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Uh-Oh: Hillary´s Benghazi
Scapegoat Speaks Out

Breitbart´s Big Peace, by John Sexton Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 5/21/2013 3:13:04 AM Post Reply

The Daily Beast reports that one of the Benghazi fall guys is refusing to take the fall. Raymond Maxwell was put on indefinite leave by the State Department after its Administrative Review Board (ARB) investigation of Benghazi for reasons that are still unknown to him. The person he claims made the decision to cast him out was Cheryl Mills--Hillary Clinton´s former chief of staff and counsel at the State Department. It is the second time Mills´ name has turned up during scrutiny of the State Department´s response to the attack. According to a new report by Josh Rogin: "On the

Guatemalan Court Overturns
Genocide Conviction of Ex-Dictator

New York Times, by Elisabeth Malkin Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/21/2013 3:01:10 AM Post Reply

Mexico City - Guatemala’s highest court on Monday threw out the genocide conviction and prison sentence of the former dictator Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt. The decision by Guatemala’s Constitutional Court was a dramatic legal victory for General Ríos Montt, 86, and a blow to human rights advocates who had called his conviction a sign that Guatemala’s courts would no longer allow impunity for the country’s powerful. General Ríos Montt was sent to prison immediately after the verdict on May 10 when a three-panel tribunal found him guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity.

´Tornado clearly targets conservatives´:
Daily Show creator faces backlash
over insensitive tweet

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 5/21/2013 2:54:57 AM Post Reply

She thought she was making a topical political joke, but a co-creator of ‘The Daily Show’ managed to enrage many of her followers after tweeting joke about the Oklahoma tornado’s political motivations. ‘This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives,’ wrote comedian Lizz Winstead, in a tweet, around 3:30 Monday afternoon. The tweet was an apparent attempt at using the occasion of the May 20 twister to comment on the scandal currently plaguing the IRS and Obama administration. Winstead, co-creator and former head writer for ‘The Daily Show,’ promptly received a stream of angry responses

IG Report Confirms: DOJ Official
Smeared Fast and Furious
Whistleblower John Dodson

Townhall, by Katie Pavlich Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/21/2013 2:49:40 AM Post Reply

Monday the Department of Justice Inspector General [IG] confirmed what Townhall and other media outlets have been reporting for more than a year now: DOJ officials smeared Fast and Furious whistleblower and ATF Agent John Dodson. As a reminder, Dodson was the first whistleblower to expose Operation Fast and Furious. He revealed the operation´s connection to the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry on to CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson on March 3, 2011. The IG report confirms that former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke, who has a long personal and professional relationship with

Live Wire: M.E.´s Office
confirms 91 dead in Moore tornado

KOCO-TV [Oklahoma City, OK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/21/2013 2:15:19 AM Post Reply

Oklahoma City - State medical examiner´s office: 91 killed in Oklahoma tornado; death toll expected to rise. Spokeswoman Amy Elliott tells KOCO 5 that 51 of the deaths have been confirmed but that her office was awaiting the arrival of 40 more fatalities. Authorities say an elementary school in an Oklahoma City suburb took a direct hit from a mile-wide tornado. Gary Knight with the Oklahoma City Police Department says there is no word of injuries from the elementary school. Knight says the school suffered "extensive damage" on Monday afternoon. He did not say which school was hit.

Tea Party Protests Planned At
IRS Offices Nationwide Tuesday

U.S. News & World Report, by Elizabeth Flock Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 5/20/2013 10:43:31 PM Post Reply

A major tea party group is planning protests at Internal Revenue Services nationwide Tuesday following revelations earlier this month that the tax agency had flagged organizations with the words "tea party" or "patriot" for additional scrutiny.The protests were originally scheduled only for Cincinnati, where the IRS has said employees responsible for the targeting were based. But Tea Party Patriots head Jenny Beth Martin tells Whispers she received requests to protest across the country. A call to action on the group´s web site tells supporters that "the IRS is out of control" and so

Obama sets meeting with
Chinese president

Washington Times [DC], by Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 5/20/2013 10:29:50 PM Post Reply

President Obama will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in California on June 7-8, the White House announced Monday. It will be Mr. Obama’s first meeting with Mr. Xi since he became president of China in March. They previously met in Washington in 2011 when Mr. Xi was vice president. The talks come amid heightened U.S. tensions over cyberattacks reportedly originating in China. But the Obama administration said it has been pleased with Beijing’s cooperation in trying to persuade North Korea to reduce its belligerent military actions this spring.

