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Recognizing he was ultimately in charge and responsible as the accountable  leader of the free world, President Harry Truman had a sign on his desk that  simply said, “The buck stops here.”

I’ve got one, too. All real leaders do. 

You may have noticed that regardless of the numerous scandals plaguing his  administration, our chief executive officer and former community ACORN  organizer, Mr. Obama, has never said he is ultimately responsible or accountable  for anything. Chicago schooled him well in the art of playing dirty  politics.

Not only does he refuse to take any responsibility, Mr. Obama has refused to  tell our gun-running attorney general to appoint an independent counsel to  investigate the numerous scandals that are now derailing his presidency.

Even if Attorney General “Fast and Furious” Eric Holder appointed a so-called  independent counsel, few in the country would believe the individual would be  truly independent. The political fix is always with this  bunch.

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Instead, the American public is told by the supposedly most transparent  administration in history that Fast & Furious was hatched by low-level  personnel at the Phoenix Department of Justice office, that dragging their feet  to approve conservative organizations as tax exempt was the result of an IRS  office in Cincinnati, that the reason our embassy in Benghazi was attacked and  four Americans killed was the result of an Internet video, no one knew anything  about the DOJ monitoring the Associated Press, and that those Philadelphia Black  Panthers weren’t really committing numerous felonies on film, etc., etc., etc.,  ad nauseum.

In other words, the Obama administration believes the American  people have the word “dunce” painted on our foreheads. They believe  they can get away with anything.

In order to get at the truth of what really happened in Benghazi, who really  authorized Fast & Furious, who authorized the delay in processing  conservative tax-exempt organizations and who knew about it, who authorized the  Benghazi lies that Ms. Rice spewed on the Sunday morning talk shows, etc., a  truly independent truth demanding counsel with subpoena powers needs to be  appointed.

And who is the only person who can appoint an independent counsel to  investigate these scandals? Attorney General Holder, who, like his boss,  also refuses to accept responsibility for anything.

In one of the dumber moves by the U.S. Congress, it gave up the  responsibility to appoint independent counsels to the Department of Justice in  1999. Due to this thunderously dumb move, the fox now guards the hen  house.

These scandals are potentially much larger than what Tricky Dicky was charged  with back in 1974 when a young lawyer by the name of Hillary Clinton was on the  House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment inquiry staff. Interestingly, young  Mrs. Clinton, stepchild of her America-hating hero, Saul Alinsky, was  essentially fired from her position for unethical behavior. She should have  been stripped of her law license.

Fast-forward 35 years or so, and Mrs. Clinton was our secretary of state when  Benghazi occurred. Surely Mrs. Clinton would support an independent counsel  to investigate the events that led to the deaths of four Americans on her  watch. What say you, Mrs. Clinton? What difference would that  make?

No one is affirming guilt by the Obama administration. What Americans  want is the truth and for our politicians to accept responsibility and to be  accountable.

The buck stopped with Harry Truman. No one knows where the buck stops  with the Obama administration, and it is high time that we the people demand  answers and accountability. Transparency has two meanings, and we can see clean  through our government’s never-ending scams these days.

One of the many bombshells he dropped was the news that a certified document  examiner with 20 years’ experience had closely examined the “birth certificate”  and had concluded that it was the most obvious forgery he had seen in those 20  years.

The examiner was not making a party political point, for he is a registered  Democrat.

Mike Zullo’s investigation has now continued for almost two years. He has  amassed many thousands of pages of evidence. His draft investigation report is  already more than 300 pages long, and he reckons it will be 700 pages before it  is complete.

There is some explosive evidence that he has not yet disclosed, because it  concerns third parties who may be connected with the forgery.

His determination is commendable. But there is one question the Obots raise  that now needs an answer. If it is so very plain that the “birth certificate” is  forged, why has Sheriff Arpaio been unable to put the matter before any court?  Why is Obama still in the White House and not in the jailhouse?

Part of the answer lies in the terrified reluctance even of Fox News to cover  the story properly. Fox calls itself “fair, balanced, and unafraid.” But it is  afraid. Very afraid.

