"Transparency" in the Obama Administration looking very dim (Page 4) OCD_OCD: "the 'feeling' of unfairness sets in" There is no "feeling" about it. It was a blatant abuse of power. davidk14: . Destroy or reduce as much as possible the other guys financial and grass root groups by using the IRS. . OCD_OCD: Or the Justice Department, or any other department at their disposal. This is really depressing. OCD_OCD: Yes. Every district has apparently been contacted and told their representatives that they are being harassed. What has happened is systemic within the IRS and not a localized event that happened by some unknown "rogue" IRS agent. OCD_OCD: The commission is not going to get "to the truth" because the link between the people that were doing it and the ones who direct it has pled the 5th. They KNOW where it came from, but the one who can finger them knows she's in trouble. davidk14: . I think it is now much larger than that. This is now a tsunami on the Obama administration. . OCD_OCD: What I am afraid of is that intimidation (by any group) has become a part of our national political scene. Think of the thuggery in the unions on a national level. *shudder* davidk14: . I am certainly praying the good will over come evil... Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it. . OCD_OCD: A government watchdog says senior Internal Revenue Service officials enjoyed luxury hotel rooms, free drinks and free food at a $4.1 million training conference in 2010, one of many expensive gatherings the agency held over a three-year period. The agency's inspector general says in a new report that a total of 132 IRS officials received room upgrades at the 2010 conference in Anaheim, Calif. One official stayed five nights in a room that regularly goes for $3,500 a night. Another stayed four nights in a room that regularly goes for $1,499 a night. The report is due out Tuesday as the agency continues to come under fire for targeting conservative groups during the 2010 and 2012 elections. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the report ahead of its release. © Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. OCD_OCD: The IRS conferences cost taxpayers $50 million in 3 years. http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/03/18718103-report-irs-spent-50m-holding-220-employee-conferences-over-three-years?lite ..."The conference spending included $4 million for an August 2010 gathering in Anaheim, Calif., for which the agency did not negotiate lower room rates, even though that is standard government practice, according to a statement by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Instead, some of the 2,600 attendees received benefits, including baseball tickets and stays in presidential suites that normally cost $1,500 to $3,500 per night. In addition, 15 outside speakers were paid a total of $135,000 in fees, with one paid $17,000 to talk about "leadership through art," the House committee said."... OCD_OCD: How about the terrorist attack at the Ft Hood Army Base by Maj. Hassan being called "work place violence" rather than the terrorist attack that it was. Why would the Obama administration not call it what it was? Cherokee 26: I think we all here can agree that OBAMA was probably THEE worst president in u.s. HISTORY..... Chad_: eaglez ya think so...................3 more years of this crap..........I want to know when the change is going to happen........................................ OCD_OCD: WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Security Agency has been collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order, according to a report in Britain's Guardian newspaper. The order was granted by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on April 25 and is good until July 19, the newspaper reported Wednesday. The order requires Verizon, one of the nation's largest telecommunications companies, on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the U.S. and between the U.S. and other countries. The newspaper said the document, a copy of which it had obtained, shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of U.S. citizens were being collected indiscriminately and in bulk, regardless of whether they were suspected of any wrongdoing. The Associated Press could not authenticate the order because documents from the court are classified. Verizon spokesman Ed McFadden said Wednesday the company had no comment. The White House declined comment and referred questions to the NSA. The NSA had no immediate comment. Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) listed 121 million customers in its first-quarter earnings report this April - 98.9 million wireless customers, 11.7 million residential phone lines and about 10 million commercial lines. The court order didn't specify which type of phone customers' records were being tracked. Under the terms of the order, the phone numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as are location data, call duration, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of all calls. The contents of the conversation itself are not covered, The Guardian said. The broad, unlimited nature of the records being handed over to the NSA is unusual. FISA court orders typically direct the production of records pertaining to a specific named target suspected of being an agent of a terrorist group or foreign state, or a finite set of individually named targets. NSA warrantless wiretapping during the George W. Bush administration after the 9/11 attacks was very controversial. The FISA court order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson, compelled Verizon to provide the NSA with electronic copies of "all call detail records or telephony metadata created by Verizon for communications between the United States and abroad" or "wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls," The Guardian said. The law on which the order explicitly relies is the "business records" provision of the USA Patriot Act. | Politics Chat Room 78 People Chatting
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