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Jodi Arias claims the death penalty would be a victory for vengeance, not Lady Justice. The convicted murderer retracted her previous appeals for death and begged the jury for her life Tuesday.
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She lost her rights to life and any other chance at freedom. If she wanted to be a positive contribution to society she should have thought about that before she mutilated, tortured, stabbed, shot and slit the throat of Travis Alexander during her fit of rage. I wish the same torture and suffering upon her and then her execution. May she rot in hell!
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Remember when Obama and Holder went after Gibson Guitars & not the competitors for the same product?
Remember Obama and Eric Holder's attack on Gibson Guitars? Back in 2009 the Obama regime raided Gibson Guitars and demanded that its woodwork labor be done overseas.
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Chinese hackers accessed sensitive U.S. government information on surveillance targets when they breached Google servers in 2010, it has now emerged.
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Anything is possible with this incompetent admin, but it could also be a way for the Obama admin to declare a national security breach and give them a reason to control the internet further
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As a result, every officer in England and Wales must formally report any friendship outside his workplace with a journalist.
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A family of four that included a baby has emerged as casualties of the monster tornado that has claimed at least 91 lives in Oklahoma, a new report has revealed.
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Raw Stormchaser Video: Moore, OK Devastating Tornado;Along W/Updates http://sco.lt/6iCKhd ;
Latest updates as of 12:34AM MST 5/21/13:
RT @littlebytesnews: #breaking #news Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office told to expect about 40 more bodies - @cnnbrk http://t.co/6WsSPbFNn5 ;
ChaseThomasonMay 20, 10:17pm via Twitter for iPhone
Severe T-storm Watch has been issued for parts of central, southern & eastern Oklahoma till 7AM. Includes Moore. http://pic.twitter.com/sNmyfeau8V
Retweeted by littlebytesnewsredcrossokc May 20, 2:19pm via Twitter for iPhoneLet others know you're okay! Very critical in search & rescue efforts. #ok #okwx http://safeandwell.communityos.org/cms/index.php
RT @littlebytesnews: #breaking #news Reports indicate city of Moore, Oklahoma, has no running water; crews working to fix as soon as po... http://t.co/RvMVwTn8QL
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As the injured began flooding into local hospitals, the authorities said many remained trapped, even as rescue workers struggled to make their way through debris-clogged streets to the devastated suburb of Moore, where much of the damage occurred. Amy Elliott, the spokeswoman for the Oklahoma City Medical Examiner, said that at least 37 people had died, and officials said that toll was likely to climb.[LBN:the number of confirmed deaths has risen to 51 http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50147261n according to the state medical examiner; of those 20 are children found at Plaza Elemementary School http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/national/~3/H6Xyje_T-N8/ ]
At Briarwood Elementary school in Oklahoma City on the border with Moore, cars were thrown through the façade and the roof was torn off. A short distance away, at Plaza Towers Elementary school here rescue workers struggled to tear through rubble amid reports the dozens students remained trapped.
While there was no official confirmation of fatalities, local media citing witnesses said rescue workers had begun to pull bodies from the rubble at various locations.
“Numerous neighborhoods completely leveled,” Sgt. Gary Knight of the Oklahoma City Police Department said by telephone. “Neighborhoods just wiped clean.”
Sergeant Knight said debris and damage to roadways along with heavy traffic were was hindering emergency responders, who continue to race to the affected areas.Brooke Cayot, a spokeswoman for the Integris Southwest Medical Center in Oklahoma City, said that as of 5:48 Central Time the hospital had received 33 patients. Of those 10 were listed in critical condition, 10 in serious and 12 in fair or good. Many more patients were expected.“They’ve been coming in minute by minute,” Ms. Cayot said.Read the full story here, more here.
read more....http://www.mfs-theothernews.com/2013/05/monstrous-oklahoma-tornado-as-much-as.html
Earlier reports said some children may be accounted for at a temporary shelter at St Andrews Methodist Church;they are hoping the number of children dead/missing will go down. Currently the number of fatalities confirmed overall is 51, but that total is expected to rise as the search and recovery continues through the night.
Keep OK in your prayers tonight, especially those parents who lost their beautiful children :( I pray the number of injured/dead goes down and more are found alive and well.
