(Real Clear Politics/CNBC) This is possibly the worst possible outcome from the Obama Administration’s point of view, as the scandals unfold involving the Internal Revenue Service and Dept of Justice.
While the Inspector General said that he didn’t see evidence of criminality, IRS Official Lois Lerner says that she will assert her 5th Amendment privilege against self incrimination at Wednesday’s House Oversight Hearing.
Related: DoJ Seized Records of FOX News James Rosen’s Parents
Dept of Justice Investigated FOX News Reporter in 2009 Leak Probe
(Washington Post) The Obama Administration’s Dept of Justice, secretly tracked the movements of FOX News Reporter James Rosen’s comings and goings at the State Dept through his key cards, traced phone calls and searched his emails.
Flashback–Remember the Obama Administration’s War on FOX News
Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller –Image: Buzz Feed/Twitter
(WeeklyStandard) IRS Acting Commissioner Steven Miller testifying today at a House Ways & Means Committee Hearing claimed that targeting Conservative groups ‘absolutely was not illegal.’
It definitely wasn’t very reassuring to learn today, that Miller who is taking early retirement from his post at the IRS, was responsible for promoting Sarah Hall Ingram to head the ObamaCare enforcement division.
More here from Townhall.com
Related: IRS Asked Iowa Anti-Abortion Group–Content of Prayers
IRS Stalled Conservatives, Gave Speedy OK to Obama Foundation
IRS to Enforce ObamaCare –Chicks On The Right
(Heritage Foundation) The recent admission by the IRS that its employees subjected Conservative groups and Jewish organizations whose activities contradicted the Obama Administration’s public policies, raises troubling questions about the agency’s ability to manage ObamaCare in a competent and impartial manner.
At a time when doubts are growing about the IRS’s politically biased behavior, ObamaCare regulators grants the agency massive new authority to implement its complex and bureaucratic regime.
Rest here from The Heritage Foundation
Related: Half of Small Businesses Believe ObamaCare is Bad for Them
Inside China’s Black Jails –Image: China Media Report
(HRIC) Seven Chinese lawyers were severely beaten by Police in Ziyang City, Sichuan Province, when they attempted to visit Ziyang Legal Education Reeducation Center, the largest Black Jail in Sichuan Province.
The Lawyers Guo Haiyue, Liang Xiaojun, Jiang Tianyong, Tang Jitian, Lin Qilei and Zhang Keke and Tang Tinhao, who suffered the most serious injuries, resulting in his head being covered in blood, Jiang Tianyong right leg was severely injured when he was pelted with stones.
Four additional lawyers who went to Ziyang after hearing news of the beatings were also subsequently held by the China Regime, theses included three Beijing Rights Defense Attys Li Heping, Yang Huiwen and Wen Haibo together with Hangzhou lawyer Wang Cheng–by 2:00 am Beijing time on the 14 May, Wang and two others were released, leaving others remaining in custody, including Tang Jitian, the Beijing Rights Defense Atty who was tortured during the Jasmine Crackdown and still taking medication because of the torture he received.
According to sources of Human Rights in China (HRIC) during the 2013 Chinese New Year/Spring Festival, Ziyang Legal Education Reeducation Center also known as Ziyang Er’E Hu Brainwashing Center, was holding more than 260 people, some of those detained reportedly have been held there 5 to 6 years with some being tortured to death.
In 2008 while campaigning for President, then and now naive Barack Obama praised the ‘vastly superior’ China totalitarian regime.
Related: China’s Illegal Black Jails–How Govt Created More Corruption
Nixon Denied Role in Cover-Up –Image: Barracuda Brigade
(KABC 790AM Los Angeles/BizPac Review) While appearing on KABC morning show “McIntyre in the Morning” on Tuesday, ABC News analyst Trey Hardin dropped a bombshell when he said that the IRS scandal emanated from the the West Wing of the White House, which authorized targeting of Conservative and Jewish groups.
Ironically, the Senate Watergate hearings began 40 years ago this week.
More here from Gateway Pundit
Related: Director IRS Tax Exempt Determination Office Obama Donor
Benghazigate –Image: Politifake.org
(FOX News) The Obama Administration has announced that they are releasing 100 pages of e-mails and notes related to the White House response lapses to the Islamic Jihad attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi on the 11 September, 2012
100 pages of e-mails and notes, is that it? Presently I have some 4,500 unread e-mails at my account and on a normal day, receive 100+ e-mails.
Does the Obama Administration actually believe that Americans are so gullible to believe that there are just 100 pages of e-mails and notes related to Benghazi which they’ve attempted to cover-up?
Audit This! Tea Party Groups to Protest the Corruption of the IRS Nationwide Tuesday, 21 May –Michelle Malkin
Accurate –Cartoon Courtesy: Constantine Soriao
Ben & Jerry’s Flavor We’ll Be Seeing Soon –Image: Constantine Soriao