The Obama Presidency – A
Cacophony of Corruption
by Tom Fitton9 Jun 2015111
Obama
apologists have recently been trotted out en masse to absurdly portray
the Obama presidency as an entirely scandal-free citadel of piety. It is, they
assure us, the political equivalent of the Vestal Virgins who guard the sacred
flame. As Obama, himself, has insisted, there is not a “scintilla of scandal”
to be seen.
If
only it were so. In fact, however, both in scope and scan, the Obama reign is
arguably the most scandal-ridden presidency in American history. Conjure up the corrupt Grant
administration and one thinks of solely of Credit Mobilier. That was the
scandal in which a group of businessmen impoverished their own company after
reaping massive amounts of federal subsidies from government officials. Sounds
like Solyndra?
Conjure
up the Harding administration and one thinks singly of the Teapot Dome Scandal,
where politically privileged special interests received government largesse
while other, more deserving applicants, were, quite simply, ripped off. Would
Obama ever do such a thing? Just
ask the GM creditors who were denied bankruptcy deficiency claims while the
Obama administration orchestrated a multi-billion-dollar payoff to its
political cronies at the UAW.
Then,
of course, there is Watergate. That’s the scandal where Richard Nixon allegedly
thought about using the IRS to go after his political enemies in order to help
assure his re-election. Excise the word “allegedly,” and – according to the
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration – that is a pluperfect
description of the Obama administration’s targeting of conservative opponents
of his policies leading up to the 2012 presidential election.
So,
at this point, one might say that Obama is tied head-to-head with the other
most scandalous presidents in American history. But, not by a long shot. Each
of those presidents had one major scandal – none of which cost a single,
solitary life. With Obama, one hardly knows where to start. Nor when it will
ever stop. And
Obama’s body count includes four patriotic
Americans murdered in Benghazi, scores more forced to watch
their lives ebb away while Obama’s Veterans Administration
callously refused them desperately needed medical treatments, and
hundreds of Mexicans (and at least one American border agent)
slaughtered as a result of Obama’s Fast and Furious gun-running
scandal. Watergate didn’t have body bags.
Americans murdered in Benghazi, scores more forced to watch
their lives ebb away while Obama’s Veterans Administration
callously refused them desperately needed medical treatments, and
hundreds of Mexicans (and at least one American border agent)
slaughtered as a result of Obama’s Fast and Furious gun-running
scandal. Watergate didn’t have body bags.
Judicial
Watch knows well the egregiously scandalous nature of the Obama presidency,
because we have been more than instrumental in exposing many of the scandals –
including those in Benghazi and at the IRS. And we have been stonewalled hundreds of
times by a deceptive, dissimilating Obama administration willing to violate the
federal transparency law as it desperately tries to cover the tracks of this
president’s and his appointee’s scurrilous behavior.
So,
is the Obama administration, as its factotums like to claim, “scandal free”? Or
is it, indeed, the most scandalous presidency in U.S. history, dwarfing the
ham-fisted misdeeds of even his most notorious predecessors? As erstwhile
presidential candidate Al Smith used to say, “Let’s look at the record!” (or,
at least of the top five Obama scandals):
- The Benghazi terrorist attack – We have already
touched on this deadly scandal, in which four Americans were slaughtered
while the Obama administrated focused on coming up with a transparently
false cover story about an “offensive video,” rather than protecting their
lives, or seeking justice for their deaths. Thanks to Judicial Watch
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits, we now know that (1) White
House communications operatives manufactured the video cover story from
whole cloth, and (2) the Obama gang (Hillary Clinton included) knew from
the get-go it was a planned terrorist attack tied to al-Qaeda.
- The IRS targeting of conservative nonprofits – When
this story broke in May 2013, the Obama administration, including Obama
himself, was quick to blame “two
lower-level employees in Cincinnati.” Subsequent investigations
by Judicial Watch revealed that the Obama IRS witch hunt was orchestrated
in its entirety from the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., in
collaboration with Democratic officials. And the scandal we
uncovered included a plan by the Obama DOJ to work with the IRS
to prosecute and jail citizen opponents of Obama.
