Monthly Archives: July 2011

July 25 2011 Blagojevich appeal deadline, Wiretaps sealed, 2 percent of recordings reveal Obama connections

Posted on July 22, 2011 | 57 comments

July 25 2011 Blagojevich appeal deadline, Wiretaps sealed, 2 percent of recordings reveal Obama connections

“Why was Obama in constant contact with Tony Rezko in 2004 when Rezko was conspiring with William Cellini to use TRS, Teacher Retirement Fund, assets for political gain and personal enrichment?”…Citizen Wells

“I believe I’m more pristine on Rezko than him.”…Rod Blagojevich

“There is enough corruption in Illinois so that all it takes is someone who is serious about finding it to uncover it. If a U.S. attorney is not finding corruption in Illinois, they’re not seriously looking for it.”…Northwestern Law Professor James Lindgren

Rod Blagojevich has until July 25, 2011 to appeal his convictions. The denial by Judge Zagel of the defense motion to unseal the wiretap evidence may be justification enough.

From Citizen Wells July 18, 2011.

The Federal rules on discovery are crystal clear.

“Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure”

“IV. ARRAIGNMENT AND PREPARATION FOR TRIAL > Rule 16.

Rule 16. Discovery and Inspection

(a) Government’s Disclosure.

(1) Information Subject to Disclosure.”

“(B) Defendant’s Written or Recorded Statement.

Upon a defendant’s request, the government must disclose to the defendant, and make available for inspection, copying, or photographing, all of the following:

(i) any relevant written or recorded statement by the defendant if:

•the statement is within the government’s possession, custody, or control; and
•the attorney for the government knows — or through due diligence could know — that the statement exists;”

Read more

Only 2 percent of the wiretaps were released. From that small amount we learn the following.

With this much information revealed about Obama in 2 percent of the wiretaps, the other 98 percent should have enough to hang him. Of course the US Justice Department and Obama’s buddy Eric Holder won’t let that happen.

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Social Security entitlement?, We paid they wasted, Congress gets entitlements, Real ponzi scheme

Posted on July 22, 2011 | 33 comments

Social Security entitlement?, We paid they wasted, Congress gets entitlements, Real ponzi scheme

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”…Abraham Lincoln

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”…Abraham Lincoln

Social Security entitlement? My ass. Every time I hear that word I get furious. We paid, the ones of us who worked, into this system and were given no choice in the matter. The following email resonated with me.

“What the “H” is wrong?

Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only 30K over your working life, that’s close to $220,500. If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer’s contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the govt. Pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working (me) you’d have $892,919.98. If you took out only 3% per year, you receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years, and that’s with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit! If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you’d have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month. The folks in Washington have pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madhoff ever had.

I didn’t try to clean up the language in this message. It makes a better impact as it is.
Entitlement my ass , I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!! Just because they borrowed the money , doesn’t make my benefits some kind of charity or handout !! Congressional benefits , aka. Free healthcare , outrageous retirement packages , 67 paid holidays , three weeks paid vacation , unlimited paid sick days , now that’s welfare , and they have the nerve to call my retirement entitlements !!!!!!”

“What the HELL’s wrong??? WAKE UP AMERICA !!!!”

And by the way Rush Limbaugh, I have heard you refer to social security as a entitlement. I hope that you were being sarcastic.

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ATF Whistleblower retaliation by Justice Department, Fast and Furious probe, Senator Charles Grassley warning

Posted on July 21, 2011 | 11 comments

ATF Whistleblower retaliation by Justice Department, Fast and Furious probe, Senator Charles Grassley warning

“Why did Attorney General Eric Holder lie to Congress about ATF Operation “Fast and Furious”?…Citizen Wells

“Why has Obama, since taking the White House, used Justice Department Attorneys, at taxpayer expense,  to avoid presenting a legitimate birth certificate and college records?”…Citizen Wells and millions of concerned Americans

From NPR July 21, 2011.

