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Obama's Corruption Chronicles:

Judicial Watch Asks Court to Compel Answers from Clinton IT Official Who Asserted Fifth Amendment
NOVEMBER 02, 2016

Mr. Bentel has not demonstrated he has a legitimate fear that answers to all 87 questions present a danger to him.’– Judicial Watch Motion to Compel.

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced that it filed a Motion to Compel former State Department Director of Information Resource Management of the Executive Secretariat John Bentel to answer 87 questions asked of him during his October 24 Judicial Watch deposition concerning former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s non-state.gov email system. At the deposition, Bentel answered each of the questions, “On advice from my legal counsel, I decline to answer the question and I invoke my Fifth Amendment rights.” The deposition and yesterday’s filing come in connection with a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that seeks records about the controversial employment status of Huma Abedin, deputy chief of staff to former Secretary Clinton (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363 )).

Judicial Watch’s court filing refutes Bentel’s claim for Fifth Amendment self-incrimination protection, arguing:

To date, Mr. Bentel has not demonstrated he has a legitimate fear that answers to all 87 questions present a danger to him. Nor has he demonstrated any such fear is more than fanciful or merely speculative. Mr. Bentel therefore must answer all questions asked of him during his deposition…

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Mr. Bentel has invoked his Fifth Amendment rights without providing any justification whatsoever. He has not identified – let alone demonstrated – a fear of prosecution in answering any of the 87 questions asked of him during his deposition. Nor has he demonstrated any such fear is more than fanciful or merely speculative. Mr. Bentel has not provided Plaintiff or the Court with any pertinent information to allow it to assess the validity of the invocation for each of the 87 questions Mr. Bentel declined to answer.

On August 19, 2016, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan granted Judicial Watch’s request to depose Bentel, citing significant discrepancies in Bentel previous statements on the Clinton non-state.gov email system:

The Court is persuaded that Mr. Bentel should be deposed because the record in this case appears to contradict his sworn testimony before the [House Select] Benghazi Committee. . . . Specifically, Mr. Bentel testified that he was not aware that Secretary Clinton’s email account was housed on a private server until media reports in 2015. . . . However, several emails indicate Mr. Bentel knew about the private server as early as 2009.

In ordering Bentel’s deposition, Judge Sullivan also cited a May 2016 Inspector General’s report that found:

Mr. Bentel told employees in his office that Secretary Clinton’s email arrangement had been approved by the State Department’s legal staff and also instructed his subordinates not to discuss the Secretary’s email again:

In one meeting, one staff member raised concerns that information sent and received on Secretary Clinton’s account could contain Federal records that needed to be preserved in order to satisfy Federal recordkeeping requirements. According to the staff member, the Director stated that the Secretary’s personal system had been reviewed and approved by Department legal staff and that the matter was not to be discussed any further. . . . According to the other S/ES-IRM staff member who raised concerns about the server, the Director stated that the mission of S/ES-IRM is to support the Secretary and instructed the staff never to speak of the Secretary’s personal email system again.

Judicial Watch has deposed seven other former Clinton top aides and current State Department officials, including top Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin. Judicial Watch also deposed IT official Brian Pagliano, who also asserted his Fifth Amendment right not to testify during the Judicial Watch deposition. On October 13, Judicial Watch released Clinton’s responses to interrogatories under oath regarding her non-government email system, during which she claimed she “does not recall” 20 times.

“It should disturb Americans that yet another Clinton IT official asserted the Fifth Amendment rather than answer straight-forward questions about Clinton’s email scheme,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “A witness can’t invoke the Fifth Amendment by citing a fear of prosecution that doesn’t reasonably exist.”

The full case history of the Abedin employment lawsuit is accessible on the Judicial Watch website.​
 
Information Warfare: Communist Takeover of U.S. Entertainment Industry
NOVEMBER 03, 2016

A one-time commander in China’s Communist Red Army has launched information warfare with an aggressive plan to invest billions in all six major Hollywood studios, a show business trade publication reports, describing the foreign deal as an unprecedented push into the U.S. entertainment sector. The former People’s Liberation Army (PLA) regimental commander, Wang Jianlin, is China’s richest man and he’s aggressively pursuing a big chunk of one of the world’s most influential industries.

A few years ago, Wang doled out $2.6 billion to buy the nation’s largest theater chain, AMC Entertainment, and now he’s taking it a huge step further with the studio deals that will have a huge impact on production. Chinese money has been shaping the movie industry for years, mainstream news reports have revealed, and one major newspaper reported earlier this year that China is expected to become the world’s biggest box office by the end of 2017. “This has changed how Hollywood behaves in big ways—like the flood of money coming in to co-finance blockbusters, or sequels that get the green light simply because they performed well in China,” the article states. An industry expert cited in the article says that very few foreign companies have ever successfully cracked the Hollywood code in a big way, but Chinese buyers are getting closer to that goal.

