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Newest Obama Admin abortion: Gov’t obtains wide AP phone records in probe

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Obama-tapped-AP-1024x420Welcome to the world of Barack Milhous Schicklgruber Obama, king of the current Scandal Trifecta:

1) Benghazi.  Click here for my links to the Benghazi murders.

2) The IRS Gestapo orders audits on only Conservative outlets such as various factions of the TEA Party Patriots, as early as 2010 — groups that were critical of the Obama Administration.  Senior IRS officials have known about this for as long as two years:

ABC News actually dares to write:

The targeting of conservatives by the IRS started earlier and was more extensive than the IRS acknowledged last week, according to a draft IRS inspector general report obtained by ABC News.

As we reported on “Good Morning America” this morning, the IRS began targeting “Tea Party or similar organizations” in March 2010. That was when the Cincinnati-based IRS unit responsible for overseeing the applications for tax exempt status starting using the phrases “Tea Party,” “patriots” and “9/12″ to search for applications warranting greater scrutiny.

During this first phase, 10 Tea Party cases were identified. By April of 2010, 18 Tea Party organizations were targeted, including three that had already been approved for tax-exempt status.

By June 2011, the unit had flagged over 100 Tea Party-related applications and the criteria used to scrutinize organizations had grown considerably, flagging not just “Tea Party” or “Patriot” in group names, but also groups that were working on issues like “government debt,” “taxes” and even organizations making statements that “criticize how the country is being run.”

But that’s not all.  The UKMailOnline reveals:

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

  • Lengthy questionnaire arrived more than two years after the Richmond Tea Party applied for tax-exempt status
  • IRS demanded ‘names of the donors, contributors, and grantors‘ and insisted: ‘Please identify your volunteers’
  • Tax collectors began in 2012 to scrutinize conservative nonprofits more closely than others
  • Documents show senior IRS officials in Washington knew of the practice as early as August 2011, but the White House says it learned last month

The IRS ultimately identified approximately 300 such organizations, many of which were independently organized in 2009 and 2010 under the larger ‘tea party’ banner. Those groups had a decisive impact in the 2010 midterm congressional elections, and became a thorn in the side of the Democratic party, costing it race after race, especially in the House of Representatives, which shifted to Republican control.


Don’t you wonder why, for example, MoveOn.org wasn’t targeted?  Or any other Leftist organization?  If there is evidence of this, I ask: bring it forward.  I am quite satisfied there is no such thing, meaning: this was no mistake.  This was no “oopsie” event.  This was COORDINATED and it was PURPOSEFUL and it was KNOWN right up to the topmost levels of the IRS, the Treasury and perhaps even Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner — who himself is a known tax cheat. 
This wasn’t a mistake, it was a purposeful series of events given permission from the highest of management.  Individual IRS case officers don’t, for example, tell their supervisors what they will or will not investigate.  Their managers tell them.
And, as with Fast & Furious, a concerted series of investigatory events don’t pass unnoticed or unapproved by upper management in any federal investigatory management system.  Up to and including the AUSA and beyond.  The federal system doesn’t work off the concept of a “fresh arrest,” which is an alien concept.  As with the FBI, there is a pre-investigation and then the investigation itself — but only when approved.
Let there be no confusion: this wasn’t a Mistake.  It was a Purpose.  People need to not only be fired, but CRIMINALLY PROSECUTED for the violation of USC code sections.

 

The IRS wants all your personal medical information as well.

Even Tom Brokaw says: “I’m offended by the IRS.”

“I’m offended by it,” Brokaw continued. “This is not a political issue or a conservative or a liberal issue. It really is about trusting your government especially when it comes to one of the most sensitive parts.”

Now:

3) The DOJ is found to have tapped the phone records of Associated Press (AP) reporters for months.  From the AP:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.

The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls.

In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown, but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.

In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies.

First thought: only when reporters are personally affected do the American Media Maggots somehow locate the air their lungs require to actually object to the rights-killing abominations of the Obaka Administration.  They — reporters — are sacrosanct; everyone else, fodder and grist for the mill.

Final thought about Mr Obama’s Umbrage Central: he objects vocally to the IRS events, which means he has NO skin in that game.  He, on the other hand, has MUCH skin in the Benghazi game which results in his vocal and continuing denial of responsibility.

I can only hope that Mr Obama is popping Tums and drinking pink cement in quarts, daily.

That would make me smile widely.

BZ

P.S.

As one USAF general told my father at dinner in our on-base house one evening in the late 60s: “I don’t get ulcers; I give them.”

 

 

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Obamacare: Taxpayers Must Report Personal Health ID Info to IRS

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Govt Big EnuffEverything you were told about ObakaKare, that wouldn’t happen — like being able to retain your own doctor, no death panels, less expensive — is happening.

From Americans For Tax Reform:

So why will the Obama IRS require your personal identifying health information? 

Simply put, there is no way for the IRS to enforce Obamacare’s individual mandate without such an invasive reporting scheme.  Every January, health insurance companies across America will send out tax documents to each insured individual.  This tax document—a copy of which will be furnished to the IRS—must contain sufficient information for taxpayers to prove that they purchased qualifying health insurance under Obamacare.

This new tax information document must, at a minimum, contain: the name and health insurance identification number of the taxpayer; the name and tax identification number of the health insurance company; the number of months the taxpayer was covered by this insurance plan; and whether or not the plan was purchased in one of Obamacare’s “exchanges.”

This will involve millions of new tax documents landing in mailboxes across America every January, along with the usual raft of W-2s, 1099s, and 1098s.  At tax time, the 140 million families who file a tax return will have to get acquainted with a brand new tax filing form.  Six million of these families will end up paying Obamacare’s individual mandate non-compliance tax penalty.