“ATF Whistleblower Case Triggers Retaliation Inquiry”

“The Justice Department’s inspector general has opened an investigation into possible retaliation against a whistle-blowing agent at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to two people briefed on the inquiry.

Watchdogs are examining whether anyone at the Justice Department improperly released internal correspondence to try to smear ATF agent John Dodson, who told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee last month that he repeatedly warned supervisors about what he called a reckless law enforcement operation known as “Fast and Furious.”

Republican lawmakers in both the House and Senate have spent months pursuing allegations that the ATF may have knowingly allowed assault weapons to enter Mexico in order to try to build bigger criminal cases against violent drug cartels that make use of AK-47s and other American weapons.

In recent days, GOP lawmakers have demanded information about what the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and senior Justice Department leaders may have known about the investigation into gun trafficking along the Southwest border and the strategies that agents pursued.

“Simply put, during this operation … we, the ATF, failed to fulfill one of our most fundamental obligations: to caretake the public trust [and], in part, to keep guns out of the hands of criminals,” Dodson told lawmakers last month.

Many of the guns purchased by straw buyers in Arizona at gun shops under ATF surveillance in 2009 and 2010 later turned up at the scenes of violent crime, including the murder last December of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

Officials say tests are inconclusive about whether the weapons found near Terry’s body were used to shoot him. Terry’s family has hired former Arizona U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton to look into filing a wrongful death claim.

Dodson and three other ATF agents told Congress in June that they had serious concerns about Fast and Furious, but they said they couldn’t get any of their supervisors to listen.

Now, the inspector general is looking into whether one of Dodson’s memos, written last year, may have been shared with reporters in an effort to raise doubts about the extent of his involvement in the operation and to discredit him.”

Read more:

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/21/138574291/watchdogs-examine-smear-against-atf-agent?ps=cprs

Thanks to commenter Anonymouse.

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Chicago Tribune can journalism survive Murdoch?, Sean Hannity journalism died in 2008, Citizen Wells welcome to the age of Big Brother

Posted on July 21, 2011 | 12 comments

Chicago Tribune can journalism survive Murdoch?, Sean Hannity journalism died in 2008, Citizen Wells welcome to the age of Big Brother

“the Times of the nineteenth of December had published the official forecasts of the output of various classes of consumption goods in the fourth quarter of 1983, which was also the sixth quarter of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. Today’s issue contained a statement of the actual output, from which it appeared that the forecasts were in every instance grossly wrong. Winston’s job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones.”…George Orwell, “1984”

“The past, he reflected, had not merely been altered, it had
actually been destroyed. For how could you establish, even
the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside
your own memory?”…George Orwell, “1984″
“The (American) press, which is mostly controlled by vested
interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.”… Albert Einstein

I would have chuckled at the recent Chicago Tribune headline except for the fact that this is so damn scary.

“Can journalism survive Murdoch?”

From the Chicago Tribune July 20, 2011.

“Inevitably, someone will rise to the generic defense of journalism and give Murdoch “victim” status, but that would be very wrong.

I am not suggesting that Murdoch, the modern day media equivalent of, at the very least, the East India Trading Co., knew that his minions were hacking phone and email accounts and corrupting police officers and whatnot.

But he certainly set the tone.

Bottom feeding, a key management strategy in a fractured British journalism that aims very sophisticated, gritty publications at every level of the culture, will do that.

As anyone in media can tell you, there’s a fortune to be made in giving people what they think they want. This development has already transformed American journalism.

Reporters are now advised to be marketers and fundraisers and advertising-sensitive purveyors of events aimed at “building audience.” You have to bring your ‘tude to political reporting, too, just like Rush Limbaugh and Rachel Maddow and all the rest.

Regular old-fashioned news (as honest a report as one can create of something that happened a minute ago) just isn’t good enough anymore.”

“Murdoch’s debacle, which started quite some time ago with Fleet Street level competition for “news” so bold a pirate would be aghast, may well bring down his empire. (It has already led to shuttering of News of the World, a screamer of a Sunday paper, England’s biggest, that made bottom feeding one of its key menu items).