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Massive tornado Moore Oklahoma May 20, 2013 - KFOR Coverage | http://sco.lt/4wKTAX
Up to TWENTY-FOUR children feared dead in rubble of flattened elementary school after giant TWO-MILE torn... http://sco.lt/6ujz0r
Horror! Trapped People Call For Help in Moore, Oklahoma (Video) http://sco.lt/8ivwAr ;
Video: Raw: Aftermath of massive tornado in Oklahoma...believed to be an E4-E5 per reports | http://sco.lt/5FTZIn ;
RT @mchastain81: SEND THEM! RT THIS! #OKWX RT @Jimi971: ...Police are in need of wreckers in #Moore #PrayForOklahoma
RT @littlebytesnews: #breaking #news Photo shows massive destruction in Moore, Oklahoma - @nbcnightlynewshttp://t.co/q6urhs60du //Massive destruction in Moore, OK after mile wide tornado hits...roads are blocked, cell towers off, schools leveled...frantic search for survivors....some students may have still been in one of the schools according to Fox News report. Pray for OK!
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#breaking #news Structure on fire in Moore, Oklahoma, after tornado moves through area - @kfor live video http://ht.ly/2x1sPu
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New potentially tornadic storms forming west of the DFW Texas area:http://wxug.us/144qd via @wunderground #TORNADO#TEXAS
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DAMAGE REPORTED: Tornado bearing down on Meeker, Okla. -@NEWS9 http://pic.twitter.com/kJ6x4vFud4
RT @colormered: Very dangerous storm moving northeast north of Tulsa, OK toward Talala and Nowata, OK:http://t.co/3MxYydVis2 via@wunderground
RT @colormered: "This is where the horse stalls were.... A lot of the animals didn't make it through the storm."http://t.co/ocGF9Mqa0t via@nycjim
RT @ap: School suffers 'extensive damage' after taking direct hit from tornado in Moore, Okla., police say: http://t.co/N3PTon5adh -RJJ ;
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Large, violent tornado plowed through Moore, OK. We intercepted the tornado from within a half mile by South Moore High School. Complete destruction...prayer...
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Latest updates as of 12:34AM MST 5/21/13:
RT @littlebytesnews: #breaking #news Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office told to expect about 40 more bodies - @cnnbrk http://t.co/6WsSPbFNn5 ;
ChaseThomasonMay 20, 10:17pm via Twitter for iPhone
Severe T-storm Watch has been issued for parts of central, southern & eastern Oklahoma till 7AM. Includes Moore. http://pic.twitter.com/sNmyfeau8V
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crossokc May 20, 2:19pm via Twitter for iPhone
Let others know you're okay! Very critical in search & rescue efforts. #ok #okwx http://safeandwell.communityos.org/cms/index.php
RT @littlebytesnews: #breaking #news Reports indicate city of Moore, Oklahoma, has no running water; crews working to fix as soon as po... http://t.co/RvMVwTn8QL
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As the injured began flooding into local hospitals, the authorities said many remained trapped, even as rescue workers struggled to make their way through debris-clogged streets to the devastated suburb of Moore, where much of the damage occurred. Amy Elliott, the spokeswoman for the Oklahoma City Medical Examiner, said that at least 37 people had died, and officials said that toll was likely to climb.[LBN:the number of confirmed deaths has risen to 51 http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50147261n according to the state medical examiner; of those 20 are children found at Plaza Elemementary School http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/21/medical-examiner-at-least-20-children-among-51-people-killed-by-oklahoma/ ]
At Briarwood Elementary school in Oklahoma City on the border with Moore, cars were thrown through the façade and the roof was torn off. A short distance away, at Plaza Towers Elementary school here rescue workers struggled to tear through rubble amid reports the dozens students remained trapped.
While there was no official confirmation of fatalities, local media citing witnesses said rescue workers had begun to pull bodies from the rubble at various locations.
“Numerous neighborhoods completely leveled,” Sgt. Gary Knight of the Oklahoma City Police Department said by telephone. “Neighborhoods just wiped clean.”
Sergeant Knight said debris and damage to roadways along with heavy traffic were was hindering emergency responders, who continue to race to the affected areas.Brooke Cayot, a spokeswoman for the Integris Southwest Medical Center in Oklahoma City, said that as of 5:48 Central Time the hospital had received 33 patients. Of those 10 were listed in critical condition, 10 in serious and 12 in fair or good. Many more patients were expected.“They’ve been coming in minute by minute,” Ms. Cayot said.Read the full story here, more here.
read more....http://www.mfs-theothernews.com/2013/05/monstrous-oklahoma-tornado-as-much-as.html
Earlier reports said some children may be accounted for at a temporary shelter at St Andrews Methodist Church;they are hoping the number of children dead/missing will go down. Currently the number of fatalities confirmed overall is 51, but that total is expected to rise as the search and recovery continues through the night.
