Posted on 05/15/2013 4:10:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Throughout Barack Obama's tenure as President of the United States and throughout every major scandal during that time period, nobody important has known anything important about anything...important. Every time a new scandal breaks, the White House comment is "we found out about this through news reports," "we need to wait for all the facts," and of course, "this was just a few low-level employees in X-state or X-city, nobody in Washington was involved."
Operation Fast and Furious
After it was discovered in early 2011 the Department of Justice [DOJ] had knowingly and willingly trafficked 2500 semi-automatic Ak-47 style rifles, or what President Obama would call "military grade assault rifles," to Mexican drug cartels, DOJ officials in Washington D.C. immediately blamed a "few low-level, rogue ATF agents working in Phoenix." It turned out, not only did senior DOJ officials know about Fast and Furious from the beginning, which started in September 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder received regular memos about the operation.
Benghazi
In the aftermath of the 9/11 Benghazi terror attack, the entire Obama administration, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Obama, Press Secretary Jay Carney and UN Ambassador Susan Rice, all blamed a rogue and irrelevant YouTube video for the violence. After investigation by the House Oversight Committee, a handful of investigative press reports and whistleblower testimony from acting Libyan Ambassador Greg Hicks last week, we now know Clinton knew the 9/11 attack was in fact a terrorist attack on the day it happened.
"At 2 a.m. Secretary of State Clinton called me along with her senior staff were all on the phone and she asked me what was going on and I briefed her on developments. Most of the conversation was about the search for Ambassador Stevens. It was also about what we were going to do with our personnel in Benghazi and I told her that we would need to evacuate," Hicks said. "The only report that our mission made through every channel was that there had been an attack."
Now that the White House and Clinton have been caught in their lie about a YouTube video, they're blaming the "intelligence community" for bad information.
In addition, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed not to know anything about requests for more security at the consulate in Benghazi. Those requests, of course, were handled by the people below her.
“The specific security requests pertaining to Benghazi, you know were handled by the security professionals in the department,” Clinton told Congress in January. “I didn’t see those requests, they didn’t come to me, I didn’t approve them, I didn’t deny them.”
It turns out, Clinton did in fact receive at least one cable requesting more security.
The House report suggests that Clinton received and signed a request for more security from Gene Cretz, who preceded Christopher Stevens as ambassador to Libya.
“On April 19, 2012, the response cable from the Department of State to Embassy Tripoli, bearing Secretary Clinton’s signature, acknowledges Ambassador Cretz’s request for additional security but instead articulates a plan to scale back security assets for the U.S. Mission in Libya, including the Benghazi Mission,” the House report says.
IRS Targeting Tea Party Groups
As the IRS scandal continues to unfold, so does the story of IRS officials. Initially when this story broke, senior IRS officials denied Washington D.C. had anything to do with the specific and inappropriate targeting of tea party and conservative groups. We were told this was the work a few "low-level" IRS agents working in Cincinnati. Turns out, that isn't true. Senior IRS officials in Washington D.C. knew about, and participated in, the targeting of conservative groups as early as 2011. So much for those "low-level" employees.
We Get Our Information From the News
Another argument repeatedly used by senior Obama administration officials when taking cover in the wake of scandal is, "We only found out about this through news reports."Operation Fast and Furious
President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano all claimed they found out about Operation Fast and Furious through "news reports."
IRS Targeting Tea Party Groups
Yesterday during a joint press conference with Prime Minister David Cameron, President Obama said, "I first learned about it from the same news reports I think most people learned about this. I think it was on Friday."
Department of Justice Secretly Monitoring the Personal Phones of AP Reporters and Editors
Asked about when exactly the White House knew of the Department of Justice secretly monitoring the personal phones of Associated Press reporters and editors, Press Secretary Jay Carney said the administration found out through "press reports."
“Other than press reports, we have no knowledge of any attempt by the Justice Department to seek phone records of the AP,” he said. “We are not involved in decisions made in connection with criminal investigations, as those matters are handled independently by the Justice Department. Any questions about an ongoing criminal investigation should be directed to the Department of Justice.”
