Posts Tagged ‘White House’
The Internal Revenue Circus
Over A Week Later, Obama’s IRS Scandal – And The Administration’s Reaction To It – Gets More Troubling By The Day THE WEEK IS HARDLY HALFWAY OVER – HOW MANY OTHER SHIFTING STORIES WILL THERE BE IN THE UNFOLDING IRS SCANDAL? National Journal’s Ron Fournier: “Shifting Stories Cast Doubts On Answer To Core Question: Did Team Obama Know About IRS Abuse In Real Time?” (Ron Fournier, “Why You Can't Trust The White House (Even If Nobody's Lying),” National Journal, 5/21/13) “In Politics, As In Life, When You Constantly Change Your Story, Even On Small Matters, You Sow Doubt About Your Credibility And Competence.” “And yet the revelations cost the Obama White House some measure of credibility. In politics, as in life, when you constantly change your [...]
The Obama, IRS Smoking Gun?
President met with anti-Tea Party IRS union chief the day before agency targeted Tea Party. “For me, it’s about collaboration.” — National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley on the relationship between the anti-Tea Party IRS union and the Obama White House Is President Obama directly implicated in the IRS scandal? Is the White House Visitors Log the trail to the smoking gun? The stunning questions are raised by the following set of new facts. March 31, 2010. According to the White House Visitors Log, provided here in searchable form by U.S. News and World Report, the president of the anti-Tea Party National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen Kelley, visited the White House at 12:30pm that Wednesday noon time of March 31st. The White House [...]
Federal Government at Odds with American Conservatives
A President who has led an administration in hostile opposition to the Tea Party, Christians, and Patriots! By Doc Vega As IRS officials continue to lie under oath over the intentional defunding of Tea Party and Patriot organizations not to mention conservative supporters of Israel, we are faced with a diabolical plot by the Obama White House to suppress opposition to the President and his agenda. Tea Party organizations filing for non-profit and tax exempt status to support voting advocacy groups, were denied tax exempt status and forced to endure lengthy questionnaires that ate up precious time in answering. IRS officials such as Doug Schulman and Steven Miller, who have been interrogated under oath, knew of the intentionally targeted legal conservative opponents to the [...]
IRS employees gave overwhelmingly to Obama and Democrats
IRS employees gave overwhelmingly to Obama and Democrats President Barack Obama collected more than $110,000 from employees of the Internal Revenue Service during his 2008 and 2012 campaigns — significantly more money than any other contemporary political candidate, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of Federal Election Commission filings maintained by the Center for Responsive Politics. The donations were split roughly evenly between Obama's two presidential bids. Ahead of the 2012 election, IRS employees collectively gave Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney about $25,000 — less than half the amount received by Obama. For his part, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the GOP's presidential nominee in 2008, collected only about $6,000 from IRS [...]
AP held story until DOJ said assets were safe
From Gary Pruitt, president and CEO of The Associated Press: We appreciate the DOJ’s prompt response, but it does not adequately address our concerns. The letter simply restates the law and claims that officials have complied with it. There are three significant concerns: The scope of the subpoena was overbroad under the law, given that it involved seizing records from a broad range of telephones across AP’s newsgathering operation. More than 100 journalists work in the locations served by those telephones. How can we consider this inquiry to be narrowly drawn? Rather than talk to us in advance, they seized these phone records in secret, saying that notifying us would compromise their investigation. They offer no explanation of this, however. Instead they captured the [...]
Transcript: White House Press Briefing – IRS – DOJ – Benghazi May 14, 2013
THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESS SECRETARY JAY CARNEY (transcript) May 14, 2013 MR. CARNEY: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for being here. I appreciate your attendance. And I have no announcements to make at the top, so I'll go straight to the Associated Press. Q Thanks, Jay. For fear of stating the obvious, the White House right now is confronting a confluence of issues -- Benghazi talking points, IRS reviews of political groups, Justice Department review of journalists’ phone records. And in every instance, either the President or you have placed the burden of responsibility someplace else. On the Benghazi talking points, it’s been political motivations on the Hill. On the IRS, it’s been the bureaucrats at the IRS. [...]
FlashBack – Scandal, Power And the President By Jay Carney
By Jay Carney In Washington, scandals metastasize, growing and changing until we can't remember what they were about in the beginning. A bungled burglary became a cancer on the presidency, forcing Richard Nixon to resign in disgrace. A money-losing Arkansas real estate deal led to Monica, a blue dress and Bill Clinton's impeachment. Already, the furor over the dismissal of eight U.S. Attorneys has shifted focus from the crass but essentially routine exercise of political patronage to the essential project of George W. Bush's presidency: its deliberate and aggressive efforts to expand and protect Executive power. Which is why divining the true motives behind the dismissals is only part of the battle under way in Washington. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have spent six years [...]
Dead Americans, a silent media, and conflicts of interest with White House
The White House and President caught in a full fledged scheme over Benghazi! By Doc Vega Many of us wonder how the mainstream media could have stood by silently after Americans were slaughtered in Benghazi. What would possess these reporters of news, and most importantly, Americans, to simply refuse to cover a story that pointed to blatant negligence and a cover-up of unprecedented proportions? This weekend, new revelations as to the incestuous relationship between the White House and our press corps have come to light. An incestuous bond between the White House and US media It has been revealed that the President of CBS, Ben Sherwood has family working at the White House. David Rhodes, President of ABC, has family who are working for the administration. Not only do the [...]
President Obama’s Schedule May 13 – 17, 2013
President Obama's Schedule for the Week of May 13, 2013 On Monday May 13 In the morning, the President will hold a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Cameron of the United Kingdom at the White House. The Prime Minister’s visit will highlight the fundamental importance of the U.S.-UK relationship – through which together we address a broad range of shared global and regional security concerns. There will be a pool spray at the top of the meeting. Later in the morning, the President and Prime Minister Cameron of the United Kingdom will hold a joint press conference in the Rose Garden. The joint press conference is open press. In the afternoon, the President will travel to New York City. The departure from the South Lawn and the arrival at John F. Kennedy International [...]