Keep OK in your prayers tonight, especially those parents who lost their beautiful children :( I pray the number of injured/dead goes down and more are found alive and well.
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Massive tornado Moore Oklahoma May 20, 2013 - KFOR Coverage | http://sco.lt/4wKTAX
Up to TWENTY-FOUR children feared dead in rubble of flattened elementary school after giant TWO-MILE torn... http://sco.lt/6ujz0r ;
Horror! Trapped People Call For Help in Moore, Oklahoma (Video) http://sco.lt/8ivwAr ;
Video: Raw: Aftermath of massive tornado in Oklahoma...believed to be an E4-E5 per reports | http://sco.lt/5FTZIn ;
RT @mchastain81: SEND THEM! RT THIS! #OKWX RT @Jimi971: ...Police are in need of wreckers in #Moore #PrayForOklahoma
RT @littlebytesnews: #breaking #news Photo shows massive destruction in Moore, Oklahoma - @nbcnightlynews http://t.co/q6urhs60du
//Massive destruction in Moore, OK after mile wide tornado hits...roads are blocked, cell towers off, schools leveled...frantic search for survivors....some students may have still been in one of the schools according to Fox News report. Pray for OK!
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#breaking #news Photo shows massive destruction in Moore, Oklahoma - @nbcnightlynews http://ht.ly/2x1sPv
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#breaking #news Structure on fire in Moore, Oklahoma, after tornado moves through area - @kfor live video http://ht.ly/2x1sPu
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#breaking #news Oklahoma City police tell @NBCNews 'major damage' in southern portion of Oklahoma City following t...http://ht.ly/2x1sPt
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ColorMeRed 2:34pm via Web
New potentially tornadic storms forming west of the DFW Texas area:http://wxug.us/144qd via @wunderground #TORNADO#TEXAS
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DAMAGE REPORTED: Tornado bearing down on Meeker, Okla. -@NEWS9 http://pic.twitter.com/kJ6x4vFud4
RT @colormered: Very dangerous storm moving northeast north of Tulsa, OK toward Talala and Nowata, OK:http://t.co/3MxYydVis2 via@wunderground
RT @colormered: "This is where the horse stalls were.... A lot of the animals didn't make it through the storm."http://t.co/ocGF9Mqa0t via@nycjim
RT @ap: School suffers 'extensive damage' after taking direct hit from tornado in Moore, Okla., police say: http://t.co/N3PTon5adh ;
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Here's the thing -- imagine what we don't know about what this thug administration is doing. The goon-in-chief needs to go, but if, like Al Capone, the IRS is the way to throw the bum out (despite myriad impeachable offenses), so be it.
It's not as if the media or investigative arms of the government are exposing these scandals. It was the former IRS chief Lois Lerner who dropped the IRS bombshell in a planted question during a lawyers’ conference earlier this month. The IRS broke the IRS story in the Friday (in a night news dump, of course).
Reverend Jeremiah "God damn America" Wright, Obama's long time hate preacher, got special treatment from the demagogue-in-chief.
Chief IRS Counsel Got Jeremiah Wright's Church out of IRS Probe Before Joining Agency ByMatthew Boyle
News reports from the time indicate the now-chief counsel of the IRS, William Wilkins, helped a church connected to President Barack Obama’s friend Rev. Jeremiah Wrightget out of an IRS probe in 2008 while working as a private attorney.
“Lawyers from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have won the dismissal of an IRS case against United Church of Christ, Sen. Barack Obama's denomination,” The American Lawyer’s Zach Lowe wrote on May 22, 2008.
The IRS initiated an investigation early this year after a speech by Obama at a 50th anniversary celebration of the church last June. It was a reference by Obama to his presidential candidacy in a talk otherwise focused on faith that caught the agency's attention. Tax laws prohibit non-profits--including churches--from engaging in political speech or promoting candidates. The IRS can withdraw an organization's tax-free status if the organization is found to violate the rule.Lowe noted that Obama had been a “member of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago--a UCC congregation--for more than 20 years. The church has been in the headlines for several months now as the congregation lead by the controversial Reverend Jeremiah Wright.”
