The Failed Presidency of Barack Obama, Part 2: Fake Emails and the Failure of HIs Government Transparency Promise

We are going to spend the next week or so reviewing the performance and results of the Obama administration from a number of different perspectives. We will be covering some new ground besides reposting some previous reviews in different areas that we have done on this administration.

I will be honest upfront and tell you that I see very little positive coming out of this administration. I believe, based on the discussion that we will have over the next week or so, that this is the most inept, corrupt, illegal, and dysfunctional Presidential administration in my lifetime, worse even than the Carter administration. General categories of incompetence include the following broad categories:

• Promises not kept or that were originally never meant to be kept and were just deceptions from the start.
• Government functions that are dysfunctional, obese, inefficient, and ineffective but very expensive from a taxpayer perspective.
• Constitutional violations that are widespread and destructive.
• Law breaking by many different members of this administration that are widespread and destructive.
• Government spending that is out of control, threatening the fundamental existence of this country; economy and democracy.
• Major issues that have not been addressed in any strategic or tactical way, e.g. failing public education, leaky borders, a lots war on drugs, crumbling infrastructure, etc.
• A Presidential leadership team that would rather play golf, attend political fund raisers, appear in nonsensical videos, host athletic teams, and take worldwide and expensive vacations but not resolve ANY issue facing the country.

Now, before any readers get crazy partisan and start accusing me of a hatchet job, consider the following:

• I have never voted for a Republican for President in my life.
• Up until 2010, I had never voted for a Republican for national office in my life (I am over 60 years old). 
• Most of my votes through the decades for local, county, and state offices have not been Republican.

Thus, by no stretch of the imagination am I anti-Obama because I am a Republican. I am an American who has looked at the facts and realities of this Presidency, facts and realities that we will lay out over the next week, and have come to the conclusion that this has been the worst, most secretive, most ineffective, most destructive, and most illegal Presidential administration my lifetime and possibly in the country’s lifetime. As someone recently said, the Obama Presidency is a Presidency that Nixon aspired to from a corruption and illegality perspective, certainly not a compliment.

Yesterday, we focused on the multitude of lies, deceptions, and broken promises that President Obama has made over the first six years of his Presidency. The impact, size, and audacity of his deceptions was impressive, the good they did for the country and his integrity is negligible. Today, we will shift the focus a little and talk about the illegal activities of many members of his administration in the area of email hijinks.

Apparently, if you are working for the Federal government, you have to use official government issued, protected, and maintained email accounts and computers. It is my understanding that failure to do so is a criminal activity and a violation of existing law.

The rationale, as far as I can tell, is sound for such a policy and law:

1. The government should be accountable to the citizens of the country and their accountability and activities in this electronic age has to include their electronic communications to ensure that laws and the Constitution are being followed.
2. There is no secret that the world is full of computer hackers. Thus, by not using official government email accounts and computers, government secrets and activities are more likely to be hacked and published if not protected by government security protocols. And even this precaution is not fool proof, given that Eric Snowden was able to capture and release thousands and thousands of secret government documents. Imagine how much easier it would be to get U.S. government secrets that were not as well protected.
3. And from a policy and public relations perspective, it made super sense for the Obama administration to adhere to the letter and spirit of this law since he promised us he would run the most transparent Presidential administration ever which presumably means that government executives and employees would not be sneaking around and using secret email accounts.

Despite this sound, three part rationale, it appears that many within the administration went off the plan and ended up, and got caught, using private, unofficial email accounts to conduct secret government business. We saw the first inkling of this rogue behavior from the previous head of the EPA, Lisa Jackson several years ago. 

She got caught when it was revealed that she was using a private email account, which I think was named after a dog from her life, to conduct secret EPA business. By using a secret, unofficial email account, she could hide agreements, deals, law breaking from Congress and the American people since any audit of her official email accounts would obviously not show what she was doing in the shadows of her unofficial email communications. 

But this type of illegal behavior really hit the fan hard recently when it was revealed that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had also indulged herself in the use of private, non-government email accounts to conduct official State Department business. Even worse, it is now established that she used these secret email accounts via a computer server that she installed IN HER HOUSE! 

This is obviously much more dangerous behavior vs. the EPA hiding of communications. The State Department deals with the relationships of the U.S. with the rest of the world’s countries. Lord knows what kind of secret deals and communications were going on with the rest of the world that Congress and Americans might never had known about.

Plus, and probably even more important, did her use of a secret computer and secret email accounts put the security of the country at risk? Again, there are hackers all over the world, both private and government sponsored hackers, that what have loved to get access to the Secretary of State’s emails. 

Did the Chinese, Russian, Iranian, or other governments hack her emails as they were sent out? If she was operating her own server, again, out of HER HOUSE, I am pretty sure it would be a safe bet that it was nowhere as secure than government maintained and protected computers and email accounts. If foreign hackers hacker her emails, did that put the strategies and interests of the country at risk? 