- The Operation Fast and Furious gun-running operation
– Eric Holder was found in contempt of Congress, and President Obama made
a remarkable assertion of executive privilege in order to protect his
attorney general from prosecution and to thwart Congress’ efforts to
ferret out the truth about his deadly scandal. Rather than enforce the
contempt charge, the Obama Justice Department ignored it. Only after
Judicial Watch secured key court victories separately against the Justice
Department did Congress, after two years of getting nowhere, get many of
the documents it had been seeking. The Fast and Furious guns are
being used in
crimes to this day.
- Obamacare – Again, where does one start – and when
does it stop? According the Free
Beacon, Obama lied to the American people with his promise,
“If you like your health insurance, you can keep it,” a total of 36 times
between 2008 and 2013. To make matters even worse, last year Judicial
Watch obtained 94
eye-popping pages of documents from the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services revealing that top Obama administration
officials knew of, but concealed, security breaches within Obamacare’s
website in the months leading up to the catastrophic rollout in order to
protect Obama’s political interests rather than public safety.
- Executive order abuse – Using these unilateral
executive actions to thwart laws against illegal immigration, enact a
mortgage relief program, revamp the student loan debt program, strengthen
the Federal Drug Administration’s power to ration prescription drugs,
wreak regulatory havoc through the EPA, undo bipartisan welfare-reform
law, and impose Common Core, Obama has acted more as despot than as a
president.
Outrageous
as they are, those “Top Five” Obama scandals are only the proverbial tip of the
catastrophic iceberg that, if allowed to continue unchecked, threatens to sink
the Ship of State. With the abetment and abatement of a sycophantic mainstream
media President Obama has turned willfully scandalous behavior into a cottage
industry. Hillary
Clinton’s stealing and supposedly destroying government records, while turning
her Secretary of State office into a cash machine for her personal and political
coffers is corruption both petty and massive. You can see how the scandals of past
presidencies, serious though some may have been, pale in comparison to the
depth and breadth of the Obama’s corruption.
Tom
Fitton is president of Judicial Watch, author of the NY Times best-seller The Corruption Chronicles and executive
producer of the documentary District of Corruption.
Judicial
Watch’s hard-hitting feature documentary film District of Corruption is available here.
The New York
THE
MAN THAT CALLED HIS HOAX “HOPE & CHANGE”
'Incompetent' and 'liar' among most frequently used words to
describe the president: Pew Research Center
“The larger fear is
that Obama might be just another corporatist, punking voters much as the
Republicans do when they claim to be all for the common guy.”
THE RISE OF BARACK OBAMA and the
FALL of AMERICA... will history call it
"Hope and Change"?
HOW A SOCIOPATH CONNED A NATION CALLING IT “HOPE &
CHANGE” AND THEN BECAME GEORGE BUSH’S THIRD & FORTH TERMS ON STEROIDS.
OBAMA: SERVANT OF THE 1%
Richest one percent controls nearly half of global wealth
OBAMA’S CRONY BANKSTERS DESTROY THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
OBAMANOMICS:
The escalation of global financial parasitism
OBAMAnomics:
OBAMA AND HIS WALL STREET
CRONIES LOOTING AMERICA!
These are only the most striking of a barrage of numbers reported in
recent weeks, demonstrating that for the US financial aristocracy, the Crash of
2008 has been used to engineer a historic redistribution of wealth.
Loretta Lynch – DEDICATED
SERVANT TO
OBAMA’S CRONY CRIMINAL BANKSTERS!
Why else would he appoint her?
OBAMA’S CRONY CRIMINAL BANKSTERS!
Why else would he appoint her?
OBAMA’S PROMISE TO CRONY BANKSTERS: Not one
day in prison!
“Nearly five years after the greatest financial crash since
the Great Depression, triggered by rampant illegality and fraud on the part of
the major banks, not a single major institution or leading bank executive has
been indicted, let alone tried, convicted and jailed.”
Obama’s Sec. of
Labors, DHS Saldana, and Judge Sotomayor are!
Mayor
Emanuel embodies the foulest characteristics of American politics in general
and the Democratic Party in particular. An operative in the Clinton
administration, Emanuel made millions as an investment banker before returning
to the White House as Obama’s chief of staff.
As
mayor, Emanuel has pursued the same policies in Chicago as Obama on the
national level. He has presided over the closure of 50 schools, attacks on the
jobs and pensions of teachers and public employees, and a wave of police
violence against youth and working people. The money siphoned from essential
services has funded tax cuts and other subsidies for corporations and wealthy
investors.