William Wilkins, then a WilmerHale law firm partner, said, “We were so interested in the case we offered to do it pro bono."
Lowe wrote that Wilkins and other firm lawyers worked with the church’s national counsel, Donald Clark, and proved they had invited Obama to the event before he announced his candidacy for president. “Evidence presented in a letter sent to the IRS in late March pointed to ground rules the organization had established for Obama's visit; the church even cautioned churchgoers against engaging in any political activity,” Lowe wrote. “Had the IRS pursued the matter, it would have raised serious questions about the First Amendment's application to church activities, Wilkins says.”
When President Obama nominated Wilkins to be the IRS’s chief counsel on April 17, 2009, his White House cited Wilkins’ experience as an attorney on issues relating to tax-exempt status organization. “He has a broad tax practice that includes counseling nonprofit organizations, business entities, and investment funds on tax compliance, business transactions, and government investigations,” according to the White House release announcing Wilkins' nomination.
Prior to joining WilmerHale, Wilkins was Staff Director and Chief Counsel of the United States Senate Committee on Finance. Wilkins joined the Democratic staff of the Committee in 1981 and served as tax counsel before becoming Staff Director and Chief Counsel in 1987.
In the release, which included the announcement of a second Treasury Department nominee, President Obama himself said he was "confident in the abilities of these two fine public servants as we work to turn our economy around and give American families the relief they need during these difficult times. Under the leadership of Secretary Geithner, they will work to serve the American people and bring their unique areas of expertise to the job as we work to put America on the path to prosperity."
Upon the resignation of Steven Miller, several news outlets have pointed out that Wilkins will likely become a public target of congressional investigators digging into the scandal surrounding the IRS’s targeting of conservative and Tea Party organizations.
Reuters wrote that GOP lawmakers’ aides said their bosses will soon “focus” on Wilkins as they “seek to determine whether the White House acted improperly.”
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Not surprising, anti-Americans, illegals and Islamists get a pass in the Obama administration. They are above the law in the administration that ignores the rule of law when it's convenient to them.
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DRamsey: Free Press Is Now Under Attack By The Obama Administration. Learn more about
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Obama says he was doing everything he could, and Panetta says we didn't react more strongly because we weren't sure what was going on.
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Duh, so they told help to stand down so that nobody could be rescued?? Talk about incompetence or dereliction of duty.
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The timeline for when senior White House officials knew about the IRS scandal seems to be shifting.
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Liars will always get caught with their pants on fire....
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As hail thundered down and heavy winds began whipping the area of Moore, a storm warning went off just before 3pm local time, warning the 170,000 residents within the area to seek shelter.
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Latest report says some children may be accounted for at a temporary shelter at St Andrews Methodist Church;they are hoping the number of children dead/missing will go down. Currently the number of fatalities confirmed overall is 51, but that total is expected to rise as the search and recovery continues through the night.
Keep OK in your prayers tonight, especially those parents who lost their beautiful children :( I pray the number of injured/dead goes down and more are found alive and well.
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Horror! Trapped People Call For Help in Moore, Oklahoma (Video) http://sco.lt/8ivwAr ;
Video: Raw: Aftermath of massive tornado in Oklahoma...believed to be an E4-E5 per reports | http://sco.lt/5FTZIn ;
RT @mchastain81: SEND THEM! RT THIS! #OKWX RT @Jimi971: ...Police are in need of wreckers in #Moore #PrayForOklahoma
RT @littlebytesnews: #breaking #news Photo shows massive destruction in Moore, Oklahoma - @nbcnightlynewshttp://t.co/q6urhs60du //Massive destruction in Moore, OK after mile wide tornado hits...roads are blocked, cell towers off, schools leveled...frantic search for survivors....some students may have still been in one of the schools according to Fox News report. Pray for OK!
