June 15, 2013 – 6:57 am
That’s what super partisan Dana Milbank wants to know (Washington Post) Where have all the liberals gone? President Obama, who as a Democratic senator accused the Bush administration of violating civil liberties in the name of security, now vigorously defends his own administration’s collection of Americans’ phone records and Internet activities. Senate Democratic leader Harry […]
June 13, 2013 – 9:05 am
So says the head of the NSA (NY Times) The director of the National Security Agency told Congress on Wednesday that “dozens†of terrorism threats had been halted by the agency’s huge database of the logs of nearly every domestic phone call made by Americans, while a senator briefed on the program disclosed that the […]
June 12, 2013 – 8:23 am
OK, OK, we know that this is a Republic, but it is a democratic Republic, part of the Democracy political model. And we do have to give them style points for going against Obama and other Democrats on this issue (NY Times) A new Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll found that a majority of Americans […]
June 10, 2013 – 10:50 am
The most transparent administration ever? (CBS News) CBS News has uncovered documents that show the State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal and inappropriate behavior within their ranks. The Diplomatic Security Service, or the DSS, is the State Department’s security force, charged with protecting the secretary of state and U.S. ambassadors overseas and […]
June 10, 2013 – 8:14 am
Ever since the NSA programs were revealed we’ve seen a steady stream of Big Government elitists coming forward and telling us things like “everything’s OK, it’s no big deal”. And “we’re not listening to your phone calls.” And “it’s called protecting Amerika.” Things like “we have to do everything and anything necessary.” And here’s Michael […]
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 […]
