Posted on 04/21/2011 5:51:22 PM PDT by Nachum
Here's an update to yesterday's piece on "doing the right thing"........ which was a big thank you kiss to Tom Blumer, editor of the leading business blog, Bizzy Blog, and a PJM contributor.
The foreign contribution story I broke in July 2008 took months to pull together. It is irritating to listen to people justify what amounts to an intellectual theft. It is wrong. Not only did we go through thousands of pages of FEC douments, but I followed up with David Keene (yes, Grover's boy) in 2008 as well. He was the President of the ACU, and I implored him to file suit against the BHO campaign. I sent Keene all of the evidence I uncovered and he assured me that the ACU would follow up. But I never heard back.
I wrote over 53 articles, some of them very lengthy, and all of them the result of hard work and creative investigation. It was all inclusive of serious violations of campaign finance fraud, including contributions from Gaza, gibberish donors, non-existent donors, foreign bundling, the exchange rate fiasco, in which people contributed $9.19 (for crying out loud), the fact that Obama websites published lists of people doing the bundling ... which have never been credited to me, and for which my investigative efforts have never been acknowledged.
I merely request that the record kept straight. I am alleging no wrongdoing. But I did break tremendously creative ground, performed a public service, and never got credit for it. And it wasn't a couple articles that might have been missed. It was exhaustive.
Here are the 2008 Atlas posts breaking the story. I think people lifting the work without attribution and credit should see how I broke the story and the amount of work that went into it. Here's the timeline:
July 19, 2008: CAMPAIGN FINANCE FRAUD: Obama, who is Jeanne McCurdy?
July 23, 2008: Obama's Foreign Contributions
July 30, 2008: Obama's Anonymous Foreign Donors and Other Bizarre Illegal Activity
July 31, 2008: Obama's Gazan Contributions
July 31, 2008: Obama, Who is Dr. Okechukwu Dimkpa?
July 31, 2008: Obama's Contributors: Good Will? Loving you? UPDATE: Doo da Doo Da
August 2, 2008: And then there are Obama's Gibberish Donors ....
August 3, 2008: Obama's Fishy "Personal" Fund Raising Pages
August 3, 2008: Obama's "Odd" Contributions: More evidence of foreign contributors
August 4, 2008: WND RUNS MY OBAMA GAZA CONTRIBUTION EXCLUSIVE
August 5, 2008: Poll: AMERICANS DISGUSTED WITH OBAMA'S JIHAD CONTRIBUTIONS
August 6, 2008: Gazans Deny Obama Returned their JIhad Dough: No Honor Among Thieves
August 6, 2008: "PALESTINIAN" CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION: OBAMA SHIPPED TEE SHIRTS TO GAZA?
August 10, 2008: OBAMA'S DONATION OBAMANATION: Saputra, Anton , INDONESIA
August 10, 2008: OBAMA'S FOREIGN DONATIONS: THE GLOBAL CANDIDATE FROM IRAN TO BRAZIL TO SOROS
August 10, 2008: OSAMA FOR OBAMA! THIRD "PALESTINIAN" BROTHER/DONOR EXPOSED! "GAZAN" CONTRIBUTIONS FLAGGED BY FEC, OBAMA NEVER REPORTED
August 11, 2008: Obama Response to FEC: Chicago Style "Plausible" Deniability?
August 11, 2008: Obama Contributions: Moving On MoveOn's Money
August 13, 2008: To the Best of Obama's Ability
August 14, 2008: ATLAS, AMERICAN THINKER..... MEDIA AVERSION
August 18, 2008: OBAMA'S CONTRIBUTIONS: I SEE FAKE PEOPLE ... OVER THE LIMIT
August 26, 2008: OBAMA LIED: "Palestinian" Campaign Contributions NEVER RETURNED OR REFUNDED
September 13, 2008: JUST WHO IS CONTRIBUTING BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA?
September 18, 2008: ALSHEIKH, RIYADH CAMPAIGN $$ FOR OBAMA
October 1, 2008: More media on Obama's Foreign, Illegal Contributions
October 2, 2008: OBAMA'S FOREIGN DONATIONS: Jagan, Son of chief minister of Andhrapradesh
October 2, 2008: OBAMA FOREIGN ILLEGAL CONTRIBUTIONS: INFILTRATION AT FEC, DOJ, and FBI
October 4, 2008: More Fraud in the Obama Campaign Donations
October 5, 2008: OBAMA CONTRIBUTIONS: THE RNC FINALLY BLINKS!, ATLAS GETS RESULTS! NEWSWEAK PLAGIARIZES ATLAS
October 6, 2008: MCCAIN MENTIONS GAZA CONTRIBUTIONS
October 14, 2008: Atlas Attribution in San Francisco Examiner
October 18, 2008: More Obama Campaign Contribution Irregularities
October 21, 2008: OBAMA'S CONTRIBUTIONS/EXPENSES: ABSOLUTE CORRUPTION
October 22, 2008: "WHO IS JOHN GALT? A CONTRIBUTOR TO COLLECTIVIST OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN, OF COURSE! UPDATE: RNC FILES SUPPLEMENT COMPLAINT TO FEC"
October 23, 2008: OBAMA ACCEPTS DONATIONS FROM AL QAEDA LINKED TERRORISTS
October 24, 2008: MORE RECKLESS OBAMA CAMPAIGN FRAUD: NO REFUNDS, NO ACCOUNTABILITY, MORE GIBBERISH DONORS
October 24, 2008: National Journal: OBAMA'S FEC LOOPHOLES
October 25, 2008: ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: OBAMA'S CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ACTIVIST JUDGES
October 25, 2008: CONTRIBUTION FRAUD: John Galt, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Bill Ayers - Obama has Charged Your Credit card
October 27, 2008: CAMPAIGN FINANCE FRAUD: OBAMA'S LATEST RUSE, DEFLECT/RUN
October 27, 2008: I heard Atlas was Cited at FOX this morning on Campaign Finance Fraud
October 29, 2008: OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN BOGUS CAMPAIGN FRAUD RESPONSE
October 29, 2008: OBAMA CAMPAIGN FRAUD:STILL TAKING FICTITIOUS DONORS, CREDIT CARD FRAUD
November 3, 2008: THE BEST ANALYSIS OF CAMPAIGN FRAUD: TOM BLUMER
November 11, 2008: OBAMA ABOVE THE LAW:WILL ESCAPE MASSIVE CAMPAIGN FRAUD AND MONEY LAUNDERING
Here is the continuing exchange between Ken Timmerman and Tom Blumer, a man I do not know well, but who clearly has enormous integrity. He took it upon himself to right this wrong. Righteous. Perhaps Ken Timmerman's failure to do the right thing was more than anything else what caused my work to be overlooked by those that picked up his story:
Excellent work here
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Sure hope he has enough left in the tank to take on George Soros as his next (lack of) character study.
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