The Dirty Dem Dogs of Disruption
Here come the hyper-partisan hounds.
A new nonprofit called American Oversight launched this week to combat President Trump's "culture of impunity." The outfit declared itself "nonpartisan" and claims its crusaders will fight for a "transparent and ethical government."
But like Waylon Jennings once crooned, "Baby, that dog won't hunt."
These Democrat operatives aren't interested in accountability. Their mission is to attack, obstruct and destroy their political opponents at all costs.
Executive Director and Obama donor Austin Evers is certainly familiar with the "culture of impunity." He worked as a lawyer at Williams and Connolly -- the firm representing Hillary Clinton and the same firm that boasts longtime Clinton consigliere David Kendall, who shepherded scandal-ridden Bill and Hill through Whitewater, Lewinsky-gate and Email-gate. Evers had zero experience handling public records and classified document requests before he was hired by the State Department in 2015 to be Hillary's information blocker. But the ethical olfactory nerves of the Democrats suddenly shut down over the clear conflict of interest.
"At the very least, this suspect arrangement raises questions about the State Department hiring process," GOP Rep. Bob Goodlatte complained to the agency's inspector general. "At worst, it suggests willful obstruction by handpicked Clinton associates at the State Department on behalf of former Secretary Clinton, to ensure damaging or incriminating documents never saw the light of day."
American Oversight also employs Obama donor John Bies, who served as counselor to former corruptocrat Obama Attorney General Eric Holder. Bies and Holder worked together at white-shoe law firm Covington and Burling. That's the same law firm that represented 17 Yemeni terror suspects held at Gitmo -- including at least a dozen who rejoined al-Qaida after being freed.
Among Holder's countless subversions of transparency was his refusal to cough up the names of appointees who had been involved in legal work on behalf of Gitmo detainees.
In February 2010, after 9/11 families raised hell, GOP Sen. Charles Grassley finally forced Holder to acknowledge that at least nine DOJ attorneys officially represented or served as advocates for Gitmo detainees before joining the Obama administration. But he still refused to reveal their identities. Bies was one of the suspected nameless abettors.
That kind of backside-covering secrecy and conflict of interest cover-up are government failings that American Oversight senior advisor Melanie Sloan might have once protested. But the ethics watchdog who formerly helmed Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington abandoned nonpartisanship eons ago. Under her leadership, CREW occasionally targeted corrupt Democrats, including Maxine Waters and William "Cold Cash" Jefferson. But in the end, her radical funders -- George Soros, the Tides Foundation and the Democracy Alliance -- traded her in for rabid attack dog David Brock.
Sloan then got mired in her own apparent pay-for-play scandal. After forming a consulting business, she reportedly solicited a $40,000 donation from one of her clients, Herbalife, to CREW, which published a website attacking an investor who called the company a pyramid scheme.
Sloan now heads a crisis management outfit called Triumph Strategy with Michael Huttner, a far-left operative and founder of ProgressNow. That's the Democrat group of nonprofit satellites funded with startup money from billionaire George Soros and the Democracy Alliance, whose board members include former SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger and ACORN embezzlement cover-upper Drummond Pike.
American Oversight ain't about cleaning up corruption. It's about disruption for the sake of disruption.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/malkin-dirty-dem-dogs-disruption
A new nonprofit called American Oversight launched this week to combat President Trump's "culture of impunity." The outfit declared itself "nonpartisan" and claims its crusaders will fight for a "transparent and ethical government."
But like Waylon Jennings once crooned, "Baby, that dog won't hunt."
These Democrat operatives aren't interested in accountability. Their mission is to attack, obstruct and destroy their political opponents at all costs.
Executive Director and Obama donor Austin Evers is certainly familiar with the "culture of impunity." He worked as a lawyer at Williams and Connolly -- the firm representing Hillary Clinton and the same firm that boasts longtime Clinton consigliere David Kendall, who shepherded scandal-ridden Bill and Hill through Whitewater, Lewinsky-gate and Email-gate. Evers had zero experience handling public records and classified document requests before he was hired by the State Department in 2015 to be Hillary's information blocker. But the ethical olfactory nerves of the Democrats suddenly shut down over the clear conflict of interest.
