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First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 33 mins ago - 1 reports

OPINION: Obama's IRS choice

Message to the president: Resistance is futile. There are plenty of juicy targets for investigators in the IRS scrutiny of conservative organizations that applied for tax-exempt status, but the most dangerous for President Obama is this: Did bureaucrats ... [Published Individual.com - 5 hours ago]

Entities: White House, Barack Obama, Denis McDonough, Kathryn Ruemmler, Dan Pfeiffer

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Barack Obama

Obama still exhibiting Chicago-style politics

KENNETH E. KERSTETTERAs a conservative, I was not pleased that a far-left politician from Chicago had been elected president. There were some positives, however. If his promises were sincere, there might be hope for a better America. And having our first ... [Published The Olympian - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Barack Obama, Chicago, Executive Privilege

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Why have the media been silent all this time?

When I read the Cumberland Times-News Editorial this morning, Friday, May 17, entitled, “Outrageous,” I laughed like a kid at a birthday party!While I have found, for the most part, the Cumberland Times-News to be a fair and balanced news outlet, I find ... [Published Cumberland Times-News - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Executive Privilege, Harry S Truman, Transpiration, DUE PROCESS, First Amendment

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Printed letters, May 21, 2013

Simultaneous scandals now plague Obama administrationThree scandals now face President Obama and his band of merry men. I seriously doubt there are enough credible lies to explain them away.These simultaneous eruptions, the net result of which is the ... [Published Grand Junction Daily Sentinel - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Watershed, Inc., Barack Obama, William Grant, Executive Privilege

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 reports

Greenpeace International

EarthTalk / Fertilizer plant disater a cautioinary tale

Dear EarthTalk: The recent explosion at a West, Texas fertilizer plant that killed many people really alarmed me. Places like this must exist near many communities around the country. How do I know if my own community might be at risk of a similar di ... [Published Fairfield Citizen-News - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Chemical, Greenpeace International, Fertilizer Plant

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Everyone at the White House knew about the IRS scandal, except the President

The most laughable spin yet poured out of the Administration today, in the wake of revelations that the top White House lawyer knew about the incoming IRS scandal nearly a month ago. From the Wall Street Journal:In the week of April 22, the Office of ... [Published Human Events Online - May 20 2013]

Entities: White House, Barack Obama, Kathryn Ruemmler, case report, Tea Party Movement

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Lewis Libby

The Right’s Scandal Hypocrisy

It’s pretty rich, isn’t it, to see conservatives, not so long ago such ferocious guardians of presidential prerogative, suddenly acting as if they’d all interned at Common Cause when they were in college and thumping their chests about presidential transparency? ... [Published Daily Beast - May 21 2013]

Entities: Hypocrisy, Barack Obama, Lewis Libby, Valerie Plame Wilson, Executive Privilege

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

It Can Happen Here

Shortly before the second-term inauguration of Barack Obama this January, I wrote the following of my worries over the Obama way of doing business:But the untruths and hypocrisy hover in the partisan atmosphere and incrementally and insidiously undermine ... [Published Pajamas Media - May 20 2013]

Entities: Barack Obama, ProPublica, Austan Goolsbee, Crossroads GPS, Taxes

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Video- White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer On IRS Scandal: 'The Law Is Irrelevant'

By Susan DuclosWhite House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer made the rounds on Sunday talk shows and tells ABC’s “This Week," that Obama will act on the IRS scandal even before receiving a legal determination from the Justice Department. "I can’t speak to ... [Published Wake up America - May 19 2013]

Entities: Dan Pfeiffer, Barack Obama, White House, Obama Administration

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Eric Holder's liberation

He already became the first attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress. | ReutersCloseBy JOSH GERSTEIN | 5/19/13 7:00 AM EDT Updated: 5/19/13 8:03 AM EDTLast February, Attorney General Eric Holder was so worn out from a House committee’s four-hour ... [Published Politico - May 19 2013]

Entities: Eric Holder, Matt Miller, Darrell Issa, Republican Party (US), Attorney General

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

White House fights and loses battle to withhold Benghazi records

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's White House fought and lost a battle to avoid making public what it claimed were confidential records of internal deliberations over the attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya last Septembe ... [Published Morning Call - May 17 2013]

Entities: White House, Benghazi, Executive (government), Barack Obama, Subpoena

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

ICYMI: King Talks Benghazi Emails on MSNBC

4 minutes ago, 9:53am (ET) 05/17/2013 FIND Government Press ReleasesWASHINGTON, D.C. -In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, yesterday joined MSNBC's Hardball with Chris ... [Published Zecco - May 17 2013]

Entities: Benghazi, MSNBC, White House, Executive Privilege, Acts of Terrorism

Quotes

"The minute you start fighting over it, everybody will assume, rightly or wrongly, that you're trying to protect the president over something nefarious" former CIA General Counsel Jeffrey H Smith noted

OPINION: Obama's IRS choice [Published Individual.com - 5 hours ago]

"Did bureaucrats in Cincinnati create this mess on their own? Or did someone in the White House give the marching orders to target the president's enemies?"