A concerned citizen sent every congressman, every senator, every state  governor and attorney general, every member of Obama’s Cabinet, every member of  the Democratic and Republican National Committees and every member of the  Supreme Court a copy of my own briefing paper summarizing the evidence for  forgery. Fewer than half a dozen replies were received. There are a lot of  fraidy-cats in your governing class.

I asked one congressman why he had done nothing about the forgery. He  replied: “It is unquestionably a forgery. We all know that. But you, with your  experience of what the left will do to the reputations of those who challenge  it, know that if any of us were to raise this issue we would be subjected to the  same hatred, vilification and organized reputational damage that you have had to  endure because you challenged them on climate change.”

He added, “Scientifically and economically, your challenge was correct. But  they didn’t care about that. They did their level best to trash your reputation  anyway. I value my reputation, and I dare not take the risk of having it  destroyed.”

So there is no media pressure to bring the matter to court, and no political  pressure either. A state of such fear and funk now subsists in the United States  that no one will touch the birth certificate issue.

And that is a shame, because the in-your-face forged “birth certificate” is  arguably the biggest news story of our generation. In defiance of your  Constitution, the current occupant of the White House clings to office even  though his endorsement of the bogus document creates serious doubt about whether  he is entitled to hold that office, and still more serious doubt about his  fitness to hold it even if he were constitutionally entitled.

Naturally, the Obots have done their best to interfere with the sheriff’s  investigation. A trumped-up Justice Department investigation of him for  allegedly doing his job eventually ran into the sand. And an attempt to recall  him almost immediately after he was handsomely re-elected has also now failed. 

Now that other sheriffs and law enforcement officers have had some elements  of the fraud explained to them, even if Mike Zullo and the sheriff were unable  to persuade the attorney general of Arizona to do his constitutional duty, it is  now clear that Obama will not survive the fraud. It is only a matter of time  before some public-spirited citizen takes the short, simple, inexpensive stops  that will bring him to book.

Step 1: Commission reports from court-certified specialists in typewriter  analysis and separately in electronic document forgery.

Step 2: Refer the reports to a mathematician so that he can confirm the  near-zero probability that a document containing as many errors as this one can  be genuine.

Step 3: Put the reports and the mathematical analysis before a federal  district court and ask it for orders obliging Hawaii to release the original  documentation to forensic specialists acting for law enforcement.

There is actually no need for any further investigation. There is quite  enough evidence to obtain such orders right now.

Consider, for instance, the typewriter irregularities in the White House  document. Some specialists say they do not like to rely on typewriter anomalies.  However, as part of the case against a suspect document, they have their place. 

Typewriter analysis has a unique value in that, unlike electronic anomalies  that require specialist knowledge to understand them, typewriter anomalies are  visible. Anyone can see them once they are pointed out. They are as plain as the  nose on your face.

Especially for WND’s readers, I have updated a report that I compiled last  year on the numerous typewriter errors in the White House document. The  pdf document is available at this link.

Here is my challenge to the Obots. Provide a rational explanation for the  irregularities I have identified in my report. Whether or not the typewriter  errors are as serious as I consider them to be, there are many other errors.

So know this: Mike Zullo’s net is closing in, and – however many reputations  you try to trash for the sake of saving your fallen hero – Black Jesus is  doomed.

My American Freedom Defense Initiative, or AFDI, colleague Robert Spencer and  I flew to Tennessee Tuesday to join throngs of patriots and freedom lovers, all  happy warriors who had converged in Manchester, Tenn., to oppose the latest  Obama administration salvo against the freedom of speech – a seminar led by an  Obama-appointed U.S. attorney on how civil rights laws could and should be used  to shut down speech deemed “inflammatory” against Muslims (a label that has been  used before to shut down truthful speech about jihad and Islamic  supremacism).

This was a fight for the very soul of America in a very small town:  Manchester, Tenn., a town no bigger than 10,000 people. (Almost 2,000 people  were there.) This was the perhaps unlikely venue for a seminar led by a U.S.  attorney and an FBI special agent on how “inflammatory” speech against Muslims  violated civil rights laws. Nowhere was it ever explained how there could be  honest examination of Islam’s teachings of jihad that wouldn’t be “inflammatory”  – and that was just the point. 