This may cause Americans to wonder what the U.S. government is doing to counter the information warfare. Specifically, a division of the U.S. Treasury, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), is responsible for reviewing transactions that could result in control of a U.S. business by foreigners. Judicial Watch is investigating what this agency is doing to scrutinize the Chinese Communist takeover and is drafting public records requests for the CFIUS and other pertinent agencies. After all, among the CFIUS’s duties is to determine the national security impact that the foreign takeover of an American industry could have on the U.S. Congress has expressed concern and has asked its investigative arm, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), to probe the national security issues associated with the Chinese acquisitions of American entertainment companies.

These disturbing revelations come on the heels of an equally alarming Hollywood story Judicial Watch reported illustrating the Obama administration’s hands off policy when it comes to illegal activities in the powerful entertainment industry. It involves a big-screen movie about traitor Edward Snowden, who has been criminally charged by the U.S. government under the Espionage Act. The National Security Agency (NSA) subcontractor leaked top secret information and his illegal disclosures have helped terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and led to the death of innocent people. Last year Snowden began openly engaging with ISIS and Al Qaeda members and supporters via social media. Nevertheless, Academy award-winning Director Oliver Stone considers Snowden, who fled to Moscow to avoid prosecution after betraying his country, a “hero” so he made a movie about the fugitive.

National security experts have determined that Snowden has done incalculable damage to the NSA and American national security. A former member of the Counsel to the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board has confirmed that people have already lost their lives thanks to Snowden and “countless more are likely to lose theirs now that our enemies know our most closely guarded sources and methods of communications intelligence collection.” Snowden has caused devastation, security experts say, and he may very well be the most injurious traitor in American history. That would make it illegal to profit from his crimes and the Department of Justice (DOJ) should confiscate all money made by the violators. This includes Stone, who in 2006 was fined by the Treasury Department for violating U.S. law during the filming of a controversial documentary praising Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro. Stone is an admirer of the communist dictator’s revolution and refers to Castro as “one of the wisest men ever, a survivor” and a solitary fighter comparable to Don Quixote.

Stone’s Snowden flick has since been released and, not surprisingly, the feds have taken no action. Keep in mind that Snowden violated his secrecy agreement, which means he and his conspirators can’t materially profit from his fugitive status, violation of law, aiding and abetting of a crime and providing material support to terrorism. It’s bad enough that people are profiting from Snowden’s treason, but adding salt to the wound, the Obama administration is doing nothing about it.

Immediately after reporting the story in early August, Judicial Watch launched an investigation, using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain records. True whistleblowers and law-abiding intelligence officers such as Lt. Colonel Anthony Shaffer, FBI Special Agent Robert G. Wright and Valerie Plame got release authority in accordance with their secrecy agreement and did not seek money or flee to Russia. A federal appellate court has ruled that government employees, such as Snowden, who signed privacy agreements can’t profit from disclosing information without first obtaining agency approval.
 

Obama in interview on TV encouraging illegals to vote. You wont' be deported.

Must watch the video of obama below.

Congress needs to start impeachment processes NOW!

What he is saying, is a FELONY!

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Lousy SOB...I wish that Congress had the balls to impeach him years ago.

This country will be better off without this scumbag....

Time left until Obama leaves office

74 days...12 hours...48 minutes...13 seconds
 
Government Accountability Office (GAO), what a joke. The government policing itself? Hahahahaa.....

**We've looked into our corruption and found no such thing. Case closed. Next....



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Information Warfare: Communist Takeover of U.S. Entertainment Industry
NOVEMBER 03, 2016

A one-time commander in China’s Communist Red Army has launched information warfare with an aggressive plan to invest billions in all six major Hollywood studios, a show business trade publication reports, describing the foreign deal as an unprecedented push into the U.S. entertainment sector. The former People’s Liberation Army (PLA) regimental commander, Wang Jianlin, is China’s richest man and he’s aggressively pursuing a big chunk of one of the world’s most influential industries.

A few years ago, Wang doled out $2.6 billion to buy the nation’s largest theater chain, AMC Entertainment, and now he’s taking it a huge step further with the studio deals that will have a huge impact on production. Chinese money has been shaping the movie industry for years, mainstream news reports have revealed, and one major newspaper reported earlier this year that China is expected to become the world’s biggest box office by the end of 2017. “This has changed how Hollywood behaves in big ways—like the flood of money coming in to co-finance blockbusters, or sequels that get the green light simply because they performed well in China,” the article states. An industry expert cited in the article says that very few foreign companies have ever successfully cracked the Hollywood code in a big way, but Chinese buyers are getting closer to that goal.

