater transparency."
Jeffrey Richelson, a senior fellow with The National Security Archive, said there is a difference between an occasional
task for spy agencies and direct consultation through a full-scale program.
"The question is, what specific constraints are there on the use of imagery - pictures of individuals and their activities?"
he said. "Inevitably, it gets you into the area of domestic spying by using overhead surveillance for law enforcement
purposes. It always raises questions of what's the next step? Where does it go next?"
Ronald Brooks, who leads the federally funded Northern California High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program,
acknowledged concerns raised by civil liberties groups, but said the threat of foreign drug traffickers warrants the use of
spy equipment focused on federal public land, where there's no reasonable expectation of privacy. Domestic marijuana
eradication, however, is not a traditional intelligence community role, he said.
Brooks said the DEA or White House drug czar may be a better fit to tackle the issue than the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence. Tom Gorman, director of the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program, said
another report isn't necessary, as other agencies already are doing threat assessments.
"I would tell you everything they need to know, they already have," Gorman said. "If the executive branch doesn't pay
attention (to the report), they just wasted a bunch of time."
An earlier version of the bill passed by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence also required the spy
chief to develop a strategic plan to address the issue. The House stripped out that language because Congress didn't
want the intelligence community to overreach into domestic jurisdictions, Thompson said.
"We're calling on them (the intelligence community) to provide us with some expertise in dealing with this issue so we
can all be working from the same sheet of music," Thompson said. "It only seems reasonable that we collaborate and we
work together at every level."
Thompson pointed to an anti-marijuana growing operation in and around Northern California's Mendocino National Forest
as an example of the growing threat of foreign drug traffickers. Dubbed Operation Full Court Press, the crackdown caught
131 suspects, all but 11 of whom were foreign nationals, according to ICE records. Most were men from the western
Mexican state of Michoacán. Less than a third of those arrested were charged with marijuana-related crimes.
Another recent operation in California's Central Valley netted 86 defendants, almost all of whom were in the country
illegally, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Sacramento.
In a separate case that began last year in Shasta County, a sheriff's office and DEA investigation has led to indictments
of 27 people involved in growing marijuana on both public and private lands. Defendants include U.S. citizens and foreign
nationals, a third of them in the country illegally or with an undetermined immigration status, according to court
documents.
ICE officials anticipate their agency will focus more on domestic marijuana production, a crime that in the past was not a
priority for investigators. That's changed in the last two years, as ICE agents have seen more undocumented growers
and other crimes, like weapons possession and smuggling of bulk cash and humans.
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To: Rudy Mendoza, Ted Smalley
Subject: RE: Fwd: FW: Action Needed! Contact your Representatives in support of federal funding for counties
Date: 06-Feb-2012 10:32
Message Id: 4F2FAC2A.VIS.PO4.200.20000DB.1.4CCDC.1
Thank you Ted. You know exactly where we are on this. We want local control of the money -- not in CalTrans' hands.
From: Ted Smalley [mailto:TSmalley@co.tulare.ca.us]
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 10:32 AM
To: Nelson, Damon; Mendoza, Rudy
Cc: Pete Vander Poel
Subject: Re: Fwd: FW: Action Needed! Contact your Representatives in support of federal funding for counties
Rudy/Damon
Please see e-mail trail below You may be called/contacted. From TCAG perspective our biggest issues are:
- Funding for National high priority corridors (Congressman Nunes got the designation for SR-99 in last bill)
- Goods movement funding
- MPO threshold and current funding levels
- Dedicated funding for CMAQ and bridges
We love the idea of decisions at the local level, but I have not read the details that are referred to below.
As we get a better read we will forward on information
Thanks
>>> Ted Smalley 2/6/2012 7:23 AM >>>

