Obama collects 121 million phone records daily with the help of Democrats and the GOP in Congress

We are becoming what we fought against

A bi-partisan Big Brother spies on the phone records of 121 million

Verizon customers every day.

By Gary;

The American Sheeple are rapidly turning into the frightened, spineless, ball-less and financially dependent wards of the all-powerful bi-partisan Big Brother Surveillance State.

The Republic is Dead.  Long Live Big Brother.

Both of the Big Brother worshiping American political parties are eagerly supporting and funding the coming police state that forced Verizon to turn over the daily phone records of their 121 million customers to the Department of Homeland Security.

The law on which this insane fascist order explicitly relies is the "business records" provision of the USA Patriot Act which was renewed in 2011 by a Democrat Senate and a GOP House.

The Bill of Rights has almost no meaning to the liar political hacks and their appointed Federal judges.

The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon under a top secret court order issued in April.

The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the UK Guardian, requires Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries.

The document shows for the first time that under the regime of Comrade Obama the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.

The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Fisa) granted the order to the FBI on April 25, giving the government unlimited authority to obtain the data for a specified three-month period ending on July 19 reports the UK Guardian.

Under the terms of the blanket order, the numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data, call duration, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of all calls. The contents of the conversation itself are not covered.

The Guardian approached the National Security Agency, the White House and the Department of Justice for comment in advance of publication on Wednesday. All declined. The agencies were also offered the opportunity to raise specific security concerns regarding the publication of the court order.

The court order expressly bars Verizon from disclosing to the public either the existence of the FBI's request for its customers' records, or the court order itself.

"We decline comment," said Ed McFadden, a Washington-based Verizon spokesman.

The order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson, compels Verizon to produce to the NSA electronic copies of "all call detail records or 'telephony metadata' created by Verizon for communications between the United States and abroad" or "wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls".

The order directs Verizon to "continue production on an ongoing daily basis thereafter for the duration of this order". It specifies that the records to be produced include "session identifying information", such as "originating and terminating number", the duration of each call, telephone calling card numbers, trunk identifiers, International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) number, and "comprehensive communication routing information".

It is not known whether Verizon is the only cell-phone provider to be targeted with such an order, although previous reporting has suggested the NSA has collected cell records from all major mobile networks. It is also unclear from the leaked document whether the three-month order was a one-off, or the latest in a series of similar orders.

Reagan appointed Federal Judge Roger Vinson
Judge Vinson issued a blanket top secret order to spy on virtually every
person in the U.S.  The political labels of Liberal or Conservative have no
meaning.  You either believe in Constitutional Freedom or you worship the State.

The court order appears to explain the numerous cryptic public warnings by two US senators, Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, about the scope of the Obama administration's surveillance activities.

For roughly two years, the two Democrats have been stridently advising the public that the US government is relying on "secret legal interpretations" to claim surveillance powers so broad that the American public would be "stunned" to learn of the kind of domestic spying being conducted.

Because those activities are classified, the senators, both members of the Senate intelligence committee, have been prevented from specifying which domestic surveillance programs they find so alarming.

Now FBI wants back door to all software
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The FBI is unhappy that there are communications technologies that it cannot intercept, and wants a new requirement that software makers and communications companies create a back door so they can listen in when they want.

But a team of technology experts warns that would be nothing more than handing over to the nation’s enemies abilities they are not capable of developing for themselves.

According to the FBI, is a plan to fine companies when they fail to comply with wiretap orders, essentially requiring all companies to build a back door for wiretap capabilities into all their communications links reports World Net Daily.
But a report by the Center for Democracy & Technology warns of unintended consequences.

“Wiretap functionality allows covert access to communications that can be exploited not only by law enforcement, but by criminals, terrorists, and foreign military and intelligence agencies,” the report said. “Wiretap endpoints will be vulnerable to exploitation and difficult to secure.”


CIA Spying On You Through Your Refrigerator

Verizon's New DVR Will Spy On You
Google TV, Microsoft, Comcast, and now Verizon have all submitted patent applications to create televisions and DVRs that will watch you as you watch TV.



John Boehner's CYA Dance - If you believe him I have some swamp land to sell

Bullshit Alert!

John Boehner "demands" answers on NSA/phone records
programs that the GOP created and funds

GOP leaders must think you are really fucking stupid.

Republican House Speaker John Boehner did a Cover Your Ass press conference on Thursday.  The Speaker called on the Obama regime to provide answers regarding a government-sponsored surveillance program of U.S. telephone customers, even though Congress apparently has received frequent updates on the secret probe.