What was really beautiful was that when the event started, more than 600  people couldn’t even get in, but they stayed outside and held a freedom rally.  They weren’t missing much – unless they were in the mood to be admonished and  hectored as xenophobes, bigots and racists by an Islamic supremacist spokesman  and two Obama officials who steadfastly refused to address the elephant in the  room: the reality of jihad terror and Islamic supremacism, no matter how many  times the boisterous crowd called them on their nonsense.

U.S. Attorney Bill Killian gave a PowerPoint presentation on hate crimes and  hate speech. From beginning to end, it was full of condescension, smears,  charges that the crowd was racist and thinly veiled threats that truthful speech  about Islam could be prosecuted. Never once did he address the fact that people  aren’t concerned about Muslims because of racism and xenophobia, but because of  the reality of jihad terror and the uniform denial and obfuscation, and  victimhood posturing that follows from Muslim communities after every jihad  attack.

Killian even stooped so low as to claim a sharp rise in “religiously  motivated hate crimes,” without ever informing the crowd that he was lumping in  anti-Semitic hate crimes (which are at worldwide record levels, largely due to  Islamic anti-Semitism) with anti-Muslim hate crimes. FBI special agent Kenneth  Moore was little better. Both echoed the Islamic supremacist speaker’s opening  remarks, all about how the people of Tennessee had to learn to be welcoming of  people who were different.

The media coverage of our free-speech rally and the anti-free-speech event  was typically deceptive and mendacious. One would think that the industry that  has the most to lose from restrictions on free speech would fight the fascism.  But you would be wrong. These tools are so in the bag for the Obama regime that  the knaves are attacking the patriots (and there are many of us) who are  standing between freedom and tyranny.

The headline of every news story should have been “Obama’s Department of  Justice seeks to criminalize free speech.” Instead, the headlines spun the  Muslim victimhood myth narrative: Muslim outreach program disrupted by  racist-islamophobic-anti-Muslim-bigots. Nothing on the constitutional putsch.  They didn’t bury the lede; they never recovered the body.

USA Today’s headline was “Tenn. Muslim group’s forum disrupted by protesters.” UPI  went with “Protesters, hecklers disrupt Muslim forum in Tennessee.” And  WBIR-TV’s headline was “Protesters disrupt Tenn. Muslim group’s meeting.” Nowhere in  the coverage did the media deign to mention why folks were there. People came to  protest Killian’s vow to criminalize criticism of Islam on social media. Folks  were boisterous, and well they should be. Does anyone think we should go quietly  into the night? The Department of Justice and FBI, taking their orders from  Islamic supremacist groups, said the meeting would be an open forum. It was even  titled “Public Discourse.” But they changed the rules. Instead of an open forum,  they said no questions. Instead, we were told to write questions on index cards.  Yeah, uh huh. And, of course, at the end of hours of condescension and  accusations of racism, they only read two questions.

Yes, people called them on it. Yes, people grimaced and moaned when Holder’s  name was mentioned. He is second only to Obama in greatest threats to our  freedoms.

I was there. It was a great American moment. Americans aren’t going to sit  quietly while our freedom of speech is taken away, and are never, ever, going to  submit and stop telling the truth about the jihad that threatens us all. We are  an army.

Just try to wrap your arms around the magnitude of defiance and chutzpah that  led to and accompanied President Obama’s appointment of the discredited Susan  Rice as national security adviser. But don’t let this outrage distract you from  his equally disturbing appointment of leftist Samantha Power to replace Rice as  U.N. ambassador.

Though Democrats and their supporting liberal media, with a few notable  exceptions, have aggressively downplayed the multifaceted Benghazi scandal, none  of them has laid a glove on the irrefutable claim that Rice delivered the  talking points that had been altered by the administration to distort the facts  in order to mitigate any damage to Obama’s re-election efforts.

