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Post by artemis on Jun 19, 2011 12:37:05 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Jul 11, 2011 14:56:02 GMT -5
"Oregon man arrested, accused of threatening Obama
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man has been detained for a mental health evaluation after appearing in federal court Tuesday to face charges that he threatened to kill President Barack Obama and the president's family.
The Secret Service arrested Darryl James Swanson, of Portland, on Friday. Prosecutors say Swanson made threats in numerous phone calls to federal prosecutors' offices in Oregon and Washington, a county government office in Florida, and The Associated Press.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Peifer told a federal judge in Portland that he considered Swanson, 45, a flight risk and a safety risk. Swanson's arraignment was set for next month, when he'll enter a plea.
"I do consider him to be a threat to the community," Peifer told the AP afterward.
According to the criminal complaint, Swanson made threatening calls to a series of government offices, including three to the county commissioner's office in Palm Beach County, Fla., 44 voicemail messages left June 19 with the U.S. attorney's office in Portland, and three calls to the U.S. attorney's office in Seattle on June 30. He was arrested the following day.
He also had called the AP bureau in Seattle on May 2, prosecutors said, leaving a message that said he would seek weapons to shoot the president and his family.
"I may have to get in touch with al-Qaida and get a hold of at least one, possibly two good working machine guns and blast my way into the White House," the voicemail said.
The AP told the U.S. attorney's office and the Secret Service about the call.
The day after the call to the AP, Swanson told Secret Service agent Ronald Brown that he made the call because he was frustrated that the president has not sent him a check for $70 million, which he claims he is owed from a trust fund set up at his birth, court documents show. Brown told him that no trust fund exists.
The Secret Service did not find weapons in Swanson's apartment and warned him not to make threats against the president. But authorities say he continued leaving the angry and threatening messages at the government offices.
In court Tuesday, Swanson consented through his public defender to a mental health evaluation.
Mert Rockney Jr., who described himself as a friend of Swanson's family, said the defendant has struggled with his mental health for more than a decade.
"Darryl's harmless," Rockney said. "He just needs to have someone to intervene with him so he takes the right medication."
Secret Service spokesman Max Milien said the agency doesn't comment on threats made against the president."
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Post by sherlok on Jul 12, 2011 11:17:46 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Aug 30, 2011 5:31:37 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Sept 18, 2011 4:56:34 GMT -5
"Air Force General blows whistle on Obama, but media deaf
"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" "If an Air Force general blows the whistle on the Obama White House, does anyone in the media hear the corruption?"
A United States Air Force general is blowing the whistle on another alleged White House scandal, but few in the news media seem to be listening. According to General William Shelton, the commanding officer of U.S. Air Force's space command, he was told to alter his testimony before the House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Strategic Forces regarding an Obama White House attempt to award a defense contract to the Lightsquared firm. Lightsquared is a high-tech company doing business in Virginia that's owned by billionaire Philip Falcone, an Obama friend and campaign contributor.
According to the National Legal and Policy Center, Phil Falcone had visited the White House and made large cash contributions to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Soon after, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted his LightSquared a highly unusual waiver that allows the company to build out a national 4G wireless network on the cheap. Republican lawmakers say that after Falcon's visit, the Obama White House allegedly tried to push through a Lightsquared's proposed wireless network regardless of the objections emanating from military commanders who believed the project could disrupt key U.S. satellite systems.
At a hearing on Thursday, lawmakers on strategic forces subcommittee, especially the Republican chairman, Michael Turner, requested that the House Oversight Committee investigate if Falcone's company garnered any type of special treatment from the White House or from Obama appointees.
The hearing came after a report by a blogger on a news and commentary web site alleged that the Obama White House pressed General Shelton to downplay his concerns about the proposed Lightsquared system. According to the National Legal and Policy Center, Phil Falcone had visited the White House and made large cash contributions to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Soon after, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted his LightSquared a highly unusual waiver that allows the company to build out a national 4G wireless network on the cheap. "Under extremely unusual circumstances, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently granted a company called LightSquared the right to use wireless spectrum to build out a national 4G wireless network. LightSquared will get the spectrum for a song, while its competitors have to spend billions," according to NLPC's Ken Boehm.
President Obama's underlings deny any wrongdoing, and officials at Lightsquared denied the charges that it is receiving preferential treatment from President Obama or his staff.
Republican staff members on the subcommittee say that the decorated General Shelton told the lawmakers that Obama administration officials urged the general to describe Lightsquared's system favorably during his congressional testimony.
During the hearing, General Shelton told committee members that the wireless broadband network manufactured by Lightsquared would have a negative impact on the current Global Positioning System (GPS) relied on by both the U.S. military and private sector users of the GPS.
General Shelton told the committee members: Tests with Defense Department experts, civilian agencies and others "indicate the LightSquared terrestrial network operating in the originally proposed manner poses significant challenges for almost all GPS users."
The general insisted through his spokesperson on Friday that he had not "watered down his testimony due to alleged White House pressure."
According to a source familiar with the Lightsquared probe, many officers at the Pentagon are highly suspicious of the President, the White House staff and even Obama's appointees at the Defense Department.
Another occurrence being probed is that the allegation that Lightsquared at first offered to sell satellite phones on its network, however the Federal Communications Commission allegedly issued a special waiver to the firm thus allowing sell terrestrial-based wireless service to other companies.
Department of Defense officials. such as General Shelton, in the past have raised concerns about interference with GPS users, and the FCC would then promise to disallow a firm to begin operating their network until after intense testing is carried out to ensure there is no disruption to satellite navigation.