What a joke.

• The GOP controlled House passed the Patriot Act and other bills creating the unconstitutional surveillance Police State.
• The GOP House passes bill after bill to grow the funding of the Police State.
• And the GOP House intelligence committees have first hand knowledge of all the secret surveillance of the American people.

The Republican Party is up to their nose in creating an unconstitutional Police State, but Boehner claims he needs "answers" to help fool Republican voters who think their party actually wants small government.

Boehner, at his weekly news conference at the Capitol, told reporters the probe raises “public policy and civil liberties concerns” and asked President Obama to “explain to the American people why the administration considers this a critical tool in protecting our nation from the threats of a terrorist attack.”

But Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee told reporters Thursday they’ve long known about the program and that NSA’s collection of Verizon records is nothing unusual.

Read more at:  Washington Times

FBI - NSA are mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies

Big Brother is Watching You

Step right up.  No search warrants needed.

The public finds out about the Internet spy program jointly created and

funded by the Democrats and Republicans.

Police State  -  The "conflict" between the "Liberal" Democrats and the "Conservative" Republicans is as phony as a three dollar bill.  Both parties eagerly work together to create, grow and fund an unconstitutional 1984 Surveillance State.

The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time.

The highly classified program, code-named PRISM, has not been disclosed publicly before. Its establishment in 2007 and six years of exponential growth took place beneath the surface of a roiling debate over the boundaries of surveillance and privacy.

Even late last year, when critics of the foreign intelligence statute argued for changes, the only members of Congress who knew about PRISM were bound by oaths of office to hold their tongues reports the Washington Post.



An internal presentation on the Silicon Valley operation, intended for senior analysts in the NSA’s Signals Intelligence Directorate, described the new tool as the most prolific contributor to the President’s Daily Brief, which cited PRISM data in 1,477 articles last year.

According to the briefing slides, obtained by The Washington Post, “NSA reporting increasingly relies on PRISM” as its leading source of raw material, accounting for nearly 1 in 7 intelligence reports.

That is a remarkable figure in an agency that measures annual intake in the trillions of communications. It is all the more striking because the NSA, whose lawful mission is foreign intelligence, is reaching deep inside the machinery of American companies that host hundreds of millions of American-held accounts on American soil.

The technology companies, which participate knowingly in PRISM operations, include most of the dominant global players of Silicon Valley. They are listed on a roster that bears their logos in order of entry into the program: “Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.” PalTalk, although much smaller, has hosted significant traffic during the Arab Spring and in the ongoing Syrian civil war.

Dropbox , the cloud storage and synchronization service, is described as “coming soon.”
Government officials declined to comment for this article.

11 year old suspended for saying "gun", Sheriffs grill the child & invade family home

Police State

Maryland School Suspends 11-Year-Old Boy for Saying the Word “Gun” While on a Bus

• The Fascist school sent home an ‘intrusive’ four page questionnaire covering topics ranging from mental health to how many guns and weapons the family owned.
• A sheriff interrogated the child without the knowledge or permission of the parents.
• A sheriff shows up at the family home and demands to search the property without a warrant to make sure the home was "clear" of guns.

Fascism comes to America  -  An 11-year-old boy who hopes to become a Navy SEAL was suspended from a Maryland school after he used the word ‘gun’ in a conversation on board a school bus.

The sixth-grader at Northern Middle School in Owings was talking with a group of friends about the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre when the bus driver overheard the conversation.

“He said, ‘I wish I had a gun to protect everyone from the bad guys,’’ said Bruce Henkelman, the boy’s father. “He wanted to be the hero.”

Henkelman, who first shared his story with radio station WMAL, told Fox News that his son was interrogated by Principal Darrel Prioleau and a deputy sheriff – without their knowledge or permission.

“The principal told me if you say the word gun in my school – you will face a ten day suspension,” he said.



Really, is there anyone more fucking stupid than an "educator"?

The incident happened just after the Sandy Hook shootings. Henkleman said he finally decided to speak out after a 5-year-old boy in their county was suspended for 10 days after he brought a toy cap gun onto a school bus.

Since the incident happened a day before winter break, the principal reduced the suspension to one day. But the family was ordered to complete an ‘intrusive’ four page questionnaire and the deputy sheriff said he would have to search their home — without a warrant.

“But he was emphasizing that it warranted a 10-day suspension,” he said.