In a piece for the Washington Post explaining her decision to withdraw, Rice  did anything but acknowledge her wrongdoing. She said, “I have never sought in  any way, shape or form to mislead the American people. … Even before I was  nominated for any new position, a steady drip of manufactured charges painted a  wholly false picture of me.”

Well, if she didn’t seek to mislead the American people, then someone higher  than her in the administration sought to and did mislead her and used her to  deceive the people by repeating a steady barrage of manufactured lies to paint a  wholly false picture of what precipitated the terrorist attack on our  mission.

We knew then and we know even more certainly now that this was a premeditated  terrorist attack and not a spontaneous occurrence spurred by angst over an  obscure anti-Muslim video. We know that the administration knew that, as well,  and deliberately said otherwise at least in part to protect Obama’s narrative  that he had al-Qaida and radical Islamists on the ropes prior to the November  election.

If Rice wasn’t lying, she owed it to the American people to help determine  who put her in the position of unwittingly defrauding the public about a matter  of vital importance.

But Obama, Rice and the rest of the administration have just thumbed their  noses at Congress and the American people and arrogantly refused to explain  themselves.

Now Obama is rewarding Rice for her fierce loyalty with an appointment to a  position arguably as influential as secretary of state and one for which she  will not need to be confirmed. He is also counting on her continued deference in  placing his personal interests above the nation’s.

With Obama’s brazen appointment of Rice to this position, he is saying either  that Rice didn’t lie (in which case someone else in the administration did,  including possibly himself), or that she did lie and he is perfectly fine with  it, maybe even grateful for it. Obama might as well say to us, “I don’t really  care what you think about our bogus story concerning the video. It got us  through the election. I won.”

If Obama insists on stubbornly clinging to the story that Rice did not know  she was broadcasting falsehoods, then he should tell us who did know. But he’s  Obama. That’s not going to happen.

Equally troubling is Obama’s selection of Samantha Power to replace Rice. In  announcing Power’s appointment, Obama praised her as “a relentless advocate for  American interests and values.” But is she?

In 2003, Power called for a “historical reckoning with crimes committed,  sponsored, permitted by the United States.” In a piece in The New Republic, she  advocated a “doctrine of the mea culpa,” which essentially involves the United  States owning up to its alleged past foreign-policy abuses to put itself in a  better light to the world.

Is this not exactly the attitude Obama has expressed in his ongoing apology  tour at home and abroad, always anxious to throw this nation under the bus and  distance himself from its pre-Obama history? Those who have pooh-poohed this  accurate characterization of Obama’s blame-America-first approach should take  note that Obama has now boldly reaffirmed this very worldview with his  appointment of Power.

The Power appointment also further validates Obama’s critics who have accused  him of being a poor friend of our ally Israel. Space limitations don’t permit  elaboration here, but Paul Mirengoff at the Powerline blog has described Power  as “virulently anti-Israel” and “Israel hating,” and supports his assertion in  these two posts: one and two.

Obama’s two appointments show that even as he is under heavy criticism for a  smorgasbord of scandals, he is utterly undaunted. He “won” the election, and he  is going to impose his agenda for transformational change no matter what and  militantly ignore all efforts to make him accountable.

Instead of showing endless loops of IRS employees wasting taxpayer dollars  line-dancing – breaking news: Government employees waste millions of your  dollars every single day! – I think it would be more useful for the public to  hear a few crucial facts about the exploding scandal at the Internal Revenue  Service.

At Tuesday’s congressional hearings on the IRS, witnesses provided shocking  details about the agency’s abuse of conservative groups.

The IRS demanded that all members of the Coalition for Life of Iowa swear  under penalty of perjury that they wouldn’t pray, picket or protest outside of  Planned Parenthood. They were also asked to provide details of their prayer  meetings.

Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash. – who was ordered by the D.C. Circuit Court to  pay more than $1 million to John Boehner in 2008 for the sleazy maneuver of  publishing an illegally taped private conversation – blamed the conservative  groups themselves. “Each of your groups was highly political,” he lectured them,  noting that they wouldn’t have been asked any questions if they hadn’t requested  tax-exempt status.

