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Rev. Franklin Graham: Billy Graham Evangelistic Association also targeted by the IRS

Posted by: ST on May 14, 2013 at 6:30 pm » 7 Comments

Were the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse organizations targeted by President Obama’s IRS like Tea Party groups and conservative Jews were?  Rev. Franklin Graham says “yes”, according to Politico: The IRS came after Billy Graham, too, his son charged Tuesday in a letter to President Barack Obama. Franklin Graham, the president of the Billy Graham [...]

 

#Benghazi headdesk moment: Why the review board stopped questioning Clinton

Posted by: Phineas on May 14, 2013 at 1:01 pm » 7 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Via PJM. This is one of those statements that makes you think “No, you didn’t just say that, did you?” He did: “Now, with hindsight, don’t you [Amb. Thomas Pickering, co-chair of the Accountability Review Board] think it would have been important to ask her about that conversation and other decisions she made [...]

 

#IRS scandal: But, of course. They targeted Jewish groups, too.

Posted by: Phineas on May 14, 2013 at 9:01 am » 14 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Jewish groups that are favorable toward Israel. We all know how close the President is to Israel, now don’t we? This just gets better and better. Via Politico: The same Internal Revenue Service office that singled out Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny also challenged Israel-related organizations, at least one of which filed [...]

 

#IRS scandal: White House counsel knew last April

Posted by: Phineas on May 14, 2013 at 8:01 am » 3 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Via Rick Moran at PJM, Politico is reporting that the White House counsel, the president’s legal adviser, knew about the IRS targeting conservative groups three weeks ago: The White House counsel’s office was informed in April of an inspector general’s review of the Internal Revenue Service, press secretary Jay Carney said Monday. Carney told reporters [...]

 

#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 [...]

 

Shocker: Lying weasel Jay Carney caught lying like a weasel about #Benghazi

Posted by: Phineas on May 10, 2013 at 4:03 pm » 16 Comments

**Posted by Phineas And I think the shocking thing is that it’s the MSM exposing him (emphases added): When it became clear last fall that the CIA’s now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community, but White House documents reviewed by [...]

 

The mystery of Obama and #Benghazi

Posted by: Phineas on May 9, 2013 at 4:52 pm » 8 Comments

**Posted by Phineas In my last post, I focused on Hillary Clinton’s craven behavior, driven by her lust for the Oval Office. But, as I point out, that doesn’t let Obama off the hook. He is the President, he is the Commander in Chief, and yet when American diplomats were attacked that night, he apparently [...]

 

#Benghazi: Hearings show Hillary Clinton really is “Lady Macbeth.”

Posted by: Phineas on May 9, 2013 at 1:30 pm » 4 Comments

**Posted by Phineas I’ve joked since the Clintons first came on the national scene that Hillary was a modern-day “Lady Macbeth,” willing to do anything and put up with anything to get power and keep it. Think about it: why else would someone suffer repeated public humiliations from a serial-philanderer husband, one widely reputed to [...]

 

Confirmed: #Benghazi consulate denied military help, administration cover up collapsing

Posted by: Phineas on May 6, 2013 at 2:40 pm » 8 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Via Sharyl Attkisson/CBS News, this is just disgusting: The deputy of slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has told congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks was forbidden from doing so by U.S. Special Operations Command South Africa. The account [...]