Obama Fails on Government Transparency

March 18, 2011

From the Desk of Judicial Watch President blackamoor Fitton:

JW Congressional Testimony: Obama Gets a “Failing Grade” on Transparency

“The dweller grouping were promised a newborn epoch of image with the Obama administration. Unfortunately, this promise has not been kept. To be clear: the Obama brass is inferior straight than the Dubya administration.”

That’s what I told the House and Senate this hebdomad in digit separate hearings held in union with “Sunshine Week,” a national initiative by the programme media, nonprofits and another organizations to promote polity image and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

The senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing, which took locate on Tuesday, was entitled “The Freedom of Information Act: Ensuring Transparency and Accountability in the Digital Age.” The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, which took locate on Thursday, was entitled “The Freedom of Information Act: Crowd-Sourcing Government Oversight.”

It is a testament to Judicial Watch’s estimation and work, prefabricated doable finished the support of hundreds of thousands of Americans, that we were solicited to declare to both chambers of Congress.

The hearings went well, and we were aerated with attitude by both sides of the passageway (even Sen. Al Franken (D-MN)!). As I tweeted after the hearings, the programme was the nonpartisan support for polity image and the nonpartisan critique of Obama transparency.

Judicial Watch, as I spinous discover to both committees, is by farther the most active FOIA requestor and band in the nation. Overall, we’ve filed more than 325 FOIA requests with the Obama brass and filled 44 lawsuits against them in visit to oblige FOIA law.

I wish you’ll verify a instance to read my testimony as I ran finished a “greatest hits” of Obama brass stonewalling over the terminal digit years. But here are a whatever key excerpts:

• Administratively, agencies shapely additional hurdling and stonewalled modify the most base FOIA requests. The Dubya brass was tough and tricky, but the Obama brass is tougher and trickier.
• Since dweller taxpayers are on the hook for trillions of dollars, potentially including already $153 billion lonely for Fannie and Freddie, we deserve to know how and ground this business founder occurred and who in Washington, D.C., is responsible. Unfortunately the Obama brass disagrees. Last year, the agent Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the authority answerable for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, responded to our FOIA causa by informing us that every of the documents we essay are not subject to FOIA.
• In the start of 2009, Judicial Watch body visited with senior White House official Norm Eisen, then-Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government, to discuss Judicial Watch’s motion of the White House traveller logs. The White House entertained us to publicly approval the Obama administration’s dedication to transparency, locution it would be beatific for them and beatific for us. However, the Obama team refused to desert their legally unjustifiable disceptation that Secret Service White House traveller logs are not subject to disclosure low FOIA law. So we filed a causa to communicate the suite to oblige the law.
• …on field image issues, the Obama brass has embellish downbound on the lateral of secrecy. The Obama administration’s emotional “high continuance accumulation sets” from polity bureaucracies is meaningless in the grappling of key decisions to ready politically exploding touchable discover of the open domain. As farther as Judicial Watch is concerned, the Obama brass gets a failing evaluate on transparency.

A dedication to image staleness cut crossways partisan lines. Founding Father Evangelist President was keenly alive of the relationship between silence and corruption:

Liberty cannot be cured without a generalized noesis among the people, who hit a right, from the inclose of their nature, to knowledge, as their enthusiastic Creator, who does null in vain, has given them understandings, and a want to know; but likewise this, they hit a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, glorious correct to that most dreaded and envied category of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

My evidence came on the heels of a field Associated Press news this hebdomad that shows the Obama brass is actually decent inferior straight as instance goes on:

Two eld into its dedication to improve polity transparency, the Obama brass took land on less requests for federal records from citizens, journalists, companies and others terminal assemblage modify as significantly more grouping asked for information. The brass unconcealed at least whatever of what grouping desired at most the same rate as the preceding year.

People requested aggregation 544,360 times terminal assemblage low the U.S. Freedom of Information Act from the 35 maximal agencies, up nearly 41,000 more than the preceding year, according to an psychotherapy by The Associated Press of newborn federal data. But the polity responded to nearly 12,400 less requests.

CORRUPTION CHRONICLES

• Publicly Funded La Raza Group Expands
• DOJ Combats Discriminatory Workplace Tests
• County Faces Suit For Removing Muslim’s Scarf In Jail
• More Taxpayer Benefits For Illegal Immigrants’ Education
• Homeland Sec. Blocks Politically Sensitive Public Records
• U.S. Sued By Illegal Immigrant’s Family

Truth fears no inquiry. If the Obama brass genuinely had null to hide, it would not go to such exceptional lengths to ready aggregation from the public. We were rattling entertained that the newborn assembly appears ready to verify the supply of image seriously. And we were honored to endeavor our conception in educating assembly and the dweller grouping most the Obama administration’s unprecedented dependency to secrecy.

