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- Eric Holder Admits To First Americans Killed By Drone Strikes (ZeroHedge, May 22, 2013):

In a letter to Congress (below), AG Eric Holder admitted that the administration deliberately killed American Anwar al-Awlaki (the radical Muslim cleric) in a drone strike in September 2011 adding, as the NY Times reports, “the decision to target Anwar al-Awlaki was lawful, it was considered, and it was just.” As RT notes, there was collateral damage, as it has been widely reported but rarely acknowledged in Washington that two other US citizens – Samir Khan, and al-Awlaki’s teenage son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki – were executed in that same Yemen strike. With Holder’s latest admission, however, a fourth American – Jude Mohammed – has also been officially named a casualty of America’s continuing drone war; bringing the total ‘known’ Americans killed under the US Drone War to 4 since 2009.

Via NY Times,

One day before President Obama is due to deliver a major speech on national security, his administration on Wednesday formally acknowledged that the United States had killed four American citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan.

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The American responsibility for Mr. Awlaki’s death has been widely reported, but the administration had until now refused to confirm or deny it.

The letter also said that the United States had killed three other Americans: Samir Khan, who was killed in the same strike; Mr. Awlaki’s son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, who was also killed in Yemen; and Jude Mohammed, who was killed in a strike in Pakistan. Continue reading »

Tags: Barack Obama, Drones, Global News, Government, Obama administration, Politics, Terrorism, U.S.

Flashback:

- No US Sailor Saw Osama Bin Laden’s Alleged Burial: Associated Press FOIA

- President Bush Rejects Taliban Offer To Surrender Osama Bin Laden (The Independent – 15 October 2001)

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- Joe Biden Now Blamed In Navy SEAL Team Six Deaths

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- Bin Laden burial pictures will stay secret (Washington Post, May 21, 2013):

Photos of American military personnel burying Osama bin Laden at sea will remain classified, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit sided with the government in finding that the release of postmortem images of the al-Qaeda leader could cause “exceptionally grave harm” to Americans.

Judicial Watch, a conservative-leaning group, had been pressing the Defense Department and the CIA to release at least a subset of 59 photos of bin Laden after he was killed in a May 2011 raid on his compound in Pakistan.

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Tags: Barack Obama, CIA, Defense Department, Department of Defense, Global News, Government, Military, Obama administration, Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan, Politics

- Hilarious! Top official to plead Fifth Amendment protections after targeting constitutional groups that taught the Bill of Rights (Natural News, May 21, 2013)

Tags: Bill of Rights, Constitution, Fifth Amendment, Global News, Government, IRS, Law, Obama administration, Politics, Society, U.S.

- White House Explains: Obama Didn’t Know What He Knew When Everyone Else Knew What He Should Have Known (ZeroHedge, May 20, 2013):

Yesterday, when we reported that as a result of new disclosures regarding the timing of who learned what, but most importantly when, in the White House regarding the IRS persecution (if not prosecution) of conservative groups, we made it quite clear that the narrative enacted by the White House, which could simply be summarized as “we’ll make it up as we go along“, was nothing more than damage control in total disarray. Because once caught lying, the best solution usually is to stop lying and tell the truth, tying up all those loose ends that eventually lead to Watergate-type outcomes unless addressed early on. No such luck here.Instead, the White House has doubled down on its crash and burn storyline and in doing so is merely guaranteeing that the very same conservatives, and all others who would rather not have a very political IRS on their back, who have smelled blood are not going to let go until someone at the very top takes responsibility for what, together with the AP-fiasco, is rapidly becoming Obama’s Nixonian scandal.

Sure enough, here is The Hill with the White House’s official explanation for what happened: “White House officials were notified of a Treasury Department inspector general report on the IRS but elected not to tell President Obama about it.” In other words, neither the IRS chief was aware of what is going on at the IRS (recall the countless “I don’t knows” and “I don’t recalls”) and apparently, neither was the president briefed on what everyone beneath him at the White House knew weeks in advance of the premeditated IRS leak. And in fact, it turns out it was someone else’s executive duty to make the decision what the chief executive of the nation is and isn’t allowed to know in the first pace. So, maybe we are confused, but just how is Obama the “president” again?