Remember when Fox News
wasn’t ‘real news’?

Human Events, by David Harsanyi Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 10:21:41 PM Post Reply

We now know that the Justice Department kept exceptionally close tabs on Fox News reporter James Rosen in 2010, following his trips in and out of the State Department, hacking his personal emails and phone calls. Normal newsgathering activities are being treated as criminal activities by the White House. But consider what the same White House had to say about Fox News back in 2009. You might remember the concerted effort by White House officials to brand the right-leaning Fox News as a bogus news outlet, unworthy of attention.

Senate Committee Poised
to Beat Up On Apple

Power Line, by John Hinderaker Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/20/2013 10:17:46 PM Post Reply

Steve wrote this morning about a hearing being held this week by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, in which Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, will testify tomorrow. The subcommittee apparently is trying to highlight supposed tax avoidance on the part of American companies, as the Associated Press reports: Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found. The world’s most valuable company is holding overseas some $102 billion of its $145 billion in cash, and an Irish

Indiana attorney general
probing privacy breach
of ‘Obamaphone’ users

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 5/20/2013 10:12:22 PM Post Reply

The Indiana attorney general’s office confirmed Monday it is investigating a security breach in which Social Security numbers and other personal information were posted online for roughly 44,000 low-income Americans who applied for a federal program that provides discount Internet and phone service. The program was nicknamed the “Obamaphone” during the 2012 election, though it actually started long before President Obama took office. Indiana reportedly has the highest number of applicants, roughly 17,400, who were signed up by TerraCom Inc. and the affiliated YourTel America Inc. Applicants from at least 26 states were exposed to the security breach,

Report: Apple avoided billions
in U.S. taxes on foreign income

Los Angeles Times, by Jim Puzzanghera & Chris O´Brien Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 5/20/2013 10:06:55 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- Apple Inc. has used an elaborate web of offshore subsidiaries to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes on $44 billion in foreign income over the past four years, a Senate investigation has found. Many of the tactics, such as cost-sharing arrangements, are common among large multinational corporations seeking to shift profits to countries with lower tax rates. The investigation did not find Apple violated any laws.But three of its subsidiaries in Ireland claim to have no responsibility to pay income taxes to any country, according to a 40-page, bipartisan report released Monday

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
Urged Feds to ´Investigate
True the Vote´ in 2010

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Brandon Darby Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/20/2013 10:06:28 PM Post Reply

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) asked Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate election integrity org True the Vote and its associated Tea Party group, King Street Patriots, immediately before the IRS and DOJ began targeting the group in June 2010. Rep. Jackson Lee sent a letter to Holder which alleged that True the Vote was intimidating voters and their election monitors were crossing the line in unspecified “instances” of voter intimidation. The letter went on to directly assert that the “alleged events” were factual and that the True the Vote effort was behind the crimes

More Secrets From Huma Abedin

FrontPage Magazine, by Arnold Ahlert Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 10:03:59 PM Post Reply

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. Abedin, who has served Clinton for 15 years, became a “special government employee”

IRS Scandal: Armed Police
´Escort´ Reporters Through
Cincinnati Office

Breitbart Big Journalism, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 5/20/2013 10:00:59 PM Post Reply

Monday afternoon, ABC News released a chilling report that details what journalists have faced while trying to get some answers from the Cincinnati IRS office, which is where a majority of the Tea Party targeting took place. According to ABC, an "armed uniform police officer with the Federal Protective Service" "escorted" reporters through the public building. ABC says if the intent wasn´t to "scare off" employees who might talk, "it was the effect." ABC News is also hearing conflicting reports from Cincinnati IRS employees and the IRS Headquarters in Washington.