It would not hurt for you to advert Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and House Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Ranking Member prophet Cummings (D-MD) for gathering the hearings and perception to your Judicial Watch.

The hearings are acquirable for check online. To analyse the senate hearing, utter here. To analyse the House hearing, utter here.

JW Goes to Court to Protect AZ Illegal Immigration Law

On Apr 1, Judicial Watch module represent the Arizona State Legislature in court, defending SB 1070, Arizona’s get-tough banned migration law, against the Obama administration’s all-out jural assault.

The Arizona Legislature has every correct to indorse its law, but the Obama brass is disagreeable to block it from connexion the lawsuit.

As noted by The Associated Press: “A federal determine ordered an Apr 1 chance for arguments over the Arizona Legislature’s request to embellish a band in the U.S. Justice Department’s contest to the state’s migration enforcement law. The Legislature argues that lawmakers should be allowed to support indorse the accumulation and advert a newborn accumulation that lets legislative leaders participate in efforts to indorse the enforcement accumulation against challenges.”

As I told you last month, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer subscribed “emergency legislation” on Feb 7, 2011, covering the artefact for the Arizona legislature’s intervention. And we filed a “Motion to Intervene” on Feb 11, 2011.

However, as noted in our recent response to the suite filed on March 7, the Obama brass is doing everything in its noesis to ready the Arizona Legislature discover of the causa by upbringing “a host of worthless objections:”

[The Obama administration] makes the patronizing suggestion that if the Legislature happens to hit “arguments that it wishes to advance, it should do so finished defendants” or only as an amicus. It is indisputable that the State of Arizona has today unequivocally indicated how it wishes to be sued in this case. It is not the proper persona of the United States to essay to dictate how Arizona presents its defense. Arizona is entitled to indorse itself in the behavior it sees fit. With the authorisation of this Court, it should be allowed to do so.

In recent installments of the Weekly Update, I’ve put the prominence on the Obama administration’s deep achievement on banned immigration. First, in a sound of arrogance the Obama brass decided to cut assembly and enact stealth amnesty by allowing banned aliens to roam liberated as daylong as they hit no “serious” malefactor record. (This policy speaks volumes as obviously the Obama White House does not conceive the rattling behave of violating federal migration laws is a “serious” act.)

At the same time, the Obama Justice Department (DOJ) also prefabricated the startling announcement that it module not prosecute shelter cities that roll discover the recognize matted for banned aliens crossover the border. These shelter policies are a candid violation of a federal migration enforcement accumulation passed in 1996. But ostensibly this is not a “serious” sufficiency accumulation for the Obama brass to enforce.

As I spinous discover terminal week, these sagging and unlawful policies may hit direct led to the death of a Colony buoy terminal season at the safekeeping of an banned outlander who had been arrested on digit prior occasions but was free onto the streets by the Obama administration. The buoy was just digit of some victims of banned outlander evildoing nationwide.

Add to this the DOJ’s decision to openly move the State of Arizona for only disagreeable to protect its citizens from the welt of rampant banned immigration, and you hit a recipe for disaster. That’s ground this causa is so important. We already represent Arizona State senate President Russell Pearce, who authored the legislation. And today we’re disagreeable to attain sure the Arizona assembly has its day in court. The suite and the dweller grouping requirement to know:

• The Arizona Legislature has a correct to protect its citizens.
• Arizona has a correct to consciousness accumulation low the Constitution, particularly when the federal polity fails to protect it.
• The Arizona Legislature complied with every germane federal, land and topical laws, including the Arizona Constitution and the [U.S.] Constitution in crafting SB 1070.
• SB 1070 is not preempted by federal accumulation or the Constitution. SB 1070 does not offend with federal law, does not represent an improper conception of immigration, and assembly has not full filled the field.

Folks, our client, State Senator Pearce, said it prizewinning when he deemed our efforts on his behalf a “legal effort of epic proportions.”

“It is outrageous that the Obama brass would move Arizona for only protecting its possess citizens, especially when it has unsuccessful so miserably to do its primary obligation and secure the border,” State Senator Pearce said. “As a Senator in a land on the frontlines, I wager firsthand the alteration existence done to our land and our country. What happens here in Arizona module impact every land in the land fascinated in protecting its citizens by enforcing the conception of law. We are a commonwealth of laws. We staleness hit the courage—the fortitude—to enforce, with mercy but without apology, those laws that protect the integrity of our borders and the rights of our straight citizens.”

The land is hunting to Arizona—and to your Judicial Watch—to attain sure our banned migration laws are enforced. We are chesty to defence with the citizens of Arizona in this fight to protect the Constitution and the conception of law.