Those 14,000 new IRS agents?  Yes, they’re there in order to review your taxes with a fine-toothed comb.  Your federal colonoscopy, at one time only guaranteed by the TSA, is now guaranteed by the TSA and the IRS.

If you’re at least a bit Libertarian, like me, then you value your privacy.

With ObakaKare, you can kiss your privacy absolutely good-bye.

BZ

 

 

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From ABC News, Exclusive: Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference

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benghazi-obamaThe Benghazi event is such an abortion on toast, even a few of the American Media Maggots are starting to, very grudgingly, come around.  Still and all, ABC calls what most people would term lies as “flaws.”  To wit:

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When it became clear last fall that the CIA’s now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community, but White House documents reviewed by Congress suggest a different story.

ABC News has obtained 12 different versions of the talking points that show they were extensively edited as they evolved from the drafts first written entirely by the CIA to the final version distributed to Congress and to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice before she appeared on five talk shows the Sunday after that attack.

Are the winds beginning to slightly shift?

BZ

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Benghazi witness says State Dept told him not to meet with Congressional investigators

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Gregory HicksFrom BuzzFeed:

Deputy chief of mission for the U.S. in Libya Gregory Hicks testified Wednesday that he was told not to meet with a congressman sent to investigate the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. Hicks said a State Department lawyer accompanied the delegation and attempted to be in every single meeting he was involved in.

Amazing testimony but — guess what?  Whilst these vitally important hearings occurred on Wednesday, would it shock you to know that CNN was conspicuously absent?  Instead, CNN was camped out on a minor crime scene in Cleveland.

Mr Hicks further testified regarding US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice and her talking points post-Benghazi:

Furthermore, Mr Hicks goes on to say the Benghazi scene was unsecured for 18 days:

If not bad enough, clear evidence indicated a poorly-produced video had nothing to do with the events of Benghazi:

Further damning, from the Washington Examiner:

Email: Senior State Dept. officials knew terrorists had attacked Benghazi before Rice interviews

From the UKDailyMailOnline:

Secret email reveals top official told Libya’s U.S. Ambassador that terrorists were behind Benghazi attack – four days BEFORE U.S. Ambassador to UN said it was a spontaneous attack

  • Sept. 11: Terrorists attack the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya
  • Sept. 12: State Dept. Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs tells Libya’s President that Ansar al-Sharia was responsible
  • Sept. 13: CIA writes candid talking points for members of Congress
  • Sept. 15: White House deputies edit the talking points, removing all references to Islamic terrorism
  • Sept. 16: UN Ambassador Susan Rice, in five television interviews, blames the attack on a spontaneous mob angered by an anti-Islam YouTube video

A top State Department appointee told Libya’s ambassador to the United States one day after the military-style assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that the terror group Ansar al-Shariah was responsible. 

But four days later, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations said on television that it was the product of a spontaneous protest.

During a fiery and emotional congressional hearing on the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Rep. Trey Gowdy read aloud from an email dated Sept. 12, 2012 to senior State Department officers, from Elizabeth Jones, the acting Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.

Describing a conversation she had with then-Libyan ambassador Ali Aujali, Jones wrote in the previously undisclosed email that ‘I told him that the group that conducted the attacks, Ansar al-Sharia, is affiliated with Islamic terrorists.’

‘Let me say that again,’ Gowdy emphasized during the hearing: ‘She told him.’

Which means the five different TV shows visited by Susan Rice that immediate Sunday following the Benghazi Murders were nothing more than FALSE “talking points” conjured up by the Demorat DC regime of Barack Hussein Obama in concert with Hillary Rodham Clinton.

And here’s another tidbit: there had been 230 attacks against US and allied installments in Libya and 48 of those in Benghazi in the year prior to the 9/11/12 attack.  CIA developed intelligence which indicated there was a massive likelihood that a major terror event would be staged on 9/11/12.

The motivation for all the Benghazi lies is this base and venal: a presidential election hinged on and was based upon a fraud perpetrated by those who purposely lied about the events of Benghazi in order to keep Demorat presidential power in DC.  No more, no less.  The fragile election could brook no scandal.  And the American Media Maggots, complicit, did and are doing their level best to quash Benghazi wholesale.  Witness CNN.

The AMM could not have Mr Obama countered, as he had recently sworn to the American public that he had alQaeda “on the run.”  And Hillary?  As the Next Ordained One, she absolutely cannot have her star tarnished by such a rudimentary and stupid thing as a few petty Americans getting wiped out in some piss-ant country full of sand that would offend her ankles.  Pah!

What does it say about our Secretary and State and our Secretary of Defense, who do not get back on the line to talk to the Number One remaining administrator in Benghazi following the attack?  Were they otherwise occupied?  Were there other murders occurring in consulates around the world which would divert their attention?  Was American Idol on TV?  Did they need to clean their office fish tanks?  Buff their nails?

Let me make this abundantly clear for the possible PC amongst us: I couldn’t care less, not one molecule, about some women held captive in Ohio or some female convicted of killing her husband.  The Benghazi Murders are infinitely more important in terms of the position of our country and our regime in DC.  CNN has made its bed and made its continuous and current fellating of DC Demorats more than abundantly clear.  Satisfying blow jobs that, obviously, shall not stop until an opposite regime is installed.

There are crimes here, ladies and gentlemen.  Intimidating witnesses.  Obstruction.  Perhaps even the suborning of perjury.

Are you listening?

BZ

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