While IRS officials were targeting Tea Party groups for special scrutiny of their 501(c)3 tax exempt applications, the IRS also hired a policeman who had been prosecuted by the Justice Department — and convicted in federal court — of using his access to the FBI’s NCIC system to tip off a terror suspect about the bureau’s surveillance. The leak wrecked a major terror investigation.
He is still at the IRS.
Freedom Outpost
The ground work has already been laid, that in the event of a national emergency, with a mere stroke of Obama’s pen this is how martial law could play out. This is, in part, what Justice Antonin Scalia referenced last month.
Here are the Executive orders already in place in the event of a national crisis:
Barack Obama reached his tipping point today. I don’t see him recovering from this confluence of events. Today we know for a fact that there is only one avenue left to salvage the rule of law in this country.
Impeachment.
Wonderful!
Via Free Beacon:
Iran is scheduled to receive another $550 million in unfrozen assets from the Obama administration on Friday, just days after Tehran unveiled a slew of new weapons and advanced ballistic missiles.
Iranian banking authorities on Wednesday confirmed that another$550 million is now on its way to Tehran under the interim nuclear accord inked last year with the United States and other Western nations.
The United States has agreed to unfreeze a total of $4.2 billion in Iranian oil assets over the next several months. Experts have warned that because the money is being given to Iran with no strings attached it could go to fund terror-related activities or even Iran’s nuclear program.
The latest cash delivery comes as Tehran unveils a slew of advanced weapons, including ballistic missiles capable of “precision targeting.” Iran was also caught smuggling a shipment of weapons to Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
Iran’s Defense Minister announced on Wednesday that the military had made great progress in approving the accuracy of its ballistic missile guidance system, which Tehran views as a deterrence to the U.S. and Israeli militaries.
Judge Andrew Napolitano weighed in this morning on a new scandal surrounding the ATF. The Justice Department agency, already under fire in recent years over the botched Fast and Furious operation, is now being criticized for its tactics in storefront sting operations, according to a recent investigative report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The sting operations involved phony storefronts, including one in Milwaukee, where ATF agents tried to lure criminals with sales of guns and drugs. In some instances, the shops were close to schools and churches, and minors frequented the storefronts, which included pawn shops and tattoo parlors.
Here are a few highlights from the report:
I received an e-mail the other day informing me that Rhode Island now wants your guns (story here) and now we can add Maryland to the list. What part about shall not be infringed don’t they understand? It’s NOT NEGOTIABLE!!!!!!!!!!! 1 Dragon
The House of Delegates is considering a bill that would link Maryland’s gun registry to its criminal database.
State law requires gun owners to surrender their weapons if they’re convicted of felonies or any violent crimes, but Del. Luiz Simmons, D-Montgomery, said Maryland State Police lack a systematic way of enforcing this. They can’t use their databases to identify gun owners convicted of crimes.
Simmons is chief sponsor of legislation to make that link.
State Police estimate that if they linked the databases, they would find 10 percent of registered gun owners — about 110,000 people — would be disqualified. They estimate a rate of 1 percent each year thereafter.
Under Simmons’ plan, police would run a systematic check at least twice a year.
The Department of Legislative Services believes it would cost about $300,000 to create the database. The department also anticipates a need for seven new full-time troopers to investigate findings from the new database, with a cost of more than $1 million a year for salaries and equipment.
California linked its gun and criminal registries in 2007 and has since sized more than 10,000 guns from people convicted of violent crimes, according to a news release from Simmons’ office. As of last year, the state had identified another 40,000 guns that police needed to track down, the news release states.
There are about1.1 million records in Maryland’s gun registry and more than 3 million in the criminal database, according to the Department of Legislative Services’ report.
Several independent gun advocates submitted written testimony before a Tuesday hearing. They argued against the measure, calling it unnecessary and potentially invasive.
“This smacks of a police state mentality,” said a resident named Ronald Smith.
Simmons was set to testify before the House Judicial Committee Tuesday evening.
Family Security Matters
The Obama Administration is in a death spiral, mortally wounded by its own messianic left-wing ideology, naiveté, incompetence, lawlessness and persistent lying.
Barack Obama aspired to be Jesus by acting like Stalin.
For a change, let’s start being honest about the shameful condition of our political system. If the Constitution and the rule of law had been enforced, instead of the tenets of political correctness, Obama would have already resigned, been impeached or he may not have been elected at all.
Socialism is not the Answer 