Posted on 06/11/2011 6:43:29 PM PDT by bronxville
Archives Claims it Never Has Been Asked to Maintain Records from Obama’s Days as Legislator
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch, the public interest group that forced the release of Hillary Clinton’s daily White House schedule on March 20, announced today that the preliminary results of an investigation into Senator Barack Obama’s record as an Illinois State Senator show that his statements about the maintenance of his files are suspect. Judicial Watch’s investigation included the filing of a Freedom of Information Act request with the Illinois State Archives to obtain his records and papers. Judicial Watch is seeking: “Any and all public documents…resulting from Illinois State Senator Barack Obama’s years in the office (1997-2004) that the ISA [has] in its possession.” Judicial Watch filed its open records request on February 7, 2008, after public statements made by Obama regarding his Illinois State Senate records.
During a campaign stop last fall, Obama at first claimed he did not have any records of his eight years in the Illinois state legislature. “I don't have — I don't maintain — a file of eight years of work in the state Senate because I didn't have the resources available to maintain those kinds of records.”
When questioned about the records by Meet the Press host Tim Russert on November 11, 2007, Obama said: “Well, let’s be clear. In the state Senate, every single piece of information, every document related to state government was kept by the state of Illinois and has been disclosed and is available and has been gone through with a fine-toothed comb by news outlets in Illinois…every document related to my interactions with government is available right now.”
However, according to a February 25th letter from the Illinois Office of the Secretary of State in response to Judicial Watch’s open records request, “The ISA does not maintain Senator Obama’s personal records or papers. [Nor] does the ISA maintain records generated by his office. In addition, the ISA has received no requests from Senator Obama to archive any records formerly in his possession.”
Judicial Watch also contacted Obama’s successor, Kwame Raoul, who stated in a March 5 letter to Judicial Watch: “Any documents I would have inherited from Senator Obama would have been constituent work files, and those were reviewed and discarded upon me taking office.” State Senator Raoul also argued that even if he had any Obama records, he would not be required to disclose them.
“Barack Obama, just like Hillary Clinton, has a records problem,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Our investigation suggests Senator Obama could have had his records archived so that they are available to the public, but, to this day, has chosen not to do so. Apparently, he does not want a complete paper trail of his time in the Illinois State Senate. Where are his office records?”
Read More:- http://www.judicialwatch.org/illinois-state-archives-letter-raises-questions-about-obama-s-records-claim
When questioned about the records by Meet the Press host Tim Russert on November 11, 2007, Obama said: “Well, let’s be clear. In the state Senate, every single piece of information, every document related to state government was kept by the state of Illinois and has been disclosed and is available and has been gone through with a fine-toothed comb by news outlets in Illinois…every document related to my interactions with government is available right now.”
However, according to a February 25th letter from the Illinois Office of the Secretary of State in response to Judicial Watch’s open records request, “The ISA does not maintain Senator Obama’s personal records or papers. [Nor] does the ISA maintain records generated by his office. In addition, the ISA has received no requests from Senator Obama to archive any records formerly in his possession.”....
National Obama Accountability Project
Litigation and Investigation Update
This is a partial listing of lawsuits, complaints and FOIAs (by subject matter) filed against President Barack Obama and his administration by Judicial Watch on behalf of the American people in pursuit of the president’s repeated violations of the law and his contempt for the public’s right to know.
Obama Accountability Interim Report - October 2010
As of July 19, 2010
ACORN
Lawsuits
Judicial Watch v. Census Bureau (No. 09-901) - ACORN’s involvement in the 2010 Census
Judicial Watch v. Department of Housing and Urban Development (No. 09-1811) - Investigation into possible corruption and the political influence issues related to federal grants obtained by ACORN
FOIAs
Federal Election Commission (No. 679) - Request for ACORN correspondence
Department of Labor (No. 678) - Records of potential violations to ERISA laws by ACORN and/or its affiliates
Corporation for National & Community Service (No. 668) - Records on ACORN Housing’s violation of AmeriCorps grant agreements in 1995
Federal Bureau of Investigation (No. 612) - Records on voter fraud/misuse of funds committed by ACORN and/or its affiliates
National Labor Relations Board (No. 666) - Records on any NLRB violations committed by ACORN
BRIBERY RELATED TO CORRUPTION OF FEDERAL ELECTION PROCESS
Complaint
On June 15, 2010, Judicial Watch filed an official complaint with the Hatch Act Unit of the US Office of Special Counsel requesting an investigation into violations of the Hatch Act by White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina related to illegal attempts to bribe Democratic Senatorial primary candidates Andrew Romanoff (Colorado) and Joe Sestak (Pennsylvania) to drop their primary campaigns against Obama-endorsed candidates.