Even a fair-minded person – not to be confused with Jim McDermott – might  hear about the IRS’ harassment of groups with “tea party,” “patriot” or  “liberty” in their names and think: “How do we know the IRS wasn’t equally hard  on left-wing groups?”

What might be more helpful than clips of IRS staff line-dancing would be for  reporters, say at Fox News, to mention a few examples of the wildly partisan  left-wing groups the IRS has certified as tax-exempt.

Among the many left-wing groups with tax-exempt status are:

• ACORN (now renamed as other organizations, but all still tax-exempt),  “community organizers” who engage in profanity-laced protests at private homes,  dump garbage in front of public buildings and disrupt bankers’ dinners in order  to get more people on welfare in order to destroy the capitalist system and  incite revolution;

   

• Occupy Wall Street, which – in its first month alone – was responsible for  more than a dozen sexual assaults; at least half a dozen deaths by overdose,  suicide or murder; and millions of dollars in property damage;
• Media Matters for America, a media “watchdog” group that has never noticed  one iota of pro-Obama bias in the media;
• Moveon.org, which ran ads comparing Bush to Hitler under its 501(c)(4) arm; 
• The Center for American Progress, an auxiliary of the Democratic National  Committee funded by George Soros and staffed by former Clinton and Obama aides  to promote the Democratic agenda;
• The Tides Foundation, which funnels money to communist and  terrorist-supporting organizations;
• The Ford Foundation, which has never found a criminal law that isn’t  “racist.”

These groups are regarded by the IRS as nonpartisan community groups, merely  educational, while dozens of patriotic, constitutional, Christian or tea party  groups are still waiting for their tax exemptions.

That’s to say nothing of Planned Parenthood, PBS and innumerable other  Democratic front-groups that not only have tax exemptions, but get direct  funding from the government.

By contrast, the conservative groups being raked over the coals by the IRS  actually were nonpartisan. The tea party forced sitting Republican senators off  the ticket in Alaska and Indiana, and toppled “establishment” Republicans in  Utah, Delaware, Nevada, Florida and Texas. Far from being a secretly  pro-Republican group, the tea party has been a nightmare for Republicans.

Show me one instance where the Center for American Progress was more of a  problem for Democrats than Republicans.

It is obviously in the interest of the left to show us liberal groups also  harassed by the IRS, so it’s striking that they haven’t been able to produce one  yet.

Instead, they hearken back to the Bush years to claim that the IRS once  audited the NAACP, which is treated as ipso facto political harassment.

First of all, the NAACP doesn’t exactly have a sterling record of rectitude  when it comes to organization funds. In the 1990s, the NAACP used tax-exempt  contributions to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars of hush money to the  mistress of then-executive director Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. – as detailed in  enraged columns by Carl Rowan at the time.

Find a tea party organization that’s done that, and we’ll understand the IRS  conducting a three-year proctology exam on the group.

Second, the Bush-era audit of the NAACP was prompted by a blindingly partisan  speech given by NAACP Chairman Julian Bond at an organization meeting in  Philadelphia in July 2004. Bond attacked a slew of elected Republicans by name,  denouncing the entire party as one whose “idea of equal rights is the American  flag and Confederate swastika flying side by side.”

That’s what we call “black-letter law” on improper activity for a tax-exempt  organization. As a 501(c)(3) group, the NAACP is prohibited from supporting or  opposing any candidate for elective office.

The NAACP responded to the IRS’ letter by screaming from the rooftops that it  was political payback. Consequently, Bush’s IRS commissioner requested that  Treasury’s inspector general investigate the IRS’ tax-exempt unit for political  bias. The IG’s report found no politics in the NAACP audit and – to the contrary  – that more “pro-Republican” groups (18) than “pro-Democratic” groups (12) had  been audited.

Nonetheless, the NAACP simply refused to cooperate with the IRS. There was  nothing the Bush administration could do. No Republican was going to allow the  NAACP’s tax-exempt status to be revoked on its watch. Two years later, the IRS  simply issued a letter clearing the group.

