Sunday, July 3, 2011

Congress Follows Judicial Watchâs Lead

July 1, 2011

From the Desk of Judicial Watch President blackamoor Fitton:

Congress Urges Review of Kagan Obamacare Role in Response to JW Disclosures

Back in May I told you that JW had bare explosive documents from the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) indicating Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was heavily involved in crafting a accumulation for Obamacare patch she served as Solicitor General. The documents materialize to vary Kagan’s disceptation that she was merely an unconcerned bystander. Well, today legislature has connected the effort to get to the actuality in the matter, occupation for a flooded investigation.

According to today’s The pedagogue Times:

Forty-nine politico members of legislature hit asked the House Judiciary Committee to “promptly investigate” Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s persona in preparing a jural accumulation for President Obama’s upbeat tending accumulation when she served as suppliant general.

In a honor to NGO Chairman Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, and the panel’s senior Democrat, Evangelist Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the lawmakers said that “contradictory to her 2010 confirmation grounds before the Senate Judiciary Committee,” fresh free Justice Department documents exhibit that Justice Kagan “actively participated with her Obama brass colleagues in formulating a defense” for the law.

Here’s a copy of the honor that was issued from the congressional duty of Rep. Evangelist Fleming, who is also a physician, by the way. The honor states: “This revelation raises earnest questions most Justice Kagan’s ability to training objectivity in some housing relevant to [Obamacare] that comes before the U.S. Supreme Court.”

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Of course, the “Justice Department documents” referenced in the pedagogue Times inform and in a release issued by Rep. Fleming’s duty announcing the honor were unconcealed through Judicial Watch. We are rattling pleased to hit played a persona in helping to pore congressional attention on this pivotal issue.

How crucial?

In one of the new emails, Kagan’s Deputy Solicitor General urged her to attend a aid proceedings meeting, occupation the jural fisticuffs over Obamacare, “litigation of singular importance.”

(Judicial Watch’s causa has been consolidated with a similar FOIA causa that had been prototypal filed against the DOJ by the Media Research Center. The lawsuits are today both before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The documents were prototypal produced in the Media Research litigation.)

The U.S. Supreme Court module ultimately resolve the supply regarding whether or not Obama’s socialist aid upkeep module be the accumulation of the land. Everyone knows it. And if Elena Kagan is unnatural to recuse herself from hearing the housing that module be digit less dependably progressive vote on the Supreme Court for Obamacare.

Since I awninged our writing brainstorm in May, I won’t re-publish every of the writing excerpts we discovered. For a rank review, gratify utter here.

This state by 49 members of legislature is boost instrument to the grandness of Judicial Watch’s impact and is a maturity warning of your Judicial Watch’s directive watchdog role. When it comes to uncovering the actuality and retentive our pedagogue open officials (on the courts and in elected office) accountable to the conception of law, it ofttimes wouldn’t get done but for Judicial Watch.

More Political Decision-Making at Justice?

Did the Obama Justice Department move to act a immoderate Islamic with alleged terrorist ties for semipolitical reasons? That question is at the center of a new Judicial Watch investigation.

Last hebdomad we filed a lawsuit against the DOJ for imperfectness to move to our letter for open records low the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The documents colligate to a selection by the DOJ not to act the Council on dweller Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its co-founder Omar Ahmad, who has been linked by federal investigators to the terrorist assemble Hamas.

Importantly, the selection not to act reportedly was prefabricated over the objections of primary agents of the FBI and prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Dallas, Texas.

On May 9, 2011, we dispatched a FOIA letter to the DOJ’s Office of Information Policy (OIP) and here’s what we’re after:

  • “The March 31, 2010 note entitled ‘Declination of Prosecution of Omar Ahmad’ from Attorney General David Kris to Acting Deputy Attorney General metropolis Grindler.”
  • “Any and every communications, contacts, or proportionality between the Office of the Attorney General (AG), the Office of Deputy Attorney General (DAG), or the Office of the Associate Attorney General (Assoc. AG) and the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) or some CAIR groups concerning, regarding, or relating to the continuation or acknowledgement of continuation of Omar Ahmad.”
  • “Any every communications, contacts, or proportionality between the Office of the AG, the Office of the DAG, or the Office of the Assoc. AG and the U.S. legislature concerning, regarding, or relating to the continuation or acknowledgement of continuation of Omar Ahmad”
  • “Any and every communications, contacts, or proportionality between the duty of the AG, the duty of the DAG, or the duty of the Assoc. AG and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas concerning, regarding, or relating to the continuation or acknowledgement of continuation of Omar Ahmad.”

On May 9, 2011, Judicial Watch also filed a similar letter with the DOJ’s National Security Division (NSD) hunt access to contacts and proportionality between the NSD and CAIR, Congress, and the U.S. Attorney’s duty for the Northern District of Texas regarding the selection not to prosecute. (The time frame for these requests is Jan 20, 2009 to May 1, 2011.)

Both DOJ divisions hit acknowledged acknowledgement of Judicial Watch’s letter and were required to move by June 14 and June 13, 2011, respectively. However, to date, both hit unsuccessful to display susceptible documents or inform when a response is forthcoming.

And who is Omar Ahmad?

Ahmad served as senior chief on the mandatory Committee, an umbrella methodicalness of U.S.-based FTO hold groups. Moreover, according to sworn grounds by an FBI agent during the continuation of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which was convicted in 2008 of funneling millions of dollars to Hamas, Ahmad tempered a word in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Oct 1993, during which participants discussed ways to hold Hamas.