CZARS
Lawsuits
Judicial Watch v. Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency (No. 10-246) - Documents regarding “energy czar” Carol Browner
Judicial Watch v. Department of the Treasury (No. 10-302) - Documents regarding “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg and AIG
Judicial Watch v. Office of the Mayor of Chicago, et al. (No. 09-CH-44990) - Documents regarding “Olympics czar” and White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett
FOIAs
FOIAs requesting mission statements and office budgets have been filed with forty-one “czars”. Six of the offices have partially complied with our request; twenty-eight have failed to comply at all; none of the offices have complied fully with our requests.
GOVERNMENT BAILOUTS
Lawsuits
Judicial Watch v. Department of the Treasury (No. 09-152) - October 2008 meeting between the Treasury and CEOs of major banks
Judicial Watch v. Department of the Treasury (No. 09-1427) - Bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Judicial Watch v. Department of the Treasury (No. 09-1508) - TARP evaluation procedures and correspondence between Rep. Barney Frank and the Treasury regarding OneUnited Bank
Judicial Watch v. Department of the Treasury (No. 09-2132) - September 2008 bailout briefing held by Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson
Judicial Watch v. Department of the Treasury (No. 10-302) - AIG TARP documents
Judicial Watch v. Federal Housing Finance Agency (No. 09-1537) - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s political campaign contributions and policies about such contributions
Judicial Watch v. Federal Reserve (No. 09-2138) - Visitor logs for meetings with Ben Bernanke and Kevin Warsh
McKinley v. Federal Housing Finance Agency (No. 10-1165) - Documents regarding the decision to place Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into “conservatorship”
McKinley v. Federal Reserve (No. 10-751) - AIG and Lehman Brothers bailouts
McKinley v. FDIC and Federal Reserve (No. 09-1263) - FDIC approval of Wachovia takeover and Federal Reserve approval of Bear Stearns bailout
McKinley v. FDIC (No. 10-420) - FDIC bailout of Citigroup and Bank of America
FOIAs
Department of the Treasury (No. 847) - January 20, 2010, dinner meeting hosted by Secretary Geithner and White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and attended by six bank executives
Federal Reserve (No. 830) - Contact between the Fed and the New York Fed on backdoor bailouts to Goldman Sachs and other firms negotiated in November 2008
Department of the Treasury (No. 763) - former “car czar” Steven Rattner’s possible conflict of interest with contracted law firms
Federal Reserve (No. 522) - Government intervention in Freddie Mac and Mannie Mae, including legal framework and foreign investors
Federal Reserve (No. 533) - Complete and current balance sheet of all Federal Reserve banks
Department of the Treasury (Nos. 647 & 648) - Criteria for FDIC rescue of Citigroup and reversal of position on rescue of Wachovia
Federal Reserve (No. 696) - Lehman Brothers collapse in September 2008
Federal Reserve (No. 697) - Pre-financial crisis assessments by Federal Reserve indicating economy was on a steady path and that mortgage defaults would not cause serious harm to the economy
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Lawsuits
Judicial Watch v. Department of Health and Human Services (No. 10-443) - Meetings between HHS Secretary Sebelius, President Obama, Vice President Biden, House Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Reid and union officials regarding negotiations over “Obamacare”
FOIAs
Health and Human Services (No. 859) - Kathleen Sebelius’ records on Obama health care summit and health care reform legislation
Health and Human Services (No. 824) - All communications with Congress, the Executive Office and/or the White House concerning health care reform legislation
Health and Human Services (No. 807) - Communications between White House “health care czar” Nancy-Ann DeParle and HHS concerning health care legislation
Indian Health Services (No. 782) - Deaths on health care waiting lists; government run health care
Health and Human Services (No. 688) - Meetings with health care lobbyist groups or insurance groups, funding reform through wealthy estates, businesses, health reform and payment focused on outcome
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Lawsuits
USA v. The State of Arizona (No. 10-1413) - On July 14, 2010, Judicial Watch filed a “Motion to Intervene” on behalf of Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce, author of Arizona’s new illegal immigration law SB 1070, in order to defend Arizona’s law. Judicial Watch’s work to defend SB 1070 for Senator Pearce may be the most important piece of litigation that Judicial Watch has undertaken in its 16 year history.