Robin Welsh, the deputy superintendent for school system, confirmed to Fox News that the incident occurred. She also said there was misinformation about the case. However, she declined to go into any details citing federal and local confidentiality laws reports Fox News.

Welsh did point out that the principal of the middle school did nothing wrong.

“The principal followed our policies and procedures and absolutely did handle it in an appropriate manner,” she said.

Henkelman told Fox News that he is outraged over his son’s treatment at the hands of the school.
“I keep telling him that he did nothing wrong,” he said. “At the very least the principal owes him an apology. Our personal rights were violated.”

Henkelman, a retired Navy veteran, said his son is an honors student who pitches for the local baseball team. And the boy wants to be a Navy SEAL.

“That’s the context of the comments he made on the bus,” he said. “He wants to be a hero.”

“He’s infatuated with the Navy SEALS,” he said. “He thinks they’re great – how they go and save the world. The context was to protect people just like the police department does with their guns.”

After Henkelman picked up his son from school, the deputy sheriff said he would need to search their home.

“I said, by what authority and he said that he had to make sure the house is clear of guns,” he said.

The deputy arrived at their home 15 minutes later armed with a four-page questionnaire.

The 11 year old dared to say in public that he wanted to
grow up to be a navy SEAL like his Dad.

“I was uncomfortable answering the questions,” he said. “But I was told if I don’t fill this form out – he would not be allowed back in school.”

The questions covered topics ranging from mental health to how many guns and weapons the family owned.

“They were very intrusive questions,” he said.

At some point, the deputy said he had to search the home. They got as far as the kitchen when Henkelman decided to feel uneasy.

“I asked him to leave,” he said. “The deputy became agitated and said he would get a search warrant. I said that’s what I needed.”

After the deputy left, Henkelman called the sheriff’s department. He was told over the phone that officers would not be searching his home.

The deputy later returned to complete the four-page document.

Henkelman said he’s speaking out because he never got answers from the school district.

“When I tried to get to the bottom of this – they refuse to answer any of my questions,” he said.”I called the director of transportation and he would not put anything in writing. I told him that was very cowardly.”



"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
Daniel Webster
Congressman, US Senator, Secretary of State
Federalist Party

"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."
George Washington

An Assault on Freedom of the Press

By Judge Andrew Napolitano

The firestorm commenced by the revelation of the execution of a search warrant on the personal email server of my Fox News colleague James Rosen continues to rage, and the conflagration engulfing the First Amendment continues to burn; and it is the Department of Justice itself that is fanning the flames.

As we know from recent headlines, in the spring of 2010, the DOJ submitted an affidavit to a federal judge in Washington, D.C., in which an FBI agent swore under oath that Rosen was involved in a criminal conspiracy to release classified materials, and in the course of that conspiracy, he aided and abetted a State Department vendor in actually releasing them. The precise behavior that the FBI and the DOJ claimed was criminal was Rosen’s use of “flattery” and his appeals to the “vanity” of Stephen Wen-Ho Kim, the vendor who had a security clearance. The affidavit persuaded the judge to issue a search warrant for Rosen’s personal email accounts that the feds had sought.

The government’s theory of the case was that the wording of Rosen’s questions to Kim facilitated Kim’s release of classified materials, and Rosen therefore bore some of the criminal liability for Kim’s answers to Rosen’s questions. Kim has since been indicted for the release of classified information (presumably to Rosen), a charge that he vigorously denies. Rosen has not been charged, and the DOJ has said it does not intend to do so.

The government knew that Rosen committed no crime — not as a conspirator nor as an aider and abettor — by asking Kim for his opinion on the likely North Korean response to the then-pending U.N. condemnations of North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile tests. By telling a federal judge, however, that Rosen somehow was criminally complicit in the release of classified information by the manner in which he put questions to Kim, the DOJ substantially misled the judge into signing a search warrant, which, when executed, would enable the feds to read Rosen’s private emails. Then, by reading them the feds were led to Fox News telephone numbers in New York City and in Washington, which they since have acknowledged they have monitored.

When asked at a congressional hearing just two weeks ago on May 15 to address this, Attorney General Eric Holder replied: “With regard to the potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material, that is not something that I have ever been involved in, heard of or would think would be a wise policy.”

Whether under oath or not, because Holder spoke in his official capacity before a congressional committee in its official capacity, he was legally bound to tell the truth and legally bound not to mislead the committee.