The
Democratic and Republican politicians endlessly proclaim that there is no money
to meet pressing social needs. But the ranks of multi-millionaires and
billionaires continue to grow, along with the obscene levels of wealth they
control. These are the paymasters of both corporate-controlled parties.
OBAMA and the MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA
RAZA –
Will illegals build the OBAMA DICTATORSHIP?
“The National Council of La Raza describes itself as the largest Latino
civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, but it actually
caters to the radical Chicano movement that says California, Arizona, Nevada,
New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Texas belong to Aztlan.”
THE ISIS INVASION
THROUGH NARCOMEX:
JUDICIAL WATCH:
which cuts off more heads? The LA RAZA Mexican drug cartels that mow over our
borders or ISIS way the hell over there???
ANSWER: MEXICANS!
“The exact location where the
terrorist group has established its base is around eight miles from the U.S.
border in an area known as “Anapra” situated just west of Ciudad Juárez in the
Mexican state of Chihuahua. Another ISIS cell to the west of Ciudad Juárez, in
Puerto Palomas, targets the New Mexico towns of Columbus and Deming for easy
access to the United States, the same knowledgeable sources confirm.”
OBAMA’S GOLDEN AGE OF WALL STREET
LOOTING
While stock prices have nearly tripled since
March 2009, the income for a typical household in the US fell by 8.3 percent
between 2007 and 2012.
OBAMAnomics AT WORK:
STAGGERING POVERTY FOR
AMERICANS.
AMERICANS.
JOBS and WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS.
“They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they
promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting
to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of
America and the world. They understood he was only a
figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made him king,
doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)”
promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting
to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of
America and the world. They understood he was only a
figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made him king,
doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)”
“The exact location where the
terrorist group has established its base is around eight miles from the U.S.
border in an area known as “Anapra” situated just west of Ciudad Juárez in the
Mexican state of Chihuahua. Another ISIS cell to the west of Ciudad Juárez, in
Puerto Palomas, targets the New Mexico towns of Columbus and Deming for easy
access to the United States, the same knowledgeable sources confirm.”
Law enforcement and intelligence sources report the area
around Anapra is dominated by the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Cartel (“Juárez
Cartel”), La LÃnea (the enforcement arm of the cartel) and the Barrio Azteca (a
gang originally formed in the jails of El Paso). Cartel control of the Anapra
area make it an extremely dangerous and hostile operating environment for
Mexican Army and Federal Police operations.
ISIS AND
THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS
BEHEADINGS,
MASS MURDER, RAPE AND THEN THEY GO VOTE DEM FOR MORE WELFARE!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/05/isis-and-la-raza-on-our-open-and.html
RECONQUISTA
We’ve got an even more ominous
enemy within our borders that promotes “Reconquista of Aztlan” or the
reconquest of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas into the country of
Mexico.
Immigrating America Into a Colony of Mexico
Article by Frosty Wooldridge
America
faces a greater and more dangerous threat from within than from without. While
our armed forces secure Afghanistan and Iraq, our own borders stand unguarded
24 hours a day. Al-Qaeda insurgents plan their next attacks somewhere inside
our country. They advocate a violent overthrow of America.
OBAMA and the MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY
of LA RAZA – Will illegals build the OBAMA
DICTATORSHIP?
of LA RAZA – Will illegals build the OBAMA
DICTATORSHIP?
“The National Council of La Raza describes itself as the largest Latino
civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, but it actually
caters to the radical Chicano movement that says California, Arizona, Nevada,
New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Texas belong to Aztlan.”
HEZBOLLAH and the MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS
President
Barack Obama has squandered BILLIONS defending the borders of Muslim dictators
and keeping their squalid anti-Christian, anti-American regimes bankrolled even
as he has sabotaged America's borders to build his LA RAZA party base of
illegals!
“This explains why
Osama bin Laden instructed his al-Qaeda deputies to try and recruit Mexican
passport holders. It also enables terror groups such as Hezbollah to forge ties
with Mexican cartels to smuggle operatives into America. And it is the
reason Texas law enforcement found in 2014 that Islamic State of Iraq and
al-Sham social media messaging showed militants discussing the possibility of
infiltrating the U.S. via Mexico.” JEFF SHERMAN, president of
Citizens for American Security.
