Note:  You might want to start at the Barack Obama Index Page, especially if you arrived here by using a search engine.

Years ago, the Democrats tried to assert that the Republican party was mired in a "culture of corruption," and only the Democrats could be trusted to obey the law.  Almost since the day they introduced that slogan, exactly the opposite has been shown to be true.  I've been pointing out the Democrats' ethical shortcomings for several years on this page, and now it seems the Obama administration is supplying a ton of new material every week, by hiring, defending and (in some cases) retaining a whole series of people who cheat on their taxes.

This should come as no surprise, because as some of us have been saying for about a year, Mr. Obama has never competently managed any business or organization in his life.  All this was pointed out on this page, in case you missed it.

As the months go by, Mr. Obama's administration has begun to emit more odors of corruption than any presidency since...  the last Democrat president!

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Obama's fundraising scandals in 2008, and again in 2012.
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Eric Holder
Joe Biden
Loretta Lynch
The FBI neglects to indict Hillary Clinton

Barack Obama and the Stupidity of the American Voter.  [Scroll down]  So, as president, Barry pretty much had his way for eight years, growing government; siccing the FBI, CIA, and IRS on his opponents; using the imbecile Joe Biden as impeachment insurance; and making our country just as gay as a man who dreams daily about sodomy with other men could.  And when Obama's time in office was almost up, his DNC purposely screwed over every candidate but Crooked Hillary, his media minions pretended she was Albert Einstein with ovaries, and the FBI lied to a compliant FISA court to start spying on Donald Trump's campaign.  In return for having the Oval Office handed to her, Hillary was to be Obama's puppet and do whatever he demanded.  But despite all the money, media, and Deep State denizens supporting her, Clinton somehow lost the election. [...] And in 2019, a new Obama puppet was found to oppose Trump: the dolt Joe Biden.  All the already corrupt and captured institutions listed above immediately did their thing, and with the help of some serious electoral shenanigans, we saw an elderly, clearly senile man with a history of brain injuries installed in the Oval Office.  Obama had once again relied on the stupidity of the American voters to win the day.

President Donald Trump's sacrifices are like no other leader in the history of America.  [Scroll down]  The Obamas entered the White House with $1.3 million.  Upon leaving, they received lucrative book, oratory, movie, and podcast deals which caused their net worth to multiply by almost 24 times, to $70 million.  Experts claim that if the Obamas proceed on this trajectory they will be worth $242.5 million when all is said and done.

Does Joe Biden Understand He Did Anything Wrong?  One of the greatest acts of corruption in American political history took place while Biden was vice president, it was committed in broad daylight, and virtually nobody cared.  But this time it wasn't Biden — it was his boss and political benefactor, Barack Obama.  Obama spent serious political capital during his second term pushing for Net Neutrality.  I'm an old-school internet idealist — or at least I used to be before Google and Facebook beat it out of me — but Net Neutrality was a huge scam.  I don't know the current figures but back then, the 25% of Americans who subscribed to Netflix used more than 40% of the nation's bandwidth during primetime viewing hours.  Netflix loved Net Neutrality because under its "bits are bits" regulations, ISPs couldn't charge more for the Netflix video bits that were clogging the nation's internet arteries.  Netflix loved Obama so much that, once he'd been out of office for a discreet-looking period, it gave him and Michelle a $50 million payday to produce not much of anything.  Certainly not $50 million worth of anything, but the Washington-Infotainment Complex acted as though Obama was above even the appearance of impropriety.

Buried News:  Obama muscled Zuckerberg to censor Trump — and made an example of him.  Has Barack Obama gone from ex-president to Democrat party crime boss?  It sure looks like it, based on a new report about his treatment of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.  Investigative reporter Lee Smith has got a stunning report that ran this week in Tablet, comparable in impact to that report by Molly Ball at Time who wrote about how elites conspired to "fortify democracy" by rigging the election against President Trump in 2020 and afterwards thought it was a smart thing to crow about.  Smith's report begins with how the FBI "hacked" Twitter, not just engaging in a "master-canine" relationship as Twitter files reporter Matt Taibbi put it in one of his reports, but actually infiltrating the company and controlling it from within, rendering it a corporate Zombie.

Biden Corruption Context and The Lightbringer.  This is a short reminder about linking President Obama, Teh One true bringer of all progressive enlightenment, into the discussion and analysis of Joe and Hunter Biden's corruption, bribery and influence selling while in office.  There are an increasing number of people who are asking when the golden child will be brought into the issue of Vice-President Joe Biden selling his influence while working for the Lightbringer.  Please stop!  There will never be any accountability for Obama in any endeavor or discovery — not by this generation.  Historians will note the issue later in the annals of historical reference long after we are departed; but right now, in this era, the Lightbringer is immune.  Obama represents the personal identity of the professional political left.  To remove the veil of Teh One is to deliver a black pill so toxic that entire segments of the U.S population, including every facet of DHS controlled media operations, would melt in place.  It will never happen.  Not ever in this era.

It's been quite a week in the news, and I have questions.  And finally, we now seem to have evidence that Hunter and his dad were in cahoots in squeezing some Chinese fellas.  All this started two administrations ago.  That administration and its heavy hitters were surely aware of what was going on.  After all, everywhere that Joe traveled, he went on signed government orders.  We know about the 10% for the Big Guy.  So, I'm just wondering: How much of that was for the Black Guy?

Does Obama pay for anything with his own money?  A memoir is a history of one's past.  Mine includes attempts to reveal who Barack Obama really is — or isn't.  I recently published my memoir at the age of eighty-one years:  The Rubbish Hauler's Wife versus Barack Obama.  I have been chasing Obama since 2009, when I uncovered, while working as a licensed private investigator, that he has used a phony CT social security number his entire adult life.  I was undaunted when my lawsuit to keep him off the Ohio presidential ballot in 2012 was dismissed, even though it is illegal to use a false Social Security number.  My book contains other investigations, but I found more juicy information about Obama to include, especially about the alleged purchase of the Magnum P.I. property on Oahu.  I note specifically:  Hawaii television station KHON2 announced on March 19, 2015 that Marty Nesbitt bought the Waimanalo property, made famous in the television show Magnum P.I. for $8.7 million and that he is the "sole investor."

Obama Received Millions in Illegal Campaign Donations, Jury Finds.  A Washington D.C. just has determined that former President Barack Obama received illegal campaign donations.  On Wednesday, rapper Prakazrel "Pras" Michel, of the 1990s hip-hop group Fugees, was convicted on charges involving multi-million-dollar political conspiracies spanning two presidencies.  Michel was convicted after a trial that included testimony ranging from actor Leonardo DiCaprio to former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.  The former music star was funneling money from a now-fugitive Malaysian financer through straw donors to Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.  He then attempted to squelch a Justice Department investigation and influence an extradition case on behalf of China under the Trump administration.

Leo DiCaprio's sworn testimony is a gross reminder of how the D.C. Establishment makes the sausage.  Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio recently testified at the trial of rapper Pras Michel, who stands accused of accepting money from Malaysian fugitive tycoon Jho Low, to influence U.S. politics.  First a bit of a background about Michel and Low.  Michel was a member of the hip hop band Fugees.  Low allegedly embezzled $4.5 billion from Malaysia's state investment fund, making it the biggest scandal of its kind in history.  Michel allegedly received over $100 million from Low.  Low allegedly recruited Michel to funnel the money to Obama's reelection bid using an illegal network of third parties paid for by foreign funds.  (Foreigners cannot donate to U.S. campaigns under federal election law.)  The prosecutors have accused Michel of receiving $21.6 million in payments from foreign accounts linked to Low, funds which the rapper then paid out to roughly twenty straw donors between June and November 2012.

Leonardo DiCaprio Testifies Obama Received Billions in Stolen CCP Cash From Fugees Founder 'Pras' Michel.  Actor Leonardo DiCaprio took the stand and testified in the federal trial of Prakazrel "Pras" Michel, founder of the hip hop band Fugees, and his alleged involvement in a money laundering scheme that included a huge — and illegal — donation to Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.  DiCaprio recalled a conversation with Malaysian financier Jho Low, who mentioned that he was looking to donate millions of dollars to the Obama campaign by giving the money to Michel and having him pass it to Obama's people.

Leonardo DiCaprio Testifies In Trial Against Fugees Rapper Accused Of Illegally Funneling $30M To Obama Campaign.  A-list actor Leonardo DiCaprio took the stand in the federal trial against recording artist Prakazrel "Pras" Michel, a founding member of the Fugees, who stands accused of funneling money into former president Barack Obama's re-election campaign in 2012.  DiCaprio, 48, used to associate with the fugitive Malaysian financier Jho Low, who allegedly gave the money to Michel to donate to the campaign through shell accounts.  Michel is accused of conspiring to make illegal campaign contributions using foreign money, witness tampering, and failure to register as a foreign agent of the Chinese government.  The actor, who was on the stand for about an hour, said he thought Low was "sort of a prodigy in the business world and ultra-successful."  Low apparently told the actor he planned to contribute funds to the campaign.  "It was a significant sum — something to the tune of $20-30 million," DiCaprio said in court on Monday.  "I said, 'Wow that's a lot of money!'"

If 'No One Is Above The Law,' Democrats And Their Partisan Pawns Would Be Arraigned, Not Trump.  Before [Hillary] Clinton was forced to pay for her scheming, President Barack Obama faced "one of the largest fees ever levied against a presidential campaign," $375,000, for "campaign reporting violations."  Instead of facing calls for prison time, Obama received years of protection from the corporate media and fake fact-checkers who repeatedly downplayed his violation as a proportionally small infraction compared to the billion dollars he raised on the campaign trail.

Government Tyrants Play with Fire.  Had Barack Obama ever had to properly answer for illicitly using the IRS, EPA, DOJ, FBI, and Intelligence Community to target, harass, and persecute his political opponents or account for his stunning success in using his political office to transition from one of America's poorest presidents to one of its wealthiest, he and his wife would not so absurdly yet flippantly claim that his presidency was aboveboard and "scandal-free."

Just how unjust is our system of justice?  It has been clear enough since the Obama administration weaponized the DOJ and the FBI that there is no longer a single and equal system of justice in America.  There are two; one for progressive Democrats that essentially ignores the Constitution, and a harsh, Kafkaesque version for conservatives.  Remember when those Black Panthers stood outside a polling place in Philadelphia with baseball bats and Eric Holder refused to prosecute them for voter intimidation?  Or when the Obama administration sold guns to the drug cartels in a pathetic effort to track them and ultimately blame American gun stores?  One of those guns killed a U.S. Border Patrol agent.  And when subpoenaed, Eric Holder refused to comply and was not held in contempt.  That was just the beginning.

National Archives Issued 3 Statements Claiming Obama's Records Were Fine.  The National Archives issued three statements, one on August 12, one on September 8 and one on September 23, supposedly rebutting claims that there were any issues with Obama's presidential records.  The September 8 statement specifically denied that any records from the Obama administration were missing.  Or, very specifically, NARA "is not aware of any missing boxes of Presidential records from the Obama administration."  Not aware is of course 'lawyerese' for plausible deniability.  In November, the first tranche of classified documents was found at Penn Biden.  NARA's only statement on Nov 9 involved Trump's documents.  Ditto for another Dec 20 statement.  Was NARA really unaware of the Biden documents at that point?

Democrats' Jan. 6 Fiasco Is Just Another Example of Conservatives Being Treated as Second-Class Citizens.  In another instance of the DOJ's double standards, former President Barack Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, faced no repercussions after Congress held him in contempt for refusing to comply with its Fast and Furious investigation.  Meanwhile, former Trump adviser Peter Navarro was put in leg irons during an ambush arrest at the airport for the same charge of contempt.  Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn was financially destroyed by a federal investigation, meanwhile fired former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe won back his taxpayer-funded pension even though McCabe admitted to lying to the FBI about a press leak.  Former CIA Director John Brennan, a serial Trump antagonist, repeatedly lied before Congress.  His penalty?  A lucrative book deal and no leg irons.  And let's not forget the 51 former "intelligence" officials who wrote an open letter calling the Hunter Biden laptop story (verified by even leftist media outlets like The New York Times) Russian disinformation.  They've faced no professional sanctions, no stripping of security clearances, even though they refuse to apologize.

Obama's Lawless Legacy Is The Cancer Consuming America Today.  You don't have to be any kind of intellectual savant to recognize this increasingly hyper-accelerated and precipitous decline our nation has been stricken with now for over a decade.  A deliberate decline, wholly manufactured and implemented with malevolent intentions among the usual suspects of political ruling class malefactors and their various radical militant acolytes.  A calculated decline whose subversive, accelerated machinations I believe to have been set in motion and implemented throughout the 8 years of Barack Hussein Obama's dumpster blazing presidency, setting the stage for these subsequent years of successive, surreal and intensifying social anarchy, civil unrest and unparalleled political corruption.  All done for the express purpose of seeking to subvert and decimate the pillars and foundation of our Republic.  To be sure, no one man could accomplish as much division and social upheaval as Obama managed to do without the help of accomplices and fellow conspirators.  How else can you explain an obscure community organizer whose own past was shrouded with vague content, going from an unaccomplished Illinois state senator with the sort of radical political associations that would see any of us put on an FBI terrorist watch list, to a U.S. senator to president of the United States in the span of a decade, void of having any substantive legislative achievements and possessing no executive experience?

Two intriguing points about the Durham allegations.  There are few people who have followed the Russia collusion hoax as closely as Dan Bongino.  That's why I made sure to listen to his podcast the Monday after the story broke regarding John Durham's allegations about the Hillary campaign spying on Trump Tower, Trump's apartment, and the White House. [...] Bongino thinks the real bombshell in this is that Durham is warning Sussmann that Latham & Watkins is a very dangerous law firm to have representing him.  The reason is that one of the top Latham & Watkins attorneys is a gal named Kathryn Ruemmler or, as Bongino calls her, "The Fixer."  He points out that Ruemmler has her finger in every single corrupt pie baked during the Obama administration.

Russian Appeasement Was a Left-Wing Monopoly.  One way of understanding the 2009-2014 Obama Administration policy of "reset" with Vladimir Putin's Russia is to recall two iconic incidents.  The first was the 2009 "reset."  Newly appointed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that she would pursue a "reset" détente with Russia.  America would relax the prior Bush Administration's mild ostracism of Russia after its 2008 invasion of Georgia and softly start anew.  The second was President Barack Obama's hot mic moment in March 2012 in Seoul, South Korea.  Obama got caught asking Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to reassure Vladimir Putin.  Or as Obama put it:  "After my election I have more flexibility ... On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it's important for him to give me space ... This is my last election.  After my election, I have more flexibility."  Both Obama and Putin apparently got their quid pro quo wishes.

Obama-Era Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Took $50,000 In Undisclosed Foreign Cash.  Obama-era Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood took $50,000 in undisclosed foreign cash while he was still in office in 2012 because he was "suffering financial difficulties," Axios reported on Wednesday [3/31/2021].  The cash came to LaHood as a loan from Virginia businessman Toufic Baaklini, an associate to Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury, who conspired to funnel foreign money into U.S. elections.  The Department of Justice noted that LaHood purposefully refused to mention the loan on government ethics forms "because LaHood did not want to be associated with Chagoury," which was unrelated to a larger scheme of making illegal campaign contributions to U.S. politicians.  Prosecutors say he also "understood at the time" who the money was coming from but "made misleading statements to FBI agents" during the investigation anyway.

Obamas, Clintons and communist China all linked to SolarWinds.  News about the SolarWinds Orion hack is generating a lot of questions about what this company is and who is behind it.  What we know so far is that its corporate ties include gems like communist China, the Clintons and the Obamas.  In 2016, according to the company's 10K on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) website, SolarWinds was acquired by investment firms Silver Lake Partners and Thoma Bravo.  Two years later, the company went public through an Initial Public Offering (IPO).  Later that year, SolarWinds' IPO was completed, and 25 million shares of the company's common stock were sold at an issue price of $15 per share.  During this process, the company raised $375 million in gross proceeds, and approximately $353 million in net proceeds.

Code Name 'Project Hanson': Insider Documents Reveal How Hunter Biden Associates Helped Chinese Military Contractor Acquire Michigan Dual-Use Manufacturer.  In September 2015, the Obama-Biden administration approved the sale of a strategically sensitive Michigan manufacturer, Henniges Automotive, to a firm connected to Joe Biden's son, Hunter, and a Chinese military contractor that was on an American watch list because of its close ties to the People's Liberation Army.  Hunter Biden's equity fund, backed by the Communist Chinese government, and the Chinese contractor, Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC), needed special approval for the deal from the Committee of Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CIFIUS) because Henniges produced technology with potential military use.  AVIC entities have been sanctioned by the United States on five separate occasions since 1993 and the addition to the watch list — a major red flag — occurred less than a year-and-a-half before they co-purchased Henniges with the Biden-led Chinese joint venture known as Bohai Harvest RST (BHR).  The fact that CFIUS approved the deal is alarming given that Henniges owns numerous facilities in the United States that are now controlled by a Chinese military front company.

The New York Times Discovers China.  [Scroll down]  Obama has just as much incentive to spread this kind of misinformation about the Trump account and to cover up the Biden family business as does "working class Joe." The Chinese weren't interested in what Joe or his brother or his son Hunter could do for them.  For the Chinese, they wanted nothing more than access to the Obama administration.  Moreover, when the former President first visited China in 2009, even the nauseatingly obsequious media reported that the new President had been led by the nose by the Chinese.  But perhaps Obama's nose just detected the smell of money?

Biden Defector's Emails Reveal Hunter's Associates Viewed Direct 'Pipeline' to Administration as 'Currency'.  Hunter Biden's business associates spoke candidly in emails about Hunter Biden's role in the business, particularly as it related to foreign ventures, apparently viewing the Biden name as a form of "currency," and bragging that they had a "direct... pipeline" to the Obama-Biden Administration.  In another email, Hunter Biden's associates touted Hunter's access to the White House and contrasted his willingness to "take on risk" with that of Chris Heinz — then-Secretary of State John Kerry's stepson and a close friend of Biden and Archer — who was uncomfortable with some of their potential partnerships.

Biden now has serious questions to answer about Hunter's dodgy deals and he can't duck them forever.  Four days ago, the New York Post published a bombshell report raising serious new questions about presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter's relationship with Ukranian energy company Burisma. [...] I have no idea if the report is entirely true, partly true, or completely untrue.  But with my old newspaper editor hat on, I do know that the response from Joe Biden so far has done nothing to make me think it's false.  Crucially, there has been no denial of the fact that these emails are genuine.  And if they are, then they raise important questions.  The potentially most explosive part of the story is a 2015 email supposedly sent by a top Burisma adviser, Vadym Pozharskyi, thanking Hunter for giving him the chance to meet his dad Joe while he was Vice-President.

The Stench Of Corruption Is Overwhelming.  In short, Biden's response to any and all questions concerning Hunter's role with Burisma has been to dismiss such allegations as debunked conspiracy theories pushed by his political opponent.  No one did anything wrong.  There is nothing to explain, and he is not about to try.  Inconveniently, for Joe, though, the story will not go away.  Just today [10/14/2020] the New York Post broke the news that they were in possession of an email from a senior official from Burisma to Hunter Biden which makes a specific reference to Hunter's role in setting up a meeting between the official and then Vice-President Joe Biden.

How Long Has The U.S. Intelligence Apparatus Been Selecting Presidential Candidates?  One would have to be intellectually obtuse to think former President Barack Obama was unaware his Vice-President, Joe Biden, was raking in tens-of-millions from his use of Hunter Biden as family bagman while lobbying foreign governments.  With that in mind; and considering all of the downstream consequences from the original selection of Joe Biden as the VP candidate; and considering how those in power now have the tool of the NSA database to control political offices; how long has the intelligence apparatus been involved in selecting the U.S. presidential candidates?

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The article above links to the article below, which is well worth your time.

Former President Obama knows exactly what evidence exists against Biden.  [Thread reader]  That's the point.  That's the plan.  Install Biden/Harris then team Obama give the word to their allies in media, stop protecting, release the evidence and remove Biden.  It's the Chicago way. [...] After the initial inquiry, federal investigators maintained the target of the illegal activity was Obama's passport file.  It does not take a stretch to come to the conclusion this was for the sole purpose of cleansing records of information adverse to Obama's candidacy.

The Bidens and the Crooked Ukrainian Prosecutors.  During the time Joe Biden was US point man on Ukraine, there were three Ukrainian Prosecutors General.  The first, Vitaly Yerema and the third, Yuriy Lutsenko, actively helped Burisma, the Ukrainian oil and gas company, escape responsibility for the theft of Ukraine's oil and gas assets.  Biden did not speak out against them and made no effort to force either of them from office.  Coincidentally, his son Hunter and Hunter's business partner, Devon Archer, were on the payroll of Burisma.  Only one, Viktor Shokin, pursued Burisma and its owner Mykola Zlochevsky.  Shokin put seizures on their assets and issued a warrant for Zlochevsky's arrest should he return to Ukraine.  Yet Shokin, not Yerema and not Lutsenko, was the one Prosecutor General that Biden called out and forced from office.  In fact, I am aware of no other instance in which the United States demanded the firing of a prosecutor in a country to which we supplied foreign aid, no matter how corrupt.  If not unprecedented, what Biden did in Ukraine was at least extraordinary.

Beyond Hunter's MacBook:  Email account of his ex-busines partner reveals high level Chinese group bought hidden access to Biden at the White House.  The evidence establishing a shocking pattern is now clear:  Hunter Biden and his busines partners sold access to Joe Biden when he was the Obama administration's point man on China.  This took place during the period when US jobs were being exported to China by the millions.  Hunter earned many millions of dollars and funneled a share of that money to his father, in return for selling out American workers.  An entirely new source — a business partner of Hunter Biden who has "flipped" and granted full access (i.e., his username password) to years of his Gmail email account — reveals that access to then-VP Biden in the White House was granted in 2011 to a high level group of member of the Chinese Communist Party with a keen interest in US trade policy, as that policy was being formulated.

Hunter Biden Business Associate Flips From Prison, Releases Emails Detailing China Influence-Peddling Operation.  Emails from a former business associate of Hunter Biden's inner-circle who's serving time in prison for a 2016 investment scheme reveal that Hunter and his colleagues used their access to the Obama administration to peddle influence to potential Chinese clients and investors — including securing a private, off-the-books meeting with the former Vice President.  The emails, given to investigative journalist Peter Schweizer by former Biden associate Bevan Cooney and published by Breitbart also reveal that in 2011, the younger Biden and his business associates discussed strengthening relations with "China Inc." as part of a "new push on soft diplomacy for the Chinese."  As Breitbart notes, these emails are completely unconnected to the Hunter Biden emails released by the New York Post.

Before 'takedown' of General Flynn, he was planning to audit John Brennan for running billions 'off the books'.  Sidney Powell, attorney for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, said her client, in his duties as the White House national security adviser, was prepared to "audit" the U.S. intelligence community.  That, according to the former federal prosecutor, is partly why federal agents "set up" Flynn.  Powell, who took over Flynn's defense last summer, told the "Vickie McKenna Show" on 1310 WIBA Madison that her client was "totally set up" because he threatened to expose wrongdoing by top intelligence officials in the Obama administration.

Obama administration was corrupt, more and more evidence reveals daily.  There was so much hope in January 2009 when Barack Obama took office.  Here was the first black president of the United States, promising to be a leader for all Americans, to halt the rise of the oceans and to be the most transparent administration ever.  Even black Americans were saying the Civil War was finally over.  Unfortunately for America, it didn't turn out that way.  As more and more evidence is revealed daily on the evening news, it is now very clear the Obama administration was the most corrupt presidency in the history of the republic.

Obamagate: Of Course It Comes Back to Obama's Narcissism.  At the bottom of the Russian hoax story is a tale of narcissism:  Hillary Clinton's shock at losing the election, the media's shock at being wrong and less capable of manipulation that they thought, and, importantly, Barack Obama's shock that his priorities — all of them, but most of all the Iran Deal — would be swept away as so much ideological detritus. [...] Not only did the Obama administration use every tool in their arsenal, most of them illegal at worst and [very] shady at best, but they also had the media on their side.  The media's reputation was tied to Obama's.  Their cheerleading proved their own value.  He was, after all, a media creation.  He had to succeed or they would be revealed as fools and neophyte-enabling stooges.

Obamagate Must Result in Criminal Prosecutions.  [Scroll down]  For three years, the American people have been led to believe by the Democratic Party, the media, and corrupt holdovers from the Obama administration that President Trump is a criminal and under the control of Russia and Vladimir Putin.  The reality was that members of the Obama administration and Democratic Party colluded with a former British intelligence agent and some drunk Russians to concoct a puerile fantasy about Donald Trump that they stupidly used as an excuse to then spy on his campaign.  That's precisely why James Clapper, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein, Peter Strzok, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, plus any number of other Obama administration officials (including Big Ears himself) must be given a fair trial and punished to the full extent of the law, which should include lengthy prison sentences.

Why AG Barr is right about not criminally prosecuting Obama or Biden.  If there were a trial, it would go on for years, and that wouldn't even include all the appeals.  No matter how it concluded, whether it were an acquittal, a partial conviction, a hung jury, or a jury nullification, it would still be argued for decades.  Either way, Obama would be a hero to millions throughout the world, and he could go on another anti-American world tour as a victim of an unfair justice system.  The ones who actually did the crimes at his direction would be brushed aside in the frenzy and even forgotten.  But it appears that A.G. Barr and Michael Horowitz are leaving nothing undiscovered and fully intend to proceed with criminal prosecutions.  If those who did the crimes under Obama's orders and direction have to hire hugely expensive attorneys, perhaps even sell their homes, as General Flynn had to do, they will be angry, very angry at Obama's getting a pass.  They will tell all on each other and on him.

Obama Had No State Department Inspector General for More than Four Years.  President Donald Trump is being criticized by his opponents after firing State Department Inspector General Steve Linick on Friday night.  Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) called it a "threat to accountable democracy."  However, President Barack Obama did not nominate an inspector general for the State Department during his entire first term.  In fact, the post was vacant for nearly four years.  The last inspector general under President George W. Bush, Howard J. Krongard, resigned in December 2007.  The position was vacant for nearly six years until the Senate confirmed Linick in September 2013. There was little public outcry or media criticism about the vacancy at the time.

Welcome to #Obamagate, Everybody!.  Last week's cascade of revelations that the entire Trump-Russia narrative and Mike Flynn case, among other shenanigans falling out of Washington, D.C., over the past four years, weren't just garbage but garbage cooked up and spread by the top levels of the Obama administration, to be summed up in one catchy hashtag, has the potential to change American politics in fundamental ways.  We know that prosecutions are afoot, and we know indictments are coming.  We know that some of those indictments will be handed down to people with famous names.  We know already that #Obamagate is the correct name for the mess unfolding before us, thanks to the summary of a meeting held on Jan. 5, 2017, provided by the former president's National Security Adviser Susan Rice.

Former Obama Officials Tired of His Drunken, Late-Night Calls.  Members of the so-called "Obama Alumni Association" feel harassed and abused by the former president whose late-night, drunken conference calls have become annoying, frequent, and less coherent as time goes on.  Hennessy's View has learned that Obama began these occasional conference calls with a handful of former officials about six months after leaving office in 2017.  Over time, the 44th president stopped following a semi-weekly schedule of planned calls.  Instead, he began calling the team at random times, often late at night and, according to some, after he'd been drinking.

Is Obama's Long History of Playing Dirty Finally Catching Up With Him?  As it became clear Mitt Romney would be the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, the Obama campaign fired up its Chicago-style machine to attack the incumbent president's election foe.  Team Obama identified several Romney donors to smear publicly; one was a wealthy businessman from Idaho.  A former Democratic Senate staffer, according to a 2012 editorial in the Wall Street Journal, contacted an Idaho courthouse seeking the divorce records of Frank VanderSloot, who had donated $1 million to Romney's campaign.  The operative was traced to a professional opposition research shop based in Washington, D.C.  The name of the outfit?  Fusion GPS.

Obama 'Worried' That Flynn Cleared By DOJ Over Illegitimate Investigation: 'Rule Of Law Is At Risk'.  Former President Barack Obama said on Friday that he was "worried" by the Department of Justice's (DOJ) decision to drop the charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn this week after Attorney General William Barr said that "there was not a legitimate counterintelligence investigation going on."  "The news over the last 24 hours I think has been somewhat downplayed — about the Justice Department dropping charges against Michael Flynn," Obama said.  "And the fact that there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free.  That's the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic — not just institutional norms — but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk.  And when you start moving in those directions, it can accelerate pretty quickly as we've seen in other places."

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The man who orchestrated Fast and Furious, the man who accepted illegal campaign contributions from fictitious people like "Doodad Pro," the man who gave preferential treatment to the Black Panthers, the man who illegally spied on thousands of Americans, the man who issued the "greatest number of individual clemencies in a single day," the man who lied about Benghazi and lied about Obamacare, the man who fired an Inspector General of Americorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case, the man who secretly sent plane loads of cash to Iran, the man who used the IRS and EPA as weapons, the man who has a forged birth certificate and uses somebody else's Social Security number, is now concerned about the rule of law!

Obama's Close Friend Arrested During Prostitution Sting in Hawaii.  One of President Obama's close friends from his native Hawaii is facing charges after being arrested during a prostitution sting in the state.  Robert Richard Titcomb, 49, allegedly solicited sex from an undercover police officer posing as a prostitute, Hawaii News Now reports.  Titcomb was one of four arrested during the sting, Hawaii Police Department says.  Titcomb was released on $500 bail and will appear in court next month.

Barack Obama's Department of Injustice.  [Scroll down]  Boss Tweed was a piker and a rank amateur when compared to former President Barack Obama., who used the full weight and power of the federal government for his own personal political gain.  However, Boss Tweed only controlled the largest city on the East Coast.  Obama controlled the entire country for eight years, and the stench of corruption still lingers from his administration, four years later. [...] The United States was founded on the principle of equal justice under the law, but the most powerful people in government abused their authority to weaponize the legal system against their political enemies.

Was Trump the Only One in Washington Innocent of Russian Collusion?  [Scroll down]  Consider just how much of DC ended up taking part in the lie.  Brennan and the CIA constructed fake Russian spy rings throughout Europe;  Nellie Ohr passed this same imaginary Russian intel to her husband, Bruce, and the FBI;  Lynch, Comey, and McCabe used this elaborate but fake Russian conspiracy to file fraudulent FISA applications and pursue Section 702 bulk surveillance on anyone and everyone who ever worked near or for Donald Trump;  Robert Mueller used all this American-made kompromat to bully Trump campaign associates into accepting unethical plea deals, while hiding real Russian collusion by the Clinton campaign;  Senator Feinstein repeatedly covered for Fusion GPS's perjury by leaking confidential transcripts, while her former intelligence staffer, Daniel Jones, worked to raise funds for Fusion GPS's defense and continued counterintelligence operations against President Trump;  Richard Burr joined Mark Warner on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to give our intelligence agencies cover by justifying their illegal spying on a domestic political campaign;  Adam Schiff spent the last four years doing the Russians' bidding by further dividing the country with reckless and wholesale lies that the sitting president is a Russian agent; and the whole apparatus of the American press spun this fantastic tail of Russian collusion, while giving each other First Amendment prizes for their bravery, acumen, and Jayson Blair-like persistence.  Only in Obama's America could a hoax as fraudulent and unsubstantial as this one come to fruition.

Here's How Eric Holder Helped the Obama Administration Transform the Democratic Party into a Party of Thugs.  It was during the Obama Administration that civility between the two parties truly became a vestige of the past.  Obama's eight years in office fundamentally changed the order of business in Washington.  It was then that the Democratic Party morphed into a party of thugs.  And it didn't happen by accident.  Their objective was to fill the government and its agencies with as many liberals as they possibly could, politicizing them.  They worked toward their goal deliberately and methodically throughout Obama's presidency.  It had all begun with an agreement between Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder.  (And it continued under his successor, Loretta Lynch.)  Federal law prohibited the administration from basing hiring decisions on political affiliation, but Obama, Holder and Lynch easily found ways to get around that.

Obama's Homeland Security IG Indicted on Theft of Government Property, Wire Fraud and Scheme to Defraud US Govt.  Obama's Acting Homeland Security Inspector General and his subordinate were indicted on 16 counts of theft and fraud, the Justice Department announced on Friday [3/6/2020].  "The indictment charges Charles K. Edwards, 59, of Sandy Spring, Maryland, and Murali Yamazula Venkata, 54, of Aldie, Virginia, with conspiracy to commit theft of government property and to defraud the United States, theft of government property, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft.  The indictment also charges Venkata with destruction of records."

Obama's Homeland Security IG Indicted On Fraud, Theft Charges.  Former Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Charles Edwards and his former aide Murali Yamazula Venkata were indicted Friday on charges of stealing government property to defraud the U.S. government.  Yamazula was also charged with destroying records.  The indictments handed down by the Justice Department allege that Edwards and Venkata were working with others within the inspector general's office to orchestrate a scheme to steal confidential and proprietary software that includes sensitive information on government employees.

Rod Blagojevich Dishes Dirt on Barack Obama, Warns of More Bombshells.  Convicted former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich went on Fox News in his first post-release interview and held very little back about Barack Obama's involvement in the scandal that put him in prison, while the first black president was never held accountable.  Appearing on "Watters' World" with Jesse Watters, Blagojevich was quickly asked about the 2008 Senate-seat-for-sale scandal, in which Blagojevich had negotiated appointing an Obama-approved candidate, in exchange for a cabinet position.

Barry is a total con man. Remember Solyndra?  [Thread reader]  In 2009 the Obama administration gave $535 million to Solyndra, claiming that it would create 4,000 new jobs.  However, instead of creating those 4,000 new jobs, the company went bankrupt.  It was later revealed that the company's shareholders and executives had made substantial donations to Obama's campaign, that the company had spent a large sum of money on lobbying, and that Solyndra executives had had many meetings with White House officials.  It was also revealed that the Obama administration had already been aware of Solyndra's financial troubles.  For example, according to the company's security filings in 2009, the company had been selling its product for less than the cost of production.  In 2010, Obama visited the Solyndra factory and cited it as a role model for his "stimulus" program, saying "It's here that companies like Solyndra are leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future."

America Must Confront The Enemy From Within.  We watch as horrific abuses of power such as Fast and Furious and Benghazi play out and no one does a [...] thing about it.  Obama funds the biggest terrorists on the planet while Hillary Clinton plays tiddlywinks with the Russians and Ukrainians in treasonous ways that would put anyone else behind bars forever.  [A]nd yet, here we sit feigning outrage and doing absolutely nothing about it.

Fiona Hill Testifies that Obama Was Putin's Puppet.  While the fake news media are trying to convince you that Trump investigating the obvious and blatant corruption of the Biden family in Ukraine is a crime, one of their witnesses declared that Obama danced to Putin's tune.  Fiona Hill testified [...] that Obama refused to provide lethal aid to Ukraine so as to not upset Putin.  That's pretty clear evidence that Obama, not Trump, was in Putin's pocket.  Hill's testimony also creates problems for the Democrats' impeachment narrative.  After all, the elite policy wonks said the U.S. should arm Ukraine to help defeat Russia's invasion, but Obama said he wouldn't because that would make Putin mad.  Given that the Democrats are saying in the impeachment hearings that Trump temporarily not following the "guidance" of the interagency is an impeachable offense, clearly, Obama's permanent rejection of the interagency guidance must also be a crime.

Former Obama Fundraiser Accused of Spending Non-Profit Funds for Personal Use.  Fox News is reporting that a former fundraiser for Barack Obama repeatedly misused funds from his non-profit organization for both political and personal use before the organization went bankrupt.  Dixon Slingerland is accused of taking the funds from the California-based non-profit, the Youth Policy Institute, and spending them on a "lavish" lifestyle and "partisan political contributions" before the YPI filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.  In the filing, YPI asked Slingerland to repay approximately $1.7 million back, which the organization says is an amount that was gradually stolen over the course of five years.  He worked for YPI for 23 years and earned roughly $400,000 per year before he was fired from the organization.

Saudi National Gave Thousands of Illegal Donations to Obama Inaugural Committee, Report Finds.  An analysis by the Associated Press of campaign finance records and court documents determined that Barack Obama's 2012 inauguration received hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal donations from a Saudi national via a straw donor. [...] [Imaad] Zuberi was also a top fundraiser for Obama and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns, serving on both of their campaign finance committees, before switching support to Trump after his 2016 victory.  Zuberi and his family have donated to both Democrat and Republican national committees and candidates, raising questions about how donations are vetted even when they unaware of the illicit nature of donations.

Who [are] "they?".  Obama is like the Left's version of the New Testament's John The Baptist.  Obama was put in office to pave the way for future unbridled destruction of the Constitution.  The weakness and corruption within the Republican Party allowed Obama to take a wrecking ball to the American system of government.  It is true that the Obama administration was significantly more corrupt than any other because of two disturbing facts.  Not because of its high number of scandals or the gravity of those scandals but because the corruption was spread throughout the entire government and because Obama's administration received unprecedented cover and protection by the fake media.  The once trusted institutions, such as the I.R.S. were severely compromised, conducting the illegal withholding of tax-exempt status from those with a different point of view.

Why It's Not Surprising Voters Don't Think Trump's Rhetoric Is Disqualifying.  [Scroll down]  Barack Obama was a well-spoken, generally nice guy.  He also sued nuns to make them pay for abortions.  Everyone in his orbit spent months in 2012 calling Mitt Romney — Mitt Romney! — a racist felon who gave people cancer.  Obama brought a mobbed-up Chicago banker to the White House and emphatically endorsed that mobbed-up banker's run for his old Senate seat.  He made excuses for the Internal Revenue Service going after his political enemies.  He lied repeatedly about health care.  He gave cash to terrorists and guns to cartels, and his own "wingman" at the Justice Department said people were racist for asking questions about the latter.  I could go on about Obama, yet I still see journalists routinely praising his manner and civility as if there weren't a whole lot of very disturbing cracks in that facade.

Leftist heroes of the Week?  Hillary, Schiff, and Mitt.  Most Americans who pay attention to politics, especially conservatives, have long realized that the members of the Beltway self-appointed elite care little about the 330 million-plus people who inhabit and love this nation.  They care, first and foremost, about the preservation of their own power and the wealth that inevitably comes with it.  The Clintons and the Obamas came to the office without great wealth but left as multi-millionaires through graft and pay-to-play.  They were bought and paid for by those to whom they sold themselves.

Diplomat: I tried to warn the Obama administration about Hunter Biden and Ukraine in 2015, but no one would listen.  A diplomat who served in the State Department under former President Barack Obama testified Tuesday that he sounded the alarm about Hunter Biden's appointment to Ukrainian energy company Burisma in early 2015, but no one seemed to care, according to the Washington Post.  George Kent, who still works in the State Department as deputy assistant secretary of state, testified as a part of the House impeachment inquiry that he was concerned about the conflict of interest with Hunter Biden joining the company at the same time that then-Vice President Joe Biden was heavily involved in the administration's Ukraine policy.

Four Year State Dept.  Investigation Concludes Noting State Dept.  Violations From.  Perhaps the only institution more corrupt than the Obama intelligence apparatus, writ large, was/is the Clinton constructed U.S. State Department.  Foggy Bottom is appropriately named as the septic tank for the Administrative State.  Former President Barack Obama carved out a segment of the financial indulgence, and thereafter purchased the acquiescence of Team Clinton, when he handed Dame Hillary the keys to the State Dept as an outcome of the 2008 election.  Barry from Chicago and his fellow travelers would weaponize the domestic apparatus, and Hillary could graft the international effort; thus, the compact was sealed.

Obama WH corruption:  Rampant pay to play by Clinton, Kerry, and Biden.  Pay to Play corruption in the Obama administration was widespread among top officials, especially Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Vice President Joe Biden.  Sweetheart deals.  Board positions on energy companies.  Contributions to "foundations" and overt bribery were the currency of foreign governments and would-be policy influencers alike.  They found rich terrain in the Obama Administration.  Usually funneling money through family members or lobbyists.  The Hunter Biden scandal involving Burisma Holdings and the Rosemont Seneca equity fund is just the tip of an ever-growing and horribly corrupt iceberg.

Will We Ever Prosecute?  Imagine that the local cops know that a gang member, named William, broke into the pawn shop and stole guns, jewelry, and money.  William's fingerprints, film image, and DNA add to the hard evidence log.  The owner knows it; the prosecutor knows it; William's gang associates know it.  But he is not arrested.  Nearby shopkeepers and neighborhood mothers are asking why he is walking the street.  No one explains it; mum's the word.  Could it be there is a grand plan to take out the gang's leaders?  No one knows; mum's the word.  Shopkeepers and residents are about to give up and start moving away from the area, and no one asks them to stay the course.  Fast-forward to today's still vocal Obama gang.  Why no indictments?  Mum's the word.  Can anyone hold to the faith in American justice?  Those who support the rule of law feel like Charlie Brown trying to kick a football.

Mass media paper over alleged abuses of power by Obama and Biden.  The mass media continue to fail to investigate serious abuses of power alleged against former President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, whilst devoting their substantial resources to pursuing President Trump for the same alleged offence. [...] Three alleged serious abuses of power involving Obama and Biden cry out for scrutiny by the mass media:  [#1] Approving the surveillance by the FBI of an American citizen, Carter Page, between October 2016 and January 2017, using a dossier containing false information compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele supplied to him by his intelligence sources in Russia, and commissioned and paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee  [#2] Threatening to withhold financial aid of $1 billion to Ukraine unless Ukraine removed a prosecutor investigating a Company of which Biden's son was a director.  [#3] Abandoning decades of bipartisan policy on Israel by refusing to veto Security Council Resolution 2334 passed on 23 December 2016 whilst Obama was in Presidential caretaker mode prior to Trump assuming the Presidency on 20 January 2017 — a scandal-in-waiting.

"Grandpa, what's a telephone book?"
Maria Bartiromo:  IG Report on FISA "Will Be Released October 18th — As Thick as Telephone Book".  Against new information that U.S. Attorney John Durham has lengthened the time-frame for this investigative inquiry into the DOJ and FBI activity around the 2016 election, earlier today Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo revealed (and President Trump tweeted) the FISA report by Michael Horowitz will be released on Friday October 18th.  If that time-frame for the IG report is accurate, that means the classification review has been completed; any remaining classified information not specifically authorized in the inspector general report, a decision granted to AG Bill Barr, would be placed in a classified appendix that is not available to the public.

The witch unmasked.  Samantha Power [...] has reappeared from obscurity this week amid questions concerning "unmasking" activities during the 2016 election.  Like most members of the Obama administration, Power left behind her a trail of mysteries, of events that are utterly incomprehensible unless they're part of a larger scheme still unknown to us.  In her case, these involved the illegal "unmasking" of American citizens. [...] Like much that went on under the Chicago Messiah, we'll probably never get to the bottom of this.  But, along with Joe Biden's Ukraine woes, it's yet another reminder that every last member of the "most scandal-free administration in history" was corrupt to the bone.

