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Inquiries Stall as White House Puts Leash on U.S. Watchdogs
NY Times ^ | 11-27-2015 | ERIC LICHTBLAU

Posted on 11/27/2015 8:08:35 AM PST by NRx

WASHINGTON — Justice Department watchdogs ran into an unexpected roadblock last year when they began examining the role of federal drug agents in the fatal shootings of unarmed civilians during raids in Honduras. From Our Advertisers

The Drug Enforcement Administration balked at turning over emails from senior officials tied to the raids, according to the department’s inspector general. It took nearly a year of wrangling before the D.E.A. was willing to turn over all its records in a case that the inspector general said raised “serious questions” about agents’ use of deadly force.

The continuing Honduran inquiry is one of at least 20 investigations across the government that have been slowed, stymied or sometimes closed because of a long-simmering dispute between the Obama administration and its own watchdogs over the shrinking access of inspectors general to confidential records, according to records and interviews.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dea; doj; inspectorgeneral; obama; watchdogs; whitehouse

1 posted on 11/27/2015 8:08:35 AM PST by NRx
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To: NRx

NYT not 100% on board with Emperor b.o.’s oppressive, lawless regime?


2 posted on 11/27/2015 8:12:48 AM PST by Calpublican (Boehner minus the alcohol andThey range spray tan= Ryan.)
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To: Calpublican; Nachum; SunkenCiv

IRS + stonewalling and denial = OK
Justice Dept + stonewalling and denial = Ok
DOD + stonewalling and denial = OK

What’s not to rinse, wash, and repeat?


3 posted on 11/27/2015 8:18:08 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: NRx

I had an encounter with the DEA. Can’t say about the rest of the Agency, but that guy really was a thug and a total a-hole.
I was the victim of a crime, and after working my graveyard shift I went to the local D.A. to report on the perp not paying me the restitution ordered by the court. While waiting, some big guy walks by and gives me the hairy eyeball. Then he invites me into an office to “wait” for the D.A. He then said my eyes “looked funny” and I better tell him what I’m on or I’m going to jail RFN!. All this while resting his palm on the butt of his big ‘ol S&W. After the shock wore off, I told him my eyes “looked funny” because I just worked all night, and if he wanted to arrest me he would make me rich.
Moral of the story: I wouldn’t pass water on a DEA agent if he was on fire.


4 posted on 11/27/2015 8:24:06 AM PST by W.Lee
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To: NRx

People will never believe what Obama was really doing


5 posted on 11/27/2015 8:30:31 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: NRx

Typical tyranny. Clown Prince nobama has no clothes!


6 posted on 11/27/2015 8:35:11 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: NRx

Civilians in Honduras. If they’re that concerned, then get a warrant.


7 posted on 11/27/2015 9:02:40 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: NRx

Right out of South America.

Only a corruptocracy goes after the internal watchdogs.


8 posted on 11/27/2015 9:53:53 AM PST by Regulator
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To: NRx

I recall in the beginning of the Obama travesty the talking points were referenced to the new “ruler”, the new “ready to rule” Obama administration.

It’s apparent although we don’t hear the Democrats say it anymore that the players within the administration still believe they are a ruling entity.

“Rulers” have the ability to manipulate the rules to their liking, and that’s apparently what Obama, and company are doing under the guise of, and as the “Rulers” of this country.

The whole lot of them should have been impeached, thrown out of office, and imprisoned along with those that manipulated the information the American citizenry were subjected to that got the bastard into office in the first place. The whole Obama administration from the start has been nothing less than pre meditated fraud.


9 posted on 11/27/2015 12:21:39 PM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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