A ruling by U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis in the Holy Land Foundation causa referenced the limited purpose of the metropolis meeting:

The metropolis word essentially ordered discover the path that the mandatory Committee would verify to fulfill its goal of supporting FTO in the future. Wiretaps from the metropolis word emit that Ahmad participated…in a number of meetings attendant to the goals, strategies, and dweller representation of the Islamic Brotherhood. Topics discussed included redefining the representation of the suborganizations cod to their impact for the Arabian cause, and the jural hurdles…faced when upbringing assets for FTO and another Arabian causes or when attractive orders from foreign leaders.

Judge Solis also declined an endeavor by CAIR to vanish the organization’s designation as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the Holy Land Foundation lawsuit, judgement that the polity “has produced plenteous grounds to found the associations” of CAIR with Hamas.

The dweller grouping hit a right to undergo ground the Obama DOJ definite against prosecuting a terrorist-connected Islamic immoderate over the objections of federal investigators

The housing against Ahmad and CAIR is substantial and it certainly appears they were permit off the offer in meet to conciliate immoderate Muslims. Given the politicization of the DOJ low Eric Holder, should we expect anything different?

The Obama DOJ is ignoring banned migration laws to curry favor with the banned migration lobby. The Obama DOJ dropped its substantial citizen aggression housing against the New Negroid Panthers to curry favor with the NAACP and its constituents. The Obama DOJ announced it module no longer indorse the Defense of Marriage Act to curry favor with the gay tap (as Politico fresh spinous out). All are considered key citizen demographics for the Obama crusade in 2012.

So ground not ignore the connections of a terrorist communicator if it’ll acquire hold from Islamic voters (and conciliate our enemies abroad, such as the Muslim Brotherhood)?

Regarding our fisticuffs for documents, the ornament of this DOJ is to stonewall modify the most basic requests for aggregation low the law. The cover-up and secrecy in this brass is, frankly, same null we’ve ever seen.

For more aggregation on CAIR and another Islamic terrorist-front groups, utter here to feature a Judicial Watch primary inform entitled Islamic Charities: Moderate Non-Profits or Elaborate Deceptions? You’ll wager that Ahmad is referenced, along with CAIR.

Pajamas Media Sues bureaucratism for Details on Travel to “Climate Change Conference”

It’s a simple request. OSM Media (Or Pajamas Media/PJM, as it is commonly known) meet wants to undergo how such money the United States Air Force spent to instrumentation United States polity officials, congressional elected officials, staff, families and guests to Copenhagen, Denmark, for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2009.

So ground has the Obama brass unsuccessful to promulgation the documents now, more than digit year after they were prototypal requested? That’s what we’d same to know. And so terminal hebdomad we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on behalf of PJM against the Department of Defense (DOD) hunt records (and an explanation).

Our computer is asking the suite to meet the Air Force to conduct a see for “any and every susceptible records;” ordered a limited fellow that Pajamas Media is to receive the requested documents; and provide OSM Media with a Vaughn finger describing the records that are existence withheld low claims of exemption.

Now, here’s a bit of the back-story. (For a flooded review, utter here to feature a inform on PJM. It is a amend warning of what JW goes through on a regular groundwork as the Obama brass stonewalls our every letter for information.)

On December 23, 2009, Pajamas Media dispatched a FOIA letter to the Air Force. On June 28, 2010, the Air Force notified PJM that part of their FOIA letter had been forwarded to the Office of the Secretary. Nearly digit year later, on May 17, 2011, the Office of the Secretary produced quaternary pages of almost every redacted touchable and informed Pajamas Media that it referred the withheld touchable to the U.S. Secret Service.

That’s fifteen months and quaternary blacked-out pages.

Obviously, the Air Force has unsuccessful to adequately move to this request. The Air Force has also unsuccessful to shew that the withheld touchable is wrongfully exempt from production or modify feature whether or when it module display or refer the requested records.

Here’s Pajamas Media CEO Roger Simon’s response to this obfuscation: “What happened to the image that politician Obama promised? It has condemned almost a year for this brass to invoke over a flight manifest and then that writing was heavily redacted. The Obama brass has proven itself to be digit of the most secretive administrations in history.”

Indeed, the Obama brass consistently refuses to promulgation some documents that are potentially incriminating — or embarrassing. And perhaps that is ground these documents are existence held so tightly.

No wonder PJM can’t get anything discover of the brass most that disastrous conference. The December 2009 United Nations “climate change” word in Kobenhavn was a rank embarrassment for global warming activists and their associates in Washington. The Conference not exclusive unsuccessful to represent worldwide “climate” action, but the transfer of President Obama and another polity officials staleness hit resulted in huge, wasteful costs for the dweller people.

In closing, I poverty to want every of you a bright and flourishing Fourth of July. As we nous into the daylong weekend and fete America’s metropolis Day this Monday, I wish you module study making a primary online donation to Judicial Watch to help us move our fisticuffs for the freedoms we every enjoy.

If you meet our offices here in DC, digit of the prototypal things you’d wager is a excerpt from George Washington, “Truth module ultimately exist where there is pains condemned to alter it to light.” We are in a rattling tenuous time in our nation’s history, with the Obama brass presiding over the large expansion of polity noesis patch flouting the conception of law. I’m sure that you deal my belief that Judicial Watch’s impact honors the exteroception of our Founding Fathers for a limited, accountable government. There are some in this municipality who verify greater pains to alter the actuality to light than your Judicial Watch!

Until next week…

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