*THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY – A CACOPHONY OF CORRUPTION* *---* *0 indictments.*
On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 3:56:05 PM UTC-5, KeithInTampa wrote: > > *THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY – A CACOPHONY OF CORRUPTION* > > > > ** > > http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/09/the-obama-presidency-a-cacophony-of-corruption-2/ > > by TOM FITTON <http://www.breitbart.com/author/tom-fitton/>9 Jun 2015513 > <http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/09/the-obama-presidency-a-cacophony-of-corruption-2/#disqus_thread> > Obama apologists have recently been trotted out *en masse* to absurdly > portray the Obama presidency as an entirely scandal-free citadel of piety. > It is, they assure us, the political equivalent of the Vestal Virgins who > guard the sacred flame. As Obama, himself, has insisted, there is not a > “scintilla of scandal” to be seen. > > If only it were so. In fact, however, both in scope and scan, the Obama > reign is arguably the most scandal-ridden presidency in American history. > Conjure up the corrupt Grant administration and one thinks of solely of > *Credit > Mobilier.* That was the scandal in which a group of businessmen > impoverished their own company after reaping massive amounts of federal > subsidies from government officials. Sounds like Solyndra? > > Conjure up the Harding administration and one thinks singly of the Teapot > Dome Scandal, where politically privileged special interests received > government largesse while other, more deserving applicants, were, quite > simply, ripped off. Would Obama ever do such a thing? Just ask the GM > creditors who were denied bankruptcy deficiency claims while the Obama > administration orchestrated a multi-billion-dollar payoff to its political > cronies at the UAW. > > Then, of course, there is Watergate. That’s the scandal where Richard > Nixon allegedly thought about using the IRS to go after his political > enemies in order to help assure his re-election. Excise the word > “allegedly,” and – according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax > Administration – that is a pluperfect description of the Obama > administration’s targeting of conservative opponents of his policies > leading up to the 2012 presidential election. > > So, at this point, one might say that Obama is tied head-to-head with the > other most scandalous presidents in American history. But, not by a long > shot. Each of those presidents had one major scandal – none of which cost a > single, solitary life. With Obama, one hardly knows where to start. Nor > when it will ever stop. And Obama’s body count includes four patriotic > Americans murdered in Benghazi, scores more forced to watch their lives ebb > away while Obama’s Veterans Administration callously refused them > desperately needed medical treatments, and hundreds of Mexicans (and at > least one American border agent) slaughtered as a result of Obama’s Fast > and Furious gun-running scandal. Watergate didn’t have body bags. > > Judicial Watch knows well the egregiously scandalous nature of the Obama > presidency, because we have been more than instrumental in exposing many of > the scandals – including those in Benghazi and at the IRS. And we have been > stonewalled hundreds of times by a deceptive, dissimilating Obama > administration willing to violate the federal transparency law as it > desperately tries to cover the tracks of this president’s and his > appointee’s scurrilous behavior. > > So, is the Obama administration, as its factotums like to claim, “scandal > free”? Or is it, indeed, the most scandalous presidency in U.S. history, > dwarfing the ham-fisted misdeeds of even his most notorious predecessors? > As erstwhile presidential candidate Al Smith used to say, “Let’s look at > the record!” (or, at least of the top five Obama scandals): > > - The Benghazi terrorist attack – We have already touched on this > deadly scandal, in which four Americans were slaughtered while the Obama > administrated focused on coming up with a transparently false cover story > about an “offensive video,” rather than protecting their lives, or seeking > justice for their deaths. Thanks to Judicial Watch Freedom of Information > Act (FOIA) lawsuits, we now know that (1) White House commuications > operatives manufactured the video cover story from whole cloth, and (2) > the > Obama gang (Hillary Clinton included) knew from the get-go it was a > planned > terrorist attack tied to al-Qaeda. > > > - The IRS targeting of conservative nonprofits – When this story broke > in May 2013, the Obama administration, including Obama himself, was quick > to blame “two lower-level employees in Cincinnati > > <http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/18/cincinnati-irs-workers-we-were-just-foll>.” > > Subsequent investigations by Judicial Watch revealed that the Obama IRS > witch hunt was orchestrated in its entirety from the agency’s headquarters > in Washington, D.C., in collaboration with Democratic officials. And the > scandal we uncovered > > <http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-lawsuit-forces-release-doj-emails-showing-irss-lois-lerner-met-doj-officials-just-2010-elections/> > included > a plan by the Obama DOJ to work with the IRS to prosecute and jail citizen > opponents of Obama. > > > - The Operation Fast and Furious gun-running operation – Eric Holder > was found in contempt of Congress, and President Obama made a remarkable > assertion of executive privilege in order to protect his attorney general > from prosecution and to thwart Congress’ efforts to ferret out the truth > about his deadly scandal. Rather than enforce the