The scandal may also eventually undermine David Cameron’s government, which has been cozy with the media baron and his associates over time, and lead to even more embarrassment for the police. There were bribes to cops for information. Two key authorities have already stepped down and, my guess is, more will be saying farewell.

What does it all mean to American journalism?

First, as journalism continues to mutate and re-create itself and become even more audience obsessed, it’s pleasant to think of a time when reporters saw themselves as defenders of what was right, of the interests of the people.

There may well not have been a civil rights era in America without the press and TV news. And while John F. Kennedy may have been the president who called for a trip to the moon, Walter Cronkite was the national host who raised the engineering and physics of space travel to poetry and read it right into the living rooms of the nation.

Yes, things have changed.

The people who decided journalism was a profit center managed to squeeze the profit very well. They did not simply throw out the baby with the bath water, they simply crushed the little critter.”

Read more:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0720-murdoch-20110720,0,1972931.story#start

This is a good article from the Tribune. However, what happened over at the Chicago Tribune? In the years leading up to and through the Tony Rezko trial, the Tribune did a pretty good job of reporting. After that, with the exception of John Kass, the Chicago Tribune  in lockstep with the rest of the mainstream media has given Obama a free ride. Where is the reporting on Obama and his ties to Chicago corruption and Operation Board Games as well as Obama’s eligibility issues? And what about the multiple articles from the Tribune disappearing. Were they hitting too close to home?

In 2008, Sean Hannity stated that journalism died.

It is worse than that. Starting way before 2008, “news” organizations began morphing into entertainment sites and ultimately brainwashing tools for the Big Brother of cash and ideological control.

Welcome to the age of Big Brother.

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Donald Trump still skeptical, Obama birth certificate, Settling the controversy once and for all?, Citizen Wells trumps Trump

Posted on July 21, 2011 | 24 comments

Donald Trump still skeptical, Obama birth certificate, Settling the controversy once and for all?, Citizen Wells trumps Trump

“Why has Obama, since taking the White House, used Justice Department Attorneys, at taxpayer expense,  to avoid presenting a legitimate birth certificate and college records?”…Citizen Wells and millions of concerned Americans

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed
–if all records told the same tale–then the lie passed into
history and became truth. “Who controls the past,” ran the
Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present
controls the past.”…George Orwell, “1984″

From the Daily Caller July 21, 2011.

“Trump still skeptical of Obama’s birth certificate”

“Now that he’s no longer interested in a run for the White House, at least for the time being,  it would make sense for real estate mogul Donald Trump to drop the whole “birther controversy” subject, right?

But Trump isn’t. In an appearance on Wednesday’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” on CNN, Trump revisited the topic and refuted claims of racism. However, he added there are still some questions surrounding President Barack Obama’s birth certificate.

“The word racist has not been applied to me, I will tell you that,” Trump said. “But I was very proud of the job I did with respect to the birther issue, because I got Obama to do something which nobody else was able to get him to do. And there’s a real question as to why he took so long to do it. Maybe one of these days you’ll have to ask him why. And you have to check out that document very carefully.”

Trump said he was proud of the progress he made in settling the controversy once and for all.”

Read more:

http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/21/trump-still-skeptical-of-obamas-birth-certificate/
“settling the controversy once and for all.”

I don’t think so!

Citizen Wells trumps Trump with the following:

Major General Paul Vallely and 10 CIA Agents say Obama birth certificate a forgery.

