Dr. John
Flopping Aces
1/31/2015
As a candidate on 2008 Obama claimed to support whistleblowers. His website claimed that whistleblowing events were “acts of courage and patriotism” that “should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration.”
If back then we had used our Obama Bullshit Decoder Ring and applied DrJohn’s Law, we would have known how that was going to go.
The Obama regime has conducted a war on whistleblowers like none in history. It’s so aggressive that even Common Dreams says the Obama administration has reached “a new low.”
“The Sterling case…sends a clear message to people in government service: You won’t get in trouble as long as you do what you’re told (even torture people). But if you talk to a reporter and tell him something we want kept secret, we will spare no effort to destroy you.”
Without a doubt. It echoes a Sharyl Atikisson remark. Atkisson said:
If you cross this administration with perfectly accurate reporting they don’t like, you will be attacked and punished. You and your sources may be subjected to the kind of surveillance devised for enemies of the state.
Enter Jay Dobyns…
The article continues at Flopping Aces.
Related: Sharyl Attkisson: Obama Administration Treats Journalists Like ‘Enemies of the State’ (video)
…Attkisson, a senior independent contributor to The Daily Signal, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday about the Department of Justice’s treatment of journalists under outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder.
Loretta Lynch’s nomination to replace Holder is awaiting Senate confirmation, prompting Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to call on Attkisson to give her own personal account of troubles with the Justice Department.
“The job of getting at the truth has never been more difficult,” Attkisson said at the hearing. “Facets of the federal government have isolated themselves from the public they serve. They covet and withhold public information that we as citizens own.”…
Update: More on Jay Dobyns case
Got into the Court of Claims docket– here’s the ruling (pdf) in which the Court accuses the Department of Justice attorneys of having committed a fraud on the Court. That’s the document which the Court recently ordered unsealed. The uppermost entry is sealed, but from the language — “Until further order, the Clerk of Court shall not accept filings” — suggests it’s the order that the nine DoJ and ATF attorneys were banned from filing further pleadings in the case. It’s a rather startling sanction — get out of my court, NOW!
The judgment (the order ruling that Plaintiff won) is still sealed. But it must be pretty explosive. Here’s the Court docket for that time period. Notice right after entering the judgment, the Court orders that copies of the judgment be served on the Attorney General, the DOJ Inspector General (responsibility to prevent fraud, waste and abuse) and the DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility (charged with investigating ethics violations). I’ve never seen a court order anything like that…
