Posted on 10/10/2014 5:12:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
In news that must have left my friends at the New York Post -- never mind the gang at "The Daily Show" -- with a renewed confidence that ours is a just and beneficent God, the White House has been caught covering up a scandal involving a Cartagena hooker.
The phrase "Cartagena hooker" alone is a mellifluous gift to ink-stained wretches everywhere, but the revelation that the White House reassigned the alleged client of the aforementioned Andean call girl to the State Department's office of "Global Women's Issues" is the sort of flourish Tom Wolfe or Chris Buckley wouldn't dare attempt as satire.
Let us back up for a moment. Two years ago, the Secret Service was humiliated in a terrible scandal. Agents sent to prepare for a presidential trip to Colombia availed themselves of the local service industry, as it were. The local cops were called in when one agent refused to compensate a woman for services rendered, contradicting ancient advice about the oldest profession: You don't pay for the sex; you pay for the hooker to leave. Hats off to the Cartagena constabulary for their diligence in enforcing contract rights. Ten agents lost their jobs.
On April 23, 2012, then-White House press secretary Jay Carney said there were "no specific, credible allegations of misconduct by anyone on the White House advance team or the White House staff."
"Nevertheless," Carney said, "out of due diligence, the White House Counsel's office has conducted a review ... (and) came to the conclusion that there's no indication that any member of the White House advance team engaged in any improper conduct or behavior."
If the Washington Post's exhaustive exclusive this week is to believed, that was what experts would call a lie. Secret Service investigators told the White House that Jonathan Dach also had too good a time in Cartagena. Dach, then a Yale law student, was a volunteer for the White House advance team. The lead investigator for the Department of Homeland Security -- which oversees the Secret Service -- says he was told "to withhold and alter certain information in the report of investigation because it was potentially embarrassing to the administration."
One such piece of information was that Dach "was not charged for additional guest as a benefit of Hilton Honor Member."
Membership has its privileges.
That guest, investigators found, had advertised herself as a prostitute on the Internet, complete with a photo of herself scantily clad in front of signs that read, "Summit of the Americas." Perhaps she was just a student of international diplomacy specializing in ameliorating the deficiencies of soft power?
The lead investigator and two of his aides say they were put on administrative leave when they questioned what they believed to be a naked political cover-up.
If the allegations are true, we're left with this question: Why did the White House go to such lengths to conceal the event? Dach broke no laws in Cartagena, the alleged tryst took place in a so-called "tolerance zone" where prostitution is legal. Surely the White House isn't against tolerance.
There are two likely answers. The first is obvious and laid out in the Post's reporting. The White House didn't want a scandal in an election year. The second answer, also suggested by the report, is that while Dach was an inconsequential gnome in the White House's massive political operation, Dach's father, Leslie, was a big donor to the Obama campaign. A former lobbyist for Wal-Mart, Leslie Dach gave $23,900 in 2008 and worked with Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" campaign.
Neither answer excludes the other, and both speak volumes about this White House's problems. The underlying scandal is fairly minor. But if the White House would falsify records and lie to the public about this, is it really so hard to imagine that it would deceive the public -- and Congress -- about larger issues like, say, Benghazi? (Just this week, former Obama Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly that the infamous White House talking points on the attack were essentially bogus.)
But it also speaks to the seedy way Obama talks about politics generally. The president loves to denounce a cynical system where politics comes before the public good. He rails about a system where fat cats live by a different set of rules than the little guy, and money buys special treatment and access. But the way he operates runs completely counter to all that. Which is why the only person to come out of this scandal in an honorable light is the Cartagena hooker.
CHICAGO CRIMINAL CABAL GOES TO WASHINGTON--- It's unnerving that presstitutes didn't know this Chicago con artist and his henchmen were lying in wait-—duping America to get into office. Couldn’t wait to get their filthy hands on our tax dollars to move their covert agenda.
THE KINGPINS OF CHICAGO CRIMINAL POLITICS IN OUR WH wasted no time.....they had a stranglehold on the Census (AND US Treasury) from day one.
The minute Obama/Valerie/Rahm/Axelrod/Geithner, and that diseased bunch of criminals, landed in the WH they did two things that were apparently crucial to their evil plans
(a) they took control of the US Census;
(b) Obama placed his COS Rahm Emanuel in control of the US Dept of the Treasury (the IRS).
