1. Breaking news this morning, ICE intel chief plead guilty to a $550,000 embezzlement charge today. More than this charge, an ICE informant wired 1.5 million to overseas, terror related organizations for which an investigation was finalized, last year. Of course, Obama is not to blame for this, but it happened on his watch; it is an intelligence agency that is compromised and, it is a fact that Obama has said or done nothing, directly, to deal with this problem (source: FoxNews and Military Photos.net)
2. Fast and Furious is a second and developing scandal. Obama/Eric Holder have refused to be transparent in this case, redacting (blackening out with a 'magic marker') 90% of the 6,000 pages sent to the House committee in charge of investigating this idiocy and the related deaths of two Federal against. There remains more than 80,000 pages of documentary evidence to be handed over and none of the documents critical to the investigation have been given to the House subcommittee. Both Obama and Holder have been given subpoenas and both have simply refused, saying "no," giving no reason other than, "the subpoena was written by a partisan committee." Of course, ALL congressional subpoenas are "partisan" by nature. Such is not a legal argument, but who, in this Administration, gives a hoot about the law? Anyway, this scandal is not going away.
3. Solyndra, is another developing Administration scandal. Obama has refused to corporate with the ongoing investigation and questions of "insider deals" are increasing in the $560,000 million dollar boondoggle overseen by Obama and his staff.
4. You might be surprised with this: questions continue to surface concerning GM. Over and over again, GM is praised for being an Obama success. Problem: its stock is selling for 23 dollars per share, down from its IPO of $33 per share back in November of 2010, representing a potential loss of millions of dollars if the stock was sold today, a year and a half after its IPO. There is the matter of the 132 million dollars GM still owes the American taxpayers, not to mention the question of where the $6.6 billion in loan payments (1st quarter, 2010) came from, in view of the fact that GM did not make a profit in any of the four quarters of 2009, losing 4.4 billion dollars in the 2009 4Q, alone. As long as these questions remain unanswered, this blog will follow this story.
Update and end notes:
We could add at the several Secret Service scandals beginning with the exposure of the Columbia incident -- again, something that occurred on Obama's watch; something for which Bush would have been excoriated had he been the President.
Also, beginning with reports on May 1, we have what appears as a tragic diplomatic error, a compromise, if you will, with the Chinese and the refusal to offer asylum to a Chinese official and defector. see the story here.
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