Inside the IRS office that
targeted conservative groups

CBS News, by Dean Reynolds Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 5/20/2013 9:55:36 PM Post Reply

CINCINNATI- Few workers know the IRS Cincinnati office better than Bonnie Esrig, who worked there for 24 years. She retired from her job as a senior manager in January. Esrig said she did not recall any discussion of politics in the office. "Politics and religion were things people generally didn´t talk about at work," she said. Esrig did not work on political cases and was not connected to the applications at the center of the controversy. But she worked in the same office where fewer than 200 people were dealing with 73,000 applications for exemptions last year.

Gunmaker tops list
of Massachusetts’
100 best companies

Washington Times, by Tom Howell Jr. Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/20/2013 9:54:52 PM Post Reply

Gunmaker Smith & Wesson tops the list of best businesses in bright blue Massachusetts — after not making the list at all last year — a new report in the Boston Globe found. The 161-year-old company, based in a state with some of the stricter gun control laws in the nation, tried to diversify its holdings by acquiring a security company in recent years, only to do an “about-face” by focusing on its product line, the newspaper said in its explanation of the Springfield firm’s top spot. “We went back to what we do best, which is handguns,”

Justice Department’s scrutiny of
Fox News reporter James Rosen
in leak case draws fire

Washington Post, by Ann E. Marimow Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/20/2013 9:49:35 PM Post Reply

Journalists, First Amendment watchdogs and government transparency advocates reacted with outrage Monday to the revelation that the Justice Department had investigated the newsgathering activities of a Fox News reporter as a potential crime in a probe of classified leaks. Critics said the government’s suggestion that James Rosen, Fox News’s chief Washington correspondent, was a “co-conspirator” for soliciting classified information threatened to criminalize press freedoms protected by the First Amendment. Others also suggested that the Justice Department’s claim in pursuing an alleged leak

Report: Justice Department targeted TWO
Fox News Channel reporters and a producer
for talking with government sources

Daily Mail (U.K.), by David Martosko Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/20/2013 9:47:03 PM Post Reply

The Fox News Channel is outraged over new revelations that three of its reporting staffers were targeted by the U.S. Department of Justice in criminal investigations related to their attempts to obtain information from government sources. James Rosen, the network´s chief Washington correspondent, has become a First Amendment cause celebre over his treatment by the Obama administration. But the DOJ, Fox says, also investigated the Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter William La Jeunesse and Fox News producer Mike Levine. Rosen, according to affidavits filed by FBI agents, was considered a possible criminal co-conspirator The Washington Post reported Monday morning that Rosen

Fox’s Greta Van Susteren:
DOJ ‘Lucky’ They Didn’t
Hack Into My Emails

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 5/20/2013 9:46:26 PM Post Reply

On her blog this afternoon, Fox News’ On the Record host Greta Van Susteren wrote that the Department of Justice should feel “lucky” they did not hack into her emails like they did with her colleague James Rosen several years ago. While that sounds like a veiled threat against the DOJ, Van Susteren was actually making a joke about how her personal email account mostly contains correspondence and information regarding her sick dog named Audrey: Had Justice hacked into my personal email account this weekend, they would have had to sort through all the emails from the vet

The White House’s
shifting IRS account

Politico, by Reid J. Epstein Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/20/2013 9:43:02 PM Post Reply

The White House on Monday once again added to the list of people who knew about the IRS investigation into its targeting of conservative groups — saying White House chief of staff Denis McDonough had been informed about a month ago. Press secretary Jay Carney said again that no one had told President Barack Obama ahead of the first news reports: not his top aide McDonough, nor his chief counsel Kathy Ruemmler, nor anyone from the Treasury Department. Monday’s revelation amounts to the fifth iteration of the Obama administration’s account of events, after initially saying that the White House had first