 

Thanks to commenter observer

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ATF director Kenneth E. Melson, Justice Department protects political appointees, Media lies, Fast and Furious run out of Phoenix office

Posted on July 20, 2011 | 38 comments

ATF director Kenneth E. Melson, Justice Department protects political appointees, Media lies, Fast and Furious run out of Phoenix office

“As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any partiucular number of the Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in it’s stead. This process of continuation alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound tracks, cartoons, photographs–to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to be correct; nor was any item of news, or expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to be on record.”…George Orwell, “1984″

“When you pick up your morning or evening newspaper and think
you are reading the news of the world, what you are reading
is a propaganda which has been selected, revised, and doctored
by some power which has a financial interest in you.”
…. Upton Sinclair

From the LA Times July 19, 2011.
“The Justice Department is trying to protect its political appointees from the Fast and Furious scandal by concealing an internal “smoking gun” report and other documents that acknowledge the role top officials played in the program that allowed firearms to flow illegally into Mexico, according to the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Kenneth E. Melson, the ATF’s acting director, also told congressional investigators this month that the affidavits prepared to obtain wiretaps used in the ill-fated operation were inconsistent with Justice Department officials’ public statements about the program. Justice Department officials advised him not to raise his concerns with Congress about “institutional problems” with the Fast and Furious operation, Melson said.

 
“It was very frustrating to all of us,” Melson told congressional investigators in a private meeting over the Fourth of July holiday, “and it appears thoroughly to us that the department is really trying to figure out a way to push the information away from their political appointees at the department.”

Not only was the department slow to react, Melson said, but Justice Department officials indicated they did not want him to cooperate with Congress.

A transcript of his comments was released Monday by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Melson said he wasn’t attempting to shield his agency from its share of the blame. He acknowledged an instance in which his agents failed to intercept high-powered weapons when they could have.

“The deputy attorney general’s office wasn’t very happy with us” at the ATF, Melson said, “because they thought this was an admission that there were mistakes made. Well, there were some mistakes made.””
“The intent of Fast and Furious was to allow illegal straw purchasers to buy guns so ATF agents could follow the weapons and ferret out gun-smuggling routes into Mexico. But many of the approximately 1,700 weapons eluded tracing — some even before they were shipped over the border.

Nearly 200 of the weapons were later found at crime scenes in Mexico, and two were recovered at the scene of a U.S. Border Patrol agent’s slaying in Arizona in December.

Melson said the Justice Department repeatedly thwarted his attempts to tell investigators about the failures of Fast and Furious, which was run out of the ATF’s Phoenix field office. When the ATF reassigned managers in Phoenix, he said, “the department resisted” his offer to tell Congress about the changes. Melson said he was told not to issue any news releases about Fast and Furious and was instructed not to brief rank-and-file ATF agents about the growing scandal.”

Read more:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-guns-scandal-20110719,0,2052417.story

Remember the Orwellian attempt by Media Matters to discredit the Fox report on “Fast and Furious” and the Arizona connection?

From Citizen Wells July 8, 2011.

“Media Matters, is the following an Orwellian word smithing and attempt to discredit the report?

“In fact, stimulus funds earmarked for Project Gunrunner were not distributed in Arizona, where a GOP report indicates Fast and Furious took place.”

We know that the ATF purchased the weapons for Project Gunrunner, aka Fast and Furious. The Stimulus Bill paragraph states:

“to provide  assistance and equipment to local law enforcement along the
Southern border and in High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas to 
combat criminal narcotics activity stemming from the Southern
border”

Arizona is still on the southern border isn’t it?”

Read more:

https://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/fast-and-furious-funded-by-stimulus-atf-project-gunrunner-10-million-from-2009-act-media-lies/

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Blagojevich appeal strategy will reveal more about setup, Protecting Obama, Crucify Blagojevich or off the hook?

Posted on July 19, 2011 | 56 comments

Blagojevich appeal strategy will reveal more about setup, Protecting Obama, Crucify Blagojevich or off the hook?