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#breaking #news Photo shows massive destruction in Moore, Oklahoma - @nbcnightlynews http://ht.ly/2x1sPv
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#breaking #news Structure on fire in Moore, Oklahoma, after tornado moves through area - @kfor live video http://ht.ly/2x1sPu
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#breaking #news Oklahoma City police tell @NBCNews 'major damage' in southern portion of Oklahoma City following t...http://ht.ly/2x1sPt
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ColorMeRed 2:34pm via Web
New potentially tornadic storms forming west of the DFW Texas area:http://wxug.us/144qd via @wunderground #TORNADO#TEXAS
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DAMAGE REPORTED: Tornado bearing down on Meeker, Okla. -@NEWS9 http://pic.twitter.com/kJ6x4vFud4
RT @colormered: Very dangerous storm moving northeast north of Tulsa, OK toward Talala and Nowata, OK:http://t.co/3MxYydVis2 via@wunderground
RT @colormered: "This is where the horse stalls were.... A lot of the animals didn't make it through the storm."http://t.co/ocGF9Mqa0t via@nycjim
RT @ap: School suffers 'extensive damage' after taking direct hit from tornado in Moore, Okla., police say: http://t.co/N3PTon5adh -RJJ ;
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The middle of a leveled neighborhood. Trapped people are calling for help. This Vine video was posted by David Massey who lives two miles from the destruction.
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At least 30 people may be dead in Plaza Towers Elementary School;already seven students bodies recovered in pool of water below the debris of the school...likely drowned.
State med examiner reports up to 37 confirmed dead;expect death toll to rise :( per AP
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Live Streaming Tornado updates: http://kfor.com/on-air/live-streaming/ via KFOR OK City, OK..Plaza Towers Elem Rescue
Video: Raw: Aftermath of massive tornado in Oklahoma...believed to be an E4-E5 per reports | http://sco.lt/5FTZIn ;
RT @mchastain81: SEND THEM! RT THIS! #OKWX RT @Jimi971: ...Police are in need of wreckers in #Moore #PrayForOklahoma
RT @littlebytesnews: #breaking #news Photo shows massive destruction in Moore, Oklahoma - @nbcnightlynews http://t.co/q6urhs60du //Massive destruction in Moore, OK after mile wide tornado hits...roads are blocked, cell towers off, schools leveled...frantic search for survivors....some students may have still been in one of the schools according to Fox News report. Pray for OK!
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#breaking #news Photo shows massive destruction in Moore, Oklahoma - @nbcnightlynews http://ht.ly/2x1sPv
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#breaking #news Structure on fire in Moore, Oklahoma, after tornado moves through area - @kfor live video http://ht.ly/2x1sPu
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#breaking #news Oklahoma City police tell @NBCNews 'major damage' in southern portion of Oklahoma City following t...http://ht.ly/2x1sPt
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ColorMeRed 2:34pm via Web
New potentially tornadic storms forming west of the DFW Texas area:http://wxug.us/144qd via @wunderground #TORNADO#TEXAS
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DAMAGE REPORTED: Tornado bearing down on Meeker, Okla. -@NEWS9 http://pic.twitter.com/kJ6x4vFud4
RT @colormered: Very dangerous storm moving northeast north of Tulsa, OK toward Talala and Nowata, OK: http://t.co/3MxYydVis2 via@wunderground
RT @colormered: "This is where the horse stalls were.... A lot of the animals didn't make it through the storm." http://t.co/ocGF9Mqa0t via@nycjim
RT @ap: School suffers 'extensive damage' after taking direct hit from tornado in Moore, Okla., police say: http://t.co/N3PTon5adh -RJJ ;
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Cincinnati's Fox 19 TV has identified six IRS workers that worked on the stymied Tea Party group applications. According to the report, as the tax-exempt cases were delayed, they would have generated
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They must all be arrested, along with Lerner, Ingram, Holder, and eventually Obama!! The whole admin is rotten from the inside out and top to bottom!
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Tommy Christopher of Mediaite had a rather much ado about nothing post on May 16 concerning Martin Bashir's show, where he – and Joy Reid of the Grio – forced Republican strategist Ron Christie t
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Liberals don't know how to take personal responsibility for anything, it's no wonder they support abortion and other immoral actions when there is no accountability or responsibility taken for anything they do.
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That IRS thing? The White House employed its “Don’t tell Dad” policy.
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From the WP "In fact, it increasingly appears that just about everyone knew about the Treasury Department inspector general’s report, which was released May 14, on the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of tea party groups for special scrutiny of their applications for tax-exempt status.
But under the administration’s “Don’t tell Dad” policy, no one bothered to tell Obama or give him even a general briefing before he read about the report in the hated media."
Pretty pathetic policy to have, especially when you are the President of the US. Obama is the Commander in Chief, the CEO of the Nation, so to speak. In any other company or position he would be fired for not knowing what is going on below him. Then to top it off half the people who are below him, also claim the "I know nothing'' defense.
