Showing posts with label WHITE HOUSE SCANDALS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WHITE HOUSE SCANDALS. Show all posts

Sunday, May 19, 2013

THE PERFECT STORM.... UPDATED 5/29/2013


We the people are being lied to on a vast and growing scale by the President AND his entire administration.

OUT OF THE (WATER)GATE...

The IRS was used WITH THIS ADMINISTRATION’S BLESSING to intimidate and silence opposition in the last election cycle.  The average time it took for a conservative organization to gain 'tax free’ classification was 27 months.  Yet Obama’s BROTHER –  Abongo “Roy” Malik Obama – was able to get his BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION approved by the IRS in 30 days.  But that’s not all.  Seems bro Abongo had been illegally collecting money for two years.  No problem – the IRS BACKDATED his status so he wouldn’t be ‘illegal’.  AND GUESS WHO PERSONALLY SIGNED OFF ON THIS APPROVAL/BACKDATE KRAP!  You got it - none other than Lois Lerner - the head of the 'non-profits' division of the IRS - the same one who took the 5th before Congress and who has since been on a tax-payer funded PAID VACATION!  Oh - one other thing - Seems Bro has been using his 'collections' to fund polygamy!  Hot off the press today [5/29/2013]:  
Funds contributed in the United States to a 501(c)3 foundation run by President Obama’s older half-brother, Abongo “Roy” Malik Obama, have been diverted to support Malik’s multiple wives in Kenya, an expert on Islamic extremism has charged.
WHAT   A   COUNTRY!!!!



The Obama administration says this IRS abuse was done by a couple of rogue agents in Cleveland.  Any American who seriously believes this has to have an IQ of room temperature.  Over 500 ORGANIZATIONS, and countless Americans, were denied a voice prior to the 2012 election because the IRS targeted them for ‘special treatment’ – which meant illegal, extensive, intrusive and absurd questionnaires requesting details about who, what, when, where and why have you started your group.  Some applicants were even asked for their Facebook Friends, who their donors and donors’ relatives were, and even directed to reveal ‘WHAT DO YOU PRAY ABOUT?’  This was NO SMALL ILLEGALITY!  This is abuse of power – pure and simple.  If Congress has to question every employee of the IRS, they need to get to the bottom of this abuse, and people need to go to jail.

I see nothing political here – this affects EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN…. More so because the same woman who was in charge of the ‘Tax Exempt Organizations department of the IRS ….. is now heading up the newly created department of the IRS that will oversee Obamacare compliance.  THAT should scare the shit out of everyone.

RIGHT THIS WAY FOR #2 [smells like it, too]

The Department of Justice tapped conversations – work, home, and cell – of hundreds of Associated Press reporters, and gathered conversations supposedly going back months – in order to prevent a ‘terror attack’.  [As an aside here – don’t you find it curious that the DoJ is investigating a mythical ‘terror plot’, yet this administration can’t recognize a ‘terror attack’ when it’s happening in real time?]  And to top it all off – HOLDER SAYS HE WAS UNAWARE OF THE PHONE TAPS!  Recall that he was also UNAWARE OF FAST & FURIOUS!  How can anyone so stupid keep that job through two Obama administrations?  Oh W A I T  ‼!  Holder knows where the birth certificate is buried.  Nevermind!

Flatly denying any prior knowledge to the subpoenas and who had issued them, he [Holder] stated [before Congress] that he was 99 per cent sure that deputy attorney general James Cole had issued them.

The Justice Departments claims that the records were seized as part of an investigation into leaked data on a CIA operation in Yemen to stop an airliner bombing plot on the anniversary of the death of Osama Bin Laden.

Holder stressed that the leak was very serious and had put the safety of the American people at risk and as such the Justice Department’s action was justified.

“I’ve been a prosecutor since 1976, and I have to say that this is among, if not the most serious – it’s in the top two or three – most serious leaks that I’ve ever seen,” Holder added. “It put the American people at risk. And that is not hyperbole.” Eric Holder 5/14/2013


The White House has also claimed ignorance, stating that it had no knowledge of “any attempt by the Justice Department to seek phone records of the AP.”