Today, the NAACP openly engages in partisan activity, such as a current  weeks-long protest of Republican legislators in North Carolina.

Finally, a tip to the Democrats trying to defend the IRS: As a devoted  true-crime TV viewer, I can tell you that when you’re caught red-handed, it’s  never a good defense to say, “Why would I be so stupid to kill my wife right  after taking out a huge life insurance policy on her?”

You were that stupid, and you got caught.

It’s been a while, but surely you recall that when we heard about the Justice  Department funneling guns to Mexican drug cartels, Attorney General Eric Holder  swore he had no idea who green-lighted Operation Fast and Furious, but he was  darn certain it wasn’t him.

Hillary Clinton said she was taking responsibility for what occurred in  Benghazi.  That is to say she was responsible for everything, except for denying  Ambassador Stevens the additional security he begged for; for removing the  little bit of security he had; and for lying about the massacre having been  triggered by a YouTube video nobody ever saw.  Aside from all that, Mrs. Clinton  wanted us to know that about three cents of the buck stopped with her and 97  cents stopped with some underlings she had never even met.

In the case of Obama, after he, David Axelrod and other members of his  campaign team got done revising CIA reports about the Benghazi massacre, and  handing them off to Susan Rice so she could repeat his lies on five Sunday news  shows, Obama gallantly sprang to her defense.  When people demanded to know  where she got off trying to peddle stale baloney, Obama, pretending to be the  stand-up guy he isn’t, told the media that if they had a bone to pick with  anyone, they should pick it with him.  And as soon as they did, he turned around  and told Ambassador Rice that she could forget about becoming secretary of  state.

Jeremiah Wright could have warned her that Obama may throw a baseball like a  little girl, but he’s Olympic-class when it comes to tossing people under the  bus.

Inasmuch as it made about as much sense for the ambassador to the U.N. to  have gone on those various news shows as Lady Gaga, one can only assume that  someone decided that Rice was a better liar than Clinton, or at least more  expendable.  And, frankly, after seeing Clinton’s phony over-the-top performance  before the Senate committee, I have to agree.  You’d have thought that after all  those years spent listening to Bill tell one whopper after another, she’d be  better at it.

That brings us to the kerfuffle at the IRS.  Typically, as soon as it came  out that the tax collectors had been making life extra miserable for  conservative groups, the blame was placed on underlings in the Cincinnati  office.  Like Capt. Renault in “Casablanca,” who was shocked to learn that  gambling took place in the backroom at Rick’s, Obama claimed he had no idea that  those upstarts were creating havoc for his political opponents.  It’s even  possible he didn’t.  Between golf and fundraising and accusing Republicans of  being Satan’s spawn, he can’t know every last thing that people are doing on his  behalf. 

I’m sure that’s also holds true for mafia dons.  I’m told that they don’t  always have to give specific orders; they merely need to have it understood that  they’d appreciate having certain things done.   And in those places where  corruption reigns, whether it’s denying a tea party group tax-exempt status or  putting an icepick in the ear of a crosstown rival, they’re done.

The upside of all this is that even the members of the major media seem to be  getting tired of being played like suckers by this administration.  These people  don’t mind lying on behalf of a left-wing president.  In fact, they accept that  it’s part of their job description, not to mention their main purpose in life.   But they resent it like hell when they’re the target of a president’s lies and  the objects of his obvious contempt.

It may have taken well over four years, but even the folks from the New York  Times, the Washington Post and the major TV networks seem to have finally had  enough.   In the past, Obama could have gotten away stonewalling the press about  an event that saw four American patriots murdered by jihadists, claiming, as is  his wont, that he couldn’t possibly comment during an ongoing investigation.

But that was then and this is now.  This time, after months of lying about  what he knew and when he knew it, when the truth finally started seeping out,  thanks to State Department whistleblowers, and Obama tried to dismiss it as old  news, the members of the White House press corps were no longer nodding along  like a roomful of dashboard dollies.

And those little wet drops on Jay Carney’s brow weren’t sweat.  That was  blood.