It's time for this stonewalling to end and time for this administration to take responsibility and be held accountable for their lack of leadrship and incompetence. It is complete dereliction of duty for them to claim to know nothing when it is apparent many others knew something before the POTUS about the IRS scandal, the AP and Benghazi scandals.
Those with nothing to hide will tell the truth....it's only those with something to hide who will lie.
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A woman whose home was flattened by a deadly tornado in Oklahoma City was reunited with her dog as a CBS crew recorded an interview with her. More on the tor...
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A moment of hope and inspiration after one of the worst disasters we've ever seen. Thank God after all the destruction and loss of life, there were moments like this and moments of hope where children were rescued from the Plaza Tower Elementary School and not as many were killed as initially reported. Still it's tragic to know so many have lost everything they own, their homes and belongings, while at least 9 children lost their lives and 15 others perished. Hopefully no others lose their lives and more survivors are still found during the recovery efforts.
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The storm tore off the roof of a school, reportedly killing seven children sheltering in the basement, though others were rescued.
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An earlier report on Fox News said the roof collapsed in the school at Palm Tower Elementary and while students were seeking shelter in the main hallway as they were told, the roof collapsed, trapping them and waterlines broke which eventually caused them to drown.
Why wasn't there an underground bunker/storm shelter at the school??
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Michael Clemente is the executive Vice President of News for Fox News. Clemente issued a statement after it was learned that Obama/Eric Holder's DOJ not only spied on James Rosen, but also William La Jeunesse & producer Mike Levine.
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Excerpted from WAPO
Chinese hackers who breached Google’s servers several years ago gained access to a sensitive database with years’ worth of information about U.S. surveillance targets, according to current and former government officials.
The breach appears to have been aimed at unearthing the identities of Chinese intelligence operatives in the United States who may have been under surveillance by American law enforcement agencies.
It’s unclear how much the hackers were able to discover. But former U.S. officials familiar with the breach said the Chinese stood to gain valuable intelligence. The database included information about court orders authorizing surveillance — orders that could have signaled active espionage investigations into Chinese agents who maintained e-mail accounts through Google’s Gmail service.
“Knowing that you were subjects of an investigation allows them to take steps to destroy information, get people out of the country,” said one former official, who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a highly sensitive matter. The official said the Chinese could also have sought to deceive U.S. intelligence officials by conveying false or misleading information.
Although Google disclosed an intrusion by Chinese hackers in 2010, it made no reference to the breach of the database with information on court orders. That breach prompted deep concerns in Washington and led to a heated, months-long dispute between Google and the FBI and Justice Department over whether the FBI could access technical logs and other information about the breach, according to the officials.
Google declined to comment for this article, as did the FBI.
Last month, a senior Microsoft official suggested that Chinese hackers had targeted the company’s servers about the same time that Google’s system was compromised. The official said Microsoft concluded that whoever was behind the breach was seeking to identify accounts that had been tagged for surveillance by U.S. national security and law enforcement agencies.
“What we found was the attackers were actually looking for the accounts that we had lawful wiretap orders on,” David W. Aucsmith, senior director of Microsoft’s Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments, said at a conference near Washington, according to a recording of his remarks.
“If you think about this, this is brilliant counterintelligence,” he said in the address, which was first reported by the online magazine CIO.com. “You have two choices: If you want to find out if your agents, if you will, have been discovered, you can try to break into the FBI to find out that way. Presumably that’s difficult. Or you can break into the people that the courts have served paper on and see if you can find it that way. That’s essentially what we think they were trolling for, at least in our case.”
Microsoft now disputes that its servers had been compromised as part of the cyberespionage campaign that targeted Google and about 20 other companies. Aucsmith, who cited that campaign in his remarks, said in a statement to The Washington Post that his comments were “not meant to cite any specific Microsoft analysis or findings about motive or attacks.”
The U.S. government has been concerned about Chinese hacking since at least the early 2000s, when network intrusions were discovered at U.S. energy labs and defense contractors. The FBI has for years led a national security investigation into Chinese cyberespionage, some of which has been linked to the Chinese military.
The Chinese, according to government, academic and industry analysts, have stolen massive volumes of data from companies in sectors including defense, technology, aerospace, and oil and gas. Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency, has referred to the theft of proprietary data as the “greatest transfer of wealth in history.”
The Chinese emphatically deny that they are engaged in hacking into U.S. computer systems and have said that many intrusions into their own networks emanate from servers in the United States.
