Posts Tagged ‘corruption chronicles’
Red Flag Warning EPA Ammunition Ban — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There is yet another assault on an individual’s God given right to bear arms; this one coming from of all places, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). First let me give a tip of the hat to Say Uncle and by extension the National Shooting Sports Foundation where I first learned of an underhanded attempt to ban traditional [...]
White House Spared From Blagojevich Trial
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles A collective sigh of relief is undoubtedly resonating from the White House now that testimony in Rod Blagojevich’s trial has concluded, sparing two top Obama Administration officials from traveling to Chicago to testify in the ousted governor’s defense. Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s chief of staff, and [...]
$410k To Teach Drug Addicts Chinese Meditation
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In yet another reprehensible waste of public resources, the U.S. government has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to study the effects of Chinese meditation on drug addicts. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services actually gave a Maryland college professor whose research focuses on [...]
Civil Rights Comm. Hears About Black Panther Case
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles The Department of Justice (DOJ) whistleblower who resigned over the “corrupt nature of the dismissal” of the New Black Panther case testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights this week. At the hearing in the commission’s Washington D.C. headquarters, J. Christian Adams accused the DOJ [...]
DOJ Ignores Cases With Black Defendants, White Victims
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a racial double standard, the Obama Administration instructs government attorneys in the Justice Department’s civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims. The explosive revelation was made this week by a high-ranking Justice Department official who quit [...]
Mexico Asks Court To Ban Ariz. Law
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Not only is Arizona’s new immigration control law unconstitutional, it will adversely affect education and labor markets in both Mexico and the U.S., according a federal court brief filed by the Mexican government this week. In the 28-page brief, Mexico asks the court to declare Arizona’s new [...]
The Emperor’s New Clothes — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Some lessons in life never seem to sink in, especially political lessons. Take the young boy who didn’t know Politically Correct policy on the King’s clothiers. While the King was parading around in his “altogether”, pleased at the workmanship and finery which had been created out of nothing, nobody had the courage to point [...]
Federal Agencies Block Congressional Probes
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles President Obama and his cabinet love to brag about the administration’s unprecedented transparency, but the reality is that numerous government agencies keep denying the investigative arm of Congress access to information essential to probes that help weed out corruption. Among the key federal [...]
Senate Bill Gives Obama, Feds Control Of Internet
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Keeping with the Obama big government script, a bill has been introduced in the U.S. Senate to grant the federal government “absolute power” to shut down the internet and the president the authority to seize control of it in the name of national security. Under the law (Protecting Cyberspace as a [...]
U.S. Park Visitors Warned Of Mexican Smuggling Violence
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In yet another solid argument for securing the southern border, American families planning to visit national parks this summer are being warned of the iminent danger created by Mexican drug and immigrant smugglers. The violence is so severe that the federal government has posted strongly-worded signs at [...]
Judicial Watch Files Complaint with Office of Special Counsel
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Alleges White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina Violated the Hatch Act by Using Their Positions to Influence Federal Elections Contact Information: Press Office 202-646-5172, ext 305 Washington, DC -- June 16, 2010 Judicial Watch, the nonpartisan public interest [...]
International Laws Help U.S. Enemies In War
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a disturbing revelation made this week by a top military commander, international law is preventing U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan from launching creative and usually nonviolent operations that weaken the enemy. Commonly known as “deception operations,” the secret plans often succeed in [...]
U.S. Passports Made In Thai Factory
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Despite repeated warnings from security experts and internal government sources, the U.S. Government continues to manufacture a key border security tool in a high-risk foreign country where it’s susceptible to theft by terrorists, foreign spies or counterfeiters. For the last four years a government [...]
Deputy Atty. Gen. Nominee Defended Saudi Terrorist
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles President Obama’s nominee to be second-in-command at the Justice Department represented the Saudi royals who helped finance the 2001 terrorist attacks and raked in millions of dollars to “monitor” a collapsed insurance company that got a massive government bailout. Furthermore, the president’s [...]
Pelosi’s Office Costs Taxpayers More Than 18k Monthly
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In the midst of her state’s dire financial crisis, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved her district office to a new state-of-the-art building with an award-winning “green” design at quadruple the monthly rent of the old location. That means taxpayers in the (not so) Golden State will dish out [...]
Kagan Helped Bill Clinton Cover Up Scandals
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee was a key figure in covering up at least two of Bill Clinton’s scandals although the true extent of her role won’t ever be known because the files will remain secret. The Clinton Library has released more than 40,000 pages of records from Elena Kagan’s [...]
