tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31624261457020189912024-03-13T10:03:43.464-04:00CULTURESHOCKTVCulture Shock looks at the issues changing us left and right. Social-Cultural changing who we are, what we think, and how we live our lives. America is living in a post Christian era now and that brings us to the present Culture War. Tony DiGirolamo is the original Culture Warrior! Watchman on the wall.CULTURESHOCKTVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07555451564240718611noreply@blogger.comBlogger1683125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162426145702018991.post-89129779252363330102013-05-20T15:36:00.001-04:002013-05-20T15:37:48.594-04:00BREAKING - REPORT: DOJ LEAKED DOCS TO SMEAR FAST & FURIOUS WHISTLEBLOWER, SAYS IG<a href="http://www.cultureshocktv.com/index.php/12-news-stories-2013/1729#.UZp7HByXEEM.blogger">BREAKING - REPORT: DOJ LEAKED DOCS TO SMEAR FAST & FURIOUS WHISTLEBLOWER, SAYS IG</a><br />
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General published a new report Monday that confirms former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke leaked a document intended to smear Operation Fast and Furious scandal whistleblower John Dodson.<br />
The DOJ IG said it found “Burke’s conduct in disclosing the Dodson memorandum to be inappropriate for a Department employee and wholly unbefitting a U.S. Attorney.”</h2>
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The Obama Administration, which has pursued more cases involving leaks from the government to the press than all other administrations combined, has been acting in this fashion since 2009, well before the current AP scandal. A case in point is the case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, who was a State Department arms expert with security clearance, and his leaks to James Rosen of Fox News.</h2>
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BREITBART</a></strong></span></div>
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News reports from the time indicate the now-chief counsel of the IRS, William Wilkins, helped a church connected to President Barack Obama’s friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright get out of an IRS probe in 2008 while working as a private attorney.<br />
“Lawyers from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have won the dismissal of an IRS case against United Church of Christ, Sen. Barack Obama's denomination,” The American Lawyer’s Zach Lowe wrote on May 22, 2008.</h2>
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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.</h2>
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... Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010.</h2>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-rare-peek-into-a-justice-department-leak-probe/2013/05/19/0bc473de-be5e-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html" style="color: #ff3300;" title="">THE WASHINGTON POST</a></strong></span></div>
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How big of a wake-up call are the Obama scandals, especially the ones surrounding the seizing of phone records from the Associated Press and the IRS's targeting of conservatives? So big that two of the media's most shameful and shameless gun control advocates -- Joe Scarborough and Piers Morgan -- have finally conceded that arguments made by pro-Second Amendment activists against the expanding of background checks might not be so ridiculous.</h2>
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The Treasury Department’s inspector general told senior Treasury officials in June 2012 he was auditing the Internal Revenue Service’s screening of politically active organizations seeking tax exemptions, disclosing for the first time on Friday that Obama administration officials were aware of the matter during the presidential campaign year.</h2>
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"[I]f this fact came out in September 2012, in the middle of a presidential election? The terrain would have looked very different."</h2>
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NBC's Lisa Myers reported this morning that the IRS deliberately chose not to reveal that it had wrongly targeted conservative groups until after the 2012 presidential election: The IRS commissioner "has known for at least a year that this was going on," said Myers, "and that this had happened.</h2>
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Glenn Beck began his radio show Wednesday putting the three scandals currently facing the Obama administration — Benghazi, the IRS targeting conservatives, and the Associated Press’ phone records being seized by the Department of Justice — in context.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>ON MONDAY MAY 13</strong></span> <span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>I WROTE THIS: <a href="http://www.cultureshocktv.com/index.php/11-news-stories-2012/1714-obama-the-irs-the-constitution-and-fundamentally-transforming-america" style="color: #ff3300;" title="">OBAMA, THE IRS, THE CONSTITUTION AND FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMING AMERICA</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>AND THEN I TWEETED THIS ON MONDAY AS WELL:</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>OBAMA, THE IRS, THE CONSTITUTION AND FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMING AMERICA http://www.cultureshocktv.com/index.php/11-news-stories-2012/1714#.UZFBjceik1c.twitter … @drjeffgardere @dwightbain</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>GLENN'S PIECE ON WED MAY 15TH</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>The Constitution... now we all know where President Barack Obama stands on that. Although he's taken an oath to preserve, defend and protect the Constitution of the United States, he has nothing but disdain for it and the founders of it. "Preserve" the Constitution, now there's a conservative idea!<br />
