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BREAKING: Lois Lerner held in contempt of Congress

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Lois LernerThe House Oversight and Government Reform Committee officially voted Wednesday to hold former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress. The 21 to 12 vote broke down along party lines, with Republicans voting yes and Democrats voting no.

The case will now be referred to AG Eric Holder in consideration for the convention of a grand jury, or other options.  The vote was actually 231 to 187 in the House.  Can you say, again, “party lines”?

Here’s what will happen:

Nothing.

She will not be indicted, she won’t spend a microsecond in confinement.  The actions of Congress will ultimately mean nothing.  Eric Holder will ensure this.

Behind the scenes, Lois Lerner is smiling, backslapping her attorneys and knocking back a few drinks after calling Holder and confirming his inaction.

This is nothing more than Kabuki Theatre for the ignorant.

BZ

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Privacy: again, the American Taxpayer LOSES

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LPR System on Police VehicleAnd now the IRS wants access to LPR technology — license plate readers.

From Bloomberg.com:

IRS Among Agencies Using License Plate-Tracking Vendor

by Kathleen Miller

The Internal Revenue Service and other U.S. agencies awarded about $415,000 in contracts to a license plate-tracking company before Homeland Security leaders dropped a plan for similar work amid privacy complaints.

Federal offices such as the Forest Service and the U.S. Air Force’s Air Combat Command chose Livermore, California-based Vigilant Solutions to provide access to license plate databases or tools used to collect plate information, according to government procurement records compiled by Bloomberg.

Vigilant, a closely held company, has received such work since 2009. In February, Jeh Johnson, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, ordered the cancelation of an immigration agency plan to buy access to national license plate data. While the technology can help solve crimes, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have said the mass collection of data infringes the privacy of innocent people.

“Especially with the IRS, I don’t know why these agencies are getting access to this kind of information,” said Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based privacy-rights group. “These systems treat every single person in an area as if they’re under investigation for a crime — that is not the way our criminal justice system was set up or the way things work in a democratic society.”

WHY, I ask, would the IRS require access to LPR information?  Why would the USAF Air Combat Command?  For what purpose, to what end?

See this story, also.

Because, as I am about to reveal, LPR technology is everywhere and becoming a standard in law enforcement — my agency included.

Those unfamiliar with LPR technology should realize that these systems are already in place with many local and state law enforcement agencies nationwide.  Readers, attached to the roofs of LE vehicles (see above), collect license plate information from motor vehicles parked in lots and elsewhere.

Motorola, an LPR manufacturer, writes:

Enhance your officers’ safety and productivity while maximizing your department’s revenue. Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) delivers the ability to read vehicle license plates and check them against an installed database for rapid identity verification. The license plate recognition system has been used to locate stolen or wanted vehicles and identify parking-ticket scofflaws.

This rapidly deployable, scalable solution uses rugged infrared cameras that connect to leading-edge optical character recognition (OCR) technology software, allowing you to conduct surveillance under varied lighting and weather conditions. Captured information is immediately processed, and you are alerted only when a “hit” occurs.

Back Office System Server (BOSS) Software

  • Database formatting including ability to customize PAGIS screens and alarms based on system “hits”
  • Import of national and regional databases:
  • Ability to map all locations related to a single license plate to track movements
  • Ability to cross-reference perpetrator ID number (driver’s license, social security, etc.) with license plate database

Law enforcement, therefore, has the potential to become another smaller but still intrusive NSA.  The “take” from LPR technology is sent to various LE local points and can readily be kept on local servers.  Depending upon various orders and policies, this information is dumped or stored.  I would tend to place my money on the latter.

And here comes the If/Then equation: if the information is stored and retrievable, then it can be sifted and filtered for times, dates, locations — tracking purposes.  Note the information above.  These systems can be melded and made compatible with other systems for informational sharing purposes.

That said, should not what I call the Logical Extension be implemented now?  That is, various and sundry federal LE systems demanding to tap into virtually unlimited information gathered by local and state law enforcement entities?  To be further kept on larger federal servers and systems?

Big Brother anyone?  Again?

Big Brother B&WWhen and where does it end?  And why the resounding silence on behalf of most of the media and the populace?

Might I suggest to the NSA and to the rest of the federal government that seems to have no problem intruding into every nook and cranny of my life and the lives of other Americans: do what I had to do when I was a Detective and wanted to advance my cases.