[Of course it did – right up until the moment the White House planned to announce that the Barack the Magnificent had ‘foiled a terror plot’.  Unfortunately, the AP broke the scoop the day before Barack could – a scoop they had been sitting on for 5 days at the behest of Barack.  Just damn.]

WAIT!  WAIT! 

Fast-forward to today (5/16/2013). Was the public ever actually at risk? Why, no, says The Washington Post...In fact, the AP held the story for days so as not to jeopardize U.S. counterterror ops, and only went ahead and published after the CIA assured them that there was no longer a risk. Nothing was compromised. Maybe Holder simply meant that the leak could have put the public at risk had the AP published right away…

For five days, reporters at the Associated Press had been sitting on a big scoop about a foiled al-Qaeda plot at the request of CIA officials. Then, in a hastily scheduled Monday morning meeting, the journalists were asked by agency officials to hold off on publishing the story for just one more day.

The CIA officials, who had initially cited national security concerns in an attempt to delay publication, no longer had those worries, according to individuals familiar with the exchange. Instead, the Obama administration was planning to announce the successful counterterrorism operation that Tuesday…

Told ya!


THREE'S A CROWD! 

AS FOR BENGHAZI…. I do not give a flaming fuck WHO altered the talking points used by Susan Rice the weekend after the 9/11 murder of four Americans.  (And 18 people were injured – anyone heard THIS?) The Obama administration is totally fine with arguing about the talking points – the WEEDS – because it’s keeping the microscope of the magnitude of this administration's massive incompetence.

The TRUE questions about this tragedy are: 

WHERE WAS OBAMA THE NIGHT OF THE ATTACK? 

5/25/2013 update:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/bam_mystery_night_j1wPAooDLENhjR5q8k1b0H


WHY DID LEON PANETTA TELL GEN. CARTER HAM (Head of AfriCOM) TO STAND DOWN?  The Constitution says only the PRESIDENT, acting as CinC, can ultimately command our military.  NOT THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE.  Where was Obama?  Why was he not seen after 5:00 in the afternoon, DC time – until, according to the official time line ‘HE WAS TOLD OF THE DEATHS OF THE FOUR AMERICANS AT 9:30 THE FOLLOWING MORNING.’  (Just before he made a statement to the press where he did NOT say the attack had been committed by terrorists) 

WHY DID WE NOT SEND REINFORCEMENTS THAT WERE ON THE TARMAC IN AVIANO, ITALY?  Panetta’s excuse was they could not get there in time!  HOW THE FUCK WOULD HE KNOW THEY WOULDN’T MAKE IT IN TIME?  DID PANETTA KNOW HOW LONG THE ATTACK WOULD LAST?

WHAT MADE TYRONE WOODS THINK REINFORCEMENTS WERE ON THE WAY?  He thought so because he was lighting the enemy with a laser so they could be taken out.  Instead, the terrorists located HIM, and slaughtered him.  A U.S. Army commando unit was sent to Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily, Italy the night of the attack but did not deploy to Benghazi. U.S. officials say the team did not arrive at Sigonella until after the attack was over.

WHERE WAS THE HEAD OF THE CIA THAT NIGHT?  Anyone notice that David Petraeus’ name is never mentioned?  One source said he was at a private showing of ‘ARGO’ that night – basically out of the loop, perhaps with his mistress/biographer.  If so – WHY WASN’T HE INTERRUPTED?  Surely this attack should have taken priority!

WHERE WAS OUR WORTHLESS SECRETARY OF STATE THAT NIGHT?  DOES SHE 'RECALL'?

Seriously – considering these questions – who gives a fuck about altered talking points?  There are far bigger lies coming from this White House than who rewrote talking points for an Obama lackey.


Yeah – we have a trifecta of serious lies concerning serious scandals swirling around 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  Hopefully the press will be outraged enough to pursue their own scandal, as well as the other two.  Frankly, my quota of outrage is exhausted.



