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To: Woody_Nickels who wrote (3576)	6/13/2013 12:52:01 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

ABC, NBC Minimize New State Department Sex and Drugs Scandal

To: Woody_Nickels who wrote (3576)	6/13/2013 10:23:18 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

REPORT: Obama 'Strongly Objects' to Religious Liberty Amendment ............................................... radio.foxnews.com The Obama Administration “strongly objects” to a proposed amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday that would have protected the religious rights of soldiers – including evangelical Christian service members who are facing growing hostility towards their religion. The amendment was authored by Rep. John Fleming, R-La. It would have “required the Armed Forces to accommodate ‘actions and speech’ reflecting the conscience, moral, principles or religious beliefs of the member.” The Obama Administration said the amendment would have a “significant adverse effect on good order, discipline, morale, and mission accomplishment.” “With its statement, the White House is now endorsing military reprimands of members who keep a Bible on their desk or express a religious belief,” Fleming told Fox News. “This administration is aggressively hostile towards religious beliefs that it deems to be politically incorrect.” Fleming introduced the amendment after a series of high-profile incidents involving attacks on religious liberty within the military- including an Air Force officer who was told to remove a Bible from his desk because it might give the impression he was endorsing a religion. He said there are other reports of Christian service members and chaplains being punished for their faith. The Air Force censored a video created by a chaplain because it include the word “God.” The Air Force feared the word might offend Muslims and atheists. A service member received a “severe and possibly career-ending reprimand” for expressing his faith’s religious position about homosexuality in a personal religious blog. A senior military official at Fort Campbell sent out a lengthy email officially instructing officers to recognize “the religious right in America” as a “domestic hate group” akin to the KKK and Neo-Nazis because of its opposition to homosexual behavior. A chaplain was relieved of his command over a military chapel because, consistent with DOMA’s definition of marriage, he could not allow same-sex weddings to take place in the chapel. Last month Coast Guard Rear Admiral William Lee told a National Day of Prayer audience that religious liberty was being threatened by Pentagon lawyers and service members are being told to hide their faith in Christ. “Leaders like myself are feeling the constraints of rules and regulations and guidance issued by lawyers that put us in a tighter and tighter box regarding our constitutional right to express our religious faith,” he said. Fleming said the purpose of his amendment is to clarify ambiguities in the Pentagon’s policies. “The bottom line is the military is bending over backwards to remove – even in the case of chaplains – expressions of faith and conscience,” Fleming said. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, called the Obama Administration’s edict a “chilling suppression of religious freedom.” Related posts: WH Opposes Religious Liberty Amendment for Military Chaplains Christians Say Obama is Trampling Religious Liberty Congressman: Troops Being Punished For Expressing Religious Faith Rear Admiral Says Religious Liberty Under Threat in Military Obama calls Conscience Clause for Military Chaplains “Ill-Advised”

To: Woody_Nickels who wrote (3576)	6/14/2013 1:55:53 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Rep. Stockman turns White House claim against Obama--demands White House to IRS phone records Rep. Stockman requests NSA logs for phone traffic between White House, IRS By: John Hayward 6/14/2013 humanevents.com We’ve been told by Administration apologists that we shouldn’t have anything to fear from enhanced phone and online surveillance, if we have nothing to hide. Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) brilliantly turned this line of thinking against the White House, by asking the House Oversight committee to subpoena the National Security Agency’s phone call metadata for communication between the White House and IRS: Stockman’s office hand delivered a letter Tuesday afternoon to the Committee’s office requesting a subpoena “of all records of every phone call made from all public and private telephones of all IRS personnel to all public and private telephones of all White House personnel” collected under the NSA’s recently-revealed PRISM program. “Obama assures the public he only collected this information to uncover wrongdoing and protect civil liberties. Clearly he would want us to use it to investigate this case, because otherwise he’d be lying,” said Stockman. “If Obama has nothing to hide he has nothing to fear,” said Stockman. “This case must be investigated fully, given admitted wrongdoing by the IRS, its potentially criminal implications and revelations the White House has been less than honest about what they knew and when,” said Stockman. “Obama says the PRISM program is perfectly legal, so there should be no problem whatsoever in providing the information on White House and IRS phone calls.” “The only possible scenario in which the administration refuses to comply would be if it would reveal unconstitutional or illegal behavior,” said Stockman. Time to put your money where your mouth is, surveillance state enthusiasts! Here is the full text of Stockman’s letter to House Oversight chair Darrell Issa (R-CA): Thank you for your ongoing efforts to investigate abuses of civil liberties by employees of the Internal Revenue Service. These abuses seem to indicate a larger, higher pattern of ideologically-driven harassment of Americans which Congress has an obligation to fully investigate with every tool at our disposal. Frankly I am disappointed by revelations Obama administration personnel have been less than forward about what they knew and when they knew it. As you know, recent revelations show the National Security Agency has been keeping an “ongoing, daily” log of every domestic phone call in the United States. I respectfully request your Committee subpoena the records of every phone call made from all public and private telephones of all IRS personnel to all public and private telephones of all White House personnel. If President Obama is collecting such information, he certainly would want us to use it. If he has nothing to hide he has nothing to be afraid of. The point of all that NSA data-harvesting was to detect threats to the American people, and not just foreign threats, right? Well, the corrupt IRS represents just such a threat. Let’s find out if that mighty host of “rogue employees” was talking to any rogue employees at the White House. There doesn’t seem to have been much of an effort to round up all these “rogues” and press charges, or even get them safely away from our confidential data. Maybe the information Stockman wants would jolt those investigations into action.