Among those officials: Jacob Sullivan, then deputy chief of staff and director of policy planning (and currently national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden); Victoria Nuland, then State Department spokesman; Raymond Maxwell, deputy assistant secretary of state for near east affairs; Patrick Kennedy, undersecretary of state for management; and Eric Boswell, former assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security "
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Benghazi Investigation Deepens: Lawmakers Seek Interviews of 13 Officials Involved
Posted by danielT (#6) 1 day 14 hours ago (http://www.weeklystandard.com)Among those officials: Jacob Sullivan, then deputy chief of staff and director of policy planning (and currently national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden); Victoria Nuland, then State Department spokesman; Raymond Maxwell, deputy assistant secretary of state for near east affairs; Patrick Kennedy, undersecretary of state for management; and Eric Boswell, former assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security "
Mark Steyn on IRS hearings: ‘You guys wasted your whole time with your revolution’
Posted by danielT (#6) 1 day 10 hours ago (http://dailycaller.com)[]
“Is this a republic or is it not?” Steyn said. “Because, if it is what a republic is then you guys wasted your whole time with your revolution — because they are basically saying we are the king’s courtiers and we do not have to account to you for what’s going on, but you have to account for us. Complete waste of time, the revolution.”
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“Let’s be clear about this — she is the government,” he said. “There’s no reason why anyone — if she is still employed by the IRS, which is a branch of the United States Treasury, which is a branch of the United States government — then she is not speaking as an individual. She is speaking as the government, the government. And she has still got her job. In effect, the United States government has just pleaded the fifth. That’s absolutely ridiculous.” "
A Battering Ram Becomes a Stonewall
Posted by DrJen (#58) 1 day 20 hours ago (http://online.wsj.com)Is rabid gun rights adversary Bill Maher a 'gun criminal'?
Posted by Kurt Hofmann (#20) 1 day 13 hours ago (http://www.examiner.com)
Since federal law states that anyone who is "an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance" is a "prohibited person" in the context of gun ownership (and it won't matter if Maher's use of marijuana is "medical" in nature, with a California doctor's prescription), his ownership of guns is in violation of federal law.
Now, Maher has also repeatedly expressed his disdain for the idea that private citizens and their small arms can effectively resist government tyranny (care to bet on that, Maher?), so "ain't giving up my gun" or not, if the "authorities" come after his firearms, it's very unlikely that they'll have to pry them out of his cold, dead hands, before he hands them over with his cold, scaly, reptilian, stoned ones.
DiggPatriots Hack: Further Evidence of NewsJunkiePost Electronic Thievery
Posted by bett (#13) 1 day 10 hours ago (http://therjcarter.wordpress.com)
Remember how we posted screen captured evidence from NewsJunkiePost’s that they had obtained information on the Yahoo Group DiggPatriot’s by hacking into the group using my account? (Here: http://therjcarter.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/newsjunkiepost-implicated-in-computer-hacking-to-breach-diggpatriots-yahoo-group/) And do you remember the response from NJP was that the supposed group insider supposedly photoshopped out their name and photoshopped in my name, all to protect their identity?
Well, apparently they also decided to make it super-duper foolproof by also finding files that I had uploaded to the group and photoshopping in the permissions to the file, so that it really, really, really covered their tracks:
MoreHackEvidence
Or, following Occam’s Razor, perhaps they had just hacked my account and gathered all their evidence that way. Or is that too unreasonable?
(Expecting the image to disappear from the original NJP article, or be replaced with a new one erasing the permissions.)
The chairman of the House oversight committee made the call after consulting with attorneys about IRS official Lois Lerner's bizarre appearance before the panel on Wednesday. Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division which oversaw the controversial targeting of conservative groups, caused confusion Wednesday morning when she pleaded the Fifth and refused to answer questions -- but also delivered an opening statement in which she asserted her innocence.
"After consulting with counsel, Chairman Issa has concluded that Ms. Lerner's 5th amendment assertion is no longer valid," spokesman Ali Ahmad said. "She remains under subpoena, the Committee is looking at recalling her for testimony."
Budget cuts have had tragic consequences in the state of Oregon, where a woman stayed on the line with 911 for more than 10 minutes as her ex-boyfriend attempted to break into her home. She was told there was no one to send from either the Josephine County Sheriff's office or the Oregon State Police. The man eventually got inside the house, and the woman was raped.
A law that has to be broken in order to save the life of a child--to prevent him from being torn apart by vicious dogs--is very likely an evil law. And a "justice" system that punishes a man (even if "only" by fining him) for being a lifesaving hero--is institutionalized evil. Why, as a (theoretically) free citizen, does any American tolerate this?
`This comments sums it up well:
Quote:
~ "Well, nothing says "you are wrong about the Government being tyrannical" like some armed Federal jackboots at a tiny protest by a group that has had exactly zero incidents of violence at tens of thousands of rallies. Thanks for kind of proving our point today Janet Napolitano." ~
...so God made a liberal
Posted by Mortis (#2) 3 days ago (http://www.youtube.com)
`For all you benighted Morlocks...
U.S. Acknowledges Killing 4 Americans in Drone Strikes
Posted by gbudavid (#4) 3 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Not that I object to killing terrorists in foreign countries If they are Americans then they have constitutional rights that should no be afforded foreign nationals on our soil..
One day before President Obama is due to deliver a major speech on national security, his administration on Wednesday formally acknowledged that the United States had killed four American citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan.
Interactive Feature: Holder Letter on Counter-Terror Strikes Against U.S. Citizens
In a letter to Congressional leaders obtained by The New York Times, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. disclosed that the administration had deliberately killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric who was killed in a drone strike in September 2011 in Yemen.
Is this still America?
Posted by Temlakos (#7) 3 days ago (http://www.conservativenewsandviews.com)
Is this still America? Actually it hasn't been "still America" for decades, and not on account of the IRS alone. Only you can change that.
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