“The Chinese government prohibits online criminal offenses of all forms, including cyber attack and cyber espionage, and has done what it can to combat such activities in accordance with Chinese laws,” a Chinese Embassy spokesman, Yuan Gao, said in an e-mail. “We’ve heard all kinds of allegations but have not seen any hard evidence or proof.”
Experts said an elaborate network of interconnected routers and servers can make the Internet tailor-made for the shadowy work of spying and counterspying. It stands to reason, they said, that adversaries would be interested in finding vulnerabilities in the networks of the companies that authorize surveillance on behalf of the government.
“It is an absolute rule of thumb that the best counterintelligence tool isn’t defensive — it’s offensive. It’s penetrating the other service,” said Michael V. Hayden, a former director of the National Security Agency and the CIA, who said he had no knowledge of the incidents. Hacking into a surveillance database, he said, “is a form of that.”
Google’s crisis began in December 2009, when, several former government officials said, the firm discovered that Chinese hackers had penetrated its corporate networks through “spear phishing” — a technique in which an employee was effectively deceived into clicking a bogus link that downloads a malicious program. The hackers had been rooting around insider Google’s servers for at least a year.
Alarmed by the scope and audacity of the breach, the company went public with the news in January 2010, becoming the first U.S. firm to voluntarily disclose an intrusion that originated in China. In a blog post, Google chief legal officer David Drummond said hackers stole the source code that powers Google’s vaunted search engine and also targeted the e-mail accounts of activists critical of China’s human rights abuses.
As Google was responding to the breach, its technicians made another startling discovery: its database with years of information on surveillance orders had been hacked. The database included information on thousands of orders issued by judges around the country to law enforcement agents seeking to monitor suspects’ e-mails.
The most sensitive orders, however, came from a federal court that approves surveillance of foreign targets such as spies, diplomats, suspected terrorists and agents of other governments. Those orders, issued under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, are classified.
Google did not disclose that breach publicly, but soon after detecting it, the company alerted the FBI, former officials said. Bureau officials told FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, who briefed President Obama.
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Is this a real security threat or one that is being exaggerated so that Obama can take control of the Internet? It's hard to trust this admin with security threats when half of them they don't take seriously, such as the intel on the Boston bombers and then they go after law abiding, citizens with the IRS and AP/Fox doing their job and claim it was due to a security breach.
If this is true, which China is known for hacking....I hope it's not used as a way to restrict our Internet freedoms more than they already are. However, under this admin nothing is private anymore....so perhaps rather than restricting our use of the Internet they will just use it as an excuse to spy on citizens more??
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KET 20 May 2013, 10:41 AM PDT 29POST A COMMENTMichael Steinbach, former head of the FBI’s counterterrorism division and now special agent in charge of Miami, told over 30 congressional staffers in March of 2012 that, contrary to the White House's classification, the bureau does not refer to the Fort Hood shooting as "workplace violence." As head of the FBI counterterrorism division, Steinbach oversaw the investigationinto the mass murder at Texas Army base.Steinbach made this claim during an unclassified counterterrorism briefing on Capitol Hill.
“Do you guys teach your agents that Fort Hood was workplace violence?” one staffer asked.
“I’m not gonna go there for you,” Steinbach responded.
“I think that’s along the lines of what we’re trying to discern here,” the staffer answered back.
“I appreciate it. I was just at a hearing yesterday and the very same question came up to our executive assistant director to the head (inaudible). No, that’s not the description of it. In that case, we took a very, very hard look at ourselves as well,” Steinbach explained.
He continued, “There was an internal review into the Fort Hood matter and what it was that we did and didn’t do well in that case and I don’t think anyone considers that—I’ve never heard that term used in the FBI or by any official in the FBI and there are some concerns as to whether or not people outside the FBI use that term."
"I’ll leave that to whoever said that to explain their words," Steinbach concluded. "I have not heard it used at the FBI.”
Army Major Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, is accused of opening fire on November 5, 2009 at the Fort Hood, Texas Army Base, killed 13, including a pregnant woman, and injuring over 30 others. According to Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, a Fort Hood general, Hasan yelled "Allahu Akbar" (Arabic for "God is Great") before he began shooting.
The Department of Defense classified the Fort Hood shooting as “workplace violence.” Such a classification has denied the victims of the attack purple hearts and medical care Americans wounded overseas in combat zones would receive.