This may cause Americans to wonder what the U.S. government is doing to counter the information warfare. Specifically, a division of the U.S. Treasury, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), is responsible for reviewing transactions that could result in control of a U.S. business by foreigners. Judicial Watch is investigating what this agency is doing to scrutinize the Chinese Communist takeover and is drafting public records requests for the CFIUS and other pertinent agencies. After all, among the CFIUS’s duties is to determine the national security impact that the foreign takeover of an American industry could have on the U.S. Congress has expressed concern and has asked its investigative arm, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), to probe the national security issues associated with the Chinese acquisitions of American entertainment companies.

These disturbing revelations come on the heels of an equally alarming Hollywood story Judicial Watch reported illustrating the Obama administration’s hands off policy when it comes to illegal activities in the powerful entertainment industry. It involves a big-screen movie about traitor Edward Snowden, who has been criminally charged by the U.S. government under the Espionage Act. The National Security Agency (NSA) subcontractor leaked top secret information and his illegal disclosures have helped terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and led to the death of innocent people. Last year Snowden began openly engaging with ISIS and Al Qaeda members and supporters via social media. Nevertheless, Academy award-winning Director Oliver Stone considers Snowden, who fled to Moscow to avoid prosecution after betraying his country, a “hero” so he made a movie about the fugitive.

National security experts have determined that Snowden has done incalculable damage to the NSA and American national security. A former member of the Counsel to the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board has confirmed that people have already lost their lives thanks to Snowden and “countless more are likely to lose theirs now that our enemies know our most closely guarded sources and methods of communications intelligence collection.” Snowden has caused devastation, security experts say, and he may very well be the most injurious traitor in American history. That would make it illegal to profit from his crimes and the Department of Justice (DOJ) should confiscate all money made by the violators. This includes Stone, who in 2006 was fined by the Treasury Department for violating U.S. law during the filming of a controversial documentary praising Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro. Stone is an admirer of the communist dictator’s revolution and refers to Castro as “one of the wisest men ever, a survivor” and a solitary fighter comparable to Don Quixote.

Stone’s Snowden flick has since been released and, not surprisingly, the feds have taken no action. Keep in mind that Snowden violated his secrecy agreement, which means he and his conspirators can’t materially profit from his fugitive status, violation of law, aiding and abetting of a crime and providing material support to terrorism. It’s bad enough that people are profiting from Snowden’s treason, but adding salt to the wound, the Obama administration is doing nothing about it.

Immediately after reporting the story in early August, Judicial Watch launched an investigation, using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain records. True whistleblowers and law-abiding intelligence officers such as Lt. Colonel Anthony Shaffer, FBI Special Agent Robert G. Wright and Valerie Plame got release authority in accordance with their secrecy agreement and did not seek money or flee to Russia. A federal appellate court has ruled that government employees, such as Snowden, who signed privacy agreements can’t profit from disclosing information without first obtaining agency approval.
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President Obama Continues Early Release of Armed Drug Traffickers
Friday, November 4, 2016

As his adopted hometown of Chicago achieved another grim milestone for murders occurring in 2016, President Obama was busy adding to a record of his own: felony offenders granted early release from prison under executive clemency.

According to the Washington Post, Obama commuted the sentences of 98 inmates last Thursday, bringing his overall tally during his time in office to 872. This, the Post reported, is more than the combined number of his 11 predecessors in the White House.

While the administration insists the underlying offenses were all non-violent, the crimes themselves had been treated very seriously by the criminal justice system. Forty-two of the latest group of prisoners had been serving life sentences, most for drug trafficking crimes.

And as with previous such commutations – see our reports here and here – the prisoners were not only contributing to the general misery and social malaise caused by the illegal drug trade, many of them illegally used firearms to perpetrate or facilitate their drug-related felonies. This included, according to information the White House provided to the Post, at least 14 of Thursday’s group.

Several of those 14 individuals, moreover, were already either prohibited felons or illegal drug users at the time they possessed the firearm in connection with their drug offenses.

The amount of public resources – to say nothing of the risk to law enforcement officers – necessary to have brought the offenders to justice in the first place clearly must have been considerable. But with the stroke of Obama’s imperious pen, the outcome of all those efforts and resources was reversed.

The White House insists that each case receives individual consideration, but as we’ve reported previously, the president has been accused of trying to retroactively amend drug and sentencing laws in effect long before his tenure through his program of mass executive clemency.