Did terrorist hackers know that the consulate at Benghazi was under protected since a lot of the communications from murdered ambassador Chris Stevens involved his pleas for increased security? Did that embolden the terrorists to attack and murder four Americans because they knew from Clinton’s email accounts that security was not adequate? Did Clinton cut deals with the Muslim Brotherhood or other shady organizations to help topple the Qaddafi regime, using the private emails to hide her collusion with known terrorist groups?

Did Clinton use the private emails to cut deals with foreigners and foreign governments who many obviously contributed millions and millions of dollars to the Clintons’ foundation in exchange for diplomatic favors, favors that were meant to be hidden from Congress and the American people? 

As you can see, the potential list of bad things that could have happened, either intentionally or unintentionally, by Clinton using secret email accounts and her own computer server in HER HOUSE, is long and potentially damaging to the country.

That is why such behavior was ruled illegal and punishable by a court of law. But that day may not come right away if ever. Clinton is dodging and blaming and weaving, trying to extricate herself out of this serious breach of security and law. She has admitted to deleting tens of thousands of emails that she alone deemed private and not State Department related. I am assuming this was easy to do since the emails were on a computer server IN HER HOUSE. But it certainly raises suspicions that if they were harmless, why delete them? 

She is trying to put the onus back on the State Department to give the emails to Congress. There are rumors and stories starting to circulate that Obama and his cohorts are behind the leaking of the existence of the emails since the Obamas and Clintons supposedly to not like each other. All kinds of rumors, stories, and accusations about this serious reach of national security and established law are likely to come up in the following months. However, what is not in doubt is that 1) she broke existing law and 2) she had the computer server located IN HER HOUSE.

But Ms. Clinton and Ms. Jackson are not the only Obama officials to break existing law by using private, off the books email accounts. The Huffington Post recently reported that Attorney General Eric Holder has also used secret emails and various aliases even though he was the nation’s top law enforcement officer. One of the aliases was “Henry Yearwood” in additional to at least two others.

Unlike Clinton’s secret email accounts, at least Holder’s secret accounts were Federal government email accounts which hopefully had better protection and security than Clinton’s accounts which ran through a computer server IN HER HOUSE. Of course, Holder’s office claimed that his use of secret accounts and different aliases did not interfere with the production of Holder emails demanded by Congressional committees and investigators or any other Freedom of Information requests. Right...nothing to see here, just move along.

But really, he is the top law enforcement official in the country and here he is breaking the law from a private email perspective. What does that say for the integrity of the Obama administration and Holder’s administration of the Justice Department? Not much. Pretty sure that if we as citizens destroyed and hid sensitive documents we would end up behind bars.

So the head of the EPA illegally hid communications and plans from Congress and the country with fake email accounts. 

The Associated Press reported in 2013 that the former head of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, illegally used private email accounts to hide plans and communications from Congress and the country. 

The top diplomat in the U.S. and the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton, used illegal and fake email accounts to hide her dealings with worldwide leaders via a computer server IN HER HOUSE. 

And the top law enforcement official in the Obama administration also used fake email accounts and aliases to hide communications from the country.

Illegal, deceptive, suspicious, endangering national security, possibly enriching one’s self or one’s foundation, etc., are certainly not descriptors that a noble and honest Presidency wishes to be known as. But really, anyone that knows the realities of this administration is not likely to use the words noble and honest in praise of it. 

Which is especially disappointing since, as we pointed out yesterday, Obama promised the most transparent Presidency of all time. Instead, fake email accounts and rogue computer servers give the impression that this administration has more things to hide than any other administration in recent and not so recent history. A failure of historical proportions.

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August, 2014 Political Class Insanity, Part 5: Barack and Hillary Get Indicted, A Country Run By Idiots, and Alternative Realities

This is our fifth post this month, and still not our last, in our monthly attempt to document and review all of the insanity and disasters that emanate from the American political class. When we started this monthly series several years ago, we could usually get all of the insanity covered in one to two post each month. 

However, over time, that one to two day timeframe has grown exponentially. So much so that we now usually need 5-7 posts each month to get all of the stupid quotes, wasteful spending, and ineffective governing covered. This month is no exception.

1) I often wonder what universe or world American politicians live in. Their statements often indicate that they are not of our reality. Previous proof and quotes of their otherworldy existence and reality have been discussed previously in this blog. For example:

• Nancy Pelosi once lamented that 500 million Americans were lsing their jobs every month even though there are only about 300 million Americans living in the country today. That kind of math does not work in our reality but apparently does in hers.
• A Georgia Congressman once worried in a public Congressional hearing that the island of Guam might tip over in the Pacific Ocean. That is physically impossible in our reality but apparently possible in his reality. 
• Joe Biden once claimed that when the Great Depression hit, President Franlin Delano Roosevelt went on television to calm and reassure the nation that everything would be alright. In our reality, the Great Depression started three years before Roosevelt became president and television did not exist. I guess that Biden resides in a reality with a whole different timeline than ours.

You get the idea, you often have to scratch you head when they speak and wonder what in the world are they saying and thinking.

