Yusuf Acar, 40, who has worked in the technology office since 2004, was charged with bribery, conspiracy, money laundering and conflict of interest. Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Hibarger told a federal judge that Acar is a flight risk because agents seized $70,000 in cash in his house and because in recorded conversations, he boasted that he could easily flee to his native Turkey. Acar also told the informant that he could use computers to create fake D.C. birth certificates, Hibarger said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/12/AR2009031201426.html
He’s already lied about signing statements,
after blasting Pres. Bush about them when
he was campaigning, but **listen** and
bookmark his statements at the end about
the Constitution.
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/video/obama_on_presidential_signing_statements/
This silver-tongued socialist ideologue would
and will pay a dime to lie if telling the truth
is free.
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For posterity to the thread:
52 days, 52 mistakes
Let me count them up, in no particular order. Some are big. Some are small.
We all make mistakes. Heres his:
1. A do-over on the oath of office.
2. Tim Geithner.
3. Bill Richardson.
4. Tom Daschle.
5. Eric Nation of Cowards Holder.
6. Leon Panetta.
7. Arne Cappuccino Duncan.
8. Hilda Solis (OK, her husband has the tax liens).
9. Nancy Killefer.
10. Charles Freeman Jr.
11. Ron Kirk.
12. Adolfo Carrion.
13. Banning offshore oil again.
14. Letting Nancy Pelosi write the $787 billion stimulus plan.
15. Relying on Tim Geithner to explain it.
16. It is a $13-a-week stimulus, or as his wife said of Bushs plan: Youre getting $600. What can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful or anything. But maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesnt pay down every bill every month.
17. Going to a press conference without a TelePrompTer. I
Uhh
Umm
Could you repeat the question?
18. Using a TelePrompTer at a press conference. Big boys dont need training wheels.
19. Good evening, everybody. Please be seated. Before I take your questions tonight, Id like to speak briefly. 1,228 words later he took his first question.
20. Going after Rush Limbaugh.
21. Going after Rick Santelli.
22. Going after Jim Cramer.
23. Never waste a good crisis.
24. Obama supporter Warren Buffett: I dont think anybody on December 7th would have said a war is a terrible thing to waste, and therefore were going to try and ram through a whole bunch of things and but we expect to expect the other party to unite behind us on the on the big problem. Its just a mistake, I think.
25. Writing a love letter to Vlad and Dmitry.
26. Putting Poland under the bus.
27. Putting Tibet under the bus.
28. Putting Israel under the bus.
29. Taking Cuba out from under the bus.
30. Having his tax cheat go after the tax cheats in Switzerland. Cognitive dissonance.
31. Karzai has a bunker mentality.
32. Iran has plans to Marine One helicopters.
33. I won.
34. BlackBerry singing in the middle of the night/ Take these golden secrets and learn to fly
35. Obama: If Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off. CEO: No. There will be more layoffs.
36. DVDs to Gordon Brown.
37. You cant take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers dime. Vegas convention bookings nosedive.
38. Wagyu.
39. Reset/overcharge button given to Russia.
40. Taking a 4-day holiday weekend before signing emergency legislation.
41. I did think it might be useful to point out that it wasnt under me that we started buying a bunch of shares of banks. It wasnt on my watch. And it wasnt on my watch that we passed a massive new entitlement the prescription drug plan without a source of funding. And so I think its important just to note when you start hearing folks throw these words around that weve actually been operating in a way that has been entirely consistent with free-market principles and that some of the same folks who are throwing the word socialist around cant say the same.
42. Stiffing Chicago for nearly $2 million for that Election Night par-tay.
43. Caroline Kennedy.
44. Bombing Pakistan.
45. Sending the bust of Sir Winston Churchill back to the British.
46. President Obama has accomplished more in 30 days than any president in modern history.
47. A window is not a door.
48. Doctors must perform abortions.
49. Signing earmarks while denouncing them.
50. Adding signing statements while denouncing them.
51. Quadrupling the deficits, while denouncing them.
52. Missing the Gridiron Club dinner.
But be of good cheer. He has 1,409 days left to make up for his stumbles out of the starting gate.
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2009/03/12/52-days-52-mistakes/