Is the FBI Investigating Obama?

Right Side News ^ | 6/23/2011 | Cliff Kincaid

[IbJensen]

In a front page story about a major FBI terrorism investigation, The Washington Post has reported that the targets include “Chicagoans who crossed paths with Obama when he was a young state senator and some who have been active in labor unions that supported his political rise.” The implication is that the trail could lead to the White House.

This is an unusual investigation that does not primarily involve Islamists. Instead, it is focused on elements of the old international communist networks that many people mistakenly thought had faded away with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Those under investigation are suspected of providing support to foreign terrorist organizations such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the Middle East, a Marxist group. The Post called them “Colombian and Palestinian groups designated by the U.S. government as terrorists.”

The investigations came into public view last September when the FBI raided the homes of several “activists,” as the Post called them. Some lived in Chicago.

One of the targets, Tom Burke, was a union organizer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). He was so confident he would get a fair shake from the Post that he provided the paper with a photo of himself shaking hands with Barack Obama. The other apparent intention was to send a message to the President and Attorney General Eric Holder that any investigation of Burke might lead to Obama.

The Post suggested that investigations of labor union activists might jeopardize their support for Obama’s 2012 presidential run. Indeed, it could therefore threaten his re-election bid, if investigations determine that the activists did more than “cross paths” with the President.

Deep inside the article, in the 29th paragraph, we find out that some of the “activists” are associated with a group known as the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), a Marxist-Leninist organization. Burke is a member of the FRSO, which the Post admitted was “far left.”

The obvious question is why Obama, as a state senator in Illinois, would ever have “crossed paths” with such people. The answer goes beyond just union support for the candidate. The “far-left” networks that include the FRSO, the Communist Party USA, the New American Movement, and the Democratic Socialists of America backed and even spawned Obama’s political career. Don’t forget that Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn hosted a fundraiser for his first run for political office. The same networks also backed CIA Director Leon Panetta’s career when he was a congressman from Santa Cruz, California. This helps explain why Obama would pick Panetta, with no intelligence background, to run the intelligence agency. They are cut from the same cloth.

Nevertheless, on Tuesday, the Senate voted 100-0 in favor of Panetta’s nomination as Secretary of Defense. It was a classic case of “head in the sand” politics, ignoring not only Panetta’s long-time relationship with Communist Party member Hugh DeLacy but his record as a congressman in undercutting then-President Reagan’s pro-defense policies at every turn.

Obama and Panetta were players in the “progressive” community, which since the days of Henry Wallace, presidential candidate of the Progressive Party, has had a red tint. Obama had his own communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party member under FBI investigation for 19 years, while Panetta gave DeLacy, who had traveled to China to meet with Soviet and Chinese intelligence agents, sensitive reports on U.S. military matters. Any notion that Panetta had no awareness of DeLacy’s Communist affiliation was obliterated when Panetta in 1983 inserted a tribute to DeLacy into the Congressional Record, praising his resistance to “McCarthyism.”

Former FBI agent Max Noel once told me that the Bureau used to investigate candidates for federal employment by analyzing Character, Associates, Reputation, and Loyalty to the United States. The first letters in those words make up the acronym CARL. By the standard of “A”—Associates—Panetta flunks. But so does Obama.

Another sensitive case involves Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and wife of disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner. Walid Shoebat and Ben Barrack have reported that Arab newspapers have revealed that Huma Abedin’s mother is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group whose goal is to subvert Western civilization. Jamie Glazov of Front Page Magazine Theks Robert Spencer, “There is a remote possibility that Abedin is actually being deceptive in her marriage to Weiner to follow Muslim Brotherhood instructions and to infiltrate the U.S. government, correct?” Spencer replies, “Certainly. That is a very real possibility, and it should be investigated. But the only ones who have the means to do so are mainstream media journalists who are either clueless or complicit.”

It may also be the case that the FBI never investigated Abedin’s background.

As the FBI does not vet presidential candidates for national security purposes, we know there would have been no FBI investigation into Obama’s own background, associations, loyalty, and overall fitness for office. The FBI only probes those being considered for some federal positions under the president. They should have therefore investigated Panetta. But there is no indication that he was ever properly vetted. Now he is confirmed as Secretary of Defense because conservative Republican Senators were apparently afraid of being accused of McCarthyism for questioning his past associations.

On the other hand, the “progressives” are raising hell with Obama and want him to rein in the FBI. They want to further emasculate the agency charged with ferretting out subversives and terrorist support networks.

As the Post noted, “nine members of Congress have written letters to the administration” complaining about the FBI probe of Burke and other activists. The Post even noted that another one of the targets of the investigation, a union organizer named Tracy Molm, managed to arrange a meeting with Holder himself.