White House senior aides knew details of IRS
probe but didn’t tell Obama, spokesman says

Washington Post, by Juliet Eilperin and Zachary A. Goldfarb Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/20/2013 9:41:35 PM Post Reply

Senior White House officials, including Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, learned last month about a review by the Treasury Department’s inspector general into whether the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, but they did not inform President Obama, the White House said Monday. The acknowledgement is the White House’s latest disclosure in a piecemeal, sometimes confusing release of details concerning the extent to which White House officials knew of the IG’s findings that IRS officials engaged in the “inappropriate” targeting of conservative non-profits for heightened scrutiny. Previously, the White House said counsel Kathryn

McCain warns Obama-Nixon
comparisons are ‘overreaching’

Boston Herald, by Hillary Chabot Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 5/20/2013 9:36:39 PM Post Reply

U.S. Sen. John McCain bucked the party line coming from many of his fellow conservatives this morning, saying suggestions that compare the trio of scandals gripping the White House to Watergate are “overreaching.” “I think it’s overreaching. We need a full and complete investigation and then we will decide the dimensions of it,” said McCain while campaigning for Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez in Dorchester. “It is terrible but we have to have a full investigation before we leap to conclusions.” The maverick’s caution is a sharp contrast to the response of many Republicans

Study: White Americans More
Likely to See Obama as
Angry Than Non-White Americans

U.S. News and World Report, by Elizabeth Flock Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/20/2013 9:36:28 PM Post Reply

White Americans are more likely to see anger in the facial expressions of President Obama than non-white Americans are, according to a study from the University of Arkansas that will be published in the journal Political Psychology in July. The study showed more than 100 participants – who identified as white, black, native American and Asian – a silent video of Obama´s 2010 White House Correspondents Dinner speech, a night in which the president traditionally cracks jokes at the press and lawmakers, and asked them to describe how they thought Obama was feeling based on his facial expressions.

5 Troubling Questions
About The IRS Scandal

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/20/2013 9:31:14 PM Post Reply

Scandal Watch: Despite White House attempts to brush the IRS scandal aside as "irrelevant" or the work of rogue miscreants, huge questions remain about who ordered IRS agents to harass Tea Party groups, and why. Every day, in fact, raises new and more disturbing questions that congressional investigators must get answers to. Among them: 1. Who told Internal Revenue Service workers to target conservatives? It´s becoming increasingly clear these workers did not act on their own. Over the weekend, the Washington Post quoted an IRS staffer saying how "everything comes from the top."

IRS´s Lerner Had History of
Harassment, Inappropriate Religious
Inquiries at FEC

Weekly Standard, by Mark Hemingway Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/20/2013 9:30:25 PM Post Reply

Perhaps no other IRS official is more intimately associated with the tax agency´s growing scandal than Lois Lerner, director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Division. Since admitting the IRS harassed hundreds of conservative and Tea Party groups for over two years, Lerner has been criticized for a number of untruths—including the revelation that she apparently lied about planting a question at an American Bar Association conference where she first publicly acknowledged IRS misconduct. Still, Lerner has her defenders in the government and the media. Shortly after the scandal broke, The Daily Beast published an article headlined "IRS Scandal’s Central

A Journalist ´Co-Conspirator´

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/20/2013 9:29:47 PM Post Reply

Ok, we´ve learned our lesson. Last week we tried to give the Obama Administration the benefit of the doubt over its far-reaching secret subpoenas to the Associated Press, and now we learn that was the least of its offenses against a free press. No attempt to be generous to this crowd goes unpunished. The latest news, disclosed by the Washington Post on Monday, is that the Justice Department targeted a Fox News reporter as a potential "co-conspirator" in a leak probe. The feds have charged intelligence analyst Stephen Jin-Woo Kim with disclosing classified information to Fox reporter James Rosen.

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