“Why was Obama in constant contact with Tony Rezko in 2004 when Rezko was conspiring with William Cellini to use TRS, Teacher Retirement Fund, assets for political gain and personal enrichment?”…Citizen Wells

“I believe I’m more pristine on Rezko than him.”…Rod Blagojevich

“There is enough corruption in Illinois so that all it takes is someone who is serious about finding it to uncover it. If a U.S. attorney is not finding corruption in Illinois, they’re not seriously looking for it.”…Northwestern Law Professor James Lindgren

We await the appeal of Rod Blagojevich. He was convicted of most counts remaining after counts 1,2 and 4 were removed by the Justice Department. You know, the Justice Department headed by liar and Obama buddy Eric Holder. As reported here yesterday, denying the motion from the Blagojevich defense team to unseal recorded conversations that were wiretapped, appears to be a huge argument to support the appeal and possibly part of the setup. The question is, was Blagojevich picked as the fall guy or will he end up with a slap on the wrist?

From the defense motion.

“A Protective Order was entered on the evidence in this case on April 14, 2009. Blagojevich has made prior requests to release recordings and other evidence in this case (the most recent filing of this nature was on February 8, 2011, Pacer Document #602). The instant request is of a global nature and requests that the Protective Order be lifted in its entirety.”

“The defense is put in the disadvantaged position of having to examine all filings to be sure the Protective Order has not been violated. The defense must also carefully craft arguments in such a manner to not violate the Protective Order. This impairs counsel‟s ability to vigorously and zealously defend Blagojevich. Yet the government is not circumscribed at all by the Protective Order. It is a fundamentally unfair playing field.”

“A recent example: Blagojevich filed a Motion for Discovery to Obtain Contents of Missing Telephone Calls, which was heavily and painstakingly redacted prior to filing.”
“Indeed, the parameters for recording wiretapped conversations are such that the F.B.I. is only to record conversations that it believes are pertinent to the charges that form the basis for the wiretap authorization. With thousands of recordings, making up many hundreds of hours, one would think the government would seek to play as much as possible to meet its heavy burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. However, the opposite is true – the government has released and played in court only fractions of a fraction (approximately 2%) of the recordings. If Blagojevich has violated the law, as the government alleges, why would the government seek to keep the evidence under lock and key?”

“If the prosecution is indeed interested in the truth, and not just seeking a notch-in-the-belt conviction, then the government should not challenge this request to lift the Protective Order.”

““The public prosecutor cannot take as a guide for the conduct of his office the standards of an attorney appearing on behalf of an individual client. The freedom elsewhere wisely granted to a partisan advocate must be severely curtailed if the prosecutor‟s duties are to be properly discharged. The public prosecutor must recall that he occupies a dual role, being obligated, on the one hand, to furnish that adversary element essential to the informed decision of any controversy, but being possessed, on the other, of important governmental power that are pledged to the accomplishment of one objective only, that of impartial justice. Where the prosecutor is recreant to the trust implicit in his office, he undermines confidence, not only in his profession, but in government and the very ideal of justice itself.””

“Moreover, the Protective Order prevents the whole truth from being heard. This not only violates the prosecution‟s ethical duties to „do justice‟ but instead leads to a vast injustice against Blagojevich.”

http://www.prnewschannel.com/pdf/Blagojevich_Protective_Order_2-17-11.pdf

Regardless of how this plays out, it benefits Obama. If there is no appeal or the appeal is denied, Blagojevich will be sequestered. If the appeal proceeds, it could drag out beyond impacting the 2012 election cycle. The intent is obvious.

We got the following from 2% of the wiretaps that were released. What damning comments are contained in the rest?

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Blagojevich appeal, Federal rules of Criminal Procedure, Denial of tapes setup?, Federal Discovery rules clear

Posted on July 18, 2011 | 29 comments

Blagojevich appeal, Federal rules of Criminal Procedure, Denial of tapes setup?, Federal Discovery rules clear

“Why was Obama in constant contact with Tony Rezko in 2004 when Rezko was conspiring with William Cellini to use TRS, Teacher Retirement Fund, assets for political gain and personal enrichment?”…Citizen Wells

“I believe I’m more pristine on Rezko than him.”…Rod Blagojevich

“There is enough corruption in Illinois so that all it takes is someone who is serious about finding it to uncover it. If a U.S. attorney is not finding corruption in Illinois, they’re not seriously looking for it.”…Northwestern Law Professor James Lindgren

I have researched, analyzed and lived with Operation Board Games and the Chicago corruption involving Tony Rezko, Stuart Levine, Rod Blagojevich, Barack Obama, et al for over 3 years. I am sticking with the following conclusion I came to.

