Obozo Receives "Lie Of The Year" Award From NBC
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Posted By: Watchman
Date: Friday, 13-Dec-2013 14:58:07
Date: Friday, 13-Dec-2013 14:58:07
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NBC Politics Fact-checking organization Politifact has named their “Lie of the Year,” and it’s bad news for the White House and the Affordable Care Act. President Barack Obama’s often-repeated assertion that “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it,” won the ignominious honor for 2013, the group announced. In a blog post, Politifact– which is affiliated with the Tampa Bay Times – said Obama’s promise was “impossible to keep” and has resulted in a “real hit to his credibility.” “So this fall, as cancellation letters were going out to approximately 4 million Americans, the public realized Obama’s breezy assurances were wrong,” editor Angie Drobnic Holan wrote. “Boiling down the complicated health care law to a soundbite proved treacherous, even for its promoter-in-chief. Obama and his team made matters worse, suggesting they had been misunderstood all along.” She added that readers in an online poll “overwhelmingly” agreed with the decision. http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/12/21880402-obama-health-care-promise-named-lie-of-the-year?lite |
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New Records Show: Panetta Revealed "Top Secret" Information to Hollywood Filmmaker
The Obama administration has a very simple flow chart for the release of government information. Does the information make the administration look good? If "yes," then release. If "no" then keep secret and stonewall. This policy - certainly not Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) or the president's many promises of transparency - provides the guiding principle for government bureaucrats responding to open records requests.
And this is why we are in federal court so often.
Take, for example, the Obama administration's "role" in producing the film "Zero Dark Thirty." This movie, directed by Academy Award winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal, glowingly showed Obama as an in-command president during the bin Laden raid. The film was originally set to hit theaters just prior to the 2012 elections, ostensibly to aid the Obama re-election efforts, but the premiere was delayed after the filmmakers sustained heavy criticism for the apparent political timing of the film's release.
Of course, the timing of the film aside, there was another key question that dogged the film. Just how did the filmmakers get "top-level access to the most classified mission in history from an administration that has tried to throw more people in jail for leaking classified information than the Bush administration"?
This question became the focal point of a JW investigation and was partially answered this week, when we released records from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), including a previously unreleased CIA internal report confirming that former CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed classified information at a June 24, 2011, bin Laden assault awards ceremony attended by "Zero Dark Thirty" filmmaker Mark Boal.
The documents were produced in response to a June 21, 2013, FOIA lawsuit against the CIA.Significantly, the entire transcript of the Panetta speech provided to Judicial Watch by the CIA is classified "Top Secret." More than 90 lines are redacted for security reasons, further confirming that significant portions of the speech should not have been made in front of the filmmaker who lacked top security clearance.
At the conclusion his speech, the transcript shows Panetta told the audience at the ceremony, "You have made me proud of the CIA family. And you have made me proud as an Italian to know that bin Laden sleeps with the fishes."
Full report at judicialwatch.org
Tom Fitton
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