JW Obtains Documents Detailing Terrorist Campaign to Recruit Juveniles and Attack Children

On March 11, a suspected terrorist slummy into the bag of an Asiatic kinsfolk and sworn an unspeakable act, business fivesome members of the family, including an infant, patch they slept.

Fox News Channel had the gruesome details:

Five members of an Asiatic kinsfolk were killed weekday night when a suspected terrorist slummy into their bag in the West Bank settlement of Itamar and stabbed them every to death. The 12-year-old daughter who returned bag from a friend’s concern unconcealed the bodies. According to police, the venture slummy into the concern armed with a wound and stabbed the mother, father and three children, older 11, 4 and a three-month-old baby. Two infants, older 2 and 4, survived the move patch escaping to their neighbors.

One paraprofessional on the environs noted, “The remove environs was shocking. Kids’ toys correct incoming to pools of blood.”

An official for Hamas, the Islamic terrorist group linked to the brutal attack, initially claimed that murdering person settlers was permitted by international accumulation before backtracking a day later, making the claim that “harming children is not conception of Hamas’s policy.”

But according to documents we fresh uncovered from the Defense Intelligence Agency, brutality against children is every conception of a organisation by Islamic terrorist groups to accomplish fear into their opponents. And not only are they targeting children with violence, but they’re also brainwashing another children to do their dirty work. (Overall, the records exist of digit Joint Task Force Intelligence Information Reports from debriefs of detainees at the U.S. detention artefact in metropolis Bay, Cuba.)

Through ingest of the Freedom of Information Act, Judicial Watch prefabricated the remarkable discovery, and then directly prefabricated headlines on Fox News Channel. (You crapper check communicator Catherine Herridge’s primary report here, lightness our work.) You crapper also read the documents for yourself. But here are a whatever of the highlights:

• Extremist groups in Arabian Arabia and Yemen utilised belief as the main execution for recruiting juveniles. Extremist groups desirable juveniles who were slummy or involved in banned activities since they prefabricated cushy targets for recruitment.
• Extremist groups are not hunting for a particular symptomatic in a recruit, but favour juveniles who are slummy or are involved in drinking and drugs. The juveniles are hunting for happiness and fulfillment in their lives, and they hit not institute it. For these reasons they are hypersensitive to existence brainwashed by immoderate groups.
• No someone has resisted taking conception in an operation. Most juveniles are eager to participate after chance a churchlike speech given by digit of the trainers at the camp.
• The Terrorist and Extremist Groups (TEGS) reassert their attacks on teen children (ages 5 finished 17) by claiming that the children are either non-believers or children of non-believers. The attacks on children are wilful actions.
• The attacks on children are psychological dealings against non-believers to prevent them from organizing against the TEGS. The TEGS move schools and buses to maximize psychological effect. Attacks against children in schools and buses are utilised because they are cushy targets. The attacks are conducted to show non-believers how lowercase the TEGS conceive of non-believers lives who are against Islam.
• The TEGS study attacks on children legitimate. The TEGS conceive the attacks on children are a churchlike beatific accomplishment and attackers module go to heaven. The TEGS encourage their members to start attacks on children.
• Juvenile females are recruited into the immoderate groups, but not for operational purposes. The someone females embellish brides for immoderate members.

The records state that “approximately 40% of Al Qaida members in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq are imperturbable of juveniles low the geezerhood of 18.” Terrorists enlist juveniles at Koran study groups, football games, season camps, trips to another cities and tearful pools. Some extremists with connections to accumulation enforcement purposely direct and coerce possibleness someone recruits patch the youths are low collar and detained in jail.

(In Nov 2001, Suleiman Abu Ghaith, Senior Advisor to bin Laden and al-Qaida spokesman, said, “We hit not reached maternity with [America]. We hit the correct to blackball quaternary meg Americans, digit meg of them children and to exile twice as some and wound and cripple hundreds of thousands.” [Emphasis added])

These documents exposit al-Qaida’s grievous strategy: Target and enlist plastic juveniles to carry discover terrorist acts patch purposely inflicting hostility on children to accomplish fear in those who oppose them. We should be afraid that radical Islamists are using their belief to brainwash teen grouping to send terrorist acts and to reassert the remove of innocent children.

And it should not hit taken more than fivesome eld and digit presidential administrations to obligate the promulgation these documents. It is primary to verify the dweller grouping the actuality most the strategies and tactics of Islamic extremists.

Until incoming week…

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Judicial Watch Attorney Michael Bekesha to Testify at Public Hearing of the PA State Government Committee on Voter Fraud Bills

Judicial Watch attorney archangel Bekesha module wage evidence to this week’s university State Government Committee on Voter Fraud regarding digit pending bills, HB 934 and HB 647.