It may well be that some of the individuals benefitting from the president’s actions have indeed shown exemplary rehabilitation and will prove to be well-behaved and productive residents of the communities to which they resettle upon their release. The innocent, law-abiding people of those communities can only hope so.
But for gun owners, it’s incredible to hear the calls of the president and his would-be successor, Hillary Clinton, for the criminalization of harmless behavior by law-abiding people – such as selling a gun to a friend -- at the same time the president heaps solicitude upon convicted, armed drug traffickers.

Lawyers assisting with the president’s commutations praised the individuals granted early release on Thursday for their “diligent” work toward rehabilitation and their “amazing” efforts at self-improvement while incarcerated.

This contrasts sharply with the language Clinton – who Obama has endorsed for president – has used to describe ordinary gun owners in America who have committed no crimes at all.

At various times, she has accused them of “terroriz[ing]” their fellow citizens and compared them to Communists and state sponsors of terror. Undoubtedly, she would also heap many of them into the “deplorable” and “irredeemable” categories she recently used to describe a large swath of the supporters of her presidential opponent, Donald Trump.

We cannot, unfortunately, assume this difference in tone is simply politics, rather than the expression of deeply held beliefs. Obama, Clinton, and many of the elites in their party indeed view Americans holding certain traditional beliefs – like a strong attachment to the Second Amendment – as deeply detestable for those beliefs.

It’s a sad day in America when a person’s beliefs and attitudes are more likely to earn them condemnation from the government than their actual criminal behavior, but that is exactly the sort of “fundamental transformation” Obama promised and delivered upon as president. Should Clinton succeed in her bid to follow him into the White House, we could only expect more of the same.
 
U.S. Illegally Dispensed $60 Mil to Combat African Ebola Crisis, Money Keeps Flowing
NOVEMBER 10, 2016

YOUR TAX DOLLARS FUNDING THE OBAMA GLOBAL AGENDA...

In its crusade to tackle the Ebola crisis in Africa the Obama administration violated its own laws by frantically doling out tens of millions of dollars to leftist groups that claimed they could help control the virus from spreading in the continent’s western region. Congress dedicated a breathtaking $2.5 billion to deal with Africa’s Ebola crisis but the funds came with rules to keep the allocation process in check and they were repeatedly violated, according to a federal audit made public this month.

At least $60 million was fraudulently dispersed to nongovernmental organizations and other efforts without the proper steps to assure the American taxpayer funds were going to valid groups and causes. The famously corrupt government agency in charge of the money, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is well known for doling out huge sums to controversial and highly questionable global causes and Ebola was simply another notch in its belt. Despite the waste, so much money was dedicated to the African health crisis that hundreds of millions of dollars were left over. This only became public when the Obama administration decided to dedicate $510 million of unspent Ebola money to combat the Zika virus that struck here at home earlier this year.

This illustrates that the administration acted hastily to a health emergency thousands of miles away. Besides allocating huge sums of money, the president also executed an outrageous plan that admitted Ebola-infected non-U.S. citizens to the United States for treatment. The plan included special waivers of federal laws and regulations that ban the admission of non-citizens with a communicable disease as dangerous as Ebola. Judicial Watch was the first to report the backdoor deal in 2014 after high-level government sources disclosed details of the plan, which was kept secret from Congress. The administration subsequently offered a special Ebola amnesty for African nations, including Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

In the meantime, U.S. dollars kept flowing to Africa. A chunk of it went to “reimburse” groups that had supposedly conducted Ebola control activities before Congress allocated money for the cause. That’s when USAID embarked on a cash giveaway, reimbursing nearly 300 groups. In at least 21 cases, the investigative arm of Congress, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), found that the payments did not comply with the law and that the money should be returned, which is highly unlikely. “Because USAID did not have the legal authority to make the reimbursements that were not in accordance with the reimbursement provisions in the Act, these reimbursements represent unauthorized transfers,” the report states. It turns out that USAID doesn’t even have official polices or procedures for doling out money in these cases. “As a result, USAID does not have a process that could provide reasonable assurance that it complies with reimbursement provisions of applicable appropriations laws, such as the reimbursement provisions in the act,” congressional investigators write in their report.

As if this weren’t bad enough, large sums of taxpayer dollars kept going to Africa even after the so-called health crisis was under control, “as the numbers of new Ebola cases declined,” the GAO report states. USAID claims this was part of an initiative to focus on longer-term efforts to “strengthen global health security.” Despite the corruption surrounding this program, Uncle Sam will continue sending money for Ebola related causes in Africa and it’s unlikely that there will be any consequences for blowing $60 million. “USAID and State have funded a range of activities to control the outbreak and will continue to fund longer-term efforts to mitigate the second-order effects and strengthen global health security,” GAO investigators write.