The Madness of Progressive Projection.  Who made the decision to quash the investigation of Hillary Clinton after she destroyed over 30,000 emails under subpoena?  Who excused Obama officials after they knowingly misled federal FISA court justices?  Who leaked information about a surveilled phone call between Michael Flynn and the Russian ambassador?  Who decided that it was acceptable for Samantha Power to request over 260 times the unmasking of names of American citizens swept up in government surveillance, many of which were illegally leaked to the press and most of which Power denied requesting and alleged others had used her name to do so?  Somewhere, somehow there was a great deal of obstruction and distortion of justice that so far has prevented the pursuit of these criminal acts.

So no one who worked for Obama should ever be investigated?  Here are some examples:  Trump did not dictatorially and unilaterally change and ignore existing immigration law.  That was Obama, and Trump is trying to reverse Obama's unconstitutional action and enforce the laws Congress passed as his oath requires.  Trump did not sue states that sought to enforce immigration laws.  That was Obama.  Trump did not threaten to cut off funds from Ukraine if they didn't do something specific.  That was Obama and his vice president, Joe Biden.  What's more, Biden said it on tape.  That was quid pro quo.  The U.S. and Europe, in the 1990s, agreed to help Ukraine defend itself if it would agree to give up nuclear weapons.  When Ukraine was attacked by Russia, the agreement meant nothing.  Obama turned down the request.  Trump didn't — and gave them the weapons.

Brennan Hears Barr's 'Chilling' Footsteps.  James Clapper, the man who lied to Congress about spying on the American people was shocked back in April to hear William Barr testify before Congress that, yes, he thought that the Trump campaign had been spied upon by his political opponents. [...] Barr has more than that, it would seem and has sent chills up Clapper's spine that the walls may be closing in, not on President Trump, but on Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan for their seditious roles in the attempted coup against the President.

AG William Barr and Atty.  Durham closing in on the Obama, Brennan coup plotters.  As the Schiff Pelosi "whistleblower" Ukraine impeachment hoax fizzles, what really has Democrats terrified is William Barr.  Barr and John Durham have been visiting Italy, Australia, and Great Britain looking for evidence about the origins of the Russia Hoax.  They have found a lot of it.  In the coming weeks John Brennan is supposed to sit down with John Durham.  Brennan is said to be nervous about the Durham investigation.  He ought to be.  Only when Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey and the central players in the inner circle of the Obama White House are held accountable and brought to justice for the attempted coup against Donald Trump will the American people finally know that justice has been done.  That is what terrifies Democrats.

The Walls Really are Closing In On the Elite.  If the Ukraine corruption case is so obviously weak, why rush to use it as a basis for impeachment?  The best answer is that they're scared.  They needed something, anything, to bring down this administration, and this was the best weapon they had on hand at that moment. [...] The personal corruption and moral bankruptcy of our elite are ripe for exposure.  The scandals of the Obama administration, which have been hushed by a supine media, could be thrust before the public.  The attempts of our elites and their allies in the bureaucracy to prevent Trump's election or to depose him after he became president, are clearly targets of Barr's and Durham's investigations.  Once the dominoes begin to fall, who can say what will follow?

Obama, the Bidens, the Clintons, the IMF and Others Pillaged Ukraine.  President Obama, his Vice President Biden and his son, Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, Mueller, the Podestas, the IMF and others all pillaged the Ukraine and then delayed loans to the country before forcing Ukrainians to pay grossly inflated natural gas prices.  Now these vultures claim they are innocent.

I Want to See Obama's Transcripts.  [Scroll down]  We're debating a phone call between a president and a world leader.  Why would any of us have access to this call?  Have you ever heard the details of any other phone call between a world leader and an American president? [...] But the real question that must be asked:  Why can't we see transcripts of Obama's conversations with world leaders?  What's good for the goose is good for the gander.  We've now seen Trump's conversation.  I want to see Obama's conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.  We all heard Obama whisper on an open microphone that, once reelected, he could give Putin whatever he wanted.  So what do you think Obama said during private, classified calls to Putin?

Obama Admin.  Gave Ukraine "List" Of People Not To Prosecute In 2016.  Many people wonder if the full extent of the criminal corruption that ran rampant in the Obama regime will ever be fully exposed, and they think there's no way it can be.  Mainly because there is so much illegal activity to investigate.  In fact, new evidence shows that while the 2016 presidential election was underway, [Barack H.] Obama and [George] Soros were busy protecting their interests by shutting down investigations in the Ukraine.

Barack Obama, the real king of the quid pro quo.  It's only with Trump that Democrats seem to have gleaned a sense of conscientiously objecting to what they perceive as abusing one's high office to obtain political or personal favors.  Where were they with Obama? [...] The Westly Group funded, among other companies, Tesla Motors.  And all the while he was visiting the White House, serving as a member of the Obama administration's advisory board on energy policy, and so forth and so on, he was raking in half a billion dollars in loans, grants and stimulus bucks for his green companies.  That was money from the Obama Energy Department to [Steve] Westly, the guy who wined and dined with Obama et al with eyebrow-raising frequency.

Corruption blinders of the media and other Democrats.  If the media and Democrats want to investigate anything, how about a possible corrupt payback from Netflix to Obama?  Obama gave the very wealthy Netlfix, Google and others huge financial benefits with net neutrality and Netflix gave the Obama's a huge contract even though they had no video production expertise or experience.

US Embassy pressed Ukraine to drop probe of George Soros group during 2016 election.  While the 2016 presidential race was raging in America, Ukrainian prosecutors ran into some unexpectedly strong headwinds as they pursued an investigation into the activities of a nonprofit in their homeland known as the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC). The focus on AntAC [...] was part of a larger probe by Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office into whether $4.4 million in U.S. funds to fight corruption inside the former Soviet republic had been improperly diverted.

Muellerama continues:  Obama advisor trial opens.  In political terms, Greg Craig's trial might be more of a sideshow in the Robert Mueller circus.  In terms of its impact on lobbying, his prosecution has already transformed the industry by instilling a new respect for the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA).  But will Barack Obama's former White House counsel be the first Democrat to go to prison over a Russia-collusion theory that turned out to be largely empty in the first place?

What must Obama be thinking as Dems support Mueller's contention that an ex-president can be prosecuted for crimes committed while in office?  [The Trump-haters] focus instead on Mueller's avowal that while a sitting president cannot be indicted, an ex-president can be.  They urge Trump's defeat because a second term in office would bring the statute of limitations into play, immunizing him from the consequences of his imaginary crime.  Thus, Democrats keep reminding us that it is important to hold ex-presidents criminally liable for their criminal conduct in office.  Have you noticed how ex-President Obama is nearly invisible lately?  I have to wonder if he worries about US Attorney Durham's grand jury investigating the role of John Brennan in enlisting foreign intelligence agencies in the plot to spy on the Trump campaign, and after the election, to bring it down?

Top Government Media Network Official, Author of "Vying for Allah's Vote," Guilty of Stealing $40,000.  In the latest scandal to rock the U.S. government's international media networks, the Obama-appointed chief's right hand man has pleaded guilty to stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the government.  The disgraced senior government official at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), Haroon K. Ullah, admitted that he fraudulently obtained $40,000 in government funds by falsifying hotel invoices, fake taxi receipts and by billing Uncle Sam for personal travel.

Former State Department worker, 63, pleads guilty in China spy case.  A former State Department employee admitted Wednesday to misleading investigators about accepting thousands of dollars in gifts and benefits from Chinese intelligence agents in exchange for information.  Candace Marie Claiborne, 63, pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States.  The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

Obama State Dept official sentenced to 3 years in prison for selling State docs to the Chinese for cash and gifts.  Working as a State Department official under Barack Hussein, Candace Claiborne was sentenced to 40 months in prison Tuesday by a federal judge for "conspiracy to defraud the United States."  Clearly, the judge should have added six months for the hairdo.  Claiborne pleaded guilty after being arrested in March 2017.  At her sentencing, U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss called Claiborne's crime, "a truly grave offense, a betrayal of her employer and a betrayal of her country."

Lyin' Biden:  Not a 'hint of a scandal' during Obama administration?  Please!  In 2012, several members of the U.S. Secret Service got snagged in a prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, while preparing for a visit by Mr. Obama.  What's more, a member of the White House advance team — aiding in the preparations for the president's visit to the Summit of the Americas — was also implicated in the scandal.  At first the White House said no staffers were involved, but when evidence emerged to the contrary, the White House sought to cover it up.

Five things that will happen if House Dems move to impeach Trump.  If Democrats want to argue that corrupt intent and an underlying offense are not needed to prove obstruction, then was former President Bill Clinton committing obstruction when he met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the Phoenix Airport while the FBI was investigating his wife's mishandling of government emails?  Or was former President Barack Obama committing obstruction when he opined that Hillary Clinton had done nothing wrong with her emails while she was his secretary of state?  Both Presidents Obama and Clinton acted before then-FBI Director James Comey announced his recommendation that Hillary Clinton — then running for president against Trump — should not be charged for improperly using a private email server instead of the required secure government email system while heading the State Department.  Knowing what they know today, if House Democrats move forward on the impeachment of President Trump, five things will happen. [...]

Why Are Top Obama Officials Working Cushy Jobs for Chinese Company We Now Consider a Threat?  As many Americans know and appreciate, the foundation for President Donald Trump's foreign policy is the protection of Americans.  It's one of the reasons his supporters voted for him and, quite frankly, it's what Americans should be able to expect of any president.  Since taking office in 2017, Trump hasn't backed down from taking on what he considers foreign and domestic threats, but former officials from President Barack Obama's administration might be in a position to hinder Trump's ability to keep one major international rival at bay.

7 Reasons Why the Uranium One Scandal Won't Go Away.  [#2] Uranium One was never just a Clinton scandal; it's also an Obama scandal.  In addition to Obama's State Department, his Department of Justice (DOJ) had a lead role on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) that approved the sale.  Thus, top DOJ and FBI officials share blame for not blocking the transaction in 2010.  That could explain why Obama's top DOJ and FBI personnel stonewalled their own field office investigations involving Hillary Clinton's Uranium One conflicts.  Those investigations effectively exonerated her just before the 2016 election.  The DOJ's role in the 2010 CFIUS review is troubling.  No one from the DOJ involved with that committee raised any objections to the deal, despite separate ongoing FBI investigations into Russian espionage and racketeering schemes — schemes that specifically targeted the U.S. nuclear industry.  Despite hard evidence of these schemes, the FBI, the DOJ, and other Obama agencies nevertheless raised no objections to the Russian takeover of U.S. nuclear assets.  The fact that Clinton's State Department wasn't the only Obama agency in the CFIUS review with conflicting motives must be fully investigated.

Listen to Joe diGenova.  If diGenova's track record holds, a legal rain of ruin is about to befall the deep state operatives who tried to steal the 2016 election and, failing that, to unwind the result.  And if, in fact, the enormous surveillance powers of our intelligence agencies were usurped by the Obama administration to spy for years before the election on the opposing political party, then the implications go far beyond just one election and one presidential candidate.  If that happened, then there can be no doubt that, when candidate Obama promised to "fundamentally transform America," he really meant it.  If Obama's "fundamental transformation" involved not only the atrocious harassment and intimidation of the Tea Party patriots by his Internal Revenue Service, but also included surveillance state spying on the Republican Party generally, there must be no question about whether the deep state actors should be punished for their actions.

"Criminal Indictments Are Coming For Obama/Clinton Associates".  Normally such a claim would cause more than a few eye rolls and shakes of the head as for a very long time, the upper echelons of the Deep State continued to dance just beyond the realm of real legal accountability for their nefarious actions.  Former U.S. prosecutor Joe diGenova is a proven reliable source, though, and so if he says indictments are coming, he's likely right.  The question then is if someone like John Brennan will take all the heat or if he will choose to point at those who approved his actions — namely figures like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Valerie Jarrett.  [Video clip]

The walls are closing in on Obama.  The truth of violations of law by the Obama White House, long buried, is being excavated by two private groups.  Judicial Watch has obtained testimony from a top FBI official that Hillary Clinton's home-brew server emails were found in the White House.  This means that Barack Obama's illegal handling of classified information contained in those emails is closer to being exposed.  This implicates him in the same felonies committed by Hillary Clinton that James Comey falsely claimed "no reasonable prosecutor" would pursue.

Sharyl Attkisson takes on 'most persistent scandal of the Obama era'.  The left continues to search for a way to connect Russian collusion with President Trump while conveniently ignoring who was in office while the scandal unfolded.  In a new opinion piece published by The Hill, Sharyl Attkisson takes on the "most persistent scandal of the Obama era," analyzing ten reasons why top intelligence officials missed the forest for the trees in their pursuit of anti-Trump political maneuvering.

We cannot quit because they won't quit.  This is no time to be polite and pretend the other side has been civil.  UnAmerican activities such as spying on political opponents cannot go unpunished because the penalty for crossing that line must be greater than the reward — or else people will continue to do that.  Did Democrats shrug off Watergate?  We are in win-or-die politics.  This is no time to forgive and forget and move on.  Clapper, Brennan, and Comey weaponized America's intelligence and law enforcement apparatus to create a KGB for Obama that they planned to hand over to Hillary.  President Trump needs to keep this story in the American conscience.  You don't just put a Band-Aid on it and kiss this boo-boo to make it better.  Obama left us with cancer.  It's chemo time.

Forget Trump, Here Are Five Reasons Why Obama Should Have Been Impeached.  Midway through his second term, more than half of the nation's inspectors general wrote a letter to Congress accusing the Obama administration of systemic obstruction of ongoing investigations.  That letter should have resulted in the appointment of a special counsel, but Attorney General Eric Holder, who famously called himself Obama's wingman, wasn't going to let that happen.  In fact, neither Holder or Loretta Lynch, Obama's second attorney general, ever appointed a special counsel, despite ample times where one should have been appointed.  Obama didn't just appoint attorneys general to lead the Justice Department, he appointed protectors to keep Obama from being held accountable for corruption.

Greg Craig, ex-Obama White House counsel, indicted for alleged false statements.  Greg Craig, former White House counsel for then-President Barack Obama, was indicted Thursday [4/11/2019] on two counts of making false and misleading statements to investigators — including Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team — in connection with his work on behalf of Russia-backed former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.  Craig is the first prominent Democrat to be indicted in a case arising from Mueller's now-completed probe into Russian election interference.  Mueller referred the Craig case to prosecutors in New York last year after uncovering possible wrongdoing while he investigated former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's Ukraine lobbying work.

Former Obama White House Counsel Gregory Craig Indicted in Foreign Lobbying Probe.  Former Obama White House counsel Gregory Craig was indicted Thursday on false statement charges stemming from a foreign lobbying investigation into his work on behalf of Ukraine.  The Department of Justice charges Craig hid "material facts" and lied to the National Security Division's Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Unit in relation to legal work he did for Ukraine in 2012 after leaving the White House to join Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

Ex-Obama lawyer  one big step closer to being  first high-profile Dem indicted under Mueller probe.  Greg Craig, a high-powered attorney who served as White House counsel in the Obama administration and as senior legal adviser to Bill Clinton during his impeachment investigation, is expected to be indicted for lying to DOJ investigators during the Mueller investigation.  It's possible other charges will also be leveled.  As BPR reported last month, Craig will likely be the first high-profile Democrat to be charged in connection with the special counsel witch hunt.  Because Craig refused a plea deal, a grand jury indictment may come as soon as today, Thursday [4/11/2019], the Wall Street Journal reported.

Former Obama WH counsel Greg Craig indicted in charges connected to Mueller probe.  A federal grand jury on Thursday [4/11/2019] indicted Greg Craig, a prominent Democratic attorney who worked for two presidents, charging him with false statements and concealing material information in connection with work he performed for Ukraine.  An indictment in the case against Craig, which originated in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, has been expected for several weeks, with Craig's own lawyers saying Wednesday they anticipated such an outcome.

Ex-Obama counsel expects charges in Mueller-related probe.  Former Obama administration White House counsel Greg Craig expects to be charged in a foreign lobbying investigation spun off from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, his lawyers said.

Obama WH counsel faces possible prosecution in Mueller-initiated probe.  Former Obama White House Counsel and Clinton-linked attorney Greg Craig may soon be charged by the Justice Department for engaging in illegal unregistered overseas lobbying, in a case initially probed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller — a development that would make him the first Democrat to face prosecution amid the long-running Russia investigation.  The case centers on lobbying work that Craig performed in 2012 for the Russian-backed president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, while Craig was a partner at the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.  Craig allegedly never registered as a foreign agent under a U.S. law known as the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, which requires lobbyists to declare publicly if they represent foreign leaders, governments or their political parties.

Michelle Obama, daughters' personal tennis instructor charged in college bribery scheme.  A tennis coach who worked with the family of former President Barack Obama was among the 50 people charged Tuesday [3/12/2019] in a college admissions scheme in which wealthy parents allegedly bribed coaches and others to get their children accepted to some of the top schools in the U.S.  Gordon Ernst, 52, was a former tennis coach at Georgetown University and the University of Rhode Island.  He is accused of conspiracy to commit racketeering while he was at Georgetown.

New Attorney General Needs To Clean House.  The liberal direction of the DOJ is nothing new.  In the Obama administration, then Attorney General Eric Holder was a liberal activist instead of the nation's top law enforcement officer.  Holder infamously labeled America "a nation of cowards" for not having the courage to discuss race relations.  Thereafter, he spent his entire tenure obsessively focused on race.  It was certainly a questionable decision when his department decided not to prosecute members of the Black Panthers who were threatening voters and armed with a weapon at a precinct in Philadelphia.  He made sure that no investigations ever touched President Obama, since he promised to be his "wing man."

Why didn't the FBI open Counter Intelligence investigations into these Russian assets?  For example, Barack Obama promised Vladimir Putin that he (Obama) would be more flexible for Putin after the 2012 election.  [Video clip]  More flexible for Vlad?  That sounds pretty serious to me.  It sounds as though Obama was acting as a Russian asset!  One of the first things he did as President was pull the missile shield from Poland to please Putin.  Did a single democrat find that objectionable?  Did the FBI think a CI investigation was called for?  Nope.  In 2010, while his wife was Secretary of State, Bill Clinton went to Vladimir Putin's home in Russia.  The next day Clinton gives a cup of coffee speech and walks away with $500,000.  Since they file taxes jointly, that means the money effectively went into her pocket as well.  The next thing you know, $140 million flows into the Clinton Foundation and 20% control of US uranium falls into the hands of Vladimir Putin. [...] Despite the concrete evidence that Obama and the Clinton's were truly acting on behalf of Putin and Russia, the FBI had no interest.  So who was the Director of the FBI at that time?  Robert Mueller.

The Democrats' Blueprint for Impeachment.  Democrats colluding with Russians is an old story, though the Russians have usually been communists and I guess you would have expected Democrats to collude with communists in years gone by. [...] More recently, a Democratic president was caught on a live mike telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that "I'll have more flexibility after the election" to handle contentious issues such as missile defense.  Is this not collusion?  But President Obama was not telling a joke.  He was serious.

The Results of Obama's Presidency Still Don't Matter to Journalists.  Obama's policies gave us the slowest economic recovery in seventy years despite almost zero interest rates, massive federal injection of funds, substantial government spending increases and an increase of around $10 trillion in debt.  Trump has given us the fastest annual growth since 2005.  Obama gave us the lowest labor participation rate in forty years.  Trump has brought the unemployment for all races, all education levels and all sexes to record lows.  Obama rewarded political bundlers with jobs and contracts.  Trump has given almost 100% of U.S. taxpayers and businesses more money to improve the economy, whether they donated to him or supported him or not. [...] Obama used the EPA, CFPB and Justice Department to blackmail companies and set up slush funds for political purposes and to reward supporters.  The slush funds are gone after Trump was elected.

Obama Ethics:  Another law enforcement agency found corrupted.  A Senate memo has blasted another law enforcement agency for corrupt behavior: the U.S. Marshals Service.  The report describes forged signatures for subpoenas, retaliations against whistleblowers, hire-anyone hiring practices and of course, money flung all over the place.  Kind of sounds like Chicago politics.  Which made me want to look up who might have appointed the obviously failed leadership of this once-respected law enforcement agency, with this time the woman named being Stacia Hylton:  Got it.  President Obama.  Another person hired not for her character but for her loyalty to Obama, and likely identity politics attributes.

Barack Obama's Campaign Was Fined $375,000 for Campaign Finance.  Donations — Why Didn't Liberal SDNY Prosecute Obama?  Gregg Jarrett went off after the New York Southern Division accused President Trump of campaign violations by paying hush money to two women from his own pocket. [...] Of course, the NYSD said nothing when Obama was accused of campaign finance donations.  In January 2013 the Obama Campaign was fined $375,000 for campaign reporting violations.

When Does Trump Say, 'Enough Is Enough!'?  So what if Trump personally paid Stormy Daniels to keep quiet?  Obama's campaign, not him personally, paid Reverend Wright hush money during the 2008 campaign and I don't recall any special counsel investigations or Congressional hearings into campaign finance violations.

Former Obama Staffers Could Face Serious Jail Time After What Trump Discovered.  This group of potential leakers consists of a group of 30 Obama Administration leftovers that President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions believe might be leaking information to the left wing media.  In an effort to find out who is leaking information, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced that he is planning to give lie detector tests to everyone on the National Security Council.  This means well over 100 people will be questioned and evaluated very carefully.  President Trump has been briefed on this pool of suspected leakers, so the cat is out of the bag.

Obama:  "Nobody In My Administration Got Indicted".  Well, that's not really true, not that many indictments, but there was a promise to deal with corruption.  As you can see, Obama, Hillary, Lynch and Holder remain at large, which should tell us something about the current administration dealing justly with corruption in DC.

Eric Holder as President?  Eric Holder has decided to run for president to complete the work of converting America to an openly recognized communist country. [...] Eric Holder was held in contempt for refusing to release documents that implicated him, Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel in the Fast and Furious scandal, allowing Barack Obama to later claim that there had been no scandals on his watch.

Obama Foundation is raising big bucks but hiding the identities of its mega-donors.  The planned Obama presidential library "Presidential Center" that wants to grab priceless lakefront property from taxpayers for a vast campus that amounts to a cenotaph-like monument to the wonderfulness of the 44th president of the United States recently filed its required Form 990 for 2017 with the IRS.  It revealed three surprising facts.  One:  The Foundation's fundraising skyrocketed from $13.175 million in 2016 to an eye-popping $232.6 million in 2017, 17.6 times as much.  Would it be too cynical of me to notice that this coincided with the elimination of the self-imposed limit of $1 million per contributor? [...] Two:  The Obama Foundation decided to mask the identities of its mega-donors.

Barack Obama's $50 Million Netflix Swamp Cash Deal Explained.  Want to know how the D.C. swamp works at the highest levels and how this one White House example is legion throughout the federal government?  It goes something like this:  As president, Barack Obama aggressively pushed for "Net Neutrality" which primarily built and then protected the platform for Netflix ISP dominance.  Netflix's value skyrocketed.  And what then happened in 2018?  Netflix turned around and gave the Obamas a $50 million dollar 'consulting and development' deal.

Obama Receives Ethics in Government Award.  For years I've been warning about how the media, Hollywood, and academia have been aggressively trying to rewrite Obama's abominable record in the White House.  To hear them recall the Obama years, one can only conclude they believe Obama single-handedly saved this country from economic collapse, saved the planet from environmental calamity, and had a completely scandal-free administration.  One might as well claim Obama cured cancer and saved us from an alien invasion — because they're just as believable.  Today [9/7/2018], we saw just how far academia is going to perpetuate the myth of Obama's "scandal-free" administration when he was awarded the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government by the University of Illinois.  Not since the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize has Obama been so undeserving of an award.  But, I submit that this award is even worse than the Nobel Peace Prize he didn't deserve.

The Audacity of Obama.  Few things could be more embarrassing than giving Barack Obama a prize for "ethics in government," as the University of Illinois did on Friday [9/7/2018]. [...] The media has made a great deal of Donald Trump's personal moral failings and fabrications.  The funny thing is, his exaggerations and braggadocio don't affect our lives.  But when Barack Obama told us that "if you like your health care plan, you can keep it," knowing full well that this was untrue, he defrauded every American.  And when he and his staff knowingly misinformed the media about the nature of the Iran Deal, he made every American (and every Middle Easterner) less safe. [...] And now that Donald Trump has waved that wand, sparking the economy, renegotiating trade deals, bring America to the point that — for the first time in history — the Department of Labor reported more jobs available than people looking for work.  Obama wants you to believe it was all his doing.

Six Times the Obama Administration Should Have Appointed Special Counsel.  [W]hile liberals are holding out hope for Robert Mueller to find evidence of collusion and force Trump to resign or be impeached, it occurs to me that despite the rampant corruption and scandals-a-plenty of the Obama years that there was never a single special counsel appointed.  Not one.  Obama supporters point to this as evidence that his administration was above board, but in reality, it was just proof of just how corrupt things were.  By limiting investigations to their own sham investigations that saw no one held accountable, or to congressional Republicans whose investigations they could simply stonewall and accuse of being partisan, the Obama administration felt they could keep up the ruse that they were scandal-free.

There's a Direct Line from Obama, Holder, Rice, Lerner, and Clinton to FBI Scandals.  Former President Barack Obama's eight years in the White House were marked by four huge scandals, each of which uniquely contributed to the unprecedented level of corruption now being exposed in the FBI's Russia collusion investigation.  The four scandals include:
  [#1]  Fast & Furious (2011), which exposed the Department of Justice's (DOJ) selling high-powered rifles and other firearms to individuals known to be straw buyers for Mexican drug cartels.
  [#2]  Benghazi (2012), the terrorist attack that killed four Americans in a U.S. consulate in Libya, including J. Christopher Stevens, the country's ambassador to Libya, and the Obama administration's false explanation of it.
  [#3]  IRS targeting (2013), in which the federal tax agency's illegally singled out Tea Party, conservative, and evangelical nonprofit applicants for illegal harassment during the 2010 and 2012 election campaigns.
  [#4]  Hillary email (2015), which included hundreds of emails containing highly sensitive classified information to and from then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her private server, which was compromised by multiple foreign powers and hackers.

Money laundering:
Inspector General:  Obama Paid $300 Million To 'People Who Don't Exist'.  Barack Obama will always be remembered for a series of highly irregular overseas payments to authoritarian regimes, however according to a report by the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, those wasted millions are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Obama's largesse.  According to special inspector general John Sopko, Obama wasted at least $300 million on the salaries of "people who don't exist", who were supposedly operating in Afghanistan, far away from the prying eyes of U.S. oversight.

Obama's Best Friend's For-Profit University Faces Federal Investigation.  The University of Phoenix is still facing a federal investigation more than two years after a private equity firm with close ties to former President Barack Obama made a deal to purchase the for-profit college, despite one executive's promise to operate "with the highest ethical standards," The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.  The Vistria Group is run by Martin Nesbitt, who's been described as Obama's best friend and is also chairman of the Obama Foundation.  The Apollo Education Group, which owns the University of Phoenix, agreed to be bought in February 2016, and Vistria completed the $1.1 billion purchase a year later.

Oops! Alleged Russian spy Maria Butina met with Obama officials in 2015.  Desperate Trump-haters, searching for something — anything! — to show that the Trump administration is in bed with Vladimir Putin seized on the news a week ago that a young Russian named Maria Butina had been indicted for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), or, in the words of the DOJ, for "conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian Federation within the United States without prior notification to the Attorney General."  Here at last was a face — and a red-headed female one, to boot — to attach to the charges of treason being thrown around by the likes of John Brennan.

Devin Nunes Closes In on Corrupt Obama Officials.  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes is calling on two of his fellow Republican committee chairman to hold open hearings for 10 former State Department and Obama White House officials regarding alleged surveillance abuses against the Trump campaign. [...] Nunes has investigated the Justice Department, FBI and State Department over the agencies' investigations of Trump campaign associates.  The Republican has mostly focused on the DOJ and FBI's handling of the infamous Steele dossier and their applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.  Nunes and other Republicans have alleged that law enforcement officials improperly used the unverified dossier to obtain the spy warrants while also failing to disclose to federal judges that the document was financed by the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Obama single-handedly ruined the FBI and the DOJ.  While the devious machinations of the Deep State are not new, it was the Obama administration, most likely Obama himself, who brought us to this low point, the wholesale corruption of the FBI and the DOJ leadership.  Obama surrounded himself with like-minded globalist elites who thought no laws applied to them:  Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Valerie Jarrett, the Podestas, Ben Rhodes, Jonathan Gruber, and more.  Eric Holder was the most unprincipled attorney general, more even than John Mitchell, who served time in federal prison.  We learned from the I.G. report that Obama lied when he said he learned of HRC's private server from the media.  He knew because he, too, corresponded with her from a private email, just as Comey used a non-FBI email account.  None of these people, not one, respected our Constitution or the laws meant to govern their agencies.  This is what Obama did to America.  He virtually destroyed the FBI, the CIA, and the DOJ by turning them into weapons with which to destroy his opponents.

Obama Says 'I Didn't Have Scandals.' So What Are All These?  At a Las Vegas tech conference last week, former president Barack Obama told an audience that his presidency had been scandal-free. [...] Why does it matter now?  For one thing, historical revisionism shouldn't go unchallenged.  Democrats are running to retake power, and many of them were participants or accomplices in numerous corrosive scandals that have been airbrushed.  The other reason, of course, is that when we start to juxtapose the mythically idyllic Obama presidency with the tumultuous reign of Trump, we're reminded that many journalists largely abdicated their responsibilities for eight years — which has a lot to do with the situation we find ourselves in today.

Obama's Guilty Contentment.  Obama's abuse of power — directing the result of an FBI investigation — was eagerly abetted by Comey.  And then we come to the granddaddy of all White House scandals.  As chronicled and analyzed so well by NRO's Andy McCarthy, the Wall Street Journal's Kim Strassel, and the incomparable Sharyl Attkisson, Obama's administration conducted a spy operation on Donald Trump's presidential campaign.  It dwarfs other Obama scandals but one because it was, as clearly as Obama's direction to the FBI on the Clinton email matter, an abuse of power for the purpose of affecting an election.  What they did was far worse than the Watergate scandal that toppled Richard Nixon for one big reason.  The men who were hired by the Nixon campaign to burglarize the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee were private citizens.  The spy operation on the Trump campaign in 2016 was planned, conducted and covered up by high-level officials of the Obama administration abusing their powers of law enforcement and intelligence gathering to influence the election and, if necessary, nullify its result.

'Scandal-free' Obama is daring Trump to bust corrupt members of his administration.  Mouthing an old trope dating from his time in office and ever since, former President Obama declared at a Vegas conference that he had a scandal-free administration, quite unlike President Trump.  Supposedly, it was now a joke. [...] I don't see anything to joke about with that phony claim, given that he's mouthed it quite a few times before, and not as a joke.  What's more, he made that mendacious claim just as he was being paid big dollars at the Las Vegas conference itself, which, as most Americans know, is typically a disguised bribe for some favors performed earlier and in itself a scandal.  His fees are reportedly $400,000, which is nice money for a few minutes of speaking work.

Barack Obama Takes Jab At Donald Trump: 'I Did Not Have Scandals As President'.  President Barack Obama took a light swing at his successor during a tech conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday.  His eight years in office were scandal free, he told the audience.  "I didn't have scandals, which seems like it shouldn't be something you brag about," Obama joked.

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Newsweek says that was a joke.  Was Obama really joking, or is that Newsweek's form of damage control?

Progressives on the Brink.  If it is true that President Obama ordered Attorney General Lynch and Director Comey to avoid bringing charges against candidate Clinton and to spy on the Trump campaign with the intention of throwing the election to Clinton, and if high officials at the FBI knowingly requested a FISA warrant on the basis of evidence known to be false, these actions will represent the most serious political crimes in the history of the country.

What Obama and his political Choom Gang did is far worse than Watergate.  The Obama administration — with or without the knowledge and direction of President Obama himself — perverted one of the most powerful, clandestine spying operations in the world and used it at the very height of a presidential campaign to spy on political opponents, punish them and, ultimately, silence them through extortion.  If this was orchestrated without the express knowledge of Mr. Obama, then it reveals just how blatantly he instructed by example the weaponizing of the entire federal government to carry out his low, dishonest and unjust ideology.  By any means necessary, one might say.  Only instead of being driving by visions of justice, these people were driven by visions of undying power.

This whole Trump Insurance Policy has Obama's stench all over it.  Come on.  Do you really think for one nano-second that Obama's faithful would pull something so despicable if they thought he'd object?  This is the Obama Administration.  They used taxpayer money funneled through the State Department to interfere with the 2015 elections in Israel.  Mostly because they hate Benjamin Netanyahu almost as much as they hate Donald Trump.  Obama also interfered with the Brexit referendum in 2016 — even threatening the UK if they defied his demands that they stay in the EU.  Does anybody in his right mind think Barack Obama would pass up the opportunity to interfere with the outcome of the 2016 President election?  This is the guy who used the power of the Executive branch to harass and suppress Tea Party groups, pro-Israel groups, and other conservative organizations in the lead-up to the 2012 election.  He's the president who spied on journalists who had the audacity to investigate his administration's corruption.

Iranian Regime Threatens to Release Names of Western Officials Who Took Bribes to Pass Nuke Deal.  Earlier this week President Trump withdrew from the sham Iranian nuclear deal.  President Trump knew the deal with the Iranian mullahs was not working.  This was despite former Secretary of State John Kerry working against the Trump administration to salvage the weak deal with the Iranian regime.

Obama May Finally Be Investigated After All These Years!  Barack Obama is under investigation and while you may not be hearing about it from the mainstream media, it is indeed the truth. [...] The Barack Obama Foundation is under audit after it was discovered that the foundation's accountant, a small CPA firm in Chicago, has been reprimanded by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board in Washington, D.C. for having filed an audit considered deficient according to industry accepted accounting standards.

Here are 1,366 well sourced examples of Barack Obama's lies, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, hypocrisy, waste, etc..  [#30] Although Obama had promised to have "the most sweeping ethics reform in history," and had often criticized the role of money in politics, the truth is that after he was elected, he gave administration jobs to more than half of his 47 biggest fundraisers.

Hillary's Money Laundering Scheme.  While it obsesses over an aging porn star, Russians, discredited ex-FBI officials, and pimple-faced gun-grabbers, the mainstream media has been ignoring an explosive federal lawsuit unearthing a huge illegal money-laundering conspiracy said to have been masterminded last election cycle by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign.  It is yet another facet of the plot by which Clinton, possibly in league with then-President Obama, broke the law in an attempt to rig the election.  Throughout his agonizingly long presidency, Obama serially abused his powers as the nation's Chief Executive to undermine his political opponents.

Time to End the Resistance of the Swamp.  The ongoing Mueller "investigation" is not a legal matter.  It's a continuation of abuse of power by the Obama administration, which behaved as if Democrats were going to reign forever.  The extent of their abuse started to come to light only after the elections. [...] It's clear now that the Obama administration used the FBI to persecute its political enemies.  The FBI needs to be investigated thoroughly and be purged of the Obama-Hillary loyalists who conducted these crimes.  The first step in such investigation might be to offer FBI agents and officers who observed or participated in such activities to step forward and to tell what they saw or did.  But it is also clear that Mueller does everything in his power to prevent such investigation.  This alone justifies arresting him and charging with obstruction of justice.

Respect Unearned.  Trust in the Obama-era directorships of the Justice Department, FBI, and, indeed, the federal courts themselves are now horses that have long ago left the proverbial judicial barn.  Should the public also believe that no sober and judicious FISA court judge would ever have approved surveillance of American citizens without asking where the evidence came from, who compiled it, who, if any, paid for it, or had a vested interest in seeing it used for a warrant?  Should the public believe that its FBI director, and various deputy attorney generals, would never have dared keep from a FISA court information about their own submitted evidence?

McCabe got the order to shut down Hillary investigation from...Obama?  Rush Limbaugh on his April 19 show said the important news in the report of Inspector General Horowitz's report is the August 12, 2016 call to McCabe from the Obama DOJ regarding the Clinton Foundation investigation. Limbaugh believes that it was Sally Yates, of the Obama DOJ, who called McCabe to tell him they were "concerned" about the investigation. [...] While Mueller searches in vain for the nonexistent collusion and obstruction of justice by President Trump, there is clear evidence in the Horowitz report of obstruction of justice to interfere with the 2016 election by the Obama DOJ.

Remember When Barack Obama Took $3.3 Million In Illegal Campaign Donations?  It was 2008 and money was pouring into the Obama political machine at an unprecedented rate.  A few whistleblowers had the courage to cry the alarm.  The money was coming in from overseas, from dubious sources, from individuals who had already exceeded the maximum allowable donation limit.  Mr. Obama won the White House.  His administration "reviewed" the claims and quietly paid a fine and the matter was promptly buried — and then the process repeated in 2012. No media outrage.  No claims of collusion.  No raids on law offices or campaign headquarters.  No calls for impeachment.  My how things have changed.

The Democrats' Long History of Making Incriminating Documents Disappear.  One EPA regional administrator was forced to resign after being caught conducting government business through an email account with an environmentalist group; another apparently used a fake email account.  Lisa Jackson, the agency's top official, used the account of "Richard Windsor," named after her dog and her hometown.  Windsor, despite never existing, was awarded six EPA certifications in cyber-security and ethics.  Jackson's successor, Gina McCarthy, simply deleted every one of thousands of text messages she sent on her EPA phone, claiming they were all personal.  That includes the ones she could be seen sending while seated at congressional hearings.

Special counsel investigating the FBI.  The headline and accompanying story in the Hill made it appear as if Attorney General Jeff Sessions is defying the Senate:  "Sessions declines to appoint second special counsel."  The story said, "Attorney General Jeff Sessions revealed in a letter to lawmakers Thursday [3/29/2018] that he had declined to name a second special counsel to investigate allegations of surveillance abuse within the Department of Justice, despite pressure from the Republican Party for him to do so."  I read the letter.  Sessions, a veteran prosecutor, said a special prosecutor isn't necessary.  Inspector General Michael Horowitz and his staff of 470 people are handling the investigation in the corruption of the FBI by Barack Obama and company.  Sessions named U.S. Attorney John Huber — an Obama appointee — of Utah to handle any prosecutions that may arise from Horowitz's investigation.

Think Obama Administration Wasn't Corrupt?  Think Again.  Former President Obama and his political supporters have repeatedly stated that his administration was scandal-free, unlike administrations before and after.  "We're probably the first administration in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House," Obama himself said.  A new book puts the lie to that statement.

Obama used executive powers to benefit close friends' private investment firms:  Book.  President Obama used his executive powers to attack industries to lower the value of certain companies, allowing his friends in the private sector to swoop in and buy them up at reduced prices, according to Peter Schweizer's new book Secret Empires:  How Our Politicians Hide Corruption and Enrich Their Families and Friends.  The book, released Tuesday [3/20/2018], said Obama and his administration would deem industries either destructive to the environment or exploitative for the financial and professional gain of his friends, including industries such as coal mining, offshore drilling, cash advance companies, and for-profit colleges.  The book highlighted Marty Nesbitt and Harreld Kirkpatrick III, both former basketball players and close friends of the Obamas, who launched their private equity investment firm Vistria in sync with Obama's re-election in 2012.

Obama, Biden cronies made billions off China trade deals and regulatory policies:  Report.  Former President Barack Obama used his executive powers to impose industry regulations that lowered the value of certain companies and led to financial gains for a firm owned by two close family friends, according to Breitbart editor-at-large Peter Schweizer.  The admissions were revealed in Schweizer's new book, "Secret Empire," which found a pattern of investments in coal, offshore mining and for-profit universities that closely tracked the Obama administration's regulatory policy changes.  Billionaire activists Tom Steyer and George Soros were among the beneficiaries.

Everybody Knows.  [Scroll down]  Everybody knows that Barack Obama is doubly unaccountable.  He is unaccountable by physiognomy and by exquisite hypocrisy.  Holder and Lynch, both also double-unaccountables, subverted the justice system as Obama's attorneys general, criminally conspired in multiple ways for political ends.  Everybody knows that Obama knew about the illegally obtained FISA warrant to spy on Donald Trump.  National security adviser Susan Rice is a numbskull who was valued for race and for lying straight faced.  [...] Power corrupts.  Power plus unaccountability turns sophisticated people into incompetent criminals and the uneducated into destructive, foul-mouthed brats.  The Obama administration produced multitudes of both.

Bruce and Nellie Ohr:  The other Trump-hating lovebirds.  Now we have revelations that U.S. Department of Justice associate deputy attorney general, Bruce Ohr, failed to disclose the payments his wife Nellie Ohr was receiving from Fusion GPS on his official forms, an ethics violation that carries a jail penalty, according to the Daily Caller.  Nellie Ohr, identified as a Russia expert, may have been writing some of the contents of the utterly gamy and fictional Steele dossier, and from appearances, it looks as if she might have, while ol' Bruce may have been shilling the product to the FBI as investigative bait, which the agency later did use as the basis for obtaining a FISA warrant to spy on President Trump through his lieutenants.

Scandal, Corruption, Lawbreaking — And So What?  [Scroll down]  Despite a nonstop media assault on Trump's administration, Representative Devin Nunes, and the congressional investigative committees, more than 50 percent of the public already believes that the Trump campaign was illegally surveilled and smeared through the confluence of the Clinton campaign, the Obama administration, and the FBI.  Voters would only grow more cynical if some Americans were allowed to abuse constitutionally protected civil liberties, and to lie to the Congress, the FBI, and the courts, while the less connected others go to jail for much less.  Without a judicial accounting, it will be impossible to clean up the hierarchies of the FBI and the DOJ.

America Turns To Barack Obama As Evidence Mounts Of Shocking Abuses.  The list of federal authority abuses during the eight years of Barack Obama's presidency is mounting fast and furious these days.  So much so that even the Establishment Media is finding it more and more difficult to ignore as seen by this just-published expose via The Hill: [...]

Federal abuses on Obama's watch represent a growing blight on his legacy.  In all of the discussions about the political weaponization of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI, alleged corruption at the highest echelons of those agencies and serial abuse of the secret FISA process surrounding the 2016 election, one name has been conspicuously absent:  President Barack Obama.  High-ranking officials and other major players in those agencies — which Obama oversaw — are increasingly embroiled in the growing scandal:  James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe, Andrew Weissmann, Sally Yates, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bruce Ohr.  Given the tight control Obama exercised over every part of his administration and agenda, the idea that any of these appointees and loyalists freelanced their activities without at least his tacit approval or that of his White House strains credulity.

Obama Coverup for Hillary Clinton Was Worse Than Collusion.  Records available through the FBI Vault prove beyond any doubt that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her inner circle of trusted aides, including Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, were subjects of a formal investigation into the mishandling of classified information, beginning July 10, 2015.  Yes, you read the above correctly:  A formal FBI investigation commenced well before any 2016 Democratic presidential debates and primaries.  Yet how many times did Clinton and her political and media allies claim that, whatever may have been happening, the review of her private servers and unsecured devices during her years as America's chief diplomat was nothing more than a "normal security review," not an "investigation"?  Or, as then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch instructed then-FBI Director James Comey to describe it, just a "matter"?