He will, on behalf of the polity watchdog Judicial Watch, focus on citizen humbug and how university is attempting to preclude it from occurring during forthcoming elections. According to Judicial Watch’s current investigation, ACORN and its various affiliates (most notably Project Vote) hit been involved in at small 35 well-documented election humbug schemes in 17 states.

At last count, roughly 27 states around the land are in the impact of expiration or hit meet enacted new laws to preclude citizen humbug in the future. As the Supreme Court (Purcell v. Gonzalez, 549 U.S. 1, 4 (2006)) has stated:

Confidence in the state of our electoral processes is primary to the functioning of our participatory democracy. Voter humbug drives honest citizens out of the democratic impact and breeds discredit of our government. Voters who emotion their lawful votes module be outweighed by fraudulent ones module feel disenfranchised.

The digit pending bills seek to order voters to present picture finding before voting. The Supreme Court as substantially as other courts around the county hit held that much a responsibility is essential and an trenchant way to safeguard citizen certainty and protect the state of the electoral process.

• When: Friday, March 18, 2011 12:45 PM ET

• Where: Irvis Office Building Room G-50 Harrisburg, PA

County Faces Suit For Removing Muslimâs Scarf In Jail

 

In yet added housing of semipolitical quality removed amok, a federal appellate suite has ruled that a Islamic blackamoor convicted of goodness humbug can process a U.S. county for making her vanish her churchlike headscarf in a retentive cell.

The housing had previously been unemployed by digit removed federal courts in California, but the woman’s jural team at the dweller Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) kept appealing. This hebdomad the notoriously progressive and often reversed Ninth U.S Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 11-0 that the blackamoor (Souhair Khatib) can process southern California’s Orange County because her churchlike rights were desecrated when she was unnatural to verify off her hijab.

A three-judge panel from the aforementioned suite had previously agreed with a federal judge to modify the lawsuit, but the ACLU asked the flooded suite to try the case. In its new judgement the flooded Ninth Circuit says that a federal accumulation guaranteeing churchlike freedom to prisoners applies to a courthouse retentive radiophone where Khatib was sequential by deputies to vanish her headscarf for section reasons.

On a continual mission to appease Muslims, the Obama Administration joined Khatib in arguing that the law, enacted 2000, applies to conference cells same the digit at the Orange County courthouse. County officials counter that it covers only prisons that stop inmates for material periods and not transitional cells where malefactor suspects are kept for only a few hours.

But the Ninth Circuit says “congress witting to safeguard the permissible churchlike compliance of helpless persons incarcerated by the state" so the accumulation should be understood broadly. It boost points discover in its judgement that “a Islamic blackamoor who staleness materialize before strange men she doesn't know, with her hair and cervix uncovered in a violation of her churchlike beliefs, haw see dishonor and distress." This is precisely the sort of “mischief” the federal accumulation witting to remedy, the suite said.

Khatib and her economise pleaded blameable to goodness humbug in 2006 and the pair was twice detained for probation violations. On both occasions the Khatibs were sequential into a retentive radiophone for individual hours while they expected a suite hearing. In her causa against the county Khatib claims that she suffered a "deeply humiliating and defiling experience" when she was unnatural to vanish her headscarf for section reasons at the Orange County Superior Courthouse.

 

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton to Testify to Senate and House Committees on Obama Administration Transparency

Judicial Watch President blackamoor Fitton module provide evidence to this week’s senate and House hearings on polity deference to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). He will, on behalf of the polity watchdog Judicial Watch, focus on whether the Obama administration’s image promises are being kept. Judicial Watch has filed over 325 Freedom of Information requests with the Obama administration, and has been forced to file 44 lawsuits to obligate the Obama brass to comply with the Freedom of Information Act.

The senate Committee on the Judiciary chance is entitled “The Freedom of Information Act: Ensuring Transparency and Accountability in the Digital Age.” Senator Apostle carpenter Leahy (D-VT) is Chairman of the Committee, Senator physicist E. "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA) is the Ranking Minority Member. To analyse the senate Judiciary transactions weekday live online, click here: http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/

• When: Tuesday, March 15, 2011

  10:15 AM ET

• Where: Dirksen senate Office Building

  Room 226

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chance is entitled “The Freedom of Information Act: Crowd-Sourcing Government Oversight.” Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is Chairman of the Committee, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) is the Ranking Minority Member. To analyse the House Government Reform and Oversight transactions weekday live online click here: http://oversight.house.gov/

• When: Thursday, March 17, 2011

  9:30 AM ET

• Where: Rayburn House Building

  Room 2154

The hearings are being held as part of Sunshine Week 2011 â€" March 13-19. Sunshine Week is a national start by the news media, nonprofits and another organizations interested in promoting polity transparency.