This is just a snippet of USAID’s egregious operating system. With a massive budget and little oversight, the agency is charged with providing global economic, development and humanitarian assistance. That means big bucks go to all sorts of preposterous initiatives in countries that are unlikely to be a priority for Americans as they suffer through economic hardships and high unemployment at home. A few examples reported by Judicial Watch over the years include $55 million to build a mere 816 houses in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, $24.5 million to circumcise males in Swaziland, $20 million to develop a Pakistani version of Sesame Street and $10 million to train Filipinos to work in Asian call centers that serve U.S. businesses.
 
Did I miss this one?

Well if so it bears posting again:

Obama has ordered the police to scrape gutters, to hire more minority cops.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2...re-drug-use-criminal-records-hire-minorities/

I suppose this is what you get when having the country run by crooks.

Pretty soon we'll have different rules for everyone. Jim Crow on Steroids.

(Oops! maybe not! Sometimes I forget what has happened for about 10 seconds. It's surreal to think that we've had some real democracy now, instead of constant obamaocracy.)
 
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All that the Democrats have proved in the past is that they can get rich by giving away other people's money.

This could be a boon for the prison industry if Trump arrests them all.

Of course there are so many it would immediately be dubbed as a Witch Hunt.
 
U.S. Open Border Policy Creates Crisis, Detention Centers Maxed Out as Numbers Climb
NOVEMBER 15, 2016

After rolling out the welcome mat for central American illegal immigrants, the Obama administration is scrambling to halt the flow because government detention centers and charity shelters are overwhelmed with the bombardment of migrants. In the fiscal year that ended in September, the U.S. Border Patrol detained 137,366 illegal aliens—women with children or minors—at the Mexican border who qualified to stay in the country under the president’s humanitarian crisis measure. That’s an eye-popping 90% increase from 2015, according to government figures.

In October, the first month of the new fiscal year, 46,195 individuals were apprehended on the southwest border compared to 39,501 in September and 37,048 in August, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) figures show. As a result, there are 41,000 individuals in immigration detention facilities, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson revealed last week, when the number typically fluctuates between 31,000 and 34,000. Johnson has authorized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to acquire additional detention space for single adults “so that those apprehended at the border can be returned to their home countries as soon as possible.” Johnson added that the U.S. has engaged with a number of countries to repatriate their citizens more quickly.

The open borders frenzy has clearly backfired and the administration appears to be scrambling to contain the crisis it created. “Our borders cannot be open to illegal migration,” Johnson proclaimed just a few days ago in a DHS announcement. “We must, therefore, enforce the immigration laws consistent with our priorities. Those priorities are public safety and border security.” The DHS secretary continued: “Those who attempt to enter our country without authorization should know that, consistent with our laws and our values, we must and we will send you back.” Additionally, DHS has launched a campaign to scare migrants out of making the trek north with videos featuring traumatized illegal aliens who made it and are currently in U.S. custody. The government is trying to clean up its own mess.

The influx of central Americans came after the administration did a fantastic job promoting a special program—in English and Spanish—for illegal aliens from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala who claim to flee violence. Media outlets throughout Latin America reported it widely and madness ensued. When droves of central Americans started appearing at U.S. ports of entry along the Mexican border, the administration tried to slow the pace by creating a program to pre-screen candidates before making the journey. Johnson said it was an alternative, safe and legal path to the United States for vulnerable individuals while combating human smuggling operations that had already brought in tens of thousands of illegal aliens. Officially this is known as Central American Minors (CAM) Refugee/Parole Program.

But it’s not just kids who qualify for the special parole, which is extended to those up to the age of 21. Family members are also eligible, including “unmarried children of the qualifying child or in-country parent who are under the age of 21” and members of the same household and economic unit as the qualifying child as well as the spouse of a remarried parent. How the U.S. government confirms any of this is anybody’s guess. In some cases, immigration authorities require DNA tests to prove biological connections between children and parents and Uncle Sam picks up the tab for that.

The number of foreigners filing asylum applications has skyrocketed in the last year and is about 10 times higher than it was before Obama became president, the Washington D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) revealed last month. Citing figures obtained from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the nonprofit published a report stating that the increase in so-called credible fear claims follows a 2009 executive order that calls for such arrivals to be granted parole in the U.S. while they pursue asylum. “Judging by current approval statistics from the immigration courts, ultimately few will be found qualified for asylum, but nearly all are allowed into the country, and they are not considered a priority for deportation under current policy,” CIS writes.
 