Documents Reveal Obama State Department Provided Classified Records to Sen. Ben Cardin to Undermine President Trump.  Judicial Watch today [1/31/2018] released 42 pages of heavily redacted State Department documents containing classified information that was provided to Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and outspoken critic of President Donald Trump.  The documents show Russian political interference in elections and politics in countries across Europe.  According to a March 2017 report in the Baltimore Sun:  "Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin received classified information about Russia's involvement in elections when the Obama administration was attempting to disseminate that material widely across the government in order to aid in future investigations, according to a report Wednesday ... Obama officials were concerned, according to the report [in The New York Times, below], that the Trump administration would cover up intelligence once power changed hands."

Dr. Media examining Trump?  Why not examine Obama instead?  Obama was paranoid, delusional, and a power-hungry autocrat who didn't care about equal justice, his oath to enforce laws, the Constitution, economic opportunity for all, or the safety of the people. [...] Clapper, Brennan, Hillary, Rice, Huma, and Holder all committed perjury, and they were never prosecuted.  Hillary and her aides continually violated the nation's security laws, and they were purposely not charged.  Lois Lerner and others at the IRS committed perjury, destroyed records and computers, and violated people's constitutional rights, and Justice didn't charge them.  Obama said there wasn't a smidgen of evidence of wrongdoing at IRS and didn't see anything Hillary and others did at the State Department that jeopardized the safety of the U.S.  The "independent" Justice Department did what it was told by not charging anyone.  Obama repeatedly said he didn't have the right to unilaterally change immigration laws but did it anyway.  When Arizona wanted to enforce immigration laws, he sued the state.  When sanctuary cities refused to enforce laws on the books, he supported them.  When states passed sensible voter ID laws, Obama sued them.

A seedy, groping, pervy atmosphere at Obama's DOJ.  What a seedy, sleazy atmosphere.  And quite typical of the left, which holds libertine views about sex for starters, as well as a sense that laws, rules, and manners don't apply to its own members.  Put the two together, and you get this.

DOJ scolds Obama administration over reported groping, harassment, office sex.  The Justice Department scolded the Obama administration on Wednesday following a report on how sexual harassment of all kinds was improperly handled at the department for years.  The Washington Post reported that the DOJ's inspector general had found "systemic" problems with how complaints were addressed, with offending officials often being let off the hook or even rewarded.  The article cited investigative reports on a lawyer who allegedly groped two female attorneys and a top U.S. Marshals official who had sex with "approximately" nine women in his office.

Obama's biggest EVER scandal uncovered (yup... drugs AND terrorism!)  An explosive new report alleges that former President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry betrayed America, sold out our allies, and helped enrich terrorists and drug dealers.  Even worse, the silence from the mainstream media on the biggest scandal to ever hit the Obama administration is deafening — and it has conservatives outraged.  Obama sold out America, and did it to get a toothless and ugly deal with Iran that experts believe hasn't stopped the Ayatollah from pursuing nuclear weapons.

FBI Plot Against Trump.  This shouldn't be all that surprising given that Barack Obama gleefully weaponized the FBI, Department of Justice, and various intelligence agencies, and criminalized political differences in the process. A radical zealot with a desire to fundamentally transform the United States, the 44th president had a limited sense of boundaries.  Obama was more Third World caudillo than president and he was never troubled by hijacking governmental powers to hurt his opposition, as the conservative groups targeted by his IRS can attest.  His race-obsessed first attorney general, Eric Holder, turned the Justice Department into a virtual arm of the Democratic Party, using the agency to punish the Left's enemies and let allies run wild.  His second attorney general, Loretta Lynch, surreptitiously met with Bill Clinton in an airport hangar, presumably to cut a shady deal to let Hillary Clinton escape punishment for the many crimes she committed in office.

Obama Likely Won Re-Election Through Election Fraud.  There were many factors that hurt Mitt Romney and favored Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election.  The Democrats portrayed Romney in the worst light possible; as a wealthy, out of touch millionaire who wanted to return women to the 1800's.  The left wing media predictably did everything it could to perpetuate that false caricature.  Obama's race was an advantage; voters of all persuasions, particularly minorities, still cannot get over the allure of the first black president.  The 47% of Americans on welfare were predisposed to vote for the food stamp president over Romney, wanting the free goodies to keep on giving, despite the long-term unsustainability.  In spite of those odds, polls indicated that Romney was going to win the election.  The economy is close to Great Depression era conditions, and unemployment is almost as high as when Obama entered office.  Economic conditions became so dire after Obama took office it prompted the rise of an entire new movement, the Tea Party.  Presidents rarely win reelection when the economy is in the tank.

Watchdog Finds More Evidence Obama's EPA Broke Federal Law.  Former President Barack Obama's EPA used a social media platform to secretly promote the agency's policies in violation of federal law, according to a conservative watchdog group in Washington, D.C.  Judicial Watch obtained 900 pages of documents Monday showing the EPA used social media to lobby support for the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule.  The agency used Thunderclap, a platform that shares messages across Facebook and Twitter, to recruit outside groups to generate support for various environmental policies.  Federal law prohibits agencies from engaging in propaganda.  It also forbids agencies from using federal resources to conduct grassroots campaigns that prod U.S. citizens into browbeating lawmakers to act on pending legislation.

Read the Letter to Barack Obama Warning About Dangers of the Uranium One Deal.  The warning was issued December 21st, 2010.  Barack Obama was President and Hillary Clinton his Secretary of State.  A uranium deal that allocated a sizable portion of U.S. uranium reserves had just been awarded to Russian government-controlled interests.  The deal made no sense.  It weakened American security.  It also made the Clinton Foundation very-very rich via donations made by corporate interests directly tied to the deal.  Senator John Barrasso sounded the alarm.  Barack Obama, his administration, and much of the Establishment Media chose to ignore the warning.

Two kinds of truth: actual and political.  The Clinton administration was corrupt, but the Obama administration took its cue from them and built upon it to become the most corrupt administration in modern history.  The combined list of crimes committed by the two presidencies of Clinton and Obama is too long to list here.  Both administrations were chock full of criminals and we are living with the consequences of their misdeeds today.  The Clintons learned their tricks of the trade from the Kennedys.  Obama learned his from the Clintons.  Hillary got fabulously rich while Obama looked the other way, national security [notwithstanding].

The Trump Collusion Case Is Not Getting the Clinton Emails Treatment.  [Scroll down]  Lest we forget, President Obama had endorsed Mrs. Clinton, his former secretary of state and his party's nominee, to be president.  Moreover, Obama had knowingly participated in the conduct for which Clinton was under investigation — using a pseudonym in communicating with her about classified government business over an unsecure private communication system.  Obama prejudiced the emails investigation.  Long before it was formally ended, he publicly pronounced Clinton innocent.

Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the swamp.  The Obama administration was, as far as I can see, a criminal enterprise.  It was as if the Mafia had taken control of the nation.  It took the good fortune of an unexpected election of a rogue candidate to the office of the presidency to expose just how deep is that cesspool of depravity in Washington.  That unexpectedness was key.  Had Trump been far head in the polls for an entire year, had his election been widely predicted by the media, there would have been time enough for the inmates to destroy more of the evidence, to (so to speak) wipe their servers with a cloth, and to fabricate better lies.  They confidently assumed that Clinton would win and that her presidency would continue to shield them, to continue filling the trough from which they slurped.  As it was, the light switch was thrown unexpectedly, and the cockroaches could not scurry fast enough to avoid being discovered.

Obama Justice Department's $1 Billion 'Slush Fund' Boosted Liberal Groups.  President Barack Obama's Justice Department created a "slush fund" of nearly $1 billion using legal settlements with banks and steered those funds to political allies on the left while excluding conservative groups, internal documents show.  The financial institutions, which made legal settlements with the Obama administration regarding mortgage securities that imploded during the 2008 financial crisis, include Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and JPMorgan Chase.  Public records of the settlement agreements with the Justice Department show that when cash donations to liberal groups are combined with other donations in the form of loans and a separate settlement with Volkswagen of America Inc., the slush fund may have topped $3 billion.

Obama's felony: 'Sitting' on the ROSATOM nuclear crimes.  There is currently ample open-source evidence to conclude that all the key National Security officials in the Obama Administration (especially Sec of State Clinton) knew as early as 2009 that Vadm Mikerin, a Russian national, and his "higher officials" Moscow backers, were engaged in a vast criminal conspiracy relating to "nuclear kickbacks" and felony violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices act.  Mikerin was a big-wig in ROSATOM. In 2015, Mikerin pled guilty to the "criminal money laundering conspiracy involving violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act," and was sent to Federal Prison for 4 years.  According to its website, ROSATOM is the Russian "State Atomic Energy Corporation."  The ROSATOM webite continues to state, "ROSATOM is a proponent of the uniform national policy and best management practices in nuclear power utilization, the nuclear weapons industry, and nuclear safety."  Did you get that?  ROSATOM a "proponent of the uniform national policy" of the Russian "nuclear weapons industry."  In the United States, Mikerin set up and ran Tenam which was a subsidiary of Tenex ROSATOM's foreign trade arm.  So, in 2009 and 2010, Sec. of State Clinton and the entire Obama national security team intentionally and knowingly withheld time-sensitive national security information about the Russian key nuclear-arms corporation while the UraniumOne and New Start treaty were being evaluated by the United States Senate and CFIUS board.

Emails Appear To Confirm That President Obama's DOJ Funneled 'Slush Fund' Money To Leftist Orgs.  On Tuesday [10/24/2017], House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) revealed that documents obtained in a separate, ongoing investigation show that former President Barack Obama's administration directed money intended for victims of Wall Street mortgage meddling to progressive activist organizations who now form much of the "resistance" to President Donald Trump.  Members of the House Judiciary Committee mentioned several weeks ago that they suspected Obama's Department of Justice had iced out conservative organizations looking for their share of the more than $1 billion legal settlement the DOJ collected from "big banks" who'd played a part in the housing crisis of the late 2000s.  The DOJ required banks included in the settlement agreement to make "mandatory donations" to non-profits working on housing and property rights policies.

Obama Justice Department's liberal slush fund exposed.  New internal documents from the Obama Department of Justice (DoJ) reveal the existence of a DoJ "slush fund" used to fund left-wing groups while intentionally excluding conservative organizations.  Despite sworn assertions before Congress by DoJ representatives that the "Department did not want to be in the business of picking and choosing which organization may or may not receive any funding under the agreement," a series of emails exposes the real intent of DoJ leadership and staff to funnel "money toward an organization of our choosing" using funds obtained via settlement with banks involved in the housing bubble of 2008-2009.

Clinton Emails, Trump Dossier, Russian Nukes:  All Point To Corruption In Obama's Justice Department.  [Scroll down]  We've also only recently learned, thanks to intrepid reporters at The Hill, that the FBI had a substantial amount of evidence showing that Russian nuclear officials had been involved in a number of illegal schemes designed to expand its nuclear business in the U.S. — which included bribery, extortion and racketeering.  Worse, they had all this before top Obama administration officials — including Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder — signed off on a deal that gave Russia effective control of 20% of uranium in the U.S. by approving Russia's purchase of Uranium One.  Why didn't the FBI clang the warning bells before the administration signed off on that deal?  Well, it just happens that doing so would have been hugely embarrassing for Obama and Clinton, who were busy at the time making nice with the Russians with their "reset."  Did the FBI put politics ahead of law enforcement?

A few questions for Loretta Lynch.  Why did you threaten the FBI informant on the uranium deal with jail if he told Congress and the public what he knew?  Should Eric Holder, Hillary and the Obama administration have approved the uranium deal to Russia knowing that they were under Federal investigation for corruption and kickbacks?  Mueller was involved in the investigation, so do you think he should be investigating the supposed Russian collusion today?  Is there any way that Bill Clinton should have been allowed to accept $500,000 from Russia for a speech and meet with Putin while Hillary was Secretary of State?  Doesn't over $100 Million in donations to the Clinton Foundation after the uranium deal was completed have all the appearances of kickbacks?  What else could they be?

How Corrupt Are American Institutions?  In 2009, the Obama Justice Department began investigating a Russian plan to expand Russia's atomic energy business by acquiring uranium in the United States.  Through bribery, kickbacks, money laundering and extortion, the Russians were able to acquire 20% of the uranium mining rights in the United States.  Shareholders in the Russian firm Rosatom funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation in the months leading up to the Obama administration's approval of the transaction.  The sale was officially approved in 2010 by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), whose members included both Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder.  Apparently neither Holder nor Clinton informed the other members of the committee just what an historic act of corruption they were participants to. [...] The government informant at the heart of the case was (and remains) forbidden to speak to Congress by an Obama Justice Department gag order (that gag order has yet to be lifted by the Trump Justice Department).  If this story is true, then all our worst fears have been confirmed, and we are indeed living in a banana republic, with one set of rules for the rich and powerful, and another set of rules for everybody else.

New Connections Made Between Uranium Deal, Obama Administration.  New connections are being made between the Obama administration and a Russian uranium deal.  According to an article in "The Hill," the FBI had evidence the deal involved bribing truckers who were transporting uranium in the U.S.  The Justice Department — run by then Attorney General Eric Holder at the time — claimed it was investigating the allegations.

FBI sat on evidence of Russian bribery plot as US uranium reserves signed over to Russia.  A blockbuster story in The Hill yesterday is being given the silent treatment by the mainstream media.  That won't last for long. [...] The FBI under Robert Mueller and the Department of Justice under Eric Holder and his U.S. attorney Rosenstein allowed a strategic natural resource to slip into the control of a rival hostile power and declined to act on corruption investigations into the Clintons — all while keeping Congress and the public in the dark about the unfolding crime involving the highest levels of politics.

Team Obama's stunning cover-up of Russian crimes.  It turns out the Obama administration knew the Russians were engaged in bribery, kickbacks and extortion in order to gain control of US atomic resources — yet still OK'd that 2010 deal to give Moscow control of one-fifth of America's uranium.  This reeks.  Peter Schweizer got onto part of the scandal in his 2015 book, "Clinton Cash": the gifts of $145 million to the Clinton Foundation, and the $500,000 fee to Bill for a single speech, by individuals involved in a deal that required Hillary Clinton's approval.  The New York Times confirmed and followed up on Schweizer's reporting — all of it denounced by Hillary as a partisan hit job.

Now We Know.  One of the mysteries of the election campaign has been the ongoing Russian hacking conspiracy nonsense that was forced on us by the Democrats after the election. [...] Even if it was just a distraction to shift the focus from the problems of the Democrats, it is a one week story at best.  Yet, it went on and on, forcing Trump to appoint a special prosecutor to chase ghosts and phantoms that could not possibly exist. [...] Well, we may now have an answer.  It may simply have been the old Progressive tactic of preemptively accusing others of something they are doing.  The Hill is reporting that the FBI had stumbled onto a plot that looks a lot like bribery by the Russians to, wait for it, get the Clinton's support in their efforts to grow their nuclear business inside the US.

The Uranium One Scandal Is Exploding.  The Russia/Obama/Clinton scandal that goes generally under the name of Uranium One is getting harder for the liberal press to cover up. [...] The original story goes back to Peter Schweizer's Clinton Cash.  The scandal is a blockbuster, perhaps the worst involving Barack Obama, Eric Holder's corrupt Department of Justice, and Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Hillary implicated in Russia probe.  The Hill and Circa media have broken a story the FBI spent years investigating — and actually sent someone to jail over — involving bribery, blackmail and corruption by Russians who wanted to buy up a big chunk of the world's uranium, located here in North America.  We've known for a while that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton both approved the deal and her family foundation received millions of dollars from Russians backing the deal.  That's one reason the nickname "Crooked Hillary" stuck.  What we didn't know until now is that "the FBI had evidence as early as 2009 that Russian operatives used bribes, kickbacks and other dirty tactics to expand Moscow's atomic energy footprint in the U.S.," according to Fox News.  Not only did Hillary's State Department approve Russia's purchase of Uranium One — handing 20 percent of the U.S. uranium supply over to allies of Vladimir Putin — but the Obama FBI and Department of Justice let it happen unchallenged.  All while the Clinton Foundation collected millions in "donations" from these Russians, and Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 by a Russian investment bank to give a speech in Moscow.

Let the Russian-crimes whistleblower testify.  A key informant in the Russian bribery and extortion scheme to gain control of US atomic resources wants to tell Congress what he knows — but is legally barred from doing so.  That's the latest bombshell to emerge from The Hill's exposés this week that the Obama administration knew all about the scheme yet still OK'd a deal to give Moscow control of one-fifth of US uranium.  Moreover, the unidentified informant tried to tell his story by filing a lawsuit during last year's campaign — but was squelched by the Obama Justice Department.  According to his lawyer, Reagan-era Justice official Victoria Toensing, the informant was pressured into signing a nondisclosure agreement that forbids him from revealing anything about the case and was threatened last year with criminal charges if he violated it.

Grassley wants 'gag order' lifted for FBI informant allegedly 'threatened' by Obama DOJ.  A top Senate Republican is calling for the Justice Department to lift an apparent "gag order" on an FBI informant who reportedly helped the U.S. uncover a corruption and bribery scheme by Russian nuclear officials but allegedly was "threatened" by the Obama administration to stay quiet.  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is focusing on the informant amid scrutiny of the 2010 approval of a controversial uranium deal with a Russian company.  He's raising questions about potential "conflicts of interest" for Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration, and especially wants to know whether the committee that approved the deal was aware of the FBI probe involving a subsidiary of the same Russian firm.

Uranium One Means Mueller Must Recuse Himself from Russia Probe.  Virtually whatever [Robert] Mueller has to say about his involvement or non-involvement in this metastasizing scandal, he must recuse himself immediately for the most obvious reasons of propriety and appearance.  Frankly, it's outrageous that he, Ron Rosenstein, or anyone who even touched the Uranium One investigation now be involved with the current probe — unless the real name of the FBI is actually the NKVD.  This is not how a democracy is supposed to work, even remotely.  Forget transparency — this was deliberate occlusion.  The collusion Trump & Co have been accused of is chickenfeed compared to twenty percent of U.S. uranium ending up in Putin's hands under the aegis of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder, the latter two members of CFIUS (the inter-agency committee that reviews the transfer of U.S. companies to foreign entities and was then chaired by Timothy Geithner).

How Much Did Mueller and Rosenstein Know about Uranium One?  Back in July, I called for a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's collusion with Russia to turn over control of 20 percent of our uranium supplies to Russian interests in return for some $145 million in donation to the Clinton Foundation.  Now it turns out that there was one, an FBI investigation dating back to 2009, with current Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller up to their eyeballs in covering up evidence of Hillary's collusion, bordering on treason, with Vladimir Putin's Russia.

Obama, Hillary and Mueller Implicated in Monstrous Russian Bribery Scandal.  Yes, I said it:  the Russian government and its proxies were involved in all types of collusion with actors in the U.S.  It turns out, though, that said actors included Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and then FBI-director Robert Mueller.  They knew the Russians were leveraging bribes, kickbacks and extortion to gain control of America's uranium.  Which they did.

CNN Hides Massive Russian Bribery Scandal Involving Hillary, Mueller and Obama.  A day after The Hill reporters revealed a stunning bribery plot involving the Russian government and members of the Obama administration, our modern day Pravda — you may know it as "CNN" — decided its audience didn't actually need to know that inconsequential bit of breaking news.  Sure, they cover the usual litany of anti-Trump stories.  But searching its front page for the word "Russia" revealed only one reference.

Bombshell Revelations About Russia and Obama's Department of Justice.  These extraordinary revelations, apparently from frustrated FBI agents, were published in The Hill today [10/17/2017].  The corruption they suggest is extensive: [...] All of this was known before the Obama/Clinton State Department approved the controversial transfer of US uranium assets to Russia.  But the Obama/Holder Justice Department did nothing.

Senate Investigates Russia, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Uranium And Bribes — And It's About Time.  We now know, thanks to an investigation by The Hill, that the Russian scandal's roots go far deeper than first thought, extending all the way to the start of the Obama administration.  Many people seemed to know about it:  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder and, even, President Obama himself.  Now, a Senate committee wants to know how much they knew, and why no one stopped the criminal behavior.  The scandal over Russia has suddenly, weirdly morphed from being about "Russian meddling" in the 2016 election to actual criminal behavior by Russian nuclear industry officials who were involved in bribes, extortion, kickbacks and money laundering here in the U.S. — all part of Russian leader Vladimir Putin's efforts to elbow his way into the U.S. uranium market.

Massive criminal conspiracy unravels:  Hillary Clinton took $145M from Russians to sell out the U.S. uranium supply to America's enemies.  We have truly reached the point in American history where criminal indictments need to be immediately leveled against James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Robert Mueller and a dozen other high-ranking officials who are now known to have been complicit in one of the most treasonous criminal cover-ups in American history.  Although the entire left-wing media is running a campaign of complete silence on this story, the rest of the media is now widely reporting that, under President Obama, the FBI had documented an exhaustive trail of corruption, bribery and treason that involved Hillary Clinton, State Department corruption and Russia-linked mining companies that acquired rights to U.S. uranium supplies.

Report: FBI Uncovers Confirmation of Hillary Clinton's Corrupt Uranium Deal with Russia.  New evidence has emerged to confirm Peter Schweizer's account in his bestselling book Clinton Cash about the corrupt tactics behind former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's approval of Russia's purchase of 20 percent of U.S. uranium.

Senate Judiciary opens probe into Obama-era Russian nuclear bribery case.  The Senate Judiciary Committee has launched a probe into a Russian nuclear bribery case, demanding several federal agencies disclose whether they knew the FBI had uncovered the corruption before the Obama administration in 2010 approved a controversial uranium deal with Moscow.  Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the committee chairman, on Wednesday [10/18/2017] raised the issue in public during questioning of Attorney General Jeff Sessions during an oversight hearing.  The senator cited a series of The Hill stories that showed the FBI had evidence that Russian nuclear officials were involved in a racketeering scheme as early as 2009, well before the uranium deal was approved.

What Did Mueller Know?  New Documents Show Clinton-Russia Scandal Dwarfs Anything on Trump's Side.  Contrary to the Left's favorite narrative, any Russia scandal has always been worse for Hillary Clinton than for Donald Trump.  Recent revelations confirmed this Tuesday, and even implicated the special prosecutor at the center of the Trump-Russia investigation, former FBI director Robert Mueller.  In 2010, the Obama administration approved a controversial deal giving Russian company Rosatom partial control of Canadian mining company Uranium One (and with it 20 percent of U.S. uranium), just as Russians paid former president Bill Clinton for speeches and Hillary Clinton was secretary of State.  To make matters worse, the FBI had already gathered evidence of Russian corruption in the U.S. but kept it secret just when it would have mattered most, The Hill reported Tuesday [10/17/2017].

New Investigation Links Hillary And Mueller And Others To Russia.  [Scroll down]  Usually, [The Department of] Justice and the FBI publicize crimes where Russian financiers are convicted of bribery, buying a controlling interest in the US production of uranium, and gifting politicians large sums of money.  In this case:  crickets.  Not just crickets but mute crickets.  Then the FBI and Justice tried to hide the investigation from Congress and keep it tightly compartmented inside the FBI and Justice:

The REAL Russia scandal is a Democrat problem.  As the Obama administration rubber-stamped deals giving the Russians massive control over U.S. uranium supplies, the Justice Department had a mountain of evidence suggesting collusion between Secretary of State Clinton and Russian business interests.  And no one said a word.

The Real Russian Influence:  Massive Bribery Scheme Before Obama Admin Approved Uranium Sale.  Some will claim "this is old news!"  Au contraire, it highlights that anyone screeching about Russia Russia Russia in relation to Trump should take a hard look at Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and his administration[.] [...] This is all icing on the cake regarding what Team Obama was doing with Uranium One, and how Hillary, Bill, and their foundation profited heavily from the sale.  It shows how Team Obama ignored what the Russians were doing, which had national security implications.

Russia tables turn, roping Clinton, Obama, Holder, not Trump.  The tables have turned and what was once the media's favorite message — President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election — has now grown silent.  Apparently, it's Bill and Hillary Clinton who've been doing the behind-scenes and suspicious dealings with Russia all along.  Oh, and perhaps others in the Barack Obama administration, too.

FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow.  Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show.  They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton's charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.

Grassley probes Clinton 'conflicts of interest' amid new questions in Russia uranium deal.  A top Senate Republican is probing potential "conflicts of interest" for Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration regarding the 2010 approval of a controversial uranium deal with a Russian company, amid new details about donations from "interested parties" and an FBI corruption probe involving employees of the same Russian firm.  "This committee has an obligation to get to the bottom of this issue," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Wednesday, at the start of a hearing with Attorney General Jeff Sessions.  The Hill reported a day earlier that the FBI had evidence as early as 2009 that Russian operatives used bribes, kickbacks and other dirty tactics to expand Moscow's atomic energy footprint in the U.S. — but the Obama administration approved the uranium deal benefiting Moscow anyway.

Obama's Russian collusion.  The Hill's release of information on the collusion between American corporate interests, U.S. government agencies and Russia seems to be all-new material.  The text outlines the failure of the U.S. government under Obama to take account of information generated by the FBI on attempts by Russia to gain a financial advantage in the U.S. nuclear industry.  "The Swamp" is reflected in the matter of Rosatom at every angle from which it can be viewed.  While Rosatom has been in the news before, nothing has brought it to the level of significance seen in these primary documents and the specificity of the charges found in the text of the article.  Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein should be summarily fired, along with anyone else who touched these papers above the level of the FBI. The responsible individuals must be dragged into the court system where their actions can at the very least become part of the public record.

Obama's DOJ slow-walked probe despite national security concerns.  Despite extensive information as early as 2009 that Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm and that Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to benefit former President Bill Clinton's charitable foundation, Hillary Clinton's State Department and other government agencies on the Committee on Foreign Investment (including Attorney General Eric Holder) unanimously approved the partial sale of the Canadian mining company, Uranium One, to the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom in October 2010.  Multiple current and former government officials told The Hill they did not know whether the FBI or DOJ ever alerted committee members to the apparent Russian criminal activity.  Likewise, major congressional figures were also kept in the dark.

Weinstein Collateral Damage:  The Obamas.  Barack Obama, whom his campaign bundler Harvey Weinstein once introduced to Hollywood elites as "the Paul Newman of American presidents," came out with his "shocked, shocked" statement now that Weinstein is exposed and down and every celebrity and his brother is making Weinstein-was-a-pig statements for the press. [...] It's as if Obama never gummed up traffic in Los Angeles during rush hour to raise campaign funds and schmooze with celebrities of Weinstein's ilk over the long course of his presidency. [...] So now we are expected to believe that the Obamas were "disgusted"?  Where were they when all this was going on, and why are they only speaking out about it now that Weinstein is down and not in a position to hold Democratic fundraisers anymore?  And with all their post-presidential millions, why aren't they giving any of it back?

'Disgusted' Obamas were star-struck by Hollywood mogul Weinstein's access, cash.  Barack and Michelle Obama now say they are "disgusted" by Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment accusations.  But as president and first lady, oh my, how they loved the movie mogul's cash and Hollywood glitz.  As a powerful pipeline to the Democrats' cash machine in the entertainment industry, Mr. Weinstein raised millions of dollars for Mr. Obama's presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.  He and his wife, Georgina Chapman, hosted Mr. Obama for a high-end fundraiser at their home overlooking Long Island Sound in Westport, Connecticut, in August 2012.  Other guests included actress Anne Hathaway, Vogue editor Anna Wintour and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.

'Privately funded' Obama presidential library could cost Illinois taxpayers $100 million or more.  Erecting a monument to the Obama presidency is a task best handled quickly, before the seeds of disaster planted in Iran, the federal debt, and the FISA Court (among other places) come to full flower.  And despite promises of private funding, taxpayers are going to have to cough up, even in Illinois, a fiscal dead man walking with pension obligations that dwarf the taxing capacity of the state and the City of Chicago.  Barack's plans for a monument to his glory will not be thwarted by mere politicians or community groups.

Visitor Records:  Harvey Weinstein Visited Obama White House 13 Times.  Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein had a close relationship with President Barack Obama, visiting the White House complex on 13 occasions during the Obama presidency, according to visitor records.

A Lying Quartet.  Rarely has an intelligence apparatus engaged in systematic lying — and chronic deceit about its lying — both during and even after its tenure.  Yet the Obama Administration's four top security and intelligence officials time and again engaged in untruth, as if peddling lies was part of their job descriptions.  So far none have been held accountable.  Those exemptions are likely because, in hubristic fashion, all four assumed their service to progressive noble agendas would justify any odious means felt necessary to achieve them.

Senator's Corruption Trial Reveals State Department Favors.  For the first time in nearly four decades, a sitting U.S. senator is on trial for federal bribery, and he's dragging the State Department into his legal quagmire.  Sen. Bob Menendez's trial for bribery is shining an uncomfortable light on the lawmaker's efforts to pressure State Department, including allegations he helped settle a dispute over a lucrative foreign contract in favor of a friend and campaign donor.  That's just one of a dozen other bribery and corruption charges being levied against Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey.  Prosecutors also allege that the senator helped acquire U.S. visas for several of the donor's foreign girlfriends, citing official State Department records and emails between the senator and his staff.

Exclusive: Obama's Top Campaign Ad Firm Got Nearly $60M In Federal Contracts.  Former President Barack Obama's presidential campaign advertising agency received nearly $60 million in federal contracts after he took office, according to an analysis by The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group.  The gravy train for the Washington, D.C.-based agency, GMMB, hasn't slowed since President Donald Trump's inauguration, the analysis found.  The liberal Democratic communications powerhouse was awarded nearly $15 million in a new contract in June, after Trump entered the Oval Office.

3 Ways Kathleen Sebelius Sabotaged The Rule Of Law.  Of all the people crying "sabotage" when it comes to Obamacare, Kathleen Sebelius might be the most qualified on the subject. [...] She presided over numerous actions that violated the text of Obamacare, and the Constitution, to thwart the will of Congress and undermine "the law of the land" — Obamacare as it was actually written, not as Democrats wished it were written — and the rule of law in general. [...] If Sebelius wants to espouse different policy positions than the current administration, that is her right.  But given the ways in which the last administration repeatedly violated Obamacare to suit its own purposes, conservatives should take no lessons from Sebelius on how to avoid "undermining the law."

Why I Wouldn't Change a Word of Trump's Statement.  "Egregious" displays of "hatred, bigotry and violence" have no place in America he told us, with stunning clarity.  No exceptions.  No qualifications.  Whoever you are, whatever you are, whatever your grievance, there shall be one law, one standard.  The first thing to be done was "a swift restoration of law and order and the protection of innocent lives... [for] no citizen should ever fear for their safety and security in our society."  Had Trump stopped there, it would have been enough.  It would have been more than Barack Obama had said in eight years.  Obama was on the wrong side of violence.  He sympathized with the rioters in Ferguson, Missouri, and made excuses for the riots in Baltimore.  Worse still, he failed even to mention the need to establish law and order and protect the lives and property of innocent people.  And he put lives in danger by blaming the violence on the police.

The IRS is STILL toying with conservative nonprofits.  Donald Trump promised to drain the swamp, and here's a seven-month progress report:  The Washington bog is still as wide and fetid as ever.  Consider that Mr. Trump's Justice Department has inexplicably continued to defend the IRS's misdeeds under President Obama.  Voters put a Republican in the White House in part to impose some belated accountability on the scandal-laden Obama administration.  And the supreme scandal was the IRS's assault on tea-party groups — a campaign inspired by congressional Democrats, perpetrated by partisan bureaucrats like Lois Lerner, and covered up by Mr. Obama's political appointees.  This abuse stripped the right to political speech from thousands of Americans over two election cycles.  To this day, no one has answered for it.

Obama EPA Employees Earned Overtime Pay Without Justification.  Environmental Protection Agency employees under the Obama administration earned emergency overtime pay without justification, in violation of agency policy.  The inspector general for the agency released an audit last week finding "numerous instances of noncompliance" of the emergency overtime pay system for employees in Seattle, Wash.  Employees must receive a waiver from biweekly pay caps if they are to receive extra pay for working during a natural disaster, or for conducting "mission-critical" work.  The inspector general found just a fraction of employees in the final three years of the Obama administration who received overtime pay had requested a waiver.

Loretta Lynch's email problems mount.  Lynch maintained and used an email account with a pseudonym, "Elizabeth Carlisle" (the name of her grandmother).  She joins a list of Obama officials, including her predecessor Eric Holder (Lew Alcindor), EPA administrator Lisa Jackson (Richard Windsor), and Lois Lerner (Toby Miles). [...] Lynch's potential problems with obstruction of justice depend in part on what can be established as her state of mind at the time of the acts.  That speaks to intent.  The use of an alias to discuss those acts and the enlistment of outside help to conceal those acts, before and after the event, speak to mindset.

Obamaphones Fraud As High As 65 Percent.  A massive portion of Obamaphone recipients are receiving the benefit after lying on their applications, according to a new 90-page report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).  An undercover sting operation showed ineligible applications were approved 63 percent of the time, and a review that found that 36 to 65 percent of beneficiaries in various categories had lied in easily-detectable ways but were approved anyway.  The fraud reached unheard-of proportions because the Federal Communications Commission let the task of screening for eligibility fall to phone companies that profit off of enrolling as many people as possible.

Jay Sekulow: 'Why Don't We Have a Special Counsel Reviewing... President Obama?'.  Jay Sekulow, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, was back at Fox News Wednesday [6/28/2017] to rail against what he calls "the so-called Russian probe."  Appearing on America's Newsroom, the attorney pointed the finger at Trump's predecessor, former President Barack Obama, and questioned why his administration's actions with regard to Russian election interference aren't being scrutinized more thoroughly.

Obama's Criminal Enterprise Collapsing.  As former FBI Director James Comey's best friend, Robert Mueller, stocks his Seinfeld investigation-about-nothing with every Democratic lawyer and Hillary and/or Obama donor he can find, we are treated to the delicious irony of collusion with Russia being confirmed — and the colluder-in-chief being Ex-president Barack Hussein Obama.  Even Obama's Democrat supporters are now acknowledging he knew about Russia's hacking of the DNC and Podesta emails.  They are acknowledging that he did nothing but are not acknowledging the reason why — that he thought Hillary Clinton was going to succeed him and he wanted to do nothing to offend the Russians to whom he had once famously promised more "flexibility."

The wrong attorney general is testifying today.  The kabuki theater that is Congress' hearings on Trump's alleged collusion with the Russians to win the 2016 election has come full circle.  This is the issue that inspired Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin to expose the "police state tactics" of the Obama administration and the scandal of Obama's spying on American citizens.  The focus on Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his testimony is misplaced, as the media and Congress ignore allegations of another major Obama administration scandal, one that would clearly show Obama's Justice Department interfered in the 2016 election to help Hillary Clinton win.

Helpful Reminder:  What a Real Presidential Scandal Looks Like.  As liberal McCarthyism continues searching for Russian monsters under Trump administration beds, it might serve us well to remember the Obama administration scandals, for which there were no special prosecutors appointed, no grand juries convened, not even a leaked memo to The New York Times via a friendly professor at Columbia University.

Obama DOJ was 'an arm of the Clinton campaign'.  It takes a bit of collective amnesia to honestly discuss President Donald Trump's alleged attempts to manipulate the American justice system without acknowledging just how closely the Obama Justice Department worked with the Clinton presidential campaign.  That's according to former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, a George W. Bush appointee.  He told Newsmax TV:  "What makes it egregious is the fact — and I think it's obvious that it is a fact — that the attorney general of the United States was adjusting the way the department talked about its business, so as to coincide with the way the Clinton campaign talked about that business."  Mukasey added that the DOJ under Obama was "essentially an arm of the Clinton campaign."

DOJ ends Holder-era 'slush fund' payouts to outside groups.  The Justice Department announced Wednesday [6/7/2017] it will no longer allow prosecutors to strike settlement agreements with big companies directing them to make payouts to outside groups, ending an Obama-era practice that Republicans decried as a "slush fund" that padded the accounts of liberal interest groups.  In a memo sent to 94 U.S. attorneys' offices early Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he would end the practice that allowed companies to meet settlement burdens by giving money to groups that were neither victims nor parties to the case.  Sessions said the money should, instead, go to the Treasury Department or victims.

Comey wouldn't follow Trump's lead, but was Lynch's lapdog.  The Comey hearings yesterday brought nothing with which to hang Donald Trump, but it did raise several questions about Comey and his behavior. [...] And speaking of conflicts[,] did Comey go stupid because of something more ominous?  There apparently is a recording of the conversation held by Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton during that "coincidental" meeting on the tarmac in Phoenix.  You know, just before Comey announced that he would recommend against prosecuting Hillary Clinton.  Almost as though he was given his orders.  Lynch asserted that her conversation with Bill Clinton consisted of "grandchildren" and "travels."  Since when are grandchildren and casual travel a matter of national security?

Fascinating Interview Regarding Subpoenas Issued to Obama Cronies.  Writing at The Daily Beast, John Batchelor offers a fascinating sitdown with Chairman Devin Nunes of the House Select Intelligence Committee.  The primary topic:  the unmasking of Trump campaign officials — like Michael Flynn — by various members of the Obama administration.  Read the entire thing, but some key graphs follow to provide a flavor to the scope and magnitude of the investigation.  It's truly powerful stuff.

The End Of Obama's Corrupt Global Warming Treaty.  Yesterday [6/1/2017], President Trump announced that the United States is withdrawing from Obama's disastrous Paris climate accord.  The President's action marks another important campaign promise fulfilled, and it also marks the end of one of Obama's most corrupt acts as President.  While Obama and his liberal allies from Hollywood to Silicon Valley to Wall Street claim that the goal of the treaty was to reduce so-called greenhouse gasses, its effect was to produce a massive wealth transfer from American workers to foreigners and wealthy investors.  And the end of that wealth transfer is what drives the howls emanating from Wall Street and Silicon Valley.

Education Official Got Secret Cash Bonuses as Office Lost Billions to Fraud, Corruption.  The senior Obama Education Department official who resigned this month to avoid testifying before Congress got hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonuses despite his well-documented failures, sources inside the agency tell Judicial Watch.  The extra cash was kept off the books, away from the public, and doesn't appear on his official government salary record but Judicial Watch has obtained the figures with yearly breakdowns.  The official, James Runcie, ran the scandal-plagued Federal Student Aid (FSA) office, the government's $1.4 trillion financial aid program.

Why did Trump say that Obama spied on him?  Because he did.  Obama was never scared to break the laws because he knew the Justice Department, the media, and the Democrats wouldn't care.  On Fox News Wednesday night [5/24/2017] Charles Krauthammer said he hopes people don't spend a lot of time looking back to see who violated the law but instead focus on stopping it in the future.  I do not understand that at all.  I believe powerful people like Obama or his staff and Hillary and her staff should be held responsible for what they did.  If you don't hold the powerful to account, how do you ever hold lower-level people to account for the same or lesser things?

Republicans Go to Jail, Democrats Run Free.  During the eight years of one of America's shadiest presidencies, not one Obama administration official went to prison.  Or was convicted of a crime.  Or even indicted.  Sure, Rep. Darryl Issa (R-CA) and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held plenty of hearings.  But while they called countless press conferences, not one Democrat ever was held accountable for the numerous crimes exposed by this and other Republican-controlled congressional panels.

The Rotten Obama Record — and Legacy.  An incomplete recap of the corruption that has happened under his watch:  Eric Holder, the "stimulus," Fast and Furious, Solyndra, Obamacare, the census power grab, the IRS targeting of political opponents, executive amnesty, the Snowden NSA spy revelations, the debate collusion with Candy Crowley, race-baiting for votes, selling our soul to Iran and Cuba, wiretapping allies, spying on journalists, destroying attempts to clean up voter rolls, the Benghazi video.  Politicizing and weaponizing our government and its bureaucracies.  And so much more.  This was eight years of a purposeful, corrupt power grab in the worst of ways.  And no, I do not believe for a second he did not know, or did not incite these to happen.  Fish rot from the head down.  The media was the neck of this administration.

Reopen cases against corrupt leftists.  The nadir of honesty in the federal government was reached in the hyper-politicized Obama presidency.  The IRS was used shamelessly to punish conservative groups.  The Department of Justice opened countless "cases" against utterly innocent groups whose offense was to challenge the orthodoxies of leftism.  Indeed, it seemed at times as if the Obama administration viewed the whole federal government as little more than a scourge to be used against Americans who did not follow the party line.  That is the one thing no free government can stand.  When government is the enemy of much of the people, then government has no moral ground upon which to exercise its power.

State Dept. employee charged with misleading FBI in China intel case.  Candace Marie Claiborne, a 60-year-old employee of the U.S. Department of State, was charged Wednesday with obstructing an official proceeding and making false statements to the FBI — both felony offenses — for allegedly concealing numerous contacts that she had over a period of years with Chinese intelligence agents, the Justice Department said Wednesday [3/29/2017].  The veteran State Department employee, who appeared before a judge Wednesday [3/29/2017], is also accused of failing to report gifts she received from Chinese contacts.  Claiborne allegedly failed to report repeated contacts with two intelligence agents of the People's Republic of China, and the agents provided tens of thousands of dollars in gifts and benefits to Claiborne and her family over five years, prosecutors said.

Time to Investigate Obama, not Just Trump.  A fair amount of this happened not long before Barack Obama suddenly changed the rules regarding raw intelligence, for the first time ever allowing the NSA to share its data with 16 other intelligence agencies, thus making the dissemination of said data (i. e. leaking) many times more likely.  That was done on January 12, 2017, just three scant days before Trump's inauguration.  Why did the then president finally decide to make that particular change at that extremely late date, rather than on one of the previous seven years and three hundred fifty-three days of his presidency?  You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes or Watson to smell a rat.

Obama's shakedown.  The issue finally came to the firefront of the Obama administration bringing charges against large corporations and then settling for fines instead of seeking criminal convictions of executives — as President Bush 43 did to a score of CEOs.  The Obama administration then parceled the money out to liberal groups.  This is called a shakedown.  Congress and President Trump may stop this gravy train to liberal groups.

Revenge of Obama's 'Former Officials'.  Just 24 hours after Trump's address, a series of troubling reports involving links among those in Trump's orbit to Russian officials reset the national discourse.  Those stories make for a trend, though, that has little to do with Trump and a lot to do with his predecessor.  The Obama administration's foreign-policy team seems to be campaigning to rehabilitate itself one leak at a time, and the press is helping.

The Obamacare Financing Flimflam.  Now we know why the Obama administration unilaterally changed rules on Fannie Mae funds in 2012.  They basically screwed private-sector bondholders and shareholders to create a slush fund for left-wing groups allied with the administration.  These funds do not go through Congress.  They are treated as off-balance sheet entities, where the amount that comes to the government is treated as a net reduction in expenses instead of an increase in revenue.  In other words, it allows Congress and the president to pretend they are controlling spending.