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Potential results of the Bundy Ranch, the IRS, ObamaCare and illegal immigration, in summary:

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Cruz-on-obamas-lawsIf the feds keep arbitrarily “picking and choosing” which laws they wish to enforce, the electorate is left with no other option but the same thing: picking and choosing which laws THEY wish to obey. Or not.

BZ

 

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Obama continues to LIE: the Bill O’Reilly interview on Super Bowl Sunday

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Obama LiesOn Super Bowl Sunday, in an interview with Fox’s Bill O’Reilly, Mr Barack Hussein Obama continued to LIE, and in a bald faced way, to the American public.  His SOTU last week was the lowest-rated in years due to its empty rhetoric.  He was unimpressive last week and he was unimpressive with O’Reilly — but, at least, was consistent in his insistence on lying to the American Taxpayer.

Obama doesn’t “prevaricate,” he doesn’t “shade,” he doesn’t “hedge,” he doesn’t make a “falsehood,” he doesn’t “invent,” he doesn’t “fictionalize.”  He LIES.

Throughout the interview, Obama consistently tried to overtalk O’Reilly again and again and again.  Mr Obama possesses no cogent argument other than to push the issue back into the face of Fox and make it personal and the responsibility of a media network and not the President of the United States.

Obama believes that he is clearly The Smartest Guy In The Room, no matter where he goes.  And that is a derailment factor.

Obama promulgates a pattern of deception and outright lies that I haven’t before witnessed from a sitting president in my 60+ years.

The ten minute interview is below; the transcript is here.

Excerpts from the interview:

O’REILLY: And I’m paying Kathleen Sebelius’ salary and she screwed up.

OBAMA: Yes.

O’REILLY: And you’re not holding her accountable.

OBAMA: Yes, well, I… I promise you that we hold everybody up and down the line accountable. But when we’re…

O’REILLY: But she’s still there.

OBAMA: …when we’re in midstream, Bill, we want to make sure that our main focus is how do we make this thing work so that people are able to sign up?

And that’s what we’ve done.

O’REILLY: All right.

A LIE.  Obama holds no one accountable, least of all himself.

O’REILLY: All right.

Libya, House Armed Services testimony, General Carter Ham, you know, the general?

OBAMA: Yes. Right.

O’REILLY: Security in Africa.

OBAMA: Yes.

O’REILLY: He testified that on the day that the ambassador was murdered and the three other Americans, all right, he told Secretary Panetta it was a terrorist attack. Shortly after Ham, General Ham, said that, Secretary Panetta came in to you.

OBAMA: Yes.

O’REILLY: Did he tell you, Secretary Panetta, it was a terrorist attack?

OBAMA: You know what he told me was that there was an attack on our compound…

O’REILLY: He didn’t tell you…

OBAMA: (INAUDIBLE)

O’REILLY: …he didn’t use the word “terror?”

OBAMA: You know, in… in the heat of the moment, Bill, what folks are focused on is what’s happening on the ground, do we have eyes on it, how can we make sure our folks are secure…

O’REILLY: Because I just want to get this on the record…

OBAMA: So, I…

O’REILLY: …did he tell you it was a terror attack?

OBAMA: Bill… and what I’m… I’m answering your question. What he said to me was, we’ve got an attack on our compound. We don’t know yet…

O’REILLY: No terror attack?

OBAMA: …we don’t know yet who’s doing it. Understand, by definition, Bill, when somebody is attacking our compound…

O’REILLY: Yes?

OBAMA: …that’s an act of terror, which is how I characterized it the day after it happened. So the… so the question ends up being who, in fact, was attacking us?

A LIE.  Obama did NOT characterize it as a terror attack the day after.  He and Clinton characterized it as an uprising from a video.

O’REILLY: …but I just want to say that they’re… your detractors believe that you did not tell the world it was a terror attack because your campaign didn’t want that out.

OBAMA: Bill, think about…

O’REILLY: That’s what they believe.

OBAMA: …and they believe it because folks like you are telling them that.

Because, Mr Obama, that just happens to be the TRUTH.  And Barack Hussein Obama is the world’s best filibusterer and consistently refuses to answer questions that aren’t the most base of softballs.

O’REILLY: OK, so you don’t… you don’t recall seeing Shulman, because what some people are saying is that the IRS was used…

OBAMA: Yes.

O’REILLY: …at a… at a local level in Cincinnati, and maybe other places to go after…

OBAMA: Absolutely wrong.

