Posted By Robby Soave On 9:01 AM 11/22/2013 In | President Obama’s refusal to allow journalists to photograph him at key events has now drawn the ire of the White House Correspondents’ Association, which joined other media outlets in sending… Read More ›
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Obama was briefed earlier in year on health website problems
Source: Reuters – Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:17 AM Author: Reuters (Adds details of report and quotes from hearing) By Roberta Rampton and Caren Bohan WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, who has portrayed himself as surprised by… Read More ›
Obama’s tech expert too busy fixing website to testify
Source: Reuters – Fri, 8 Nov 2013 02:19 AM Author: Reuters (Recasts with Park asking for delay due to work on website) WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) – The chief technology officer for the White House is willing to testify to… Read More ›
Obama Secret Service Agent: “Things are much worse than Americans can even imagine”
Wednesday, 06 November 2013 You may have your suspicions about what’s going on behind closed doors at the White House. But according to one of US President Obama’s former body guards it’s much worse than Americans can even imagine…. Read More ›
Obama denies promising Americans they could absolutely keep their healthcare plans, but video shows him making that pledge – 29 times!
Obama suddenly pivoted Monday night, adding conditions to his pledge that no one would lose insurance plans that they liked The Affordable Care Act requires policies to include a set of coverage items including maternity and pediatric care, whether or… Read More ›
Spain and France’s intelligence agencies carried out collection of phone records and shared them with NSA, agency says
NSA spy row: France and Spain ‘shared phone data’ with US By Raf Sanchez, Peter Foster in Washington 8:35PM GMT 29 Oct 2013 European intelligence agencies and not American spies were responsible for the mass collection of phone records which… Read More ›
Obama administration knew millions could not keep their health insurance / “40 to 67 percent” of customers will not be able to keep their policy”
News networks buzzed late on Friday as they discovered what NBC had found: evidence that the Obama administration has known for three years that the president’s promise simply couldn’t be kept. This example, from July 19, 2010, hit the Internet… Read More ›
Senator Dianne Feinstein claims eavesdropping on phone callls is not surveillance, nor is it protected under the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches.
‘No phone call, no Internet transaction, isn’t recorded by the NSA’: Edward Snowden fires back at U.S. government surveillance denials Senator Dianne Feinstein claimed that the NSA’s phone-tracking is benign Whistle-blower Snowden said in a statement that it is pervasive… Read More ›
White House admits it was behind rumor that GOP leader told Obama ‘I cannot even stand to look at you’ during tense government shutdown meeting
By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor PUBLISHED: 09:28 EST, 24 October 2013 | UPDATED: 15:11 EST, 24 October 2013 Senator Dick Durbin claimed that a senior Republican House member blew up at President Obama during tense government-shutdown talks… Read More ›
White House mole fired for sniping Twitter account ‘also tweeted about soliciting prostitutes’
Jofi Joseph is a director of non-proliferation section of the National Security Staff at the White House He admitted to being the author of the blistering @NatSecWonk account Now he is believed to be connected to a second parody account… Read More ›
White House official fired over anonymous tweets ( Claimed Hillary was Whitewashing Benghazi )
Source: Reuters – Wed, 23 Oct 2013 03:50 AM Author: Reuters (Fixes Twitter links) By Roberta Rampton and Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) – A senior White House official who was helping negotiate nuclear issues with Iran has been… Read More ›
Obamacare sites pirated copyrighted web scripts
Published time: October 18, 2013 16:52 Edited time: October 19, 2013 17:40 Screenshot from healthcare.gov The list of complaints waged at the White House over its Healthcare.gov site continues to grow, but the latest incident involving the online home… Read More ›
White House blocks stamps meant to commemorate Michelle’s Let’s Move campaign because ‘skateboarding’ is unsafe
USPS destroys stamps, concerned they show kids doing unsafe activities The USPS stamps were created as part of the President’s Council on Fitness Sports and Nutrition First Lady Michelle Obama had the final say as they were designed to compliment… Read More ›
Suppress the press: The Obama administration’s history of targeting the media
Posted By Jeff Poor and Vince Coglianese On 2:13 AM 05/20/2013 In Politics | The usually-cocksure Jay Carney has rarely appeared so uncomfortable. “What I can tell you is that this president believes strongly in the First Amendment and is… Read More ›
White House, IRS exchanged confidential taxpayer info
Posted By Patrick Howley On 1:17 PM 10/09/2013 In Politics Top Internal Revenue Service Obamacare official Sarah Hall Ingram discussed confidential taxpayer information with senior Obama White House officials, according to 2012 emails obtained by the House Oversight and Government… Read More ›
Carter: American ‘Middle Class’ lives in Poverty
Tuesday, 08 October 2013 Former US President Jimmy Carter said Monday that the income gap in the United States has increased to the point where members of the middle class resemble the Americans who lived in poverty when… Read More ›
Obama admin. knew about WWII veterans’ request and rejected it
Posted By Charles C. Johnson On 5:20 PM 10/01/2013 In US | The White House and the Department of the Interior rejected a request from Rep. Steven Palazzo’s office to have World War II veterans visit the World War II… Read More ›
As U.S. shutdown drags on, House votes to pay idled workers ( Huge Paid Vacation )
EEV: So, if they get Full pay, then why are they not working? Source: Reuters – Sat, 5 Oct 2013 03:45 PM Author: Reuters By Thomas Ferraro and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Democrats and Republicans in the… Read More ›
Oops… its ANOTHER Biden blunder: Vice President unwittingly reveals cover of codeword-classified document
By Simon Tomlinson PUBLISHED: 07:08 EST, 2 October 2013 | UPDATED: 07:45 EST, 2 October 2013 He’s well known for his verbal gaffes – now Joe Biden is in the spotlight for making a visual one. The U.S. Vice… Read More ›
Barack Obama is political king of the fake Twitter followers, with more than 19.5 MILLION online fans who don’t really exist
By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor PUBLISHED: 15:58 EST, 24 September 2013 | UPDATED: 20:57 EST, 24 September 2013 Fakest of the fake? Barack Obama’s Twitter following includes 19.5 million people who don’t exist, and the first lady has… Read More ›