Which gets us to the latest out of this world set of quotes from the Democratic wing of the American political class. As most informed people know, our southern border with Mexico has been recently overrun with a flood of people, tens of thousands of people, from Central and south American countries, many of them mere children trying to get into this country. Their sheer numbers are overwhelming the Border Patrol resources.

There are so many people flooding in that the Federal government is shipping tens of thousands of people to locations all over the country. From a more dangerous perspective, Muslim literature and prayer rugs have been found along the border, possibly indicating that Islamic terror cells have crossed over in the mass wave of humanity.

And in the background, the order continues to be a sieve when it comes to stopping the massive amount of illegal drugs and human trafficking being carried out by the Mexican drug cartels. The situation has become so dangerous, volatile, and bad, that Texas governor is deploying armed national Guard troops on the border to try and protect his state citizens. A bad, bad situation from any angle.

And in the face of all this chaos, many, many members of the democratic wing of the political class insist that “the border is secure.” Huh? How can the border be secure when adult foreigners, foreign children, possible terrorists, and drug cartel activities are making border control a myth? In their own words, listen to these out of touch, out of our reality politicians try to convince themselves and us that “the border is secure,” in the most monotonic unconvincing manner possible: 

http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/2014/07/18/video-obama-and-a-list-of-democrats-saying-the-border-is-secure-hilarious/

Their drone is so consistent across all speakers that it is almost zombie like, the…border…is…secure. Not in our reality it is.

2) In what is probably a first for any sitting President and a former Secretary of State, Egyptian lawmakers have criminally charged Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton with conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood:

• Obama has been named as an accessory to crimes committed by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, with the charge reading that Obama “…cooperated, incited, and assisted the armed elements of the Muslim Brotherhood in the commission of crimes…”. These crimes include murder, rape, torture, extortion, bribery, enslavement, and the ethnic cleansing of Egyptian Coptic Christians.
• Hillary Clinton was found to be working with ousted Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi’s wife, Naglaa Mahmood, in attempting to overthrow the current leader of Egypt, General Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi.
• Naglaa Mahmood has openly admitted that her relationship with the Clintons dates back to the 1980's, and she has hundreds of recorded telephone conversations with Hillary and other White House officials.
• There is also a charge that Obama and Clinton conspired to bribe the Muslim Brotherhood with $8 billion to turn over part of the Sinai Peninsula to Hamas, in order for them to launch attacks against Israel.

Does no look like the pyramids will be a future vacation spot for either the Obama or Clinton families, especially if they could get arrested once they enter Egypt. How embarrassing for the country, wanted fugitives leading the country and its foreign affairs.

3) The following list comes from the Godfather Politics website and is attributed to a man named Fritz Edmunds. It has been circulating around the Internet for a little while so you may have seen it already.

However, in any discussion of political class insanity, it is a worthwhile piece of reality to review. It shows how out of touch, how idiotic, and how inane many of our politicians and the rules and laws they pass have become. Truly stupid, illogical and often insulting to common sense and our freedoms:

11 Facts that Show We Live in a Country Run By Idiots

1. If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally, you live in a country run by idiots.

2. If you have to get your parents' permission to go on a field trip or take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion, you live in a country run by idiots.

3. If you have to show identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor or check out a library book, but not to vote on who runs the government, you live in a country run by idiots.

4. If the government wants to ban stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines with more than ten rounds, but gives 20 F-16 fighter jets to the crazy leaders in Egypt, you live in a country run by idiots.

5. If, in the largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not a 24-ounce soda because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat, you live in a country run by idiots.

6. If an 80-year-old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but a woman in a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched, you live in a country run by idiots.

7. If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more, you live in a country run by idiots.

8. If a seven year old boy can be thrown out of grade school for saying his teacher's "cute," but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable, you live in a country run by idiots.

9. If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government intrusion, while not working is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid, subsidized housing and free cell phones, you live in a country run by idiots.

10. If the government's plan for getting people back to work is to incentivize NOT working, with 99 weeks of unemployment checks and no requirement to prove they applied but can't find work, you live in a country run by idiots.

11. If being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you more "safe" according to the government, you live in a country run by idiots.

If you are offended by this article, you probably voted for the idiots who are running our country into the ground.

We had a expanded analysis like this in the following post:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-country-founded-by-geniuses-but-run.html

Both lists show that we are being governed, and often bullied, by the worst set of politicians in the history of this country. Rather than work on the half dozen or so critical issues facing most Americans (e.g. long term unemployment, anemic economic growth, a lost war on drugs, a leaky border, ever rising health care costs, a lack of a national energy strategy and policy), the current set of [politicians worry about how much soda we drink, shredding the Second Amendment, strip searching little old ladeis, being the largest arms merchant in the world, etc., then we truly have devolved from a country found by geniuses by run by idiots.

That will do it for today. Idiots running the country when not living in alternative universes and realities, and a President and former Secretary of State being cited for massive and serious crimes in a foreign country. I would say it cannot get much worse than that but who knows what insanity tomorrow will bring when we continue our reporting on political class insanity.

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