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Report Clears Obama Administration Over Role in Kenya Election, as Congressman Objects
Fox ^ | October 2, 2010

Posted on 10/03/2010 10:38:10 PM PDT by Red Steel

A government watchdog has issued a report saying it found no evidence that the Obama administration illegally funded groups seeking to legalize abortion in Kenya for the first time with changes to the constitution -- a conclusion that immediately was blasted by one of the administration's top critics on the issue.

Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey, the top Republican on the House Africa panel, said the report by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) inspector general was "poorly researched, superficial, incomplete and a whitewash."

"This was not a well-researched investigation," he said in a written statement. "We had expected the truth and nothing else. We had hoped the IG would dig deep for the facts. This is the most superficial report I've seen in my 30 years in Congress."

The inspector general's office did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: communist; inspectorgeneral; kenya; obama; odinga; ogingaodinga; railaodinga; soviets
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1 posted on 10/03/2010 10:38:13 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

This government is corrupt through and through on just about every issue.


2 posted on 10/03/2010 10:39:02 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

I’m shocked! Shocked, I say!
/sarc


3 posted on 10/03/2010 10:45:36 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Red Steel

>> “This is the most superficial report I’ve seen in my 30 years in Congress.”

That’s a strong statement.


4 posted on 10/03/2010 10:47:07 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: Red Steel

Regardless of whether or not this Regime pulled any shenanigans in Kenya, there are 30 issues with a higher priority right now. Rep. Smith ought to get a better perspective.


5 posted on 10/03/2010 10:52:37 PM PDT by muleskinner
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To: Red Steel

US AID is a joke. I saw them in Haiti having a meeting about ‘Green’ business practices with a bunch of starving Haitians who only wanted a Hot Dog.


6 posted on 10/03/2010 10:53:33 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (counter revolutionary)
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To: Red Steel
"Glenn A. Fine

Current Position: DOJ Inspector General

Boss: Barack Obama

Why He Matters

Recommending Fine as inspector general at the Justice Department, Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) told the story of a basketball game between Harvard and Boston College in 1978. Fine, who was playing for Harvard, scored 19 points and added 14 assists only to find out later that the game was part of large-scale point-shaving scandal.Recommendation of Glenn A. Fine by Sen. Herb Kohl, Dec. 15, 2000 (1)Recommendation of Glenn A. Fine by Sen. Herb Kohl, Dec. 15, 2000

That first-hand experience with corruption foreshadowed the  the career of Fine, who has spent 15-plus years investigating fraud, waste and corruption within the DOJ. Indeed, he has served as the DOJ’s inspector general for three presidents.

In that time, Fine has investigated how special agent Robert Hanssen acted as a spy within the FBI for a decade before being caught; why the DOJ failed to turn over evidence to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh’s lawyers; and whether the department engaged in improper political hiring and firing under George W. Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. 

Though he was appointed by President Clinton, Fine keeps his politics private, an important characteristic for someone who must walk the fine line between thorough investigation and witchhunt with every assignment. The IG can only be removed by the president, and Fine has now served under three. “We’ve driven 20 hours together, and I don’t even know if he ever voted for Bill Clinton,” said President Obama’s “health czar” Nancy-Ann DeParle, a former Clinton staffer and longtime  Fine friend.Shane, Scott, “Glare of Publicity Finds an Inspector General,” New York Times, March 26, 2007(2)"

http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Glenn_A._Fine

7 posted on 10/03/2010 10:58:18 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Gene Eric
>> “This is the most superficial report I’ve seen in my 30 years in Congress.”

That’s a strong statement.

There are two problems here. The first is the bogus report, the second is whether anyone should be able to say, "...in my 30 years in Congress..."


Get a life you piece of trash. Go out and see what life is like outside the capitol.

Dang.

Kit.

8 posted on 10/03/2010 11:14:15 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: Red Steel

If Obama really followed the dreams of his father he would not be a European. But being a European gives him power that he missed out, through missing a father. It fills that identity hole. Now Obama is showing Africa what a splendid European he has become. Yes, Europe conquered Africa and now the transgressor is paying perpetual lip service to its PC bromides — to be forgiven of its past colonial sins, one wonders. Obama knows this to be untrue. Obama is now conquering Africa with European PC morality and it’s the least he can do. It’s the least he can do for a dad that gave him nothing — but a hole in his soul. Heart of Darkness yet again.


9 posted on 10/03/2010 11:14:17 PM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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To: Red Steel

USAID is an arm of the American government and an executor of its policies. I don’t trust any part of the Obama Administration and thus, do not trust USAID.


10 posted on 10/03/2010 11:18:15 PM PDT by South40 (Filled with hatred for those who disagree, democrats are the most intolerant bigots on earth)
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To: Red Steel
The money line in the Fox article is, "Kenya has long been ripe for a new constitution, one that would balance power in the country and prevent the kind of violent rioting that followed Kenya's 2007 presidentil election." In fact, Raila Odinga, opposition leader of the duly election government and direct relative of Obama, who engaged in the slaughter of thousands of fellow Kenyan citizens, forced the government to acede to him sharing power. Obama and his administration openly supported Odinga in his failed candidacy. This is Chicago thuggery in its most vile application. There is going to be hell to pay when the people regain control of the US government.
11 posted on 10/03/2010 11:25:20 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (They are the vultures of Dark Crystal screeeching their hatred and fear into the void ....)
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To: South40

You are right. We knew this would be bad... We just could we imagine it getting this bad in this way. Where we automatically skeptical of anything coming from the government. That is no kind of good.


