Andrew Breitbart Eric Holder: Breitbart More Tapes, Whistleblowers, Acorn and More

Andrew Breitbart helped expose the ACORN 'pimp and prostitute' investigation. After seven tapes, and billions of dollars to ACORN, Breitbart is outraged that Congress has not called for an investigation and neither has Attorney General, Eric Holder. Breitbart says there are more tapes, there whistleblowers just dying to get the word out, and oh...by the way, Breitbart has the skinny on someone...some organization...something...it's not just ACORN, according to Andrew Breitbart. There's breaking news that may explain why Holder is not investigating this corrupt organization:

On November 19th Breitbart appeared on Hannity and sent a message to Eric Holder (see video below):

And this message is to Attorney General Holder: I want you to know that we have more tapes, it’s not just ACORN, and we’re going to hold out until the next election cycle, or else if you want to do a clean investigation, we will give you the rest of what we have, we will comply with you, we will give you the documentation we have from countless ACORN whistleblowers who want to come forward but are fearful of this organization and the retribution that they fear that this is a dangerous organization.  So if you get into an investigation, we will give you the tapes; if you don’t give us the tapes, we will revisit these tapes come election time.

If you have missed the 'pimp and the prostitute,' or the 'prostitute and the boyfriend' investigation, the short story is James O'Keefe, posing as the pimp, and Hannah Giles posing as the prostitute, visited numerous ACORN offices across the U.S., seeking help with their business of 13 year old girls brought to the U.S. illegally, for prostitution. O'Keefe and Giles also wanted information on how to avoid the IRS.

The tapes are stunning. Never would I expect this kind of corruption and willingness to set up a business of this kind, using children - even from ACORN. But guess what, it happened over and over. - and remember millions of taxpayer dollars are funneled to ACORN every year.

Former California Governor, and currently California Attorney General, Jerry Brown, has announced an investigation - not into ACORN, but an investigation of Giles and O'Keefe. How bizarre is that? Listen to audio that seems to say that Brown has assured a San Diego ACORN representative that the investigation will show the fault lies with Giles and O'Keefe. Incredible!

So Breitbart threw the challenge out there. What's next? Well, The Hill has just reported that ACORN and its affiliates received $200,000 in Justice Department grants between 2002 and 2009," this according to "the department's inspector general.

No DOJ grants went directly to ACORN, but a handful of grants were awarded either to ACORN affiliates or to other organizations that sub-contracted projects to ACORN.

The report, requested by House Judiciary Committee ranking member Lamar Smith (R-Texas), also found a few instances of ACORN mismanagement of federally contracted work.

No wonder we don't have an investigation into ACORN.

For example, ACORN received a $20,000 sub-contract to do community outreach on crime prevention in New York.

The organization that contracted with ACORN has not released the funds yet, claiming that ACORN submitted reimbursements "outside the scope of the agreement," including "fringe benefits" for the salaried staffer working on the project.

Sub-contracting "to do community outreach on crime prevention?" Yet, underage prostitution of little girls smuggled into the country is okay by several ACORN offices? Note that these grants date back to 2002.

The DOJ did not audit the funds that went to ACORN or its affiliates, but did conduct an audit of one of the organizations that contracted with an ACORN affiliate. That audit concluded that the organization "did not properly manage the grant and did not adequately monitor some of its 36 sub-grantees, including the [American Institute of Social Justice]," an ACORN affiliate.

An Inspector General found these descrepancies, and tonight with this breaking news, I bet he is fearing for his job. Inspector General Gerald Walpin found AmeriCorp misused $75 million in taxpayer dollars, and that report branched out to implicate Sacramento, California Mayor, former NBA star, and Obama donor, Kevin Johnson and an alleged inappropriate behavior with three underage girls. Johnson also allegedly diverted AmeriCorp funds for his own personal use. IG Walpin turned in his report and was fired by the White House. These are dangerous days for Inspectors General simply doing their job.

Because the Justice Department’s review found only small amounts of taxpayer dollars going to ACORN, it is imperative that the Inspectors General from federal agencies that have provided millions to ACORN undertake the same kind of review. The Justice Department IG’s report may prove to be just the tip of an iceberg-sized fraud.

In the video below, you'll see Hannah and James in an LA ACORN office. Notice the sign on the door: Program for Torture Victims. What's up with that? Breitbart needs to back up his tapes and put them in several steel vaults.




 Andrew Breitbart, Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe

Background and Related:
Katherine Conway Russell - ACORN Philadelphia Office

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Doug Hoffman Republicans Overreached?