Last Thursday, President Obama in a speech on national security stated, “Journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs. Our focus must be on those who break the law.” The next day, the DOJ leaked to NBC News the inconvenient truth that Holder had personally authorized seeking the search warrant for Rosen’s personal emails; and over the long holiday weekend, the DOJ confirmed that.

What’s going on here? Isn’t the Attorney General bound by the same laws to tell the truth as the rest of us are? Doesn’t the First Amendment protect from criminal prosecution and government harassment those who ask questions in pursuit of the truth?

The answers to these questions are obvious and well grounded. One of Holder’s predecessors, Nixon administration Attorney General John Mitchell, went to federal prison after he was convicted of lying to Congress.

The same Attorney General who told Congress he had “not been involved” in the Rosen search warrant before the DOJ he runs revealed that he not only was involved, he personally approved the decision to seek the search warrant, must know that the Supreme Court ruled that reporters have an absolute right to ask any questions they want of any source they can find. The same case held that they cannot be punished or harassed because the government doesn’t like the answers given to their questions. And the same case held that the if answers concern a matter in which the public is likely to have a material interest, they can legally be published, even if they contain state secrets.

The whole purpose of the First Amendment is to permit open, wide, robust, even unfettered debate about the government. That debate cannot he held in an environment in which reporters can be surveilled by the government because of their flattery. And the government cannot serve the people it was elected to serve when its high-ranking officials can lie to or mislead the congressional committees before which they have given testimony.

The great baseball pitcher Roger Clemens spent a few million dollars successfully defending himself against charges brought by Holder’s DOJ, which accused him of doing what Holder himself has arguably done. Is this the government in a free society? Is this what you expect from the government in a free society? And when reporters clam up because they don’t like the feds breathing down their necks when they reveal inconvenient — or even innocuous — truths about the government, don’t we all suffer in our ignorance?

COPYRIGHT 2013 ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO


Andrew P. Napolitano, is a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, and the senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel. Judge Napolitano has written seven books on the U.S. Constitution. The most recent is Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom.

 

 

 

DHS: "We can search you without a warrant"

Constitution?  What Constitution?

Dept. of Homeland Security: Laptops, phones can be searched based on hunches without a search warrant

U.S. border agents should continue to be allowed to search a traveler’s laptop, cellphone or other electronic device and keep copies of any data on them based on no more than a hunch, according to an internal Homeland Security Department study.

The report uses potential crime as the excuse to violate the Bill of Rights.  The DHS contends the Constitutional limiting of such searches would prevent the U.S. from detecting possible child pornographers or terrorists and expose the government to lawsuits somewhere in the future. 

Pure 100% Bullshit.

The 23-page report was obtained by The Associated Press and the American Civil Liberties Union under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. 


The report provides a rare glimpse of the Obama administration’s thinking on the long-standing but controversial practice of border agents and immigration officers searching and in some cases holding for weeks or months the digital devices of anyone trying to enter the U.S. reports CBS News.

Since his election, Comrade Barack Obama has taken an expansive view of legal authorities in the name of national security.

Obama is asserting that he can order the deaths of U.S. citizens abroad who are suspected of terrorism without involvement by courts, investigate reporters as criminals and — in this case — read and copy the contents of computers carried by U.S. travelers without a good reason to suspect wrongdoing.

The DHS study, dated December 2011, said the border searches do not violate the First or Fourth amendments, which prohibit restrictions on speech and unreasonable searches and seizures. It specifically objected to a tougher standard in a 1986 government policy that allowed for only cursory review of a traveler’s documents.

The Homeland Security report was prepared by its Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

The ACLU, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and other groups have sued to stop the practice, saying that it violates First and Fourth amendment rights.

Jennifer Lawrence - X-Men: Days of Future Past

X-Men: Days Of Future Past

Jennifer Lawrence takes a meal in full Mystique body paint

Screw the IRS scandal and Obama authoritarianism.  There is something far more important to the world:  Jennifer Lawrence is back as Mystique in X-Men: Days of Future Past due out in 2014.

So far 2013 is set to be a bang up year with Iron Man 3, Man of Steel, The Wolverine, and Thor: The Dark World.

Blue skinned naked female mutants.  What is there not to like?  But I am the ultimate sci fi / comic hero freak.  So drooling over Mystique is almost a weekly occurrence.

Jennifer Lawrence is best known for her role in The Hunger Games.


Jennifer Lawrence

So the paparazzi are zeroing in on the set of X-Men: Days of Future Past in Montreal.