For more on how when the White House finds itself in a hole, it merely keeps on digging and digging, we go to The Hill:

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Tags: Barack Obama, Global News, Government, IRS, Jay Carney, Obama administration, Politics, Treasury, U.S., White House

- Economic insanity: Obama spends $11 million to create each ‘green’ job (Natural News, May 18, 2013):

There has been nothing you could call “successful” about President Obama’s so-called “green energy” initiatives, but the worst thing of all is the billions in taxpayer dollars he has utterly wasted on failed companies who were trying to push unproven, and ultimately failed, initiatives.

Indeed, according to new data, the Obama Administration has spent an incredible $11 million for each “green” job that has been created, Breitbart News reports.

Recall for a moment that candidate Barack Obama, in 2008, promised he would create a whopping 5 million new green energy sector jobs if elected.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Economy, Energy, Global News, Government, Obama administration, Politics, Technology, U.S.

- Gun control advocates now admit: IRS intimidation scandal proves Second Amendment needed to stop government tyranny (Natural News, May 20, 2013)

Tags: Barack Obama, Constitution, Global News, Government, Gun Control, IRS, Obama administration, Politics, scandal, Second Amendment, Society, U.S.

Flashback:

- US Navy Seal Commander, Who Killed Osama Bin Laden, Commits ‘Apparent Suicide’ In Afghanistan

- UNBELIEVABLE: ‘More Than 20 Navy SEALS From The Unit That Killed Osama Bin Laden’ Die In Helicopter Crash

- Biden now blamed in SEAL Team 6 deaths (WND, May 19, 2013):

The families of three fallen Navy SEAL Team Six members say President Obama and Vice President Biden are culpable for the deaths of their sons for publicly identifying the unit that killed Osama bin Laden and pursuing policies that coddle Muslims and put our own troops at a tactical disadvantage.

SEAL Team Six carried out the daring raid in Pakistan in early May 2011. Three months later, three members of the unit were among 38 killed in a Chinook helicopter crash in Afghanistan. Twenty-five of the dead were special operations forces. Larry Klayman is founder of Freedom Watch, a WND columnist and the attorney representing three of the families who lost their sons. He said the Obama administration carelessly and illegally revealed the role of SEAL Team Six shortly after announcing the successful mission to kill bin Laden.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Global News, Government, Joe Biden, Military, Navy Seals, Obama administration, Osama Bin Laden, Politics, Special Forces, U.S.

Related info:

- What Did Obama Know About The IRS (And When)?:

1. Steve Miller lied to Congress
2. Lois Lerner lied to Congress
3. Barack Obama lied to the American people

- The Biggest Obama Scandals Are Proven And Ignored (The Atlantic) … ‘He Has Broken The Law On Multiple Occasions. And Not Even Republicans Seem To Care’

- Banana Republic: IRS Official In Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office!

- Pfeiffer defends handling of IRS scandal (Politico, May 19, 2013):

White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer on Sunday defended the Obama administration’s handling of the IRS scandal.

“What would be an actual real scandal in Washington would be if the president had been involved or had interfered in an IRS investigation,” Pfeiffer  said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

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Tags: Barack Obama, Dan Pfeiffer, Global News, Government, IRS, Obama administration, Politics, U.S.

- Doctors increasingly declaring bankruptcy as Obamacare kicks in, causing widespread care shortages (Natural News, May 20, 2013)

Tags: Bankruptcy, Barack Obama, Doctors, Global News, Government, Health, Healthcare, Obama administration, Obamacare, Politics, U.S.

- What Did Obama Know About The IRS (And When)? (ZeroHedge, May 18, 2013):

Amid the sound and fury of yesterday’s IRS hearing were a few small tidbits which raise significant questions about who knew what and when within the Obama administration. While getting the answer (the real honest truth) is highly unlikely, as the Wall Street Journal notes, the IRS’s watchdog told top Treasury officials around June 2012(when Republican lawmakers were complaining publicly about alleged IRS targeting of tea-party groups) he was investigating allegations the tax agency had targeted conservative groups, for the first time indicating that Obama administration officials were aware of the explosive matter in the midst of the president’s re-election campaign. The revelation nonetheless raised a fresh set of questions about who was aware of the problem within the Obama administration. However, the hearing left numerous other fundamental questions unanswered, including who ordered the targeting and why it continued so long, pointing to a protracted investigation ahead as Rep. Paul Ryan exclaimed, “how can we not conclude that you misled this committee?” As Doug Ross’ full timeline below suggests, this is fascism on the part of the IRS and White House… Continue reading »

Tags: 1984, Barack Obama, Big Brother, Dictatorship, Fascism, George Orwell, Global News, Government, IRS, New World Order, Obama administration, Politics, scandal, U.S.