Posted by Leslie Eastman
on May 21, 201337 Comments
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...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on May 20, 201314 Comments
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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Posted by William A. Jacobson
on May 20, 20138 Comments
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...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on May 20, 201310 Comments
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...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on May 20, 201328 Comments
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...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on May 20, 201324 Comments
Update -- the Search Warrant is embedded at the bottom of the post.
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You thought it was just AP phone records.
This morning's bombshell is that before there was spying on AP, there was spying on Fox News reporter James Rosen.
The Washington Post has the story:
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.
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.
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on May 20, 20133 Comments
The Obama administration has turned the immigration laws into a bigger joke than they already were, through administrative decisions not to enforce the laws.
Obama unilaterally created rules allowing so-called "Dreamers" to stay under certain conditions, and no surprise, 99.2% of those applying are getting approved. That policy...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on May 19, 201318 Comments
This is pretty funny.
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—President Obama used his weekly radio address on Saturday to reassure the American people that he has “played no role whatsoever” in the U.S. government over the past four years.
“Right now, many of you are angry at the government,...
Posted by David Gerstman
on May 19, 20132 Comments
Erdogan ♥s Ocalan?
Last week Soner Cagaptay and James Jeffers asked Can Obama Save Turkey From a Syrian Quagmire? in the New York Times:
The Syrian war has also awakened Turkey’s once dormant Marxist militant groups. These groups vehemently oppose any government policies they see as serving...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on May 19, 201313 Comments
Oh come on, all you. Really.
How could anyone think differently?
Anyone? Buhler?
John Kass, IRS scandal a reminder of how I learned about The Chicago Way (h/t @bryanjacoutot):
I didn't understand it all back then, but I understand it now. Once there were old bosses. Now there are...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on May 19, 201325 Comments
There is a desperate attempt to dismiss Benghazi as a big nothing.
Based on what we know already, there is a lot of "there there" showing that there we multiple levels of defalcation before, during and after the killing of our Ambassador.
But there are numerous open...
