There is also evidence that the IRS illegally leaked the tax records of conservative groups to its opponents.
Working for the Democratic Party: There is now evidence that the IRS illegally leaked the tax records of conservative groups to their liberal opponents.
Mickey Kaus notes that this abuse did not have to be ordered by the big bosses in the Democratic Party. The people at the IRS are mostly Democrats, and will do it naturally if they simply feel that their bosses will look the other way.
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Working for the Democratic Party: There is now evidence that the IRS illegally leaked the tax records of conservative groups to their liberal opponents.
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It didn’t have to be ordered but there most certainly had to be some coordination going on over what groups and individuals to target. The IRS needs to fire all employees involved and brings charges against those who broke laws. The Democrats need to come clean about who were their operatives working with the IRS on this campaign of intimidation and harassment.
Something tells me in 2016 or 2020, whomever the Republican running for President is, they better have nothing interesting in their health records.
I love this and the two other scandals brewing. I overheard two fellow veterans at work, one saying to other, ‘Reminds me of Nixon’. Where there is smoke, there is fire. After all, Chicago style politics have to lead to….if one lives by the sword, he will die by the sword.
Sounds like multiple civil lawsuits could be in the works. If Dem Party officials got information, then it’s almost certain people in the Obama campaign got it as well. I’d love to depose these guys and find out how far up the food chain it goes.
The administration spying on the AP is the story, even if the Patriot act allows it. Now we find out what is in the bill and how the government can abuse it. (wait till Obamacare shows us how balanced and bi-partisan it its going to be when people fear doing what they want and need to do because they fear that the government has information on them or will refuse them healthcare. People will then find out what it like to be owned. This is reparations plus as a bonus they make everyone the property of the governmet)
What is it that limits the administration from violating first amendment rights and abusing its power? What is it that limits the Patriot act? I just read that the administration was attempting to discover the identity of a source of a leak within their ranks, thats why they initiated an extremely wide gathering of private, first amendment protected information. How can journalists now develope confidential sources within the government if the insider believes that he can not be anonomous? Free speech is the foundation in counter balancing the power of the government by journalists (when they actually are interested in doing their job). The unhindered first amendment is the counter balance to abuse of power and this administration is apparently above all of that nonsense. This is tyranny, exactly what the Constitution was designed to push back against.
*As Benjamin Franklin said: Those willing to surrender their liberty for safety deserve neither.
*The nature of man is to abuse power as it relates to one mans power over another man. (That is the definition of the Constitution, JGL)
What will the American people insist on to remedy this abuse of power?
What will you insist on?
What part of the patriot act allows the government to monitor the AP phone lines?
It appears that they were searching for the leaker inside their ranks as it related to a failed terror attack ( I have not looked into the exact details yet). Im sure the patriot act contains lots of pages and lots of words that relate to terror and associated subjects, when you have lots of pages and lots of words you can probably justify anything you need to as evidenced by the justice departments actions. They are golden.
They didn’t use a single part of the Patriot Act.
What they did was get a warrant to gather the phone evidence records. The records that might have led to the inside person who leaked the facts they wanted hidden.
But they went about getting the warrant all wrong.
In the case of reporters and news agencies they MUST request the information from the reporters and news agencies first.
Then if they do not get the evidence then they MUST ask the nations Attorney General for the warrant.
Not some lower lever judge like they did here.
Holder must sign off on it.
As you know news agencies and reporters are treated differently than the rest of us. They have special professional courtesies given to them.
They knew they needed to handle things through the AG’s office but for some reason were led to believe this judge would knowingly give them an illegal warrant.
The judge new the rules but thought he could get away with it. Why?
Who above him said it was ok? Who told the investigators he would do it?