Monday, May 13, 2013

THE TIP OF OBAMA’S IRS SCANDAL ICEBERG - UPDATED 5/29/2013


Austan Goolsbee, a University of Chicago economics professor, served as the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from September, 2010  and was the youngest member of the cabinet of President Barack Obama until his resignation in June, 2011.  He advised Obama during his 2004 Senate race and was senior economic policy adviser during the 2008 presidential campaign and served on the three-member economic council since the start of Obama’s first administration.

Goolsbee is also omniscient.  During an August 27, 2010, press briefing, he let slip that he knew that Koch Industries, a multibillion-dollar energy business run by the libertarian Koch brothers, had paid no income taxes.  “[W]e have a series of entities that do not pay corporate income tax, some of which are really giant firms. You know, Koch Industries is a multibillion-dollar business,” Mr. Goolsbee told reporters during an on-the- record background briefing on corporate taxes.

Could it be Mr. Goolsbee got the inside scoop from someone at the IRS?

[UPDATE 5/29/2013:  http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/former-white-house-official-deletes-embarrassing-tweet-about-koch-brothers-taxes_731862.html ]

This is not a new scandal – just one the left has run through the Scandal Condom the MSM uses to keep anything from touching Obama. 

In October, 2010, the liberal website ‘MotherJones’ published a story entitled: 
GoolsbeeGate: The GOP's Latest Obama "Scandal".  The article is sub-titled:  Republicans are trying to manufacture a scandal over an Obama aide's slip-up.


A SLIP-UP???  Exactly where did Goolsbee get his information about the Koch brother’s finances?  Reading from MotherJones: 

The issue: Did White House economic aide Austan Goolsbee nefariously gain access to the confidential tax records of Koch Industries, a megafirm privately owned by the billionaire Koch brothers, who have funded much anti-Obama political activity? The short answer: Probably not. But that hasn't stopped the scandalmakers, while the White House response has provided them running room.

Seems to me it’s time to drag this THREE-YEAR-OLD pearl out of the dusty drawer it’s been neatly tucked away in and revisit it.  Specifically, what was Goolsbee’s source?  Some low-level IRS flunky in Cleveland?  I think not.

The IRS ‘apology’ three days ago – for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews and ‘special handling’ is an attempt to 1) do a bad news ‘dump’ on a Friday, in hopes the story wouldn’t gain legs over the Mother’s Day weekend, and 2) an attempt to take the wind out of a report by the Inspector General’s office into these charges that’s due to be released within days.

On Friday, the IRS apologized for scrutinizing the tax-exempt status of groups with conservative titles such as "Tea Party" or "Patriot" in their applications. Republicans have challenged the tax agency's claim that the practice was initiated by low-level workers.

But according to a draft of a watchdog's report obtained Saturday by The Associated Press that seemingly contradicts public statements by the IRS commissioner, senior IRS officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups as early as 2011.

A partial draft report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration -- obtained by NBC News -- shows that top officials knew about the targeting nearly a year before then-IRS Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, testified to Congress in March 2012 that no singling out of conservative groups ever occurred.


http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/13/18230271-obama-irs-targeting-of-conservative-groups-outrageous?lite

AND WHAT MAKES HARRY REID SO CONFIDENT THAT HE WOULD MAKE THESE STATEMENTS ON THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE???  Could it be that HE got Romney's taxes from the IRS?





From our president today, in the White House East Room:  "This is pretty straightforward," Mr. Obama told reporters. "If in fact IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that have been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that's outrageous and there's no place for it."  (and declaring that the IRS is an independent agency ain't gonna cut it!)


'IF'????

YO!  

BARACK!  

Your IRS admitted to this AND APOLOGIZED on Friday [May 10, 2013]!  

Keep up, man!  


Add to this IRS story (which most Americans can surely identify with) the percolating Benghazi mess AND NOW the unfolding information that the Department of Justice has been collecting/monitoring phones at the Associated Press – phone lines possibly used by hundreds of AP reporters – and Obama may have constructed at 3-legged scandal stool that has real legs.  (Does anyone besides me question the advisability of wiretapping YOUR STRONGEST FRONT ORGANIZATION – the AP?)

As an aside, for you history buffs…. This summer is the 40th anniversary of the eruption of the Watergate Scandal that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

BUCKLE UP!