June 9, 2013 – 8:13 am
As the UK Guardian continues to release information on the NSA programs (such as Boundless Informant), Obama and his team attempt to deflect attention away, including say “hey, they’re just modest encroachments on privacy, liberty, your 4th Amendment rights”. DNI James Clapper whined about the “rush to publish“. And then there was the notion that […]
June 5, 2013 – 7:58 am
Funny how some people get easy peasey access to the White House and Obama, eh? (Daily Caller) Nick Nyhart, the CEO of a liberal organization that criticizes corporate campaign spending and employs the wife of former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, visited the White House seven times and had two visits with President Obama around the […]
June 4, 2013 – 8:39 am
This was not just Lisa Jackson, but others, and, apparently just because their regular inboxes are overloaded or something. (Newsday) Some of President Barack Obama’s political appointees, including the secretary for Health and Human Services, are using secret government email accounts they say are necessary to prevent their inboxes from being overwhelmed with unwanted messages, […]
June 3, 2013 – 11:17 am
And are upset that they are being blamed for doing what they were told to do (UK Daily Mail) Interviews with IRS employees have established that the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service was engaged in targeting tea party groups and other conservative organizations for unfair levels of scrutiny when they applied for […]
June 2, 2013 – 7:53 am
What this all shows is that Obama and his top people are more concerned with politics than doing what is right. The original headline, per the URL and the webpage header was “Goals to fulfill and foes to foil keep Holder going, changed to Seeking a Fresh Start, Holder Finds a Fresh Set of Troubles […]
June 1, 2013 – 7:22 am
Don’t bet on it (The Blaze) White House spokesman Josh Earnest couldn’t provide a direct answer when asked by a reporter on Friday if President Barack Obama would “apologize†to conservative groups who were unfairly targeted by the IRS. Rather than saying the president is sorry or planned to apologize, Earnest said Obama was “troubled†[…]
May 31, 2013 – 8:08 am
As the House Ways and Means and Oversight committees get ready to question IRS employees at the Cincinnati office, we learn something interesting (Washington Examiner) President Obama may have promised “to hold the responsible parties accountable†for the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative non-profit groups, but one of the agents at the center of […]
May 30, 2013 – 7:26 am
Rich Lowry provides an opinion piece over at The Politico on the real problem with Big Government, entitled The Lois Lerner State It is appropriate that the worst scandal of the Obama administration— the IRS targeting of conservatives — is a scandal of administrators and bureaucrats, of otherwise faceless people endowed with immense power over […]
May 28, 2013 – 3:41 pm
That’s what the House wants to know (The Hill) The House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath during his May 15 testimony on the Justice Department’s (DOJ) surveillance of reporters, an aide close to the matter told The Hill. The panel is looking at a statement Holder made during […]
May 27, 2013 – 3:22 pm
Politico’s Kelsey Snell should read a different article on Politico about Sharyl Attkinson, who has been one of the few reporters willing to engage in Journalism, rather than hero worship like most of the rest of the media, and investigate the IRS scandal. Anyhow In the two weeks since the news surfaced that the Internal […]