The head of the FCC declined to appear before the committee on Thursday, which the chairman, Turner, called an "affront" to the panel.
Meanwhile, Falcone and Lightsquared executives are taking the offensive by giving Obama-friendly journalists at Politico exclusive interviews.
LightSquared CEO. Sanjiv Ahuja, and its billionaire backer, Phil Falcone, denied all allegations that the wireless company used its political pull with the Obama administration to secure approval of its business plans with the Defense Department.
“It’s just very disappointing that people are not seeing the facts here, and [that] this has become a real political issue,” Falcone, a senior executive at the hedge fund firm Harbinger Capital, said during his Politico interview. “It’s not a function of being a Democrat or a Republican, it’s about trying to be an innovator. … It’s very disappointing and frustrating that we are getting stonewalled like this. … I kinda scratch my head every single day and say I can’t believe this is happening.”
Falcone and Ahuja denied receiving special treatment from the White House or the FCC in their ongoing quest to become the nation’s first wholesale wireless broadband provider, according to Politico.
But some observers see things differently. Mike Baker, a political strategist and a former military officer, believes that this investigation needs to be taken to wherever or whomever it leads. He's like to see a special prosecutor appointed.
"This is a very important national security issue, not some politically-motivated witch hunt like the Valerie Plame-CIA case. But we all know that with the news media protecting this president, the chances of anything being done are slim or none," he quipped.
"First of all, we know what motivates politicians and big business. In the middle you have a career officer who is a four-star general. Whom would you believe? What's in it for General Shelton to make up stories?" Baker asks.
"Let's hope General Shelton sticks to his guns and that more Pentagon and Justice Department officials decide enough is enough from this administration," Baker added. "
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Post by artemis on Nov 19, 2011 6:50:00 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Nov 19, 2011 8:01:09 GMT -5
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Post by beatlies on Nov 19, 2011 16:19:50 GMT -5
Text in above link: Obama's Still Selling 80 Proof 11/16/2011 12:45 PM PST BY TMZ STAFF President Obama's Uncle: Picture Proof ... He's Still Selling 80 Proof Onyango Obama The pictures tell the story ... President Obama's uncle, wheeling and dealing behind a liquor store counter. So there's no doubt, he's still dodging the deportation bullet ... at least for now. Onyango Obama was busted for DUI August 24th in Framingham, Massachusetts ...after almost smashing into a cop car. Immigration officials learned about the arrest, and then discovered the 67-year-old was in the U.S. illegally. In fact, Onyango was on the receiving end of a 1992 deportation order, but it was never enforced.While Onyango challenges the deportation order, the pictures show ... he's making a living at the Conti Liquor Store. He's due in court tomorrow for a hearing on the DUI charge. POTUS President Obama -- I've Never Seen the Kardashian Show President Barack Obama Chickens Out Big Time ... At Roscoe's Barack Obama -- Hangin' with a 'Real Housewife' 133 COMMENTS See More Barack Obama, Celebrity Justice, Photo Galleries Also On TMZ Lindsay Lohan -- FULL FRONTAL Nude for Playboy Justin Bieber's Alleged Baby Mama -- BUSTED by Text Messages Selena Gomez' Alleged Stalker To Be Released -- Criminal Charges DISMISSED Katt Williams -- Questioned By Police After Alleged Theft at Best Buy Natalie Wood's Death -- A Book By Marti Rulli Triggered New Homicide Investigation From Around The Web Photos of Real Housewife of Atlanta Kim Zolciak Before the Wig! (Wetpaint Entertainment) Leeza Gibbons Confession: My Family Was Falling Apart
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Post by treegenus on Nov 23, 2011 11:28:49 GMT -5
Think that was inserted into the program? Where did this really come from? Ha!
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Post by treegenus on Nov 23, 2011 11:37:59 GMT -5
Onyango Obama? Just political link trash talk because he's not even a blood relative of the "Created" Obama!
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Post by treegenus on Nov 23, 2011 11:39:24 GMT -5
This article is STILL the best and I'm posting it on Facebook to the ostriches with their heads in the sand...again! Thanks Sherlok!
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Post by artemis on Nov 24, 2011 6:37:45 GMT -5
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Post by treegenus on Nov 28, 2011 11:08:10 GMT -5
Not even close to - IMO- the reality of the situation but actually an interesting little piece of fiction.
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Post by artemis on Dec 22, 2011 7:17:50 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Dec 31, 2011 6:47:27 GMT -5
"Romney son jokes about Obama's birth certificate
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — One of Mitt Romney's sons has an answer for those who say his father should release his tax returns. He jokes that President Barack Obama should go first and release his birth certificate and other records.
Matt Romney's wisecrack came before an audience in New Hampshire on Friday. In response on Twitter, the Obama campaign tweeted, in part, "Guess he doesn't have one of our mugs?"
The Obama campaign sells mugs with a picture of Obama's birth certificate.
Matt Romney was appearing with three of his brothers when he said in regard to the tax return question: "I heard that someone suggested that as soon as President Obama releases his grades, and birth certificate, and a sort of a long list of things, then maybe he will."
Brother Tagg Romney jumped in and said, "That was not my dad who said that."
Matt Romney later tweeted regret that he'd repeated what he called "a dumb joke."
Mitt Romney has refused to release his tax returns but says he'd reconsider if he were the GOP nominee for president. Obama released his tax returns during the 2008 Democratic primary and in each year of his presidency.
The Romney campaign took a different kind of swipe at Obama, calling via a new website for $18 donations as a response to Obama playing golf while on vacation in Hawaii — a dollar a hole."
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