"At the very least, this suspect arrangement raises questions about the State Department hiring process," GOP Rep. Bob Goodlatte complained to the agency's inspector general. "At worst, it suggests willful obstruction by handpicked Clinton associates at the State Department on behalf of former Secretary Clinton, to ensure damaging or incriminating documents never saw the light of day."
American Oversight also employs Obama donor John Bies, who served as counselor to former corruptocrat Obama Attorney General Eric Holder. Bies and Holder worked together at white-shoe law firm Covington and Burling. That's the same law firm that represented 17 Yemeni terror suspects held at Gitmo -- including at least a dozen who rejoined al-Qaida after being freed.
Among Holder's countless subversions of transparency was his refusal to cough up the names of appointees who had been involved in legal work on behalf of Gitmo detainees.
In February 2010, after 9/11 families raised hell, GOP Sen. Charles Grassley finally forced Holder to acknowledge that at least nine DOJ attorneys officially represented or served as advocates for Gitmo detainees before joining the Obama administration. But he still refused to reveal their identities. Bies was one of the suspected nameless abettors.
That kind of backside-covering secrecy and conflict of interest cover-up are government failings that American Oversight senior advisor Melanie Sloan might have once protested. But the ethics watchdog who formerly helmed Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington abandoned nonpartisanship eons ago. Under her leadership, CREW occasionally targeted corrupt Democrats, including Maxine Waters and William "Cold Cash" Jefferson. But in the end, her radical funders -- George Soros, the Tides Foundation and the Democracy Alliance -- traded her in for rabid attack dog David Brock.
Sloan then got mired in her own apparent pay-for-play scandal. After forming a consulting business, she reportedly solicited a $40,000 donation from one of her clients, Herbalife, to CREW, which published a website attacking an investor who called the company a pyramid scheme.
Sloan now heads a crisis management outfit called Triumph Strategy with Michael Huttner, a far-left operative and founder of ProgressNow. That's the Democrat group of nonprofit satellites funded with startup money from billionaire George Soros and the Democracy Alliance, whose board members include former SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger and ACORN embezzlement cover-upper Drummond Pike.
American Oversight ain't about cleaning up corruption. It's about disruption for the sake of disruption.
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Having no real power in the federal government, democrats are trying to disrupt it. They have no sense of honor and put party over country.
Having no real power in the federal government, democrats are trying to disrupt it.
If Dems have no real power in the federal government, then why in the name of all things pointless do you feel the need to seed silly things like this day after day after day?
And just for the record, dear, research can be an invaluable ally when seeding an article with such an obvious agenda-laden premise. That way, you save yourself from taking on the uneducated and otherwise buffoonistic qualities of the author. Amen?
They have no sense of honor and put party over country.
Perfect description of the GOP the last 8 years. Then again they have been that way since Ford left office.
GOP Rep. Bob Goodlatte complained to the agency's inspector general. "At worst, it suggests willful obstruction by handpicked Clinton associates at the State Department on behalf of former Secretary Clinton, to ensure damaging or incriminating documents never saw the light of day."
GOP Rep. Bob Goodlatte, huh?
Want to talk about "dirty" …
House GOP drops Goodlatte's plan to gut ethics office after backlash from Trump
osted: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 12:23 pm
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — A day of pageantry to open the 115th Congress and usher in a new period of Republican governance was overtaken Tuesday by an embarrassing reversal on ethics oversight, with the GOP gripped by internal division and many lawmakers seeking to shield themselves from extensive scrutiny.
The 19 hours of tumult was set in motion the night before behind closed doors at the Longworth House Office Building, where Republican lawmakers, led by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Roanoke County, decided over the objections of Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to amend House rules to effectively gut the independent Office of Congressional Ethics.
