From the Washington Times:
In another administration, this kind of corruption would be astonishing. The Obama White House, which promised to be the “most transparent in history” has established a real pattern of targeting political enemies and refusing to give media outlets and watchdog groups—and even Congress—public information.
Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress after he withheld “92 percent of the relevant documents from investigators, ignoring subpoenas, and silenc[ed] Justice Department employees” in the investigation relating to the still unexplained Fast and Furious scandal where the ATF gave Mexican drug cartels thousands of guns resulting in scores of deaths, including a U.S. border patrol agent.
The administration fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin—implying he was senile in the process—for reporting that the mayor of Sacramento, Kevin Johnson, an Obama ally, was abusing federal programs for personal benefit. (Johnson has since gone on to have a spectacularly corrupt term as mayor.)
In this context, we’re supposed to also believe the president’s contention there’s not a “smidgen of corruption at the IRS” after that organization held a press conference admitting it improperly targeted hundreds of conservative groups, ahead of a damning Inspector General report. The corruption continued unabated after the scandal broke: “Congress subpoenaed all the emails of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Unit head, Lois Lerner who was sworn in as commissioner on December 23, 2013, failed to act on this subpoena, and on March 4, 2014, the agency erased 422 backup tapes, destroying as many as 24,000 of Lerner’s emails, despite a congressional order mandating relevant IRS records be preserved.”
What about various ways the White House hid details of the Iran nuclear deal from Congress? Do we even need to discuss the stonewalling of the Benghazi investigation that ultimately led to the Clinton’s email scandal? By the way, Obama’s State Department is still trying to hold back the release of Clinton emails before the election in spite of a judge’s order. And wouldn’t you know it, the group that sued to get this latest round of emails released is… Judicial Watch, the same group the Inspector General just found was improperly targeted and punished by the White House.
At what point are the media and the public at large going to be outraged by this? The Obama administration promised to be the “most transparent in history.” This appalling behavior ought to define Obama’s legacy.
