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Judge Jeanine Pirro - Obama Admin Lied To America! - Benghazi - Opening Statement

Yep... my kind of woman.... ( Oooops PC Violation).  Anyway, it runs almost 12 minutes but it's awesome. Judge Jeanine Pirro really puts the Benghazi whistleblower hearing into perspective and, as always, she doesn't hold back or pull any punches)

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How many layers of scandal will there end up being in Benghazi?  First, we have the talking points being altered (12 times) to cover up the ineptitude of the Obama administration.  Then we have stand down orders that were issues to prevent any military aid from helping our people in harms way.  We have the State Dept. demoting Greg Hicks for questioning the misinformation being given by the administration:

A key Benghazi whistle-blower who has allegedly been punished for speaking out against the administration is a registered Democrat who voted for both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

The lawyer of Gregory Hicks, the former U.S. deputy chief of mission in Libya who testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday, confirmed the information to The Daily Caller on Saturday.

According to the lawyer, Victoria Toensing, Hicks voted for Clinton during the 2008 primary, and for then-Illinois Sen. Obama in the 2008 general election. He again voted for Obama in 2012.

"The fact is he is a registered Democrat in Virginia. The fact is he voted for Hilary in the primary and Obama and then again for Obama," Toensing said.

(Sorry libs, Hicks is not a partisan hack)

 
And then there is this piece that hasn't really gotten much attention at all, that Ambassador Stevens was in Benghazi to help facilitate the transfer of Libyan arms to the Syrian rebels by way of Turkey.

Well just yesterday morning, Geraldo revealed that he has sources telling him the same thing, that indeed Stevens was in Benghazi to help round up shoulder-to-air missiles to send to the Syrian rebels via Turkey.

Geraldo: Sources Tell Him That Benghazi Was About Hiding Shoulder-Fire Missiles Running To Syria

(It isn't only Geraldo sources that think this is the background behind this, many have been saying this from beginning. The reason for all this should and will come out)

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Rand Paul: Hillary Clinton does not deserve higher office due to Benghazi

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/299165-paul-hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-higher-office-due-to-benghazi#ixzz2T6Rgysey


Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's handling of the terrorist attack in Benghazi should "preclude her from holding higher office," according to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).

Paul told a crowd of supporters in Iowa on Friday that any presidential ambitions Clinton might have in 2016 should be stymied by the administration's response to the Libya attack.

"First question to Hillary Clinton: Where in the hell were the Marines?" he said, according to NBC News. "It was inexcusable, it was a dereliction of duty, and it should preclude her from holding higher office."

The administration has come under heavy criticism from Republicans for how it handled the attack, which left four Americans dead, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. In particular, Republicans have questioned whether the administration provided enough security and support to the embassy, and also how the attack was initially characterized afterwards.

Paul has not been shy about discussing his own interest in mounting a presidential run in 2016, and his appearance before the Iowa crowd carried heavy campaign undertones, as he spoke at the Iowa GOP's annual Lincoln Dinner.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) spoke before Paul at the dinner. "The process of selecting the next leader of the free world begins in Iowa, and it's already begun," he said.

In his remarks, Paul said there was a "chance" he could vote for a comprehensive immigration reform package currently working its way through the Senate. He added that the Republican Party needs to find a way to make inroads into demographics where they have not found much success — young voters, Latinos and African-Americans.

"We're an increasingly diverse nation, and I think we do need to reach out to other people that aren't like us, don't look like us, don't wear the same clothes, that aren't exactly who we are," he said. "We're going to have to do something."

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Obama's IRS:
Six times the IRS has been accused of punishing President Obama's political opponents

BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
May 11, 2013 5:47 pm

"President [Michael] Crowe and the Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS,"

—POS/President Obama jokes during his commencement speech at Arizona State University in 2009:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124260113149028331.html
Under President Obama the Internal Revenue Service has repeatedly been accused of using its enforcement powers to punish the White House's political opponents. Here are six of the most egregious examples:

1. The IRS Targeted Conservative Political Organizations for Investigation

On Friday, the IRS admitted that career employees had specifically targeted organizations that had "Tea Party" or "Patriot" in their name.

The harassment of these conservative groups included intrusive and inappropriate questionnaires and a threat to make all the confidential information public. The targeting included explicitly asking for donor lists from conservative organizations as part of their application process.

"We made some mistakes, some people didn't use good judgment. For that, we're apologetic," acknowledged the director of the IRS division overseeing tax-exempt groups, Lois Lerner.

Last year, before a hearing at the House of Representatives, then IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman said, "there's absolutely no targeting. This is the kind of back and forth that happens to people." And still the IRS claims that the targeting of conservative groups was "in no way due to any political or partisan rationale."