The UK Daily Mail reports that the Oscar-winning actress was keen to maintain her curves as she took advantage of a break in filming to enjoy a meal.

Jennifer previously revealed she actually enjoyed the seven-hours in make-up required for her to appear as the shape-shifting mutant Mystique.

She said: 'There was no CG for me. It’s the same technology and the same methods they were using on Rebecca Romijn, the original Mystique ten years ago.

'I know everybody feels sorry for me, but we’re having so much fun. It’s like a sleepover, except I’m naked and being painted.'

But that did not stop her looking relieved when she finally emerged from her make-up trailer after having it removed.

X-Men: Days of Future Past is scheduled to be released on July 18, 2014 and while focusing on the cast of First Class, it also features series stalwarts Patrick Stewart, Sir Ian McKellen and Halle Berry.
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Read more:  UK Daily Mail.
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And more:  X-Men: Days of Future Past
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List of American superhero films

X-Men: Days of Future Past.  Jennifer on the set.

X-Men: First Class - Charles Meets Mystique 

X-Men: First Class - Charles, Erik meet Wolverine

Turkey: "Our only goal is an Islamic state"

Turkish PM Erdogan Describes Constitution As 'A Huge Lie':  'Sovereignty Belongs Unconditionally and Always To Allah'; 'One Cannot Be a Muslim, and Secular'

• The Islamist Turkish Leadership and Islamist Saudi Arabia support the rebels in Syria.  What does that tell you Senator McCain?

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose political origins are with the Milli Gorus – the radical and political Islamist movement founded by the former Islamist PM Erbakan - often attacked Turkey's secular regime and its constitution.

A video clip of one of PM Erdogan's speeches, delivered during his term as Istanbul’s mayor (1994-1998), can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg3hkWCnA8c

The following are excerpts from the speech:

PM Erdogan on Secularism:

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"If the people want it, of course secularism will go away. You cannot rule this people by force; you don't have the power to do that. This [i.e. secularism] cannot work in spite of the people.

"And anyway, for the love of Allah, what is this secularism? You ask them to define it. They can't. They say that it varies from place to place. So what sort of a strange thing is this [secularism]?

"But the fact is that 99% of the people of this country are Muslims. You cannot be both secular and a Muslim! You will either be a Muslim, or secular! When both are together, they create reverse magnetism [i.e. they repel one another]. For them to exist together is not a possibility! Therefore, it is not possible for a person who says 'I am a Muslim' to go on and say 'I am secular too.' And why is that? Because Allah, the creator of the Muslim, has absolute power and rule!"

"Our reference [guide] is Islam. Our only goal is an Islamic state. They can never intimidate us. If the skies and the earth open up, if storms blow on us, if the lava of volcanoes flow on us, we will never change our way. My guide is Islam. If I cannot live according to Islam, why live at all? [Turk], Kurd, Arab, Caucasian cannot be differentiated; because these peoples are united under the roof of Islam." [from his Dec. 6, 1997 speech], [Hurriyet, Sep. 24, 1998].

Read more at Atlas Shrugs.


Turkey witnesses fiercest anti-government protests in years

Secular protesters in Ankara, Turkey.

Turkey’s "Arab Spring" shakes its Islamist rulers


Turkey’s deputy prime minister offered an apology for a violent crackdown on an environmental protest, in a bid to appease days of anti-government rallies across Turkey as hundreds of riot police deployed around the prime minister’s office in the capital Tuesday.

Bulent Arinc, who is standing in for the prime minister while he is out of the country, said the crackdown was “wrong and unjust,” reports the Washington Post.

Protesters objected to the trees being felled to turn one of Istanbul’s last open parks into a mall. But after police attacked a peaceful sit-in with tear gas and water cannon last week, protests quickly morphed into a full-scale riot and spawned copy-cat demonstrations across the country. Hundreds of thousands of people turned out to express their disapproval of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies.

They are fed up with the actions of their increasingly authoritarian and Islamist prime minister.

Turkey is technically a secular Muslim republic and a democracy — and perennial supplicant for European Union membership. It is also a NATO member and key U.S. ally in the Syrian civil war.

But Erdogan has a track record of riding roughshod over opponents’ rights and freedoms: prosecuting the military on the flimsiest of charges (and ignoring due process); jailing more than 40 journalists for coverage deemed critical of the government; and introducing Islamic-friendly legislation, from restricting alcohol sales to changing the rules about women wearing headscarves in public institutions, such as universities — banned by the revered founder of the republic, the resolutely secularist Kemal Ataturk.

