Category Archives: Current Affairs

Did Holder Commit Perjury?

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 […]

Politico: What’s Next For The IRS

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 […]

NY Times: Obama Admin Cast Wide Net In Leaker Cases

How big a net? This big (NY Times) Even before the F.B.I. conducted 550 interviews of officials and seized the phone records of Associated Press reporters in a leak investigation connected to a 2012 article about a Yemen bomb plot, agents had sought the same reporters’ sources for two other articles about terrorism. In a […]

DOJ Fought To Keep James Rosen Warrent Secret

Remind me, isn’t the Justice Department supposed to follow the Constitution and the Law? Apparently not when Eric Holder is in charge and they want to retaliate against a journalist (The New Yorker) The Obama Administration fought to keep a search warrant for James Rosen’s private e-mail account secret, arguing to a federal judge that […]

Lois Lerner Directly Involved With IRS Targeting Scheme?

It’s no wonder she pled the 5th (via Gator Doug) (National Review) A series of letters suggests that senior IRS official Lois Lerner was directly involved in the agency’s targeting of conservative groups as recently as April 2012, more than nine months after she first learned of the activity. Lerner, the director of the IRS […]

Issa: Lois Lerner Waived Her 5th Amendment Rights

As Orin Kerr points out, there is a lot of back and forth and varying opinions as to this matter, but not from Darrell Issa (Politico) Lois Lerner might win the legal battle but she’s prolonging the political war. Instead of simply taking the scorn of lawmakers for a day, repeatedly invoking the Fifth Amendment […]

And…Lois Lerner Did Plead The 5th

As pointed out yesterday, this was expected (Fox News) The director of the IRS division that singled out conservative groups refused to answer questions Wednesday at a House hearing on the program, as a Democratic lawmaker warned there would be “hell to pay” if the agency stonewalls Congress on its investigation. The IRS official, Lois […]

Milbank: “Government Makes Criminals Of Reporters”

It’s nice to see reporters and professional opinion writers employed by media outlets finally understanding the lawlessness of this administration. It’s a shame that it took a flagrant abuse of the 1st Amendment to some of their own, “which it seems is the only way these days to get the jaded, Obama loving media off […]

IRS Scandal: Stage Managed To Leave President Obama In The Dark

Those who’ve read my blog posts know that I always refer to him as Obama or (NMP) Obama (not my president). When I refer to Obama as President Obama I do it to make a point. Case in point, per this McClatchy article at the Raleigh News and Observer With Obama in the dark, administration […]

Lois Lerner To Plead 5th At IRS Hearing

As Ace points out, the LA Times originally buried their own scoop way down on the page. They’ve moved it up near the top as of my looking at it, and is now showing on the National page of their Droid app A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke […]

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