Judicial Watch is in constant contact with both private officials and private interests in Arizona in planning additional strategies in support of their efforts to stem the flood of illegal aliens into their state.
FOIAs
Customs and Border Protection (No. 827) - Mexican incursion reports from 2008 to present
Citizenship and Immigration Services (No. 825) - S visas given to aliens who are informants of criminal/terrorist activity
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (No. 800) - Changes to asylum policies for illegal aliens with credible fear claims
Department of Justice (No. 795) - DOJ tip-line to gather information on Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Department of Justice (No. 562) - Information gathered by DOJ on Sheriff Arpaio
Department of Homeland Security (No. 654) - 287(g) Memoranda of Agreement changes and any related documents
WHITE HOUSE VISITOR LOGS
Lawsuits
Judicial Watch v. U.S. Secret Service (No. 09-2312) - Release of all White House visitor logs from January 20, 2009, to August 10, 2009
Yeah, the most transparent administration ever...
He said transparent, he meant opaque.
He’s such a liar and his media groupies encourage it by seconding whatever comes out of his mouth. Even corpse man. Up is down and down is up creating deliberate chaos.
Here is another flashback...some of his votes(far..far left) in the Illinois senate:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18967
These are interesting votes in light of Weiner:
voted: NO
HB 1812 (1999)
To require school boards to install software on public computers accessible to minors to block sexually explicit material.
Voted PRESENT
SB 609 (2001)
To restrict the location of buildings with “adult” uses (meaning pornographic video stores, strip clubs, etc.) within 1,000 feet of any public or private elementary or secondary school, public park, place or worship, preschool, day-care facility, mobile park or residential area.
Voted NO
SB 381 (1997)
To require prisoners to pay court costs for frivolous lawsuits against the state.
Voted NO
SB 485 (1999)
To give no offer of “good time” for sex offenders sentenced to the County Jail.
*Obama was the only vote against this measure
Translation: "What I am about to tell you is a lies. Clearly."
Do any of these actions have outcomes? If so, do you know what the outcome was?
We know more about Sarah then Obama.
She has been vetted and Obama hasn’t.
He needs to go.
Evil piece of ****
.......Obama’s successor, Kwame Raoul....................
Oh man the Mormans and the Amish are taking over the world!
I got the information from their sidebar so I’m assuming it’s up to date. They also have one on Obamacare.
Obama records requests prove fruitless
By MIKE ALLEN | 11/11/07
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6821.html
Do you read Lynn Sweet? I was just reading an old article of hers and the comments.
This one is prophetic...
John H. Olsen March 29, 2008 12:24 PM
“Has anybody advised Obama that he will have to work full-time, all the time, if he is elected to be the President of the United States?”
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/03/sweet_obama_did_hold_the_title.html
They know him best...:)
We know zero about obama because that which we know may not even be true. The guy is a serial liar, a bald-faced one, as he stares stright into the camera and totally lies. It’s the twilight zone.
He doesn't. Have you ever looked at his schedule?
A commentator at the Chicago Sun wrote it in March 29, 2008. I thought it was prophetic. I visit Lynn Sweet at the Chicago Sun and also read the comments because they know the players.
I am sure that the Lame-Stream, State-run media will be flooding Illinois with investigators getting to the bottom of this ASAP. They had not trouble traveling to Alaska, so I am sure that Illinois will be a piece of cake.
Whenever Obama says “Let me be clear”, obfuscation invariably follows. It’s his “tell”.
I posted this to the Washington Post in comments .. that they never investigated Obama - but they go after people who are citizens and not even running for an office, let alone sitting in the most powerful one in the land.
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