McManus: Obama's IRS choice [Published Los Angeles Times - 11 hours ago]

"The good news is that there are many cost-effective, safer chemical processes already in use that eliminate these risks without sacrificing jobs" says Greenpeace, adding that more than 500 plants have voluntarily switched to safer alternatives over the last decade...

EarthTalk / Fertilizer plant disater a cautioinary tale [Published Fairfield Citizen-News - 21 hours ago]

...It's a theater reference meaning "if the show isn't going well, let's send in the clowns" ; in other words, "let's do the jokes...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Send in the clowns? Don’t bother, they’re here [Published SC Now - May 21 2013]

More Content

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Obama still exhibiting Chicago-style politics [Published The Olympian - 3 hours ago]
OPINION: Obama's IRS choice [Published Individual.com - 5 hours ago]
Why have the media been silent all this time? [Published Cumberland Times-News - 10 hours ago]
McManus: Obama's IRS choice [Published Los Angeles Times - 11 hours ago]
Printed letters, May 21, 2013 [Published Grand Junction Daily Sentinel - 18 hours ago]
EarthTalk / Fertilizer plant disater a cautioin... [Published Fairfield Citizen-News - 21 hours ago]
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Send in the clowns? Don’t... [Published SC Now - May 21 2013]
The Right’s Scandal Hypocrisy [Published Daily Beast - May 21 2013]
Everyone at the White House knew about the IRS ... [Published Human Events Online - May 20 2013]
It Can Happen Here [Published Pajamas Media - May 20 2013]
Video- White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer ... [Published Wake up America - May 19 2013]
Eric Holder's liberation [Published Politico - May 19 2013]
White House fights and loses battle to withhold... [Published Morning Call - May 17 2013]
Watergate: When Congress Worked [Published Yahoo! News - May 17 2013]
South Dakota Senator Thune Demands Answers In I... [Published 1440 WNFL - May 17 2013]
President Obama's Failure to Disclose Informati... [Published Newsvine - May 17 2013]
ICYMI: King Talks Benghazi Emails on MSNBC [Published Zecco - May 17 2013]
Govt version of Freedom of Informat... [Published Bulatlat.com - May 16 2013]
But, the motivation is pure [Published Cape Cod Today - May 16 2013]
Comment: Obama's 'self-inflicted' scandal [Published Special Broadcasting Service - May 16 2013]
A Government Engulfed in Scandals: Americans De... [Published Newsvine - May 16 2013]
Navarrette: Obama, let media do their job [Published WDSU New Orleans - May 15 2013]
Why is Boehner Resisting a Special Committee on... [Published American Thinker - May 15 2013]
Alberto Gonzales Offers Totally Hypothetical Ex... [Published Wonkette - May 14 2013]
Has Obama's Administration Crossed a Constituti... [Published South East Missourian - May 14 2013]
Eric Holder's Media Manipulations Under Scrutiny [Published Breitbart Feed - May 14 2013]
King: Release Benghazi emails [Published Politico - May 13 2013]
Letter: Libya hearings are disastrous [Published Augusta Chronicle - May 12 2013]
Earthquake: Did Carney Presser End MSM Monolith? [Published Lucianne.com - May 11 2013]
Its a Shame [Published Bulatlat.com - May 11 2013]

Blogs

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It Can Happen Here [Published Pajamas Media - May 20 2013] Shortly before the second-term inauguration of Barack Obama this January, I wrote the following of my worries over the Obama way of doing business:But the untruths and hypocrisy hover in the partisan atmosphere and incrementally and insidiously undermine ...
Video- White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer ... [Published Wake up America - May 19 2013] By Susan DuclosWhite House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer made the rounds on Sunday talk shows and tells ABC’s “This Week," that Obama will act on the IRS scandal even before receiving a legal determination from the Justice Department. "I can’t speak to ...
Alberto Gonzales Offers Totally Hypothetical Ex... [Published Wonkette - May 14 2013] Well, this is … this is … we don’t even … FUCK! So, there is a bit of kerfuffle and a hullabaloo about the Department of Justice getting a very narrow slice of two months’ worth of phone records from AP while investigating a leak. For context, ...
Eric Holder's Media Manipulations Under Scrutiny [Published Breitbart Feed - May 14 2013] Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice secretly obtained two months of phone records of Associated Press reporters--the latest in a long line of attacks on an open and free media coming from this Department of Justice (DOJ). “The Justice ...
Carney Has to Be Careful [Published The Corner on National Review Online - May 10 2013] You got the sense today that the White House’s propaganda arm is starting to play Benghazi very, very carefully. Up until now they’ve been able to get by fairly easily on the fact that most of the relevant evidence is on the other side of executive privilege, or ...