SABOTAGE of
AMERICAN BORDERS BY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA as he squanders billions defending
the borders of Muslim dictators.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/07/how-far-has-americas-borders-been.html
TWO ILLEGALS BASEBALL BAT AND MACHETE TEEN IN TEXAS.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/05/cristian-zamora-and-ricardo-leonel.html
(CNSNews.com) -- Two illegal aliens in Walker County, Texas, have pleaded guilty to murdering and dismembering a 16-year-old high school student with a baseball bat and a machete in a national park nearly two years ago. According to investigators, the crime was a revenge killing ordered by the infamously violent Latin American gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.
Cristian Zamora, 22, and Ricardo Leonel Campos Lara, 19, both from El Salvador, pleaded guilty on April 17 to aiding and abetting each other and others with the murder of 16-year-old Josael Guevara on Sept. 23, 2013
OBAMA and the MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA
RAZA – Will illegals build the OBAMA DICTATORSHIP?
“The National Council of La Raza describes itself as the largest Latino
civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, but it actually
caters to the radical Chicano movement that says California, Arizona, Nevada,
New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Texas belong to Aztlan.”
Planning for the looming OBAMA GREATER DEPRESSION:
OBAMANOMICS: IS IT WORKING???
By Gabriel Black
Households with more than a million (US) dollars in private wealth are projected to own 46 percent of global private wealth in 2019 according to a new report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
This large percentage, however, only includes cash, savings, money market funds and listed securities held through managed investments—collectively known as “private wealth.” It leaves out businesses, residences and luxury goods, which comprise a substantial portion of the rich’s net worth.
At the end of 2014, millionaire households owned about 41 percent of global private wealth, according to BCG. This means that collectively these 17 million households owned roughly $67.24 trillion in liquid assets, or about $4 million per household.
In total, the world added $17.5 trillion of new private wealth between 2013 and 2014. The report notes that nearly three quarters of all these gains came from previously existing wealth. In other words, the vast majority of money gained has been due to pre-existing assets increasing in value—not the creation of new material things.
This trend is the result of the massive infusions of cheap credit into the financial markets by central banks. The policy of “quantitative easing” has led to a dramatic expansion of the stock market even while global economic growth has slumped.
While the wealth of the rich is growing at a breakneck pace, there is a stratification of growth within the super wealthy, skewed towards the very top.
In 2014, those with over $100 million in private wealth saw their wealth increase 11 percent in one year alone. Collectively, these households owned $10 trillion in 2014, 6 percent of the world’s private wealth. According to the report, “This top segment is expected to be the fastest growing, in both the number of households and total wealth.” They are expected to see 12 percent compound growth on their wealth in the next five years.
Those families with wealth between $20 and $100 million also rose substantially in 2014—seeing a 34 percent increase in their wealth in twelve short months. They now own $9 trillion. In five years they will surpass $14 trillion according to the report.
Coming in last in the “high net worth” population are those with between $1 million and $20 million in private wealth. These households are expected to see their wealth grow by 7.2 percent each year, going from $49 trillion to $70.1 trillion dollars, several percentage points below the highest bracket’s 12 percent growth rate.
The gains in private wealth of the ultra-rich stand in sharp contrast to the experience of billions of people around the globe. While wealth accumulation has sharply sped up for the ultra-wealthy, the vast majority of people have not even begun to recover from the past recession.
An Oxfam report from January, for example, shows that the bottom 99 percent of the world’s population went from having about 56 percent of the world’s wealth in 2010 to having 52 percent of it in 2014. Meanwhile the top 1 percent saw its wealth rise from 44 to 48 percent of the world’s wealth.
In 2014 the Russell Sage Foundation found that between 2003 and 2013, the median household net worth of those in the United States fell from $87,992 to $56,335—a drop of 36 percent. While the rich also saw their wealth drop during the recession, they are more than making that money back. Between 2009 and 2012, 95 percent of all the income gains in the US went to the top 1 percent. This is the most distorted post-recession income gain on record.
As the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has noted, in the United States “between 2007 and 2013, net wealth fell on average 2.3 percent, but it fell ten-times more (26 percent) for those at the bottom 20 percent of the distribution.” The 2015 report concludes that “low-income households have not benefited at all from income growth.”
Another report by Knight Frank, looks at those with wealth exceeding $30 million. The report notes that in 2014 these 172,850 ultra-high-net-worth individuals increased their collective wealth by $700 billion. Their total wealth now rests at $20.8 trillion.