contempt charge, the > Obama Justice Department ignored it. Only after Judicial Watch secured > key > court victories separately against the Justice Department did Congress, > after two years of getting nowhere, get many of the documents it had been > seeking. The Fast and Furious guns are being used in crimes > > <http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-fast-furious-crime-scene-photos-phoenix-2013-gang-style-assault-rifle-supplied-obama-justice-department/> > to > this day. > > > - Obamacare – Again, where does one start – and when does it stop? > According the*Free Beacon,* > <http://freebeacon.com/36-times-obama-said-you-can-keep-your-health-plan/> > Obama > lied to the American people with his promise, “If you like your health > insurance, you can keep it,” a total of 36 times between 2008 and 2013. To > make matters even worse, last year Judicial Watch obtained 94 > eye-popping pages of documents > <http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/2453_resp-recs-1/> from > the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services revealing that top Obama > administration officials knew of, but concealed, security breaches within > Obamacare’s website in the months leading up to the catastrophic rollout > in > order to protect Obama’s political interests rather than public safety. > > > - Executive order abuse – Using these unilateral executive actions to > thwart laws against illegal immigration, enact a mortgage relief program, > revamp the student loan debt program, strengthen the Federal Drug > Administration’s power to ration prescription drugs, wreak regulatory > havoc > through the EPA, undo bipartisan welfare-reform law, and impose Common > Core, Obama has acted more as despot than as a president. > > Outrageous as they are, those “Top Five” Obama scandals are only the > proverbial tip of the catastrophic iceberg that, if allowed to continue > unchecked, threatens to sink the Ship of State. With the abetment and > abatement of a sycophantic mainstream media President Obama has turned > willfully scandalous behavior into a cottage industry. Hillary Clinton’s > stealing and supposedly destroying government records, while turning her > Secretary of State office into a cash machine for her personal and > political coffers is corruption both petty and massive. You can see how > the scandals of past presidencies, serious though some may have been, pale > in comparison to the depth and breadth of the Obama’s corruption. > > *Tom Fitton is president of Judicial Watch, author of the NY Times > best-seller *The Corruption Chronicles* and executive producer of the > documentary *District of Corruption*.* > > *Judicial Watch’s hard-hitting feature documentary film *District of > Corruption *is available **here* > <https://www.judicialwatch.org/districtofcorruptionmovie/>*. *The New > York Times *best-seller *Corruption Chronicles* is available **here* > <http://www.amazon.com/Corruption-Chronicles-Obamas-Secrecy-Government/dp/147676705X/> > *.* > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:06 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > "By the end of his term, 138 Reagan administration officials had been > convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official > investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms > of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the > worst ever." > > 1. Lyn Nofziger--White House Press Secretary - Convicted on charges of > illegal lobbying of White House in Wedtech scandal. The lobbying would not > have been illegal had he not been White House Press Secretary. > > 2. Michael Deaver, Reagan's Chief of Staff, received three years' > probation and was fined one hundred thousand dollars after being convicted > for lying to a congressional subcommittee and a federal grand jury about > his lobbying activities after leaving the White House. Same as with Lyn > Nofziger. > > 3. James Watt, Reagan's Secretary of the Interior was indicted on 41 > felony counts for using connections at the Department of Housing and Urban > Development to help his private clients seek federal funds for housing > projects in Maryland, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Puerto Rico and the Virgin > Islands. Watt conceded that he had received $500,000 from clients who were > granted very favorable housing contracts after he had intervened on their > behalf. Watt was eventually sentenced to five years in prison and 500 hours > of community service. > > 4. John Poindexter, Reagan's national security advisor, guilty of five > criminal counts involving conspiracy to mislead Congress, obstructing > congressional inquiries, lying to lawmakers, used "high national security" > to mask deceit and wrong-doing... > > 5. Richard Secord pleaded guilty to a felony charge of lying to Congress > over Iran-Contra. Appointed by William Casey to assist Oliver North. > > 6. Elliott Abrams was appointed by President Reagan in 1985 to head the > State Department's Latin American Bureau. He was closely linked with > ex-White House aide Lt. Col. Oliver North's covert movement to aid the > Contras. Working for North, Abrams coordinated inter-agency support for the > contras and helped solicit illegal funding from foreign powers as well as > domestic contributors. Abrams agreed to cooperate with Iran-Contra > investigators and pled guilty to two charges reduced to misdemeanors. He > was sentenced in 1991 to two years probation and 100 hours of community > service but was pardoned by President George Bush... > > 7. Robert C. McFarlane, Reagan's National Security Advisor, pled guilty to > four misdemeanors and was sentenced to two years probation and 200 hours of > community service. He