The fix was in in 2006. Blagojevich, who had been the presumptive presidential candidate until then was exposed. Barack Obama would replace him and he had to be protected. That is why the prosecution of Blagojevich was delayed and dragged out. There is more to this saga.

We are awaiting news of the Blagojevich appeal. Was this a setup too or was Blagojevich designated as the sacrificial lamb?

From the Chicago Tribune June 28, 2011.

“Blagojevich appeal likely to revisit complaint about tapes”

“Rod Blagojevich and his lawyers have long complained that prosecutors and the judge in his two trials were fundamentally unfair, but after his sweeping corruption conviction Monday, only a successful appeal built on that belief stands between the former governor and a possible double-digit prison sentence.

From early denials of Blagojevich’s demands to “play all the tapes” in his case, to U.S. District Judge James Zagel’s limiting of the former governor’s defense at his retrial, Blagojevich has always felt handcuffed, said one of his lawyers, Sam Adam Jr.

“If you look at the whole process, he was condemned from the moment he was arrested,” contended Adam, who took part in the first trial, which ended largely deadlocked.

Blagojevich was convicted on 17 corruption charges, including all 11 counts alleging he sought something of value for himself to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama after his 2008 election as president.

Blagojevich, who has been found indigent by the court, will likely seek to have a lawyer appointed in the coming weeks to represent him in the appeal, Adam said. Taxpayer money would be used to pay for that attorney.

The appeal will likely argue that in both trials, the judge unfairly barred the defense from playing many undercover recordings critical to its case, severely limited cross-examination of government witnesses and allowed too many jurors who professed bias onto the panel, Adam said.

The government was allowed to play at trial more than 90 of the secretly made recordings of Blagojevich, Adam said, while the defense was allowed just four.

“The jury only got to hear one side of the tapes,” Adam said. “If you do that, you’re going to guarantee a conviction.”

In a mistrial motion filed June 9 as closing arguments were under way, the team of defense lawyers at the retrial accused Zagel of bias and having a “closed mind” on the evidence.”

Read more:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-06-28/news/ct-met-blagojevich-appeal-20110628_1_sam-adam-undercover-recordings-zagel

The Federal rules on discovery are crystal clear.

“Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure”

“IV. ARRAIGNMENT AND PREPARATION FOR TRIAL > Rule 16.

Rule 16. Discovery and Inspection

(a) Government’s Disclosure.

(1) Information Subject to Disclosure.”

“(B) Defendant’s Written or Recorded Statement.

Upon a defendant’s request, the government must disclose to the defendant, and make available for inspection, copying, or photographing, all of the following:

(i) any relevant written or recorded statement by the defendant if:

•the statement is within the government’s possession, custody, or control; and
•the attorney for the government knows — or through due diligence could know — that the statement exists;”

http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/Rule16.htm

Was this part of the setup?

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Obama birth certificate, Media lies, Rupert Murdoch and Fox as bad as MSNBC, Orwellian misinformation Misleads Congress and Americans

Posted on July 17, 2011 | 28 comments

Obama birth certificate, Media lies, Rupert Murdoch and Fox as bad as MSNBC, Orwellian misinformation Misleads Congress and Americans

“If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world but I am sure we would be getting reports from hell before breakfast.”… William Tecumseh Sherman

“The (American) press, which is mostly controlled by vested
interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.”… Albert Einstein

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it”…Joseph Goebbels

Well, Howard Coble, Congress and Americans, if you did not believe what has been written here and elsewhere about Fox and the mainstream media misleading the American public about Obama’s birth certificate, perhaps you will now.

From Citizen Wells July 16, 2011.