The Obama Regime's Criminal Syndicate.  [Scroll down]  Among the radical leftist groups pre-approved by the settlement agreements to directly receive funds from the banks is none other than The National Council of La Raza, which bills itself as "the nation's largest Hispanic activist organization."  Yet, a brief history lesson on the reality of La Raza, which literally translates to "the race," shows us that the group has been connected to the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), an extremist Mexican race hate group which firmly believes in exploiting illegal immigration to bring about 'La Reconquista', a violent overthrow of the southern U.S. states that would be absorbed into Greater Mexico. [...] According to a February 2016 independent monitor report, there are 147 "HUD-approved counseling agencies" that make up these third party groups like La Raza that are currently receiving hundreds of millions of dollars directly from the banks under the DOJ settlement agreements.

GOP wants to eliminate shadowy DOJ slush fund bankrolling leftist groups.  The Obama administration funneled billions of dollars to activist organizations through a Department of Justice slush fund scheme, according to congressional investigators.  "It's clear partisan politics played a role in the illicit actions that were made," Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, told Fox News.  "The DOJ is the last place this should have occurred."  Findings spearheaded by the House Judiciary Committee point to a process shrouded in secrecy whereby monies were distributed to a labyrinth of nonprofit organizations involved with grass-roots activism.

Former Obama aide fined $90,000 for illegally lobbying Emanuel on Uber's behalf.  A former Uber senior executive who once served as Barack Obama's campaign manager has been fined $90,000 by the Chicago Board of Ethics for illegally lobbying Mayor Rahm Emanuel on behalf of the ride-sharing company.  The board voted 5-0 to find that David Plouffe violated city ethics rules by failing to register as a lobbyist after contacting Emanuel to help the company on regulations for picking up travelers at Chicago's two airports.  Plouffe's lobbying violation only became public after Emanuel in December released hundreds of personal emails related to public business under the pressure of two open records lawsuits alleging the mayor violated the state's open records law.

Ex-Obama campaign manager, Plouffe, fined $90G for violating lobbying rules.  Former-President Obama's ex-campaign manager was fined $90,000 on Thursday for illegally lobbying Chicago's mayor on behalf of Uber.  The Chicago Board of Ethics determined that David Plouffe violated ethics rules when he failed to register as a lobbyist after contacting Mayor Rahm Emanuel.  Plouffe was trying to help the ride-hailing service with regulations for picking up travelers at Chicago airports.  The board also fined Uber $2,000 for hiring a lobbyist who violates the city's lobbying laws.  An Uber spokesman said the company regretted the mistake and would comply with the board's assessment.

Liberals Now Getting a Taste of How the Obama Years Felt for Conservatives.  Voter fraud?  Now you're talking Mom and apple pie to the Alinsky left.  Obama himself never bothered to win a real election in Illinois, always managing to blackmail his opponents into resigning before the vote was ever taken.  Obama learned his politics under the tutelage of Emil Jones, the godfather of the Illinois machine.  There are hundreds of jokes about the dear departed voting for Democrats in Boston, Chicago, Philly, and New York.  Today we have millions of illegal voters — foreign nationals with unknown loyalties — voting wherever paid Democrat thugs can intimidate the wrong American voters.

Head of Ethics Office Receives Bipartisan Rebuke From Congress.  Director of the Office of Government Ethics Walter M. Shaub received a bipartisan rebuke from members of Congress for his criticism of President Donald Trump during a closed-door meeting Monday [1/23/2017].  Shaub, an Obama donor and defender of Hillary Clinton's ethics, could "compromise the agency's objectivity" by using the office's official Twitter account to criticize the new president, leaders of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said.  The Associated Press reported that both Republicans and Democrats said Shaub's tweet storms urging Trump to divest from his business were inappropriate.

America Rising Announces Multiple FOIAs Targeting The Politicization Of Obama's Ethics Office.  In light of the ongoing controversy swirling around Walter Shaub, head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE), America Rising is filing multiple Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) to understand better what partisan politics are afoot at OGE.

Obama's Ethics Office Comes Under Fire For Unprecedented Public Criticism.  Ever since NPR uncovered that Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub used the OGE Twitter account to attack Trump, questions about Shaub's motivations have grown more prominent.  This morning [1/17/2017], The Hill moves that story forward with reporting on the how Shaub's latest public criticism broke with "[OGE's] longstanding practice":

A Timeline Of Walter Shaub & Hillary Clinton's Unethical Paid Speeches.  Walter Shaub, the director of President Obama's ethics office, has been in the headlines a great deal lately.  While the attention has primarily focused on recent events, America Rising thought it valuable to take a closer look at his role in Hillary Clinton's unethical paid speeches.  In the timeline below, anyone can clearly see that Shaub had one set of rules for the Clintons and has another one for Republicans today: [...]

The unethical Office of Government Ethics.  At any point, Obama appointee Walter Shaub, head of the Office of Government Ethics, may claim the Trump administration has a conflict of interest if his namesake Trump Hotel in Washington accepts reservations from any business, organization or individual who chooses to stay there.  Of course, Schaub was previously silent and never alleged any wrongdoing when those same travelers stayed at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, despite Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker's deep family ties to the Hyatt chain.  Apparently standards change depending on the political party.

Head of Ethics Office Is Obama Donor, Now Concerned About Trump Nominees.  Director of the Office of Government Ethics Walter M. Shaub donated to President Obama before his appointment and defended Hillary Clinton's decision to not disclose paid speeches to the Clinton Foundation while she was secretary of state.  Shaub, the head of the little-known ethics office, has been on the attack against President-elect Donald J. Trump for months. [...] A timeline compiled by the PAC America Rising of Shaub's service at the ethics office revealed Shaub donated to Obama before his appointment in January 2013, and has a record of defending Hillary Clinton when she was a presidential candidate from ethics concerns.  Shaub donated $500 to Obama's reelection campaign in 2012.  When Clinton came under fire for not disclosing paid speeches to the Clinton Foundation while she was secretary of state, his office said disclosure was not required.

HUD Spent Almost $1M To Cover Up Accusation Against Top Exec.  Taxpayers wrote a $900,000 settlement check to a federal employee to compensate her for once being likened to a "Little Rascals" character by her boss, The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group has learned.  The secret settlement appears to be one of the largest-ever discrimination settlement payouts to an individual federal employee.  The payment came after an Equal Opportunity Employment office ruled that the remark was racist and accepted without challenge the claim that it caused nearly a million dollars worth of emotional harm.  The offending boss was Mary K. Kinney, then-executive vice president of Ginnie Mae, which is part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

HUD Has No Answer For Why Its Financial Books Are Worthless.  Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) officials refuse to explain why they haven't fixed poor accounting practices and useless financial books their inspector general (IG) has been exposing for four years.  It's not clear whether HUD officials understand what they're doing is wrong because, their spokesman, Brian Sullivan, told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group that "HUD does apply generally accepted accounting standards."  Not so, said the IG, whose most recent audit found 11 "material weaknesses," seven "significant deficiencies" in internal controls, and five instances of "noncompliance with applicable laws and regulations."

Barack Obama Should be the One Investigated for all His Shady Dealings.  The jury is in:  the Obama administration will go down as the biggest criminal presidential administration in U.S. history.  Laundering $400 million cash into Swiss francs and Euros, palletizing, and shipping off to Iran.  Illegally wiring billions to Iran — and these two incidents are just in the last three weeks or so.  But there is clear proof, to go along with Hillary Clinton's pay for play scheme at the State Department — which also occurred under the Obama purview.

Time to Criminalize Tyranny.  Some people are calling for "reconciliation" after Trump's election.  Some even say that Hillary shouldn't be prosecuted.  The reality is that if we allow liberals to constantly misuse government power and break the law with no consequences, they will never stop.  Like little children, they need a spanking to keep them in line.  President Trump should set up a special prosecutor to dig up all the government workers, from Hillary on down, who used government power to further tyranny.  People like Lois Lerner, who used the full power of the IRS to silence voices that disagreed with her political leanings, should not just be able to retire and collect a pension.  So long as liberals know they can misuse the power of government and get away with it, they will continue to wage war against the American people while being paid by the American people.

Exclusive: Senior Gov. Official Says Obama Made Quid Pro Quo Deal With FEC Commissioner.  Federal Election Commissioner Ann Ravel wished to step down until she met with President Barack Obama in early 2016, who persuaded her to stay on board through the November election in return for two favors, a senior federal government official has told The Daily Caller.  Ravel, a Democrat, told the senior government official about the arrangement in private and even showed the official pictures of her and Obama in The White House.  The official told TheDC Ravel had wished to step down and move back to California before the Jan. 28 White House meeting.  Obama told Ravel she could move back and do most of her work from California and that she would be supported in her effort to replace California Attorney General Kamala Harris as Attorney General if Harris were to win her Senate election.

Justice Department official tipped off Clinton campaign about email probe.  A top Justice Department official leaked information to the Clinton campaign about the legal case concerning Hillary Clinton's secret email server, according to a new email released Wednesday by WikiLeaks that could further taint the administration's claims of impartiality.  Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik sent a heads-up to Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta in May 2015 letting him know the government was going to try to delay posting Mrs. Clinton's secret emails until 2016.  In the message, sent from his private account rather than his government-issued account, he also warned of a looming House hearing where he expected a Justice Department official would face questions about Mrs. Clinton's emails.

Former State Dept.  Official:  Every Obama Official 'Uses Their Gmail Account'.  A former top Department of State official who worked under Hillary Clinton told her presidential campaign chair every White House staffer and top cabinet official uses a personal email account. [...] Reports have been circulating for years about top Obama administration officials using "secret" email accounts to conduct official business and possibly avoid Freedom of Information Act requests.  A few Obama administration officials have been caught using private email accounts to conduct government business.

Emails Show Obama Was Complicit in Cover-Up.  New revelations from Wikileaks seem to prove that the White House knew about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server.  President Obama previously denied that he had any prior knowledge of Clinton's "homebrew" server, but Wikileaks documents suggest that the president used a pseudonym to correspond directly with Clinton's private email address and then lied about it.

Yes, There Is a Coup On in America.  [Scroll down]  Then there's the fact that Hillary's guilty of perjury, destroying evidence, obstruction of justice, and that whole pay-to-play thing.  I know — she hasn't been charged, much less convicted of those crimes, but that brings me back to my original point.  Hillary wasn't charged or convicted because the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) served as accessories after the fact to cover up her crimes and enable her to avoid prosecution.  The FBI flat-out took a dive.  The Department of Justice (DOJ) tried to be more clandestine, but Bill Clinton's meet-up with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the airport tarmac got caught on video.  The meeting might have been to influence Comey but more likely to dot their Is and cross their Ts on the upcoming non-indictment.  So we have a woman, Hillary Clinton, who should be in jail but is instead cruising to the presidency; a Justice Department that openly assists Hillary in her cover-ups, and a complicit media that hides all these facts from the public.

Kerry's Daughter Traveled On Taxpayers' Dime To Get Government Contracts.  Secretary of State John Kerry's daughter and her staff traveled around the world on the taxpayers' dime to secure more than $9 million in Department of State-funded contracts, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation.  The Peace Corps authorized an estimated $46,000 for 20 international and domestic trips for Dr. Vanessa Kerry and her staff, agency documents obtained by TheDCNF show.  The purpose of the travel was to form the Global Health Service Partnership (GHSP) — a Peace Corps-run and State Department-funded program Kerry proposed.

Special Treatment Gave John Kerry's Daughter $9 Million In Gov't Contracts.  Peace Corps officials directed Department of State funds to a nonprofit run by Secretary of State John Kerry's daughter by disqualifying other potential applicants through half-hearted analysis.  "We'll never know, but this market research seems like an effort to steer this deal to Kerry's group, which might not have been in the government's best interest," Project On Government Oversight (POGO) General Counsel Scott Amey told The Daily Caller News Foundation.  POGO is a nonprofit watchdog that has extensively investigated government contracts among other oversight issues.

FCC Official Goes Totally Unpunished After Having Sex With WaPo Reporter In Office.  A highly-paid Federal Communications Commission (FCC) official's confession to having sex with a Washington Post reporter in his office as part of a 2013 lawsuit seemingly went completely unnoticed in the media.  Thomas Reed, director at the FCC's Office for Communications Business Opportunities (OCBD), has since gone on working in the same position, unpunished and drawing his lucrative six-figure salary.  In early 2013, FCC employee Sharon K. Stewart sued the FCC in federal court, claiming she was the victim of a hostile work environment at OCBD, an FCC division that advises commissioners on "issues, rulemakings, and policies affecting small, women, and minority-owned communications businesses."

The Real Story Behind The FCC Sex Scandal.  Though a lawsuit's revelation that Thomas Reed, the director of the FCC's Office for Communications Business Opportunities, had sex with a Washington Post reporter in his office is salacious, that's not what should get Congress's attention.  The far more serious revelation involves the FCC's official legal response to a female employee's allegation that she was subjected to a hostile work environment due to management inaction when a male coworker repeatedly invited other male coworkers to watch porn with him in the cubicle adjacent to hers, from which she would "hear groans — mmm, mmm, ahh — in response to the pornography viewings," while having one "stand guard looking for her."

Dem Operative Who Oversaw Trump Rally Agitators Visited White House 342 Times.  A key operative in a Democratic scheme to send agitators to cause unrest at Donald Trump's rallies has visited the White House 342 times since 2009, White House records show.  Robert Creamer, who acted as a middle man between the Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee and "protesters" who tried — and succeeded — to provoke violence at Trump rallies met with President Obama 47 times, according to White House records.  Creamer's last visit was in June 2016.

Ted Cruz Demands Investigation After Obama Met With Man Who Admitted He Rigged Elections.  President Barack Obama has had a total of 45 meetings with a man named Robert Creamer.  For those who don't know who Creamer is, he has a very rich history of voter fraud as well as bank fraud. [...] Knowing this man's history, what business does Obama have with him, let alone that needs to be discussed over 45 meetings?  Ted Cruz wants to know this as well, which is why he called for a criminal investigation into the matter and managed to get a shot at Hillary in, to my amusement.

FBI files reveal State Dept. pressure to protect Clinton over secret email server.  One of Hillary Clinton's top deputies at the State Department tried to "pressure the FBI" to hush up some of former Secretary Hillary Clinton's classified emails, two FBI employees told investigators in files released Monday [10/17/2016].  Patrick Kennedy, the undersecretary for management, considered a "quid pro quo" where he would let more FBI agents into Iraq in exchange for the FBI erasing an earlier judgment that had deemed some of the Clinton email messages secret, according to investigative notes of interviews agents had with the two employees.

Why Did Vote-Rigging Robert Creamer Visit The White House Over 200 Times During The Obama Admin.  Earlier today [10/19/2016] we wrote about a new Project Veritas undercover video that uncovered several democratic operatives openly discussing, in explicit detail, how to commit massive voter fraud.  One of the operatives was a person by the name of Robert Creamer who is a co-founder of a democratic consulting firm called Democracy Partners.  Within the video, an undercover journalist details a plan to register Hispanic voters illegally by having them work as contractors, to which Creamer can be heard offering support saying that "there are a couple of organizations that that's their big trick"

Scandals surround Clinton's gatekeeper at State.  Republicans aren't surprised at all that Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy is in the middle of the latest Hillary Clinton email scandal, since Kennedy has been in the GOP crosshairs for the last four years for other Clinton controversies.  FBI notes released Monday [10/17/2016] indicated that Kennedy offered a trade with the FBI in order to downgrade a classified email from Clinton's private server.  But Republicans pointed out Tuesday that Kennedy was involved in two earlier scandals.

Breathtaking Criminality in Washington.  Recent revealed emails within that broad criminal conspiracy known as leftism show just how utterly dependent those sock puppets like Obama and Hillary are upon the nefarious intertwined collusion of the leftist media, the agencies of the Executive Branch, the Clinton campaign, and the DNC.  The depth of this criminal conspiracy, as these latest emails show, is stunning.  Consider the network news programs that gave Hillary the questions days before she was asked in a presumably spontaneous interview.  Giant corporations are not supposed to give free campaign resources to candidates.  That violates federal election laws unless the economic value of these actions are reported as corporate contributions to the Clinton campaign, which, of course, these are not.

Justice Department decides to pass on prosecuting EPA officials over Gold King spill.  You probably remember the disastrous spill at the Gold King mine in Colorado which was caused by EPA inspectors getting a bit too loose with their drilling equipment.  The resulting outpouring of contaminated water affected people in multiple states, particularly some Native American tribes who are still pursuing legal remedies though the courts.  In case you were wondering if anyone would be held accountable, the Inspector General's office at the EPA did conduct a full investigation to see if there was any criminal culpability and it recently drew to a close.  They turned the case over to the U.S. Attorney's Office but... surprise, surprise, surprise.  That office of the Justice Department has decided not to pursue it.

Barack Obama Spent BILLIONS Of Taxpayer Dollars Trying To Convince You He's Smart.  It has been eight years of the most ego-driven presidency in the history of the Republic.  And if the devil is to be found in the details, those details have now revealed the extent of Barack Obama's yearning to convince others of his own magnificence — an endeavor he spent a half-BILLION dollars per year of taxpayer dollars on.  And beyond that direct $500 million per year federal employee public relations army, is another ONE BILLION dollars the administration is utilizing for outside the administration PR firms to spin his policies in a favorable light.  That is a one billion dollar advertising campaign to combat reports on administration-related scandals, the still-tepid economy, unemployment, the rise of ISIS, etc.  In short, it is the pay-to-play scheme that Team Obama has utilized to control the Mainstream Media.

State Department-Funded Nonprofit That John Kerry Had 'No Role' In Was Founded In His Home.  A nonprofit created in Secretary of State John Kerry's upscale Boston home and managed by his daughter Vanessa Kerry has received more than $9 million from the Department of State, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found.  Seed Global Health was founded at 19 Louisburg Sq in Boston's Beacon Hill, tax forms indicate.

Judge Nap on FBI Email Probe:  Obama Decided He Needed to 'Save Hillary'.  Cheryl Mills, a top aide to Hillary Clinton who also acts as her lawyer, received an immunity deal from the Department of Justice and was also allowed to sit in on the FBI's interview with Clinton.  At a House hearing Wednesday [9/28/2016], Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) told FBI Director James Comey that he doesn't understand how the FBI could hand out five immunity deals with no prosecutions and also allow Mills, a potential target of the investigation, to sit in on the interview with Clinton.  "That is not the FBI I used to work with," said Gowdy, a former federal prosecutor.

FBI Director Comey Took Millions From Clinton Foundation Defense Contractor.  Is anyone surprised by this corruption?  When FBI Director James Comey said that the organization would not be seeking to bring charges against Hillary Clinton over her illegal email server, anyone paying attention knew there was a deep level of corruption.  Now, it's been made clear.  James Comey received millions of dollars from the corrupt Clinton Foundation, and his brother's law firm also does the Clinton's taxes.

A Sporting Event Where Only One Team Obeys the Rules.  After eight years of the most blatant and obvious corruption, we watch current events as if we have a splinter in our eye.  An entire political party is so morally bankrupt that it no longer feels any need to hold its members to any rules at all. [...] The IRS commissioner still uses the IRS to target conservatives.  The Obama administration is literally turning illegal aliens into citizens to unlawfully alter the outcome of the upcoming election, as Democrats have always done.  They are rewarding criminals with early release from prison and restored voting rights simply to tip the scales.  They are flooding our country with Muslim Syrians, whose culture is antithetical to ours, knowing the inevitable outcome will be an eventual conflict between those who believe in forcefully imposing Islamic theocracy and those few who still know and believe in the American Constitution.  They are making secret alliances with our enemies, or merely surrendering to them out of abject cowardice or belief in common principles.  They protect terrorists, who are the ultimate rule-breakers, while demonizing Americans, who cannot figure out what they may have done wrong, having done nothing but exist.

Dem Donor Pulled in $270M in Government Contracts Under Obama.  The company of a prominent Democratic donor has pulled in more than $270 million worth of government contracts under President Barack Obama.  Checchi and Company Consulting, Inc., a D.C.-based consulting company that "provides technical assistance, training, and management services to promote social and economic development" in developing and transitional nations, boasts of having managed hundreds of long-term bilateral project implementation contracts in addition to numerous short-term projects.  Cheechi's clients have included U.S. government agencies along with international entities such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and African Development Bank.  The company has secured 180 federal government contracts totaling $270 million in compensation under the Obama administration, according to USA Spending.

Obama Admin 'Laundered' U.S. Cash to Iran Via N.Y. Fed, Euro Banks.  A member of the House Intelligence Committee is accusing the Obama administration of laundering some $1.7 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Iran through a complicated network that included the New York Federal Reserve and several European banks, according to conversations with sources and new information obtained by the lawmaker and viewed by the Washington Free Beacon.  New disclosures made by the Treasury Department to Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.), a House Intelligence Committee member, show that an initial $400 million cash payment to Iran was wired to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) and then converted from U.S. dollars into Swiss francs and moved to an account at the Swiss National Bank, according to a copy of communication obtained exclusively by the Free Beacon.

Pulling the Plug on America.  When the president, the attorney general, the director of the FBI, et al. have conspired to not merely shield a crook from prosecution, but elect her to the highest office in the land, they resemble mobsters who use bribes, threats, and murder to expand their criminal syndicate.  What the Founding Fathers put together is now on life support, and the grasping fingers of criminal collusion and left-wing dogma are about to pull the plug.

How Obama's legacy could be tarnished by Hillary's scandals.  How is it that Obama has not been connected to or tarnished by Clinton's various scandals?  Why doesn't Obama bear any blame for his Justice Department's controversial decision not to indict his former Secretary of State?  Was Obama blind to the millions of foreign government donations pouring into the Clinton Foundation that violated the ethics agreement Clinton signed upon agreeing to serve as his secretary of state?  Why isn't Obama a central figure in all the email and foundation scandals when President Obama was Clinton's direct supervisor in the most important cabinet seat?

John Kerry's State Department Funneled Millions To His Daughter's Nonprofit.  More than $9 million of Department of State money has been funneled through the Peace Corps to a nonprofit foundation started and run by Secretary of State John Kerry's daughter, documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation show.  The Department of State funded a Peace Corps program created by Dr. Vanessa Kerry and officials from both agencies, records show.  The Peace Corps then awarded the money without competition to a nonprofit Kerry created for the program.

James Comey Should Resign Now for the Good of the Country.  If were I an FBI agent, I would despise James Comey.  He has humiliated the FBI and all its employees.  The institution will never be the same, at least not for decades to come.  The FBI is no longer an instrument of justice.  It is the reverse.  It is an obfuscater of justice and an enabler of the rich and powerful. [...] If he doesn't resign, I predict he will soon have a full-scale mutiny on his hands from within the ranks of the FBI.  Rumors have already surfaced.  That humiliation, institutionally and personally, is too great for honorable men and women to take.  And there are many honorable men and women in the ranks of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

DOJ Official Who Led 'Independent' Clinton Email Probe Is An Obama Donor.  One of the Justice Department officials who interviewed Hillary Clinton in July as part of the government's investigation into her email practices has contributed to President Obama's presidential campaigns, The Daily Caller can reveal.  David H. Laufman is named in the notes taken during Clinton's July 2 interview.  Since December 2014 he has served as chief of the counterespionage section of the Justice Department's National Security Division. [...] But Federal Election Commission records show that Laufman has at least some political leanings.

The FBI Found Clinton's Smoking Gun, Threw It Away, and Told Us on Labor Day Weekend.  It's Labor Day weekend, and I'm doing exactly what the FBI, the mainstream media, and Hillary Clinton expect me to be doing today.  Nothing.  Maybe some football.  Not reading through the FBI's notes on the Clinton investigation.  In this, their scheme worked.  Dump the data when America is completely disconnected and distracted, knowing that sometime in the next 48 hours Donald Trump will save Clinton by doing or saying something to make a headline.  The country will move on by Tuesday.

Impeach James Comey.  For the sake of the nation, to preserve the Rule of Law, the corrupt crony-protecting cover-up apparatchik James Comey must be impeached.  Even if he cannot be removed from office, his reputation should be blackened forever with an impeachment from the House. [...] America will not survive Congress' failure to punish such an obviously corrupt individual for failing in his most basic and most important function — patrolling govermnent [sic] officials for corruption and safeguarding America's secrets.  The FBI is, after all, the nation's counter-intelligence service, the service charged (more than any other) with protecting American secrets from foreign pilferage.  If he gives a Secretary of State license to flout the law for her own self-serving interests of keeping her emails about her Foundation, speaking gigs, and other sundry forms of bribery from a public with the right to specifically know such things, then he is unfit to hold any position of trust in the American government, and completely unfit to lead the FBI.

Trey Gowdy Got The IRS To ADMIT That They Have NO IDEA What They're Doing.  A while back, the IRS, on order from the Obama Administration, was unfairly targeting and auditing conservative groups that didn't mesh with Obama's liberal narrative.  When pressed on the issue, the IRS commissioner, in a Congressional hearing, said that he denied any wrongdoing, because of course he did.  I'm willing to bet that he expected to walk out of that hearing with his head held high and everyone else with their tail between their legs.  And then he spoke to Trey Gowdy and got burned so badly that he's gonna need medicated ointment for the next month.  Gowdy get the IRS commissioner to admit, in front of the American people, that he had no idea what "wrongdoing" even meant, since he had no working knowledge of the law.  He also admitted that the claims made by the Obama Administration were untrue, and likely made up to save face politically.

Tens Of Millions In 'Consumer Relief' Funds Going To Liberal Activists.  The Obama administration has quietly funneled millions (and potentially billions) of dollars to leftist organizations and politicians that promote liberal policies and win political elections at the entry-level of government, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Obama's strategy on Clinton scandal:  Play dumb.  The Obama administration said Wednesday [8/25/2016] that it didn't know too much and didn't care to look into the latest scandal to hit Hillary Clinton's campaign: the release of documents that appear to show she gave several donors to the Clinton Foundation special access to the State Department when she ran it.  Several questions were asked about whether there were fears at the White House or State Department that Clinton operated a "pay-to-play" system, or whether it even looked bad enough to warrant further investigation.  But at each turn, officials said they simply didn't know enough about it to comment, and indicated they wouldn't be doing much to look into it further.

Hillary Cashes In At Fundraiser Hosted By Former EPA Chief Who Used A Secret Email Account.  Former Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson co-hosted a fundraiser for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday [8/24/2016] — an ironic twist since Jackson left the Obama administration amid a major email scandal.  Jackson co-hosted the Clinton fundraiser with Apple CEO Tim Cook in the San Francisco Bay area, and tickets for the event reportedly cost between $2,700 and $50,000.  Jackson currently serves as Apple's environmental director, and is also on the board of the Clinton Foundation.  Jackson took the Apple job after leaving the EPA amid a scandal involving her use of a secret email account.  For years, Jackson used an email account under the alias "Richard Windsor" in what critics called an effort to sidestep transparency laws.  Jackson's emails were on a government server, but the former administrator used her alias account to conduct official business and communicate with environmental activists.

The renewable fuel standard 'set up for fraud'.  America's rush to renewables has invited corruption and fraud.  Researcher Christine Lakatos and I, together, have produced the single largest body of work on green-energy crony-corruption.  Our years of collaboration have revealed that those with special access and influence have cashed in on the various green-energy programs and benefitted from the mandates, rules, and regulations that accompany the huge scheme.  Dozens of the projects, including biofuel, which required the unwitting investment of taxpayer dollars have failed — leaving employees without jobs, buildings without tenants, taxpayers without repayment, and cronies without pain (even snatching hefty bonuses on the way down).  Most people know about Solyndra, the first bankruptcy, and some may know about Abengoa, the biggest bankruptcy, but there are many more.  These big projects allowed the politically connected to bilk taxpayers of billions and is the definition of corruption.  But, there's fraud in renewable energy, too — and, while it doesn't hit us as hard as taxpayers, it does cost us as consumers.

Obama administration provides Clinton's first line of defense amid scandals.  Just as stunning as the unending stream of reports of scandal and subterfuge that has come to define Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state is the Obama administration's tireless effort to keep a lid on it.  Whether it's the Justice Department taking a pass when afforded the opportunity to investigate or the State Department steadfastly defending every controversy, President Obama's administration has emerged as a first line of defense for the woman who would carry on his legacy.  The kid-glove treatment of Mrs. Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, has helped shield her from bad headlines as Republican nominee Donald Trump has been battered by the news media over his remarks on the stump and rants on Twitter.

John Cornyn asks Loretta Lynch about DOJ declining to investigate Clinton Foundation.  Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, on Friday sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking questions about a report saying the Justice Department turned down requests to investigate the Clinton Foundation for possible wrongdoing while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.  "As the press have reported widely and emails released over the past few days confirmed, representatives of the Foundation repeatedly sought special treatment for its donors and associates from senior officials at the State Department," Mr. Cornyn, the U.S. Senate's No.2-ranking Republican, wrote to Ms. Lynch.

The Coming Election Fraud.  Obama has co-opted every federal agency tasked with providing honest oversight of the election process.  From the Federal Election Commission to the FBI and ultimately the Justice Department itself, the Clintons and the Democrats know that there will be no negative consequences to any and all law breaking that they undertake to steal the election.  Voter intimidation by gangs of Clinton thugs will be given the response that the situation will be "investigated."  In modern day Government usage "investigation" is simply a euphemism for "we intend to do nothing."  Release of e-mails proving the corruption and collusion of the Democratic National Committee with the Clinton campaign are simply ignored by the Media and the watch dog agencies of the Government. [...] It is now up to the Republican governors, especially, to plan for the onslaught of illegal election activities in their States.

Alphabet Soup Corruption.  [Scroll down]  Given a largely obsequious media, it will take years to assess the full legacy of the Obama administration.  But, eventually, historians will find that it marked one of the more politically driven, corrupt, and unconstitutional eras in the history of American governance.

Sound familiar?  Obama's HUD secretary won't be punished for breaking the law.  [R]emember, fellow peasants, "I didn't intend to break that law" is only an acceptable defense when used by our intellectual, moral and ethical betters in positions of power.

Federal investigators:  Cabinet secretary and potential Clinton running mate Julian Castro violated Hatch Act.  The telegenic young Cabinet secretary has been mentioned for months as a prospect to be Clinton's running mate.  He was among the first candidates to go through the formal process of vetting by the campaign.  A report from the Office of Special Counsel delivered a mild rebuke to Castro for his handling of the April interview with Yahoo News.  The seal of the Housing and Urban Development department was visible behind Castro as he answered questions from host Katie Couric about his support for Clinton, including his chances as running mate.

Julian Castro, potential Clinton running mate, slips up.  This is not great timing for Julian Castro, who is on Hillary Clinton's short list of potential running mates.  The charismatic political rising star serving as President Barack Obama's secretary of Housing and Urban Development has gotten himself into trouble for mixing politics with his government job.  An investigation by the Office of Special Counsel found Castro recently violated the Hatch Act, which prohibits such co-mingling.

Obama won't punish HUD chief.  Castro for giving partisan interview

Conservatives move to impeach IRS chief.  Conservative House Republicans on Wednesday [7/13/2016] introduced a resolution to impeach Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen, something they hope can get a vote this week before Congress leaves for an extended summer break.  The resolution was introduced by Reps.  John Fleming, R-La., and Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., a move that was welcomed by Freedom Caucus Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.  "I thank my colleagues John Fleming and Tim Huelskamp for their resolution to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen," he said.  "Mr. Koskinen has failed the American people through gross negligence, dereliction of duty, and violating the public trust."

House Freedom Caucus Members Introduce Resolution To Impeach IRS Commissioner.  House Freedom Caucus (HFC) members Reps.  John Fleming of Louisiana and Tim Huelskamp of Kansas introduced a resolution to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen Wednesday [7/13/2016].  Republicans have been pushing for Koskinen's impeachment, alleging he misled Congress and violated a subpoena related to the IRS targeting conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.  "He deliberately kept Congress and the American people in the dark, making materially false statements under oath," Fleming said in a statement.  "Koskinen needs to be held accountable and in this case that means impeachment.  We can no longer wait."

The Obama Regime's Criminal Syndicate.  In short, the DOJ, leveraging the settlement process under threat of prosecution, has bypassed Congress and the Courts to secure settlement agreements to provide consumer relief funds to third-party radical leftist groups.  Moreover, the DOJ has used a portion of the funds agreed to under the settlements to finance the administrations housing policy goals as the DOJ inserted its own spending priorities to pick certain groups, such as La Raza, to receive funds without any requirement that the funds be disbursed to aggrieved homeowners.  Officials within the DOJ have also effectively skimmed off three percent from mortgage-related bank settlements and thus have been able to create a $500 million dollar slush fund allowing them to spend the money in whichever way they best see fit.  Like a criminal syndicate, the Obama administration shakes down banks, funds radical leftist organizations and makes themselves wealthy all the while using the power of the federal government under the guise of the DOJ acting with false pretenses to the law with purely political motivations.

Hillary's FBI interview.  It now appears that those in charge of the justice system have decided to allow guilt or innocence to be decided by the vagaries of the election process for selected powerful people. [...] People continue to attempt to place James Comey in a positive light, but the bottom line is that he is as corrupt as all the other agency heads in the Obama government. [...] Comey's complicity in this abuse of power and his contempt for the oath he swore to uphold the Constitution is exemplified by his staging of the charade called the Hillary Clinton FBI interview.

The Most Frightening Political Fix.  We knew they could fix the Department of Justice; we suspected they could fix the FBI.  What we didn't know was that the fixes would be this transparent:  the secret meeting with a chief culprit and the DOJ head; the next day announcement by Justice that the Clinton bribery investigations would be postponed until well after the election; the suspiciously brief FBI interrogation of the former Secretary of State who during her entire tenure had recklessly breached national security protocols, deleted 30,000 emails; burned her government schedules; put top secret information onto a hackable server in violation of federal law; and topping it all the failure of the FBI director after enumerating her reckless acts to recommend a prosecution — all within a single week, and just in time for the Democrats' nominating convention.  It was, all in all, the most breathtaking fix in American history.

Stunning Emails Reveal How Clinton Foundation Donor Bought Seat As Hillary's Nuclear Weapons Advisor.  Forget Hillary's personal email server:  this is what true cronyism and criminal corruption looks like, and this is the biggest threat from a Hillary presidency.  It has been widely speculated, if not proven, that donors to the Clinton Foundation who over the years have transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to the "charitable organization", bought political favors with the Clintons in exchange for their generosity.  That has now been confirmed thanks to a stunning ABC report which reveals how a major foundation donor — one who previously had practically no experience on intellgience matters — mysteriously ended up as a nuclear weapons advisor to Hillary during her tenure as Secretary of State.  Worse, the person in question Rajiv K. Fernando, had been the head of a high frequency trading company, Chopper Trading (recently acquired by HFT powerhouse DRW), which may explain the unprecedented pull of the HFT lobby throughout all ranks of the US political apparatus.  In other words, Fernando bought a seat to not only have advance knowledge of all US foreign policy, but to directly shape it, something he could then parlay in the forms of massive policy frontrunning profits thanks to his trading company.

Email Scandal:  Stock Trader Bought Role as Hillary's Nuclear Weapons Advisor.  Several revelations from the newest release of a batch of Hillary Clinton's emails show both astonishing cronyism and lackadaisical indiscretion with national security.  Confirming longstanding allegations the ubiquitous Clinton Foundation serves as a front for political and domestic and foreign policy favors, ABC News reported that a wealthy Foundation donor — with zero prior experience in matters of intelligence — inexplicably received an appointment to serve as a nuclear weapons advisor to Hillary during her tenure as secretary of state.  Rajiv K. Fernando's experience to land this crucial position included fundraising for a plethora of Democratic politicians and for the Clinton Foundation, as well as heading a powerful trading company — but nothing concerning intelligence, much less nuclear weapons and strategy.  However, according to ABC News:  "Fernando's history of campaign giving dated back to at least 2003 and was prolific — and almost exclusively to Democrats.  He was an earlier supporter of Hillary Clinton's 2008 bid for president, giving maximum contributions to her campaign, and to HillPAC, in 2007 and 2008.  He also served as a fundraising bundler for Clinton, gathering more than $100,000 from others for her White House bid."

Senators Ready Bill to Stop DOJ From Bankrolling Liberal Groups.  The Senate may take steps to end a Justice Department slush fund that has channeled millions of dollars in banking settlements to outside organizations, including left-wing groups such as La Raza and NeighborWorks America.  Four Republican senators — James Lankford of Oklahoma, Ted Cruz of Texas, and Utah's Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee — said they would introduce legislation Friday [6/10/2016] to prohibit federal settlement agreements that require donations to third parties.  The Justice Department currently allows corporations found guilty of wrongdoing to pay a portion of their financial penalty as a donation to certain preapproved nonprofit groups.

Obama Endorses Hillary, Immediately Meets With Attorney General Loretta Lynch.  Shortly after the endorsement was made, President Obama met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch this afternoon in the Oval Office.  The meeting was closed to the press.  Lynch, of course, will ultimately make the decision as to whether Clinton will be prosecuted should the FBI issue an indictment surrounding her use of a private email server to store and transfer top secret, classified information.  In order for Clinton to carry Obama's torch, she has to stay out of prison.  In order to do that, she has to avoid prosecution.  I'm sure Obama made that very clear to his somewhat new Attorney General.

DHS Ordered to Create Off-Duty Conduct Policy after Secret Service Scandals.  Following shameful debacles involving Secret Service agents getting drunk and hiring prostitutes during foreign travel details a federal audit is recommending that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) develop a policy for off-duty conduct abroad.  The Secret Service inspired the probe but many other DHS agencies — including Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Coast Guard and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) — also have a substantial number of employees that travel and work in other countries.  Apparently, the belief is that specific rules banning drunken sex scandals could help avoid more public embarrassments, though it's difficult to imagine that members of an elite law enforcement agency don't already know this.

Judge blocks his own order sending Obama lawyers to ethics class.  Justice Department lawyers and illegal immigrants won a temporary reprieve Tuesday after Judge Andrew S. Hanen blocked his own order sending the lawyers back to remedial ethics classes, and ordering the government to turn over information on tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who were erroneously granted a three-year deportation amnesty.  Judge Hanen said he'll hear new arguments in August, and until then he issued a stay.  He also gave the Justice Department a chance to suggest its own punishment for having repeatedly misled the federal court.

IG: EPA Still Blocking.  The Environmental Protection Agency is still blocking its inspector general from investigating wrongdoing at the agency, according to the government watchdog's semi-annual report to Congress.  More than a year after coming under scrutiny for stonewalling an investigation into a senior official accused of sexually harassing over a dozen women, the EPA is still not being cooperative with the inspector general.  "In the previous Semiannual Report to Congress, we reported theoretical progress with regard to the longstanding denial of access for the [Office of Inspector General] OIG by the EPA's Office of Homeland Security (OHS) to information sought by the OIG," the report said.  "After considerable delay, OHS provided some documents to the OIG but continued to deny access to others."

DHS admits it's still violating judge's order on immigration amnesty.  Homeland Security has discovered more three-year amnesty applications it approved in defiance of a federal judge's firm injunction, lawyers told the court late Wednesday — less than a week after the judge delivered a vicious spanking to the administration for repeatedly bungling the case.  Leon Rodriguez, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said as they were preparing for their latest update to the court, they discovered three more three-year amnesties they had sent out, after Judge Andrew Hanen had ordered them not to.

EPA Conducts Two Secret Meetings A Year To Decide How To Dole Out Billions In Slush Fund Money.  Congress appropriates about $1 billion annually for EPA's Superfund program, and the agency has accumulated nearly $6.8 billion in more than 1,300 slush fund-like accounts since 1990.  Two committees consisting entirely of EPA officials meet behind closed doors twice annually to decide how the agency spends those funds on highly polluted — and often dangerous — Superfund sites.  All reports to and from the groups, as well as the minutes of their meetings and all other details, are kept behind closed doors.

Abolish the Department of Justice.  The Obama Justice Department has revealed its final descent into naked politics and totalitarian bullying.  Lois Lerner and Hillary Clinton, two transparently guilty criminals whose crimes are compounded by the fact that both are also lawyers, will face no indictments and no prosecution.  The corrupt bosses of the Veterans Administration likewise face no sanction at all despite the manifest criminality of their actions.  Lying under oath to Congress, failing to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests, conspiring to obstruct justice, and many other clear wrongdoings permeate almost every single crevice of the Obama administration, and yet no one who matters has faced any trouble from the Department of Justice.  This is not because the Department of Justice is quiet and subdued.  The attorney general refers to the FBI for possible criminal prosecution of those who question the leftist orthodoxy of man-made global warming and moves almost instantly to litigate the actions of states protecting children in school restrooms.

13 Incompetent Failures in the Obama Administration.  [#6] Attorney General Eric Holder's list of dishonors is long and impressive:  being censured by the House of Representatives, withholding subpoenaed documents, lying about a failed gun-walking caper in Mexico (also known as "Fast and Furious"), and most importantly failing to enforce the law (his constitutional duty) on everything from immigration to Obamacare.  Oh, and Holder illegally billed the government for his private use of a federal Gulfstream jet, snooped on Associated Press reporters, gave exemptions to "unbiased" IRS officials, and made extensive use of the race card.  He also used not one, not two, but three email aliases to avoid public scrutiny.

Closing in?  Obama crony faces impeachment.  A powerful House committee has moved to impeach the head of the Internal Revenue Service, saying he violated the public trust and illegally targeted conservative groups.  After two years of investigation into the IRS, Republicans have finally had enough.  On Friday [5/13/2016], the Judiciary Committee announced two hearings on impeachment of IRS commissioner John Koskinen, an appointee of President Barack Obama.

DOJ that donated tens of thousands to Hillary certain to treat her crimes with the utmost of objectivity.  In what appears to be a super-sized potential conflict of interest, Clinton, a pathological, self-serving liar who doesn't mind if Americans die to further her political ambitions, has accepted almost $75,000 in campaign contributions in the current election cycle from employees at the Justice Department, the cabinet bureau that will eventually decide whether to prosecute the Benghazi bungler for her use of a hacker-friendly home-brew email server while top U.S. diplomat.  The server is at the heart of the scandal over Clinton's mishandling of an Islamic terrorist attack in militant-infested Benghazi, Libya on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 that left four Americans, including U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens, dead.  Even now, almost four years after the assault, the Obama administration has failed to provide an autopsy report about Stevens who was initially reported to have been ritualistically sodomized before being murdered by Muslim terrorists.

The EPA Stashes Billions In Slush Fund-Like Accounts.  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials have accumulated at least $6.3 billion in more than 1,300 obscure spending accounts akin to slush funds that are essentially beyond congressional, media and public scrutiny.  The accounts — which were created through EPA's Superfund program — are not technically secret because the agency officially acknowledges their existence.  But getting concrete details about deposits and expenditures is extremely difficult.  The EPA deposited more than $6.3 billion into an estimated 1,308 special accounts between 1990 and 2015, according to the agency's website, and has spent more than half of the total.  The agency doesn't publicly report individual special account balances or expenses.