Court Upholds Day Laborer Law
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In an unexpected but welcome victory for immigration enforcement, a notoriously liberal federal appellate court has ruled that a southern California city can enforce a law that allows police to arrest illegal alien day laborers who solicit work on public streets. The surprise ruling, issued this week by [...]
Internet, Bingo, Art Classes For Jailed Illegal Immigrants
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In the Obama Administration’s effort to make the immigration detention system less penal and more humane, illegal immigrants will be offered art classes, bingo, continental breakfast and free unlimited phone and internet service in prison. Immigration jails will also get makeovers to soften their look [...]
Senate Panel Clears Judge Who Protects Child Sex Offenders
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A liberal activist notorious for bending laws to protect child sex offenders and a long history of extreme leniency in criminal sentencing is one step closer to getting confirmed as a federal appellate court judge. The Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary [...]
National Security Agencies Fail To Protect U.S.
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Nearly a decade after the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, government agencies charged with protecting the nation from terrorism can’t seem to get their act together, repeatedly failing to adequately shield the U.S. from threats mainly because they [...]
Mexico Gives IDs To Illegal Immigrants In U.S.
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a baffling development, a major U.S. county is allowing Mexico’s government to operate a satellite consular office to offer the area’s illegal immigrants identification cards that will facilitate life in the United States. It gets better. Mexican officials [...]
Illinois Spends $55 Mil To Insure Illegal Immigrants
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A universal children’s health insurance program created by Illinois’ corrupt former governor is covering mostly illegal immigrants and costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars amid a perplexing $13 billion state budget deficit. About 75% of the children [...]
Guantanamo’s $500 Million Renovation
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles As part of its war-on-terror spending, the U.S. government has dished out at least $500 million to transform Guantanamo Bay from a dilapidated Caribbean military base to an upscale resort-like town with professional sports fields, cafes, bars, eateries and fancy [...]
Senators Get Donor $8 Million Earmark
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In yet another example of lawmakers unscrupulously funneling tax dollars to their political supporters, New Jersey’s two U.S. Senators steered a multi million-dollar earmark to enhance a campaign donor’s luxury condominium development. Democrats Frank [...]
Sanctuary Policy Leads To Woman’s Murder
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In the latest casualty resulting from a law enforcement agency’s don’t-ask-don’t-tell immigration policy, an illegal alien with an extensive criminal record killed a woman after being arrested and released by several different police departments. Not [...]
Bill Clinton May Never Release Kagan Files
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles A famously corrupt U.S. president best known for getting impeached by Congress and selling trade mission seats to Chinese Communists will decide if lawmakers that consider judicial nominations can access crucial information about Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. Bill Clinton, the nation’s most [...]
Feds Warn Of Terrorists Sneaking Into U.S. Through Mexico
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles The Department of Homeland Security has warned Texas law enforcement agencies that a renowned Al Qaeda terrorist is planning to sneak into the U.S. through Mexico, illustrating that Middle Eastern extremists continue to exploit the porous southern border in their quest to harm Americans. While [...]
Obama Used Bill Clinton To Orchestrate Sestak Bribery Scheme
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Surprise, surprise the White House has completed a thorough investigation into the Joe Sestak bribery scandal and determined that no one in the Obama Administration committed any crimes because Bill Clinton actually carried out the shady scheme to eliminate the Pennsylvania congressman from the U.S. [...]
Penn. Legislature In Corruption “Time Warp”
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Lawmakers in a state rocked by numerous political scandals refuse to adopt sweeping changes recommended by a special grand jury appointed to root out persistent corruption in the legislature. The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office assigned the special grand [...]
Sheriff Fears Program Will Lead To Deportations
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A California sheriff wants to opt out of a national program that checks the immigration status of all arrestees because it would eradicate the area’s sanctuary law and put too many people at risk of deportation. While this open support for criminals from a top [...]
“Spit Assault” Gets N.Y. Bus Drivers Months Of Paid Leave
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a bizarre example of government waste, a major U.S. city with a $400 million transit budget shortfall allows public bus drivers to take months of paid leave every time a rider spits on them. Thanks to a contract negotiated by the New York City bus drivers’ [...]
Former Detroit Mayor Back In Jail
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles The famously corrupt politician who ran Detroit for six years before getting criminally convicted will go back to jail for violating the terms of his probation by hiding assets to avoid paying the city $1 million for his felonious antics. The storied career of [...]
JW Sues DOJ for Documents Regarding Decision to Dismiss of Lawsuit against New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Washington, DC -- May 25, 2010 Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Obama Justice Department to obtain documents [...]