O’REILLY: …to go after.

OBAMA: Absolutely wrong.

O’REILLY: But how do you know that, because we… we still don’t know what happened there?

OBAMA: Bill, we do… that’s not what happened. They… folks have, again, had multiple hearings on this. I mean these kinds of things keep on surfacing, in part because you and your TV station will promote them.

And once again Mr Obama tries to bullshit his way out of being pinned down.  He LIES once again.

And the greatest, most bald-faced and blatant LIE of all?  See if you can get past reading this:

O’REILLY: You’re saying no corruption (about the IRS)?

OBAMA: No.

O’REILLY: None? No?

OBAMA: There were some — there were some bone-headed decisions…

O’REILLY: Bone-headed decisions…

OBAMA: …out of… out of a local office…

O’REILLY: But no mass corruption?

OBAMA: Not even mass corruption, not even a smidgeon of corruption, I would say.

No.  Not even a “smidgeon of corruption” by the IRS.  Not a molecule.  A LIE.  A HUGE LIE.

O’REILLY: OK. I got a letter from Kathy La Master, Fresno, California. I said I would read one letter from the folks, all right?

OBAMA: All right.

O’REILLY: Mr. President, why do you feel it’s necessary to fundamentally transform the nation that has afforded you so much opportunity and success?

OBAMA: I don’t think we have to fundamentally transform the nation…

O’REILLY: But those are your words.

Another LIE.  How about a little video, Mr Obama:

Dana Milbank from the Washington Post recently took O’Reilly to task in an editorial, here.  He thinks Bill O’Reilly was disrespectful and rude.

But this time, O’Reilly gave only a passing pleasantry at the end (“I think your heart is in the right place”) and otherwise was hostile from the start. He leaned forward in his seat, waving his pen and pointing his finger at the president. He shook his head doubtfully at some of Obama’s answers.

Well boo-hoo-hoo, Mr Milbank, Bill O’Reilly actually stood some ground and at least attempted to acquire some answers — which Barack Hussein Obama deflected and filibustered.  O’Reilly waved a pen!  O’Reilly leaned forward!  Heinous!  Despicable!  Apparently you interpret journalists attempting to do what journalists do as rudeness.  Reverse the role.  Now insert GW Bush.  No objection from you, I’d submit.  Bush must pay!  O’Reilly as Dick Cheney!

Dick Cheney Can Kill YouI’ve already written about how Mr Obama lies about his lies.  Obama’s deceptive statements were deliberate and were intended to bolster his ability to get Obamacare passed in 2010 and get him reelected in 2012, according to aides cited in a Wall Street Journal article.

As I documented here and here and here and here and here, Obama lies and covers up his lies.  And the gullible and the idiots in American continue to sup up his dirty bowl of lies.

Various media forms are saying Bill O’Reilly was “rude” in his interview with Mr Obama.  I say that Bill O’Reilly was much more taciturn than I’ve seen him in a while.  I also submit that it was, instead, Mr Obama who was rude.  Note how many times Obama attempts to verbally steamroller over O’Reilly and interrupts him.

Obama was, once again, a petulant child in his interview with Bill O’Reilly.

And, once again, Obama spewed lie after lie after lie.

BZ

 

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The fed collects a record amount of taxes

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DC LiesFrom CNSNews.com:

By Terence P. Jeffrey

(CNSNews.com) – The federal government raked in a record of approximately $2,472,542,000,000 in tax revenues through the first eleven months of fiscal 2013, which ran from Oct. 1, 2012 through the end of August, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement for August.

That is up about $285 billion from the approximately $2,187,527,000,000 in taxes the government took in through August of fiscal 2012.

Despite these record tax revenues, the federal government still accumulated a $755 billion deficit in the first eleven months of fiscal 2013. Totally federal spending through the first eleven months of the fiscal year was $3.228 trillion.

At the end of last year, the president struck a deal with Republicans in Congress at the to enact legislation that increased taxes. This included pushing the top income tax rate from 35 percent to 39.6 percent, increasing the top tax rate on dividends and capital gains from 15 percent to 20 percent, and phasing out personal exemptions and deductions starting at an annual income level of $250,000.

An additional 3.8 percent tax on dividends, interests, capital gains and royalties–that was embedded in the Obamacare law–also took effect this year.

And yet the DebtClock keeps rolling and rolling and rolling.

BZ

 

 

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