Watchdog: IRS workers steal taxpayer data to plunder the Treasury.  The Treasury Department's Inspector General for Tax Administration said this week that three current and former IRS employees have been caught trying to steal money as taxpayers try to pay off their tax debts.  In one case, former Missouri IRS employee Demetria Brown was sentenced in February after pleading guilty to wire fraud and identity theft.  Her scheme was to obtain people's personal information, like Social Security Numbers and dates of birth, to file fraudulent federal and state tax returns.

IRS Giving Tax Credits to Illegals Who've Engaged in Identity Theft.  In a typical year, April 15 is Tax Day when hard-working Americans cede over an enormous amount of their income to the federal government so they can redistribute it to all sorts of special interests and protected classes, including illegal aliens.  You heard that right.  The IRS has admitted to knowingly granting refundable tax credits, which work as back door welfare payments, to illegal aliens who break the law and steal Social Security numbers to obtain employment and file their taxes.  During a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen admitted to Sen. Dan Coats (R-IN) that illegal aliens were stealing Social Security numbers and using them to receive refundable tax credits through their annual returns.  Worse, he felt it was a good thing they were filing and didn't seem committed to stopping it.

Documents confirm Eric Holder's role in Fast and Furious cover-up.  "Fast and Furious" is back in the news.  The reason?  In January, Judge Amy Berman, an Obama appointee, ordered the Department of Justice to produce documents relating to the "gun walking" scandal that Congress had been seeking for four years.  DOJ finally produced them, some 20,000 pages worth, this month. [...] Having reviewed these documents, Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has released a memo summarizing what they show. [...] Holder and his subordinates:
  1.  Presumed that allegations about gunwalking in Arizona were false and refused to adjust when documents and evidence showed otherwise.
  2.  Politicized decisions about how and whether to comply with the congressional investigation.
  3.  Devised strategies to redact or otherwise withhold relevant information from Congress and the public.
  4.  Isolated the fallout from the Fast and Furious scandal to ATF leadership and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona.
  5.  Created a culture of animosity towards congressional oversight.

Federal judge calls IRS untrustworthy in tea party case.  A federal judge said the IRS isn't to be trusted as he and his colleagues tried Thursday [4/14/2016] to figure out whether the tax agency is still targeting tea party groups for intrusive and illegal scrutiny.  Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said there is strong evidence that the IRS violated the constitutional rights of the groups when it delayed their nonprofit status applications and asked inappropriate questions about their political beliefs.  The agency's insistence that it has retrained employees and instructed managers to behave better did not mollify the judges, who said past IRS behavior doesn't lend itself to the benefit of the doubt.

IRS says it's OK for illegal aliens to use fraudulent Social Security numbers.  There is no longer the rule of law in America, and government is the worst offender.  The Obama administration has become a lawless administration.  The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) under the Obama administration targeted conservatives and Christians for special scrutiny and even plotted to imprison conservatives.  Even when it was discovered, IRS officials like Lois Lerner were not held accountable, which means the IRS can violate the rights of conservatives and Christians with impunity.  The latest case in point:  Earlier today, the Gollum-like IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told a Congressional hearing that the IRS doesn't have a problem with illegal immigrants using fraudulent Social Security numbers to file their taxes, because they're doing that for "a legitimate reason".  By "legitimate reason," Koskinen means tax revenue.

New Balance claims Obama administration promised shoe contract for silence on TPP.  New Balance, a Boston company that makes athletic shoes, says someone from the Obama administration promised to help get the company a substantial military contract in exchange for the company ending its vocal opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal.  Despite the promise, no order for shoes was ever placed by the Pentagon, so now the company is renewing its opposition to TPP.

Shoe Company:  Obama Admin Pressured Us to Stay Quiet on TPP.  The Boston Globe is reporting that U.S.-based shoe manufacturer New Balance has come out hard against the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal.  The odd thing, though, is that "the Boston company had gone quiet [on TPP] last year.  Now, apparently, we know why: [...]

IRS Chief's Resume:  Lying to Congress, encouraging illegal aliens to steal SSNs to use to file taxes.  Remember how the bumbling, idiotic, corrupt, feckless, toad-like losers in Republican leadership followed through with their threats to impeach IRS chief John Koskinen for lying to Congress?  Me neither. [...] Yes, the disgusting, pathetic, nefarious, amoral miscreants who pretend to be our "leaders" in Congress have done absolutely nothing to deal with Koskinen's high crimes and misdemeanors, even though legal experts have stated that it would be "utterly irresponsible" not to impeach him.

Obamas host White House dinner Saturday for Obama Foundation.  President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle on Saturday evening [4/2/2016] hosted their first White House event for supporters of the Obama Presidential Foundation — though the dinner was not a fundraiser.  "The President and First Lady are having a private dinner tonight with friends and longtime supporters, many of whom are assisting the outside work of the Foundation as it gets up and running," said Principal Deputy White House Press Secretary Eric Schultz in an email.

Obama says he's not 'ashamed' of his presidency.  As he looks back at his presidency in his final year, President Obama said Wednesday [3/23/2016] he has nothing to be "ashamed" of.  "I feel pretty good about the fact that I can look back and say that I operated with honesty and integrity and don't feel as if I said things I didn't believe, or acted in ways that would make me ashamed," Mr. Obama told reporters in Argentina.  "That, I think, counts for something."

Lynch indicates DOJ not required to charge Clinton.  Attorney General Loretta Lynch indicated Wednesday [3/9/2016] that the law doesn't require the Justice Department to pursue criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email system, even if the FBI recommends criminal charges.  Lynch was asked in a hearing by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, what her department would do if the FBI were to recommend that step.  "If the FBI were to make a referral to the Department of Justice to pursue a case by way of indictment and to convene a grand jury for that purpose, the Department of Justice is not required by law to do so, are they — are you?" Cornyn asked.

'Slush Fund': Senator Slams State Dept. for $500M Payment to Green Climate Fund.  Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) on Tuesday [3/8/2016] slammed the administration's handover of $500 million to the U.N. Green Climate Fund, asking a State Department official how the "handout to foreign bureaucrats" could be justified at a time when there were "real problems" that need to be addressed at home.  Barrasso told Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources Heather Higginbottom he viewed the payment to the "new international climate change slush fund" — the first installment of a $3 billion pledge — as both a misuse of taxpayer dollars and a violation of legislation that prohibits federal agencies from spending federal funds in advance or in excess of an appropriation.  "It appears to be latest example of the administration going around Congress because the American people don't really support what the president is doing with this initiative," he said.

Brace yourself for the greatest prosecutorial discretion event in history.  As Barack Obama finishes his final year, his attorney general, in all likelihood, will execute the greatest instance of prosecutorial discretion in the history or our nation. [... The case of Lois] Lerner is just the beginning.  The IRS dismissal, large enough on its own scale and importance, will be but a side event in this attorney general's career.  For the longer the Hillary email "scandal" plays out, the more protracted the discovery and analysis by the FBI, and the deeper into the campaigning and nomination process we go, the less likely any indictment of Ms. Clinton.  It will likely involve a discretionary event by Loretta Lynch.  The more Hillary becomes the likely nominee, the greater the political aspects of the FBI's work.  To now dethrone the Democrat nominee with an indictment is much more difficult than if it had been done after the Iowa caucus.  And the closer we get to the convention, the more distasteful and difficult any action against Hillary.

Top 5 Reasons to Impeach IRS Chief John "One Step Shy of Perjury" Koskinen.  Taxpayers deserve a transparent, accountable government, starting with Commissioner John Koskinen's complacency in uncovering the truth in the Lois Lerner conservative targeting scandal.  The agency has continually displayed extraordinary lack of responsibility.  Koskinen has also proven to be incapable of correctly handling taxpayer dollars, protecting them from identity theft, fraud, and even lied to the American people and Congress.  Clearly, the agency is in desperate need of reform and new leadership.

Clinton Emails: Appoint A Special Counsel, Guarantee A Speedy Trial.  The investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email account is taking on the look of a political stonewall.  It's time for an independent counsel to ensure that justice isn't delayed past the next election.  The Hill reported Monday [2/8/2016] that pressure on Attorney General Loretta Lynch to appoint an outside solicitor in the Clinton email scandal is starting to build as "top Republicans are calling for a special prosecutor to be brought in and evaluate the situation."  As one GOP congressman pointed out, the unique circumstances of this case require an exceptional response.

Obama's Growing Conflict of Interest in the Clinton E-Mail Scandal.  [Scroll down]  So egregious have the scandal's latest developments been that a critical State Department admission from last week has received almost no coverage:  Eighteen e-mails between Mrs. Clinton and President Obama have been identified, and the government is refusing to disclose them. [...] Think about what this means.  Not only is it obvious that President Obama knew Mrs. Clinton was conducting government business over her private e-mail account, the exchanges the president engaged in with his secretary of state over this unsecured system clearly involved sensitive issues of policy.  Clinton was being asked for "advice and counsel" — not about her recommendations for the best country clubs in Martha's Vineyard, but about matters that the White House judges too sensitive to reveal.

Former Inspector General: Powerful Democrat Women Standing in the way of Hillary Indictment.  Former Inspector General Howard J. Krongard says the current FBI investigation should be focused on how material made it from the classified email system, known as SIPRNet, to Clinton's unclassified private server.  "It can't just jump from one system to the other.  Someone had to move it, copy it.  The question is who did that?" Krongard tells the New York Post. [...] Even if the FBI decides Clinton holds the ultimate responsibility for creating the private server, "It will never get to an indictment," Krongard tells the Post.  The decision to act on the FBI's recommendation would have to pass through, "four loyal Democrat women."  Krongard is referring to Loretta Lynch and her deputies Leslie Caldwell and Sally Yates.  In addition, Valerie Jarrett, one of President Obama's top advisers, could weigh in.

Former FBI Official Red-Flags Troubling Lack of Activity at DOJ Regarding Hillary's Emails.  A former assistant director of the FBI is voicing concern about the Justice Department's lack of movement on the ongoing FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's email arrangement which, according to sources, will be wrapping up soon.  If Bureau leaks are to be believed, the results will show that Mrs. Clinton and her underlings flagrantly violated some of our most important laws — laws that are designed to protect national security.  Anyone else would have been arrested by now.

Republican warns of White House influence on Clinton investigation.  The second-ranking Republican in the Senate is amplifying his call for the Justice Department to name a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton's email server, suggesting the White House is trying to influence the FBI's probe.  "I believe that Secretary Clinton has likely violated multiple criminal statues," Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said Monday [2/1/2016].  Cornyn said Attorney General Loretta Lynch should name a special counsel to counter the "apparent inability of the White House to resist the temptation to try to influence or at worst obstruct the current investigation."

IRS's new ethics chief once ordered that records be illegally destroyed.  The new head of the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) ethics office once oversaw the illegal shredding of documents sought by the federal tax agency's inspector general (IG) and allegedly retaliated by snitching on that colleague[.]  Stephen Whitlock was named director of the IRS Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) in August 2015.  The OPR supports "effective tax administration by ensuring all tax practitioners, tax-preparers, and other third parties in the tax system adhere to professional standards and follow the law," according to the agency's web site.  Whitlock's chief of operations was, until recently, a former tax enforcement agent who attempted to avoid government payments by declaring bankruptcy and who even lost his official sidearm in a bar fight.

IRS Wipes Another Hard Drive: Sackless GOP Leaders Issue Sternly Worded Memo in Response.  Leading members of Congress are ripping IRS officials for erasing a computer hard drive after a federal judge ordered it to be preserved.  "The destruction of evidence subject to preservation orders and subpoenas has been an ongoing problem under your leadership at the IRS," Committee on House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz and Rep. Jim Jordan, wrote in a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen late Thursday [1/21/2016].  "It is stunning to see that the IRS does not take reasonable care to preserve documents that it is legally required to protect," Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, and Jordan, an Ohio Republican, said in the letter to Koskinen.

EPA cleared of bias in Alaska mine controversy despite lost emails.  Despite acknowledging it could not obtain more than two years of emails from a key employee, the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Inspector General on Wednesday [1/20/2016] effectively cleared the EPA of allegations of bias in its quest to preemptively kill a proposed mine in southwest Alaska.  The troubling details of the missing emails raise charges of an EPA whitewashing, a scenario and an allegation all-too-familiar in the Obama administration.

IRS Erases Hard Drive Despite Court Order.  The IRS erased a hard drive belonging to a former top employee involved in the agency's controversial, taxpayer-funded hiring of elite trial law firm Quinn Emanuel.  Although there was a court preservation order on all documents related to the IRS hiring of the outside firm, the hard drive was erased anyway.  The order was borne of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted by Microsoft.  Even though the white shoe law firm has zero experience handling sensitive tax data, taxpayers have been footing bills of over $1,000 per hour for its services.

Report: Facing Investigations, DOJ Claims Right To Avoid Investigations.  Beset by several investigations, the Department of Justice is claiming the right to avoid being investigated.  As reported by PJMedia, the Office of the Inspector General's job is to combat problems of waste, fraud and abuse within the federal government.  But Attorney General Loretta Lynch has no intention of allowing any investigation.  She told the House Judiciary Committee that her office will simply ignore any request from the OIG at will.

IGs: At Least 20 Investigations Slowed or Closed Due To Obama Admin.  Numerous inspectors general say that at least 20 investigations have been slowed or closed due to government watchdogs not having access to needed documents or records under the Obama administration.  Dozens of interviews of people with firsthand knowledge of the years-long problem spoke of the tensions between the watchdogs and the administration.

Justice's Liberal Slush Fund.  Republicans talk often about using the "power of the purse" to rein in a lawless Obama administration.  If they mean it, they ought to use their year-end spending bill to stop a textbook case of outrageous executive overreach.  This scandal comes courtesy of the Justice Department, which for 16 months has engaged in a scheme to undermine Congress's spending authority by independently transferring dollars to President Obama's political allies.  The department is in the process of funneling more than half-a-billion dollars to liberal activist groups, at least some of which will actively support Democrats in the coming election.

Gov't Watchdog: HUD's Financial Books Are Impossible To Audit.  A government watchdog says it can't audit billions in Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) spending because the agency's financial books are kept so poorly.  HUD's financial statements and systems are missing records, inaccurate and sometimes even violated federal laws, according to a HUD inspector general report released Monday [11/30/2015].  Included among the programs with useless financial accounting records is nearly $20 billion at the Government National Mortgage Association.

A Pattern Of Executive Overreach.  Recently, the Justice Department announced it would not be indicting anyone for their role in the most serious domestic political scandal since the Nixon years.  Starting in 2010, the IRS, under pressure from congressional Democrats and the White House, engaged in blatant ideologically motivated discrimination against conservative organizations applying for non-profit status.  That the most feared bureaucracy in Washington was making decisions based on illegal political criteria should send a chill down the spine of any American who cares about the First Amendment and the rule of law.

Punishing the Obama way.  Although the rot has been visible for some time, recent actions by President Obama's Department of Justice and director of national intelligence make it possible to say definitively that the United States we once extolled as a nation of laws and not of men no longer exists.  Our federal laws are today being manipulated by political operatives in ways that would have made those running the old Daley machine in the president's hometown blush.

Secretary Jeh Johnson, DAPA, and The Case For Impeachment.  [Scroll down slowly] In our opinion the White House never intended to win the underlying case.  The executive action was clearly unconstitutional as it created an entirely new status of personage:  "An Illegal but lawful resident", complete with employment eligibility.  If President Obama believed he was just using prosecutorial discretion in non-deportation he could do nothing.  He doesn't deport them, and 5+ million (who qualify under DAPA) stay put without change.  Taking no executive action is the same thing as not deporting; but that's not what he did — he created an executive action to make those illegal aliens "lawful residents". [...] Obama never planned to win the case; he planned to lose the case but in the interim have carried out the action that is irreversible.  It would be impossible to make 5 million people unlawful once their new lawful status was achieved.  This was/is the goal all along.

EPA Gave Paid Leave to Drug and Child Sex Offenders.  Drug and child sex offenders received paid administrative leave from the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a new audit.  The agency's inspector general found the EPA rehired a child sex offender after they were put on leave for violating probation, in one example of misuse of administrative leave that cost taxpayers over $1 million.

Harsh: Obama Official Who Pled Guilty to Espionage Gets... $250 Fine.  Glenn Woodell, a NASA supervisor who pled guilty to violating U.S. espionage laws involving a Chinese NASA contractor was given a slap on the wrist with six months' probation and a $250 fine, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.  Daniel Jobson, a Woodell colleague and fellow NASA supervisor, had his espionage charges reduced to a misdemeanor and was released without any penalty.  The lenient plea deals were quietly delivered October 26 in U.S. District Court in Newport News, Virginia.  The U.S. Attorneys office did not to [sic] issue a press release about the deals and declined comment when contacted by the DCNF.

America's Soft Tyranny is Hardening.  Lois Lerner and Hillary Clinton should both be in prison.  Both have broken many, many laws, laws that are meant to protect American citizens.  Neither of them cares a whit about American citizens.  Both knew and know they will never be punished.  Hillary expects to be elected to the presidency.  We can thank the DC establishment, Left and Right, for this sad state of affairs.  Character no long[er] counts for anything.  And we can thank the Obama administration for being the most purposefully divisive, lawless, and anti-constitutional in modern history.

Major Democratic Donor Claimed Dog, Dead People as Clients in BP Oil Spill Fraud Case, Court Documents Say.  Mikal Watts is regarded as a Democratic kingmaker and wealthy Texas trial lawyer who even hosted a private $35,000-a-plate fundraiser for President Obama at his home.  He is now under federal indictment for allegedly fraudulently representing thousands of clients — including a handful of dead people and a dog — in litigation against BP after the 2010 Deep Water Horizon oil spill.  Watts appeared in federal court Thursday in Mississippi along with his brother, David[,] who is also charged.  Both men, along with five others, allegedly used stolen and false identities of people to sign up as plaintiffs in their case against BP, eventually claiming to represent more than 40,000 individuals making claims against BP valued in excess of $2 billion.

Rep. Jim Jordan: 'Flat Out Wrong' Not to Bring Criminal Charges Against Lois Lerner.  Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), head of the conservative Freedom Caucus and a member of the House Oversight committee, says he strongly disagrees with the Justice Department's decision not to bring criminal charges against former IRS official Lois Lerner for impeding conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.  "That is just flat out wrong, in my judgment," Jordan told "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace.  "Here's a lady who systematically and for a sustained period of time targeted people for exercising their most fundamental rights, their First Amendment free speech rights.

The FBI & Hillary's e-mails: A Lois Lerner precedent?  The fix was in:  Lois Lerner will walk away scot-free.  On Friday, the Justice Department closed its two-year investigation into the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status and decided to charge ... no one.  This, when Lerner admitted the IRS had singled out righty groups, but blamed the "absolutely inappropriate" actions on "front-line people" — that is, lower-level folks.  And then refused to answer more questions by pleading the Fifth.  Questions about, say, her orders to hold up applications from any outfit with "Tea Party" or "patriot" in its name.

Citizens are no longer equal under Obama.  Disgraced former IRS chief Lois Lerner is enjoying her "Get Out of Jail Free" card care of the Obama administration.  Who's surprised she won't face charges given the fact that most Americans believe the White House was in on allegations the IRS targeted Tea Party and conservative groups applying for nonprofit status?  It gets worse.  During the "investigation," IRS head John Koskinen stonewalled big time, refusing to provide Congress with information including Lerner's "missing" emails.  Sound familiar?

Obama fundraiser, Julian Castro patron indicted on fraud charges.  Multimillion-dollar Democratic donor and Obama fundraiser Mikal Watts was indicted on fraud charges this week.  Federal prosecutors say his class-action suit against BP after the oil spill was built in part on phony clients.  Watts' attorney said the charges "are related to allegations that Watts committed fraud or forgery when he claimed to represent 44,000 clients in litigation against BP PLC," as the Associated Press puts it.

Stop Obama's War On Watchdogs.  Federal inspector generals across dozens of agencies are begging lawmakers to grant them access to public records as guaranteed by the 1978 Inspector General Act.  The call for help comes as Obama administration obstructionists and cover-up operatives impede and downplay several key investigations into government corruption and malfeasance.

Obamacare's Blue State Money Laundry.  When Maryland's Attorney General announced last summer that his office had negotiated a settlement whereby $45 million would be recouped from the IT contractor that botched the state's Obamacare exchange, it was widely reported as good news for taxpayers.  It appeared that their investment in the mismanaged project would not be a dead loss.  But the AG's statement included this curious passage:  "The agreement... will lead to the recovery of funds for both Maryland and the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services [CMS]."  What's so odd about that?  Well, the state didn't contribute any money to the project.

Democracy Is Threatened When Rule Of Law Is Trashed.  The rule of law is fundamental to our nation's existence, and it's been destroyed over the past seven years by the Obama administration and federal courts with acquiescence from desperate-to-be-loved congressional leaders.

Jail Time for Christians: No Longer a Hypothesis.  Meanwhile, it goes without saying that Obama is the most lawless president in U.S. history, refusing to obey laws he dislikes.  Sanctuary cities run by Democrats defiantly disobey federal immigration law at the cost of endangering and even killing American citizens.  It is insane to allow these conniving vipers to claim the moral high ground over us, lecturing us about obeying the law.

Why the Federal Reserve should be audited.  It is time for a comprehensive audit of Janet Yellen's Federal Reserve — and not just for the reasons presidential candidate Rand Paul and others have given.  The Fed needs to be audited to see if its ruling body has broken the law by manipulating financial markets that are outside its jurisdiction.  A thorough investigation of the Fed will show once and for all if its former chief Ben Bernanke and current Chairwoman Yellen should go to jail.

Hillary Clinton's State Department IG Was More Lapdog than Watchdog.  Without the House Select Committee on Benghazi's initial probe into Clinton's communications, even the fact that she used a private e-mail account to conduct government business may have remained a secret.  It's puzzling.  At the time, many State Department employees did appear to know of Clinton's private account, yet the State Department inspector general (IG) only opened an investigation into the scandal in April 2015, years after she had left office.  Before then, the agency's top watchdog had given no indication that it was either aware of, or concerned by, Clinton's e-mail practices.  Why?

NASA employees caught buying child porn from site which showed three-year-olds being abused — but they escape prosecution.  NASA employees were caught buying child pornography from a criminal ring in Eastern Europe that distributed images of minors as young as three, it can be revealed.  An investigation by Daily Mail Online found 16 staff members from the space agency paid for pictures and videos of children in sexual situations, but were never prosecuted.  Their names have never been released because of government guidelines which protect their privacy — prompting fears some of the culprits are still employed by NASA.

Watchdogs: DOJ memo undermines agency probes.  Agency watchdogs are up in arms over a Justice Department memo questioning the legality of turning over documents they say are crucial to their investigations.  The new policy protecting certain portions of sensitive documents — announced last month by the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel — came under fresh fire from lawmakers during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday [8/5/2015].  Lawmakers in both parties, including the top Republican and Democrat on the panel, disagree with the policy shift, saying it goes against the specific intent of the Inspector General Act of 1978.  The law specifies that inspectors general have access to "all records" needed during an investigation.

Border Patrol poster boy's arrest, new report bare agency's corruption issue.  The arrest last week of a onetime Border Patrol poster boy on charges of smuggling illegal immigrants followed a damning report on corruption within the Customs and Border Protection agency.  Supervisory Customs and Border Protection Agent Lawrence Madrid, 53, was arrested July 24 at his El Paso home by agents of Homeland Security Investigations and charged with alien smuggling.  Madrid, a 20-year veteran, is one of 177 agents who have faced corruption charges since 2005, according to CBP spokesman Roger Maier.

Federal Judge: I Will Haul IRS Chief Here and Personally Hold Him in Contempt.  IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has been stonewalling Congress and the courts for more than a year over Lois Lerner's "missing" emails.  He's also ignored court orders to produce documentation and now, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan has had enough.  During a hearing yesterday surrounding a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, Sullivan said he "will haul into court the IRS Commissioner to hold him personally into contempt" after the IRS failed to turn over ordered documentation to the Court.  The information ordered included status reports and recovered emails belonging to former IRS official Lois Lerner.  Sullivan also noted Department of Justice of attorneys are in the same position for failing to turn over ordered documentation.

Here is the Ironclad Case for Impeaching IRS Head John Koskinen.  Key members of the House Freedom Caucus are demanding that IRS Commissioner John Koskinen be removed from office.  In an op-ed written for the Wall Street Journal, Reps. Jim Jordan and Ron DeSantis told President Obama that if the Commissioner is not removed, they will begin the proceedings to impeach him.  Modern Americans view impeachment with a sort of awe and reverence.  To most, it seems like an inconceivably drastic thing to do.  But it was not always this way, nor was it the intention of the founders.  Impeachment has always been a practical tool for getting rid of bad actors in government and, given the amount of government corruption we see today, a tool that should be used with much greater frequency.

Federal Judge Threatens to Hold IRS Chief and DOJ Attorneys in Contempt of Court Over Lerner Cover-Up.  U.S District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan today [7/29/2015] threatened to hold the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department attorneys in contempt of court after the IRS failed to produce status reports and newly recovered emails of Lois Lerner, former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the IRS, as he had ordered on July 1, 2015.  During the a status hearing today, Sullivan warned that the failure to follow his order was serious and the IRS and Justice Department's excuses for not following his July 1 order were "indefensible, ridiculous, and absurd."  He asked the IRS' Justice Department lawyer Geoffrey Klimas, "Why didn't the IRS comply" with his court order and "why shouldn't the Court hold the Commissioner of the IRS in contempt."  Judge Sullivan referenced his contempt findings against Justice Department prosecutors in the prosecution of late Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) and reminded the Justice Department attorney he had the ability to detain him for contempt.  Warning he would tolerate no further disregard of his orders, Judge Sullivan said, "I will haul into court the IRS Commissioner to hold him personally into contempt."

Ted Stevens recap:
Same Plot, Different Actors.  [Scroll down]  In the Stevens case, the government suborned perjury, hid a critical witness for the defense, and suffered no consequences of note for that.  With Stevens out of the Senate, the Democrats rammed through ObamaCare before the serious misconduct of the FBI and DoJ attorneys was known, too late to provide solace to Stevens, who died in a plane crash before the truth was revealed.

Federal judge threatens to hold IRS chief in contempt.  A federal judge threatened to hold IRS Commissioner John Koskinen in contempt Wednesday [7/29/2015] after the IRS failed to produce, as ordered, newly recovered emails of former IRS official Lois Lerner.  U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan had ordered the IRS on July 1 to turn over Lerner emails on a weekly basis in response to a lawsuit by the watchdog group Judicial Watch.  The lawsuit focused on the 2013 scandal in which the IRS acknowledged agents had improperly singled out Tea Party and other conservative groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status during the 2010 and 2012 elections.

House Oversight Committee Details Case for Removal of IRS Commissioner.  House Oversight Republicans, led by Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) today called for President Obama to remove IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.  Under Koskinen's leadership, the agency has continually stonewalled the investigation into the Lois Lerner targeting scandal.  Years after the scandal first broke, the agency has done its utmost to bury the truth.  Taxpayers deserve a transparent and responsive government, but under Commissioner Koskinen the IRS has displayed unprecedented unaccountability.  Chairman Chaffetz vowed to explore all options to remove Commissioner Koskinen including impeachment and holding him in contempt of Congress.  As Chaffetz notes, the agency under Koskinen's leadership has failed time and time again to comply with Congressional investigators.

Barack's Great Gambit.  [Scroll down]  Last week the White House stepped in and attempted to put an end to the work of inspectors general.  It has ruled that inspectors general seeking to investigate their agencies will need permission from their agencies to lay hands on such things as wiretaps, grand justice testimony, and even credit information.  In other words, the agency about to be investigated by its inspector general is free to cooperate or not.  It clearly will render the inspector general toothless.

The Stonewall at the Top of the IRS.  Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen needs to go.  When it was revealed in 2013 that the IRS had targeted conservative groups for exercising their First Amendment rights, President Obama correctly called the policy "inexcusable" and pledged accountability.  He even fired the then-acting IRS commissioner because he said it was necessary to have "new leadership that can help restore confidence going forward."

Chaffetz asks Obama to fire IRS chief Koskinen for 'obstruction' of congressional probes.  The head of the top House investigative panel Monday called for the firing of IRS chief John Koskinen, arguing he has repeatedly "obstructed" congressional probes into the agency's political targeting of taxpayers.  Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Affairs, made his request Monday [7/27/2015] in a letter to President Obama, arguing the president vowed in 2013 to "work hand-in-hand with Congress to fix the problem."

The Editor says...
One might as well send a letter to Barack H. Obama asking him to immediately resign.  Asking corrupt politicians to do the right thing is like going to the airport and asking for a free ride to Hawaii.  It isn't gonna happen.

"We Need A Woman of Your Special Skills".  The woman who "discovered" all of those deleted emails at the IRS was the one person the State Department felt it had to have onboard to "vet" Hillary's emails?  I wonder why.

DOJ facing bipartisan criticism for move to 'undermine' gov't watchdogs.  The Justice Department is facing bipartisan criticism for clamping down on government watchdogs' access to documents, in a decision lawmakers say defies Congress and undermines those tasked with rooting out government misconduct.  The DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel issued a 68-page memo last week that said the department's inspector general would be required to get permission from the agencies it oversees to obtain wire taps, grand jury testimonies, and credit information.  IGs are assigned to audit and conduct internal reviews of federal agencies.  The decision, first reported in The Washington Post, faced an almost immediate backlash from Capitol Hill and the watchdogs themselves.

Obama administration cripples ability of Inspectors General to investigate corruption and fraud in government.  Department of Justice officials gave official approval Thursday [7/23/2015] to the FBI's practice of blocking access to data and documents in a decision that DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz said "undermines" his ability to do his job and violates the will of Congress.  "Today's opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel undermines the IG's independence, which is a hallmark of the Inspector General system and is essential to carrying out the IG's oversight responsibilities under the Inspector General Act," Horowitz said.

Obama administration restricts investigative powers of inspectors general.  The Obama administration formally announced that inspectors general will have to get permission from their agency heads to gain access to grand jury, wiretap and fair credit information — an action that severely limits the watchdogs' oversight capabilities, independence and power to uncover fraud.  An opinion, issued by the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, says the Inspector General Act of 1978 — which was written by Congress to create the government watchdogs in order to help maintain integrity within their agencies — does not have the authority to override nondisclosure provisions in other laws, most notably in regard to grand jury, wiretap or fair credit information.

The Hell That is the Obama White House.  Every sentient human being whose brain isn't stuffed with ideological fairy dust can see that Obama is behind every major scandal of his administration from Benghazi to the I.R.S. disgrace.  How can one know this?  Because the culprits haven't been fired.  Moreover, if they are serial liars like Susan Rice, they've actually been promoted to posts where their loyalty to the criminal-in-chief can do America and its citizens even more damage, if that is possible.  A president faced with a scandal created by underlings behind his back would be naturally furious at their misbehavior, and want heads to roll.  This didn't happen in any of these scandals because their point of origin was the White House itself.  Promoting the culprits is a way of keeping them quiet.

Democrats criticize government audit of Healthcare.gov.  Ordinarily you would think that members of Congress would be happy when the federal auditor, the General Accounting Office, reveals that a program is vulnerable to fraud of Biblical proportions. [...] If the program we're talking about is ObamaCare, you would be wrong.  It is the signature program of The LightWorker, their Precious, and therefore, it is beyond criticism.

The Rockefeller Fund Spent Millions to Make the Iran Deal Happen.  Behind every great act of appeasement is a whole lot of dirty money and political influence.  And some of the usual sources make their appearance here.

The Penumbra School of Law.  The administration at every level expresses its contempt for Congress and its legal obligations knowing the attorney general will never prosecute its wrongdoing. The most obvious at the moment involve record keeping by the IRS and Hillary Clinton.  As you'll recall, the IRS contributed to Obama's reelection campaign — perhaps even fixing its result — by denying his opponents the tax exemptions to which they were entitled.  Then it made up cockamamie excuses why it could not produce the email record evidence which they were legally obligated to preserve and produce.  Now it turns out that the records requested did exist and were destroyed after the agency was put on notice to keep and provide them to Congress.

IRS Deleted Hundreds of Back-up Tapes Containing Thousands of Lerner Emails After Congressional Subpoena Was Issued.  This used to be called obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence.  According to new information from the House Oversight Committee, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration [TIGTA] Russell George and Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Tim Camus, the IRS deleted hundreds of backup tapes containing thousands of emails belonging to former IRS official Lois Lerner, the woman at the center of the conservative targeting scandal.  The tapes were destroyed nine months after a congressional subpoena was issued to the agency demanding they be preserved and turned over.

Destruction of Evidence at the IRS.  [Scroll down]  Fox is told the hearing will definitively state there was a destruction of evidence 10 months after a preservation order for the emails was in place, 7 months after a subpoena was in place and 30 days AFTER the IRS realized there were potential problems locating the emails.  This destruction of evidence happened 22 days BEFORE the IRS Commissioner testified to Congress, in response to my questioning on March 26, 2015, that they had the documents and they would provide all of them to Congress.

House Republicans Considering Impeachment of IRS Head over Stonewalling in Lois Lerner Investigation.  House Republicans investigating the IRS's targeting of tea-party groups are seriously considering an effort to impeach IRS commissioner John Koskinen or other agency employees for "culpable misdemeanors" pertaining to the destruction of e-mails written by Lois Lerner, the former official at the heart of the scandal.  "We've briefed the leadership's counsel, and I think that they're open to it, but it's the type of thing where this town is like, 'oh, that's not how we do things, it's not really been used lately,'" a Republican member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee says.  "But, quite frankly, we really haven't had executive branch officials behave this way like we do now."

Exclusive — Ted Cruz: Obamatrade Enmeshed in Corrupt, Backroom Dealings.  The American people do not trust President Obama.  And they do not trust Republican leadership in Congress.  And the reason is simple: for far too long, politicians in Washington have not told the truth.  Both President Obama and Republican leadership are pressing trade promotion authority, also known as TPA, or "fast-track."  Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) both oppose it.  As a general matter, I agree (as did Ronald Reagan) that free trade is good for America; when we open up foreign markets, it helps American farmers, ranchers, and manufacturers.  But TPA in this Congress has become enmeshed in corrupt Washington backroom deal-making, along with serious concerns that it would open up the potential for sweeping changes in our laws that trade agreements typically do not include.

How did federal agency get $500M from stimulus? 'We misled Congress,' ex-official says.  On paper, it sounded like a true government success story:  The Social Security Administration in September opened a "state-of-the-art" data center in Maryland, housing wage and benefit information on almost every American, "on time and under budget."  However, six years after Congress approved a half-billion dollars for the project — the largest building project funded by the 2009 stimulus — a whistleblower says the center was built on a lie.  "We misled Congress," Michael Keegan, a former associate commissioner who worked on the project, told FoxNews.com.

FBI: DC Officials Sentenced For Fraud — Stealing Money To Fund President Obama 2009 Inaugural Ball.  Neil S. Rodgers, a former District of Columbia government official, was sentenced today [6/17/2015] to a period of incarceration and ordered to pay full restitution on a charge stemming from his role in channeling $110,000 in youth and drug prevention grant funds that were used to pay for an inaugural ball. [...] According to the government's evidence, Rodgers aided [Harry] Thomas in illegally securing funds for the 51st State Inaugural Ball, held on Jan. 20, 2009, at the Wilson Building.

D.C. Officials Stole $110K From Children's Program to Fund Obama Inaugural Ball.  Neil S. Rodgers, a former D.C. government official, was sentenced Tuesday [6/16/2015] for his role in the misappropriation of $110,000 earmarked for D.C.'s Children at Risk and Drug Prevention Fund to cover a deficit for the 51st State Inaugural Ball for President Obama's inauguration in 2009.  Rodgers, found guilty of fraud in March, was sentenced to 36 days (served on weekends) plus two years of probation.  Rodgers must also repay the entire $110,000 as restitution for his crime.

The Editor says...
There's a presidential pardon coming shortly, I presume.

The Obama Presidency — A Cacophony of Corruption.  Obama apologists have recently been trotted out en masse to absurdly portray the Obama presidency as an entirely scandal-free citadel of piety. [...] As Obama, himself, has insisted, there is not a "scintilla of scandal" to be seen.  If only it were so.  In fact, however, both in scope and scan, the Obama reign is arguably the most scandal-ridden presidency in American history.

'Scandal Ridden State Department' Faces Greater Congressional Oversight.  A bipartisan team of senators is pushing new legislation to ensure the Obama administration's "scandal-ridden State Department" comes under greater congressional oversight, particularly to ensure that it cannot hide instances of wrongdoing among employees, according to a copy of the new legislation.  Sens. Tim Kaine (D., Va.) and David Perdue (R., Ga.) introduced legislation that would force the State Department to undertake a series of reforms aimed at increasing transparency and ensuring oversight authorities have the ability to route out malfeasance among employees.

Watchdog Group Files FOIA Lawsuit for Records on DOJ Tax Attorneys Assigned to White House.  The watchdog group Cause of Action is suing the Justice Department for records on what is says are possible unethical disclosures of confidential taxpayer information to the White House, the organization announced Thursday [5/28/2015].  The group discovered in April that attorneys from the Justice Department's tax division, some of whom were also involved in litigation over the IRS targeting scandal, were being detailed to the White House to conduct background checks on potential executive nominees.

Obama's Link to Nonprofit Stirs Up Transparency Debate.  A charitable foundation connected to a president is facing criticism from watchdog groups about transparency and influence peddling.  No, it's not the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, which has come under fire over its donor disclosure, transparency standards and foreign donors as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton geared up for her 2016 presidential run.  Government watchdogs and transparency advocates say that President Barack Obama's involvement in the new My Brother's Keeper Alliance, a private-sector version of a government initiative he started in 2014, raises potential red flags about the millions of dollars in corporate pledges flowing to the new group.

White House denies Obama visit to Nike is favor for 'Let's Move' contribution.  The White House said Friday [5/1/2015] that President Obama's visit to Nike headquarters in Oregon next week is unrelated to the company's $50 million contribution to first lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign for kids.  Asked whether Nike's generosity was behind the White House's selection of the company for a presidential visit, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said "not that I'm aware of."  He said the president will visit the company to talk about free trade.

How Lois Lerner evaded charges.  Good soldiers in the Obama administration don't get indicted, thanks to other good soldiers.  And no doubt they get rewarded, too.

Immigration Customs Enforcement Director Sarah R. Saldana Tells Congressman: We Follow Obama Rules, Not The Law.  Those following the Obama Immigration Executive Action legal battles will note yesterday [4/15/2015] Congressman Young was asking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Saldana the exact same point outlined in Judge Hanen's rebuke of the White House.

DHS Official's Visa Intervention Explanation Just Doesn't Add Up.  One of the claims Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deputy secretary Alejandro Mayorkas made defending himself against recent accusations of improper intervention on behalf of politically-connected Democrats just doesn't add up.  Last week, DHS' inspector general (IG), John Roth, released a scathing report detailing Mayorkas' "unprecedented" intervention during his stint as director of U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) to help companies seeking approval for EB-5 visa applications.  USCIS whistle-blowers said they had never witnessed interventions like Mayorkas' and felt that they were politically motivated.

Energy Department Gives $259 Million 'Green' Conditional Loan to Politically Connected Corporation.  The Department of Energy's disastrous loan program lost taxpayers at least $780 million as companies like Solyndra, Fisker Automotive, and Abound Solar crashed and burned.  But as I write today, after a four-year hiatus, the Energy Department has announced a new fuel-efficient-vehicle loan — a $259 million conditional award to Alcoa.  It's a pretty sweet deal:  The Energy Department touts on its website how this loan program "offers attractive financing for U.S. auto industry," including no application fees, a closing fee of just 0.1 percent, and interest rates estimated at no more than 4 percent.  Of course, one might wonder why a company like Alcoa, which brought in $23.9 billion in revenue last year, needs government (read: taxpayer) help.  But it turns out Alcoa has major Obama administration ties.

Top Homeland Official Alejandro Mayorkas Accused of Political Favoritism.  Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tainted the image and integrity of the immigration program he oversaw by fostering "an appearance of favoritism and special access" in how the agency treated projects that would bring visas and Green Cards to wealthy foreign investors, a new report from the agency's Inspector General says.

Report: Va. governor received special treatment from Homeland Security.  Not long before he became governor of Virginia, Democrat Terry McAuliffe received special treatment on behalf of his electric-car company from a top official at the Department of Homeland Security, according to a new report from the department's inspector general.  McAuliffe was among several politically powerful individuals from both parties, including Sen. Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), seeking special visas for foreign investors through a program administered by the department.  But intervention on behalf of McAuliffe's GreenTech Automotive company by Alejandro Mayorkas, now the department's No. 2 official, "was unprecedented," according to the report.

Bloomberg: Don't forget that State had no independent IG under Hillary.  How did the State Department get away with so many failures during Hillary Clinton's leadership?  They ran a consulate in Benghazi with substandard security even for normal locations, let alone in the collapsed-state region of eastern Libya in 2011-12.  Hillary herself and her closest aides didn't use State Department e-mail systems despite both policy and legal requirements to do so.

Old Dogs Doing Old Tricks.  [Scroll down]  Much the same pattern [as in the Trayvon Martin case] followed in Ferguson, Missouri, this time bankrolled by the Democrats' left-wing big daddy George Soros.  "Hands Up Don't Shoot" was now the propaganda follow-up to kiddies in hoodies with Skittles.  Once again an innocent man's life was ruined, local law enforcement authorities slandered and the department continued the investigation after state justice procedures cleared Officer Wilson.  Residents of Ferguson have been left with far diminished real estate values, shops have been shuttered, and the community destroyed.  Even worse, in the continued disruption, two police officers were shot by one of the Don't Shoot gang.

IRS Shuts Down Program for the Poor to Fund Well-Heeled Liberal Groups.  Cancel a program that provides free help to low-income families and the elderly, and shift the money to well-connected interest groups with a terrible track record for customer service.  It sounds almost like the sort of thing a liberal caricature would acuse a heartless Republican of doing.  But in this case, that's just what the Obama administration has accomplished.

Obama Admin Kills Program That Helped Poor File Taxes, Sends Funding To Liberal Groups.  The Obama administration has quietly killed an IRS tax preparation program designed to help low-income and disadvantaged citizens, choosing instead to give millions of dollars to liberal groups for the same purpose.  Without fanfare, the administration has closed down the free walk-in services at hundreds of taxpayer assistance centers around the country.  Administration officials are now trying to steer the "face-to-face" help to volunteer community groups, some with political ties.  But one undercover inspection of those groups in 2013 revealed a 49 percent error rate.

EmailGate: First Lois Lerner, Then Hillary Clinton, Now Eric Holder. How Corrupt Is This Administration?  The mainstream media focus on Hillary, but she's merely one of many in the Obama administration who play fast and loose with the rules.  When running for office Obama promised his administration would be transparent, open and honest.  Instead, it seems that the U.S. is now governed by an administration more corrupt than Nixon's.

