Many people have been wondering exactly what was the reason the Eric Holder DOJ used their power to peer into the Associated Press. Some water-carrying progressives have been claiming the “danger” to national security was so great, the overreaching self-approved subpoena to track 20 phone lines of 100+ reporters was excusable.
Not.Even.Close. As it turns out, the issue was one of the DOJ retaliating against the AP over the AP decision to ignore a White House request to withhold information for 24 hours just to benefit their ongoing narrative.
AP’s story about the foiled plot was at odds with the calming message the White House had been conveying on the eve of the first anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden. (link)
As the Washington Post outlines; The DOJ tracking was retaliation for the AP not holding their story for an additional DAY: (more…)
This has all the indicators of reaching the West Wing. Prior Democrats in Congress had espoused the IRS *should* take this approach. With such blatant admissions in 2010, and even 2011 after they lost the House they continued the approach, this is going to be VERY difficult for the administration to firewall.
GOOD GRIEF – Unbelievable stuff from that questioning session today in congress.
Attorney General, Eric Holder, claims he recused himself from the decision making surrounding the wiretapping of more than 100 Associated Press reporters and 20+ phone lines. However, he states we need to take his word for it because there is nothing documented which provides support for his self-recusal claim.
Not only that, he claims he doesn’t even know “WHEN” he recused himself, and further states he never notified anyone of the recusal itself – nor did he notify the White House. (more…)
Only 100 pages? No-way this is all of them. They begin on 9/14/12? Where’s the prior ones? What questions do you identify?
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UPDATE: No Questions, will hold press conference tomorrow (with Turkish delegation) and take questions then. IRS Commissioner Steven Steven Miller (pictured below) resigned effective TODAY. Three main points emphasized:
“the IRS has to operate with absolute integrity” – Barack Obama
1. We are going to hold the responsible parties accountable. – The acting commissioner of the IRS, Steven Miller, has resigned effective today.
2. We will put in place new safeguards to insure it doesn’t happen again. – I told Jack Lew to make that happen and implement the IG recommendations. Also, Lew will work with Holder who will launch an internal DOJ investigation.
3. We will work with congress as it performs its oversight control. I’ll do all I can to insure this does not happen again. We need to look at the laws to insure that no ambiguity exists.
“That’s what we’ll do, that’s what I’ll do, and that’s what the American people can expect”. (more…)
House Speaker John A. Boehner said Wednesday that it’ll take more than firings to clear up the IRS scandal — it’ll take someone ending up serving jail time.
“My question is, who’s going to jail over this scandal?” the Ohio Republican said at a press conference with Republicans Wednesday morning. (link)
You know when the President sends out an official announcement at 8:30pm that a general sense of the pending sh!tstorm is looming far closer than the horizon.
So close in fact it is quite possible the nucleus of the scandal will be tracked to the West Wing of 1600.
Earlier yesterday, prior to the official Inspector General report release, ABC Newser Trey Hardin directly asked White House Spokesman Jay Carney:
Trey Hardin: “I will tell you this on the IRS front. I’ve worked in this town for over 20 years in the White House and on Capitol Hill and I can say with a very strong sense of certainty that there are people very close to this president that not only knew what the IRS were doing but authorized it. It simply just does not happen at an agency level like that without political advisers likely in the West Wing certainly connected to the president’s ongoing campaign organization.” (link)
Notably, Jay Carney never disputed this assertion. Bad sign. (more…)
Not coincidentally in the State of Florida VS. George Zimmerman case a similar term has been used by those who perpetrate the fraud:
On its face it seems a disingenuous statement made to affirm an intent to get to the truth. However, to factually understand the context of its intimidated use in the Zimmerman case you must consider the surrounding facts when it was used.
Throughout the month of March, 2012, the Sanford Police Department had repeatedly stated to the media and interested parties (Martin Family troop of lawyers: Benjamin Crump, Natalie Jackson, Daryl Parks – and media consultant Ryan Julison) that investigation into the case had resulted in nothing found to contradict the description of events outlined by George Zimmerman.
The entire weight of the Sanford PD had turned over every stone, while under extreme pressure, national spotlight, and scrutiny, and yet found nothing to contradict Mr. Zimmerman.
Nothing.
The President of the United States called Trayvon “his son”, and subsequently new “Stone Turners” were demanded – Police Chief Bill Lee was removed from the department; Then District Attorney Norman Wolfinger was removed the day after he scheduled a Grand Jury impanel on April 11th.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, DOJ Civil Rights Head Tom Perez, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and the full weight of the Federal DOJ together with the Federal Community Relations Service, The “Peacekeepers” and The State of Florida took over. (more…)