THE SMOKING GUN---WSJ REPORT--On Jan 20, 2009 Timothy Geithner was appointed Obama's Secy of the Treasury. But within three weeks, the Obama White House tightened its grip on Treasury. Obama put his COS, Rahm Emanuel, in charge of Treasury---Rahm Emanuel's dual role was an unusual move.
When he got to Treasury, WH COS Rahm Emanuel was so involved in the inner workings of the Treasury that the phrase "Rahm wants it" had become an unofficial mantra among subservient govt staffers, prostrate in obeisance, scurrying to accede to Rahm's wishes, according to Treasury government officials. Reported by WSJ / 05/31/09
More here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html
The connection between the IRS targeting and the WH's malevolent parasites at Treasury becomes clearer.
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THIS MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD shortly after quitting his powerful WH job as Obama's COS, Rahm held a presser declaring he "just remembered" he really, Really wanted to be Mayor of Chicago. Then Rahm announced he had magically "raised" $10 million for his campaign in "just a matter of weeks." (waiting for hysterical laughter to die down). Ya gotta wonder how much Wall Street Rahm wired offshore when Obama put him in charge of the entire US Treasury.
STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE--Rahm Emanuel takes over Chicago / May 16, 2011
EDITED EXCERPT .... an exciting time in the inbred world of Chicago Democratic politics.... Democratic don, Richard M. Daley ruled for 22 years, inheriting the mayoralty from his father, Mayor Richard J. Daley who held on for a generation.
Now Rahmbo---Obama's ex-chief of staff of was installed as Mayor. US Treasury Secy Tim Geithner was there, and so was Chicagoan David Axelrod, an O team player.
BTW, Mayor Daley's former chief of staff, Valerie Jarrett, hired Obama's wife, Michelle, to work in slimy Chicago City Hall.
Jarret is now ensconced as Obama's chief policy advisor. In Chicago gangland parlance, "chief policy advisor" means "wire-transfer artist".
Mayor Emanuel's innovative ways commenced early on---his organization was getting $50G's for the best seats at the inauguration (mmmm........that accounts for another couple million scammed from Treasury).
The mayoralty (and its--cough--"benefits") is a job Emanuel has coveted since he was a machine go-fer back in the 1980s.....before he became Bill Clinton's national campaign finance chairman and then a dual role as senior White House aide and Goldman Sachs lobbyist and then (gasp) becoming a multi-millionaire, thanks to a measly few months at a local investment firm...then a (gag) Congressman for four terms---then White House chief of staff for Obama that helped create the 2010 Republican House landslide.
SOURCE http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/05/rahm-emanuel-new-chicago-mayor- tim-geithner.html /
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The cold realization dawns----the monstrous Obama govt we, the people, live under---is utterly capable of extraordinary crimes against its people. He's trashed all of the sacrosanct principles which made our nation a global force for good. The deteriorating conditions around the globe coincide w/ the covert agenda of this individual and his cabal of evil henchmen.
One thing that still puzzles me about the original story...don’t hookers get the $$$ FIRST..BEFORE “services” are rendered...so how could the guy refuse to pay?
Jonah Jonah Jonah...... After the hilarity of tossin around the phrase Cartagena Hooker on yesterdays panel, think about what you wrote.
It’s “I never had sex with that woman” deja vu all over again.
The kid was a volunteer what ever that is and thus not a member of the White House staff. His actions are irrelevant because he aside from being a child, was no representing nor part of the White House effort in Columbia.....
He was there tending his father’s business, assuring the campaign donation money was being well spent
I dunno——in Hollywood movies the john leaves the money on top of the bureau-—she picks it up when she leaves.
Somebody gets screwed and we all get stuck with the bill for it.
Yep, a microcosm.
Ba-Da-Bing! Good one!
Amen...... that guy asking Lois Lerner the embarrassing questions should have asked her if she thought the death penalty was too harsh a punishment for her crimes against the Republic
Indeed. A hooker has more integrity, honor, and honesty than anyone in the administration.
Excellent point
For a brief story on this episode soon after it happened, with a picture of the working girl cheated out of her earnings by the liberal, Dach (so what else is new?):
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