Hillary Clinton's Brother Granted Super-Rare Mining Permit from Haiti After State Dept. Sent Country Billions.  Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother, Tony Rodham, sat on the board of a self-described mining company that in 2012 received one of only two "gold exploitation permits" from the Haitian government — the first issued in over 50 years.  The tiny North Carolina company, VCS Mining, also included on its board Bill Clinton's co-chair of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), former Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive.

The Democrats' Thugocracy.  The Dem officeholders have been kept in line because someone is keeping a little list of all their little foibles.  It's a delightful system.  The Obama administration does nothing about corrupt acts by its supporters until the day that a supporter breaks ranks.  Then it's:  Nice little political career you got here.  Pity that something should happen to it.  Especially if you break with Mr. Big on his Iran policy. [...] It's a cunning scheme.  The boss winks at his Democratic rank-and-file whenever they breach the rules:  Hey, everybody does it!  But you note the violation down in your little black book, and when the time comes to twist an arm for a vote, you don't even need to break a sweat.

Obama hit for filling embassies with political allies, highest in 27 years.  Career diplomats are finding that they can't advance to top State Department posts such as ambassadorships because President Obama has stuffed political appointees into those jobs, the most ever in his second term.  "Yes, it's a problem," said Robert Silverman, president of the American Foreign Service Association.  "This is an ongoing struggle.  We need to maintain the ability for our top people to go straight to the top," he said.

Erroneous Government Ethics Document Filed After FEC Chairman Ann Ravel Takes Lavish Weekend Trip.  Federal Election Commission Chairman Ann Ravel enjoyed a $160-a-day rental car paid for by the California Political Attorney Association while she attended a seminar in Squaw Valley, California, travel documents reviewed by Breitbart News show. [...] According to Kayak.com — Reno location — standard rental cars start at $19 per day.  You can get a nice upgrade for $25 dollars [sic] per day.  Ravel also was subsidized $452 for her hotel and $355 for meals and registration.  The value of the two day trip was $1,417.37.

Obama administration stonewalls FOIA request on IRS targeting scandal.  It has been almost two years since the exposure of the IRS efforts to target conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status, and their donors. In the meantime, the Obama administration has done exactly nothing to hold IRS personnel accountable for their actions.

Transparency: 47 Inspectors General Denied Documents in Violation of Law.  Obama declared that his administration would be the most transparent ever in the same Orwellian spirit that ObamaCare was named the "Affordable" Care Act.  Trey Gowdy sounds the alarm on what "transparency" means to a lawless tyrant regarding documents that by law must be provided to inspectors general:  [Video clip]

Republicans claim payout from big-bank settlements being steered toward 'special interests'.  The separate deals were reached with the Justice Department in summer 2014, with Citigroup agreeing to pay $7 billion for misleading investors over mortgage-backed securities and Bank of America paying $16.65 billion for similar actions.  But of the $24 billion, roughly $150 million is tabbed for financial-counseling agencies — a category that includes liberal-leaning groups such as the National Council of La Raza.

Eric Holder: Politicize the Department of Justice, moi?  Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder seems determined to leave 'em laughing.  How else can we interpret his claim earlier this week that there has "been no politicization" of the Justice Department under his watch? [...] The Department of Justice's own Inspector General found that one office in that division "passed over candidates who had stellar academic credentials with some of the best law firms in the country" in order to hire others they preferred, a majority of whom came from just five advocacy organizations that are political allies of the Obama administration.

Justice Department watchdog report charges nepotism at Interpol office.  A new report by the Justice Department inspector general's office has claimed that the executive officer at Interpol's Washington D.C. office used his position to secure work for his son and other relatives and acquaintances.  In a report released Wednesday [2/4/2015], the Justice Department watchdog found that other high-ranking agency officials had also used their position to help get internships for people they know, contributing to what it called "a pervasive culture of nepotism and favoritism."

What is the Openness Administration Hiding?  In what must be the most under-reported story of the past year, some two thirds of the inspectors general in the government think the administration is stonewalling their lawful efforts to oversee government activities.  Three of them testified Tuesday [2/3/2015] before the House Oversight Committee, newly chaired by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah).  Many others were in the room.  In an August 2014 letter to Congress, 47 Inspectors General from across the administration — including major agencies like the Department of Commerce, the Department of HUD, the Department of Labor, and NASA — supported specific complaints by their fellow IGs in the Peace Corps, EPA and DOJ about foot dragging and lawyer-driven end-runs, and suggested the practice is pervasive.

The $500,000 Green Card: Obama, Clinton Kin Courted By Foreign Middlemen.  The obscure immigration program that helps wealthy foreigners get American Green Cards is proving profitable to some people with very familiar names.  Hillary Clinton's brother is involved.  So are powerful California politician Willie Brown and Chicago political boss Richard M. Daley.  One firm that helps wealthy Chinese gain access to the little-known immigration program even tried to recruit President Obama's half-brother, Mark Obama-Ndesandjo.

Eric Holder's Justice Department rocked by nepotism charges.  The head of a Justice Department law enforcement office used his position to secure a job for his son and other relatives, the agency's internal watchdog said Wednesday [2/4/2015], the latest in a string of reports that have repeatedly found examples of nepotism at the department.

Obama Adviser Podesta Caught Green-Handed In Major Ethics Violation.  In 2013, John Podesta was paid $87,000 by a shadowy foreign billionaire whose passion is preventing energy exploration on American land.  Just two years later, Podesta is a member of President Obama's inner circle, and the driving force inside the White House to block 12 million acres of land in Alaska's Artic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling.

HUD under the influence of lobbyists.  A top executive of a trade association that lobbies for local housing authorities was hired by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to regulate those same authorities — and was allowed to keep her paid job at the lobbying association at the same time.  HUD's Inspector General said the 2011 hiring of Debra Gross, deputy director of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, was an "inherent conflict of interest" in the same way it would be to hire an Exxon lobbyist to regulate oil companies.  Gross was a registered lobbyist for the group until 2009.

Tavenner Takes a Powder.  Marilyn Tavenner, the Obama administration official who presided over Obamacare's worst debacles and most devious deceptions, has finally made an intelligent decision — she resigned.  Tavenner ran the government bureaucracy responsible for the inept rollout of HealthCare.gov, the promulgation of phony PPACA enrollment figures, and the handout of legally dubious waivers to Democrat-friendly donors.  And, when Congress subpoenaed her emails — stop me if you've heard this one before — she discovered that they had somehow been deleted.

Obama Nominee to Elections Panel Helped Dem Group Skirt Massive IRS Fine.  President Barack Obama's nominee to a federal panel that oversees elections previously helped a top Democratic political group avoid a $5 million IRS penalty and worked to prevent the disclosure of the group's donors.  Matthew Butler, who Obama tapped for a seat on the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) in November, has made a career at highly partisan left-wing advocacy groups, including a stint as the chief executive of Media Matters for America, a pro-Hillary Clinton opposition research blog.  Critics of Obama's pick on the left and right say that Butler lacks any actual experience in monitoring or administering elections and will increase partisan divisions at the EAC.

Obama golf pal called 'hostile' witness in Chicago fraud case.  One of President Obama's close friends and regular golf buddies is caught up in a steamy legal case that dates back to the pocket-padding Blagojevich days, as prosecutors accuse him of being a hostile witness.  Prosecutors are trying to speak with Eric Whitaker in connection with a Chicago fraud case involving millions of taxpayer dollars from the former Blagojevich administration to a businessman who allegedly spent it on vacation homes, luxury cars and more.

Obama's Scandal-Tainted BCGB (Best Chicago Golfing Buddy).  In his "Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior," George Washington offered this sage advice:  "Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."  Too bad President Obama and his best Chicago golfing buddy (BCGB), Dr. Eric Whitaker, didn't heed our Founding Father's wisdom.  The duo's continued intimacy, as the stench of government corruption thickens around them, speaks volumes about our current commander in chief's reckless disregard for his reputation.

Obama pal Eric Whitaker stonewalls feds in grant-fraud case.  Dr. Eric E. Whitaker, one of President Barack Obama's closest friends, has refused to answer federal prosecutors' questions about whether he had a "sexual relationship" with a former aide who pleaded guilty to stealing $400,000 in taxpayers' money in a scheme that began when Whitaker was her boss at the Illinois Department of Public Health, court records show.  Prosecutors announced the bribery and theft charges against Quinshaunta R. Golden, who'd been Whitaker's chief of staff at the state agency, on Aug. 7, 2013.  The following day, Whitaker told reporters he was "fully cooperating" in the federal investigation.  In fact, prosecutors say, Whitaker already had stopped cooperating by then, [...]

A Transparent Conflict of Interest — Treasury Secretary Jack Lew Blocks White House/IRS Email Release.  Enough circumstantial information exists to speculate the information within the denied documents could outline collusion between the White House and the IRS — to formulate a list of political opponents for targeting.  The enforcement mechanism used for targeting includes the DOJ and various other government agencies (ATF, OSHA, EEOC, EPA Banking/Finance)[.]  According to the jaw dropping IRS letter — Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, interceded and blocked the FOIA discovery from being released.

Liberalism in Ruins.  [Scroll down]  Obama will go down in history as presiding over the most corrupt administration of the last half-century, when historians finally collate the IRS, VA, GSA, and Secret Service scandals; the erosion of constitutional jurisprudence; the serial untruths about Benghazi, amnesty, and Obamacare; the harassment of journalists; the record shakedown of Wall Street lucre in 2008 and 2012;and the flood of lobbyists into and out of the Obama administration.

EPA staffers linked to 'alleged serious misconduct,' agency reveals.  Eight Environmental Protection Agency employees who racked up a total of more than ten years' worth of paid "administrative leave" between 2011 and 2014 — valued at more than $1,096,000 — apparently did so because they were involved in "cases of alleged serious misconduct," Fox News has learned.  In a memorandum sent from EPA's acting assistant administrator, Nanci E. Gelb, to EPA's inspector general, Arthur Elkins — a draft also was given to Fox News — the agency has revealed that at least three of the affected employees have now left EPA.

Will 'Lost' IRS Emails Reveal A Corrupt White House?  Leaking taxpayer information to the White House isn't new, just as the email shell game in the IRS fiasco no longer shocks.  But the discovery of data "lost" on backup tapes may expose the extent of administration guilt.

Barack Obama: A Companion of Fools.  It seems that Barack Obama has a propensity to surround himself with some questionable friends. [...] Take for example one foolish companion the president walks with:  the prominent gay rights activist Terrence P. Bean, 66, who has been indicted for allegedly sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy.  At a 2009 Human Rights Campaign dinner, Mr. Obama called the alleged child molester a "great friend and supporter."  As a matter of fact, Obama's "great friend" Terrence has frequented the White House at least six times in the past couple of years.  An ardent and influential supporter of many prominent Democrats, in addition to visiting 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Bean has also been a guest of the president on Air Force One flying around at $181K an hour.

End the Media Blackout on Gay Rapists.  Liberal politics, not people, matter to our evil media.  That's precisely why they rush to their cameras, microphones and keyboards when news breaks about a pedophile Catholic priest having his way with altar boys.  Not because they care about the altar boys, but because they want to discredit the Catholic Church.  If you doubt that fact, ask yourself why you haven't heard much from the Mainstream Media about the recent arrest of 66 year-old Terrence Bean, charged with raping a 15-year old boy.  The answer is because Terrence isn't a Catholic priest.  Instead, he's the co-founder and on the board of directors of the homosexual organization ironically called the "Human Rights Campaign."

Network Silence: Obama Ally, Gay Activist Arrested for Child Sex Abuse.  Here's today's installment of "Imagine if this had been a conservative..."  As Newsbusters reported last week, the founder of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), which markets itself as the nation's largest LGBT rights organization, was arrested Nov. 18 for allegedly sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy.  Terrence Bean, 66, is a Democratic money man, prominent liberal activist and Obama ally.  Bean's 25-year-old former boyfriend was also charged in the crimes. [...] Since the story broke Wednesday [11/19/2014], local media and conservative media have covered it.  The Washington Post ran a brief AP story on the arrest, but the networks have yet to report on it.

Major Obama fundraiser arrested for sex with minor.  He's a mega bundler for President Obama. He's been on Air Force One.  He's shared a Christmas visit with Michelle Obama at the White House.  And now he's being accused of sex with a minor.  Terry Bean, 66, a gay activist and major Democratic fund-raiser, was arrested Wednesday in Portland, Ore., for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old boy.  Bean's ex-boyfriend, Kiah Lawson, 25, was arrested Thursday in connection with the same incident.

Top Obama bundler accused of child rape.  Conservatives complain that President Obama gets a free pass from the media, which acts as a de-facto public-relations shop for the Democrat in the White House.  Never has that charge seemed truer than now as an ugly rape scandal unfolds on the West Coast.  On Wednesday [11/19/2014], Portland, Ore. police arrested Terrence Patrick Bean, who has been charged with two felony counts of having sex with a minor last year.  This man is not just any old guy accused of having sex with a 15-year-old — he's a big-money Democratic donor and liberal political activist with connections inside the Obama White House.  Bean raised more than a half-million dollars for Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.

Obama Pal And Golf Buddy Eric Whitaker Accused Of Stonewalling Investigators.  The law may have finally caught up with longtime Obama friend and basketball buddy Eric Whitaker, who is close to being labeled a "hostile witness" in a Chicago corruption case.  Taking a page out of his powerful friend's playbook, Whitaker has been stonewalling the investigation according to prosecutors.

Secret Service Prostitute Investigator Reportedly Resigned for an Ironic Reason.  The man who was investigating the Secret Service prostitution scandal resigned back in August, The New York Times reports, because [...] he was caught up in a prostitution scandal of his own.

Report: Investigator in Secret Service prostitution scandal resigns.  The investigator who led the internal inquiry into the 2012 Secret Service prostitution scandal resigned in August, after he was implicated in his own incident involving a prostitute, according to a report from The New York Times.  Local law enforcement in Florida reportedly saw David Nieland, the investigator, going in and out of a building they were surveilling as part of a prostitution investigation.  The prostitute later identified Nieland as a client.

Investigator in Prostitution Scandal Quits.  The investigator who led the Department of Homeland Security's internal review of the Secret Service's 2012 prostitution scandal quietly resigned in August after he was implicated in his own incident involving a prostitute, according to current and former department officials.

The fevered political plague.  More worrisome than the cavernous competence gap is the politicization of every bureaucracy, even institutions charged with equal enforcement of laws, such as the Justice Department and IRS.

How The NSA Has Turned Into A Giant Profit Center For Corrupt Insiders.  Last week, two very important stories came out; one from Reuters and the other from Buzzfeed.  They both zero in on how current NSA employees are using their expertise and connections to make big money in the private sector while still working at the NSA.

Taking back America.  With its many scandals, including the Benghazi tragedy, the perverse "progressive" ideology of the Obama administration, combined with its deceitful and manipulative methods, has corrupted normally nonpartisan government agencies.  More importantly, it has infected the civilian and military leadership who lead their agencies.  The core of the corruption is an attitude that flaunts the Constitution and takes the position that the president can do anything he wants with a pen and a phone that promotes an agenda, regardless of its impact on the country's national security.

One Bad Apple: Obama and his Influence.  [Scroll down]  And look at the rest of his administration:  a DoJ that obstructs justice over and over and over.  An IRS that can conveniently "lose" important records.  A secretary of state who has covered up her involvement in one of the biggest tragedies to ever befall an American embassy.  I could go on and on.  Lying has become the way you play the game in Washington.  Has this falsehood-loving corruption flowed any further into American life?  Take a close look at Planned Parenthood and their willingness to hide what they're really up to.  Look at the quiet perfidy in the implementation of Common Core.

Ron Klain and Solyndra.  Ron Klain is a sharp-elbowed Democratic political operative with no medical expertise.  Tapping him as "Ebola czar" may not be the president's best move when, as it is, no one can believe a word the Obama administration says.  And that's not just because Mr. Klain is yet another lobbyist recruited despite Mr. Obama's vow that his administration would shun lobbyists.  Klain was also a central player in the president's Solyndra fraud, which soaked taxpayers for over half a billion dollars for the benefit of Obama cronies.

DOJ Fraud and Corruption Forces Federal Judge To Take Nuclear Option.  In perhaps the most stunning documentation yet of abuses by Eric Holder's Justice Department, two former Assistant United States Attorneys spoke to defense attorneys and revealed appalling deceit and corruption of justice.  This latest litigation time bomb has exploded from multi-million dollar litigation originally brought by the Department of Justice against Sierra Pacific based on allegations that the lumber company and related defendants were responsible for a wildfire that destroyed 65,000 acres in California.  In what was dubbed the "Moonlight Fire" case, the tables are now turned.  The defendants have discovered new evidence and filed a stunning motion.

Stunning federal corruption case moving forward with almost no media attention.  Corrupt federal prosecutors presenting false evidence in order to shake down a blameless corporation and bring in tens of millions of dollars seems like a pretty dramatic story.  Especially when former prosecutors support the charge and a chief judge acts on the allegations and takes dramatic action.  Yet the media silence is deafening.  Eric Holder's Justice Department is implicated in a dramatic and shocking case of alleged corruption that is so bad that the Chief Judge of the Eastern District of California has taken what can rightly be called the "nuclear option" and recused all the judges in the district from the case because they may have been defrauded by the DoJ prosecutors.

Government Case Implodes as Its Former Lawyers Allege Fraud Against Holder's DOJ.  The New York Observer reports that two former Assistant United States Attorneys say the Holder Justice Department engaged in deceit and corruption of justice in connection with the DOJ's litigation against Sierra Pacific Industries, a California lumber company.  As a result of the allegations, a federal district judge has ordered the recusal from the case of every judge in the Eastern District of California.  He reasons that the court may have been defrauded by the government, thus requiring the appointment of an outside judge to handle the matter going forward.

'The dog ate my emails'.  [Scroll down]  The most troubling recent instance of this has been at the Internal Revenue Service, where Lois Lerner, the official at the heart of allegations that the agency singled out conservative groups for harassment, has pleaded the Fifth Amendment and, conveniently, seen some of her email records destroyed.  You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to find the disappearance of such key documentary evidence suspiciously convenient for the embattled tax official.  Given that the missing documentation seems to have effectively put the brakes on any meaningful punishment for Lerner or her IRS colleagues, it should come as no surprise that similar lapses are now breaking out elsewhere in the federal government.

From Comedy to Farce.  [Scroll down]  But here is where the farcical kicks in.  The squelched investigation was focused on White House staffer Jonathan Dach.  And who is Dach?  He was at the time a young Yale law student and White House staffer, and is now a State Department activist working on — what else? — "Global Women's Issues."  And how did young Jonathan Dach at the ripe age of 25 years land such a prestigious job as a presidential advance man?  His father, Leslie Dach, was a lobbyist who gave the Obama campaign $23,900 and was later hired on to work with Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign.  And, of course, Leslie Dach now has left his job lobbying for Wal-Mart.  And where does he work now?  For the Obama administration.  Promoting what?  Obamacare.

Denver Census staffer brings data falsification to light.  A field supervisor in the Census Bureau's Denver region has informed her organization's higher-ups, the head of the Commerce Department and congressional investigators that she believes economic data collected by her office is being falsified.

Watchdog claims union's legal fight reveals ObamaCare fraud.  Non-profit group Southern United Neighborhoods got a $1.3 million federal grant in 2013 to serve as a "navigator," enrolling people in Affordable Care Act coverage.  The group subcontracted with United Labor Unions Local 100, which, according to Cause of Action, paid members less than it billed the government and, in some cases, paid them to recruit union members.  The watchdog group discovered the alleged discrepancy in court papers filed by union workers suing the labor organization for unpaid overtime.

A Culture of Incompetence.  Obama's left never accepts responsibility for anything.  Weaned on the sour milk of thuggish, tenured academicians and marinated in the surreal stew of lawyer-land, the odd creatures that infest our White House have no notion of work or honor or duty.  This manifests itself in different ways.  Mendacity has been elevated almost to a secular religion.  Obama, his officials, his armies of minor minions prevaricate with such aplomb that one wonders if they truly know when they are lying or telling the truth.  The disgraceful trail of obfuscations, dissimulations, and quarter-truths are invariably defended by the administration's flacks with the mantra "we have seen no evidence."  Of course we have not!  The evidence has been destroyed or hidden or lied about.

GSA Official in Las Vegas Conference Scandal Finally Gets Charged.  It only took four years for the feds to finally indict a high-ranking government official at the center of the General Services Administration's (GSA) scandalous Las Vegas conference that fleeced taxpayers out of a million dollars.  The lavish event, held by the GSA for its employees, featured luxury accommodations for staff and their loved ones, fine cuisine, wild parties and expensive gifts.  Adding insult to injury, dozens of agency workers were awarded cash bonuses for arranging the outlandish Sin City celebration.  Details of this atrocity were featured in a GSA Inspector General report published a few years after the exorbitant 2010 bash.

HUD Official Pleads Guilty To Stealing $843,000 In Taxpayer Funds.  Former Housing and Urban Development loan specialist Brian Thompson pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing $843,000 of taxpayer money in a wire fraud scheme.  Thompson was responsible for selling properties acquired by the government after borrowers defaulted on their HUD-guaranteed mortgages.  Specialists like Thompson were tasked with ensuring the sale of these properties at the best possible price to reimburse the government for taxpayer funds made to mortgage lenders for insured loans.  Instead, he funneled portions of the proceeds into bank accounts he controlled, netting himself $843,000 in the process.

More DHS Corruption and Bribery Surrounding Immigration Kickbacks.  A U.S. immigration officer was sentenced on October 3, 2014 to two and a half years in federal prison, for accepting bribes in the form of cash and egg rolls from applicants seeking citizenship and green cards.

IG: DOE Manager Created 'Hostile Work Environment,' Used Subordinates As Errand Boys.  A Department of Energy manager used government employees as his personal accountants, improperly accessed their private communications, and retaliated against subordinates who spoke out against the conduct, according to department watchdogs.  The manager's conduct amounted to routine violations of federal guidelines regarding the ethical conduct of government employees, according to a DOE inspector general report released on Friday [10/3/2014].  The report is light on details, citing the Privacy Act of 1974 in withholding specifics about the identities of the individuals involved and the office in which the conduct took place.

DOJ Doesn't Punish Crime Among Its Ranks.  The Department of Justice (DOJ) is responsible for enforcing the law, providing federal leadership in preventing crime and punishing those guilty of illegal behavior yet it allows its own officials to get away with all sorts of appalling crimes and transgressions.  As if this weren't bad enough, the DOJ also protects its perpetrators, covering up their name and allowing them to keep their lucrative government jobs.  Even the agency watchdog, which is charged with rooting out corruption, conceals crucial information about unscrupulous DOJ officials, including those in high-ranking positions.  Now a national newspaper chain offers insight into this astounding cover-up scheme with documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a federal law often used by Judicial Watch to expose government corruption.

NSA Won't Say If Official's Spouse Does Business With The Agency.  A large government contracting firm that appears to be doing or seeking business with the National Security Agency employs the spouse of one of the most powerful officials at the agency, according to corporate records, press releases, and company websites.  But the NSA has declined to address whether there is a potential conflict of interest or to disclose any information about contracts or the official's financial holdings.  The spouse, for years, has also had an intelligence technology company incorporated at the couple's suburban residence in Maryland.  The NSA official, Teresa H. Shea, is director of the Signals Intelligence Directorate, which means she oversees electronic eavesdropping for intelligence purposes.

Bombshell Emails: White House Coordinated With Department of Labor To Hide Illegal Obama Fundraiser Hilda Solis' Schedule.  The Department of Labor coordinated with the White House on whether or not to release hidden portions of former Labor Secretary Hilda Solis' schedule as Solis battled an FBI investigation into her illegal fundraising for President Obama.  New emails provided to The Daily Caller from the nonprofit legal research firm Cause of Action show the White House thanking the Department of Labor for "flagging" a public information request for "withheld" portions of Solis' schedule.

Misconduct at Justice Department isn't always prosecuted.  Dozens of Justice Department officials, ranging from FBI special agents and prison wardens to high-level federal prosecutors, have escaped prosecution or firing in recent years despite findings of misconduct by the department's own internal watchdog.  Most of the names of the investigated officials, even the highest-ranking, remain under wraps.  But documents McClatchy obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal for the first time a startling array of alleged transgressions uncovered by the department's inspector general.

The head of the IRS doesn't seem too concerned about laws.
IRS Commissioner: We Follow the Law 'Wherever We Can'.  In responding to a question from the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee Wednesday [9/10/2014], IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said he and his department follow the law "wherever we can."  House Ways and Means Committee Chair Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) asked Koskinen "Will you be following the law," in collecting money for a certain type of healthcare subsidy.  After Koskinen ducked the question, Brady asked again.  Koskinen then admitted:  "Yes, wherever we can, we follow the law."  A discouraged Brady chuckled while admonishing the commissioner saying, "I encourage you to follow the law in all instances."

IRS chief: 'Whenever we can, we follow the law'.  During another grueling hearing on the ObamaCare rollout, the head of the IRS tried to offer lawmakers an assurance about the soon-to-open enrollment period.  "Whenever we can, we follow the law," IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told the House Ways and Means subcommittee on health on Wednesday [9/10/2014].  Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas), who leads the subcommittee, immediately expressed his concern with the remarks.  "I encourage you to follow the law in all instances," Brady said.

Gut-Busting Hilarity: IRS Thug Koskinen Says 'Whenever we can, we follow the law'.  Uh, John, this isn't one of those things where you follow the law when it's convenient.  Might be difficult to fathom considering you work for a lawless punk.

Justice Department Stonewalling Internal Investigators.  The head investigator charged with overseeing the Department of Justice testified Tuesday [9/9/2014] that various government agencies have repeatedly stymied his investigation efforts, and have done so in direct violation of federal law.  Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General of the Department of Justice, was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on investigative access to government information.

Sebelius, Solis decline Issa invite to testify.  Two former Obama cabinet officials have declined to testify before the House Oversight Committee in its probe of the White House political office.  The news came late Friday in an angry statement from Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who blasted the officials for [shrinking] "from an examination of the facts."  "The White House's efforts to reconfigure its political office does not inoculate it from oversight of any prior wrongdoing or efforts to rectify these legal violations," Issa said.

GOP lawmakers say DOJ probe into IRS 'compromised,' demand special counsel.  House Republicans are calling on the Department of Justice to appoint a special counsel for its probe into the IRS targeting scandal, claiming new evidence shows the investigation is "compromised" due to multiple instances of conflict of interest.  One example, according to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan, involved a DOJ attorney representing the IRS in litigation relating to the scandal who used to work for the IRS and was involved in the targeting.  However, Monday night [8/25/2014] a DOJ source confirmed to Fox News that the employee in question, Andrew Strelka, "no longer works at DOJ."

'Extorting' Is the Word For Government Action Against Bank of America.  [Scroll down]  These huge bank settlements are election-year ATMs for the Obama administration.  It was $12 billion for JP Morgan, another $7 billion for Citigroup, and on and on.  It's a real shakedown.  No one even remotely knows how these penalty-payment numbers are calculated.  The federal government's disbursement of these funds is equally mysterious.  As the Wall Street Journal editorial page has pointed out, a lot of money has gone to states run by Democratic governors.

Judge rejects Obama administration secrecy on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac.  A federal judge has issued a stinging rebuke to the Obama administration's recent attempt to shield documents from disclosure in a case that could yield important clues about the Treasury Department's relationship with mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  Government lawyers had argued they could redact key information before releasing records to the public by saying the documents related to the "deliberative process."  But in a ruling last month, U.S. Federal Claims Court Judge Margaret M. Sweeney rejected that, saying the government was illegally cutting corners.

The Hell That is the Obama White House.  Every sentient human being whose brain isn't stuffed with ideological fairy dust can see that Obama is behind every major scandal of his administration from Benghazi to the I.R.S. disgrace.  How can one know this?  Because the culprits haven't been fired.  Moreover, if they are serial liars like Susan Rice, they've actually been promoted to posts where their loyalty to the criminal-in-chief can do America and its citizens even more damage, if that is possible.  A president faced with a scandal created by underlings behind his back would be naturally furious at their misbehavior, and want heads to roll.  This didn't happen in any of these scandals because their point of origin was the White House itself.  Promoting the culprits is a way of keeping them quiet.

The Peace Corps' Awful Secret.  Since 2008, Peace Corps Inspector General Kathy Buller has led internal investigations that have led to 21 criminal convictions for crimes such as rape, attempted rape, abuse of minors, embezzlement, theft and possession of narcotics.  She's a career watchdog, with nearly 30 years of experience in the inspector general community.  Buller charged the Peace Corps with employing procedures that have hindered her office's oversight efforts, and said the agency was not fully disclosing its sexual assault reports.

What to do about the politicization of the Attorney General's office.  The chief law enforcement officer of the United States is the Attorney General.  He/she is charged with the investigations and prosecutions of Federal crimes.  When there is corruption in the government, it is the Attorney General who is charged with ferreting out the corrupt and restoring integrity to the Federal government.  But what if the Attorney General selectively seeks out crimes to investigate?  What if the Attorney General turns a blind eye to those crimes and scandals that will discredit his political interests?  What if the Attorney General himself is corrupt?

Is it time to view the Obama administration as a criminal enterprise?  [C]onsider the steadily accumulating evidence about the Obama administration's modus operandi with potentially incriminating documents subpoenaed by Congress:  A scandal erupts.  Congressional hearings are held.  Documents are requested and withheld.  Subpoenas are issued.  Contempt charges threatened.  A few documents dribble out.  Then come the admissions that, oh by the way, emails required by multiple federal laws to be preserved have either been destroyed or "lost."  Over and over and over...  The latest example comes from the Department of Health and Human Services, which admitted Wednesday [8/6/2014] that hundreds of Obamacare emails subpoenaed in 2013 by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform were destroyed months ago.

5 Reasons Not to Trust the 'What Me Worry' Media About Ebola.  [#2]  The Obama Administration Lies[.]  In a situation where an Ebola outbreak could in some way hurt President Obama's popularity numbers or agenda, do I believe the Obama Administration is morally corrupt to the point where they would put politics above the safety of the public?  I'd tell you to ask our Libyan ambassador and three other foreign services workers that question, but they're all dead.  Were Ebola to creep over the Southern border in the form of an illegal immigrant, that could hurt this Administration's push to legalize 11 million Democrats.  There is no doubt in my mind, the Administration would cover this up for as long as it could.

How the Obama Administration Has Actually Broken the Law Hundreds of Times.  Nearly half of the Obama administration's 4,000 regulations since 2012 were illegally imposed by skipping the required congressional review, the Washington Post reported — and there's not much Congress or the courts can do about it.  Under the 1996 Congressional Review Act, most federal administrative rules are supposed to be reported to the House and Senate and to the Government Accountability Office.  The idea was to give Congress the opportunity to take action before the rule goes into effect.  That same law also barred such rules from judicial review.  Curtis Copeland, a retired Congressional Research Service staffer, examined how many rules issued since 2012 were not reported to Congress and the GAO.  He found that out of about 4,000 rules, more than 1,800 were not properly reported.

House Committee Investigating FCC Waiver to Obama Donor.  A House committee will investigate the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) decision to allow a waiver granting favorable status in wireless auctions to an Obama donor, the committee announced Thursday [7/31/2014].  Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Fred Upton (R., Mich.) sent a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler asking for information and documents relating to the designation of Grain Management, LLC as a "designated entity" last week.  The status will allow the company to receive discounts designed for small businesses when bidding for wireless licenses.  David Grain, a major bundler for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, owns the firm.

Obama remains confident in CIA head John Brennan despite Senate spying.  President Obama remains confident in CIA Director John Brennan's leadership despite an independent investigation that concluded that the agency had overreached its authority by spying on Senate staffers.  White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the findings had not diminished Brennan's standing in the administration.  When asked whether it damaged his authority or credibility in any way, Earnest said:  "Absolutely not."

CIA confesses: Yeah, we hacked the Senate's computers.  In March, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) revealed that CIA Director John Brennan told her that the intelligence agency he leads had improperly accessed Senate computers and secretly removed classified documents while the agency's War on Terror interrogation tactics were under investigation.  Feinstein alleged that Brennan told her the CIA took that action because the agency believed the Senate might have accessed documents that they were not authorized to see.  In a statement, Brennan said the Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman had leveled "spurious allegations about CIA actions that were wholly unsupported by the facts."  While he confessed that the agency had made mistakes, the CIA director insisted that there was no merit to the charge that the agency had spied on members of Congress.

Despite Brennan's Lying and Usurpation of Law, President Obama Gives Strong Vote of Confidence In CIA Director John Brennan.  President Obama issued a strong defense of CIA Director John Brennan on Friday in the face of revelations that his agency spied on congressional staffers' computers.  "I have full confidence in John Brennan," Obama said in a White House press conference.

Does John Brennan Know Too Much for Obama to Fire Him?  It's difficult to cross man with details on every secret drone strike you've authorized — especially the legally dubious ones.

Government corruption on the rampage.  The Obama administration is arguably the most corrupt administration in U.S. history. Corruption destroys civil society and economic growth by undermining the rule of law and protection of private property.  Corruption takes many forms, from the simple payment to a government official for a favor, to the failure of government employees to do what they are paid to do, to gross abuse of power.  The president and his senior officials swear to uphold the Constitution and the law — which means following the law as written, and not as they wish it were written.  The failure to apply equal justice to all citizens is a major form of corruption and has been blatant in Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s "Justice Department."  Crimes by members or friends of the administration are ignored — just consider the lack of action against employees of the Internal Revenue Service who obviously broke the law in many cases.

Tenured Partisans.  Something has gone wrong in our civil service.  Consider some recent developments.  The IRS was forced to pay the National Organization for Marriage $50,000 for leaking the group's donor list.  Tea-party organizations and donors were much more likely than others to be audited by the IRS.  This misbehavior was not the work of a few rogue employees in Cincinnati.  In general, the IRS stalled tea-party applications for status as 501(c)(4) groups.  Meanwhile, April Sands, an employee of the FEC, recently pleaded guilty to violating the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from campaigning at the office.  Ms. Sands, who worked in the office charged with enforcing our election laws, recently said, "I just don't understand how anyone but straight white men can vote Republican."  What business does such a person have in that office in the first place?  Somehow the FEC managed to wipe her computer clean, weakening the case against her.  Perhaps that answers our question.  These cases reflect a larger pattern.

At 4, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is still unaccountable.  Four years ago, the big-government liberals got the agency of their dreams, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  It was the brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who was a Harvard law professor in real life and a Cherokee Indian in her dreams before she was elected to the U.S. Senate.  There she beats the drums for the bureau to serve as a "cop on the beat" to protect consumers from undisciplined capitalism.  The bureau is mired in undisciplined corruption.  Created through the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street regulation act, the bureau was crafted with uniquely undemocratic features.  The bureau pays its bills by drawing funds directly from the Federal Reserve, bypassing Congress.  It was set up this way to ensure it would operate as a fiefdom free from congressional scrutiny, and it shows.

Lerner Associate: "I Don't Understand How Anyone But Straight White Men Can Vote Republican".  Which brings us to the case of April Sands, an employee at the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), who struck a deal with the agency's Inspector General to avoid criminal charges related to running afoul of the Hatch Act on numerous occasions.  She has openly confessed to breaching federal law as part of her effective plea bargain, but investigators were unable to probe a potential goldmine of incriminating activity:  Her email.  Why?  You guessed it; her hard drive crashed, supposedly wiping out her email records, and resulting in the FEC recycling (i.e., destroying) the hard drive.  Sounds familiar.  Did I mention that Ms. Sands worked under Lois Lerner when Lerner served as the agency's Associate General Counsel for Enforcement?

Lois Lerner's Former FEC Colleague Has Emails Go Missing Too.  The Federal Election Commission recycled the computer hard drive of April Sands — a former co-worker of Lois Lerner's — hindering an investigation into Sands' partisan political activities, according to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. [...] One of Sands' tweets, from June 4, 2012 read "I just don't understand how anyone but straight white men can vote Republican.  What kind of delusional rhetorical [sic] does one use?"  Sands is a black female.  "Dear every single Republican ever, When will U learn that Barack Hussein Obama is simply smarter than U?  Stand down, Signed #Obama2012 #p2," Sands wrote on May 1, 2012.  In a message from Aug. 25, 2012, Sands called Republicans her "enemy."

White House asks Darrell Issa to drop subpoena.  The White House is asking Rep. Darrell Issa to withdraw a subpoena of a senior adviser to President Barack Obama and is offering instead to hold a private briefing on activities in the administration's political affairs office.  In a letter sent Monday [7/14/2014], White House Counsel W. Neil Eggleston offered to brief Issa, a California Republican who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on the role of the the Office of Political Strategy and Outreach on Tuesday.  That's one day before the office's director, David Simas, is under subpoena to testify on potential violations of the Hatch Act.

The Democrats' War on Children.  Central American children are pawns in the Democratic Party's pursuit of political advantage through an open Southern border. [...] The Obama regime's official complicity in promoting the flow of unaccompanied, undocumented children entering the U.S. lacks the same degree of transparency associated with the civilian deaths in Mexico due to Eric Holder's Fast & Furious gun-running, the White House's involvement in the IRS Scandal, and the deaths of Americans in Benghazi.  None of the above is likely to ever be fully parsed.

GOP House committee chairman subpoenas White House political chief over claims Obama staffers are doing campaign work with taxpayer funds.  House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chair Rep. Darrell Issa sent his latest subpoena to the Obama administration on Friday [7/11/2014], demanding testimony from the director of a controversial White House office reportedly tasked with political work on taxpayers' dime.  David Simas, the director of the White House Office of Political Strategy and Outreach, has refused to testify voluntarily but will be required to answer questions in a July 16 hearing on Capitol Hill.  President Barack Obama closed the White House Office of Political Affairs in 2011, just days before an Office of Special Counsel report warned that it risked 'transforming from an official government office into a partisan political operation.'  But the president reopened the office six months ago under a new name as Democrats began to gear up for a contentious midterm election fight.

IRS worker suspended for pro-Obama activities.  The employee, whose name wasn't mentioned in the announcement from the Office of Special Counsel, admitted to using his job for political purposes and agreed to the settlement that involved a 100-day suspension.  "OSC's complaint alleged that, when fielding taxpayers' questions on an IRS customer service help line, the employee repeatedly urged taxpayers to re-elect President Obama in 2012 by delivering a chant based on the spelling of the employee's last name," the investigative office said.  The OSC also announced a U.S. Postal Service employee was fired after he ran for seats in Congress and solicited donations to his campaign, violating the Hatch Act that limits government employees' ability to get involved in politics.

Double standard? Pro-Obama IRS worker suspended, postal employee fired for political violation.  A federal agency announced two disciplinary actions this week against federal workers for violating a law that limits political activity.  But while one of them — a now-former Postal Service worker who committed the apparent sin of running for Congress — was fired, the other — an IRS worker who used taxpayer resources to promote President Obama's 2012 candidacy — faces only a suspension.  Now the ex-Postal Service worker in question, Illinois resident and congressional candidate Marcus Lewis, is slamming the federal government for stripping him of his livelihood by "selectively enforcing" the law.  "What happened to me is not only unfair, it's ungodly," he told FoxNews.com.

Obama political donor leading Justice Department's IRS investigation.  Two Republican lawmakers and a conservative legal group are crying foul over the Justice Department's selection of a Democratic donor to lead the agency's investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of advocacy groups during the 2010 and 2012 election cycles.  House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) issued a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday [7/9/2014] saying DOJ trial attorney Barbara Bosserman's involvement is "highly inappropriate and has compromised the administration's investigation of the IRS."  They asked that the department remove her from the case.

Obama's Scandal Playbook.  Since Obama took office in 2009, we've witnessed Operation Fast and Furious, Benghazi, Department of Justice spying on reporters and their families, IRS targeting of conservatives, the HealthCare.gov debacle, the GSA conference scandal, Solyndra, veterans dying as a result of secret wait lists within the Department of Veterans Affairs, and many, many more. [...] Obama's White House has not weathered these storms through luck alone.  They have a well-thought[-]out, well-used playbook designed to lie to the American people, protect administration officials, and to avoid accountability or criminal prosecution.

Does Barack Obama Understand The Constitution?  The obvious answer is impeachment — but that is not a solution to the constitutional overreach of Barack Obama.  Even setting aside the optics of making the first African-American president the first president to be impeached and removed, the reality is that removal will not happen.  After all, as demonstrated by the quotes from Senators Melendez and Durbin, the very senators whose duty is to vote for Obama's removal in order to defend the constitutional prerogatives of Congress are acting as cheerleaders for his usurpation of congressional power.

WH Counsel Can't Name One Person She Worked With During 6-Month Stint at IRS.  White House attorney Jennifer O'Connor testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Tuesday that she couldn't recall who she worked with during her six months at the IRS.  Before working for the Office of White House Counsel, O'Connor worked for the IRS from May 2013 to November 2013 to help the agency deal with the IRS scandal.

Dems Fawn Over IRS Commissioner Who Contributed Over $85,000 to Their Committees, Candidates.  IRS Commissioner John Koskinen contributed more than $85,000 to Democratic candidates and committees, MRCTV research has discovered — with a $5,000 donation to President Obama in 2012 and $19,000 to the Democratic National Committee from 1988 to 2008.  This may explain the fawning "thank yous" Koskinen received for his public service from many Democrats last night on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Declarations Of War.  [Scroll down]  I cannot remember an exchange between an appointed Cabinet official and an elected federal legislator that's remotely comparable to these.  Commissioner Koskinen's arrogance and defiance are unprecedented.  He appears unconcerned with what might follow his open refusal to cooperate with the investigation, the most important such since Teapot Dome.  No appointee concerned with his tenure in his position would exhibit such an attitude except after having secured assurance of protection against any significant penalty.  Such protection could only issue from higher up in the Administration:  specifically, from the White House.

An arrogant and lawless IRS.  If there was any political motivation for this abuse of power, it is a form of corruption — the kind of thing Americans like to criticize in countries they regard as less developed.  And the circumstantial evidence is strong.  This wave of heightened IRS scrutiny came after Democratic senators, warning of possible abuses spawned by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, demanded additional IRS scrutiny of nonprofit political groups.  Because evidence of political influence is both plausible and circumstantial, a special counsel is needed to sort out the truth.

The Golden Days of Government under Emperor Obama.  We have seen the Obama Administration routinely review its own actions for illegality — Eric Holder, for example, conducted a vigorous inquiry into the possible lawless behavior of Eric Holder.  This, as you know, was the ultimate chessmatch between investigator and target, a battle of two masters.  It was like a game of wits between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarity, if both were corrupt and both were dullards.  But in case you think that's a case of favoritism for the high-ranking officials in the Obama Administration, Think Again, Buddy.  The policy is extended downwards to mid-level managers, too.

Obama Megadonor Indicted for Fraud, Manslaughter.  Well, that's fun: an Obama megadonor, who donated over a million dollars to an Obama PAC in 2012 and dozens of other Democrat donors, was just indicted on a smattering of charges, including fraud (for running a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme), and, uh, manslaughter.

