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To: Carolyn who wrote (692)	5/8/2013 6:37:10 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 826

Spencer Ackerman 1 Life and career 1.1 Firing from The New Republic He wrote, with John B. Judis, an article that started the chain of events that led to the Plame affair. In September 2011, Ackerman reported a series of articles for Wired alleging anti-Islamic bias in FBI training materials. [6] As a result, the FBI launched "a comprehensive review of all training and reference materials that relate in any way to religion or culture." [7] Ackerman is a fan of comic books and hardcore punk music. JournoList Ackerman was a member of the private Google Groups forum JournoList. Following revelations by The Daily Caller of comments on the list, Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel was forced to resign. "Incendiary" JournoList comments by Ackerman on topics like the Jeremiah Wright controversy were also revealed by the Caller, [11] Ackerman for suggested that opponents of conservatives 'start randomly picking conservatives – "Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares – and call them racists."' [13] [14]

To: Carolyn who wrote (692)	5/8/2013 8:27:32 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 826

Sharyl 'Benghazi Campaign' Attkisson Hadn't Reported About the Attack On the Air in Over 5 Months

To: Carolyn who wrote (692)	5/9/2013 11:46:52 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 826

Set aside the disgraceful actions of the broadcast MSM today in not covering the riveting testimony of Greg Hicks, and set aside even the shocking conduct of the Administration on the night of 9/11/12 and during the days, weeks and months following. The MSM is almost exclusive hard left and almost completely committed to the defense of President Obama and former Secretary of State Clinton. With a few, honorable exceptions they will ask no hard questions and conduct no follow-up, and of course the senior levels of the Administration are beyond shame and no “Deep Throat” is likely to emerge from their ranks. But Speaker Boehner and the GOP control the House and they can almost instantly set-up a Select Committee to follow up on the shocking testimony today. The transcripts of my interviews with Stephen Hayes and Eli Lake will be posted here later, but it is enough to say that there were many extraordinary revelations made today and a great number of serious questions rasied which need to be asked and answered, quickly. At a minimum the House needs to subpoena the NSA and the Department of State for the recording of the 2:00 AM phone call between Mr. Hicks and Hillary and her senior staff, a recording both I and Eli Lake suspect exists as a matter of routine NSA practice, if it has not already been erased. Subpoenas must also go out to Hillary, everyone on the conference call at 2:00 AM, and of course to Cheryl Mills, the enforcer of the cover-up. Lt. Colonel Gibson must be deposed, and his commander and then that man’s commander etc. until we get to the bottom of the stand down order. The denial of air assets from Aviano is another area of great interest. Investigators need to travel to Libya and speak with the senior officials there as to their response to being embarrassed by the Admiistration. It must all happen quickly and without fear or favor. Not to establish a Select Committee draws the Speaker and the GOP majority into the very cover-up they are supposed to be investigating. Call 202-225-3121 and ask for the Speaker’s office. Tweet him @SpeakerBoehner and @EricCantor as well. On my show alone we have heard calls for a Select Committee from Senators Ayotte and McCain and from Congressmen DeSantis, Gowdy and Jordan, all three of whom did extraordinarily fine work today, as did Chairman Issa and Congressman Chaffetz and many others. It is clear the Oversight and Governmental Reform Committee is far ahead of the other four committees “investigating” this scandal, but all must be brought under one roof with one staff and one set of questions and evidence. Think about this: At 2:00 AM Hillary Clinton spoke with the man in charge in Libya who informed her the consulate had been attacked, the Ambassador was missing, and that his people had to evacuate. An hour later news of the ambassador’s death reached that man, Greg Hicks, and he informed the State Department. Hillary never called him back that night or the next day. Think as well about the fact that some of the most extraordinarily moving testimony ever given in the halls of Congress –given by Mr. Hicks about the entire evening but especially about the security forces who climbed the roof of the Annex in Benghazi to recover the dead and the wounded– and that it is not being played on most American media tonight. Astonishing and disgusting. There is nothing the Speaker and his colleagues in the House can do about the media or the Administration. But they can do the obvious and right thing, by establishing a Select Committee and thereby build upon the sense of urgency developed today, and they should do it now. hughhewitt.com

To: Carolyn who wrote (692)	5/11/2013 11:02:41 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 826

Video: MSNBC Turns on Obama, Admits Benghazi Cover-Up

To: Carolyn who wrote (692)	5/12/2013 4:25:36 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 826

OBAMA LOSES THE NEW YORKER OVER BENGHAZI SPIN. Obama appears to be losing the MSM over Benghazi. About time they pulled their heads out of their printing presses and smelled the corruption. DOWD ON BENGHAZI: CLINTON-ERA DÉJÀ VU BBC APOLOGIZES FOR BENGHAZI COVERAGE: HILLARY IN TROUBLE, ‘HEADS WILL ROLL’ CNN: TALKING POINTS EDITED DOWN TO SOMETHING ‘TOTALLY UNTRUE’ MSNBC: BENGHAZI SIMILAR TO WATERGATE NEW YORKER: TALKING POINT EDITS ‘SERIOUSLY UNDERMINES WHITE HOUSE CREDIBILITY’ POLITICO: OBAMA ADMIN PUSHED ‘FALSE NARRATIVE’ AFTER BENGHAZI