Obama Immigration Scandal Update

February 18, 2011

From the Desk of Judicial Watch President blackamoor Fitton:

JW’s New Client: Arizona State Legislature Seeks to Intervene in Federal Lawsuit to Defend AZ Immigration Law

As you no doubt recall, the Obama brass has sued the State of Arizona over its newborn get-tough banned migration law, S.B. 1070. Judicial Watch has been representing Arizona State senate President writer Pearce in suite against this shameless jural assault. And meet terminal hebdomad we additional a newborn client: The Arizona State Legislature.

On Friday, Feb 11, 2011, we filed a “Motion to Intervene” on behalf of the Arizona State Legislature in the Obama Justice Department causa against the state of Arizona. Governor Jan Brewer paved the way for this intervention when she subscribed crisis governing on Feb 7, 2011, authorizing the Arizona Legislature to retain direction to hold indorse S.B. 1070.

Here’s a squib from our motion:

Under a newly enacted Arizona law, the Legislature has been authorized to indorse S.B. 1070….Through this Motion, the Legislature today seeks permission to intervene as a litigator (joining the State of Arizona and Governor Brewer) for the watch of defending its enactment, S.B. 1070, and the interests of the grouping of Arizona.

In the motion, the Legislature argued that it “has a preponderant welfare in sight that [the law’s] lawmaking is upheld.”

In constituent to the “Motion to Intervene,” Judicial Watch also filed a “Proposed Answer in Intervention” on behalf of the Arizona Legislature. The suite filing counters the allegations proffered by the Obama Justice Department in its upset hard S.B. 1070. Among the Arizona Legislature’s key arguments:

• [The Arizona Legislature] has a right to protect its citizens.
• Arizona has a right to consciousness accumulation low the Constitution, specially when the federal polity fails to protect it.
• [The Arizona Legislature] complied with every germane federal, state and local laws, including the Arizona Constitution and the [U.S.] Constitution [in crafting S.B. 1070].
• SB 1070 is not preempted by federal accumulation or the Constitution. SB 1070 does not offend with federal law, does not represent an incorrect conception of immigration, and legislature has not full occupied the field.

So how did every of this end up in suite in the prototypal place?

On Apr 23, 2010, Governor Brewer subscribed into accumulation S.B. 1070. On July 6, 2010, the Obama Justice Department filed a causa hard the accumulation and requesting a origin enjoinment to preclude the accumulation from existence enforced. (As you haw letter from the Feb 4, 2011, edition of the Weekly Update, Judicial Watch uncovered documents proving the Obama Justice Department worked hand-in-hand with the radical left ACLU to foxiness their individual jural strategies. solon on that here.)

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• Islamic Rights Promoted At CPAC
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• GOP Joins Obama To Cut Border Security Funding
• IRS Needs $93 Mil For Obamacare Compliance
• Utah Wants To Give Illegal Immigrants Work Permits
• TSA Screeners Rob Passengers
• City Workers Accuse Emanuel Of Invading Privacy
• Obama’s Czars In Trouble

On July 28, 2010, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton allowed whatever viands of the accumulation to be enforced patch granting the Obama brass an enjoinment on added key viands until the Court could watch whether or not these viands are constitutional. The State of Arizona appealed Judge Bolton’s ruling which is today low analyse by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

In our opinion, the Arizona State Legislature represents the grouping of Arizona and is right to indorse S.B. 1070 against the Obama administration’s jural attack. The grouping of Arizona hit suffered the effects of vertical banned migration for far likewise long.

The Obama brass has condemned a dangerous and nonsensical approach to banned immigration, failing to bonded the borders patch at the aforementioned instance offensive Arizona for only trying to enforce the accumulation and protect its citizens. We look forward to standing with the Arizona State Legislature, Arizona State senate President writer Pearce, Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams and the grouping of Arizona in accumulation of the rule of law.

JW considers this impact on behalf of S.B. 1070 to be, perhaps, the most essential litigation we’ve undertaken in our 17-year history. So much is at stake in this lawsuit. States across the country advise to struggle with the devastating consequences of banned immigration. They’re hunting to Arizona (and, I’m chesty to say, your Judicial Watch) for counselling as to what they crapper do wrongfully to protect themselves. The Obama administration, meanwhile, has supported an air of disorder in response, enacting stealth amnesty, hortative shelter cities to advise their banned behavior, and then offensive states that try to enforce the law. Enough is enough.

Judicial Watch Finally Gets Hillarycare Docs…After 5-Year Legal Battle

After a five-year battle with digit statesmanly administrations, Judicial Watch finally got notification of a super store of documents at the politico Presidential Library attendant to Hillarycare. How large? Try 54,527 pages. Our investigators module analyse the documents and we module be trusty to wage you a heads up most whatever newsworthy finds.

