I've backed away from politics in the last few week because.. well, I have to every now and then to save my sanity..HA!
anyway, I think I have the gist on Benghazi, even the whole 'whistle-blower' dud and abc news,false email reporting.
I have a good idea on the irs thing..altho I am still trying to figure out what exactly was so wrong with making entities that want to destroy the tax system thru political donations prove they aren't really a political entity, just a 'wink-wink' 501.4c one.. fill out extra paper work and answer more questions than say the boy scouts of America..I'm still trying to wrap my head around what the actual scandal is.. I mean, if someone had the unfortunate name "Osama Bin Laden" and they never change it, but one day decided they wanted a passport.. would it be a scandal if the State depart held that passport application for a few extra days/weeks and asked this fellow a few more questions before giving him a passport?
sure I get that the gov't isn't supposed to single out a political group for scrutiny.. but I thought these groups were applying for 'non-political,tax-free' status.. so how can they claim shielding under the 'gov't can't be biased against any political group' ?
or am I missing something?
thirdly.. the AP/Foxnews scandal..
wtf is all that about?
someone at Fox and the AP disseminated classified information.. the DOJ, legally, looked at their phone records.. all media lost the mothefucking minds..
but where was this media-mind-losing meltdown when the rest of the country was getting(legally) wiretapped after implementation of the Pat Act?
Where were the same GOP'ers now crying "Obama Tyranny" when liberals were warning them 10 years ago "This is not a slippery slope you're one, it's the complete destruction of privacy".. OH yeah, I remember where they were.. Some of them, like the Cheney,Bush and Rumsfeld were telling those liberals they are either with them or the terrorists.. funny how they didn't care about it then, but do now..funny how then it was 'its a time of war, the gov't must be able to do it's job to save american children' but today, in a time of war, when you release classified, cia, information that could have only been leaked by someone within the national security apparatus it's "OMG they're stepping on our freedoms"..
I get that reporters have the duty to go to jail before revealing their source.. but that doesn't mean they can't be investigated does it?
Where was the outrage when the gov't, in collusion with the media (Judith miller comes to mind).. started a war on lies? Where was the outrage when the gov't contracted the media (miller again) to out a classified CIA agent along with anyone who was sharing her 'backstory' and any contact she ever had?
I know the media is saying "It's not a crime to report classified information that was given to them".. So why aren't they just as damning for Julian Assange freedom right now? Did he do the exact same thing?
what am I missing? what is the scandal here?
There are no scandals, from Benghazi to AP to the IRS. I've spent a lot of time on JPP on each. They're all more misguided right wing bullshit trying to create a mountain out of a molehill.
The only one with any credence is the IRS deal, which boils down to as even Issa said today, a few people in an office in Cincinnati that equals less than a percent of employees and has nothing to do with the president.
