Posted on 05/14/2013 1:01:44 PM PDT by swampthang77
USBC News Wire- Another scandal has hit the already affair-ridden Obama administration. This scandal has come to light the heels of the shocking scandal in which the IRS was used to target US citizens, but in this case it is the Department of Justice (DOJ) which was used in an intimidating way against people who may have not agreed with the Democratic administration. While only now coming to light, the DOJ reportedly seized phone records of at least 20 AP journalists over an extended period of time without proper procedures.
While Obama has continued to deny that he knew anything about the IRS operations targeting citizens during his first administration, there is growing concern about why so many scandals involving abuses of power are coming to light all of which are tied to the Obama administration...
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The big brother tyranny is from Obama and his IRS.
abolish the IRS
Impeach Obama
the news media came out with this AP phone scandal at the exact time the IRS scandal was breaking .if you think that is a coincidence i have swamp land to sell you. the news media wanted to hide the IRS scandal with the AP scandal( confuse everyone and draw conservative fire away from the IRS scandal and immigration bill)
The United States Bowling Commission has a newswire? Who knew?!?
Just kidding, swampthang.
In a normal world I’d say “whaaaat?”... but in “Obama-world”... anything low and dirty is possible.
BTTT
I tend to believe he didn’t know anything about the IRS thing.
His people were doing that for him on their own probably.
It still has to be taken care of properly, and properly means getting rid of the guilty.
I will wait to see that ha ha.
If a crime was committed, then go get a warrant specifying what the offense was, who you believe committed it, what your probable cause it, and specifically what you intend to search. Then search that thoroughly. But the Fourth and Fifth Amendments don’t allow this kind of sweeping search.
And the “journalists” are duly compliant.
“He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavoured to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.”
Count 1 — Fast and Furious
Count 2 — Benghazi
Count 3 — Illegal monitoring of AP
Count 4 — IRS abuse
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