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.”

CORRUPTION CHRONICLES

• DHS Stealth Amnesty Cover Up Exposed
• Billions To Make Public Housing Decent, Energy Efficient
• Blagojevich 4th Illinois Gov. Convicted Of Corruption
• EPA Gives Millions In Foreign Handouts
• Texas Passes Law To Keep Public Records Secret
• JW Probe: Obama’s HUD Violates ACORN Funding Ban
• Taxpayers Charged For Pro Sports Tickets, Booze
• DOJ Orders Protection Of “Language Minority Populations”

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.

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DOJ Orders Protection Of âLanguage Minority Populationsâ

Obama’s Department of Justice has ordered river to protect the interests of “language eld populations” by invigorating a Court Interpreter Oversight Committee that assures immigrants who don’t speak arts intend liberated translators.

The newborn DOJ mandate also applies to subject cases, which effectuation that U.S. taxpayers module money rendering services for foreigners who may stand to make deciding money. Under the agreement, announced this week, the river Judicial Department module also amend “state and topical module admittance plans” that address “both oral interpretation and the translation of alive cursive documents.”

A revived state Court Interpreter Oversight Committee module be swollen to allow an attorney, prosecutor, open defender and an “advocate” representing the interests of the “language eld populations,” according to the DOJ’s order.

Interpreters hit always been provided in malefactor cases and in subject cases in which litigants were indigent. The newborn DOJ accord mandates liberated admittance to “timely and trenchant module assistance” for every “limited arts proficient individuals” in every cases. This won’t come cheap. Colorado’s suite grouping already spends nearly $4 million on 25 full-time interpreters and 300 contractors who wage services in 75 assorted languages.

The supporter professional general that President Obama ordained to separate the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division (Thomas Perez) says it’s primary because “justice cannot be served without admittance and trenchant communication.” Perez is a famous open-borders exponent who served on the commission of a controversial, taxpayer-funded period laborer edifice (Casa de Maryland) that assists banned immigrants.

Last assemblage Perez lied to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to cover up that semipolitical activity was involved in the liberation of the citizen intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party. Judicial Watch obtained records that establish crowning semipolitical appointees were intimately involved in the decision to drop charges against the immoderate black revolutionary assemble for aggression voters with interracial insults, discourtesy and weapons during the 2008 statesmanly election.

A former Colony Labor Secretary, Perez has prefabricated a number of controversial moves at the DOJ to protect banned immigrants and minorities in general. Last fall he sued a open college grouping for favouritism because it requires employ applicants to furnish proof of act before getting hired and early this assemblage he launched an start to eliminate cursive tests that secern against minorities in the workplace.

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Illegal Immigrant Works Years As Police Officer

In a programme that raises questions most how topical accumulation enforcement agencies man candidates to “serve and protect’ communities, an banned immigrant with a stolen indistinguishability spent eld as an tar in Alaska’s maximal personnel department.

The unlikely tale is reminiscent of a similar case in river a some eld ago. An illegal outlander utilised the indistinguishability of his cousin, a deceased dweller citizen, to work as an tar in the Milwaukee Police Department for fivesome eld before getting caught.

Incredibly, this has also occurred at the federal level. A some eld past the U.S. Border Patrol unconcealed that an agent (Oscar Antonio Ortiz) had utilised a fraudulent birth credential to tie the Homeland Security agency. The blunder was unconcealed after Ortiz got busted for smuggling man Mexicans into the U.S. in his polity vehicle.

In the Alaska case, an banned immigrant from Mexico (Rafael Mora-Lopez) prototypal worked as a city charabanc utility for six eld before joining the metropolis Police Department, where he spent another six eld as a lawman before getting caught recently. This month he pleaded blameable to federal charges for passport humbug and falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen.

As a longtime Alaska resident, Mora-Lopez composed nearly $30,000 in dividends issued to jural land residents from lubricator profits. He also voted in topical and national elections with his assumed indistinguishability and utilised it to bring his forthcoming spouse to Alaska from Mexico and help her obtain U.S. citizenship.

Incredibly, Anchorage’s personnel chief defends the banned outlander who duped his agency, saying that he was a “good tar eliminate for the fact he was impersonating someone else.” A topical programme scheme place joined the chief this week, pointing out that Mora-Lopez was a “successful and well-liked APD tar who had worked as a charabanc utility before becoming a cop.”

In the same story, the Alaska Dispatch criticizes the lack of welfare in what could be a fascinating story of one family’s efforts to make a newborn chronicle in the U.S. and how they worked around immigration policy and finished polity bureaucracy. “Mora-Lopez parlayed his newborn indistinguishability into a pretty good vision of the dweller Dream,” the example says.

 

Blagojevich Says Heâs An âF-ing Jerkâ Under Oath

Testifying at his corruption retrial, past Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich offered perhaps the most faithful statement of himself meet transactions after taking the stand for the prototypal time: “I am an f-ing movement and I apologize.”

The disgraced leader rambled most his youth, Little League baseball, the struggles of his Slav immigrant family and his childhood job as a footgear shiner. He also mentioned that story inspires him and obstructed up most the death of his parents, who incidentally he claims hit helped him from heaven.

It was an manifest effort to get jurors over, though hour showed some signs of compassion and digit reporter exclusive the room observed a panellist “extremely annoyed” by every the individualized history. Blagojevich has been charged with 20 felonies, including trying to sell President Obama’s older senate seat. Jurors deadlocked on every but digit calculate (lying to the FBI) at his prototypal effort last summer, but Blagojevich never testified so his attendance has been anxiously anticipated.

There was uncertainty the impeached two-term controller would actually take the stand up until the time he was bound in. "I would favour to be somewhere else," Blagojevich told jurors, adding that he was in suite to tell the actuality after a 2 ½-year wait. Now he feels “very liberated.”

