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Thread: The "scandal-free" myth

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    Obama's scandal-filled history of spying & misusing his office for political gain


    December 17, 2009: The Obama administration prosecutes FBI contractor Shamai Leibowitz for leaking documents to the media in April 2009. Leibowitz says he leaked because he felt FBI practices were “an abuse of power and a violation of the law” which he reported to his superiors at the FBI “who did nothing about them.” (According to the ACLU: “Amazingly, the sentencing judge said, ‘I don’t know what was divulged other than some documents, and how it compromised things, I have no idea’.”)

    2010: Obama's IRS secretly begins “targeting” conservative groups that are seeking nonprofit tax-exempt status, by singling out ones that have “Tea Party” or “Patriot” in their names. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning begins illegally leaks classified information to WikiLeaks revealing, among other matters, that the U.S. is extensively spying on the United Nations. Obama Attorney General Eric Holder renews a Bush-era subpoena of New York Times reporter James Risen in a leak investigation. Obama administration pursues espionage charges against NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake. According to the ACLU, spy charges were later dropped and Drake pled guilty to a misdemeanor. The judge called the government’s conduct in the case “unconscionable.”

    May 28, 2010: The government secretly applies for a warrant to obtain Google email information of Fox News reporter James Rosen in a leak investigation, without telling Rosen.



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    September 21, 2010: Internal email entitled “Obama Leak Investigations” at “global intelligence” company Stratfor claims Obama’s Homeland Security adviser John Brennan is targeting journalists. “Brennan is behind the witch hunts of investigative journalists learning information from inside the beltway sources,” writes one Stratfor official to another. The email continues: “Note — There is specific tasker from the White House to go after anyone printing materials negative to the Obama agenda. Even the FBI is shocked. The Wonder Boys must be in meltdown mode”. “The Wonder Boys” reportedly refers to the National Security Agency (NSA). Brennan later became President Obama’s CIA Director.


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    February 2011: After receiving an anonymous tip, CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson begins researching the Department of Justice “gunwalking” operation nicknamed “Fast and Furious” that secretly let thousands of weapons be trafficked to Mexican drug cartels. One of the “walked” guns had been used by illegal aliens who murdered U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010.

    February 22, 2011: CBS’ Attkisson breaks news about “Fast and Furious” on The CBS Evening News. After the story airs, the Obama Administration issues an internal memo that seeks to “push positive stories” to contradict the news. Given the negative coverage by CBS Evening News last week. ATF needs to proactively push positive stories this week, in an effort to preempt some negative reporting, or at minimum, lessen the coverage of such stories in the news cycle by replacing them with good stories.

    March 4, 2011: CBS News’ Attkisson exclusively interviews sitting ATF special agent John Dodson. He gives a firsthand account contradicting government denials re: Fast and Furious.

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    Spring 2011: Obama intel officials capture and record incidental private communications between Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a DEMOCRAT, and a Libyan official. The recordings are later leaked to the press.

    May 2011: Obama White House recruits DEMOCRAT operative Eric Schultz to spin Fast and Furious and to counter the House Oversight Committee’s investigative work on the case. (Schultz previously served as intern to Sen. Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton.)

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    2011: Fox News reporter Mike Levine is subpoenaed by Obama's Department of Justice regarding a story he reported about a federal grand jury’s indictments of terrorism suspects. The subpoena is later dropped.

    June 2, 2011: Republican Mitt Romney announces he’ll challenge Obama in campaign 2012. NSA snooping on Romney's campaign begins.

    June 28, 2011: Obama's U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke secretly leaks sensitive government information to Fox News, allegedly to retaliate against ATF whistleblower John Dodson in the Fast and Furious case. (Burke is former chief of staff to former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano.)

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    August 2011: U.S. Attorney Burke resigns while under investigation for the improper leak of sensitive information about Dodson. The Inspector General later confirms the leak and Burke apologizes.

    September 2011: White House operative Schultz invites Attkisson and several other national journalists to off the record backgrounder about Fast and Furious documents subpoenaed by Congress. Later, on the phone, Shultz screams and curses at Attkisson as she asks questions raised by the Fast and Furious documents.

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    October 3, 2011: Obama administration secretly changes longstanding policy. The change creates a “loophole” that allows the NSA to conduct “backdoor searches” of “incidental collection” of U.S. citizens’ domestic communications. The same day, CBS News airs Attkisson’s report on newly-uncovered memos that contradict Attorney General Eric Holders’ denials about Fast and Furious.

    October 4, 2011: In an internal email, Attorney General Eric Holder’s top press aide Tracy Schmaler emails White House operative Schultz calling Attkisson “out of control.” Schultz replies, “Her piece was really bad for the AG.”


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    November 2011: CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus, who’s married, allegedly begins an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell. (The FBI would later say it “stumbled” upon evidence of the affair incidentally during an unspecified, much broader investigation.)

    December 2011: Amid much criticism, Justice Department finally, officially retracts the false letter it had submitted to Congress in February. The letter had stated that the Fast and Furious allegations of gunwalking were untrue.

    February 13, 2012: At approximately 10:30pm, remote intruders secretly download new spy software proprietary to a federal agency onto Attkisson’s CBS work computer. The software was secretly attached to a legitimate Hotmail email and downloaded in the background after a pop-up ad appeared.



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    April-May 2012: The Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI publicly announce vast expansion of cyber related efforts to address alleged “national security-related cyber issues.”
    In violation of longstanding practice, DOJ secretly and without notice seizes personal and phone records of journalists from Associated Press from this two-month period in a leak investigation.

    June 2012: Attorney General Holder secretly initiates investigations into AP and the New York Times regarding government leaks.

    June 28, 2012: The House of Representatives holds Attorney General Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over subpoenaed documents related to Fast and Furious.


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    July 2012: Obama's Department of Justice designates U.S. Attorneys’ offices to act as “force multipliers” in further stepped-up cyber efforts in the name of national security. Intruders remotely “refresh” ongoing surveillance of Attkisson’s CBS News Toshiba laptop.

    Summer 2012: The FBI incidentally stumbles across emails revealing CIA Director Petraeus’ affair with his biographer Broadwell. FBI Director Robert Mueller is notified of the affair on a date the government will not disclose. The FBI later says it interviewed Petraeus and Broadwell, and concluded national security hasn’t been breached. The FBI keeps all of this information secret. In late summer, on a date the government won’t reveal, the FBI notifies Attorney General Holder of the Petraeus affair.




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    September 11, 2012: Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens are murdered in Benghazi, Libya during attacks by Islamic extremist terrorists. Despite internal communications that acknowledge the terrorist nature of the attacks within minutes, the Obama administration falsely reports to the public that the attacks were instead a protest gone awry after an anti-Islamic YouTube video. Some Obama officials become frustrated with CIA Director Petraeus and his post-Benghazi attack behavior, as he opposes efforts to edit out mentions of terrorism from the public Benghazi talking points. Petraeus deputy Mike Morell is given authority over the edits, and aligns with Hillary Clinton’s State Department against Petraeus’s wishes.


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