President Obama and his administration have claimed not to know anything about Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the IRS scandal or DOJ targeting the private phones of reporters and editors, but they sure know a whole lot about about openly gay NBA player Jason Collins, feminist activist Sandra Fluke, March Madness, Golf, Whitney Houston, Justin Timberlake, Rush Limbaugh and others.
This is the typical Obama administration scandal playbook: question the "facts," blame those at the bottom, cite press reports for information and repeatedly deny any responsibility.
i twas low level employees at enron too, but we held the CEO responsible....
The buck never got here.
The LowLevel excuse cannot be valid. Top manager always knew or should have known. The military will not allow the defense that the senior officer did not know....knew or should have known! GUILTY
Guess this means that the Executive branch is run by low level employees and not elected/appointed officials.
Same conclusion applies to Obama... knew or should have known. Conclusion: GUILTY
Printed from: Boston Herald (http://bostonherald.com)
Obama knee-deep in Nixon-esque scandal
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Author(s):
Joe Battenfeld
President Obama’s second-term campaign slogan was “Forward,” but instead we’ve got cover-ups, congressional investigations and the government persecution of political opponents and reporters.
That sounds like “backward” to me. All the way to, say, 1972.
Who would have guessed that just a few months into his second term, President Obama would be compared to Tricky Dick. And by a liberal Massachusetts Democrat — U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano.
Republicans could not even have scripted this one. The agency most hated by voters, the Internal Revenue Service, admits to going on a Nixonian witch hunt against Tea Party and conservative groups during the re-election campaign.
This is a story even the most partisan Massachusetts liberal cannot defend. It’s so bad that even Ed Markey is calling for heads to roll.
“O” outsourced this administration to the MSM - RIGHT FROM THE START.
The MSM GOT him into office, so let THEM run the administration.
It’s the undeniable impression we’ve had from the start. It’s the place the MSM has had a crying need to occupy for donkey’s years. It’s what the DNC wanted for their puppet prince and at last accomplished.
THIS is what the Liberal program always was and the abject folly and insanity of such an arrangement is staring the whole world in the face.
THIS is why vetting matters and why the MSM must NEVER be familiar with ANY President!
Not a Democratic President or a Republican President. Not EVER!!
Government and leadership ARE necessary and cannot be handed off to amateurs or dilatants.
Rabble and mobs CANNOT and MUST NOT EVER be permitted to take the helm. PERIOD. The founding fathers knew this instinctively
Of course –if it’s NOT asking TOO much, it would be immensely preferable if these ‘leaders’ could be patriotic to America and demonstrate SOME basic regard for American traditions and American citizens.
Maybe they saw a video. Yes, that is it. It was a video. That got them started.
It is nothing but a lame excuse, which is typical of the left
Designated IRS agents are ORDERED to "select" certain groups for audits. There isn't any other way to do it.
Why is Holder, Obama's minion, the investigator??
The solution to this problem, GET CONTROL OF THE SENATE in the next election cycle. If it keeps up like this we just might.
Why doesn’t someone ask the most obvious question:
Mr President/Director/AG, you have the highest security clearance in the land. Are you actually claiming that you don’t have access to and/or haven’t received information on this topic through official channels, usually long before the press gets a fraction of that information?
The elections now go back to demographics and/or that 47%. Obama actually beat the intention of the Electoral College by targeting certain high population regions within a state.
I think the results in Pennsylvania is a good example. It was Philly, Philly, Philly...and a little bit more.
Obama’s excuse that the job is over his head and he has no idea what is going on is whole lot better than the truth - that we have an out of control petty tyrant.
This is exactly what the Vietnamese claimed about Uncle Ho. It was the cadre who murdered people. Uncle Ho didn’t know a thing about it.
Naw, they are just trying to wipe Obama's dung from their tongue. Once the taste is gone, they'll be back for more.
It is not clear in the headline whether the administration is bogus or the argument is bogus, but I will assume both.
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