To: Carolyn who wrote (692)	5/25/2013 12:05:17 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 826

How the New York Times Shapes 'Correct' Perception of News by Brian Cates 23 May 2013 23 post a comment More: IRS Scandal Some real news came out of the release of the Inspector General's report on the IRS abuse, and from the Congressional hearings this week. The Obama administration lied when it claimed it had no idea the IRS was targeting Conservative groups for delays & denials of their applications for tax-exempt status. Everybody lied. The then-IRS Commissioner lied last year to Congress when he insisted no such targeting was going on, and Obama lied when he claimed he learned of the IRS scandal just last week by reading the newspapers. But you wouldn't really know that if you read the New York Times. You MIGHT if you dug way down deep into the story towards the end, if you can read a little between the lines. Thankfully, as the following screenshots will show, you can learn for yourself how a breaking news story containing REAL new information gets ' massaged' by a media professional to ensure that readers come away with the 'correct' impression. This is Jonathan Weisman. He's sorry for reporting real news & promises it won't happen again. When Jonathan Weisman first put his story up on Friday following more Congressional testimony, this is what the headline and the opening sentence looked like: Now, notice what Weisman did here: in the HEADLINE and in the OPENING SENTENCE he revealed the MAJOR NEWS that came out of that day's testimony. The IG directly contradicted the Obama administration's claim it had no idea anything was wrong at the IRS or that certain groups and citizens were being targeted for harassment due to 'incorrect' political beliefs. In other words, WEISMAN DID WHAT A REPORTER IS SUPPOSED TO DO. He led with the news and made it easy to see. Well that really bothered somebody higher up, who decided that Weisman's piece was 'incomplete' and needed some 'massaging' to bring out the REAL STORY. Take a look at what Weisman's original piece was turned into after it was helpfully 'edited' by Jeremy W. Peters: Hello! I'm Jeremy Peters, the Political Morale Officer here at the NYT's! I see Jonathan left the real news out of his article! No problem, I can fix that! As you can see, Jeremy W. Peters knew EXACTLY what Weisman's article needed; the real story is about the REPUBLICANS trying to use this breaking scandal for their own political benefit. So how could Weisman have left out the word 'Republicans' in the headline? How could he have not inserted Republican attempts to enlarge the scandal to score political points against the White House in the very first sentence? Well Peters made sure those were the very first things that got changed. Peters must have also wondered: Hey Johnathan, WTF? Why are you LEADING with the IG's testimony that he informed top administration officials of the scandal back in 2012? Don't you realize this directly contradicts what Obama & the administration spent all this week claiming? Why the bloody blue hell would you make THAT the lede? Are you seriously trying to give your readers the sense there's a REAL scandal here instead of just another political witchhunt? No man, you gotta BURY that crap and hide it way further down in the story like this: Weisman's original opening sentence: What Peter's butchered it into way down in the 9th paragraph: See Johnathan? THAT'S how it's done, bro! You change it from 'senior Treasury officials', which reveals a bunch of top Administration people knew, to just the 'Treasury's general counsel', a single person. It's important to give the present administration as much cover as you can! Are you taking notes, bro? In the USSR's military, there was the military commander and then there was the 'Morale Officer' which is a kind way of saying Communist Party hack. The military commander would make decisions and then would have to run them by the Morale Officer first for approval. That often meant sound military decisions were changed and suborned to stupid party ideology. How is what Peters did to Weisman's article any different? Sound reporting was 'massaged' until it reflected Party Ideology. There is no way anybody can call that revised article anything but propaganda. From a real news story into a political hack job - The NYT's at it's best! Congratulations, media 'journalists' like those at the New York Times. You don't break news any more, you cover it up. You don't speak truth to power, you cover for The Power. How's it feel to be today's version of the USSR's Pravda? Since Jeremy Peters is on Twitter at @jwpetersNYT , how's about we all go tell him what a smashingly good job he did improving the article by burying the real news & interjecting a lot of political spin? @ jwpetersnyt How The NYT's Goes About Shaping The 'Correct' PerceptionPeople Should Have Of News Stories: drawandstrike.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-me… — Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) May 19, 2013 UPDATE: It's #ACCOUNTABILITYWATCH DAY 10 since Lois Lerner tried her 'controlled explosion' on Friday May10th. You know what one of the biggest outrages of the IRS scandal is? That the Obama administration quickly proffered two patsies who weren't even in charge when most of the abuses took place. A guy who was leaving next month anyway and a guy who'd been on the job a grand total of 8 days. That's NOT accountability. Accountability would be the people in charge at the time the abuse took place getting fired, not the people who replaced them. But for some reason the MSM seems pretty darn reluctant to point out that Lois Lerner and Sarah Hall Ingram still have jobs at the IRS. Why is that? Breitbart