One of these congressional members is Muslim Rep. Keith Ellison, the foremost critic of Rep. Peter King’s hearings into radical Islam in America. “Shortly after the raids,” Ellison said, “I made inquiries to the FBI field office for more information. FBI Special Agent Boelter confirmed that an investigation was ongoing. He informed me that due to the pending nature of the investigation, he was prohibited from sharing any further information. However he gave me assurance that the purpose of the searches and service of subpoenas was not to punish or to suppress protected First Amendment activity.”

Pro-Marxist activist Medea Benjamin has said she managed to have a few words with Holder as well to complain about the probes. She is with the Code Pink group that travels to Gaza to meet with the terrorist group Hamas. She is also a staunch ally of Adam Kokesh, the “Russia Today” TV star who openly admits that he functions as a paid Russian agent of the Vladimir Putin regime.

Holder is receptive to this kind of appeal because of his friendship with Obama and record as Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton Administration for facilitating pardons and clemency for terrorists from the Puerto Rican FALN and Weather Underground. It is this record that puts the current investigations by the FBI in serious jeopardy.

The Post article has to be seen as a signal to Holder from those around Obama that he must act quickly to close down these investigations before they get too close for comfort to the Oval Office. First, however, he has to make sure that the congressional investigations don’t get too close to Holder himself. It won’t look good for the Attorney General to be personally implicated in knowledge of the federal gunrunning schemes now under Congressional investigation that provided weapons to Mexican narco-terrorist cartels. The evidence already shows that federal authorities let guns fall into the hands of known criminals.

[tutstar]

ping

[aruanan]

The obvious question is why Obama, as a state senator in Illinois, would ever have “crossed paths” with such people.

It's because before he ever left Hawaii he was in deep with at least one Chicago commie.

[aruanan]

The obvious question is why Obama, as a state senator in Illinois, would ever have “crossed paths” with such people.

It's because before he ever left Hawaii he was in deep with at least one Chicago commie--and he relies on the daughter of another one to do his thinking for him now in the White House.

[livius]

Interestingly enough, I read an article in the WSJ this morning about the hacker groups Anonymous and LulzSec. It mentioned that the latter group had hacked into a private security firm that was conducting or considering undertaking an investigation into illegal attacks on the Chamber of Commerce coordinated by labor unions or persons hired by them.

These hacker groups are essentially radical leftists and anarchists, and the Obama forces probably didn’t even have to hire them to hack the security firm. That’s just what they do.

Somebody better be investigating Obama, but it’s sure not going to be easy.

[wolfman23601]

Personally, I think Soros truly believes what he is doing is best for the people. While he plays a big part in funding the beast, I think he is probably more naive than conspiratorial. He is more of a useful idiot, while people like Jarret, Van Jones, and Bill Ayers are the true brains behind it.

[LucyT]

obama and Panetta were players in the “progressive” community, which since the days of Henry Wallace, presidential candidate of the Progressive Party, has had a red tint.

obama had his own communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party member under FBI investigation for 19 years, - while Panetta gave DeLacy, who had traveled to China to meet with Soviet and Chinese intelligence agents, sensitive reports on U.S. military matters.

Any notion that Panetta had no awareness of DeLacy’s Communist affiliation was obliterated when Panetta in 1983 inserted a tribute to DeLacy into the Congressional Record, praising his resistance to “McCarthyism.”

Another sensitive case involves Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and wife of disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner. Walid Shoebat and Ben Barrack have reported that Arab newspapers have revealed that Huma Abedin’s mother is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group whose goal is to subvert Western civilization..."

“There is a remote possibility that Abedin is actually being deceptive in her marriage to Weiner to follow Muslim Brotherhood instructions and to infiltrate the U.S. government, correct?”

Spencer replies, “Certainly. That is a very real possibility, and it should be investigated. But the only ones who have the means to do so are mainstream media journalists who are either clueless or complicit.”

It may also be the case that the FBI never investigated Abedin’s background.

As the FBI does not vet presidential candidates for national security purposes, we know there would have been no FBI investigation into obama’s own background, associations, loyalty, and overall fitness for office.

The FBI only probes those being considered for some federal positions under the president. They should have therefore investigated Panetta. But there is no indication that he was ever properly vetted. Now he is confirmed as Secretary of Defense because conservative Republican Senators were apparently afraid of being accused of McCarthyism for questioning his past associations.

On the other hand, the “progressives” are raising hell with obama and want him to rein in the FBI. They want to further emasculate the agency charged with ferreting out subversives and terrorist support networks.

. . . . Check out the entire article.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Senior Democrats are no doubt preparing contingencies to send Barry off into retirement if they can’t turn around his polling soon.

[MikeSteelBe]

I am encouraged to see that the normalcy bias is starting to wear off and people are waking up to what is really going on in this country.

Just “voting out” the incumbent “party” will not save this country from the republicrat oligarchy in charge.

More extreme measures will have to be employed.

