Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a “possible co-conspirator” in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcement official told NBC News on Thursday.

The disclosure of the attorney general’s role came as President Barack Obama, in a major speech on his counterterrorism policy, said Holder had agreed to review Justice Department guidelines governing investigations that involve journalists.

Holder previously said he recused himself from the AP subpoena because he had been questioned as a witness in the underlying investigation into a leak about a foiled bomb plot in Yemen. His role in personally approving the Rosen search warrant had not been previously reported.

Ladies and gentlemen, the fingerprints may finally be on the knife.

The fingerprints belonging to a major player in the OBAMA Cabinet.

James Rosen’s warrant was signed by Eric Holder.

And so: WHY isn’t this splayed all over the national media?

Oh yeah; right.

Obama is so duplicitous.  He mentions the case; he purposely does not mention Eric Holder and does not call for the resignation or firing or prosecution of Eric Holder.

Ben Stein — who worked in the Nixon Administration, just said on O’Reilly: “This is Richard Nixon all over again, minus all the foreign policy achievements.”

BZ

From the New York Daily News:

Soldier ‘beheaded’ in London terror attack, blood covered suspects screamed ‘Allah Akbar’

Two attackers believed shot by police in a brutal confrontation that left a soldier, murdered on a London street in broad daylight.

Video here.

Continuing:

A British soldier was beheaded Wednesday on a London street in a “sickening and barbaric” attack by a pair of cleaver-wielding jihadists, officials and witnesses said.

The brazen and heinous slaying occurred in broad daylight in front of stunned witnesses, who said the attackers screamed “Allah Akbar.” British Prime David Cameron Cameron said the atrocity appeared to be “terror-related.”

With his hands soaked in blood, one of the attackers was filmed on the street right after the attack and made a chilling claim of responsibility.

“We swear by Almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you,” said the attacker, wearing a black watchcap and holding a bloody meat cleaver and a butcher’s knife in his left hand. “The only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day. This British soldier is an eye for an eye a tooth for tooth.”

Some people have said that I am misguided, that I am a religionist, that I am horribly biased, that I write scurrilous rants against Islam, that I accuse Islam of representing nothing more than barbaric, nomadic thugs and misogynists, that they are pederasts who prefer boys to women, prefer death to life — but I say this:

Islam doesn’t need me to make this portrayal.  They already do it so well themselves.

BZ

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Except that, first, she made a self-serving statement, then refused to testify.

“I have not done anything wrong.”

Really?

Except be an obstructionist.

When people think you’re guilty because you plead the Fifth — they’re correct.

BZ

And now the IRS is taking the Fifth?

Because you know, when people start taking the Fifth, you are ON the proper track.

From the UKDailyMail (a foreign news source that I trust):

Top IRS official will invoke the Fifth Amendment in congressional hearing about tea party targeting program

By David Martosko

PUBLISHED: 16:14 EST, 21 May 2013 | UPDATED: 16:51 EST, 21 May 2013

The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday afternoon that Lois Lerner, who heads up the Internal Revenue Service’s tax-exempt division, plans to invoke the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in a hearing Wednesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Affairs.

The Fifth Amendment provides that U.S. citizens may not be compelled to offer testimony if telling the truth would incriminate them.

Lerner’s defense lawyer, William W. Taylor III, wrote to the committee on Tuesday that his client would refuse to answer questions related to what she knew about the extra levels of scrutiny applied to conservative nonprofit organizations that applied for tax-exempt status beginning in 2010.

This just seems to be getting worse.  The IRS, the AP angle, Benghazi, And I find it very difficult not to smile widely at the news, and at the fact that Mr Obama’s tailfeathers seem to find themselves on fire.

The Obama DOJ is doing more to oppress the freedom of the press than the Nixon IRS every dreamed of, or was thought to have done.  More ass-covering over Benghazi than Nixon’s bombing of Cambodia.

Important related links:

• Documents: IRS letters harassing conservative groups came from Washington, DC headquarters and from California offices, despite Inspector General’s focus on Cincinnati employees
• Document: IRS ordered conservative educational group to turn over a list of high school and college students it trained
• Documents: IRS letters harassing conservative groups came from Washington, DC headquarters and from California offices, despite Inspector General’s focus on Cincinnati employees
• Revealed: The 55 questions the IRS asked one tea party group after more than two years of waiting – including demands for names of all its donors and volunteers
• IRS official in charge during tea party targeting is now directing the agency’s health care unit

Sharyl Attkisson’s computers compromised

Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative reporter, says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation.

“I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under some investigation on my end for some months but I’m not prepared to make an allegation against a specific entity today as I’ve been patient and methodical about this matter,” Attkisson told POLITICO on Tuesday. “I need to check with my attorney and CBS to get their recommendations on info we make public.”