The report also draws attention to the disconnection between the rich and the actual economy. It states that the growth of this ultra-wealthy population “came despite weaker-than-anticipated global economic growth. During 2014 the IMF was forced to downgrade its forecast increase for world output from 3.7 percent to 3.3 percent.”
Planning for the looming OBAMA GREATER DEPRESSION:
In the aftermath of
the 2008 financial crisis, on the other hand, none of the basic causes of the
crash, including the enormous size of the global financial sector and its
pervasive criminality, have been even remotely addressed. Rather, under the
guidance of the Obama administration, the dominant position of Wall Street in
economic, social and political life has only been entrenched and expanded.
OBAMANOMICS: IS IT WORKING???
Millionaires projected to own 46 percent of global private wealth by 2019
By Gabriel Black
18 June 2015
Households with more than a million (US) dollars in private wealth are projected to own 46 percent of global private wealth in 2019 according to a new report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).This large percentage, however, only includes cash, savings, money market funds and listed securities held through managed investments—collectively known as “private wealth.” It leaves out businesses, residences and luxury goods, which comprise a substantial portion of the rich’s net worth.
At the end of 2014, millionaire households owned about 41 percent of global private wealth, according to BCG. This means that collectively these 17 million households owned roughly $67.24 trillion in liquid assets, or about $4 million per household.
In total, the world added $17.5 trillion of new private wealth between 2013 and 2014. The report notes that nearly three quarters of all these gains came from previously existing wealth. In other words, the vast majority of money gained has been due to pre-existing assets increasing in value—not the creation of new material things.
This trend is the result of the massive infusions of cheap credit into the financial markets by central banks. The policy of “quantitative easing” has led to a dramatic expansion of the stock market even while global economic growth has slumped.
While the wealth of the rich is growing at a breakneck pace, there is a stratification of growth within the super wealthy, skewed towards the very top.
In 2014, those with over $100 million in private wealth saw their wealth increase 11 percent in one year alone. Collectively, these households owned $10 trillion in 2014, 6 percent of the world’s private wealth. According to the report, “This top segment is expected to be the fastest growing, in both the number of households and total wealth.” They are expected to see 12 percent compound growth on their wealth in the next five years.
Those families with wealth between $20 and $100 million also rose substantially in 2014—seeing a 34 percent increase in their wealth in twelve short months. They now own $9 trillion. In five years they will surpass $14 trillion according to the report.
Coming in last in the “high net worth” population are those with between $1 million and $20 million in private wealth. These households are expected to see their wealth grow by 7.2 percent each year, going from $49 trillion to $70.1 trillion dollars, several percentage points below the highest bracket’s 12 percent growth rate.
The gains in private wealth of the ultra-rich stand in sharp contrast to the experience of billions of people around the globe. While wealth accumulation has sharply sped up for the ultra-wealthy, the vast majority of people have not even begun to recover from the past recession.
An Oxfam report from January, for example, shows that the bottom 99 percent of the world’s population went from having about 56 percent of the world’s wealth in 2010 to having 52 percent of it in 2014. Meanwhile the top 1 percent saw its wealth rise from 44 to 48 percent of the world’s wealth.
In 2014 the Russell Sage Foundation found that between 2003 and 2013, the median household net worth of those in the United States fell from $87,992 to $56,335—a drop of 36 percent. While the rich also saw their wealth drop during the recession, they are more than making that money back. Between 2009 and 2012, 95 percent of all the income gains in the US went to the top 1 percent. This is the most distorted post-recession income gain on record.
As the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has noted, in the United States “between 2007 and 2013, net wealth fell on average 2.3 percent, but it fell ten-times more (26 percent) for those at the bottom 20 percent of the distribution.” The 2015 report concludes that “low-income households have not benefited at all from income growth.”
Another report by Knight Frank, looks at those with wealth exceeding $30 million. The report notes that in 2014 these 172,850 ultra-high-net-worth individuals increased their collective wealth by $700 billion. Their total wealth now rests at $20.8 trillion.
The report also draws attention to the disconnection between the rich and the actual economy. It states that the growth of this ultra-wealthy population “came despite weaker-than-anticipated global economic growth. During 2014 the IMF was forced to downgrade its forecast increase for world output from 3.7 percent to 3.3 percent.”
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