“But when they go after the U.N. ambassador, apparently because they think she’s an easy target, then they’ve got a problem with me,” he warned. [emphasis added]
Nov 142012
Nov 142012
President Barack Obama bluntly told Sen. John McCain and other Republicans to lay off their attacks against U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice over the Benghazi assault, telling lawmakers that if they go after her “then you have a problem with me.” And Obama, speaking at his first postelection press conference, vowed that Republican opposition would not dissuade him from nominating Rice to replace departing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Nov 142012
I’m pretty sure this is the same Supreme Court that upheld the ObamaCare method of ruling the people.
Not hearing the case obviously doesn’t affect the ability to invoke the Hyde Amendment in future instances of malicious prosecution. But the appeals court ruling means that no matter how inappropriate the prosecution’s conduct is in the pursuit of a conviction, as long as they can prove they had probable cause to try the case, defendants have no financial recourse, and the prosecution cannot be held accountable under the Hyde Amendment.
via Supreme Court Declines to Tackle Prosecutorial Misconduct Case – Hit & Run : Reason.com.
Nov 142012
Filed under Thugocracy
Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer on Tuesday said the White House used David Petraeus’s affair to get the CIA director to give testimony about the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that was in line with the administration’s position on the matter.
Nov 132012
Filed under “thugocracy” and “free press.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar threatened to punch a reporter on a recent trip to Colorado, according to witnesses.
Dave Philipps, a reporter for the Colorado Springs Gazette, tried to ask Salazar about his appointments to the Bureau of Land Management and the wild horse population in the state. Specifically, Philipps had questions about the government’s relationship with a wild horse buyer who allegedly sold more than 1,700 horses to Mexican slaughterhouses…
via Colorado Peak Politics – SHOCK: Secretary Salazar Threatens To “Punch Out” A Colorado Reporter.
Nov 112012
Petraeus is a proven multitasker, if you get my drift. He can put his life together, whatever that means, and testify at the same time.
But isn’t it a national security risk to have the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee saying such stupid things? It risks making us all stupid just listening to stuff like this.
Though Petraeus is not expected to testify at the committee’s closed-door hearing next week, Chambliss said on ABC’s This Week that Petraeus’s testimony will likely happen later. “He’s trying to put his life back together right now and that’s what he needs to focus on,” Chambliss said….
Chambliss praised Petraeus’ career and said he did the right thing by resigning, commending President Obama for accepting his resignation as well.
via Senators: Petraeus Will Eventually Testify on Libya – NationalJournal.com.
Nov 112012
Long before the Benghazi scandal, Republicans complained that President Obama didn’t give enough attention to national security. The apparent lack of concern seemed to be exemplified by the Benghazi affair, in which Obama officials seemed to stand by while their people on the job in Libya were killed. In the weeks before the election, Republicans grew frantic, trying without success to get the news media interested in the problem.
But now, success! President Obama and his news media have listened to their concerns, and now take national security ultra-seriously. So seriously, that even the remote possibility of getting classified information through blackmail must be nipped in the bud. So Petraeus has to go, even if it means it will be more difficult for him to testify about the national security situation in Benghazi. But no sacrifice of national security is now to0 great to make for the sake of national security.
Concerned after discovering correspondence because of an earlier Chinese hack into the Google Inc. e-mail service, which the McAfee Internet security company dubbed “Operation Aurora,” the FBI was investigating whether Petraeus’s private or CIA e-mail accounts had been compromised, the official said.
They so far have found no evidence of a security breach, any loss of classified material or any evidence that another foreign power was aware of Petraeus’s infidelity, which the official said could have exposed him to blackmail.
via FBI Probe That Uncovered Petraeus Affair Began After Complaints – SFGate.
Nov 102012
Excellent slide show summary, especially useful now that we’ve officially re-elected Haliburton corruption x 10,000.
Cronyism History, Costs, Case Studies & Solutions from Mercatus
via Cronyism: History, Costs, Case Studies and Solutions | Mercatus.