12 posted on 10/03/2010 11:33:35 PM PDT by Danae (Analnathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do che'l de'nmha.)
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To: Red Steel

I trust the ombudsman of the NYT more than I trust the 0bama regime to investigate itself.


13 posted on 10/04/2010 12:09:46 AM PDT by counterpunch (End the Government Monopoly!)
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To: muleskinner
Regardless of whether or not this Regime pulled any shenanigans in Kenya, there are 30 issues with a higher priority right now. Rep. Smith ought to get a better perspective.

Getting whatever information and pointing out the corruption of the individual in the WH is of paramount importance.

14 posted on 10/04/2010 12:17:19 AM PDT by TheThinker (Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenario at a time.)
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To: Red Steel

This is good. I hope more junk turns up in the Obama mudpie - Even if the admin denies it, as they say: perception is reality. Maybe impeaching Zero isn’t so far-fetched after all.


15 posted on 10/04/2010 3:27:45 AM PDT by fivecatsandadog (You better HOPE you end up with a little CHANGE in your pocket after he's finished.)
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To: Red Steel
The Kenya Connection [Barack Obama, Raila Odinga]
New York Sun ^ | January 10, 2008 | DANIEL JOHNSON

Whether Mr. Odinga [Raila Odinga] has ordered his men to commit murder and arson is unclear. But his own background does not exactly suggest enthusiasm for democracy and the rule of law. Mr. Odinga's father, Oginga Odinga, led the Communist opposition during the Cold War and Raila Odinga was educated in Communist East Germany.

(snip)

In August 2006, Mr. Obama visited Kenya and spoke in support of Mr. Odinga's candidacy at rallies in Nairobi. The Web site Atlas Shrugs has even posted a photograph of the two men side by side. More recently, Mr. Odinga says that Mr. Obama interrupted his campaigning in New Hampshire to have a telephone conversation with his African cousin about the constitutional crisis in Kenya.

What should Americans make of Mr. Obama's Kenyan connection? If he has been putting tribal or family considerations above America's national interest by supporting Mr. Odinga's anti-Western candidacy, it raises serious questions about his judgement.

At the time of his visit in 2006, President Kibaki's spokesman complained that Mr. Obama was behaving like a "stooge" of Mr. Odinga — which was at best undignified for a visiting American senator, and at worst unwarranted interference in the internal politics of another country.

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/kenya-connection/69273/

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From the website Atlas Shrugs, June 17, 2008:

Watch this video of the conflict in Kenya months back [see link below]. Odinga and Obama are Luo. Odinga and his American counterpart and strategist Obama both campaigned on this canard of "change". Obama campaigned for Odinga. Adam pointed out that Obama's been in Nairobi politicking more recently than he's been to Iraq. Why now does Obama pretend he doesn't know him?

Listen as the Luo calls itself the "Taliban" in the video. It's graphic, it's gruesome but it is who Obama supported. Watch the whole thing, particularly the Luos burning a church, raping women, and hacking a man to death -vid hat tip kasper

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/06/odinga-and-obam.html
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"When Raila Odinga lost the presidential election last week (12/27/2007) to Mwai Kibaki, he claimed the vote was rigged, whereupon his tribal followers went on murderous rampages such as in the town of Eldoret, where on New Years Day dozens of people were burned to death in a church set on fire. Throughout Kenya, hundreds of people have been politically murdered in the last few days."
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Up to 1,000 killed in Kenyan crisis: Odinga
AOL India Editorial
Last Updated: January 07, 2008

Odinga, who turned 63 on Monday, faces a dilemma of responding to international pressure to avoid provoking more violence while also maintaining momentum to oust Kibaki.

http://www.aol.in/news/story/2008010710489019000001/
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From Atlas Shrugs:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/kenyas_killing_fields/index.html

"...this hasn't even gotten into the relationship between Obama and Raila Odinga, yet another politician who ran on the 'hope & change' theme while utilizing criminal ties, who would then stage a violent and bloody uprising when national elections didn't go his way. Somehow we don't hear much about the nightly phone calls between Sen. Obama and Raila Odinga these days..."

Kenya's first truly free and fair democratic election was in December 2002, won by Mwai Kibaki and a multi-ethnic coalition party NARC (National Rainbow Coalition). One of the leaders of that coalition was Raila Odinga.

Kibaki didn't give him positions in the new government that he felt were important enough, so Odinga formed an opposition party, ODM (Orange Democratic Movement, orange the symbol color of opposition).

When Raila Odinga lost the presidential election last week (12/27/2007) to Mwai Kibaki, he claimed the vote was rigged, whereupon his tribal followers went on murderous rampages such as in the town of Eldoret, where on New Years Day dozens of people were burned to death in a church set on fire.

