Meanwhile, the investigation of Bush’s executive privilege of firing 9 politically apppointed states’ attorneys is still ongoing...
Maybe HuffPo can take up the fight
Secrecy is transparency.
Another Orwellian prophecy that has come true in Chairman Obama’s reign.
Key Republicans in both the House and the Senate are accusing the White House of giving "incomplete and misleading" information to investigators probing the president's abrupt firing of AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin. In return, the White House is hinting that documents concerning its actions in the Walpin affair may be protected by executive privilege.
Here we go again.
Scumbag in Chief wants to cover his tracks, so he claims EP on a matter that has nothing whatsoever to do with the concept.
The leftist media will pretend none of it is happening.
Who in the administration does it point to? Can't seem to find much information on that part of the investigation.
Too bad Nixon never thought of that. Could have saved him...
Isn’t it some sort of a crime to lie to Congress?
This criminal activity didn’t work for Nixon. Why do I get the feeling Hussein will make out a bit better?
I kindly ask, How is this not news? Why was it moved from front page to bloggers? Just curious... as this is a big Obama scandal that the MSM are ignoring, why should FR?
People in all 56 states should be outraged by this!
HERE'S WHAT HE DID Freddie Mac records exempt from FOIA (Obama Admin Denies Request)
Sunlight Foundation | 03/26/2009 | Bill Allison
FR Posted 03/27/2009 by BuckeyeTexan
Journalists Bob Secter and Andrew Zajac of the Chicago Tribune report that, while researching what went at Freddie Mac during the period White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel served on the government sponsored enterprise’s board of directors, they were unable to get minutes of board meetings and other information.
The Obama administration rejected a Tribune request under the Freedom of Information Act to review Freddie Mac board minutes and correspondence during Emanuel’s time as a director. The documents, obtained by Falcon for his investigation, were “commercial information” exempt from disclosure, according to a lawyer for the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Freddie Mac executives cooked the books, mismanaged the firm, and ultimately drove it into the ground, costing taxpayers billions of dollars.
The “commercial information” exemption is reserved for private companies–Freddie Mac is by no means a private company anymore.
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BACKSTORY Rahm Emanuel was director when Freddie Mac board was tipped to fraudulent BONUS scheme "On (Rahm) Emanuel's watch, the board was told by executives of a plan to use accounting tricks to mislead shareholders about outsize profits the government-chartered firm was then reaping from risky investments.
The goal was to push earnings onto the books in future years, ensuring that Freddie Mac would appear profitable on paper for years to come and helping maximize annual bonuses for company brass. The accounting scandal wasn't the only one that brewed during Emanuel's tenure. During his brief time on the board, the company hatched a plan to enhance its political muscle.
That scheme, also reviewed by the board, led to a record $3.8 million fine from the Federal Election Commission for illegally using corporate resources to host fundraisers for politicians. Emanuel was the beneficiary of one of those parties after he left the board and ran in 2002 for a seat in Congress from the North Side of Chicago.
The board was throttled for its acquiescence to the accounting manipulation in a 2003 report by Armando Falcon Jr., head of a federal oversight agency for Freddie Mac. The scandal forced Freddie Mac to restate $5 billion in earnings and pay $585 million in fines and legal settlements.
It also foreshadowed even harder times at the firm. Many of those same risky investment practices tied to the accounting scandal eventually brought the firm to the brink of insolvency and led to its seizure last year by the Bush administration, which pledged to inject up to $100 billion in new capital to keep the firm afloat. The Obama administration has doubled that commitment."
SOURCE http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-rahm-emanuel-profit-26-mar26,0,5682373.story
David Copperfield's ingratiating scoundrel fits Rahm to a tee. Uriah Heep was notorious for wielding undue influence, a manipulative bounder who was always planning and plotting, ingratiating himself into the confidence of others. Uriah Heep was obsequious, manipulative, and wormed his way into positions of influence. Uriah was a consummate con man, and not to be trusted.
Translated into the language of the popular culture, Uriah Heeps, like Rahm, position themselves as amenable to American qualities of compassion, but are insincere in these feelings; he uses important issues to advance his hidden agendas and political ambitions.
Like Uriah Heep, power-hungry Rahm feeds on others, and deploys self-serving strategies for his own self-absorbed purposes.
We conservatives are on to this, and are aware of Whom we serve and watch carefully to see if government promises made to us are empty.
We know this-----Rahm evinces an utter contempt for our culture and is obsessed with party politics. Watch him on TV---Rahm coyly speaks the language to appeal to American values, but he is not a true believer, he is a calculating conniver----a latter-day Uriah Heep.
Let me translate that for any who don’t understand Obamalingo yet:
“the White House is hinting that documents concerning its actions in the Walpin affair may be protected by executive privilege.”
Don’t question the one. He doesn’t want anyone to begin thinking for themselves or questioning his ability to control the masses.
Do as your told, vote as the one demands or be subject to inquiry, firing, media smearing and political sunder.
Watergate II ? If Helen Thomas has had it with the O and his press, she could get on this one big time and give herself a glorious finish to her career. For once in your life Helen do something good.
Don’t-cha-know,
OThuga needs no law nor permission nor sanity.
Treason and destruction are his goals and ways of operating.
It’s the Gestapo waltz . . . with a cheesy smile/smirk . . .
“OFF WITH THEIR HEADS” . . . is just his quirk.