The force of the uprising caught Erdogan by surprise. His response was an autocrat’s classic: he blamed provocateurs and foreign powers who wanted to attack Turkishness. Protesters were a few “looters” deceived by opposition parties and irresponsible social media. In response, the crowds that had been thinning out out regrouped. They could be joined Tuesday by thousands of public servants striking in solidarity.


RAW FOOTAGE of the Turbulence in Turkey MASSIVE PROTESTS

No burqas for us!

Protesters wave the flag of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
who created the modern secular Turkey.

Obama's pro-Muslim IRS supports Islamists, attacks Tea Party

Obama's IRS Restored Islamist CAIR’s Tax Exempt Status in Midst of Tea Party Targeting Scandal


At the same time the Internal Revenue Service delayed or denied requests for tax-exempt status from hundreds of conservative non-profit groups, it was quietly restoring the tax-exempt status of an Islamist front group accused of collaborating with terrorists.

Last year, the politicized agency reinstated the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations’ tax-exempt status despite years of delinquent tax filings. CAIR officials had met with officials inside the White House before the decision was made.

Though Democrat-connected CAIR did not officially endorse Obama, many of its staffers helped turn out the Muslim vote for his re-election. CAIR boasted that its own polling showed more than 85 percent of Muslim-Americans voted for Obama reports World Net Daily.

In 2011, the IRS stripped the group’s national office of its nonprofit status for failure to file annual tax reports as required by federal law.

The moved followed requests by then-Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., and other congressional leaders asking the IRS to investigate after the 2009 bestseller “Muslim Mafia” called attention to CAIR’s missing IRS filings and foreign donations.

During the years CAIR failed to disclose its donors to the government, it solicited funds from Libya, Sudan and other terror-sponsoring foreign governments, according to “Muslim Mafia.” CAIR is not registered as a foreign agent.

CAIR repeatedly failed to file its annual disclosure report, IRS Form 990. CAIR blames a clerical error for the delinquency and claims to have completed the forms. However, several news organizations, including Politico.com and Gannett Co., have asked CAIR for the 2007-2010 documents, and CAIR has not been able to produce them.
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“Given CAIR’s status as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror-financing case, this failure to comply with federal disclosure laws is all the more troubling,” U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, the co-chairman of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, wrote the IRS in a separate request for investigation in 2011.

CAIR’s terrorist ties run deep. The Justice Department lists it among U.S. front groups for Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization. And several CAIR officials have been convicted or deported on terrorism-related charges.

The FBI says that until suspicious ties between the leadership of CAIR and that of Hamas are resolved, it will no longer work with CAIR as a partner in counter-terrorism efforts.

Obama's IRS gives tax-exempt status to Islamist CAIR while
Conservative Tea Party groups are targeted.

A Conservative attack on the Bill of Rights

A Law and Order Police State

In a 5-4 vote the Supreme Court says the police can invade your body and take your DNA without a warrant from a judge

For reasons of their own, the Bill of Rights has been under assault on an almost daily basis by both the Left and the Right.

Conservatives often knee-jerk to grant the already centralized All-Powerful State more and more power to "protect" us.  Liberals often vote to grow the State just on the general principal that State power is good.  Both sides have less and less interest in our Constitutional rights.

But party lines got mixed up a bit when a sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday said police can routinely take DNA from people they arrest, equating a DNA cheek swab to other common jailhouse procedures like fingerprinting.

The Supreme Court says your
body can be invaded by the State.

Speaking for four Conservatives and one liberal justice, Anthony Kennedy said, "Taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee DNA is, like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment." But the four dissenting justices said that the court was allowing a major change in police powers.

Justice Antonin Scalia:  "Make no mistake about it: because of today's decision, your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason."

All 50 states and the federal government take cheek swabs from convicted criminals to check against federal and state databanks, with the court's blessing. The fight at the Supreme Court was over whether that DNA collection could come before conviction and without a judge issuing a warrant.

The Republican Scalia was joined in his dissent by Democrat Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

Kennedy wrote the decision, and was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas (all Republicans) and Stephen Breyer (a Clinton appointed Democrat).


(Associated Press)

Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia
He was joined by three Democrat Justices in defending the 4th Amendment.

“Our independence and the Fourth Amendment go hand in hand. They emerged together. To discount or to dilute the Fourth Amendment would be to deny really what constitutes our very republic.”
Senator Rand Paul
(Constitutional Federalist - Kentucky)