They awoke Tuesday to an intense public outcry. Social media lit up with criticism of representatives trying to rein in the ethics office created a decade ago in the aftermath of scandals. Angry constituents inundated their representatives’ offices with calls of protest. Journalists peppered lawmakers with questions. The halls of the Capitol felt chaotic.
IF HE'S TOO F'N DIRTY FOR TRUMP … HE COULD'NT BE ANY DIRTIER.
And it takes iron balls to bitch about about an oversight group when FIVE OF TRUMP'S CABINET MEMBERS COMMITTED PERJURY DURING THEIR CONFIRMATION HEARINGS!
American Oversight Will Do the Job that Congress Won't
New Watchdog Demands DOJ Investigation of Records Law Violations
Investigators Will Use Public Records and Legal Challenges to Uncover Misconduct Across Executive Branch Agencies
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congress has abdicated its constitutionally mandated oversight responsibilities of the executive branch – from failing to vet individuals before they take office to explicitly refusing to investigate conflicts of interest and misconduct. In response to that inaction, American Oversight, a new, non-partisan, ethics organization launched today to hold the administration accountable to the American people.
The 501(c)(3) group will rely on state and federal public records laws and other investigative and legal tools to uncover and publicize information about malfeasance and corruption by administration officials.
American Oversight is led by experienced litigator Austin Evers who will serve as Executive Director and ethics expert Melanie Sloan who will serve as Senior Advisor. Evers and Sloan will be supported by an in-house litigation team and outside counsel who will be retained for project-specific work.
“Right now, there’s a perfect storm of corruption and scandal brewing. President Trump is creating a culture of impunity across his administration and yet Congress refuses to fulfill its constitutional responsibility of conducting oversight,” said Austin Evers, Executive Director of American Oversight.
“American Oversight will hold the administration accountable by filling the void left by Congress,” said Senior Advisor Melanie Sloan. “Americans across the political spectrum demand an ethical government. If Congress won’t do its job and investigate wrongdoing, we will.”
Today, American Oversight asked the Department of Justice and the U.S. National Archives to investigate the use of non-governmental email and messaging apps – some of which automatically delete messages – to conduct government business. Failing to preserve such communications may violate federal law, including the Federal Records Act and the Presidential Records Act. Previously, Congress conducted aggressive oversight investigations when concerned that administration officials, such as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, might have violated federal record-keeping laws.
“No one is above the law. If members of the new administration are breaking the law by using personal email accounts or encrypted applications, they must be held accountable,” said Evers. “The Justice Department and National Archives should immediately investigate these potentially illegal communications.”
American Oversight will post its information requests, complaints, and legal actions on its website, AmericanOversight.org, which also includes a link for anyone with information about potential government misconduct to share tips or documents.
To read American Oversight’s letters calling on Attorney General Sessions and Archivist of the United States Ferriero to investigate the use of non-government systems for official business, click HERE .
To view the Freedom of Information Act requests submitted by American Oversight click HERE .
What that particular congressman did or didn't do elsewhere on other issues is of no relevance to this seed except for you to use to derail as is your way here.
I'm back, I'm kickin' ass and taking names.
Oh, whatever. Nice derail posts having nothing to do with the topic of the seed. Please use your moderator powers to remove them so I don't have to ask someone else.
IMHO his comments are right on topic.
Oh, whatever. Nice derail posts having nothing to do with the topic of the seed. Please use your moderator powers to remove them so I don't have to ask someone else.
THE TOPIC?
Well let's see …
From the seeded article YOU POSTED …
"GOP Rep. Bob Goodlatte complained to the agency's inspector general."
"A new nonprofit called American Oversight launched this week to combat President Trump's "culture of impunity."
My comments DIRECTLY ADDRESSED those two items!
If you don't have the stomach to deal with comments that ADDRESS WHAT YOU POST … then don't post.