Shadowy Obama Megadonor Indicted On Fraud And Manslaughter Charges.  A California grand jury has indicted Kareem Ahmed, a major donor to President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, and 15 of Ahmed's associates in an alleged multimillion-dollar insurance kickback scheme.

IRS says it cannot locate Lois Lerner emails prior to 2011.  The Internal Revenue Service told Congress Friday it has lost a trove of emails to and from Lois Lerner, a central figure in the agency's Tea Party controversy, sparking outrage from congressional investigators who have been probing the agency for more than a year.  The IRS said it cannot locate many of Lerner's emails prior to 2011 because her computer crashed during the summer of that year.

The Editor says...
First of all, her email messages don't reside on her computer.  Her email resides on a server somewhere, and the servers, if they are managed properly, have backup files stored at yet another location.  (Ask Oliver North how that works.)  But even if this latest excuse is valid, this is all surprisingly convenient, isn't it?

More about Lois Lerner's very convenient computer crash.

No one fired in outing of CIA official; leak ruled inadvertent.  An investigation into the outing of the CIA's top intelligence official in Afghanistan last month determined the leak was inadvertent.  No one was disciplined or fired, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Wednesday [6/11/2014].  When pressed on who was responsible for revealing the name to some 6,000 journalists, Earnest said the White House was focused on changing procedures, rather than one specific misstep.

Prosecute the President.  This is not just executive overreach.  In many cases, Obama's exercise of authoritarian power is criminal.  His executive branch is responsible for violations of the Arms Export Control Act in shipping weapons to Syria, the Espionage Act in Libya, and IRS law with regard to the targeting of conservative groups.  His executive branch is guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Benghazi and in the Fast and Furious scandal, and bribery in its allocation of waivers in Obamacare and tax dollars in its stimulus spending.  His administration is guilty of obstruction of justice and witness tampering.  And yet nothing is done.

White House: Release of CIA Official's Name 'Inadvertent,' No Punishments.  The White House said it determined that the release of the name of the CIA station chief in Afghanistan was unintentional and said they don't know of any disciplinary action that has been taken.  The station chief's name was fed to the White House press pool in a list of people meeting with President Obama on his recent trip to Afghanistan.  White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters yesterday that the protocol is for the lead press contact to clear names with National Security Council staff before releasing to the media.

Ben Shapiro: Obama Administration 'A Criminal Enterprise Like The Mafia'.  ["]There are tons of charges can be brought against the Obama administration.  But I'm arguing here is this is really a criminal enterprise like the mafia.  Basically, President Obama never has to give a direct order.  All he has to do is sit atop of the chain of command and then let all of his minions do whatever it is that he wants.  This is why the RICO Act was created — is to wrap all of this kind of stuff in a bundle and then allow for prosecution.["]

Senator: Clinton State Dept. Broke Law, Lied About Boko Haram Terror Threat.  A leading senator has charged that Hillary Clinton's State Department broke the law by intentionally obfuscating and downplaying to Congress the terror threat posed by the Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram, which recently gained international infamy for violently kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls.  Sen. David Vitter (R., La.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, petitioned Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday to explain why Clinton's State Department misrepresented and downplayed key information about Boko Haram's terrorist activities in its annual reports to Congress.

Office of Special Counsel Investigating 37 Cases of Whistleblowers Being Punished For Whistleblowing.  If you lie the way they want you to, you get promoted.  If you tell a truth they don't want out, you get suspended, reassigned, or fired.

Judge Orders NSA To Stop Destroying Evidence — For The Third Time.  U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White's ruling came at the request of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is in the midst of a case challenging NSA's ability to surveil foreign citizen's U.S.-based email and social media accounts.  According to the EFF, the signals intelligence agency and the Department of Justice were knowingly destroying key evidence in the case by purposefully misinterpreting earlier preservation orders by multiple courts, multiple times.

It's Totally Normal That Joe Biden's Son Works for a Ukrainian Energy Company.  The inauguration of Petro Poroshenko as Ukraine's new president was Europe's biggest story today [6/7/2014].  The billionaire confectioner promised to bring Ukraine closer to Europe and the West.  He also had some tough words about Crimea, which he delivered in the presence of Mikhail Zurabov, the recently restored Russian ambassador to Ukraine.

Report: Ex-Interior Department official steered federal awards to friends.  President Obama's only Cabinet-level official from the U.S. territory of Guam steered federal contracts to friends, engaged in discrimination and sexual harassment, requested and received personal favors from subordinates and benefitted personally from taxpayer-funded trips, according to a watchdog report.  The review by the Interior Department's inspector general largely substantiated allegations from agency employees against Anthony Babauta, who resigned in January as assistant secretary for Interior's Office of Insular Affairs.

GSA exec with top-secret clearance didn't disclose China trip, past felonies.  Top General Services Administration officials learned of a troubling discovery by the agency's watchdog office back in December:  a GSA executive responsible for intelligence agency customers had gone to China a year earlier without telling anyone.  The official not only held a top-secret compartmented information clearance that required him to report the trip, he failed to disclose decades-old felony arrests or report multiple contacts with foreign nationals, according to a Dec. 6, 2013, memo from the GSA Office of Inspector General to the agency's top acquisition and human resources officials.

Obama fundraiser, donor sat on boards of federal subsidy agency — and a finance company it subsidized.  James Torrey of Greenwich, Conn., has bundled more than $1 million for Barack Obama's presidential runs, is a huge donor to Democratic Senate campaigns (including Obama's 2004 race) and gave about $80,000 combined to Obama's 2008 and 2012 presidential races.  This couldn't have hurt his appointment to the board of directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corp. — a federal agency that subsidizes U.S. businesses investing in foreign countries.  Torrey is also on the board of the microfinance company MicroVest. After Torrey joined OPIC's board, MicroVest went from being a moderate customer of OPIC to a leading recipient of OPIC subsidies:  $57 million in taxpayer-backed financing and another $20 million in OPIC-provided insurance.

Retired officers poised to profit after Pentagon's alarmist climate change report.  Retired military officers deeply involved in the climate change movement — and some in companies positioned to profit from it — spearheaded an alarmist global warming report this month that calls on the Defense Department to ramp up spending on what it calls a man-made problem.  The report, which the Obama administration immediately hailed as a call to action, was issued not by a private advocacy group but by a Pentagon-financed think tank that trumpets "absolute objectivity." The research was funded by a climate change group that is also one of the think tank's main customers.

White House Sued Over Possible Hatch Act Violations.  A watchdog group is suing the Obama administration for records on an investigation into possible Hatch Act violations by former White House staff members Rahm Emanuel and Jim Messina.  Judicial Watch announced Thursday it has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) for records on its investigation into former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina, whom the watchdog group alleges used their positions as high-level administration officials in 2009 to affect federal elections.  The Hatch Act states that an employee may not "use his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election."

When Obama Resigns.  Despite the best efforts of the mainstream media and the political establishment to protect Barack Obama, they can no longer hide the incompetence and criminality of the most divisive and sordid administration in American history.  Former National Security Council Spokesman Tommy "dude, this was like two years ago" Vietor is the poster boy of the Obama Administration; a collection of inexperienced, emotionally immature ideologues, whose "the ends justify the means" mentality permits them to tell any lie, violate any law and indifferently sacrifice lives as long as it serves their political objectives.  This bungling and scandal-prone gaggle of amoral nitwits, led by a talking teleprompter, survives only because the extent of their dishonesty is matched by that of the political-media establishment and the public's inexplicable willingness to tolerate it.  It is, in fact, explainable.  Just as certain banks were "too big to fail," Barack Obama is, quite simply, too corrupt to fail.

Obama's attack on the independence of inspectors general.  Inspectors general are the taxpayers' policemen.  Their beat is the corridors of the bureaucracy, which they patrol for waste, fraud, abuse and even crime.  This often puts them at odds with a president, his administration and his congressional allies.  Not long after settling into the White House, President Obama fired Gerald Walpin, the inspector general for AmeriCorps, because he had exposed a scam involving a close presidential friend.  Mr. Walpin filed a report about the misuse of $847,000 in grant money by Kevin Johnson, the mayor of Sacramento, Calif.  Mr. Johnson, a former NBA star, was accused of using government cash to pay "volunteers" to keep his car sparkling clean and to run personal errands.  The firing of Mr. Walpin sent a clear signal to his colleagues:  Investigate a friend of the president, and you'll be looking for a new job.  Many got the message.

More about the firing of Mr. Walpin.

Voter Fraud: An Existential Threat to America.  It is difficult to describe the enormity of the crime being committed by the Obama administration and their Democratic allies.  They flagrantly flout the law, while simultaneously turning it into a weapon against political opponents, use government agencies to target innocent Americans, attempt to create legal voters through amnesty, and undermine voter integrity measures to facilitate vote fraud, while denying it even exists.  In short, they are corrupting the entire process.

Obama's war on watchdogs.  A Senate report last week revealed that the Obama administration utterly debilitated the inspector general for the Homeland Security Department.  Charles Edwards, the acting IG from early 2011 till last December, toadied to Obama appointees at every opportunity — stifling reports, deleting damning findings and boasting of his chumminess with agency chieftains.  Unfortunately, torpedoing oversight of the federal government's largest nonmilitary department fits the administration's template of suppressing evidence of its debacles far and wide.

Was Obama Hiring of Criminal Lawyer Due to Benghazi E-mails?  On April 29, Judicial Watch announced that it had obtained the "smoking gun" e-mail on April 18, 2014 — days before Obama announced that Neil Eggleston would replace Kathryn Ruemmler as White House counsel to the president. [...] Is the Obama administration simply gearing up for battle due to myriad unconstitutional and possibly illegal activities?  Eggleston will certainly have his hands full after the last six years.

Federal Election Commission Lawyer: Politicking for Obama on Taxpayer Time.  A lawyer for the Federal Election Commission has resigned after being found to have engaged in prohibited political activity to help President Obama's reelection on government time.  The Federal Election Commission is the agency charged with regulating campaign finance for the presidential campaigns and serving as a purportedly neutral federal agency. [...] The Hatch Act prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activity on government time or using government resources to aid the election of candidates.  The most serious penalty possible for violation of the Hatch Act is loss of federal employment.

Here's a shocker:
New Evidence Shows DHS Official 'Politically Influenced' by White House.  Evidence has come to light linking former DHS watchdog Charles Edwards to a White House agenda.  Sec of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson has put Edwards on leave, after a Senate Oversight Subcommittee revealed that, "The employee was too cozy with senior agency officials and delayed or classified some critical reports to accommodate President Barack Obama's political appointees."  Edwards was the former Deputy Inspector General of The Dept of Homeland Security.

Obama's Dirty Watchdogs.  The Obama administration doesn't have watchdogs.  It has whitewash puppies.  The president's Chicago bullies have defanged true advocates for integrity in government in D.C. from day one.  So the latest report by the Senate Homeland Security and Government Operations Committee on corruptocrat Charles K. Edwards, the former Department of Homeland Security inspector general, isn't a revelation.  It's confirmation.  Investigators found that Edwards compromised the independence of his office by socializing and sucking up to senior DHS officials.

Probe: DHS watchdog cozy with officials, altered reports as he sought top job.  The top watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security altered and delayed investigations at the request of senior administration officials, compromising his independent role as an inspector general, according to a new report from a Senate oversight panel.  Charles K. Edwards, who served as acting DHS inspector general from 2011 through 2013, routinely shared drinks and dinner with department leaders and gave them inside information about the timing and findings of investigations, according to the report from an oversight panel of the Homeland Security and Government Operations Committee.

Fraud runs rampant in Census Bureau.  There's a pattern of falsifying statistics throughout the entire Census Bureau.  And anyone who attempts to blow the whistle on the fraud is either retaliated against or ignored, according to two new sources who have experienced the process firsthand.  As I've been writing for more than six months, the Census Bureau office in Philadelphia uncovered a case of fraud in 2010, did nothing about it and allowed the practice to continue.  In that instance, a data collector named Julius Buckmon was faking reports that went into the nation's all-important jobless tally and consumer-inflation survey.

Obamacare: Sicker than we thought.  [Scroll down]  And the Census Bureau, which the Obama administration hijacked and dragged into the White House, making it potentially a house organ, like MSNBC, has announced that it's changing the way it questions folks about their health insurance status.  That means, no matter the reality, Census Bureau statistics will show a drop in the number of uninsured.  "We are expecting much lower numbers just because of the questions and how they are asked," Brett J. O'Hara, chief of the health statistics branch at the Census Bureau, told the New York Times.

Barack Obama and the politics of lies.  Since it became painfully clear in 2013 that Obama had lied about Obamacare since 2009, it has been increasingly difficult for many Americans to continue accepting at face value his statements on other major public issues.  In both the Benghazi and IRS scandals, for example, Obama claimed to have known nothing about them until they were reported in the national media.  But if that were true, why has the president's attorney general and so many other of his most prominent appointees withheld thousands of documents subpoenaed by Congress and requested by journalists under the Freedom of Information Act?  Are there passages in those withheld documents that make it clear Obama knew much more than he has admitted?

Emails Show Corruption At [the] Heart Of [the Obama] Administration.  The newly released emails were gathered for a Freedom of Information Act request by Judicial Watch, a nonpartisan public interest law group.  They show that former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner discussed with the Justice Department going after conservative groups that she believed lied about their political activities.  What's shocking is that this discussion came just days before Lerner acknowledged that the IRS had investigated tea-party and other conservative groups but insisted that it was an isolated incident conducted by low-level officials in the IRS' Cincinnati office.

Obama's thug administration.  One of the hallmarks of the Obama administration is that it is among the most corrupt administrations in living memory. [...] The Obama Administration isn't the first in American history that secured power through corruption.  However, it is very likely the most criminally corrupt administration in this nation's vaunted history.  Its slick progressive veneer is slowly eroding to reveal its fascist intentions.  It must be stopped and individuals like Obama, Holder and their loyal lackeys must be driven from public life.

Ted Cruz: Congress Should Impeach Eric Holder If He Takes No Action on IRS Targeting Scandal.  On the day the House Oversight Committee held Lois Lerner in contempt, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Congress should impeach Attorney General Eric Holder if he does not indict those like Lerner for their roles in the IRS's targeting of conservative groups.  In a Thursday appearance on Sean Hannity's radio program, Cruz said Holder should be impeached for "defying Congress and the rule of law."

DHS officials broke hiring rules, watchdog alleges.  Top hiring officials at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency broke federal civil service laws when they tried to hire three politically connected but unqualified candidates who were favored by the agency's then-commissioner, a government watchdog charged Tuesday.  The human resources office was warned that choosing the candidates, political appointees who worked on President Obama's 2008 campaign and were then hired at the Department of Homeland Security, CBP's parent agency, would circumvent laws designed to create a fair competition for federal jobs.

Sen. Sessions: 'Deliberate Plan by President' to Collapse U.S. Law Enforcement System.  Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said today that Americans need to stand up to "a deliberate plan by the president of the United States" to collapse the nation's law enforcement system regarding illegal immigration.  "Our law enforcement system is in a state of collapse, and it's a deliberate plan by the president of the United States, and it's wrong.  And, people need to be aware of it and need to stand up to it and I believe the American people are beginning to do so."  Sen. Sessions rebuked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Vice President Joe Biden for their pro-amnesty efforts:  "So, you come into the country illegally and the attorney general of the United States declares that these individuals have a civil right to amnesty.  How can this possibly be:  the chief law enforcement officer in America?"

Why is Obama administration blocking Detroit River bridge?  Why isn't the Obama administration willing to finance the customs plaza for the new international bridge over the Detroit River between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario?  That's a question raised by this article in the Wall Street Journal.  As the Journal notes, the government of Canada has agreed to pay, as part of a public-private partnership, about $3.65 billion for building the bridge, including a $550 million link with Interstate 75 in Detroit.  The new bridge would provide an alternative for the privately owned Ambassador Bridge, which was opened in 1929.  Yet the Obama administration isn't ponying up $250 million to build a customs plaza. [...] Why is the Obama administration withholding the $250 million for the customs plaza?  One possible reason: to propitiate Matty Maroun, the Michigan billionaire who owns the Ambassador Bridge and profits handsomely from tolls and concessions.

Investigating Justice Department Corruption While Giving Thousands to Obama Campaign.  A key ethics investigator at Eric Holder's Justice Department has contributed $6,100 to Barack Obama's election campaign even though she has participated in high-profile investigations of political misconduct at the Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility.  Mary Aubry is an attorney in the Office of Professional Responsibility.  The office has investigated a wide range of politically sensitive matters including the dismissal of the New Black Panther voter intimidation case, terrorist interrogation techniques, and the "investigation" into the firing of United States attorneys who served at the pleasure of President Bush.

Culture of corruption in federal bureaucracy.  Evidence is accumulating of a corrupt bureaucratic culture in many, if not all, federal agencies.  Revelations of lavish meetings at fancy hotels, featuring stupid but expensive custom-made videos emerged in the last couple of years.  But even worse, cases of bureaucrats stealing from taxpayers by taking time off while still being paid high salaries have been reported recently, with their supervisors knowingly turning a blind eye to the taxpayer rip-off.  The EPA's highest-paid employee pretended to be a CIA agent and defrauded the taxpayers of about $900,000 in salary and travel expenses (often first class airfare and five star hotels).  But this apparently was no isolated incident.

Obama Admin's Unbelievably Brazen Obstruction Of IG Investigation.  A high-ranking official at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), who said he was acting at the direction of top lawyers in President Obama's White House, went to extraordinary and seemingly bizarre lengths to obstruct an Inspector General investigation into illicit lobbying activity at the agency.  The aggressive obstruction of an IG investigation is serious enough that a senior lawmaker says the police may need to be involved.

Vitter Accuses Inspector General of Providing Cover for EPA in Investigation.  Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee are condemning an inspector general's report exonerating Environmental Protection Agency officials in the case of using unofficial email addresses to hide their dealings from public scrutiny.  In a letter to Arthur A. Elkins Jr., the agency's inspector general, Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), the panel's ranking member, charged that the probe was not only insufficient but that it was conducted in a manner "that inappropriately provided cover for EPA's problematic email practice."  Vitter expressed concern over the scope of the OIG investigation, cited flaws in the office's methodology and maintained investigators arrived at questionable conclusions despite evidence to the contrary.

Obama appointee subsidizes electric bus company, then goes to work for it.  Washington's green revolving door keeps on spinning.  President Obama's Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has left the administration and joined an electric bus company he subsidized and praised while in office.  Proterra Inc. makes buses that require no gasoline or diesel — they run on electricity and fuel cells.

Obamacare's Criminal Enterprise.  Question:  If Obamacare officials cannot prevent accused embezzlers from infiltrating their offices, how can they protect enrollees from grifters, con artists, and thieves in the federal health-insurance-exchange system?

Culture of Corruption Postscript: The Hilda Solis Files.  Put on your super-shocked faces, everyone:  Former Obama administration official Hilda Solis, who is now running for yet another government position in Los Angeles, is embroiled in yet another union corruptocracy scandal.  The Hope and Change hits just keep on coming.  Solis served as President No More Business As Usual's first secretary of labor.  Remember waaaay back then, when "most transparent administration in history" had not yet become an automatic punchline?

Former Obama labor secretary did not report union-funded private jet trips to the FEC.  Former Obama administration Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis took thousands of dollars of free trips on a union's jet to "avoid freeway traffic" and did not report the trips as required by federal law, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court against union leaders.  Solis traveled on a private jet owned by the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 12 in a series of pricey trips that she did not report to the Federal Election Commission, according to a report on the lawsuit by Hews Media Group.  The trips occurred in 2009, and some were intended to fly her to Washington, D.C. when she was being considered for the Obama cabinet post.

Ambassadorships are President Obama's political plums.  Noah Bryson Mamet is a political consultant who raised at least $500,000 for President Obama and the Democratic Party in the 2012 election cycle.  As of last week, he had never visited Argentina — which helps explain the ambassador-designate's spotty performance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at his confirmation hearing.

Don't Celebrate Eric Holder's Pending Departure.  Nobody should celebrate the announcement that Attorney General Eric Holder will be leaving the administration this year.  Whoever replaces Holder will be just as radical and ideological. [...] So even after Eric Holder is gone, the Civil Rights Division will be just as racialist and lawless.  The Criminal Division will still refuse to prosecute election gangsters like Melowese Richardson in Ohio who proudly said on camera she voted six times for President Obama in 2012.  It will still refuse to prosecute large banks for criminal conspiracy because they are "too big" to prosecute.

Expert: Obama's 'myRA' violates multiple investment laws.  President Obama's new and low-budget proposal to help Americans build a tiny nest egg appears to violate federal laws barring retirement plan sponsors from steering investments to self-serving accounts, in this case the Treasury's own bonds, according to a new analysis.  The "myRA" plan Obama unveiled in his State of the Union address would also be outlawed in the private finance world because it offers no investment diversification and amounts to a conflict of interest, violations that call for fines up to $100,000 and up to a year in prison.

Go to Jail — Get Obamacare. Defend a Cop Killer — Get a Massive Job in DoJ.  It seems every day the Democrats currently in power find a new way to express sneering contempt for everyone who disagrees with them for any reason.  Democrat Leahy did not allow the widow of slain police officer Daniel Faulkner to testify as to why the attorney who represented her husband's murderer should not be confirmed to head DoJ's Civil Rights Division.  Why did he deny her her right to speak?  A technicality.  And because he could.  It would have been inconvenient to the Obama administration for Congress to have heard directly from Abu Jamal's surviving victim.

Obama bundler nominated as ambassador to Argentina has never been to the country.  Presidents often award diplomatic posts to campaign donors and fundraisers, but Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., suspects that Obama's choice of ambassador to Argentina — a man who bundled more than $500,000 for President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, but who has never been to the country — is in over his head.  "Have you been to Argentina?" Rubio asked Noah Mamet during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Thursday [2/6/2014].  "I haven't had the opportunity yet to be there," Mamet replied.

What Does It Cost To Be an Obama Ambassador?  Rewarding donors and political allies with ambassadorships is nothing new, but Obama vowed to buck the tradition, promising shortly after he was elected to "have civil servants, wherever possible, serve in these posts."  "My expectation is that high quality civil servants are going to be rewarded," he said in a January 2009 news conference.  In fact, Obama has rewarded political supporters plum ambassadorships more than his predecessors. [...] In his second term, Obama has named more political than career appointments, 39 versus 36.  Twenty of his political appointments raised more than $500,000 for his 2012 campaign.

Obama's 'Smart Diplomacy' Collapses Under Political Cronyism.  [T]he State Department under Obama is turning into a global laughingstock as he puts forward a series of incompetent political cronies for key diplomatic posts, showing disrespect for allies and contempt for our own nation's proud diplomatic traditions. [...] George Tsunis, who raised $988,550 for Obama in 2012, became ambassador to Norway, [...] Noah Mamet, Obama's just-named envoy to Argentina, a major Latin American nation on the verge of fiscal collapse, has never visited that country.  But, hey, he did bundle more than $500,000 for Obama in 2012.  Caroline Kennedy, who doesn't speak Japanese, has no real expertise in Japan and whose sole qualification appears to be her last name, is now U.S. representative to our No. 1 ally in Asia.  Tokyo officials took it as a grave insult.

More than a smidgen: IRS whistleblower's terrifying charges.  These charges deserve official investigation, and because the Eric Holder Department of Justice cannot be trusted to appoint someone with an interest in getting at the truth, the charges ought to be part of a special prosecutor's mandate.  Of all government agencies, the IRS has the most arbitrary and easily-abused power.  Corruption within its ranks cannot be tolerated, for it has the potential to metastasize rapidly into banana republic tyranny

Obama's IRS 'Confusion'.  House committees are still digging into the IRS political targeting scandal, and based on a hearing Wednesday there's more to learn.  The day produced more evidence blowing apart President Obama's claims that there was "not even a smidgen of corruption" or political motivation in the IRS handling of groups applying for tax-exempt status.

This Is Starting to Look Like a Pattern of Political Moves and Prosecutions.  A pattern indeed, that stretches back to 2010 and the IRS abuse, or 2009 if you include Obama's joke that he would use the IRS against his opponents.  Here is one more fact.  In 2012, Obama's campaign deliberately disabled safeguards on its website, allowing it to collect illegal foreign donations.  It did accept illegal foreign donations; to what extent is unknown.  Those donations, and the campaign staff who disabled the safeguards, were never investigated or prosecuted.  The media never showed much interest in investigating, either.

Former Energy Secretary Joins Board of Stimulus Recipient.  Former Energy Secretary Steven Chu will join the board of a company that got millions of dollars from the Department of Energy during Chu's tenure and is backed by some of the nation's most politically connected investors.  Lithium ion battery manufacturer Amprius announced Chu's move on Monday [1/20/2014].  His "ideas and experience will help Amprius accelerate the development of even higher-energy batteries," the company said in a statement.  Chu has already helped the company accelerate that development through more than $4 million in DOE grant money paid to the company since 2011.

Democrats Are Playing the Knockout Game.  [Scroll down]  But in the meantime, conservatives of all stripes wonder where the indictments on the IRS targeting of conservatives are.  They wonder why there have been no charges filed over the "Fast and Furious" scandal and the Benghazi debacle.  They wonder why there have been no consequences for the outrageous actions and inactions of Harry Reid, Eric Holder or Kathleen Sebelius; why there has been no investigation of the Solyndra debacle and why there never seem to be any lasting and effectual investigations into our president's imperial ambitions and behavior.

Should Americans believe anything Obama says?  When Americans first learned last year that the IRS had illegally targeted Tea Party, conservative and evangelical nonprofits for harassment during the 2010 and 2012 campaigns, Obama said such activities were unacceptable and he promised to get to the bottom of the scandal.  But not long afterwards, he began dismissing the IRS matter as a "phony scandal" concocted by Republicans unhappy that he had won re-election.  Then, Attorney General Eric Holder, or somebody reporting to him, appointed Barbara Bosserman, a long-time Obama campaign donor, to head the investigation.  So it came as no surprise last week when it was reported that the FBI expects no criminal charges to be filed in the IRS scandal.  Politicized justice is no justice at all.

Echoes of Marc Rich in Edward Snowden case.  Attorney General Eric Holder, FBI Director James Comey and new Obama White House counselor John Podesta all played roles in the Rich saga, wrestling with the complex questions of what tactics and compromises officials should consider when an American is holed up overseas, beyond the reach of the U.S. justice system.

The Nonsolution.  As the IRS investigations of political enemies show, it is what you are allowed to do with what you know that constitutes the major peril.  When the intelligence and law enforcement functions are mixed they constrain each other, as may have happened in the case of the Boston Bombers.  The incentive of the FBI is to secure a conviction.  The incentive of intelligence is to anticipate a threat.  Mix these two functions together and you sometimes get neither or if you get something, you get something very dangerous.

Obama Picks Soros Crony to Lead NSA Probe.  When President Obama needs help, he can always turn to one of the Soros inner circle.  In a speech on Jan. 17, Obama announced that his new Presidential Counsel John Podesta will lead a "comprehensive review of Big Data and privacy," following the NSA privacy scandal that has dogged his administration.  What he didn't mention was that Podesta is the founder of the liberal Center for American Progress.  CAP has gotten $7.3 million from liberal billionaire George Soros since 2000 and was one of the keystone liberal think tanks founded after the Democrats lost the 2004 election.

US government finds no evidence to accuse itself of a crime.  Instead, the FBI — through a leak — has let it be known that confusion about rules and bureaucratic incompetence, and not intentional or particularly targeted malfeasance within the IRS, were to blame for the completely one-sided targeting of TEA Party groups in the run-up to the 2012 elections.  Or, to put it another way, the government has decided, after what it will call careful examination, not to charge itself for its own internal lawlessness and vindictiveness.

The Fix is In In the IRS Abuse Scandal.  President Obama himself at least set the tone that led to the abuse of conservative, Christian and Tea Party groups by calling for them to be investigated in several of his public comments.  He may have done a whole lot more than just set the tone.  Obama placed William Wilkins into the IRS counsel's office, and that office was responsible for developing the IRS guidelines that led to the targeting of the president's opponents.  IRS chief counsel Wilkins met with President Obama just two days before his office handed out the guidelines that agents used to target the president's opponents.  A day after that, the head of the IRS workers union also met with President Obama.  Either of these meetings looks bad, but both together look terrible.

The Washington Way: Top officials [are] rarely fired in times of scandal.  [A]s the scandals pile up in the Obama Executive Branch, the response is casting a spotlight on the capital's unique brand of accountability:  For those who've done wrong, or were in charge when wrong was done, a graceful exit is almost always an option.  Or, drawn-out internal reviews take the place of prompt firings.

Shredding the layers of the ObamaCare onion.  It was just announced that the Obama White House is dropping CGI, Inc. next month when its contract with the U.S. federal government expires.  Certain journalists and armchair sleuths with a peculiar penchant for political partisanship engaged in a frenzied frolic at the discovery of cronyism related to CGI. [...] CGI Federal ultimately secured a $678 million no-bid contract to build the ObamaCare website, and did so miserably.  At least, that's the government's story, and they're sticking to it.  Yet that's just the veneer of a much deeper, more nefarious scheme, especially when you look at its replacement.

Is It Time for an Independent Counsel to Investigate the State Department?  Corruption, malfeasance, and complacency represent the stories we heard about the State Department regarding its actions in 2012.  Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed a fatal attack on an American ambassador and three other Americans on an anti-Islamic video then inflaming the Middle East.  Her response when questioned before Congress?  "What difference at this point does it make?"  It still makes a lot of difference, and not just because of Benghazi itself.  There is a larger culture of corruption at the Department of State.

The 'crime' of the IRS.  Only days after we learned the Obama administration had appointed an Obama donor to head investigations into the IRS targeting of conservative organizations, we now have a leak from law enforcement saying the FBI doesn't expect to file criminal charges.  That's the gist of a late-breaking story Monday evening [1/13/2014] in The Wall Street Journal.

FBI not expected to file charges in IRS targeting of tea party groups: report.  The Federal Bureau of Investigation didn't find the kind of political bias needed to file criminal charges over the Internal Revenue Service's heightened scrutiny of tea party groups, law enforcement officials told the Wall Street Journal.  "Instead, what emerged during the probe was evidence of a mismanaged bureaucracy enforcing rules about tax-exemption applications it didn't understand, according to the law-enforcement officials," the newspaper said.  The case is still being investigated, but officials familiar with the case said it is increasingly unlikely any criminal charges will result.

One week earlier, this news came to light:
FBI quietly drops 'law enforcement' as its primary mission.  Without any fanfare, "law enforcement" has been dropped from its status as the FBI's primary mission.

The FBI's IRS Outrage.  The [Wall Street] Journal reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is unlikely to file any criminal charges in the targeting of conservative political organizations by the Internal Revenue Service.  Yet Cleta Mitchell, an attorney who represents many of the targets, says that the FBI has never contacted any of her clients to discuss their treatment at the hands of the IRS.  "Shouldn't law enforcement talk to the victims in an investigation?," she asks in an email.  "That's like investigating a burglary without interviewing the burgled," notes a Journal editorial.

More about the use of the IRS as a weapon.

An FBI Just As Tainted And Untrustworthy As The IRS.  The FBI says it won't prosecute anyone at the IRS for its admitted targeting of the president's political foes.  This just as the agency claims the law is no longer its main mission.  So it's a political goon squad now.

Obama's ambassador picks, by the numbers.  $436,000 to Democratic causes — that's from former White Sox outfielder Mark Gilbert, the nominee for the U.S. Embassy post in New Zealand. [...] $291,000 in contributions to Democratic campaigns and committees — that's from "The Bold and the Beautiful" executive producer Colleen Bell, who is up for the job of ambassador to Hungary.

Is Obama Trying To Whitewash The IRS Investigation?  Barbara Bosserman is not a household name.  But she's an important figure.  According to Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the trial lawyer in the IRS' Civil Rights Division is leading the internal probe into the IRS treatment of conservative groups.  She also happens to be a "significant" contributor to Obama and the Democratic Party.

Feds pick Obama supporter to lead probe of IRS tea party targeting.  The Justice Department selected an avowed political supporter of President Obama to lead the criminal probe into the IRS targeting of tea party groups, according to top Republicans who said Wednesday that the move has ruined the entire investigation.  House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa, California Republican, and regulatory affairs subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, said they have discovered that the head of the investigation is Barbara Kay Bosserman, a trial lawyer in the Justice Department who donated more than $6,000 to Mr. Obama's 2008 and 2012 campaigns, as well as several hundred dollars to the national Democratic Party.

Obama Donor Picked to Head IRS Scandal Investigation, Big Three Networks Censor.  After months of stonewalling the Justice Department finally named someone to head the investigation into the IRS-Tea Party scandal — and it's an Obama donor.  So far ABC, CBS and NBC have yet to mention what Darrell Issa called "a startling conflict of interest."  In fact the Big Three networks have almost completely stopped covering the IRS scandal investigation altogether.  Since July 1, ABC, CBS and NBC have devoted a total of just 2 minutes and 8 seconds to the IRS imbroglio.

Obama's attorney general appoints Obama donor to investigate Obama's IRS.  President Barack Obama's deputies have picked one of his political donors to investigate the IRS' attack on independent political groups during the 2012 election, according to California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House investigations committee.  "We request you immediately remove Ms. [Barbara] Bosserman from the ongoing investigation," said a Jan. 8 letter from Issa to Attorney General Eric Holder.  The secret selection of Barbara Bosserman, a lawyer in the Department of Justice's civil rights division, was revealed by a committee investigation after the DOJ stonewalled the legislators.

Republicans call for removal of Obama supporter leading IRS targeting probe.  Republicans claim the Justice Department's investigation of the IRS targeting scandal is "compromised," after revealing that it's being led by one of President Obama's political supporters.  In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, the lawmakers said they've learned trial attorney Barbara Kay Bosserman is leading the probe.  They detailed federal campaign finance records showing she's given more than $6,000 to Obama's two presidential campaigns — and urged Holder to remove her from the case.

Obama is at Two Dozen Scandals and Counting.  President Obama claims that Republicans are busy probing "phony scandals."  But the sheer number of scandals suggests that misbehavior, abuse of power, and possibly corruption are not something being dreamed up by the GOP, but a defining characteristic of the Obama administration.  Here is a full list of the administration's most egregious scandals.  The ones we know about, at least.  I've added four since the last time we ran the list — an increase of 20 percent!

Dems use new filibuster rules to approve DHS nominee Mayorkas under investigation.  Senate Democrats used the new filibuster rules Friday [12/20/2013] to win confirmation of a controversial top Homeland Security official, approving a new deputy secretary who is still under investigation of wrongdoing in his current post as head of one of the immigration agencies. [...] Republicans said it's the first time the Senate has ever knowingly confirmed such a high official who is currently being investigated by an inspector general, and said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has set a new precedent.

Federal Judge: The Obama Administration Aids and Abets Human Trafficking.  A federal judge in Texas has issued a searing indictment of the Obama administration's immigration policy.  He accuses the government of "completing the criminal mission" of human traffickers "who are violating the border security of the United States" and assisting a "criminal conspiracy in achieving its illegal goals."  The judge calls the administration's behavior "dangerous and unconscionable" and says that "DHS should cease telling the citizens of the United States that it is enforcing our border security laws because it is clearly not.  Even worse, it is helping those who violate these laws."

ICE director defends transport of illegal immigrant children as 'appropriate and legal'.  The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement defended the role of federal agents in transporting illegal immigrant children after a federal judge complained they were hand-delivering smuggled kids to parents in the United States. "While the court's comments did not relate specifically to ICE, it is clear that the transportation of unaccompanied children (UAC) by ICE personnel is appropriate and legal," acting Director John Sandweg wrote in a brief email obtained by FoxNews.com.

DHS Complicit In Drug Cartel Human Trafficking.  A federal judge finds that the Department of Homeland Security, instead of arresting cartel members and the clients who pay them to smuggle children into the U.S., helps the drug lords complete the transactions.

Federal Court: Obama's Partnership With Mexican Drug Cartels Goes Far Beyond Guns.  Last Friday [12/13/2013], an opinion by Texas federal judge Andrew Hanen opened a window onto the sheer lawlessness of the Obama administration — in particular, the Department of Homeland Security.  The case was United States of America v. Mirtha Veronica Nava-Martinez.

'Zero Dark Thirty' leak investigators now target of leak probe.  More than two years after sensitive information about the Osama bin Laden raid was disclosed to Hollywood filmmakers, Pentagon and CIA investigations haven't publicly held anyone accountable despite internal findings that the leakers were former CIA Director Leon Panetta and the Defense Department's top intelligence official.

EPA's Top Climate Change Expert Engaged in "Crime of Massive Proportions".  Surprisingly, his crime of massive proportions isn't pulling this climate change scam that has cost us billions in wasted tax dollars.

Culture of Corruption: The Dems' Dangerous DHS Pick.  The "S" in President Obama's DHS doesn't stand for "security."  It stands for "sleaze."  In the wake of Dirty Harry Reid's sabotage of the filibuster, Democrats have rammed through the Senate nomination of a shady Chicago crony associated with dangerous Clinton corruption and at least two visas-for-sale schemes.

Eric Holder's kickbacks for community organizers.  The government has quite the tidy little deal going in terms of getting money out of large banking interests lately.  The latest example was the $13B dollar "settlement" reached with JP Morgan, which certainly must have taught them a thing or two.  But some observers have been digging into the details of the deal and finding that it might be even sweeter for certain progressive interest groups than anyone had previously imagined.

Obama's 'Sham-Wow' Presidency.  Forget impeachment, it's time for criminal prosecution.  Obamacare isn't about incompetence and it isn't about political disagreement.  It's about a trillion dollar fraud, carried out by the President of the United States.  Now add in the IRS scandal and all the others.  There's enough here to put a CEO away for life.

Head of scandal-plagued FMCS to resign following Washington Examiner series.  Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Director George Cohen is resigning only days after learning he is a target of a congressional inquiry spurred by a Washington Examiner series.  The Examiner series reported that FMCS employees spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on luxuries and that top officials retaliated against employees who questioned the spending.

USAID programs hit by fraud, corruption and bid-rigging allegations.  USAID, the government agency in charge of distributing tax dollars to foreign aid projects, once again is being hit with allegations and audits exposing how fraud and corruption are undermining its programs.  Though the government says it's taking "steps" to address the problems, the multiple reports reflect a decades-long problem with how USAID money is administered and, critics say, how little has been done to fix it.

USAID programs hit by fraud, corruption and bid-rigging allegations.  USAID, the government agency in charge of distributing tax dollars to foreign aid projects, once again is being hit with allegations and audits exposing how fraud and corruption are undermining its programs.  Though the government says it's taking "steps" to address the problems, the multiple reports reflect a decades-long problem with how USAID money is administered and, critics say, how little has been done to fix it.

Obama using food-stamp cash to fund Michelle's 'Let's Move'.  On Nov. 1, sizable cuts were gouged into the federal food-stamp program (or, as it's now called, SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), which feeds 47.6 million people, or nearly one in six Americans.  In the city, 1.9 million folks get the bulk of their Jell-O and Campbell's Soup from stamps.  But news has spread among the poor, like leafy green vegetables, that it wasn't heartless Republicans who triggered the cuts.  Rather, some of the food-stamp cash was snatched to pay for Michelle Obama's pet project, Let's Move.

Obama's second-term ambassador nominees raised more than $16 million for him.  President Obama's second-term nominees for foreign ambassadorships raised more than $16 million for his presidential campaigns and inaugurations.  Obama has nominated 24 campaign bundlers that have raised at least $16.6 million for his presidential efforts, according to a database created by the Center for Public Integrity.  Eight six-figure Obama bundlers have already been confirmed to key posts including Singapore, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Italy.

Obama's Republic of Lies.  [A]lthough we do not yet know the extent of the damage — how many lives will be blighted or lost — because of ObamaCare, we know for a certainty that the legislation was sold to us on false pretenses.  "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."  There was never any chance of that, as numerous critics pointed out at the time.  They knew it could never be, and so did Obama.  Does it matter?  Does anyone really care whether the president of the United States ostentatiously breaks a promise he made publicly on at least 36 separate occasions?  We know what would happen if the president of an insurance company made and then flagrantly broke a promise that his customers could keep their health care coverage if they liked it.  He would be prosecuted and jailed.

Obama-linked firm received 'unauthorized' $100,000 contract for Michelle Obama's anti-obesity effort.  The marketing firm that created first lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" anti-obesity campaign's logo, slogan and web design has close ties to the Obama administration and was paid $100,000 in an "unauthorized" no-bid contract, according to internal documents.  The 44 pages of documents — obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FIOA) request by the conservative government accountability group Judicial Watch — reveal that federal officials are looking into the Let's Move contract with Shepardson, Stern & Kaminsky (SS+K) as an "unauthorized commitment."  According to Judicial Watch, the contract violated federal contracting laws.

The Next Big Obamacare Scandal.  [Scroll down]  Perhaps even more troubling than the Obama lies, however, is the political cronyism that has surfaced in the administration's choice of the contractor to fix the Obamacare website and a legally indefensible interpretation of the Obamacare law by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that can protect this contractor and its insurance company parent, among other firms, from kickback claims.

Former Dept. of Veterans Affairs chief pleads the Fifth.  A former assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs pleaded the Fifth on Wednesday [10/30/2013], refusing to testify about a pair of taxpayer-funded human resources conferences in 2011 that cost a scandalous $6.1 million or more.  John Sepulveda oversaw the conferences, which included the screening of a parody video based on 'Patton,' whose production cost the Treasury more than $52,000.  But in front of the House Oversight Committee, he chose to remain silent, [...]

NLRB nominee accused in union corruption case.  Richard Griffin, President Obama's nominee to be the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel, is accused of making false statements under oath in a union corruption complaint in California district court.  The charges stem from when Griffin was the top lawyer for the International Union of Operating Engineers.  The complaint alleges that he gave a false explanation in a deposition for why union officials sought the ouster of a colleague who was blowing the whistle on internal corruption.

State Department swept sex scandals under the rug.  Months after whistleblowers accused the State Department of covering up employee sex scandals, most of the cases have been ignored or swept under the rug, critics charge.  Records show that staffers were given cushy jobs or allowed to retire, and watchdogs say the feds have hardly bothered to investigate since the shenanigans came to light this past summer.

Ex-Secret Service agent charges 'pattern' of drunkenness by Obama aides.  A former Secret Service agent who spent three years at President Obama's side is claiming in a new book that White House staff regularly got drunk at "wheels-up" parties overseas, acting just as badly as agents fired for their involvement in a foreign booze-and-prostitution scandal last year.  Dan Bongino, who quit the service in 2011 to run as a Republican in the Maryland Senate race, charged that he witnessed Obama staffers boozing at parties in foreign nations after Air Force One was "wheels up" and the president headed for home.

