
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 [...]
Via Fox News: Attorney General Eric Holder was notified in late summer that then-CIA Director David Petraeus’ name had surfaced in the FBI probe that ultimately uncovered Petraeus’ affair, raising questions about whether Holder would have — or should have — informed President Obama. According to the administration’s version of events, the president did not [...]
**Posted by Phineas The Department of Justice’s Inspector General released his report (500 pages, PDF) on Operation Fast and Furious, the mindbogglingly stupid “sting” operation that fed thousands of high-powered guns to Mexican gun cartels with fatal results. The report savages the DoJ, the Arizona US Attorney’s Office, and the ATF. The traditional falling on [...]
**Posted by Phineas Presented without further comment: The PJ Tatler has obtained documents from the Justice Department detailing efforts to recruit attorneys and staff who are dwarfs or who have “psychiatric disabilities” or “severe intellectual disabilities.” On May 31, 2012, Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez issued a directive to affirmatively recruit people with these “targeted [...]
Yet another week goes by in which militant liberal supporters of the state’s case against George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin have to be disappointed. This time it’s over statements collected by the FBI in which they tried to determine whether or not there was evidence in existence that proved Zimmerman had [...]
**Posted by Phineas Summary: This scandal got people killed, Holder and Obama won’t let the truth come out, and Gowdy is outraged. Outrage is good. You know what? I like this guy. via The Jawa Report (Crossposted at Public Secrets)
Via Fox News: The GOP-led House voted Thursday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to provide key information pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, making Holder the first sitting Cabinet member to be held in contempt. The vote was 255-67 with one lawmaker voting not present. Seventeen Democrats broke [...]
**Posted by Phineas Shades of Richard Nixon. Faced with a contempt of Congress citation for failure to produce subpoenaed documents, Attorney General Eric Holder apparently went to his boss, President Obama, and asked for a little cover. He got it: President Obama has granted an 11th-hour request by Attorney General Eric Holder to exert executive [...]
NOTE: This post will remain on the top of the page all day today (Friday). Newer posts will show up below. In response to the ongoing harassment/lawfare of (mostly) conservative bloggers and their supporters by convicted domestic terrorist Brett “Speedway Bomber” Kimberlin and his henchmen (latest detailed information/coverage here), blogger Ace of Spades has called [...]
**Posted by Phineas To follow up on yesterday’s post about the Obama-Holder DoJ’s efforts to prevent Florida from cleaning up its voter rolls, here’s an excerpt from an editorial at IBD by Andrew Malcolm, who makes no effort to hide his disgust: Washington has ordered Florida to end its effort to remove ineligible voters from [...]