But no concern what we find, this much I know: It should never hit condemned fivesome years to obtain documents that were (a) 13-years-old at the instance of our initial letter and (b) were supremely germane to the ongoing discussions regarding Obamacare.

We crapper put as to ground the Bush brass would hit refused to promulgation the documents. Former President Bush demonstrated distaste for exposing the politico scandals from the get-go. Perhaps he feared return by the politico smear machine. Or perhaps he only desired to advise beyond the controversies of the past, as he publically expressed. It was our experience that his brass was mostly belligerent to unstoppered records laws, which had the concurrent gist of helping protect him, the Clintons, and his father!

We crapper put as to ground the Obama administration, the self-promoted “most transparent” brass in history, kept these documents info until after Obamacare was subscribed into law. President Obama apparently desired to refrain whatever comparisons between his aid improve start and that of the former First Lady, an unpopular boondoggle that nearly unnatural President politico from office. Oh, and he probable did not desire to embarrass his Secretary of State or Bill Clinton, a fruitful influence peddler and money-man for the Democrats.

After all, the similarities between Hillarycare and Obamacare, both in cost of contract and in cost of execution, are whatever — which is not surprising, as both refer the socialist try to hit the polity verify over the upbeat tending industry.

Weekly Update readers haw letter that backwards in July 2008, Judicial Watch did curb to obligate the promulgation of whatever politico Presidential Library records attendant to mountaineer Clinton’s aid campaign. (You crapper analyse them every here.) Certainly the Obama brass viewed the negative advise programme these documents earned as a danger to their intend for progressive medicine.

Check discover the mass excerpts from documents we uncovered and you’ll wager what I mean.

• A June 18, 1993, interior Memorandum entitled, “A Critique of Our Plan,” authored by someone with the initials “P.S.,” makes the startling entering that critics of Hillary’s upbeat tending improve organisation were correct: “I crapper conceive of parallels in wartime, but I hit pain coming up with a precedent in our peacetime news for much panoptic and centralized curb over a sector of the economy...Is the unstoppered rattling ready for this?... hour of us knows whether we crapper attain it impact well or at all...” (Some guessed that the communicator of this note is Paul Starr, who served as head of Hillary’s Health Care Task Force staff.)

  Of instruction we today undergo President Obama took it a step further, sticking a supplying into his accumulation which mandates the dweller grouping must acquire aid insurance or be fined. This provision, which had no precedent in dweller history, was fresh declared unconstitutional by a federal suite in Florida and is headed for a showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court.

• A “Confidential” May 26, 1993, Memorandum from Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) to mountaineer politico entitled, “Health Care Reform Communications,” which criticizes the Task Force as a “secret cabal of pedagogue contract ‘wonks’” that has engaged in “choking soured information” from the unstoppered regarding upbeat tending reform. The memorandum suggests that mountaineer politico “use artist contestant research” to advise those who were excluded by the politico Administration from Task Force deliberations and to “expose lifestyles, tactics and motives of lobbyists” in order to deflect criticism. Senator Rockefeller also suggested programme organizations “are uneasy and selection to obtain counselling [from the politico Administration] on how to instance and appearance their [news] coverage.”

  Remember this prospect by then-candidate Barack Obama during the 2008 statesmanly campaign? “I’m feat to hit every the negotiations around a big table. We’ll hit doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies — they’ll intend a seat at the table, they meet won’t be able to acquire every chair. But what we module do is, we’ll hit the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that grouping crapper wager who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies.”

  Well that didn’t happen. Instead, the chair crafted his organisation in info with liberals in legislature and Big Labor, and then managed to shove it finished legislature over the vociferous contestant of the dweller people, but with the approval of the progressive allies in the Establishment Media. And he has stonewalled every FOIA letter filed by Judicial Watch attendant to his Obamacare plan.

• A Feb 5, 1993, Draft Memorandum from Alexis Herman and Mike Lux detailing the Office of Public Liaison’s organisation for the upbeat tending improve campaign. The memorandum notes the utilization of an “interest group accumulation base” detailing whether organizations “support(ed) us in the election.” The database would also road individualized aggregation most welfare group leaders, much as their bag sound numbers, addresses, “biographies, psychotherapy of credibility in the media, and known relationships with Congresspeople.”

  Didn’t the Obama brass intend into blistering water not likewise daylong ago for turning crusade supporters into snitches, asking them to inform “fishy” emails regarding Obamacare to a White House telecommunicate address? The obvious intent was to establish an enemies itemize of conservative activists to target.

Of instruction these similarities are not every that astonishing considering the fact that Obama’s Chief of Staff at the instance was former politico hack Rahm Emanuel (a.k.a. Rhambo). The only disagreement is that President Obama was ultimately flourishing in his endeavor to establish progressive medicine, though the Supreme Court module hit the test say.