was also fined $20,000. He received a blanket pardon > from President George Bush... > > 8. Alan D. Fiers was the Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's > Central American Task Force. Fiers pled guilty in 1991 to two counts of > withholding information from congress about Oliver North's activities and > the diversion of Iran arms sale money to aid the Contras. He was sentenced > to one year of probation and 100 hours of community service. Alan Fiers > received a blanket pardon for his crimes from President Bush... > > > 1. Thomas G. Clines: convicted of four counts of tax-related offenses > for failing to report income from the operations; > > 2. Carl R. Channel - Office of Public Diplomacy , partner in > International Business- first person convicted in the Iran/Contra scandal, > pleaded guilty of one count of defrauding the United States > > 3. Richard R. Miller - Partner with Oliver North in IBC, a Office of > Public Diplomacy front group, convicted of conspiracy to defraud the > United > States. > > 4. Frank Gomez > > > 13.. Donald Fortier > > > 1. Clair George was Chief of the CIA's Division of Covert Operations > under President Reagan. George was convicted of lying to two congressional > committees in 1986. George faced a maximum five year federal prison > sentence and a $20,000 fine for each of the two convictions. Jurors > cleared > George of five other charges including two counts of lying to a federal > grand jury. Clair George received a blanket pardon for his crimes from > President George Bush... > > 2. Rita Lavelle was indicted, tried and convicted of lying to Congress > and served three months of a six-month prison sentence. > > 3. Philip Winn - Assistant HUD Secretary. Pleaded guilty to one count > of scheming to give illegal gratuities. > > 4. Thomas Demery - Assistand HUD Secretary - pleaded guilty to > steering HUD subsidies to politically connected donors. > > 5. Deborah Gore Dean - executive assistant to Samuel Pierce - indicted > on thirteen counts, three counts of conspiracy, one count of accepting an > illegal gratuity, four counts of perjury, and five counts of concealing > articles. She was convicted on twelve accounts. She appealed and prevailed > on several accounts but the convictions for conspiracy remained. > > 6. Catalina Villaponda - Former US Treasurer > > 7. Joseph A. Strauss - Accepting kickbacks from developers > > 8. Oliver North - He was indicted on sixteen felony counts and on May > 4, 1989, he was convicted of three: accepting an illegal gratuity, aiding > and abetting in the obstruction of a congressional inquiry, and > destruction > of documents (by his secretary, Fawn Hall, on his instructions). He was > sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell on July 5, 1989, to a > three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines, > and 1,200 hours community service. His conviction was later overturned. > > > On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 10:02:25 AM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > *Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump walk into a bar and grab a booth. Donald > leans over, and with a smile on his face, says:* > *“The media is really tearing you apart for that scandal.”* > *Hillary: “You mean the Mexican gun running?”* > *Trump: “No, the other one.”* > *Hillary: “You mean SEAL Team 6?” * > *Trump: “No, the other one.”* > *Hillary: “You mean the State Dept. lying about Benghazi ?” * > *Trump: “No, the other one.”* > *Hillary: “You mean voter fraud?”* > *Trump: “No, the other one.”* > *Hillary: “You mean the military not getting their votes counted?”* > *Trump: “No, the other one.”* > *Hillary: “The NSA monitoring our phone calls, emails and everything > else?” * > *Trump: “No, the other one.”* > *Hillary: “You mean the drones in our own country without the benefit of > the law?**”* > *Trump: “No, the other one.”* > *Hillary: “Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million and right after it > declared bankruptcy and was sold to the Chinese?”* > *Trump: “No, the other one.”* > *Hillary: “You mean Obama arming the Muslim Brotherhood?” * > *Trump: “No the other one:”* > *Hillary: “The IRS targeting conservatives?”* > *Trump: “No, the other one.”* > *Hillary: “The DOJ spying on the press?” * > *Trump: “No, the other one.”* > *Hillary: “Sebelius shaking down health insurance executives?” * > *Trump: “No, the other one.”* > *Hillary: “Giving SOLYNDRA $500 MILLION DOLLARS and 3 months later they > declared bankruptcy and then the Chinese bought it?”* > *Trump: “No, the other one.”* > *Hillary: “The NSA monitoring citizens’ phone calls, emails and everything > else?” * > *Trump: “No, the other one.”* > *Hillary: “Obama’s ordering the release of nearly 10,000 illegal > immigrants from jails and prisons, and falsely blaming the sequester?” * > *Trump: “No, the other one.”* > *Hillary: “Obama’s threat to impose gun control by Executive Order in > order to bypass Congress?”* > *Trump: “No, the other one.”* > *Hillary: “Obama’s repeated violation of the law requiring me to submit a > budget no later than the first Monday in February?” * > *Trump: “No, the other one.”* > *Hillary: “The 2012 vote where 115% of all registered voters in some > counties voted 100% for Obama?” * > *Trump: “No, the other one.”* > *Hillary: “Obama’s unconstitutional recess appointments in an attempt to > circumvent the Senate’s advise-and-consent role?” * > *Trump: “No, the other one.”* > *Hillary: “The State Department interfering with an Inspector General > investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?” * > > ... -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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