2. ProPublica Published Confidential IRS Filings on Six Conservative OrganizationsFrom December 2012 to January 2013,

ProPublica published the confidential pending IRS applications for tax-exempt status of six conservative organizations.

ProPublica acknowledged that the IRS was not supposed to release information on pending claims for tax-exempt status after publishing Crossroad GPS's application.

"[IRS spokeswoman Michelle Eldridge] cited a law saying that publishing unauthorized returns or return information was a felony punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 and imprisonment of up to five years, or both," according to ProPublica.

Despite being informed of the illegality, confidential applications from the five other organizations were discussed in January.


3. Austan Goolsbee, Then Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, Divulged on a Conference Call Confidential IRS Information on How Koch Industries Was Organized

In a background call with reporters, a "senior administration official" used Koch Industries as an example of how large corporations used corporate structures to avoid taxes.

In the course of attacking Koch Industries, which employs over 50,000 people and is owned by prominent conservative philanthropists Charles and David Koch, the official divulged confidential tax information about the company. The official was later outed as Austan Goolsbee, the former director of the president's Economic Recovery Board and then chair of the Council Of Economic Advisers.

"Neither the Koch website nor Forbes' list of private companies has information regarding Koch's tax filling status. This is confidential information," according to Koch Industries lawyer Mark Holden.

In 2010 an investigation led by the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, Russell George, was opened after Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee requested it. The results of the investigation have not been publicly communicated, and will not be released unless Senate Democrats permit it.




4. Donors to Nonprofit Advocacy Groups Were Told that Past Donations Could Be Taxed as Gifts

After not levying a gift tax for decades, the IRS investigated five donors to political advocacy nonprofits. Among those to receive letters threatening additional levies and taxes was conservative philanthropist Foster Friess, and the move was widely seen as an attempt to intimidate conservative organizations and donors on the eve of the 2010 midterm elections.

"Retroactive enforcement of the gift tax in this highly politicized environment raises legitimate concerns and demands further explanation," six Republican senators, lead by Sen. Orrin Hatch, said in a letter to the IRS.

The agency was forced to abandon its efforts to enforce the rarely used gift tax on donations, acknowledging that, "This is a difficult area... with respect to which we have little enforcement history." Again, the agency blamed "career civil servants."


5. After Being Singled Out by an Obama Campaign Website, a Romney Supporter Was Investigated by The IRS and the Department of Labor[/b

]During President Obama's reelection campaign, Frank VanderSloot, a contributor to pro-Romney campaign organizations, was said by the Obama campaign to have a "less-than-reputable record" and to be a "bitter foe of the gay rights movement."

A few months later, VanderSloot and his wife were told by the IRS they were being audited for the first time, looking over two years of past fillings.

Two weeks later, the Department of Labor informed VanderSloot that he was being investigated to ensure the three foreign workers he employs on his ranch received "the full scope of protections."


6. The IRS Claims It Can Read Your Emails without a Warrant
According to documents released last month under the Freedom of Information Act, the IRS "has long taken the position that the IRS can read your emails without a warrant—a practice that one appeals court has said violates the Fourth Amendment." That news came last month from the ACLU, which which had filed the FOIA request.

IRS lawyers asserted that Americans are entitled to "generally no privacy" in their online communications—including email.

CNET reported that "the IRS continued to take the same position, the documents indicate, even after a federal appeals court ruled in the 2010 case U.S. v. Warshak that Americans have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their e-mail."

Bonus: Under Obamacare, the IRS Will Become the Key Enforcer on Health Care

Once Obamacare is fully implemented in 2014, the IRS will enforce 47 new tax provisions along with distributing subsidies to 18 million people and tax credits to small businesses.

The Treasury Department expects the cost of enforcement from 2010 to 2013 to total $881 million. Former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman informed Congress last year the agency would need an additional $13.1 billion in 2014.

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Time For A Change, Obuma Says

Daily Hornblower
by Y.Lee Coy Otee

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obuma announced Monday morning with David Cameron, UK Prime Minister, by his side,  that he is resigning from the presidency effective immediately Tuesday and moving to the United Kingdom.

According to a White House press release, Obuma has lost all hope for the country after yesterday morning's shooting of Bill Maher at the Playboy Club in upstate New York that took place, less than two weeks after the Cleveland abduction case.

"This country has some pretty tough issues to tackle after all the problems that the republicans have caused over Benghazi and the IRS.  And also, I don't have the patience or the stomach to debate common sense gun control legislation with ultra right-wing goons like NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre," Obuma said.