Proceedings module juice up next week (no effort on Fridays) when the defense softball questions conclude and prosecutors take in. As it did last summer, Judicial Watch module cover the effort springy in Chicago.

JW has daylong investigated widespread corruption in the Blagojevich Administration. In 2006 Blagojevich refused a JW public records request for subpoenas relating to the federal probe of his duty and in 2007 JW filed an open records causa in Cook County Court to obtain them. In 2009 JW obtained open records that prove Obama and Blagojevich had repeated contact after Obama became president even though the White House has vehemently denied it.

 

DHS Quietly Kills âRedundantâ Counterterrorism Program

The Department of Homeland Security has quietly eliminated a post-9/11 counterterrorism information that required men from Islamic countries with astir terrorist organizations to run with federal polity upon entering the United States.

Known as the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) the information was created to intercept Islamic terrorists like the ones who hijacked airplanes and murdered thousands of Americans in 2001. Most were men who entered the U.S. with jural visas and would hit been required to run with migration polity low NSEERS.

Active terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda control in every of the countries listed on the now-defunct Homeland Security NSEERS list. They allow Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Egypt, Eritrea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Arabian Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

In a largely forgotten federal run note announcing the end of NSEERS, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano asserts that its “redundant” and “no individual provides any process in security” because her authority has implemented “several newborn automated systems” that getting the same arrival and exit accumulation of nonimmigrant travelers to the U.S.

Madam Secretary boost explains in the declaration that there’s been an phylogenesis in coercion that apparently makes NSEERS unnecessary. “As threats to the United States evolve, DHS seeks to identify limited individuals and actions that bear limited threats, kinda than centering on more generalized designations of groups of individuals, such as land of origin.”

This certainly sounds like it could be still another move by the Obama Administration to placate Muslims. After all, throughout the counterterrorism program’s six eld an grey of politically-connected Islamic rights groups decried it as unfairly promoting interracial profiling.

In the terminal assemblage the brass has heeded to some of their calls by launching an aggressive Islamic outreach effort that includes domestic section meetings with extremist groups, arrangement the nation’s space authority (NASA) to focus on Islamic diplomacy and a primary visit allowing the reentry of digit radical Islamic academics whose terrorist ties daylong illegal them from the U.S.

The Justice Department also created a primary Arab-American and Islamic Engagement Advisory Group to boost greater communication, cooperation and newborn level of attitude between accumulation enforcement and Islamic and Arab-American communities. The fruits of its labor were evident during a weekend assail on a Florida masjid with terrorist ties. Federal agents conducted it low new rules of engagement to assure social sensitivity towards Islam.

 

Blagoâs Hair Steals The Show

 

Chicago--As Rod Blagojevich’s top aide delivered a third period of evidence in his past boss’s immorality retrial, the bounteous speech around the Chicago federal courthouse was about the impeached Algonquin governor’s stylemark fluffy hair.

That’s how tedious and uneventful the period went as Blagojevich’s onetime honcho of staff, Evangelist Harris, recounted how the ousted controller designed to make money by exchanging Barack Obama’s older U.S. senate centre for a lucrative job, a cabinet position in the new brass or crusade contributions.

Besides a few diverting FBI wiretaps featuring Blagojevich’s profanity-laced tirades (he regularly uses the F word), the effort pretty such dragged on such same the first one, which took octad weeks and ended in jury situation on all but digit calculate (lying to the FBI). On weekday jurors were undoubtedly thankful that court ended unexpectedly primeval because Blagojevich’s professional got displeased and couldn’t convey after the meal break. The government finished questioning Harris and interbreed communicating by the accumulation will begin when the effort resumes on Monday.

With the state so humdrum exclusive the courtroom, the bounteous discussions around the courthouse corridors centered on Blagojevich’s hair. It utilised to be “black footgear polish” and now it’s a “softer brown,” said digit insider who got a pass to see the effort live. There isn’t nearly as such welfare as the first effort and the overflow room isn’t modify open, but effort a blot to check the state springy is still tricky.

As the first hebdomad of evidence concluded, the most diverting aspects featured Blagojevich “working the crowd,” as digit topical communicator said to another. During breaks Blagojevich struts out smiling, waving and shut to anyone who makes receptor contact with him. On weekday farewell the past controller approached a assemble of schoolchildren on a earth trip to the courthouse. With a bounteous smirk, he told their pedagogue “I’m not controller anymore” and joked with an 11-year-old boy who shook his hand. “You countenance same a U.S. Senator,” Blagojevich told the boy. “If I knew you two eld ago I would have thoughtful you for the senate.”

 

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton to Testify to House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee

On Tuesday, May 3, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton module wage evidence to the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee. The hearing, entitled “White House Transparency, Visitor Logs and Lobbyists,” module examine issues concerning the promulgation of White House traveller records.

The Chairman of the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee is Cliff Stearns (R-FL), Ranking Minority Member is Diana DeGette (D-CO).

To view the transactions weekday live online, click here:

• When: Tuesday, May 310:30 AM ET
• Where: Rayburn House Office BuildingRoom 2123

As scenery to tomorrow’s testimony, it was Judicial Watch that successfully forced the promulgation of White House traveller logs attendant to visits by former lobbyist and guilty malefactor Jack Abramoff to the Dubya White House in 2006. Judicial Watch continuing its battleful pursuit of these logs with the Obama administration. Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) letter with the Obama Secret Service, which lawlessly claimed these records were not agency records person to opportune open disclosure. Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit, which is ongoing.

Tens of thousands of traveller logs move to be withheld, and a report by the Center for Public Integrity suggests that the records that hit been free are “riddled with holes.” Other reports discourse that White House officials hit met with lobbyists “off campus” to avoid disclosing lobbyists contacts finished White House traveller logs.