According to ABC News, a Pentagon position paper issued on March 29 says that issuing purple hearts to the victims would “irrevocably alter the fundamental character of this time-honored decoration” and “undermine the prosecution of Major Nidal Hasan [the alleged Fort Hood shooter] by materially and directly compromising Major Hasan’s ability to receive a fair trial.”
The Army’s chief of staff at the time of the Fort hood attack, Gen. George Casey, said in November of 2012: “As horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”
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Political correcness is national suicide and destroying us from within...when will the Obama admin admit it was a terror attack?
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One of the earliest reporters revealing the internal emails about Benghazi exchanged between the U.S. Department of State and the intel community was CBS' Sharyl Attkisson.
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Washington Times columnist Joseph Curl on Monday said the Obama administration's developing scandal involving the monitoring of Fox News reporter James Rosen's email accounts goes "much deeper." Citing a "CIA source," Curl claimed via his official...
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Hmm...the plot thickens....will there be more whistleblowers??
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Latest report says some children may be accounted for at a temporary shelter at St Andrews Methodist Church;they are hoping the number of children dead/missing will go down. Currently the number of fatalities confirmed overall is 51, but that total is expected to rise as the search and recovery continues through the night.
Keep OK in your prayers tonight, especially those parents who lost their beautiful children :( I pray the number of injured/dead goes down and more are found alive and well.
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I'll add more updates to this post later or another separate post as time permits....keep everyone in OK in your prayers especially those hit directly by these massive tornados.
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For the last two days, Oklahoma City has been pounded with tornadoes. Today in Moore, Oklahoma there have been multiple deaths, including a 3-month old baby and a four year old child. BREAKING.
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Some are tweeting hateful things like: LOL dead conservative children...as if they are celebrating because OK is a red state....for all they know the kids are children of liberals...during a time of tragedy politics should not even be spoken when talking about such a tragedy.
Some people are just filled with evil and hate they don't know anything else.
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The Indiana attorney general’s office confirmed Monday it is investigating a security breach in which Social Security numbers and other personal information were posted online for roughly 44,000 low-income Americans who applied for a federal...
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Nothings free...you sell your soul when you give up your privacy for 'free' things. Those who are willing to give up a little privacy for security will deserve and end up with neither security, privacy nor freedom!
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Two men have been killed and dismembered by four young adults who were caught playing video games in the home when police arrived at the scene of the gruesome murder.
The bodies of Eric Glover and Terrence Rankins were found by police inside a home in the suburb of Joliet, Illinois on Thursday and the atrocious nature of the deaths shocked even veteran members of the force.
It is thought the accused lured their victims into the home and killed them after trapping them inside.
'This is one of the most brutal, heinous and upsetting things I've ever seen in my 27 years of law enforcement,' Police Chief Mike Trafton said.
'Not only the crime scene, but the disregard for common decency toward human beings.'
Police said Glover and Rankins, both 22 and from Joliet, were lured to the home of 18-year-old Alisa Massaro and then robbed and killed.
Officers discovered the bodies of Glover and Rankins on Thursday when they were called to the home, where they found Massaro playing video games with Adam Landerman, 19, and Joshua Miner, 24.
The three were arrested on first-degree murder charges and Bethany McKee, 18, of Shorewood faces the same. All are being held on $10million bond and appeared in court Monday.
Landerman's mother is a police sergeant, but her superiors immediately said that she would not be involved in the investigation.
The circumstances surrounding the death are still under investigation, but some local reports suggest that drugs may have been involved.
Glover graduated from Joliet Central High School and had made the honor roll and participated in football, wrestling and track, his family said.
Rankins, described as 'a very outgoing, loving, fun person' by his mother, graduated from Joliet West High School.
Massaro's father, Phillip Massaro, told The Herald-News in Joliet that he was in disbelief.
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Another reason you can't legislate morality....these teens killed two grown men by suffocation and then tried to dismember them!! No gun law would have prevented this crime, just as no gun law would have prevented Adam Lanza from stealing his mother's guns, killing her and going on a rampage and killing 26 others at a nearby elementary school.
How they managed to attack and kill two men is surprising, especially since one of them was a former football player and wrestler, but I guess the four outnumbered them in strength as well?? This crime is horrific, and sadly it will likely be portrayed as a hate crime and the race baitors will come out, while ignoring the fact these kids were likely on drugs and influenced by violent video games.