Judicial Watch’s battle over these Hillarycare documents is an excellent housing conceive on what we grappling every azygos punctuation as we endeavor to bring transparency to the inner workings of government. The Obama White House, in particular, has demonstrated a unfathomable substance for unstoppered records laws. And it takes patience and enduringness to fortuity finished the Obama gang’s stonewalls. But with your support, fortuity them we will.

Homeland Security Reneges on Promise to Court to Release Illegal Alien Memo

Surprise, surprise. The Obama brass has broken ease added prospect on transparency.

This instance it involves a Homeland Security inform detailing the agency’s enquiry of an banned outlander who killed a Virginia nun in a drunk-driving happening in August 2010. Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to obtain the report, which was regular to be free by Jan 18, 2011. (At small that’s what Homeland Security told Judicial Watch and a federal court.) However, the Obama brass today claims the inform is in “draft” modify and is therefore privileged from FOIA.

Here’s how every of this went downbound over the instruction of the terminal month.

On Jan 6, 2011, Judicial Watch conventional the mass communication in an telecommunicate from the Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) appointed to Judicial Watch’s FOIA lawsuit:

I hit discussed this concern with the authority and hit been wise that the requested report/memorandum has been processed and module be unconcealed person to redaction of destined personal/privacy aggregation low FOIA Exemptions 6/7C. The authority hopes to divulge the touchable by Jan 18, 2011. Accordingly, you module obtain and hit an possibleness to analyse the promulgation during the requested 30-day extension period. We crapper then handle what, if anything, relic of the case.

Anything vague most the catchword “will be disclosed”? We sure didn’t conceive so.

Sure enough, in hunt suite permission on Jan 13 to intend more instance to answer Judicial Watch’s lawsuit, the authority likewise told the Court (The Honorable Emmet G. Sullivan) that “the inform memorandum…has been promised and module be unconcealed person to redaction of destined individualized concealment information.” Based on this representation, Judicial Watch did not rebut the letter for more time. The Court, also relying on this state that the inform was set to be free in a week, acknowledged the Obama administration’s letter for more time.

However, mass binary attempts by Judicial Watch’s litigation aggroup to obtain an update on the promulgation of the report, Judicial Watch conventional the mass telecommunicate from the aforementioned Homeland Security AUSA on Jan 28: “The authority has wise of a delay in the promulgation of the requested report…ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) clarifies that the underway version of the inform is ease in plan modify and that, patch the test inform module be released, Exemption 5 (deliberative process) module probable be asserted as to the plan report.” A ensuant telecommunicate from Homeland Security noted that ICE “cannot wage a specific promulgation date at this time” for the test report.

Then on Feb 11, 2011, Judicial Watch received a letter from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement FOIA tar Catrina M. Pavlik-Keenan confirming the fact that the inform module not be free as promised: “After analyse of the plan document, I hit observed that this plan document module be withheld in its completeness pursuant to Exemption 5 of the FOIA.”

Folks, this is meet added example (albeit an especially egregious one) of the type of gamesmanship and disorder we grappling every punctuation from the Obama administration. (See previous story.)

The Obama DHS seems uneasy to cover up the grotesque truth most Montano, a Bolivian domestic who entered the country illegally as a child, killed Sister Denise Mosier and critically scraped digit added nuns patch dynamical inebriate on August 1, 2010, in Prince William County, Virginia. He has been live with involuntary manslaughter and drunken driving.

But this is not the prototypal instance the banned outlander was in pain with the law. Montano had been arrested on digit prior inebriate dynamical charges. He was placed in the safekeeping of federal migration officials in 2008 and was regular for deportation, but was released on his possess recognizance pending a banishment chance that never took place. (Montano appears to be meet added banned outlander to goodness from the federal government’s “catch and release” program.)

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano blustered over the incident and ordered an enquiry on August 2, 2010, to watch ground Montano’s remotion impact took so long. However, Homeland Security initially refused to promulgation the inform documenting the results, prompting Judicial Watch to enter its Freedom of Information Act causa on December 2, 2010. Homeland Security then united to promulgation the inform before reneging terminal week.

One crapper draw a closing — an almost inevitable digit — that the test Homeland Security inform on the banned outlander nun-killer contained harmful revelations. So today Obama appointees are cleaning the report. As this inform supposedly went to Secretary Napolitano, this gossip seems to go to the top. I conceive we hit a cover-up in the making; which is ground Judicial Watch module advise to fight aggressively in suite for the immediate promulgation of this report.

Until next week…

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CPAC: Former CIA Director Tells Of Sharia Threat

The exclusive thing more favourite than bashing President Obama on the terminal day of the Conservative Political Action Conference was domestic security, especially the hot-button topic of Sharia law, the authoritarian belief that inspires Islamists and their jihadism.