Throughout Kenya, hundreds of people have been politically murdered in the last few days.

Kenya's 37 million people are divided up into over three dozen tribes and sub-tribes, but the two dominant ones are Kikuyu and Luo. Kenyan politics since independence in 1963 has essentially been a duke-out between them.

The father of Kenyan independence and president until 1978 was Jomo Kenyatta, a Kikuyu. His main political opponent was Oginga Odinga, known as "OO," a Luo and Raila's father.

While Kenyatta was pro-West and sided with America in the Cold War, OO [Oginga Odinga, Raila's father] was a Communist who was aided and supported by the Soviet Union.

That's why Raila went to school in East Germany (born in 1945, he graduated from Magdeburg University in 1970), and named his first-born son after Fidel Castro.

Thus it likely won't shock you to learn that Raila has now made a deal for support from the Soviets' successors as world-champion enemies of the West and democratic freedoms: Moslem fundamentalists.

The Evangelical Alliance of Kenya has posted on its website a photograph copy of a Memorandum of Understanding, dated and signed on August 29, 2007, between Raila Odinga and Shiekh Abdullah Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum of Kenya.

It pledges the support of Kenyan Moslems for Raila's election. In return, as President of Kenya, Raila agrees to 14 actions, listed a) through n) on page two. Read them all, and be sure you're sitting down. Here's a sample:

b) Within 6 months re-write the Constitution of Kenya to recognize Shariah as the only true law sanctioned by the Holy Quran for Muslim declared regions.

c) With immediate effect dismiss the Commissioner of Police who has allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists to oppress the Kenyan Muslim community.

g) Within one year facilitate the establishment of a Shariah court in every Kenyan divisional headquarters. [Note: everywhere in Kenya, not just in "Muslim declared regions."]

Again, read all of them, for others are just as bad or worse.

It may also not surprise you that Raila is not Moslem himself, but claims to be a practicing Anglican. Only a minority of Luo are Moslem (most are Christian). Kenya on the whole is Christian, with 80% of Kenyans either Protestant or Roman Catholic, while only 10% are Moslem.

And here is the biggest non-surprise: Raila Odinga has, in his own words, a "close personal friendship" with Barrack Hussein Obama Junior.

When Obama went to Kenya in August of 2006, he was hosted by Raila and spoke in praise of him at rallies in Nairobi:

Much more at:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/kenyas_killing_fields/index.html

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MUST SEE VIDEO OF OBAMA IN KENYA CAMPAIGNING FOR MARXIST THUG/"COUSIN" ODINGA!

2 minute version:
"Barack Obama and Raila Odinga -- Did the Illinois senator violate the Logan Act in campaigning for his 'genocidist' cousin's bid for the Kenyan presidency?"
[VIDEO SINCE DELETED]
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1P_P8lBCsE

In case the above 2-minute version 'disappears' like the 8-minute link I had originally posted here, try this other 2-min version:
[VIDEO SINCE DELETED]
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1P_P8lBCsE&feature=related

Jerome Corsi - Obama & Odinga of Kenya (interview with Sean Hannity about supposed e-mail exchanges between Odinga and Obama in which they discuss ways in which to promote 'civil unrest' in the aftermath of Odinga's election defeat. Obama advising Odinga (according to Corsi): "whip up the tribal animosity")
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8x9VQ5_Iqzk&feature=related

YouTube site search results for 'Odinga':
[LOTS OF GOOD VIDEO STILL UP]
http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=odinga&search_type=&aq=f

BEST VIDEO!
Barack Obama & Raila Odinga REDUX:
[AS OF TODAY, 10/4/2010, VIDEO STILL UP AND RUNNING]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b63bBCC2-yM&feature=related
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Fidel Odinga: Walking in his father’s political struggles


Fidel Castro Odinga. The first-born son
of Prime Minister Raila and Ida Odinga

http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1143993672&cid=4&
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Raila Odinga's official website:
[CAMPAIGN WEBSITE NO LONGER EXISTS]
"Your Agent For Change", "Register For Change", "Vote For Change"
http://www.raila07.com/

16 posted on 10/04/2010 3:41:12 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: fivecatsandadog
I hope that after the election that the GOP will grow some gonads and subpoena Obama’s natural born citizenship records.

If he isn't a natural born citizen then he isn't president. He is a usurper who defrauded citizens out of millions of dollars in donations as well as other expenses that come with living in the White House.

17 posted on 10/04/2010 4:06:47 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: Red Steel

IG’s who report the truth in this administration get fired.

Obma doesnt care about laws against firing IG’s.


18 posted on 10/04/2010 4:13:05 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: ETL

This is all stuff that we knew about before Obama was elected. Since it didn’t matter then, I don’t see how it matters now. It’s a little late.


19 posted on 10/04/2010 5:04:09 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Red Steel

Simply puy: The alleged “report” is manipulated bogus BS. =.=


20 posted on 10/04/2010 5:17:30 AM PDT by cranked
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