Illegal use of DoD Communications Systems by Obama Administration.  The American Spectator has been provided with the text of a political message sent on Saturday evening, using Department of Defense communications systems, on behalf of President Obama and Secretary of Defense Hagel.  It is addressed to "all US government employees" and further specified by the DoD sender to go to "all subordinate commands," in compliance with Hagel's call for "the widest possible distribution."

Government 404 Error.  [Scroll down]  Looking back over recent events, I recall the attorneys who railroaded Senator Stevens out of office, giving the Democrats a majority in the Senate, were not really punished; Lois Lerner who quite obviously worked with the Administration to use the IRS to punish and hamstring Obama's opponents, will retire with over $100,000 a year and no prosecution is in sight; Attorney General Holder has used the Department's Civil Rights and Voting act section in much the same way, presided over a failed scheme that put weapons in the hands of Mexican drug lords, and has ignored a Congressional contempt citation against himself while refusing to take action against civil servants who quite obviously have been violating federal law.

Independent Review of NSA Surveillance Not Exactly 'Independent'.  A panel of so-called independent experts appointed by President Obama to review the federal government's surveillance programs "has effectively been operating as an arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the NSA and all other U.S. spy efforts," according to a report from the Associated Press.

'Friends of Barack' facing multiple charges in corruption case.  Well, well, well!  Just look at who has been charged with money laundering, mail fraud, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and other crimes involving Federal and Illinois grant money for health charities, job training and other programs.  A few friends of our president, Barack Obama, that's who.  One of those charged is the daughter of Reverend [...] Jeremiah Wright.  Wright is the minister who united Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson in matrimony; the happy couple then attended his church for many years listening to Wright's anti American sermons.

Watchdogs: Tally in Illinois grant-fraud probe so far: 13 charged, $16M embezzled.  The U.S. attorney's office in Springfield has been busy the past few years investigating a variety of fraud schemes involving state grants.  Thirteen people have been charged so far, six who have pleaded guilty.  Two of them have ties to President Barack Obama.  One is the daughter of his controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.  Another was chief of staff to Obama's longtime friend Eric E. Whitaker when Whitaker was Illinois' public health chief.

Did someone mention Jeremiah Wright?

The Obama Administration Is A White House Of Historic Incompetence.  It started with the stimulus package.  One-third of the money went to public employee union members — a political payoff not very stimulating to anyone else.  Billions went to green energy loans, like the $500 million that the government lost in backing the obviously hapless Solyndra.  Infrastructure projects, which the president continues to tout, never seem to get built.  He's been talking about dredging the port of Charleston, for example, to accommodate the big container ships coming in when the Panama Canal is widened.  The canal widening is proceeding on schedule to be completed in 2014.  The target date for dredging the port of Charleston:  2024.

Former EPA official charged with stealing nearly $900G.  A former high-ranking official with the Environmental Protection Agency was charged Friday [8/23/2013] with stealing nearly $900,000 from the agency over 13 years.

EPA employee stole $886K from the agency.  An Environmental Protection Agency employee knowingly stole more than $886,000 from the agency, according to a criminal filing from the Department of Justice.  The alleged fraud occurred in the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation under the nose of former administrator Gina McCarthy, who now heads up the entire agency.  "There appears to be corruption to the umpteenth degree," said Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter.

Socialists Designed Obama's Credit Watchdog Agency.  Socialist activists and their front groups played a shockingly outsized role shaping and passing the monumental financial reform legislation that authorized the creation of President Obama's powerful consumer credit watchdog agency.  Their intimate involvement is revealed in a new book, "Financial Justice: The People's Campaign to Stop Lender Abuse," which offers a rare, if biased, behind-the-scenes look at the anti-bank movement's multimillion-dollar lobbying effort in support of the Dodd-Frank Act.

Democrats and Lawlessness.  President Obama has already seized the power to rule by decree, and is doing so virtually every day now. [...] He is now regularly exercising the power to legislate directly himself, either by announcing on his own supposed authority changes in existing laws that Congress has already passed, or by announcing that he will carry out entirely new laws that Congress never passed, or even refused to pass.  These actions are brazen, lawless violations of the Constitution.

The Scandal Society.  Remember Black Jesus?  The Lightworker?  The One?  The next Lincoln, the Democrats' Reagan, the neo-FDR?  He is now standing next to Tricky Dick and Slick Willie, caught in a quartet of burgeoning scandals, charged with rewriting the facts when they became inconvenient, harassing the press, and using the Internal Revenue Service to get at his enemies, subverting their rights of assembly, and speech.

Just How Corrupt is the Obama Administration?  Scandal after scandal, coupled with an ongoing contempt for the law and the Constitution, demonstrated by high-level officials and the president himself, point to one deeply troubling conclusion:  the Obama administration may be the most corrupt administration ever inflicted on the American public.  And while the mainstream media have done a remarkable job deflecting much of that reality, even they cannot keep up with the avalanche of disturbing revelations that arise, seemingly on a daily basis.

Obama Presidency A Lengthening Legacy Of Lawlessness.  Constitutionally, the president has the authority to check the legislative branch by recommending legislation to be passed by Congress or through the presidential veto.  But he cannot legislate through executive fiat and he can't pick and choose which parts of the law he will comply with or decline.  Nor can he defy judicial rulings from the highest court in the land.  But that's what he's done. [...] From the Zimmerman trial, the EPA phony-address emails, the handing of farmers' personal information to green activists, down to the illegal campaigning by Cabinet members, the list continues.

President Obama, Meet Warren Harding.  In sum, this is the most lawless administration since Warren Harding's ninety years ago.  Except those scandals came from below as Harding was, to put it mildly, a hands-off administrator, mostly interested in wine, women, and poker games.  The Obama administration is very much a top-down administration.  And the Harding scandals were mostly about money (Albert Fall, secretary of the interior, accepted bribes in the Teapot Dome scandal and became the first cabinet secretary to go to jail).  The Obama scandals are all about political power, protecting it and increasing it.

Holder's mortgage fraud whopper.  Bloomberg News provides the latest evidence that the Obama Administration cannot be trusted to report on itself honestly.

Classic Obama charade: Appoint a crony to investigate himself.  James Clapper, Obama's Director of National Intelligence, will digest his groups' findings on what national intelligence has been doing under James Clapper and James Clapper will report them to his boss Obama, who's already said publicly there are no abuses.  We're going way out on a mid-summer limb today to predict that Clapper will absolve Clapper and his community of any abuses and Obama will agree.  Completely.  Probably sometime during the holiday season when, like now, fewer people are paying attention.

Pentagon paid billions to defense firms that previously defrauded the government.  Like a battered spouse in an abusive relationship, the Pentagon paid billions of dollars to companies even though the same companies were known to have defrauded the government in the past, according to a report compiled by Department of Defense officials.

Another Agency Goes IRS.  One big question raised by IRS political targeting is whether Obama officials or their bureaucratic allies unleashed the power of the administrative state for partisan ends.  Now evidence is emerging that officials at another agency, the Federal Election Commission, used their enforcement power as an anti-conservative sword.  The House Ways and Means Committee this week released emails showing that, in 2008 and 2009, the FEC's general counsel staff sought tax information about conservative political groups from Lois Lerner of the IRS.  Ms. Lerner [...] had previously worked at ... the FEC's general counsel office.

E-mails Suggest Collusion Between FEC, IRS to Target Conservative Groups.  The correspondence suggests the discrimination of conservative groups extended beyond the IRS and into the FEC, where an attorney from the agency's enforcement division in at least one case sought and received tax information about the status of a conservative group, the American Future Fund, before recommending that the commission prosecute it for violations of campaign-finance law.  [Lois] Lerner, the former head of the IRS's exempt-organizations division, worked at the FEC from 1986 to 1995, and was known for aggressive investigation of conservative groups during her tenure there, too.

Scandal Watch: Senior DHS Official and Top Obama Nominee Under Investigation.  The US government's Inspectors General have been mighty busy lately.  Whereas the IRS, DOJ and Benghazi scandals can all be succinctly summarized in a sentence or two, this latest emerging story cannot — which is why it may lack the legs to really blow up.  Nevertheless, a newly-revealed investigation by the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General may cause some heartburn for the Obama administration, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Virginia.

Let's Shed Some Light on Eric Holder's Blatant Disregard for the Rule of Law.  Yesterday [7/24/2013] during a speech on the House floor, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar took a moment to remind everyone of Attorney General Eric Holder's lawless record in the Department of Justice.  Gosar has been leading a charge of no confidence against Holder for years and re-introduced his Resolution of No Confidence earlier this year.  The Resolution calls for Holder's immediate resignation and has 137 co-sponsors in the House.  Holder is still in criminal and civil contempt of Congress.

Report: Obama's pick for Homeland Security No. 2 spot probed.  President Barack Obama's choice to be the No. 2 official at the Homeland Security Department is under investigation for his role in helping a company secure an international investor visa for a Chinese executive, the Associated Press has learned.

Report: Senate immigration bill includes nearly $300 million in slush funds for immigrants' rights groups.  A former senior policy analyst at the National Council of La Raza supervised the drafting of a U.S. Senate bill, passed on June 27, that would give an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants a path to citizenship if the House of Representatives goes along.  And La Raza figures to enlarge its budget significantly, thanks to slush funds buried deep in the legislation.

La Raza In Line To Pocket Reform-Bill Slush Funds.  The avowed purpose of the immigration bill passed by the Senate and pending in the House is to provide a "path to citizenship" for the illegal immigrants in exchange for tough new enforcement measures that would prevent other such incursions in the future.  But buried deep within the immigration bill are hidden multimillion-dollar slush funds for left-wing nonprofit groups to provide services to the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants now in the U.S.  Once enacted, the slush funds would total almost $300 million over three years and grow over time.

Napolitano Leaving DHS Under Cloud of Suspicion.  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano suddenly announced last week that she was resigning her position at the embattled agency in order to take a $750,000-a-year job as president of the University of California system.  This will more than triple her salary, which was $200,000 at DHS.  The timing of her resignation is highly unusual for a member of the president's cabinet.  Most cabinet members who leave after a president's first term don't wait an extra six months into the second term.  Many believe she abruptly left DHS because of some sordid dealings that are about to be discovered.

Nuclear Crimes and Misdemeanors.  What does the billion-dollar Colorado-based consulting, engineering and construction firm CH2M Hill; the Department of Energy; Senator Harry Reid and other key Democrats; high-powered liberal lobbyists and eco-radicals with direct ties to the Obama White House; and billions of taxpayer money have in common?  Well if you haven't guessed it, this post will answer that question — a green energy, crony-corruption tale that began towards the end of the 90's.

Leaking Distrust.  [Scroll down]  On the "Fast and Furious" scandal, the administration perpetrated a massive cover-up ending with Attorney General Holder being held in contempt of Congress and protected from criminal sanctions for contempt by Obama's claim of executive privilege.  On the IRS scandal, Lois Lerner's claim of the Fifth Amendment's protection against self-incrimination comprises the agency's entire defense.  On the Benghazi attack, the administration executed another cover-up, making Watergate pale in comparison.  And then there's the AP subpoenas, the James Rosen search warrant and Clapper's "least untruthful" congressional testimony.

Whistleblowers.  So what did whitleblower Aurelia Fedenisn blow the whistle on?  She is a former investigator in the Inspector General's office in the State Department.  Agents for the department had been working on investigations that uncovered serious and criminal wrongdoing.  Their work, they said, was subject to influence and manipulation by higher-ups at the department.  Agents told the IG's office they were told to stop investigating a U.S. ambassador in a sensitive post who solicited prostitutes in a public park.  Fedenisn, a 26 year veteran at State, went public.

Homeland Security watchdog faces fresh allegations.  The embattled deputy inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security destroyed incriminating documents to prevent their public release, used federal funds to pay for two Puerto Rican vacations, and bugged his employees' phones and email, a new letter from Cause of Action, a government-accountability group, charges.  The recent allegations against Charles Edwards add to those leveled last week by the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

State Department's Sex Trafficking Scandals.  Pssst, did you hear?  President Obama is replacing Ambassador Howard Gutman in Belgium.  You remember Ambassador Gutman, don't you?  He's the big Democrat donor President Obama nominated to represent his policies in Belgium and who, it is alleged, trolled for prostitutes — some of them children! — in a park near his official residence.  Late in the day on Friday, June 21, the White House released a list of new nominees for various posts, and Denise Bauer was listed for the United States Ambassador to Belgium post.

Watt Backed Waivers Benefitting Donors.  A prominent Democratic congressman who has been tapped to lead a major federal agency proposed tariff waivers worth millions for a textile company whose lobbying firm donated thousands to his campaign.  The revelations could fuel criticism of a program that some say amounts to a back-door means to secure federal earmarks and encourages companies that use imported products to curry favor with key lawmakers.

Washington's $279 Billion Fraud.  If you think the federal student-loan program looks like a bad deal for taxpayers, imagine how it would look with honest accounting.  And now you don't need to imagine thanks to a new report that's receiving far too little attention.  Turns out that the official "savings" for taxpayers of $184 billion over the next decade really add up to $95 billion in losses.

Homeland Security watchdog accused of whitewashing report.  The man in charge of policing waste, fraud and abuse at the federal government's third-largest department has been accused of suppressing a politically sensitive report, violating anti-nepotism laws and misusing agency resources, according to a letter from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security.

Obama Donor Set To Profit From Keystone Demise.  Environmental activist Tom Steyer donated as much as he could to get Massachusetts Rep. Ed Markey elected to the Senate in the recent special election to fill the seat vacated by now-Secretary of State John Kerry.  He wanted another senator who's opposed to completing the Keystone XL pipeline that he says would be an environmental plague on the planet.  A few days before President Obama said that Keystone XL would be built only if it could be shown to have no net effect on greenhouse gas emissions, Steyer, a major contributor to Obama's campaigns, urged the president to kill the project.

Obama administration riddled with scandals, but Americans yawn.  It should come as no revelation that Barack Obama — a man who oversaw the leak of his opponent's divorce records to gain entry into the U.S. Senate — is fixated on the protection of his vanity and advancement of his power.  His humiliations of recent weeks have further confirmed the suspicions of those who saw through the amateur confidence game of the president and knew that constitutional liberty, economic efficiency and administrative competency are not priorities in his administration.

Email exchange: Obama tried to steer $10 million to Chicago nonprofit under investigation.  While he was a sitting U.S. Senator, Barack Obama attempted to steer $10 million in taxpayer money to a Chicago nonprofit under investigation for potential fraud, according to an email sent by the nonprofit's then-director of operations.  Former Save-A-Life Foundation (SALF) director of operations Vincent Davis sent an email dated June 10, 2007 to Eric Brandmeyer, an official at an Illinois hospital trying to implement SALF's controversial first-aid training programs at a local school district.  Davis assured Brandmeyer that public funding for SALF would remain strong in the aftermath of a local media report on the group's potentially fraudulent activities.

Obama's Bodyguard of Lies.  President Obama and his people deserve at least one accolade:  they have perfected lying into an art form.  Is anyone in Obama's closest orbit a truth-teller?

Two New Obama Scandals in a Single Day.  White House Dossier last week noted a total of 20 significant Obama administration scandals, but that was before these latest two and the revelation that the government is keeping track of telephone calls and Internet traffic.  In one the fresh scandals that came to light Monday, CBS News revealed that State Department investigations into misdoings by officials overseas — several having to do with sex — were manipulated or quashed.

It's RICO time! How to Stop the Obama Administration Crime Wave.  The bottom line is this.  You can't get justice within the political system in America anymore because the politicians own it.  What stopped the mob?  The Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).  What will stop the Obama administration?  RICO.

At least 436 Department of Health and Human Services employees — and possibly more at the White.  House Office of Management and Budget — received advance notice of an $8 billion Medicare decision that sent private health insurers' stocks soaring.  The Department of Justice and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) have launched a probe to investigate possible insider trading.

EPA grants ethics, cyber-security certificates to fake employee 'Richard Windsor'.  Environmental Protection Agency officials granted at least six ethics and cyber-security certifications to "Richard Windsor," the fake employee invented for former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's use for conducting official business.

CBS News: U.S. State Department Cover-Ups Range From Prostitution Charges to Drug Rings.  Uncovered documents show the U.S. State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal behavior ranging from sexual assaults to an underground drug ring.  CBS News reports that is has unearthed documents from the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), an internal watchdog agency, that implicate the State Department in a series of misconducts worldwide.

Has Sebelius Violated the Anti-Lobbying Act?  The HHS Secretary appears to be using Obamacare funds for illegal lobbying.

The Growing Stench of Corruption.  Nearly half of those surveyed — 47 percent — believe the president isn't telling the truth when he says he didn't know the IRS was giving extra scrutiny to the applications of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.  More than half — 55 percent — say the IRS actions raise questions about the administration's "overall honesty and integrity."  Fifty-eight percent believe the administration's handling of the Benghazi consulate attacks raises questions about the honesty of the White House [...]

Obama's Inspector General Negligence.  With so many scandals breaking in Washington, one may well ask:  Where were all the inspectors general when these bad things — at the IRS, at Justice, and at State before, during and after Benghazi, for instance — were going on?  Where were the presidential appointees who, since the Inspectors General Act of 1978, are meant to root out gross mismanagement, fraud and other abuses at their federal departments and agencies, or among those whom the agencies regulate?  The sad truth is that in the Obama administration many of the most important IGs mandated by Congress simply are not in place.

Controversial Nonprofit Receives CDC Grant.  A controversial nonprofit organization that critics accuse of acting as a labor front group received a lucrative grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in March. [...] "The CDC started with an honorable goal to improve health outcomes, but the devil's in the details," he said.  "CDC grants are not supposed to be used for lobbying, but this money could end up getting funneled to a labor association that goes straight to Washington with it."

Community Organizations: Obama's corrupt power grab.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D. California) has equipped fellow Democratic lawmakers with an "Affordable Care Act Tool Kit."  It reveals the Democratic Party's plan to turn the worthy goal of enrolling the uninsured into a cynical scheme for enrollling Democratic voters.  The kit's biggest tool is community organizing. [...] Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius is under fire for soliciting donations for Enroll America, and it's no wonder.  Enroll America is 100% political.

The U.S. Government Asked the AP for $1 Million for Secret Email Addresses.  The Associated Press filed Freedom of Information Act requests for the secret email addresses of appointed administration employees, and a Labor Department spokesman came back with an offer:  you can have the emails if you give us a million bucks.

Obama Appointees Using Secret Email Accounts, Demand $1M for Info.  The Associated Press has been trying to uncover this information through FOIA requests.  Remarkably, this incredibly corrupt administration demanded over a million dollars for the information.

The Smoking Gun in Plain Sight.  [Scroll down]  Education is more important than prosecution.  Right now, the best use of their time and energy would be to expose the Obama administration's wrongdoings; to illuminate for Americans just what's been going on in Washington and to show voters — especially young voters — what sort of country we'd be living in if the president had gotten away with this.  Never before have our politicians and our news organizations had a better opportunity to demonstrate just what happens when we vote carelessly, elect a zealot who appoints operatives with no sense of honor or comprehension of right-and-wrong, then parties with rock stars while his coup d'etat unfolds.

Ted Cruz To Megyn Kelly: Eric Holder Should Resign For 'Unprecedented' 'Willingness To Disregard The Law'.  Appearing on Fox News' America Live this afternoon [5/30/2013], Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted the Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service, and leaders from both parties for "not respecting the Bill of Rights" through a variety of recent scandals including the snooping on journalism outlets and the purposeful targeting of conservative groups for additional tax scrutiny.

An Antidote to Cynicism Poisoning.  The Benghazi scandal was and is shocking, and the Justice Department assault on the free press, in which dogged reporters are tailed like enemy spies, is shocking.  Benghazi is still under investigation and someday someone will write a great book about it.  As for the press, Attorney General Eric Holder is on the run, and rightly so.  They called it the First Amendment for a reason.  But nothing can damage us more as a nation than what is happening at the Internal Revenue Service.

Fire Eric Holder.  In the greatest attack on the free press in decades, the Justice Department seized phone records for reporters and editors in at least three AP offices as well as its office in the House of Representatives.  Holder, however, proceeded to claim absolute and blissful ignorance of the investigation, even failing to recall when or how he recused himself.  Yet, this was only the latest attack on the news media under Holder's leadership.

Obama's Dangerous Contempt for the Rule of Law.  Whatever the investigation into misconduct at the Internal Revenue Service reveals, we already have all the evidence we need to understand President Barack Obama's fundamental attitude toward the rule of law.  That evidence is right there in the public record, and what it shows is indifference and contempt.

Kickbacks as 'a natural part of business' at Fannie Mae alleged.  Investigators are looking into assertions by an ex-Fannie Mae worker that kickbacks were 'a natural part of business' at the federal housing finance company.

Senators say Holder can't 'review' himself on news media snooping.  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s direct involvement in the Justice Department's decisions to spy on the press should disqualify him from heading any review of the unfolding controversy, Republicans said Sunday.  Questions have been raised about the attorney general's role in two Justice Department investigations of leaks, one involving a massive seizure of Associated Press phone records and another an aggressive probe of Fox News reporter James Rosen's private emails.

Obama shows contempt for law.  Mr. Obama — greeted rapturously in 2008 as the "constitutional law professor" who would restore respect for our founding document — has demonstrated a contempt for law unseen since Nixon.  Nixon was devious, insecure and paranoid.  Everyone knows that those are unfortunate traits.  Ever since Nixon, we've been encouraged to be wary of leaders who are suspicious or guarded.  Obama is brimming with excessive self-regard, intellectual vanity and supreme self-righteousness.  No one has ever warned Americans to regard these as dangerous traits, but they may be more worrisome than Nixon's cynicism.

GOP widening Sebelius shakedown probe.  A day after insurers complained that Kathleen Sebelius and the Obama administration had pressured them to fund Enroll America, a House committee sent them a request for more information on the matter.  The Energy and Commerce Committee had already begun looking into whether Sebelius had broken any laws by attempting to get donations from an industry that will be heavily regulated by her under ObamaCare, and now The Hill reports this new request as a widening of that probe.

Eric Holder Lied Under Oath In Front Of Congress.  The people in the Obama Administration have gotten a free ride for so long that they apparently believe they can get away with anything.  That may be the only thing that explains Eric Holder doing something as stupid as this.

Obama's Commerce Secretary Didn't Report $80 Million in Income.  Barack Obama's close friend and major fundraiser, Penny Pritzker, who has been nominated to be the new Secretary of Commerce, didn't include more than $80 million in income in financial disclosures she filed last week.  Pritzker, who is a billionaire, supposedly "inadvertently omitted" this tiny part of her fortune.

Sebelius Under Scrutiny.  The House Energy and Commerce Committee is expanding its investigation into whether Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius broke the law when she asked health care executives to contribute to nonprofit groups that are helping to implement the Affordable Care Act.

Barack Obama's long history of scandals — and escapes.  The standard rule for handling bad news in politics is to get it all out at once.  Take your hits for a news cycle, two or three.  And then try to move on.  The conventional wisdom has been that the worst thing to do is allow the bad news to dribble out, poison drop by poison drop, for days, weeks, even months.  Yet that is precisely what Barack Obama has done — and continues to do in his current epidemic of embarrassments — over a decade of controversies and scandals.  The amazing thing is, so far, it's worked like a charm.  So, why should he change?

A Crack in the IRS Dam.  The dam protecting the IRS scandal began to crack today when Lois Lerner, the IRS official who announced, and apologized for, the improper singling out of conservative-leaning organizations by IRS employees under her command, announced through her criminal defense lawyer that she will not testify as scheduled tomorrow before the House Oversight Committee.  Rather, she will assert her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.  This marks a milestone in the IRS investigation.  It can now be taken as more or less established that crimes were committed by Obama administration employees.

Obama Meets With Illegal Aliens in White House.  President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met in the Oval Office on Tuesday [5/21/2013] with three people who are in the country in violation of U.S. immigration laws but who have received "deferred action" allowing them to stay in the country under the terms of a "memorandum" issued unilaterally last year by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

The Obama Crony in Charge of your Medical Records.  Who is Judy Faulkner?  Chances are, you don't know her — but her politically connected, taxpayer-subsidized electronic medical records company may very well know you.  Top Obama donor and billionaire Faulkner is founder and CEO of Epic Systems, which will soon store almost half of all Americans' health information.  If the crony odor and the potential for abuse that this "epic" arrangement poses don't chill your bones, you ain't paying attention.

Huma Abedin fails to respond to Senator's inquiry into her work for private contractor.  Huma Abedin, the wife Democratic mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner, has blown off a top senator seeking details on her unusual employment deal last year.

More Secrets From Huma Abedin.  Huma Abedin, former Secretary of State Hillary's Clinton's long time aide with extensive ties to Muslim Brotherhood groups, was granted an arrangement by the State Department to do outside consulting work, even as she remained a top advisor in the Department.  Abedin did not disclose either the arrangement, or how much she earned from it, on her financial report, despite a requirement that public officials must disclose significant sources of income.  Clinton advisor Philippe Reines contended she was under no obligation to do so.

WH: Legality of IRS Action Against Conservatives 'Irrelevant'.  Appearing on Sunday morning on ABC News' This Week, White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer told a credulous George Stephanopoulos that the IRS' targeting of conservative groups was "inexcusable," and that the law with regard to the activity was "irrelevant."  "I can't speak to the law here," he said.  "The law is irrelevant.  The activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped and it needs to be fixed so we ensure it never happens again."

Scandal is not Enough.  It has long been obvious to conservatives in America that Barack Obama and his fellow travelers are devoid of any honor or integrity and have been immersed in not only socialist/ Marxist philosophy but the belief that they are preordained to govern the masses.  Therefore there is but one enemy — their political opposition, who must be defeated at any cost and by any means possible, ethical or otherwise.  This mindset was bound to lead to excesses that even the many sycophants in the mainstream media could not ignore or effectively sweep under the rug.

Storm clouds gathering — your safety, your freedoms and the Obama White House.  This past week, we learned that the IRS has targeted for additional scrutiny the tax exemption applications of groups with whose messages it disagrees.  We also learned that the Department of Justice obtained the personal telephone records of hundreds of reporters and editors employed by the Associated Press without a search warrant issued by a judge.  And during this past week we learned that the White House, the Department of State and the CIA all engaged in a conspiracy of disinformation so that the official version of events of what caused the murders of four Americans at our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, would not impair Obama's re-election campaign in 2012.

Holder plays dumb.  Attorney General Eric Holder was in a familiar spot yesterday: testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, dodging and weaving and otherwise doing his best imitation of Sgt. Schultz from the old TV show "Hogan's Heroes":  I know nothing.  Scandals at the IRS?  Under investigation, can't comment. Subpoenaed phone records of Associated Press reporters?  How should I know?  I recused myself.  That's not testifying — that's obfuscating.

The Burden Is on Us.  The Obama administration is drowning in the tsunami of its lawlessness. [...] What were [Ambassador] Stevens and others in the U.S. diplomatic corps doing at that Temporary Mission Facility in Benghazi in the first place?  Was the Obama administration running a Middle Eastern version of Fast and Furious?  Were we arming terrorists?  Why were particular organizations investigated and harassed by the IRS, and on whose say?  For what purposes did you snoop on the communications of the Associated Press?  They weren't pliant enough?  The responsibility is on Democrats everywhere, who must, once and for all, put aside their maniacal loyalty to a man who is finally being widely exposed as a tyrant.

Barack Obama's America.  In Barack Obama's America, states cannot be allowed to enforce immigration laws, but they can't be allowed not to enforce health-care laws.  States that won't enforce federal laws against vote fraud get a free pass, while states that do try to abide by federal laws against vote fraud get sued by the feds.  Barack Obama's America is a place where legal subpoenas get ignored, false testimony under oath is cheered, government evades transparency, government watchdogs are hounded from office, and White House access is sold with impunity.

Obama's Scandals Stem from His Lawless Presidency.  Last Friday, after the Associated Press learned about the Justice Department's sweeping seizure of its phone records, AP CEO Gary Pruitt said "there can be no possible justification" for the action.  No doubt that's true.  But there also seems to be no possible justification for the many other scandals now swamping the Obama administration — from Benghazi, to the IRS scandal to the White House's attempt to shake down health companies for ObamaCare money.  Except that they all stem from a common root — President Obama's callous disregard for the rule of law.

A legacy of scandal.  We don't know who gave the order to lie about Fast and Furious, nor about Benghazi, nor about the IRS audits.  The answers to the questions have grave consequences, especially if the IRS campaign of intimidation was orchestrated from the very top.  Nearly four decades ago, the House Judiciary Committee voted 28 to 10 to say that it is an impeachable offense for a president personally, or through his subordinates, to cause "income-tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner."

Does Obama Need [a] Staff Shakeup to Manage Scandals?  President Obama and his insular team are violating almost every principle of crisis management.  Shoot straight.  Ditch the spin.  Don't feed the fire.  Restore trust.  While the West Wing is run by smart and dedicated public servants, their crisis communications instincts are horrible.  They dissemble.  They make things worse.  They undermine the administration's credibility.

A Tainted Campaign?  If it is proven that the IRS thwarted some groups from obtaining tax-exempt status in fear that their traditional or conservative messages might hurt the 2012 Obama campaign (especially if it did so under pressure from White House-affiliated operatives), and if it is proven that the Obama administration deliberately ignored warnings about lax security at the Benghazi consulate, missed real opportunities to send help, or deliberately massaged intelligence reports in order to mislead the pre-election public about the true nature of Benghazi in order to further a false campaign narrative of a near dormant al-Qaeda and a calm progressing post-Qaddafi Libya, then the scandals point to the potential corruption of the electoral process itself.  The election outcome may have been successfully affected by these Machiavellian tactics.  More will come out, as the scandals work themselves up the chain of command.

White House in damage control mode as potential scandals pile up.  The White House was in damage control mode Tuesday [5/14/2013] as an escalating series of potential scandals raised questions about whether officials abused their authority — all while threatening to undermine President Obama's second-term ambitions.

HHS: Nothing improper about Sebelius's ObamaCare fundraising.  The Health and Human Services Department (HHS) says there's nothing illegal or improper about soliciting donations to help promote President Obama's healthcare law.  Republicans leapt at the news that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been asking industry and community groups to donate to Enroll America, an outside organization created to promote the health law and encourage people to enroll in its new coverage options.

30 Reasons To Dislike Barack Obama.  [#30]  Barack Obama may be the most crooked President ever to sit in the Oval Office.  His campaign contributors at Solyndra got 535 million dollars they couldn't pay back and he broke the law to help his union cronies at GE and Chrysler while taxpayers lost 25 billion dollars on the deal.  In a better, more honest world Obama would deserve to face possible JAIL TIME for what he did there.

Obama Taqiyya.  This week, we have witnessed the remarkable spectacle of HHS Secretary Janet Napolitano asserting before that same body that the administration, sworn to uphold the laws duly passed by that august body, has the right to pick and choose which to enforce, and then Eric Holder telling a Latino group that illegal aliens have a civil right to US citizenship.  Until recently, it had been thought that actual citizens had an actual right to expect that the executive branch would enforce the laws that their elected representatives passed on their behalf [...]

Obama inauguration fueled by corporations, unions.  Chevron, Boeing and other companies whose fortunes are heavily dependent on government action or inaction were among the companies that gave $23 million to President Obama for his inauguration party, with the politician who ordinarily demonizes corporate money relying primarily on such sources, rather than individuals, for the $44 million gala in January.  AT&T Inc. gave $4.6 million, Microsoft Corp. gave $2.1 million, oil giant Chevron Corp. and defense contractor Boeing Co. gave $1 million each, and healthcare firm Genentech Inc. gave $750,000, a filing showed this weekend.

How Barack Obama Is Using Health Care to Balkanize America.  What we are now seeing in the country is but one of the many deliberate designs of the Obama administration to pit one group against another and make them beg for some dispensation or waiver.  The class warfare that has been an Obama signature now engages cancer patients and teachers and the military.  Who will be next in line to demand special consideration?  Obama knows only one way to rule — and I do mean rule, since governance has gone by the wayside.  Bribes and special interest group waivers have marked his presidency since the beginning of his term.

EPA Nominee Gina McCarthy Has A History Of Misleading Congress.  President Obama has nominated Gina McCarthy to succeed Lisa Jackson as EPA administrator.  When the Senate takes up her confirmation, lawmakers should be aware that McCarthy, the current chief of air regulation at EPA, has a history of misleading Congress and the public about her agency's greenhouse gas regulations.  At a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in October 2011, McCarthy denied motor vehicle greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards are "related to" fuel economy standards.  In so doing, she denied plain facts she must know to be true.  She did so under oath.

This is what's known as a slush fund.
Obama to call for $2 billion green energy fund.  President Obama in Illinois Friday will call for the creation of a $2 billion Energy Security Trust, which would take government royalties from offshore oil and gas leasing and use the money for research in green-energy technologies. [...] The initiative comes as Republicans pressure Obama to approve construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, a project that would carry oil from Canada to refineries in Texas.  The president has delayed construction of the pipeline because of environmental concerns.

Pump Up the Fraud.  A politically connected engineering company that received massive stimulus contracts has admitted that workers committed widespread fraud under the encouragement of its executives while working on a major taxpayer-funded nuclear cleanup effort.

Did Obama DOJ Nix U.S. Weapons Tech Espionage Probe?  It appears that the Obama Justice Department killed — or at the very least intervened in — a potentially explosive espionage investigation involving the illegal transfer of American weapons technology to China and other foreign countries.  Those who get their news from the mainstream media would never know it, though the scandalous details have been reported in several aerospace trade publications as well as Washington D.C.'s conservative newspaper.

Senator: EPA lied about using private emails.  Environmental Protection Agency officials lied when they said a top official used his private email only once for public business, a Republican senator said Friday [3/8/2013] as he released copies of several emails in which that official conducted business with the EPA's director and with outside groups.

Rumor Check: Obama Uses Obamacare to Pay Off Crony to The Tune of $340 Million.  Even in the absence of definitive proof of cronyism, the checkered record of FIC leaves open the question of why it received such a large amount of federal money.  The existence of such a question implies the need for a greater degree of transparency.  Accusations of cronyism are more plausible when the standards by which such loans are given out are left up to the imagination, and certainly, that is the case when it comes to the funding for those who set up these insurance exchanges.  Hopefully, the congressional investigation into these matters will shed some light on the subject.

Want to meet Obama? It will cost you $500k.  One of my favorite scenes in Lincoln takes place at the White House.  Petitioners from across the United States wait in the lobby for an audience with the president. [...] Those days are over — needless to say.  Unless, that is, you happen to have a spare $500,000.  In which case you too can meet with the president, on a quarterly basis, provided the $500,000 finds its way to Organizing for Action (OFA), the nonprofit, social welfare organization "established to support President Obama in achieving enactment of the national agenda Americans voted for on Election Day 2012."

Organizing For Corruption.  As if it weren't bad enough already that President Obama has decided to keep his campaign machine active as a tax-exempt, "social welfare organization" to advocate his political agenda, it's a fact that anyone who writes a check for $500,000 sits on OFA's "national advisory board" and gets face time with the president four times a year.  That's a lot of access from a president who refuses to answer questions from the press about his actions and rarely ever holds press conferences.  It also renders White House spokesman Jay Carney's blunt denial that the president is selling access for cash total baloney.

Obama administration's multiple Hatch Act violations raise questions.  A troubling pattern of illegal campaigning by government officials, including two members of President Obama's cabinet, is raising questions about the federal oversight agency that monitors such infractions.  The Office of Special Counsel, which investigates federal employees for engaging in partisan politics, previously found that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius did indeed break the law last year when she campaigned for President Obama during an event in North Carolina.  But according to new information obtained by watchdog organization Cause of Action, the DNC improperly reimbursed the federal government for the trip.

Obama's Apparent Pick for Commerce Secretary Has a History of Shady Commerce.  As he continues to fill out his cabinet, a report emerged late Wednesday [2/6/2013] that President Obama is "close to choosing" Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker as America's next Secretary of Commerce.  There's only one problem.  She and her secretive family have been caught up in some pretty dodgy commercial ventures including but not limited to dodging taxes and running a bank that specialized in subprime mortgages.

Obama crony wins contract to give phones to jobless.  A cellphone company whose top executive has close ties to President Obama lobbied for and won a piece of a major new government push to provide Internet service to low-income job-seekers, even though critics say the company's smartphones are poorly suited to the task of helping those in the program find work.  The program's supporters tout it as a way for the unemployed to learn technical skills, to prepare resumes and to search for jobs, but one of the 14 pilot contracts that the FCC awarded went to Miami-based TracFone Wireless Inc.

Long after Election Day, major donors keep giving to Obama.  The Obama organization, which is in the process of transitioning to a nonprofit entity called Organizing for America, transferred $5.5 million to the campaign itself, which will employ the campaign's assets, including its valuable supporter databases, to advance the president's legislative agenda.  That nonprofit will be able to take contributions in unlimited amounts from corporations and wealthy individuals, a first for a sitting president, and one that critics say opens the door to influence-peddling.

The Editor says...
If you send a politician money, but he isn't running for re-election, does that not have the appearance of bribery?

Obama Continues to Violate His Own 'Stimulus' Law by Not Releasing Quarterly Reports.  Have you heard much about President Obama's $787,000,000,000 economic "stimulus" (now estimated to cost $831,000,000,000) lately?  In its last report, published in 2011, the president's own Council of Economic Advisors released an estimate showing that, for every $317,000 in "stimulus" spending that had by then gone out the door, only one job had been created or saved.

Exclusive: Gov't probes possible USAID bid rigs.  Memos from the inspector general of the U.S. Agency for International Development also reveal that there was evidence that Deputy Administrator Donald Steinberg tried to interfere with an internal investigation.

Scandals show the Obama administration is corrupt.  There are real scandals around Obama.  That the media ignores them doesn't make them nonexistent, just as the media's obsession with something doesn't make it a scandal.  Solyndra, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the NLRB suing Boeing, and Lisa Jackson's EPA emails are all serious scandals involving government corruption at the highest levels.  At the minimum they show Obama to be ignorant or indifferent to what's going on in his own administration.

Obama's dirty clean-energy deals.  Three of the country's biggest residential solar-panel installers — SolarCity, SunRun and Sungevity  — have been subpoenaed by Treasury's Office of Inspector General for their financial records to determine if they had inflated the market value of their costs when they applied for federal reimbursement.  The firms have reportedly received more than $500 million in federal grants and tax credits.  Officials in two of them, SolarCity and SunRun, have been among some of Mr. Obama's most generous campaign donors.

National Labor RICO Board.  A recent lawsuit filed in a federal court in California alleges that National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member Richard Griffin was complicit in a scheme to cover up embezzlement at a major labor union by terminating employees who attempted to expose the effort.  The allegations appear in a lengthy complaint filed against the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE).  The lawsuit alleges numerous violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, and names Griffin, IUOE's former general counsel, as a defendant.

Holder's family papers over his ties to abortion doctor.  Eric Holder Jr.'s family is moving fast and furiously to bury the U.S. Attorney General's ties to one of Georgia's most notorious abortion doctors.  Just cleared by an internal report in the "Fast and Furious" gunrunning debacle, the nation's top lawman now faces allegations that his connection to Dr. Tyrone Cecil Malloy is a conflict of interest that helps explain Holder's failure to prosecute abortion providers who run afoul of federal law.

Obama Golfs with Buddy Busted for Soliciting Prostitute.  President Barack Obama is in Hawaii for Christmas.  Right now, he's golfing with White House chef Sam Kass, staffer Marvin Nicholson, and friends Mike Ramos and Bobby Titcomb, according to the White House pool report.  Titcomb was arrested in Honolulu last year for soliciting a prostitute.

Obama begins Hawaiian Christmas vacation by playing golf with friend arrested for soliciting prostitute.  As the nation peers over the edge of the fiscal cliff, President Obama kicked off his Christmas vacation in Hawaii today by playing a round of golf with friends — including his longtime pal Bobby Titcomb, who was arrested last year on suspicion of soliciting a prostitute.

Obama Admin Protected Sex Offender, Helping Re-election.  In a new low for Obama corruption, AP reports that the Homeland Security Department "several times" protected a Democratic senator's registered sex criminal aide from arrest before November's election.

Fair Share: Obama Staffers Owe $833,970 in Back Taxes.  Federal employees as a group owe a whopping $3.4 billion in unpaid taxes, including 1,181 employees of the Treasury Department delinquent on a total of $9.3 million in taxes.

36 Obama aides owe $833,000 in back taxes.  How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no matter how rich, should pay their "fair share" of taxes.  Because how unfair — indeed, un-American — it is for an office worker like, say, Warren Buffet's secretary to dutifully pay her taxes, while some well-to-do people with better educations and higher incomes end up paying a much smaller tax rate.  Or, worse, skipping their taxes altogether.

Bankrupt Obama-stimulus recipient goes to the highest bidder, the highest bidder being China.  The problem here is that in the case of A123 Systems, a manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for electric cards, the Obama administration spoon-fed hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money into what they assured us was a guaranteed-successful endeavor at ushering in the glorious green-energy revolution and leading us down the path of ostensibly necessary energy independence.

Obama donor firm conducted auction in which Chinese company bought US battery maker.  The Chicago law firm that auctioned the assets of failing battery maker A123 Systems Sunday [12/9/2012] to the Chinese company Wanxiang Group is a major Obama campaign donor, records reveal.  A123 received $249 million in funds from President Obama's 2009 stimulus package, and spent at least $132 million of those funds to build two factories in the Greater Detroit area.  The company's bankruptcy and sale to Wanxiang Group means that the Chinese company now owns all of the properties A123 purchased with its stimulus money.

Obama Donors Got $21,000 in Government Money for Every $1 They Gave.  Who says that there are no great investments anymore?

Startup electric car company accuses Energy Department of corruption.  To date, the $25 billion ATVM program has approved just four loan guarantees for Ford, Nissan, Tesla and Fisker, totaling approximately $8.5 billion.  XP alleges those awards were the product of a poorly documented process rife with political cronyism and manipulation, and not based purely on merit.  XP manager Scott Douglas Redmond says his company has several witnesses and more than 5,000 documents to back up its claims that it will reveal during a trial, if one is granted.

Did the Obama "Genuises" Steal the Data?  We all know that there were a myriad of campaign irregularities from Black Panthers turning people away to foreign donations using untraceable single use credit cards, and George Soros paying [an] unprecedented FEC fine for illegally funneling cash to the Obama campaign.  Yet we are told, to just stand in awe that the smartest self-professed lazy student with grades he will not share, is so smart and so tech savvy that he just out thunk us.

Complaint: Sebelius' illegal campaign trip for Obama worse than we thought.  Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius violated federal law by campaigning for President Obama on the taxpayers' dime, but now that initial violation has the Democratic National Committee and an HHS aide in the spotlight for related alleged infractions.  A nonprofit government watchdog filed a complaint alleging that the DNC violated campaign finance law by misreporting the money it spent to reimburse HHS for Sebelius' trip in a way that masked the fact that the Hatch Act, a ban on political campaigning by government employees working in their official capacity, had been violated.