U.S. News and World Report's Religion section says that "political analysts" view the Owens-Hoffman_Scozzafava debacle in New York's 23rd District as a failed result for Republicans because Republicans "overreached," by abandoning Dede Scozzafava, who has never been a true Republican, and supporting Doug Hoffman (for 3 days), who then lost to a Democrat - the first time in more than a century.

Republicans

Don't they wish that were the case. The truth is, Liberals understand that Doug Hoffman lost by a miniscule margin, after receiving no backing, monetary or endorsements, from the GOP, and had two opponents against him until the weekend before the election when Scozzafava quit the race - and then endorsed the Democrat.

While Liberals "get it," although they won't admit it, GOP leaders are less clear. Can it be that the heart of the party, the voters, do not want party leadership choosing our candidates? Can it be that voters want true conservatives to have a chance in the primaries before the GOP starts announcing their endorsements? Well it can be, and as Newt Gingrich finally admitted after his careless hawking for Scozzafava, "the age of party leaders picking people is over." 

U.S. News and World Report's Dan Gilgoff points out some interesting dynamics in the race to unearth conservative candidates:

(1) Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio - Florida: 

The ongoing tensions are on clearest display in Florida, where Gov. Charlie Crist, facing the more conservative Marco Rubio, a former Florida House speaker, in the primary for an open U.S. Senate seat. The National Republican Senatorial Committee, the GOP's senate campaign arm, has endorsed Crist, while Rubio is pitching himself as the grass roots' choice. "The conservatives are the ones being purged from the party," says Rubio, who claims the national senatorial committee has scared off potential donors, though the group denies it.

 (2) Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore - California:

A similar battle is underway in California, where former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, who supports abortion rights, is fighting state legislator Chuck DeVore, an abortion-rights foe, for the party's nomination for U.S. Senate. An adviser to John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, Fiorina is receiving fundraising support from McCain and other establishment types. DeVore hails from Orange County, a bastion of conservative Christian activism and is a fixture on the tea party circuit, whose economic conservatives are helping fuel bids to take on establishment candidates.

 (3) Phyllis Schlafly and Sen. Bob Bennett - Utah:

In Utah, meanwhile, a longtime "pro-family" activist endorsed by Christian right icon Phyllis Schlafly is among the conservatives running against Republican Sen. Bob Bennett. Cherilyn Eagar says her state's tradition of picking nominees by convention makes it easier for her to benefit from the support of activists, including religious conservatives. "Bennett's version of national healthcare had a provision requiring insurance companies to supply abortions," she says. "I find that reprehensible in a state that is highly pro-life."

 It took Sarah Palin's endorsement of Doug Hoffman to grab the attention of voters outside of New York City. Gingrich hit back hard at Palin, saying that a win by anyone other than Scozzafava would result in Nancy Pelosi being "speaker for life." Most conservatives would rather lose the seat, than entrench another Olympia Snowe or Richard Lugar in the party. We've learned our lessons. So Gingrich had to go to bed knowing that the RINO he supported [Dede Scozzafa], asked her followers to cast their vote for the Democrat. Bitter, bitter lesson. And even after all that, Hoffman lost by only a small margin. Just think what could have happened had the GOP abandoned politics-as-usual and looked around for a real conservative. No, it wasn't "overreaching," it was an awakening. Thank you Sarah Palin.

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Hadley Hacked: Hadly Science Bogus: East Anglia Climate Research Hacked: Hadley East Anglia Global Warming Hoax

A global warming hoax? Say it isn't so...but then we've known it all along. Today, the blog post came that someone had hacked into the Hadley Climatic Research Centre in Britain. Other reports say the site hacked is Britain's University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit.

Global Warming Hoax

Over one thousand emails and 72 documents were downloaded...and they were published on the Internet. This from the Examiner at the above link:

The FTP server in a Russian domain and uses the anonymous FTP protocol, which does not require a pre-registered user account or password for downloading. The file is named FOI2009.zip, an apparent reference to US Public Law 89-554, 80 Stat. 383, the Freedom of Information Act.

As I read through the information about this find, I have to wonder if, rather than a hack, this could be an insider who finally had enough of the lies and deception.

Jeff Id at The Air Vent broke the story today,  Leaked FOIA files 62 mb of gold, after a link was left on his blog, and is now struggling with what to do with the information - what is legal and how protect himself. If you are an attorney and can offer help, follow the link to 62 mb of gold. From Jeff Id:

In the meantime, a summary of the 62 MB of data is – personal email correspondences between some of the major players Santer, Briffa, Mann, Osborne, Wahl. Data and code, the data SteveM and I will enjoy but I can’t load CA now. The code or a version of it for HadCRUT was released also. The tone of the emails is quite interesting Steve McIntyre is the focus of much of them but there are quite a few references to obstruction and making things difficult for the ’skeptics’. There are also budgetary items and grant monies- you wouldn’t believe how much money these boys play with. 

