"Death to America!"
Posted on 10/05/2015 10:39:01 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said Monday morning that he is putting a hold on three of President Obama’s ambassadorial nominees until the administration shows it is taking steps to punish Secret Service staff involved in leaking unflattering information about a lawmaker.
“This was apparently a violation of law, and absolutely shocking conduct,” Cotton said in an interview. “The executive branch all the way up to the West Wing needs to treat this with the seriousness it requires.”
Cotton called on Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to “personally attend” to disciplining top Secret Service leaders — specifically including new Director Joseph Clancy — for the leak of personnel information about of Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) from the agency’s files.
Cotton also called on the Department of Justice to conduct a criminal investigation into the matter, which involves Secret Service agents repeatedly accessing and sharing a file showing that Chaffetz had been rejected for a job as a Secret Service agent a decade ago. Accessing and sharing such personnel information, with rare exceptions, is a violation of federal privacy law.
The senator’s hold applies to three nominees who have been waiting for months for the Senate to confirm them — Cassandra Butts, for ambassador to Bahamas; Azita Raji, ambassador to Sweden; and Samuel Heins, ambassador to Norway.
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Secret Service (SS) just doing what the Kenyan-Resident-American President does, except the MSMerde covers for the KRAP.
Hey Congress and SCOTUS there is a REASON 0dunga is always one step ahead of you and ALWAYS gets the outcome he seeks.. Team 0dunga is using the NSA to gather and read EVERY single piece of their email, phone calls, etc.. 0dunga has weaponized the IRS, why not his NSA? It’s a no-brainer, really.
Good for Senator Cotton.
FYI, Obama’s nomination for Ambassador to...Sweden(!) is Iranian: http://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2014/10/27/azita-raji-likely-next-us-ambassador-sweden-indian-american-iranian-american-care/
What a sad commentary when one realizes that the psychotic foreign exchange student is smarter than the Republicrat Congress!
If thats the case, she will soon find out what the “well regulated militia” part of the second amendment is all about.
Its there to make sure the PEOPLE have arms against an oppressive government.
She will find out EXACTLY why the 2nd amendment was established.
What??? I thought I was responding to Hillary Clinton Executive Orders thread.... disregard.
A lot of Iranians in Sweden. Met some myself. This is not an accidental appointment.
"Death to America!"
Uh huh. Whatever. It’ll go down like this:
1) The Secret Service will issue a statement blah, blah, unauthorized out on the Senator, yada, yada, looking into it.
2) Alrighty, here’s your nominations.
Cotton called on Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to “personally attend” to disciplining top Secret Service leaders....
Good for Sen Cotton, but....good luck with that.
I heard about this on Morning in America this morning. Why is this getting zero traction? This is more politically-driven retribution from RATs, i.e. Clinton Filegate and IRS Targeting of Conservatives, etc.
leaking unflattering information about a lawmaker
Yet with all the classified info that Hildabeast has compromised she is still walking around free.
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