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#WarOnJournalism: Who’s been snooping in Sharyl Attkisson’s computers?

Posted by: Phineas on May 21, 2013 at 12:01 pm » 2 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Hmmm… Maybe FOX’s James Rosen and the AP aren’t the only targets of the White House’s ire? Here’s a radio interview CBS’ Sharyl Attkisson did with WPHT’s Chris Stigall in which she mentions unknown parties have accessed her home and work computers since February, 2011: You’ll recall that both my blog-buddy ST and I [...]

 

DOJ targeted Fox News’ James Rosen as a “co-conspirator” in another leak case

Posted by: ST on May 21, 2013 at 10:12 am » 4 Comments

Turns out, it wasn’t just the Associated Press the DOJ went after, but the administration’s least favorite network Fox News – specifically, James Rosen - for a different “leak” case (bolded emphasis added by me): A Fox News correspondent was accused in a Justice Department affidavit of being a possible criminal “co-conspirator” for his alleged role [...]

 

New #IRS scandal? Agency sued over stealing 60 million medical records — Updated

Posted by: Phineas on May 15, 2013 at 2:01 pm » 4 Comments

**Posted by Phineas We’re in the best of hands: The Internal Revenue Service is now facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that it improperly accessed and stole the health records of some 10 million Americans, including medical records of all California state judges. According to a report by Courthousenews.com, an unnamed HIPAA-covered entity in California is suing the [...]

 

#IRS scandal: Officials in Washington, California targeted Tea Party groups

Posted by: Phineas on May 13, 2013 at 9:30 pm » 6 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Hey, remember when IRS official Lois Lerner said that only a wayward local office in Cincinnati was improperly investigating conservative groups? Yeah, well… about that: Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved in the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear the effort reached well beyond [...]

 

#Scandalpalooza: #Benghazi cover up, IRS targeting, HHS shake downs, AP records …

Posted by: ST on May 13, 2013 at 6:46 pm » 5 Comments

The White House is running out of excuses and places to hide from probing conservative journalists and even some mainstream media reporters after a wave of embarrassing but predictable scandals have broken wide open in the last week.  Here they are (so far): 1) Benghazi: Accusations of a cover-up have been being made since the [...]

 

Oh, no. This won’t set off conservative and libertarian alarm bells at all.

Posted by: Phineas on May 11, 2013 at 9:31 pm » 7 Comments

**Posted by Phineas I mean, what’s so threatening about a biometric database of all adult Americans being in the immigration bill, citizen? The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous [...]

 

IRS apology on targeting 75 Tea Party groups is NOT EVEN CLOSE to enough

Posted by: ST on May 10, 2013 at 6:26 pm » 13 Comments

I wish I could say I was shocked by this disturbing news (via) but I am most certainly not (bolded emphasis by me): WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service apologized Friday for what it acknowledged was “inappropriate” targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. [...]

 

Are State Dept and CIA officials being threatened over upcoming #Benghazi testimony?

Posted by: ST on April 29, 2013 at 7:58 pm » 7 Comments

Disturbing – via  Fox News’ James Rosen: At least four career officials at the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency have retained lawyers or are in the process of doing so, as they prepare to provide sensitive information about the Benghazi attacks to Congress, Fox News has learned. Victoria Toensing, a former Justice Department [...]

 

ICYMI: Indiana Democrat operatives convicted of 2008 presidential primary ballot petition fraud

Posted by: ST on April 27, 2013 at 10:16 am » 2 Comments

Via Fox News (hat tip): A jury in South Bend, Indiana has found that fraud put President Obama and Hillary Clinton on the presidential primary ballot in Indiana in the 2008 election. Two Democratic political operatives were convicted Thursday night in the illegal scheme after only three hours of deliberations. They were found guilty on all [...]

 

North Korea planning war with nukes, cyber-attacks? Not likely, but…

Posted by: Phineas on April 18, 2013 at 3:19 pm » 3 Comments

**Posted by Phineas It sounds insane, but is North Korea planning a lightning war to reunify the peninsula and present both Washington and Beijing with a fait accompli? Bill Gertz of the Washington Times (1) reports that US analysts are concerned: U.S. intelligence officials assessing North Korea’s recent bellicose statements are increasingly concerned that Kim Jong-un [...]