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The Obama administration is merely using this arm of the government to do what he set out to do... Fundamentally transforming America.</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">FROM AN EARLIER WRITING:</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">When we can't speak well of our own accomplishments there's nothing in this godless secular world view to stop you from taking the path of lies to destroy another human being, an American.<br />
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Scripture tells us, Proverbs 27:2, Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.<br />
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A narcissist cannot do that. Barack Obama can hardly find others trumpeting his signature accomplishment, Obamacare! People are out of work, out of hope and and don't like the change to "fundamentally transform America".<br />
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He's a prideful, narcissist with nothing to brag about ... that will be dangerous as this election goes forward. Very dangerous indeed.</span></strong></div>
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<strong>AND GLENN BECK ENDED THE VIDEO ABOVE WITH THIS<span style="font-size: 16px;">: “This is the last part of the fundamental transformation. What do all of these have in common?” Beck asked. “Transformation: Transform the Middle East, transform the First Amendment, and transform the media and the watchdogs. [The] fundamental transformation of the United States of America.”</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Barack Obama is right on track to fundamentally transform America.</span></strong></div>
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This afternoon the White House released a 100 pages of repetitive emails from September 14th and 15th. The emails confirm that the State Department was deeply concerned about a bullet point highlighting prior attacks in Benghazi.<br />
The email release shows that individuals inside the White House were sent copies of the talking points earlier than previously reported. Ben Rhodes, a top Obama adviser, received a draft at 3:04PM on Sep. 14th. This early draft still referred to "attacks" rather than "demonstrations" at the Consulate. Tommy Vietor, the National Security Spokesman, also received these early drafts of the talking points.</h2>
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The IRS came after Billy Graham, too, his son charged Tuesday in a letter to President Barack Obama.<br />
Franklin Graham, the president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the family’s international humanitarian organization Samaritan’s Purse, said that the IRS notified the organizations in September that it was conducting a “review” of their activities for tax year 2010.</h2>
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With the IRS admitting it gave extra scrutiny to conservative political organizations, Graham says he now believes that the review was part of an Obama administration effort of “targeting and attempting to intimidate us.”</h2>
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<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/franklin-graham-irs-targeting-91362.html" style="color: #ff3300;" title="">POLITICO</a></h2>
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) fired back on assertions by the IRS that its efforts to target conservative groups were relegated to low-level employees. “Of course not,” he told Breitbart News. McConnell noted that he had raised the issue of IRS targeting of conservatives in 2012, and further noted that the Washington Post “dismissed it as a bunch of red herrings.”</h2>
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The scandal, McConnell said, extends up the chain. “The Obama effort to shut up opponents isn’t limited to the IRS,” he stated. “It applies to the FCC [Federal Communications Commission], SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission], FEC [Federal Elections Commission], HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] …. And you remember, the Obama campaign last year published a list of eight businessmen who it believed were enemies.”</h2>
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A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation's debate over abortion.<br />
Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, was cleared in the death of a fourth baby, who prosecutors say let out a soft whimper before he snipped its neck.</h2>
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The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.<br />
The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls.</h2>
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The IRS and politics is back to it's Nixon era dirty tricks.</h2>
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When the news broke on the abuse of power in targeting conservative groups, Tea Party, 9-12 Project I felt this must be going deeper than that, and it does.</h2>
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Here is the most "absolutely chilling" in Sen. Susan Collins words, is this, added to the groups being attacked are those of education, the Constitution and those who favor Israel... Israel!</h2>