JW Probe: Secret Service Loses Guns, Badges, Laptops, “Other Equipment”
NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The U.S. Secret Service has lost thousands of agency computers, radios, cell phones, weapons, credentials and vehicles since Islamic terrorists executed the worst attack in U.S. history, records obtained by Judicial Watch show. The equipment was reported lost or stolen by the Secret Service, which claims to be one of the most elite law enforcement organizations in the world with responsibilities that include protecting, not only the president, but also national and visiting foreign leaders as well as conducting criminal investigations.

Judicial Watch requested the records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) almost a year ago as part of an ongoing investigation into the scandal-plagued Secret Service. The information was finally provided this month and it most certainly depicts behavior unbecoming of an elite law enforcement agency. Since 2001 dozens of weapons and pistols have gone missing, hundreds of agent badges and cell phones as well as scores of laptop and desktop computers and six agency motor vehicles. Labeled “lost and stolen assets” by the Secret Service, the records are broken down by year and type of equipment missing. Two categories are somewhat vague and neither includes records before 2009. One, titled “other equipment,” reveals the loss of 793 items since 2009. The other, listed as “office equipment,” shows the loss of 201 items during the same period.

The agency had an especially humiliating year in 2004 when 1,362 items were recorded as lost or stolen, the records show. Radio equipment led with 191 lost items in addition to 53 laptops, 53 desktop computers, 26 badges and 25 cell phones, among others. In 2002 the Secret Service lost 1,179 items, including a disturbing number of weapons (69) and badges (40). Keep in mind that was the year following the 9/11 terrorist attacks! In 2014 the agency reported 1,032 items lost or stolen, among them hundreds of pieces of information technology equipment, 142 cell phones and a motor vehicle. In 2010 the records list 1,001 disappeared items, including dozens of badges, computers and cell phones. Some of the categories are too general and don’t offer specific descriptions of the equipment, but enough information is provided in the records to illustrate the severity of the negligence. Except for 2013 the Secret Service has lost more than 100 information technology items every year since 2009. For the portion of 2016 that’s been reported, the agency has already lost eight badges. In 2015 it was 18 and in 2014 it lost 25 badges.

The Secret Service has been rocked by several scandals in the last few years, including one that Judicial Watch uncovered last summer. Known as “Operation Moonlight” and “Operation Moonshine,” agents were covertly redeployed from the White House compound to protect a close friend of the agency’s then director during a dispute with a neighbor. Judicial Watch obtained government records containing details of the illicit operation, which occurred under former Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan. His good friend and administrative assistant at the time, Lisa Chopey, was embroiled in a discord with a neighbor in her rural community of La Plata, Maryland and the Secret Service surreptitiously redeployed agents assigned to guard the White House to protect Chopey and conduct undercover surveillance of the problematic neighbor.

Other Secret Service transgressions have made headlines in the last few years. Besides drunken agents plowing a government vehicle into a White House security gate, a dozen agents brought prostitutes to their hotel rooms during a 2012 world leaders’ summit attended by President Obama. A mainstream news outlet called the incident a debauchery that caused an uproar and surprised many who previously regarded Secret Service agents as a highly disciplined force of dark sunglasses, earpieces and unreadable facial expressions. The Secret Service suffered another major blow when a psychologically disturbed man with a knife jumped over the White House fence and ran across the North Lawn, into the executive mansion and to the entrance of the East Room. Last year a drone flew over the White House and landed in an area that’s supposed to be secure. The device was described as a quadcopter drone and the Secret Service told media outlets that it crash-landed in a tree on the southeast side of the complex around 3 a.m.
 
HUD Gives Poor More Rent Money to Live in “Higher Opportunity” Areas With “Lower Poverty”
NOVEMBER 21, 2016

To help “very low-income families” live in better neighborhoods, the Obama administration has issued a sweeping order requiring the government to pay more for their housing so they can move to areas of higher opportunity and lower poverty. The final rule was announced in the federal register this month by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the agency that annually spends tens of billions on rent for the poor.

A chunk of the money, an estimated $18 billion according to the Congressional Budget Office, goes to a program called Housing Choice Voucher (HCV), which is funded by HUD and administered by local public housing agencies. It allows recipients to choose housing in the private market and pays a set amount based on fair market rent for a metropolitan area. Under the new rule, which goes into effect in January, fair market rents will now be calculated by ZIP code so Uncle Sam will pay a lot more for people to live in nicer areas. Here’s an excerpt of the new regulation: “This final rule establishes a more effective means for HCV tenants to move into areas of higher opportunity and lower poverty by providing the tenants with a subsidy adequate to make such areas accessible and, consequently, help reduce the number of voucher families that reside in areas of high poverty concentration.”