The president went on to say that he has greatly enjoyed his time in the White House and looks forward to the accomplishments of the new Biden administration.

"Sunny days are in store for this great country as soon as I leave," Obuma said.  "And I can't wait to watch all the exciting changes from my new London flat."

He ended his announcement with a simple plea to the American people.

"Please understand what an incredibly difficult decision this was for me," he said.  "I ask that you forgive me for this choice, and that you show Plugs the same love and support that you've shown me."

Obuma is scheduled to depart for London on May 24th, along with former First Lady Mooch Obuma, their daughters, Sasha and Malia, and the family dog, Bo.

Plugs Biden will be  sworn in as the 45th president of the United States Tuesday afternoon.  He announced that he will nominate Hillary Clinton for Vice President.

[jarhead]

Warph,
If you don't quit building up my hope, then be dashed when I discover you're joking, I'm gonna come to Az. and beat the crap out of you. Guess we can hope and pray though---let us all now bow our heads -------

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Warph,
If you don't quit building up my hope, then be dashed when I discover you're joking, I'm gonna come to Az. and beat the crap out of you. Guess we can hope and pray though---let us all now bow our heads -------

Don't bother, Jar.... Slappy took care of that yesterday when he 2-holed on a 4 par hole.  The black-bomber hit his second shot and holed it out.  I bogeyed the rest of the way in.  BTW... did you read about Larryj buying a new microwave? 

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Nixonian: Obama Regime Seizes AP Reporters' Phone Records For
Over 20 Separate Lines, More Than 100 Journalists Affected... Keep Tuned

Who dat?  Tricky Dicky or Liar Barack

(AP must have been shocked by this seizure.  They thought Obuma was their buddy.  The Wassen SS has its eye on everybody.  No exceptions.... perhaps this will finally wake them up to the monster THEY nurtured.  No other administration in history would have been allowed to get away with spying on the press like this.)

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 incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.

In all, the government seized those 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 whose 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.

"There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP's newsgathering operations, and disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know," Pruitt said.

The government would not say why it sought the records. U.S. officials have previously said in public testimony that the U.S. attorney in Washington is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have leaked information contained in a May 7, 2012, AP story about a foiled terror plot. The story disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot in the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United States.

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Obama: Republicans are making Americans 'cynical about government'

(Yeah.... nothing to do with the Benghazi, IRS and AP records scandals)

http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-republicans-are-making-americans-cynical-about-government/article/2529584?custom_click=rss

President Obama resorted to his old "fever" analogy to complain to Democratic Party donors about ongoing Republican "hyper-partisanship." He also admitted to failing to deliver the post-partisan era promised in 2008.

"What's blocking us right now is a sort of hyper-partisanship in Washington that I was, frankly, hoping to overcome in 2008," Obama said today, according to the pool report. "My thinking was when we beat them in 2012 that might break the fever, and it's not quite broken yet. But I am persistent. And I am staying at it. And I genuinely believe there are Republicans out there who would like to work with us but they're fearful of their base and they're concerned about what Rush Limbaugh might say about them."

The president — whose administration has spent the last four days under fire for failing to send aid to Americans under attack in Benghazi; hiding what it knew about terrorists' involvement in the attack for two weeks; employing IRS staff who targeted Tea Party groups for special audits; and having the Justice Department pull phone records of Associated Press reporters  — then said that the Republican opposition is producing cynicism about government.

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Obama To Young People: Obamacare
Will Make Your Dreams Come True...

(More like their worst nightmares)

(CNSNews.com) – In an event on Friday at the White House to promote the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama said that the law will provide insurance for young people despite how many times they change jobs or even careers.

"If you're a young person expecting to try many different jobs and careers until you find one that suits you, you'll be able to buy insurance that goes with you, travels with you, that gives you the freedom to pursue whatever you want without the fear that illness or accident somehow derails your dreams," Obama said.

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From Politico:

Plugs: "I've Gained Too Much Wisdom To Offer Any Advice"

(From the guy who can barely tie his own shoes)

Vice President Joe Biden didn't offer much advice to graduates at the University of Pennsylvania's commencement on Monday, but he did have a bit to share.

"Don't listen to the cynics ... they were wrong about my generation and they're wrong about yours," he said, after listing a string of technological advancements to which this generation of graduates will contribute. Before he spoke, Biden was awarded an honorary Master of Laws.

"For all the uncertainty you will hear the future is in your control," he said, later adding: "Show us what you do because you will be able to do more ... than any other generation in the history of the world."

But, for the most part, Biden wasn't offering advice. "I've gained too much wisdom to offer any advice," he said.