Yes, folks, “way back” at Fast & Furious, the Obama Administration was seeking to stem the information that the American public — American Taxpayers — deserve, as an accounting, of where and how our tax money is spent.  Because, make no mistake: these fucktards in DC do what they do only because we fund them.  We pay their salaries, we pay them to create laws to oppress us, we pay them to obfuscate and lie and prevaricate and deflect.  We pay them to work against the best interests of us: American Taxpayers.  Try to wrap your brain around that concept.

The IRS doing what it does best under Obama: oppressing Conservatives and singling them out for .  It’s a culture that shows a complete lack of moral fiber — mirroring nothing more than Mr Obama himself.  It is a Culture of Intimidation.

Freedom of the Press?  Freedom of American Taxpayers whose blood, sweat and tears are funneled to DC?

Sorry maggots, that just doesn’t happen in this administration.  Harder work and more of it, taxpayers.  Then shut the hell up.

Obama the Imperial and his minions have decreed it so.

BZ

P.S.
More: The liberal union behind the IRS funded any and all anti-TEA Party candidates.

Obama and the IRS: the smoking gun?

As Dennis Prager said yesterday “The idea of diversity to the Left is to subvert the idea of merit.”

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I was scurrilously chasing down negative events in the life of Mr Obama (as in) .  .  .

- Tracked movements via key card, traced calls, searched email...
- FLASHBACK: Admin war on FOX...
- REPORT: DOJ Leaked Docs to Smear Fast & Furious Whistleblower...
- Administration's Two-Front War...
- RNC Chief: Obama Creating 'Atomsphere of Guerilla Warfare'...
- Congressman: Impeachment is an option...
- 'Richard Milhous Obama'...

.  .  . whilst in the process of seeking a new post topic, when I came upon this little ditty in the sidebar of a Washington Post article:

Homicides in the District

The Post tracked all homicides in D.C. between 2000 and 2011 to learn what happened to each case. It found that fewer than a third of the homicides have led to a conviction for murder or manslaughter. Find homicides in your neighborhood and see citywide trends here.

Some of my first thoughts:

- And this, DC, an area with a long and proud history of Management By Leftists whose first thought is to create infinite laws proscribing firearms.

- Because, apparently, all those anti-firearm laws have been to the great benefit of DC itself, yes?

- The citizens of DC buttressed, of course, in their witnessing and testimony in the numerous homicide investigations extant and in the past, secure in the knowledge that DC’s firearms laws will ensure their forthright and honest statements to the police, and that those black citizens and their families who have been victimized will stand up for their loved ones who have been heinously gunned down in cold blood.

- Unless, of course, those surviving family members happen to be of the same criminal ilk or gang of the victims and, due to that allegiance, find it incumbent not to cooperate in any fashion with the police.

- Because of the inherent doomed gangbanger and Free Cheese welfare lifestyle they have purposely chosen and purposely and steadfastly refuse to disavow.  This is, after all, black-on-black crime.

For clarity, I now refer to a wonderful 1991 book by David Simon, “Homicide,” which spawned not only the TV show “Homicide” but Simon’s “The Wire” as well, whose detectives believed in the 10 Rules of a Homicide Investigation:

1. Everyone lies. Murderers lie because they have to; witnesses and other participants lie because they think they have to; everyone else lies for the sheer joy of it, and to uphold a general principle that under no circumstances do you provide accurate information to a cop.
2. The victim is killed once, but a crime scene can be murdered a thousand times.
3. The initial 10 or 12 hours after a murder are the most critical to the success of an investigation.
4. An innocent man left alone in an interrogation room will remain fully awake, rubbing his eyes, staring at the cubicle walls and scratching himself in dark, forbidden places. A guilty man left alone in an interrogation room goes to sleep.
5. It’s good to be good; it’s better to be lucky.
6. When a suspect is immediately identified in an assault case, the victim is sure to live. When no suspect has been identified, the victim will surely die.
7. First, they’re red. Then they’re green. Then they’re black. (Referring to the color of an open case on the board, the money that must be spent to investigate the case, and the color of the solved murder as it is listed on the board)
8. In any case where there is no apparent suspect, the crime lab will produce no valuable evidence. In those cases where a suspect has already confessed and been identified by at least two eyewitnesses, the lab will give you print hits, fiber evidence, blood typings and a ballistic match.
9. To a jury, any doubt is reasonable; the better the case, the worse the jury; a good man is hard to find, but 12 of them, gathered together in one place, is a miracle.
10. There is no such a thing as a perfect murder. Always has been, and anyone who tries to prove otherwise merely proves himself naive and romantic, a fool who is ignorant of Rules 1 through 9.