The Walls Street Journal says there is confirmation that the documents are genuine and points to Russian "black hats" as the hackers. "Sensitive documents, including emails from climate scientists dating back a decade, were posted online."

Some of the old emails from scientists made public apparently make references to things like “hid[ing] the decline,” referring to global temperature series and different ways to slice and dice climate data.

In all, it seems there are more than 3,000 files in the hacked folders, which have been reposted in various places on the Internet.

WattsUpWithThat posted followup to The Air Vents original posts:

[WattsUp] An unknown person put postings on some climate skeptic websites that advertised an FTP file on a Russian FTP server, here is the message that was placed on the Air Vent today:

We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to
be kept under wraps.

We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code, and documents

[WattsUp] The file was large, about 61 megabytes, containing hundreds of files.
It contained data, code, and emails from Phil Jones at CRU to and from many people.

I’ve seen the file, it appears to be genuine and from CRU. Others who have seen it concur- it appears genuine. There are so many files it appears unlikely that it is a hoax. The effort would be too great.

Read emails from "Phil Jones" to "Michael Mann," "Ray Bradley" and "Malcom Hughes" WattsUpWithThat. Here's just one example being talked about today (read more at Watt'sUpWithThat).

Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,

Once Tim’s got a diagram here we’ll send that either later today or first thing tomorrow. I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.

Mike’s series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.

Thanks for the comments, Ray.

Cheers Phil Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) xxxxx School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) xxxx University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@xxxx.xxx NR4 7TJ UK

The question remains: could the emails be a hoax? This from Hot Air:

Controversy has exploded onto the Internet after a major global-warming advocacy center in the UK had its e-mail system hacked and the data published on line.  The director of the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit confirmed that the e-mails are genuine — and Australian publication Investigate and the Australian Herald-Sun report that those e-mails expose a conspiracy to hide detrimental information from the public that argues against global warming (via Watt'sUpWithThat?):

The internet is on fire this morning with confirmation computers at one of the world’s leading climate research centres were hacked, and the information released on the internet.

A 62 megabyte zip file, containing around 160 megabytes of emails, pdfs and other documents, has been confirmed as genuine by the head of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, Dr Phil Jones.

In an exclusive interview with Investigate magazine’s TGIF Edition, Jones confirms his organization has been hacked, and the data flying all over the internet appears to have come from his organisation.

“It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and copied loads of data files and emails.”

Other sources on this story:

Gather.com who says if these emails prove authentic (which it appears many do), this is a scandal on the scale of The Pentagon Papers.

Australia's HeraldSun.com

Steven McIntyre's Climate Audit 

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Jim Inhofe Barbara Boxer: Jim Inhofe Boxer We Won You Lost Video

Superman Conservative Senator Jim Inhofe declared victory over the global warming conspiracy this week and then had the pleasure in a committee meeting, to tell fellow senator, Barbara Boxer, "we won, you lost, get a life." See the video below.

Senator Jim Inhofe

From the Senate floor:

I proudly declare 2009 as the 'Year of the Skeptic,' the year in which scientists who question the so-called global warming consensus are being heard.

Inhofe also recalled his most famous comment in which he suggested that man-made global warming would turn out to be "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." "Today, I have been vindicated," he said.

The comments came in the wake of the cancellation of the Copenhagen conference, "which previously was viewed as a chance for nations to make some kindof a binding agreement on greenhouse gases." According to Inhofe:

"the reality, of course, is that Copenhagen will be a disaster."

 Senator Jim Inhofe and Senator Barbara Boxer (video)

 Thanks to my hubby, who reads the Tulsa World and then rants, and to Hot Air.

More on Inhofe and Boxer:

Jim Inhofe and Barbara Boxer on Cap and Trade: Boxer breaks written rule

Carly Fiorina and Barbara Boxer: Fiorina to run against Boxer? 

Boxer not going to send the troops in.

Barbara Boxer Assaults Genneral: Ignorant, Arrogant, Disingenuous and undeserving to question a General

EPA silences, suppresses opposition: EPA Lies

Jim Inhofe: America Loses Economic Freedoms

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Michelle Rhee Gerald Walpin: Michelle Rhee Kevin Johnson: Michelle Rhee Covered up Kevin Johnson Sex Scandal?

Michelle Rhee is the Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. Public School system. She recently became engaged to Kevin Johnson, the former NBA basketball star and current mayor of Sacramento, California. Johnson, a good friend and donor to Barack Obama, is in the middle of a financial and sexual scandal involving underage girls. Former Inspector General Gerald Walpin ran smack into the Johnson controversy when he began an investigation in AmeriCorps. See video below. See update below:

Michelle Rhee

The result of Walpin's investigation showed that AmeriCorps misused $75 million of taxpayer monies, and Kevin Johnson was a part of that misuse - he diverted funds from AmeriCorp for his personal use. That's not all, three young girls accused him of inappropriate behavior. When Walpin's report went to Congress, Barack Obama fired the IG without cause, according to Senator Charles Grassley.