HUD Secretary Julián Castro said in an announcement that the goal is to “offer these voucher-holding families more opportunities to move into higher opportunity neighborhoods with better housing, better schools and higher paying jobs.” The agency decided to spend more money to house the poor after a group of Ivy League social scientists published a study on the effects of moving families away from neighborhoods with deeply concentrated poverty to low-poverty environments. They found that children who moved to low-poverty neighborhoods before the age of 13 did better as adults, had significantly higher earnings and a greater likelihood of attending college. To keep with one of the agency’s key missions of “fostering opportunities for economic mobility,” American taxpayers will foot the bill for the higher rent in more upscale neighborhoods.

To justify the added expense HUD is playing the race card, asserting that the current method of doling out vouchers “has not proven effective in addressing the problem of concentrated poverty and economic and racial segregation in neighborhoods.” The agency fully expects that when the new system kicks in it will be “more effective in helping families move to areas of higher opportunity and lower poverty.” To some this may sound like social engineering and yet another Obama administration example of spreading the wealth around. For instance, the “better jobs” argument is a huge red herring, particularly in the area surrounding the capitol, which will be deeply impacted by the new rule. For example, the highest new fair market rent areas in the District of Columbia are in the northwest while the lowest are in the southeast. Commuting to downtown is actually easier from the southeast because of its proximity, metro rail coverage and bus routes. Also, the highest rent allowances in the area are in places like Fairfax—again, far less accessible to employment centers than anywhere in the District.

The new regulation will have a significant impact on the composition of targeted neighborhoods. As an example: In 2016, the fair market rent for the entire D.C. metropolitan area for a two-bedroom apartment was $1,623. Under the new rule, voucher amounts in the D.C. area will range up to $2,420 a month for a two-bedroom apartment in northwest D.C and parts of Fairfax and Arlington counties. Among the areas that will implement the new system are the nation’s largest cities, including Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Philadelphia and San Antonio. HUD claims that its current system artificially inflates rents in some higher poverty neighborhoods rather than incentivize voucher holders to move to higher opportunity neighborhoods.

This is an agency that’s been embroiled in a multitude of serious scandals—under both Democrat and Republican administrations—over the years and Judicial Watch has reported on many of them, including the discovery that $200 million had been wasted at local public housing agencies run by people with “troubled backgrounds” in high-ranking positions.

Agency leadership has also been rocky over the years. George W. Bush’s HUD secretary, Alphonso Jackson, was forced to resign in the midst of a federal investigation involving cronyism. Bill Clinton’s HUD secretary, Henry Cisneros, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about payments to a mistress. Ronald Reagan’s HUD secretary, Samuel Pierce, was involved in an influence-peddling scandal that saw 16 people, including some of his top aides at the agency, convicted.
 
Shooter13, it seems that you have been wasting your time. Obama says he has been scandal free.
Speaking to donors at a private fundraiser in California, Obama railed against former House Oversight Committee Chair Darrell Issa for calling his administration corrupt. “Here’s a guy who called my administration perhaps the most corrupt in history — despite the fact that actually we have not had a major scandal in my administration,” he said, referring to Issa, according to a transcript of his speech.
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Every day of his term has been a scandal.

America is driven numb by all the scandal.
 
Legal Immigration Also Lawless Under Obama: Green Cards with False Info, Sent Twice, Missing
NOVEMBER 23, 2016

“Thousands of green cards have simply gone missing” according to a new federal audit that reveals scores have been “misdelivered,” include false information, were issued in duplicate or inadvertently grant foreigners approved for 24-month conditional residence status ten years of U.S. residency.

This illustrates that under President Obama even legal immigration is lawless.

As unbelievable as this may seem it’s par for the course at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Homeland Security agency that oversees lawful immigration. In the last three years alone USCIS received over 200,000 reports of green cards not being delivered to the approved applicant, at least 19,000 with incorrect data or issued twice and more than 2,400 with 10-year expiration dates for immigrants who had only been approved for a 24-month conditional stay. These startling transgressions are documented in a report issued this month by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General, which determined that the green card crisis is “far worse than originally thought.”

In the past year alone, USCIS inadvertently sent more than 6,200 duplicate green cards, the agency watchdog found, noting that this is not a new problem but rather a perpetual one. It gets better; over 5,400 of the duplicate cards were sent in one month alone (June). Homeland Security officials claim the error was caused by a card production software update that accidently generated duplicates for a backlog of cards waiting to be printed. “In the wrong hands, Green Cards may enable terrorists, criminals, and illegal aliens to remain in the United States and access immigrant benefits,” the IG writes in its report as if Homeland Security leaders don’t already know this. These “significant risks and burdens” have been addressed by federal investigators for years but the problems persist.