Let us now reflect on the wonders of Leftists and Demorats who began the trend of forcefully and systematically separating black fathers from the family unit in the 60s under the guise of LBJ’s Great Society, and whose steadfast political Free Cheese betrayal has resulted in the outright butchering of hundreds of thousands of black males, women, children, infants and the unborn due to violence and abortion.

Yeah, those gun laws, the Free Cheese, that certainly has had its benefits to the “black community” has it not, ladies and gentlemen?

BZ

Why, yes, I suppose someone did.

Obama got voted into office in his first and second terms because he is black.  Plain and simple.  He’s black enough to vote for, convenient for some, inconvenient for others.  He’s black like this:

Figure 1.  Mr Obama

Not black like this:

Figure 2.  Not Mr Obama

No GOWP would admit it, but their votes are prejudiced in and of themselves.  They would never vote for a black man who appears like Shabazz.  The nose is too flat, the skin too dark, the scowl too offensive, the tattoos, the dreadlocks; no, that simply cannot be.  He is not a “clean” black man.

And that is what GOWPs and other racists who voted for Mr Obama simply because of his melanin count acquired: a “clean” black man and nothing more.  Oh, but wait: with a few other exceptions:

He has NPD, he is arrogant, a megalomaniac, literally raised by Communists and good friends with William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn (both committed white Communist insurrectionists).

His pastor was the Reverend Jeremiah Wright:

Samuel L Jackson admitted he voted for Barack Hussein Obama solely because he was black.  So did an admitted 90% + of black Americans.  And GOWPs weighed in (Guilty Overeducated White People) also for the same reason, because Mr Obama was clean (see Figure A).  Not like the other man (see Figure B).

With Mr Obama, his minions, his sycophants, his supporters, his educators, his creators, it all comes down to one thing: race.  Well, okay, and a few other things as well, to include Cloward-Piven and anarchy and tearing down America.  Heavy sigh.

Racists, all of them; including Mr Obama.  They fail to see people as individuals, they see people only in terms of color.

That said, new headlines from the WCO (Water Carriers for Obama), the New York Times:

White House Aide Calls Criticism of Obama ‘Offensive’

A senior adviser to President Obama mounted a combative defense of the administration on Sunday, saying the controversies enveloping the White House were the result of Republican lawmakers’ trying to “drag Washington into a swamp of partisan fishing expeditions, trumped-up hearings and false allegations.”

He (Dan Pfeiffer) pointedly rejected Republican criticisms of the president’s actions and leadership style as “offensive” and “absurd,” and he said the administration would not be distracted from doing the nation’s business.

And there you have it in one complete and easily summarized little nutshell: those four Americans who died in Benghazi died for nothing, and to demand the truth, an accountability and responsibility during Mr Obama’s watch is “offensive.”

But let’s just complete that sentence, ladies and gentlemen: “the criticism is offensive because _____  __  _____.”

Please allow me to fill in the final three words: “Obama is black.”

How dare you treat Mr Obama like any other president because, after all, Mr Obama is black.  Which makes anyone demanding accountability a racist.

See how easy that was?  It’s called deflection and it works for GOWPs because it stirs up emotions: they feel guilty; it works for blacks because they voted for The Black Man due to his melanin count and nothing more.

Mr Obama helps himself out because of his narrow racial views as well.

He says that, as a “African American” (a hyphenate) you must work “twice as hard.”

My point precisely!  It takes an incredible work ethic to get up at roughly noon in order to sling drugs in the neighborhood.  Oh, that’s right, yes: the neighborhood I see every day, where my wife lives.  It takes an incredible work ethic to open your garage door and invite your partying friends over late at night, drinking beer, smoking dope, and hosting all the local thump cars: dopers in their new Dodge Chargers, Conestoga Wagons, 1975 Cadillacs, black Escalades with spinners (though spinners are so yesterday).  Oh, that’s right, yes: the neighborhood I see every day, where my wife lives.  And it takes an incredible work ethic to be in your 20s and play basketball in your driveway all day, every day, with your 20-something friends as well.  Basketball is hard work!  Oh, that’s right, yes: the neighborhood I see every day, where my wife lives.  Neighbors driving newer cars, with newer toys, TVs, motorcycles, clothing, and seldom leaving the house but for a few minutes.  As in: not going to work.  Oh, that’s right, yes: the neighborhood I see every day, where my wife lives.

It took a black officer of rank on our department tons of sweat and arduous times in order to achieve his position so that he could swive women extramaritally and become corrupt to the point where the administration must keep him out of the way and buried if for no other reason than he can no longer testify in open court.  A man taken right out of the academy and placed into a prestigious unit because — wait for it — he is black.  And throughout all of that no one has fired him because — wait for it — he is black.  Where a white female Captain told me years ago that I would not get promoted because — wait for it — I am a Caucasoid male.  I still hand it to her: that took large balls to tell me the actual truth.