Illegal Immigrant Rapist Had Been Deported 9 Times
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In what appears to be a growing national trend, an illegal immigrant with an extensive criminal record and multiple deportation orders remained in the U.S. long enough to commit yet another atrocious crime. The tragic case in Washington State marks the latest of [...]
Homeland Sec. Officers Go On Spending Spree
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Officers at the Homeland Security agency that secures federal buildings went on huge personal spending sprees with their government credit cards yet authorities refuse to punish them or force them to refund taxpayers. The Federal Protective Service (FPS) employees [...]
Judge Bans Enforcement Of N.Y. Day Laborer Law
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A federal judge is preventing a New York town from enforcing its “unconstitutional” law prohibiting illegal immigrant day laborers from seeking work on public property and people from hiring them. Oyster Bay, a Long Island town of about 300,000 residents, [...]
Police Knew Time Square Bomb Accomplice Was Illegal Alien
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In an alarming example of how sanctuary cities can protect terrorists, a Pakistani man arrested for the Time Square bombing admitted on a city license application that he entered the U.S. illegally and authorities took no action. That’s because he applied for the [...]
Census Hires Sex Offender For Home Visits
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a shameful mishap for the U.S. government, the Census Bureau knowingly hired a registered sex offender with a long criminal history to make home visits even though such convicts are precluded from working for the agency. The embarrassing gaffe came to light when a [...]
Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit against Federal Reserve to Obtain AIG and Lehman Brothers Bailout Documents
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Contact Information: Press Office 202-646-5172, ext 305 Washington, DC -- March 20, 2010 Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on May [...]
State Law Aims To Protect Felons
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles To facilitate life after prison and avoid discrimination, Massachusetts is on the verge of enacting legislation that will protect convicted criminals by concealing their records from potential employers and landlords. A handful of states have measures that shield [...]
Voting Rights For Illegal Immigrants
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A major U.S. county that has long offered illegal immigrants official sanctuary wants to join a handful of others around the nation in granting them voting privileges reserved for American citizens. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors wants immigrants who don’t [...]
Obama Offered Federal Judgeship To Calm Political Drama
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles On the heels of President Obama’s effort to bribe a Pennsylvania congressman with a government job, a Washington insider reveals that the commander-in-chief unscrupulously tried using a federal judgeship to resolve an internal White House political problem. To avoid a [...]
Obama’s Illegal Immigrant Aunt Gets Asylum
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles After two rare secret court hearings, President Obama’s illegal immigrant aunt has been granted political asylum by the same judge who deported her last spring after noting that she had previously ignored multiple removal orders. The judge’s abrupt reversal will [...]
New Jersey Cities Give Illegal Immigrants IDs
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles While states and local governments nationwide enact imperative measures to curb illegal immigration, two New Jersey cities are accommodating illegal aliens by offering them special identification cards to facilitate life in the U.S. The Garden State municipalities [...]
More Fraud In Stimulus-Funded Weatherization Program
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Weeks after rampant fraud was exposed in a welfare program to make low-income houses energy efficient in Wisconsin, a similar example of widespread corruption has surfaced in Texas. Both states’ “weatherization” projects were funded with tax dollars allocated [...]
Pelosi Launches Amnesty Campaign
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A week after ordering Catholic Church leaders to push immigration reform from the pulpit, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promises to go full throttle with legislation that will extend amnesty to the estimated 12 million illegal aliens in the United States. Congress will [...]
College Blocks Illegal Student’s Deportation
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a brazen effort to help an illegal immigrant, a public university in Georgia is spending taxpayer resources to block the deportation of a student so that she can complete her degree next year. The Mexican illegal alien (Jessica Colotl) graduated from a Georgia public high [...]
State Dept. Hinders Visa Security Program
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Under the leadership of Hillary Clinton, the State Department is reportedly impeding a crucial program designed to prevent terrorists from obtaining visas to enter the United States. Legislation enacted after the 2001 terrorist attacks established the Visa Security Program [...]
Close Obama Friend, Advisor Under Federal Probe
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In the latest scandal to rock the Obama Administration, a close friend, advisor and donor of the president’s is under federal investigation for misusing public funds on faith-based minority outreach programs while he ran Illinois’ health department. Under the direction of Dr. [...]
Bored Senator Views Porn During Floor Debate
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A Florida state lawmaker who is running for a seat in the United States Congress this year was caught viewing pornographic photos on his state-issued computer during a legislative session. A local news organization captured Mike Bennett, a Republican state senator, looking at a [...]