“The motives of Rupert Murdoch, the primary owner of Fox and other “news” organizations, have been suspect for years. Even Fox, which purports to be fair and balanced, misled the American public with Bill O’Reilly’s comments about researching Obama’s birth certificate, which was a lie, and the article a few months ago by Jana Winter which misquoted a OCR expert regarding the legitimacy of the WhiteHouse.gov image, another lie. So it comes as no surprise to find out about the latest unethical behaviour by Rupert Murdoch’s organizations.”

“Repercussions should rain down on Rupert Murdoch and his News Corporation
Rupert Murdoch’s withdrawal of his bid for British Sky Broadcasting should not be temporary. The scandal is expanding because employees engaged in unethical and, possibly, illegal methods of information gathering. Throw the book at them.”

“The scandal is expanding rather than fading because it is clear that Murdoch employees engaged in numerous dirty tricks to obtain information.

The FBI has opened a preliminary review into News Corp., trying to determine if employees hacked into the phones of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Agents are trying to figure out if they should progress to a full investigation and if U.S. law gives them jurisdiction to bring charges.”

https://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/rupert-murdoch-organizations-unethical-methods-fbi-news-corp-probe-fox-misled-and-lied-to-americans-bill-oreilly-jana-winter/
From Citizen Wells July 3, 2011.

“Did Fox make a deal with the devil?”

“ The Saudi billionaire, Al-waleed bin Talal, is a friend of News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch and controls an influential number of voting shares in the company.”

“ The second-largest holder of voting stock in News Corp. is Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, a nephew of the Saudi king. And through his philanthropies, Waleed has given generously to initiatives pursued by the imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf.”

“Glenn Beck stated he was  leaving with his soul on his last Fox TV show .”

https://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/fox-and-obama-controlled-by-saudis-glenn-beck-leaves-with-soul-beck-seeks-honest-system-i%e2%80%99m-not-going-to-play-the-game-anymore/
MSNBC lived up to it’s reputation of covering for Obama with this article
“But Wisch, the spokesman for the attorney general’s office, said state
law does not in fact permit the release of “vital records,” including
an original “record of live birth” — even to the individual whose
birth it records.

“It’s a Department of Health record and it can’t be released to
anybody,” he said. Nor do state laws have any provision that
authorizes such records to be photocopied, Wisch said. If Obama wanted
to personally visit the state health department, he would be permitted
to inspect his birth record, Wisch said.

But if he or anybody else wanted a copy of their birth records, they
would be told to fill out the appropriate state form and receive back
the same computer generated “certification of live birth” form that
everybody else gets — which is exactly what Obama did four years ago.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42519951/ns/politics-more_politics/t/ex-hawaii-official-denounces-ludicrous-birther-claims/
The first statement is pure Orwellian.

“But Wisch, the spokesman for the attorney general’s office, said state
law does not in fact permit the release of “vital records,” including
an original “record of live birth” — even to the individual whose
birth it records.”

Obviously they can not release the original. A true certified copy will suffice.

“Nor do state laws have any provision that
authorizes such records to be photocopied, Wisch said.”

Oh really…

“§338-13  Certified copies.  (a)  Subject to the requirements of sections 338-16, 338-17, and 338-18, the department of health shall, upon request, furnish to any applicant a certified copy of any certificate, or the contents of any certificate, or any part thereof.

     (b)  Copies of the contents of any certificate on file in the department, certified by the department shall be considered for all purposes the same as the original, subject to the requirements of sections 338-16, 338-17, and 338-18.

     (c)  Copies may be made by photography, dry copy reproduction, typing, computer printout or other process approved by the director of health. [L 1949, c

327, §17; RL 1955, §57-16; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §19; HRS §338-13; am L 1978, c 49, §1”

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol06_Ch0321-0344/HRS0338/HRS_0338-0013.htm

And how do we know this is true?

From the Post & Email April 10, 2011.

““What he got, everybody got,” said Fukino. “He put out exactly what everybody gets when they ask for a birth certificate.”