[Texas Fossil]

Background on the 23 activists.

Activists denounce FBI probe revealed by papers

Daily Chronicle ^ | May 19, 2011 | AMY FORLITI

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2738850/posts

This has the potential to be “explosive” hee hee hee

[Anima Mundi]

The Left has so many one-word indictments with which they seem to be able to silence questions or opposition of any sort. They just say McCarthy, or racist, or homophobe, or sexist, or redneck, or greedy, etc. etc. and everybody quietly assents. They are always on offense and we are always on defense it seems. Do we have any of these one-word silencing/forced-assent verbal weapons in our arsenal?
All of this destruction growing from the need for approval.

[politicianslie]

What would you do if you were a radical Muslim playing POTUS?

You would try and do as much damage as you could before you were discovered. You would become part of the Nation’s most destructive group, the liberal Demo Party.

To reward corruption, you’d design a “Stimulus” package that would not encourage growth but would reward corruption. Nothing is more corrupt than the unions that support the Demo Party. You’d do permanent ecomonic damage by spending more money than is believable. Half of the nation’s debt is due to STIMULUS I. The DEMO Party is now pushing STIMULUS II to finish off the country.

To further the Muslim agenda, you’d encourage revolutions to allow Radical Muslim takeovers.

In Egypt, Obama has given $Billions for the Muslim Brotherhood takeover

In Libya, Obama has used the US Military illegally to overthrow one regime and replace it with Al Qaeda rebels.

Obama has demanded Israel pull back to the indefendable borders pre-1967 to allow the Muslim slaughter of Jews in Israel easier.

Obama has done all he can to make US Borders open.

Obama has done all he can to make illegal aliens in the US welcome.

Obama has done all he can to block US oil drilling to encourage $Billions to flow to Arab/Muslim countries.

Right in front of everybody, a Muslim terrorist is destroying our country

[livius]

He’s destroying our country, and sadly, he’s getting a lot of help from the left in doing so.

[itsahoot]

You are not alone, because we see absolutely no evidence that one soul in congress is willing to speak up.

My mother was an FBI informant during WW II, when the commies were very active in organizing the miners. Many of our closest friends were commies through and through and still are, because they passed that crap on to their kids. Roosevelt rewarded Stalin with half of Europe, and we blindly said great. Now they are becoming openly active here, with absolutely no coverage by the press, because the press is itself a wholly owned Communist organization, knowingly or not.

[itsahoot]

Even more sad, he is getting help from Republicans, well RINO’s anyway.

Many sleepers left the commie infested democrat party and snuck in when Reagan came in. Unfortunately we seem to be a little short sighted in thinking leopards regularly change their spots.

[Cicero]

Nothing really new here. The FBI and the federal AGs know all about this already, as does anyone who has been paying attention.

Will they do anything about it? Of course not. Clinton stuffed the top ranks of the FBI with his stooges, and Bush’s guy Sessions seems to be a clintonoid himself. At least he has done nothing to clean things out. Instead, he has rewarded and further promoted the clintonoids.

There was some possibility that hillary would pull a few strings to bring down Obama, but that window of opportunity closed in 2008, IMHO.

[MamaDearest]

“There is a remote possibility that Abedin is actually being deceptive in her marriage to Weiner to follow Muslim Brotherhood instructions and to infiltrate the U.S. government, correct?”

This is potentially infiltration of a woman connected with a subversive terrorist organization into an American top government job. Hillary HAD to know about Huma's family. The Clintons are not dummies and have global tentacles. What feedback did Huma give the Muslim Brotherhood just by casually chatting with her mother and brother, courtesy of her job with Hillary?

[MamaDearest]

...because the press is itself a wholly owned Communist organization,...

Obama's election sparked media to show their true socialist/communist roots. It won't end if Obama is replaced. We know now, however, they are not to be trusted as they have ulterior motives for what they report as truth. Other than immediate views of natural disasters, local weather reports (albeit global warming propagandized in some markets), and local news, they are worthless whether in print, on radio, TV or magazine. Obama must be proud of them.

[MamaDearest]

Right in front of everybody, a Muslim terrorist is destroying our country

Our representatives in government are sitting on their hands and are mute and apparently afraid of whatever democrats say about them and terrified of Obama while America is systematically being destroyed. The news each and every day is progressively worse, while Obama works on giving amnesty to about 40 million illegal aliens as the number of America's jobless citizens increases weekly. We're a nation on pins and needles waiting for a shoe to drop.

[bitt]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/activists-cry-foul-over-fbi-probe/2011/06/09/AGPRskTH_story.html

‘the original WAPO article’

[Candor7]

I hope the FBI gets to Obama and locks him up.Throw away the key for all I care. Obama and his running dogs are stone cold enemies of America and our Constitution. I say we can stop him in his tracks AT the ballot box.