Taken by Linda in Tennessee yesterday at an IRS protest rally in Nashville. ...
First it was James Rosen's personal email and phone records. Then it was Rosen's parents' phone records. Shannon Bream just reported on Hannity that court records appear to reflect phone records were obtained for multiple Fox News lines at multiple locations. The records were partially redacted,...
John Kass predicted that Jay Carney would be the fall guy for Obama. And that certainly would fit in with the defensive narrative whenever Obama fails at anything -- it's a messaging problem, not the message, and definitely not Obama. As the administration can't keep its story...
Lois Lerner, the IRS head of exempt organizations division, will invoke the fifth amendment this week rather than answer questions about the recent IRS scandal, according to a letter sent to Congress by her attorney. Lerner was scheduled to answer questions from the House Oversight committee...
Also, Treasury and Senior IRS officials behind the planted question and answer...
The persecution and prosecution of Gibson Guitar stands out as a prime example of government overreach, similar to IRS Tea Party targeting. This video explains the insanity of the raid and ultimate charges -- very technical and disputed interpretations of Indian law as to the importation of...
As we now know, the DOJ targeted James Rosen when it pursued a search warrant in connection with an alleged leak from State Department adviser, Stephen Kim. The long and short of it is, Kim told Rosen things, and as a reporter, Rosen printed them. Speaking...
White House planted "doctored" email narrative in press, then used press reports to push the "doctored" narrative as a political talking point...
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has been a focus here over the years because he's Professor Jacobson's home state Senator. Whitehouse's speech against opponents of Obamacare, in which he invoked Kristallnacht and lynchings, is legendary in the wrong way: History cautions us of the excesses to which these...
From Kathy: Snapped this picture at a State Park outside Fernandina Beach, FL. ...
From The Daily Beast, Hillary's Benghazi 'Scapegoat' Speaks Out: Following the attack in Benghazi, senior State Department officials close to Hillary Clinton ordered the removal of a mid-level official who had no role in security decisions and has never been told the charges against him. He...
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By way of brief background, Emily Miller has been trying to obtain documents from various branches of government in the District of Columbia regarding the investigation of and decision not to prosecute David Gregory for a clear violation of the D.C. handgun laws. Legal Insurrection also...
Hoorahs and adulation have been heaped on Elizabeth Warren for proposing to reduce the student loan rate to 0.75%, the rate charged by the Federal Reserve for very short term loans to banks. While the left-blogosphere, progressive movement, and low-information political consumers have been cheering, we repeatedly have exposed that...
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Of all the groups singled out by the IRS, True the Vote seemed to get extra special treatment, in a bad way: True the Vote founder Catherine Englebrecht doesn't want to believe the federal government singled her out. But...
When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material. They used security badge access records to track the reporter’s comings and goings from the State Department, according to a newly obtained court affidavit. They traced the timing of his calls with a State Department security adviser suspected of sharing the classified report. They obtained a search warrant for the reporter’s personal e-mails. The case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, the government adviser, and James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, bears striking similarities to a sweeping leaks investigation disclosed last week in which federal investigators obtained records over two months of more than 20 telephone lines assigned to the Associated Press.(video added) Ed Morrissey notes:
Had I seen this case last month, I’d have assumed that this had everything to do with the Obama team’s war on Fox News. Now, after the AP scandal, I’m not sure that’s all that went behind this. Eric Holder implied in his interview with NPR that spying on reporters has become routine in the Obama administration, so Rosen and Fox are probably not alone. However, I doubt that Rosen’s employer had nothing to do with this pursuit. Regardless, every reporter covering this administration has to wonder whether Big Brother Is Listening — or at least reading their e-mails and phone records. And so does every potential source within the administration. And that, of course, is the entire point of these intimidation tactics.Yup, and the get in their faces tone was set at the top: Remember, Obama was just joking about IRS audits, not sending signals. Will other news organizations defend Fox News? They "might" have to. https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/336455505348284416
Case against Fox's Rosen, in which O admin is criminalizing reporting, makes all of the other "scandals" look like giant nothing burgers.
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) May 20, 2013