Now, through Grassley, we find that the powerful Ms. Rhee, was in the middle of a coverup for her future husband, Kevin Johnson. According to Grassley, Rhee was on the board of Johnson's  St. Hope Academy. A former employee at St. Hope allegedly says that Rhee told her "she would take care of the situation." Shortly after, one of the girl's at St. Hope said Kevin Johnson's personal attorney visited the girl and offered her $1,000 a month during the rest of her time at the non-profit St. Hope.

 Michelle Rhee (38), according to some in Washington, D.C. is "one of the most feared Asian Americans." She has two children, ages 10 and 7, in the DC public school system. Rhee, while feared by teachers performing less than adequately, is also considered a powerful role model. She has championed both school vouchers and charter schools - yet she allegedly tried to cover-up Johnson's despicable behavior. And even if it found this allegation is untrue, she knows the details of these charges. What is she thinking?

Rhee, responsible not to a school board but only to the mayor, went on a spree almost as soon as she arrived. She gained the right to fire central-office employees and then axed 98 of them. She canned 24 principals, 22 assistant principals, and, at the beginning of this summer, 250 teachers and 500 teaching aides. She announced plans to close 23 underused schools and set about restructuring 26 other schools (together, about a third of the system). And she began negotiating a radical performance-based compensation contract with the teachers union that could revolutionize the way teachers get paid.

The Kevin Johnson story is an ugly one. When Walpin submitted his report to Congress, Johnson was attempting to move into his position as Sacramento mayor. He had a huge problem on his hands, as no federal monies could come to his city because of the St. Hope scandal. Attorneys got involved and claimed that Walpin overstepped his authority.

Barack Obama and Kevin Johnson

In the meantime, an acting U.S. Attorney struck a deal with the government for some funds to be paid back by Kevin Johnson and St. Hope and AmeriCorp. That little deal got Johnson into the Mayor's office. Gerald Walpin objected.

The deal was made by Brown and top officials at the Corporation for National and Community Service -- Walpin was cut out of the process.  He strongly disagreed with the arrangement, suspecting that it came about more for political reasons than prosecutorial ones.  The new report takes his side, saying Brown's "motivation to reach a settlement was not to protect the financial interests of the United States, but rather to remove Johnson from the suspended parties list in order to ensure Sacramento's eligibility to receive stimulus funds."

Walpin continued investigating St. Hope and found that the organization had destroyed evidence. From there, things began to spiral down for Walpin who was eventually fired by Obama's White House counsel, and it looks like the firing was due to the information Mr. Walpin revealed.

For an Inspector General to be fired by the White House, there are specific guidelines that must be followed. Obama's only reason for firing Walpin was that he had "lost confidence" in him. Walpin was recently cleared of any misuse of his authority by an independent panel, and the White House has still not met the procedural guidelines for his firing. Now it has come to light that Walpin's replacement was instructed by the White House to shred documents concerning Walpin's investigation - which the acting Inspector General, Kenneth Bach, did! Senator Charles Grassley is outraged.

Gerald Walpin

Now we learn that this school Chancellor, Michelle Rhee, was allegedly willing to attempt a cover-up of sexual misconduct with minors, and then became engaged to the perpetrator, Kevin Johnson.  What a great pairing. A woman with two children still in elementary school,  who runs the D.C. school district and an accused sexual predator. I have written many articles about Gerald Walpin, Kevin Johnson and AmeriCorps. Please browse through those, listed below the video, and understand the corruption coming right out of the White House. It is a sordid story of corruption at the highest levels, including the DOJ, and it exposes the lengths AmeriCorp will go to, to hijack taxpayers.



 Kevin Johnson (video) 

Update 11-20-09 Related and background:

Johnson's home town paper has the story now. He was in Boston and could not be reached for comment. Rhee wasn't talking either.

 Related and Background:

Kevin Johnson - St. Hope Scandal: Rick Maya Resigns, Gerald Walpin Investigates 

Who is Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson - Walpin-Johnson Investigation

U.S. Attorney Larry Brown and CnCS Displeasure with Walpin's Investigation

Gerald Walpin Firing Update: AmeriCorp $75 Million Misused: Michelle Obama Hires?

Gerald Walpin Fired by President Obama: Inspector General Walpin Fired

Kenneth Bach Shreds Gerald Walpin Documents

Former AG Michael Mukasey says Walpin was fired illegally

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