[mrsmith]

Obama is all for ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ when it comes to donations.

[cookcounty]

Obama's love of Untraceable Crimes:

Exhibit 1: Intentional set-up of untraceability in donations.

Exhibit 2: All-out war against picture ID's in voting.

Exhibit 3: Fast and Furious, weapons walked without surveillance or electronic monitoring.

[Missouri gal]

As with most taxpayer-funded agencies, we pay for it, the crooks get the benefit. My perception of FEC since the Clinton years is that it works solely on behalf of Democrats. Doesn’t seem to matter who’s in the White House, as far as that goes. Same for most other fed agencies.

That said, some new regs are needed to control this. No lower limit is exempt from checking source. Secure donations only. Use various tracking tech to make sure it’s domestic and within limits. And SOMEBODY audit FEC!

[Gideon7]

The key to uncovering this scandal is finding the identity of the card-acquirer bank that is enabling Obama for America to skate on not using AVS and CVV.

The identity of the Obama campaign’s card-acquirer bank seems to be a closely held secret. I’ve been searching high and low since 2008 and nobody seems to know.

[Gideon7]

I thought of one way: File a FOI request to see the campaign’s TY2012 IRS Form 1099-K.

Form 1099-K is a new IRS form for tax year 2012. Every card-acquiring bank is required to send one to every US merchant that accepts credit cards. It will have the bank’s name, address, and EIN on it.

Downside: The 1099-K doesn’t have to be sent by the bank until 2013/01/31 :-(

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The name Robert W. Roche appears 11 times in the White House visitors log during the Obama administration. Roche also sits on the Obama administration’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations, and is a co-chair of Technology for Obama, a fundraising effort. (In an email exchange, Roche declined to discuss his website, or his support for the Obama reelection effort, referring the inquiries to the Obama campaign team. The Obama campaign, in turn, says it has no control over Roche’s website; it also says only 2 percent of the donations associated with Obama.com come from overseas.)

BUMP!