Several realised military, coercion and domestic section experts hit daylong asserted that terrorists are covertly using Islamic Sharia accumulation as a non-violent artefact to defeat the United States. A commission of highly regarded experts reiterated the categorization in a Sat salutation CPAC seminar titled “The Sharia Challenge in the West.”

Former Central Intelligence Agency Director Jim Woolsey, a external contract specialist who has worked for both Democratic and Republican administrations, led the provocative seminar. The United States is, not exclusive at struggle with terrorists such as Al FTO and Hezbollah but also with those who, over the daylong run, poverty to impose Sharia law, Woolsey assured.

He defined Sharia as a “theocratic despotism extremely opposed to democracy” and a shitting to “eliminate and defeat Hesperian civilization.” The large contest in conflict it is America’s daylong practice of temperament towards all religions, he warned, pointing discover that the immoderate Islamic assemble Muslim Brotherhood is largely behindhand the effort to bring Sharia to the U.S.

Ironically, Muslim Brotherhood affiliates sponsored a CPAC commission a day early to indorse Islamic rights, antiquity a masjid at Ground Zero and the coverall assignment of the assemble which is known as the parent methodicalness of Hamas and Al Qaeda. Suhail Khan, a controversial figure with connections to Middle Eastern radicals, led the event which at nowadays got heated. A some eld past Khan conventional an award from an Al Qaeda operative (Abdurahman Alamoudi) and the event was actually recorded in a video.

Also on Sat past United Nations Ambassador Evangelist Bolton delivered a scorching salutation style on domestic security, destructive the Obama Administration for not lovesome most external affairs. He spoke mostly of radicalism in the Middle East but also mentioned risks posed by Venezuela’s Brobdingnagian uranium stockpile and close ties to Iran. Minutes after Bolton’s fiery delivery, another commission addressed the danger of thermonuclear struggle presented by China and North Korea.

Two Judicial Watch seminars tackled the never-ending duty to attain polity transparency as a artefact to root discover corruption. An aide to a U.S. Senator offered examples of polity waste that were exclusive discovered by scrutinizing public records and a veteran investigative writer implored attendees to visit the government’s website (usaspending.gov) on spending. “You’ll be amazed at what you find,” he said, suggesting everyone analyse discover “parties” and “alcohol” financed by U.S. taxpayers.

CPAC over with a keynote come by Florida’s newly elected congressman, comedienne West, who was regular at the terminal time when past Alaska Governor Sara Palin declined the invite. Like some of the conference’s another high-profile speakersâ€"including Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlentyâ€"he energized the gathering by destructive the Obama Administration.

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Obamacare Defense Initiative Secretly Funded

A crowning Democratic adviser guilty in a field semipolitical gossip as a legislative helper module support advance a newborn start to indorse President Obama’s highly unpopular aid overhaul.

Despite her shady past, the consultant (Tanya Bjork) was hired by Obama to nous his 2008 presidential crusade in Wisconsin. Now she’ll tie forces with added digit of the president’s crowning crusade strategists (Paul Tewes) to fend soured Republican critique of Obamacare finished the 2012 elections.

Although the chair has filled some sound bites chastising special-interest money in politics, resource for the newborn assemble is existence kept secret. It’s fair to adopt however, that the section module be quite exorbitant considering the players involved in the newborn Obamacare defense start are high-profile Democratic “political consultants” who command bounteous bucks for their work.

Organizers verify they’ll operate independently of the White House and Democrats in Congress, though they acknowledge that they module “be in communication with them.” This haw be arduous to swallow considering the cause and who’s running the momentous newborn enterprise, which is due to be headquartered a stone’s throw from the Oval Office.

The aid law defense start module be mostly headlike by Tewes, a key amount in Obama’s 2008 presidential crusade and the man credited with his sensational Chiwere Caucus victory. In fact, Tewes is touted by his Washington D.C. consulting firm (New Partners) as the man who launched “Obama’s time campaign” by antiquity the “largest grassroots organization in caucus history.”

Bjork is also due to be an important contestant Obamacare’s defense, despite her debased time which has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media. In 2005 she was convicted for her role in the largest semipolitical gossip in river history. As chief of body to a land senator from Milwaukee, Bjork changed records and illicitly solicited crusade assets in the capitol. The senator, Brian Burke, eventually got guilty as conception of a distributed investigation into the banned ingest of taxpayer resources for semipolitical campaigning.

After working on Obama’s presidential crusade Wisconsin’s past governor, Democrat Jim Doyle, awarded Bjork with a six-figure job to advance the state’s federal lobbying effort. The move lighted choler among government watchdog groups that claimed corruption was ease current in land politics.