Ah yes, racial clarity: this country is still populated by racists.

But, I submit, they’re precisely the opposite of who you think they are.  And racism, these days, starts right at the top.

Trust me when I tell you: I am so fucking tired of racists playing the race card themselves.

BZ

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius’ latest abuse of power has strengthened the case for her removal from office. Before discussing her latest misconduct, let’s review some of Sebelius’ past abuses of power.

• In 2010, Sebelius described anonymous political speech as “dangerous.” Ironically, Sebelius’ lashing out at her political opponents’ free-speech rights is dangerous because it is the sort of rhetoric that might encourage agencies like the IRS to target groups that “criticize how the country is being run.” That’s exactly what the IRS has admitted doing – which in turn is a good argument for protecting anonymous political speech.
• So too is Sebelius’ 2010 threat to put health insurance companies out of business. Shortly after ObamaCare became law, insurers began telling their customers how much it was going to increase their premiums. In a September 2010 letter to insurers, Sebelius shot back that premiums would rise no more than 2 percent, even as her department predicted increases as high as 7 percent. Insurers that didn’t toe the party line “may be excluded from health insurance Exchanges in 2014.” That was no idle threat, I wrote at the time. Since “Medicare’s chief actuary predicts that in the future, ‘essentially all‘ Americans will get their health insurance through those exchanges,” Sebelius was essentially threatening to put insurers out of business if they disagreed with her.
• In 2011, Sebelius approved her department issuing hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to private health insurance companies under the rubric of ObamaCare that the statute expressly forbids HHS to issue.
• In 2012, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel concluded that Sebelius violated the Hatch Act by campaigning for President Obama and other political candidates while traveling on official business, an offense for which other federal workers are fired.
• In a July 2012 letter to the nation’s governors, Sebelius arbitrarily rewrote and narrowed the Supreme Court’s ruling in NFIB v. Sebelius to allow HHS to continue coercing states into implementing parts of ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion.
• When it became apparent that two-thirds of states would not implement one of ObamaCare’s health insurance “exchanges,” Sebelius dismissed the idea that a lack of congressionally authorized funding for federal Exchanges would stop her department from implementing them. “We are going to get it done,” she said. Now we learn she substituted her own judgment for Congress’ by raiding ObamaCare’s Prevention and Public Health Fund to the tune of $454 million to fund federal Exchanges. But even that wasn’t enough.

But wait; here is the crux of the biscuit:

Now we learn, from the Washington Post’s Sarah Kliff, “Sebelius has, over the past three months, made multiple phone calls to health industry executives, community organizations and church groups and directly asked that they contribute to non-profits that are working to enroll uninsured Americans and increase awareness of the law.”

Once again, Leftist government steamrolling over citizens and organizations in order to ram down a political agenda at the behest of Barack Milhous Obama.

Seen in the media?  Discussed by the American Media Maggots?

Of course not.

And one teeny-tiny thing one might want to consider: this is illegal.

BZ

President Obama “obviously likes giving speeches more than he does running the executive branch,” Chris Matthews said tonight.

“What part of the presidency does Obama like? He doesn’t like dealing with other politicians — that means his own cabinet, that means members of the congress, either party. He doesn’t particularly like the press…. He likes to write the speeches, likes to rewrite what Favreau and the others wrote for the first draft,” Matthews said.

“So what part does he like? He likes going on the road, campaigning, visiting businesses like he does every couple days somewhere in Ohio or somewhere,” Matthews continued. “But what part does he like? He doesn’t like lobbying for the bills he cares about. He doesn’t like selling to the press. He doesn’t like giving orders or giving somebody the power to give orders. He doesn’t seem to like being an executive.”

Hmm.  Not the same words of the formerly-ebullient Chris Matthews who absolutely adored Mr Obama not too terribly long ago.

From Morning Joe:

Yes, you heard correctly:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: He does run the IRS. He runs the Treasury Department. He runs the United States government, and he is accountable for it, and this is nonsensical.

AG Holder is continuing, however, to ensure that Obama’s and Clinton’s collective asses are covered as, below, he refuses to appoint a Special Counsel for Benghazi:

According to Mr Obama’s thoughts and actions, he is clearly an uninvolved third party.  He is not responsible.  He campaigns, he speaks, he pontificates, he scowls, he reads from a TelePrompter.  He believes, however, that to be expected to labor in any significant way in the White House is beneath him.  It should be sufficient to appear at work daily, place his feet on any number of valued and historic White House pieces of furniture, and have praise bestowed upon him (peace be upon him).

Obama is classless, tasteless, an empty egomaniacal suit.  And I have always believed that Mr Obama has NPD.

The train is approaching a switch; it is up to the American Media Maggots to align it properly for the Obama Train.  Will they?

BZ