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The Constitution... now we all know where President Barack Obama stands on that. Although he's taken an oath to preserve, defend and protect the Constitution of the United States, he has nothing but disdain for it and the founders of it. "Preserve" the Constitution, now there's a conservative idea!</h2>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>If in fact it is not "proven" to be a decision made from the White House, the tone has been set by this president, by his very public rhetoric and disdain for those who oppose him. He said "the Constitution is a flawed document" and a hindrance to progress.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>I hope that magnificent document remains a hindrance to this presidents progress and the extreme left's agenda.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Those in congress preparing to put the Constitution through the shredder, Behold, it will be their progressive ideas in the shredder of socialist tries in American history.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>The Constitution may prove still as resilient and enduring beyond our lives and for our children's lives.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>This scandal may bode well for America and this grand place of hope of individual freedom.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Yea Mr Lincoln, <span style="font-family: arial;">"that this nation, under God ...</span> a nation so conceived in Liberty ... can long endure" ... And to that let us all say God bless America!</strong></span></div>
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A timeline of Internal Revenue Service activities that was developed by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration and provided to congressional staff indicates that early last year--as the nation was headed toward a presidential election--the IRS issued a "be on the lookout order" (BOLO) for officials in its "Determinations Unit" to ferret out for heightened scrutiny organizations applying for tax exempt status that were involved in educating Americans "on the Constitution and Bill of Rights."<br />
The inspector general's timeline indicates that as early as March 2010 the IRS's "Determinations Unit" had begun targeting for special scrutiny organizations that used in their tax-exempt applications the words "Tea Party" or "Patriots."</h2>
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When accusations first emerged in 2010 that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had targeted conservative and Tea Party groups for additional scrutiny, it was unclear how widespread the problem was, or how to respond.<br />
Some groups sued the IRS. Some contacted Congress, which sent inquiries to the IRS over a period of several months, beginning in October 2012. The House Ways and Means Committee, which is opening hearings on the subject on Wednesday, sent three separate letters to the IRS--but the IRS claimed no knowledge of the issue.<br />
It took the efforts of Mark Levin's Landmark Legal Foundation to find a strategy that would yield answers.</h2>
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There is no scientific evidence that psychiatric diagnoses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are valid or useful, according to the leading body representing Britain's clinical psychologists.<br />
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In a groundbreaking move that has already prompted a fierce backlash from psychiatrists, the British Psychological Society's division of clinical psychology (DCP) will on Monday issue a statement declaring that, given the lack of evidence, it is time for a "paradigm shift" in how the issues of mental health are understood. The statement effectively casts doubt on psychiatry's predominantly biomedical model of mental distress – the idea that people are suffering from illnesses that are treatable by doctors using drugs. The DCP said its decision to speak out "reflects fundamental concerns about the development, personal impact and core assumptions of the (diagnosis) systems", used by psychiatry.</h2>
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/12/psychiatrists-under-fire-mental-health" style="color: #ff3300;" title="">THE GUARDIAN</a></h2>
<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" badgetype="medium">ARTICLEURL</script></div>CULTURESHOCKTVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07555451564240718611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162426145702018991.post-81212516140208293342013-05-12T13:14:00.001-04:002013-05-12T13:15:44.435-04:00GALLUP FINDS MAJORITY OF AMERICANS OPPOSE ALL OR MOST ABORTIONS<a href="http://www.cultureshocktv.com/index.php/11-news-stories-2012/1710#.UY_ODBhd7nY.blogger">GALLUP FINDS MAJORITY OF AMERICANS OPPOSE ALL OR MOST ABORTIONS</a><br />
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The pro-choice crowds have the microphones and the current administration, but Gallop’s annual Value and Belief poll proves once again the majority of Americans are pro-life.<br />
Gallup asked voters if they think abortion should be legal under any circumstances, legal only under certain circumstances, or illegal in all circumstances. 52% opted for something in between, which has been a consistent number since Gallup started this poll in 1975. 26% said legal under any circumstances and 20% said illegal in all circumstances.</h2>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" badgetype="medium">ARTICLEURL</script></div>CULTURESHOCKTVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07555451564240718611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162426145702018991.post-59009818970529348792013-05-12T12:48:00.001-04:002013-05-12T12:50:19.921-04:00CBS Anchor: 'We Are Getting Big Stories Wrong, Over and Over Again'<a href="http://www.cultureshocktv.com/index.php/11-news-stories-2012/1709#.UY_Huwinn-M.blogger">CBS Anchor: 'We Are Getting Big Stories Wrong, Over and Over Again'</a><br />