Take your talking down to, smug condescending arrogance to others seeds. And don't even presume to tell me what to do.
But you can't dispute it with a reasoned argument XX.
Sad
Take your talking down to, smug condescending arrogance to others seeds. And don't even presume to tell me what to do.
Don't throw the first punch and you won't get counter-punched.
Your disingenuous "derail" charge initiated the exchange … after which you doubled down.
Save the tough talk and have a tougher skin when posting seeds with incendiary allegation headlines like "Dirty Dem Dogs of Disruption".
What you call "condescending arrogance" is more correctly referred to as "standing up to demonizations from political sycophants."
What a brilliant, intelligent, well thought out and adult response. /s
A usual one from you. You never fail to hit the lowest common denominator and never fail to surprise when people have the lowest opinion of you.
Take your talking down to, smug condescending arrogance to others seeds. And don't even presume to tell me what to do.
If you don't want a disagreement or and argument, then you shouldn't post so much disagreeable or argumentative crap like you do. On NT everyone has a right to post comments in anyone eles' article, even in cesspools like yours, so you don't get to tell people to take it somewhere else.
"operatives aren't interested in accountability. Their mission is to attack, obstruct and destroy their political opponents at all costs.
Executive Director and Obama donor Austin Evers is certainly familiar with the "culture of impunity." He worked as a lawyer at Williams and Connolly -- the firm representing Hillary Clinton and the same firm that boasts longtime Clinton consigliere David Kendall, who shepherded scandal-ridden Bill and Hill through Whitewater, Lewinsky-gate and Email-gate. Evers had zero experience handling public records and classified document requests before he was hired by the State Department in 2015 to be Hillary's information blocker. But the ethical olfactory nerves of the Democrats suddenly shut down over the clear conflict of interest.
"At the very least, this suspect arrangement raises questions about the State Department hiring process," GOP Rep. Bob Goodlatte complained to the agency's inspector general. "At worst, it suggests willful obstruction by handpicked Clinton associates at the State Department on behalf of former Secretary Clinton, to ensure damaging or incriminating documents never saw the light of day."
American Oversight also employs Obama donor John Bies, who served as counselor to former corruptocrat Obama Attorney General Eric Holder. Bies and Holder worked together at white-shoe law firm Covington and Burling. That's the same law firm that represented 17 Yemeni terror suspects held at Gitmo -- including at least a dozen who rejoined al-Qaida after being freed.
Among Holder's countless subversions of transparency was his refusal to cough up the names of appointees who had been involved in legal work on behalf of Gitmo detainees.
In February 2010, after 9/11 families raised hell, GOP Sen. Charles Grassley finally forced Holder to acknowledge that at least nine DOJ attorneys officially represented or served as advocates for Gitmo detainees before joining the Obama administration. But he still refused to reveal their identities. Bies was one of the suspected nameless abettors.
That kind of backside-covering secrecy and conflict of interest cover-up are government failings that American Oversight senior advisor Melanie Sloan might have once protested. But the ethics watchdog who formerly helmed Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington abandoned nonpartisanship eons ago. Under her leadership, CREW occasionally targeted corrupt Democrats, including Maxine Waters and William "Cold Cash" Jefferson. But in the end, her radical funders -- George Soros, the Tides Foundation and the Democracy Alliance -- traded her in for rabid attack dog David Brock."
"operatives aren't interested in accountability. Their mission is to attack, obstruct and destroy their political opponents at all costs.
That's not a definition, it's a biased, editorial comment.
OPERATIVE … noun
a worker, especially a skilled one in a manufacturing industry.
Good to know the VA is doing right by you; I had occasion to have dealings with the VA facilty in Reno, Nevada ... The staff there was as good as it gets. Not all the bad press given to the VA is justified.
Best wishes to your wife.
Peace, Gunny.
My best wishes to you and your wife also Gunny.
Yes, Gunny, best wishes from me too.
And from me. I hope both of you take turns for better and more stable health.