Just a few months ago the DHS IG released a report disclosing that USCIS had sent hundreds of green cards to the wrong address and that evidently opened a huge can of worms. Investigators kept digging and discovered that the problem was much worse than the previous report, issued in March, indicated. “New information regarding the scope and volume of improperly issued Green Cards received after publication of our previous report prompted initiation of this current audit,” the IG writes in this month’s audit. The results of the first probe were bad enough because it uncovered serious “weaknesses” in the agency’s ability to “effectively carry out is national security and system integrity goals.” There’s no telling the true extent of the problem or what future probes will dig up.

In the meantime, this crucial Homeland Security agency is preoccupied shielding illegal alien criminals from deportation, doling out amnesty for every imaginable cause—including natural disasters, inclement weather and tainted water—and registering new immigrant voters. Judicial Watch has closely monitored USCIS for years and reported on many of its outrageous initiatives, which include dedicating nearly $30 million to register new immigrant voters in the last year alone. That program includes free citizenship instruction, English, U.S. history and civics courses.

Earlier this year USCIS rewarded victims of Hurricane Matthew a special amnesty that gave illegal aliens work permits, “change of nonimmigrant status or extension of nonimmigrant stay” and forgiveness for those who blew off deportation court hearings. Illegal aliens received the same perk a few years ago after Hurricane Sandy.

In the last few years USCIS granted Ebola amnesty for illegal aliens from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, earthquake amnesty for Haitians, hurricane amnesty for Hondurans and Nicaraguans and “ongoing armed conflict” amnesty for nationals of Yemen, an Islamic Middle Eastern country well known as an Al Qaeda breeding ground. Earlier this year the administration rewarded illegal aliens in the Southern and Midwestern United States “severe weather” amnesty due to the flooding that battered the region and forced rivers from Texas to Illinois to surge out of control. Let’s not forget the water amnesty rewarded to illegal aliens in Michigan in February.

Last year Judicial Watch reported that USCIS shielded a known gang member charged with murder and drug-related crimes from deportation under President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The illegal alien thug, Emmanuel Jesus Rangel-Hernandez, was in the process of being removed when USCIS intervened, even though the agency knew he belonged to a violent street gang.

Protected by Uncle Sam, the 19-year-old went on a three-day shooting spree in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing a model who had appeared in a popular reality television show. This fall USCIS ironically honored a renowned open borders activist who helps illegal aliens violate federal U.S. law with an annual award that recognizes “significant contributions and achievements of a naturalized” American citizen
 
Significant contributions and achievements to what???

Lawlessness and disorder?,
 
SHOOTER13 said:
CDC Official Calls Obama Worst President, Amateur, Marxist After Influx of Illegal Alien Minors

Following the influx of illegal immigrant minors from Central America, an official at the federal agency charged with protecting public health describes Barack Obama as “the worst president we have ever had,” an “amateur” and “Marxist,” according to internal emails obtained by Judicial Watch.

Judicial Watch got the records as part of an investigation into the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) activation of an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to deal with the barrage of illegal alien minors last summer. Tens of thousands of Central Americans came into the United States through the Mexican border and contagious diseases—many considered to be eradicated in the U.S.—became a tremendous concern. The CDC, which operates under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), responded by opening an emergency facility designed to monitor and coordinate response activities to eminent public health threats.

This special emergency division was created after the 2001 terrorist attacks and has responded to more than 50 public health threats, including hurricanes, food borne disease outbreaks, the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic and the Haiti cholera outbreak. Scientists from across the CDC are brought together to analyze, validate, and efficiently exchange information during a public health emergency and connect with response partners. The EOC also coordinates the deployment of CDC staff and the procurement and management of all equipment and supplies that agency responders may need during their deployment.

It’s a major and costly operation that can stick American taxpayers with a huge tab. That’s why JW launched a probe when the Obama administration took in the illegal immigrants, initially coined Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC), with open arms last summer. JW has sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for planning records involving the border crisis as well as information relating to the solicitation of "on demand escort services" for the 65,000 UACs that remain in the U.S. Last year it was also reported that the illegal immigrant minors have brought in serious diseases, including swine flu, dengue fever, measles, tuberculosis, and could possibly bring in the Ebola virus.

The CDC records obtained this week include email exchanges between agency officials directly involved in the activation of the EOC to handle the health threats created by the influx of illegal alien minors last summer.

In an email dated June 9, 2014, CDC Logistics Management Specialist George Roark wrote to CDC Public Health Advisor William Adams that “no country in the world would allow” the influx. Adams replies that “in ten years or less, they’ll all be voting…Commander’s intent…” Roark fires back by describing Obama as “the worst president we have ever had…he truly is ‘the amateur’ but a Marxist too.”

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Mind if I borrow this Shooter?
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