Not true, Dr. Fukino. When my son, Alan, requested a copy of his birth certificate he got just that—a “Certificate of Live Birth,” not the same as Obama’s.

Different titles and different information. Obama’s is sorely lacking information required for obtaining a passport—Mother’s State/Country of Birth and

Father’s State/Country of Birth.”
“It appears specific people are lining up to take a bullet for Obama. Conspiracy to defraud the American people is a serious crime and MSNBC has become the epitome of yellow journalism, brashly covering-up for Obama and the entire anti-American agenda of the socialist left. This latest cover-up attempt is laughable and speaks volumes to the desperation of the Democrat Party.

Michael Isikoff writes, “But Wisch, the spokesman for the attorney general’s office, said state law does not in fact permit the release of “vital records,” including an original “record of live birth” — even to the individual whose birth it records.

“It’s a Department of Health record and it can’t be released to anybody,” he said. Nor do state laws have any provision that authorized such records to be photocopied, Wisch said. If Obama wanted to personally visit the state health department, he would be permitted to inspect his birth record, Wisch said.

But if he or anybody else wanted a copy of their birth records, they would be told to fill out the appropriate state form and receive back the same computer -generated “certification of live birth” form that everybody else gets — which is exactly what Obama did four years ago.”

Not true, Mr. Wisch. A friend of mine filled out the appropriate state form and received back a “certificate of live birth” as shown below:”

http://www.thepostemail.com/2011/04/10/hawaii-official-and-ex-official-lie-to-cover-their-tracks/

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Rupert Murdoch organizations unethical methods, FBI News Corp. probe, Fox misled and lied to Americans, Bill O’Reilly Jana Winter

Posted on July 16, 2011 | 78 comments

Rupert Murdoch organizations unethical methods, FBI News Corp. probe, Fox misled and lied to Americans, Bill O’Reilly Jana Winter

“The (American) press, which is mostly controlled by vested
interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.”… Albert Einstein

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed
–if all records told the same tale–then the lie passed into
history and became truth. “Who controls the past,” ran the
Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present
controls the past.”…George Orwell, “1984″

The motives of Rupert Murdoch, the primary owner of Fox and other “news” organizations, have been suspect for years. Even Fox, which purports to be fair and balanced, misled the American public with Bill O’Reilly’s comments about researching Obama’s birth certificate, which was a lie, and the article a few months ago by Jana Winter which misquoted a OCR expert regarding the legitimacy of the WhiteHouse.gov image, another lie. So it comes as no surprise to find out about the latest unethical behaviour by Rupert Murdoch’s organizations.

From the Seattle Times July 15, 2011.
“Repercussions should rain down on Rupert Murdoch and his News Corporation
Rupert Murdoch’s withdrawal of his bid for British Sky Broadcasting should not be temporary. The scandal is expanding because employees engaged in unethical and, possibly, illegal methods of information gathering. Throw the book at them.

WHEN it rains, it pours, and the storm continues for media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his much-maligned News Corporation. Deservedly so.

Murdoch withdrew his $12 billion bid for what would have been complete control of satellite giant British Sky Broadcasting. Actions should have consequences and the despicable actions of his employees, namely widespread hacking into cellphone messages, mean his operation should lose the big prize the company sought for a long time and face scrutiny and other repercussions.

Any organization that thinks it is hunky-dory to allow employees to engage in unethical and probably illegal methods of acquiring news and information, such as hacking people’s cellphone messages, should pay a big price.

The scandal is expanding rather than fading because it is clear that Murdoch employees engaged in numerous dirty tricks to obtain information.

The FBI has opened a preliminary review into News Corp., trying to determine if employees hacked into the phones of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Agents are trying to figure out if they should progress to a full investigation and if U.S. law gives them jurisdiction to bring charges.

Meanwhile, Murdoch and his son, James, have agreed to testify before Parliament. They need to explain what they knew, when they knew it and how on Earth phone hacking is legal or moral.”

Read more:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2015625055_edit16murdoch.html?prmid=op_ed

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