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CBS anchor Scott Pelley said at a speech at Quinnipiac University that journalists "are getting big stories wrong, over and over again."</h2>
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"Our house is on fire," said Pelley. The video of Pelley's speech is courtesy of nowthisnews.com.<br />
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"These have been a bad few months for journalism," he added. "We're getting the big stories wrong, over and over again."</h2>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" badgetype="medium">ARTICLEURL</script></div>CULTURESHOCKTVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07555451564240718611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162426145702018991.post-23186399593300366492013-05-12T02:20:00.001-04:002013-05-12T02:21:12.805-04:00POLITICO: OBAMA ADMIN PUSHED 'FALSE NARRATIVE' AFTER BENGHAZI<a href="http://www.cultureshocktv.com/index.php/11-news-stories-2012/1708#.UY80lON44TU.blogger">POLITICO: OBAMA ADMIN PUSHED 'FALSE NARRATIVE' AFTER BENGHAZI</a><br />
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In a sign of how the Benghazi cover-up story is gaining traction in the mainstream media, Politico, the same outlet that only four days ago buried all of its Benghazi stories, is now conceding that the Obama administration ran with a "false narrative" in the days immediately following the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks in Libya.</h2>
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Jim Acosta from CNN:<br />
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"An email dated September 14 at 7:39PM, State Department Spokeswoman Victora Nuland wrote “Why do we want the Hill fingering Ansar al-Sharia when we aren’t doing that ourselves? And the penultimate point could be abused to beat the State Department for not paying attention to agency warnings.” At that point the emails indicate the references to Ansar al Sharia were removed."</h2>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" badgetype="medium">ARTICLEURL</script></div>CULTURESHOCKTVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07555451564240718611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162426145702018991.post-40368988780219160442013-05-11T21:08:00.001-04:002013-05-11T21:09:40.658-04:00CBS NEWS PRESIDENT BROTHER OF OBAMA NATIONAL SECURITY OFFICIAL; WILL HE OUST BENGHAZI REPORTER SHARYL ATTKISSON?<a href="http://www.cultureshocktv.com/index.php/11-news-stories-2012/1706#.UY7rhBvCwO8.blogger">CBS NEWS PRESIDENT BROTHER OF OBAMA NATIONAL SECURITY OFFICIAL; WILL HE OUST BENGHAZI REPORTER SHARYL ATTKISSON?</a><br />
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Saturday morning Patrick Howley of The Daily Caller dropped another nuke on the fire that is Benghazi-Gate. Howley connects the dots surrounding a number of recent leaks coming of out CBS News about the fate of its award-winning investigative reporter, Sharyl Attkisson.</h2>
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From the beginning, Attkisson has been one of the few mainstream journalists willing to dig into the September 11 terror attack in Libya, and the Administration's response to it. Fearing the story might lead exactly where it did yesterday with Jonathan Karl's bombshell report, the mainstream media has poured most if its energy into wishing the story away or playing Palace Guard for the White House.</h2>
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Along with targeting tea-party groups, the IRS may also have given extra-special attention to the tax-exempt status of some Jewish groups for political reasons.<br />
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The passionately pro-Israel organization Z STREET filed a lawsuit against the IRS, claiming it had been told by an IRS agent that because the organization was “connected to Israel,” its application for tax-exempt status would receive additional scrutiny. This admission was made in response to a query about the lengthy reveiw of Z STREET’s tax exempt status application.</h2>
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The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight has thrown down an investigative gauntlet to the Internal Revenue Service, demanding that the agency hand over by next Wednesday every communication in its records that includes the words “tea party,” “patriot” or “conservative.”<br />
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The committee is also demanding of the IRS that by next Wednesday it provide the committee with the names and titles of all individuals who were involved in targeting conservative non-profit groups for more intensive review of their applications for non-profit status.</h2>
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In the real world, when you cover up four murders after the fact, you likely go to jail. In government, you retire with dignity and run for president with full media support.<br />
Up until yesterday, that was the Benghazi scenario following the death of four Americans including our ambassador to Libya.<br />
The Obama administration has lied, stonewalled, bullied, and intimidated – the true marks of an open and transparent administration. And, with a few notable exceptions, the American media haven’t just let them get away it. Heck, they’ve helped.</h2>
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