Give me a day or two to review. I understand the concern and without reading all the detail we are always supportive of
more local control then at the state (Caltrans)
I think Congressman Nunes also in theory support more control for locals vs. Caltrans (state). The question is how the
state may be required to still have minimum set asides for locals. The details and semantics are important here. I will also
forward to our government relations consultant. I would want to be cautious until I have had a detailed review of the issue.
The challenge that is facing Congress is balancing flexibility with required set asides.
Let me have some review done and we will get back to you.
Ted Smalley
Executive Director
Tulare County Association of Governments
210 N. Church St. Suite B,
Visalia, CA 93291
(559) 624-7274
tsmalley@co.tulare.ca.us ( mailto:624-74tsmalley@co.tulare.ca.us )
>>> Britt Fussel 2/5/2012 10:26 AM >>>

Ted
Is there a desired position that TCAG would suggest Tulare County and it's cities should take on the below referenced
legislation? I'm concerned with getting out ahead of TCAG and going in the wrong direction. Please advise when you have
a chance.
Thank you.
Britt
>>> Jake Raper Jr 02/02/2012 11:21 PM >>>

Debbie and Britt - can you send a letter on behalf of Tulare County or should this come from the CAO's office? Jake
>>> Brian Roberts <broberts@naco.org> 2/2/2012 11:18 AM >>>
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From: rudy.mendoza@mail.house.gov
To: Marilyn Kinoshita
Subject: Re: Irrigated acres in Tulare County
Date: 31-Aug-2016 13:27
Message Id: 57C6DB57.VIS.PO18.200.2000008.1.2445.1
Thank you Marilyn. We appreciate Kaye the quick response.
Rudy Mendoza
Field Representative
Congressman Devin Nunes CD22
113 N. Church Street, Suite 208
Visalia, CA 93291
C: (559) 747-4455
P: (559) 733-3861
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> On Aug 31, 2016, at 1:15 PM, Marilyn Kinoshita <MKinoshi@co.tulare.ca.us> wrote:
>
> Hi Rudy, Devon's chart showed 563,000 ac. for our county but that is way low. On page 9 of our new crop report we
show 1,780,169 harvested acres. Add in 17,654 acres of non-bearing trees and vines and remove 615,000 acres of native
range. My figure is 1,182,823 acres. Was he only referring to acreage within or outside a water or irrigation district?
>
> I would ask each Ag Comm to verify theirs.
>
> Marilyn Kinoshita
>

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John Dofflemyer Cattleman of the Year

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>>> "Nelson, Damon" <Damon.Nelson@mail.house.gov> 3/11/2010 1:28 PM >>>

Thanks, Damon, but what does it mean? Steve Worthley

>>> "Nelson, Damon" <Damon.Nelson@mail.house.gov> 3/11/2010 9:15 AM >>>

Good afternoon. Hope your day is going well.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Sent: 9/22/2010 10:58:53 AM

Sounds great! I'm in. Look forward to seeing you then.

Sent: 9/22/2010 2:04:48 PM

This should take maybe 2 hours at tops.

Good afternoon. Hope your day is going well.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Sent: 9/22/2010 10:58:53 AM

Good afternoon. Hope your day is going well.

Look forward to hearing from you.

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From: Steven Worthley [mailto:SWorthley@co.tulare.ca.us]

Steve Worthley, Chairman

TO: County Public Works Directors

FROM: Mitch Avalon, Chair, CEAC Flood Control Committee

November XX, 2010

The Honorable Jo-Ellen Darcy

Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)

U. S. Army Corps of Engineers

108 Army Pentagon, Room 3E446

Dear Assistant Secretary Darcy,

We look forward to your response and working together.

From: Steven Worthley [mailto:SWorthley@co.tulare.ca.us]

Steve Worthley, Chairman

TO: County Public Works Directors

FROM: Mitch Avalon, Chair, CEAC Flood Control Committee

November XX, 2010

The Honorable Jo-Ellen Darcy

Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)

U. S. Army Corps of Engineers

108 Army Pentagon, Room 3E446

Dear Assistant Secretary Darcy,

We look forward to your response and working together.

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