----- From: Les Lemke Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 3:33 AM Subject: Audio - Phil Berg talks about his research into PROOF that Barack Hussein is NOT a natural born citizen
PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS AUDIO! WE_HAVE_A_FRAUD_IN_THE_WHITE_HOUSE! VERY GOOD AUDIO of Phil Berg talking about his research showing that Barack Hussein Obama is NOT a U.S. Citizen AND is NOT a Natural Born Citizen as required by the U.S. Constitution in order for a person to be a candidate for President or to be President. http://www.obamacrimes.info/1848-10-webstertarpley200823083_philberg_74m52s_16mo16.mp3%20(audio%20mpeg%20Object).mp3 Phil Berg's website: http://www.obamacrimes.com/ Obama Refuses To Allow Transparent Resolution Regarding Required Citizenship ----- From: Zee Source To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:48 AM Subject: [v911t] TRANSPARENCY http://www.whitehouse.gov http://tinyurl.com/bql5vq http://pr.thinkprogress.org/ Let The Sun Shine In http://www.whitehouse.gov/ http://www.gocomics.com/tomtoles/ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17788.html http://tinyurl.com/bql5vq During his campaign, Barack Obama spoke often of the need for open and accountable government. "Too often the American people don't know who Washington is working for, and when they find out, they don't like what they hear," he said in Sept. 2007. Obama has echoed what advocates of open government had long called for: "[S]hining a bright light on how Washington works." Yesterday, President Obama took the first step towards fulfilling those campaign promises by issuing a series of executive orders and memorandums that "aimed at greater government openness and accountability." Principally, the directives restore the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and reverse rules enacted by President Bush that gave the White House unprecedented authority to withhold presidential records. Further, the President implemented strict rules governing the employment of lobbyists in his administration. By extending his transition's spirit of openness, Obama is building the infrastructure for an open and accountable administration. Still, as New York Times columnist Frank Rich noted last night on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show, Obama has "a lot of turning back to do" with regard to Bush's era of secrecy and that progressives must "trust, but verify" that Obama's stated transparency goals are met. AN ERA OF SECRECY: When Bush left office on Tuesday, he completed what is widely viewed as the most secretive administration in history. Evidence of this secrecy is made blatantly obvious by the fact that, under Bush, the number of new documents per year deemed to be state secrets increased by 75 percent. Less obvious, but perhaps more damaging was the administration's restriction of unclassified information. As he entered office in 2001, Bush directed his Attorney General, John Ashcroft, to issue new guidelines governing FOIA disclosures. Ashcroft's guidelines "encouraged federal agencies to reject requests for documents if there was any legal basis to do so." As a result of that directive, the government's FOIA compliance rate deteriorated. By 2006, two in five FOIA requests were left unprocessed, the number of exceptions cited to justify withholding information increased 83 percent, and the Justice Department's grant rate fell 70 percent. As the Project on Government Secrecy's Steven Aftergood wrote for Slate in 2005, "Information is the oxygen of democracy. Day by day, the Bush administration is cutting off the supply." Under the new standard, Obama is urging executive agencies to err on the side of openness. Additionally, Obama's directives give "ex-presidents less leeway to withhold records" under the Presidential Records Act. TRANSITIONING WITH TRANSPARENCY: Immediately following his election, Obama rejected the secrecy of the Bush era and attempted to make his transition a model of open governance. The transition team opened the "Citizen's Briefing Book," which aimed to create a "virtual white paper, authored by engaged citizens, to pitch ideas to the incoming administration." Similarly, when the transition solicited input from outside interest groups, materials from the meetings were posted to the transition team's website. In a memo to staffers, transition co-chair John Podesta wrote, "Every day we meet with organizations who present ideas for the transition and the administration, both orally and in writing. We want to ensure we give the American people a 'seat at the table' and that we receive the benefit of their feedback." Once the materials were published, the public could provide feedback through the website. The transition website also featured an "Open for Questions" section that allowed the public to submit questions directly to the new administration. The questions were made public and readers were able to "vote up" the questions that they believed needed to be answered first. At the end of the voting round, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs posted a YouTube video in response to a handful of the most popular questions. By bringing the presidential transition into the 21st century, the Obama team demonstrated that open and accountable governance is both possible and practical. THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF OPEN GOVERNMENT: At noon on Jan. 20, a new White House website launched. The site includes space for a White House blog, Obama's weekly video address, the White House pool reports, and a link to the White House Twitter feed. With this site and yesterday's directives from Obama, the White House is building the infrastructure it needs to deliver on its promises of transparent and accountable governance. But the Obama administration is not yet making the best use of the existing infrastructure. For example, the White House blog does not allow for public comments. Instead, the Office of Public Liaison offers only a web form where the public an submit comments to the administration. And as the Sunlight Foundation noted, the executive orders issued by Obama yesterday -- despite being released to news organizations almost immediately -- were not posted to the website until late last night, and the blog contains no mention of issuing them. TechPresident recently noted that the laws governing presidential record-keeping might hobble promises of open governance by slowing, or halting entirely, the adoption of new technologies. While such concerns do highlight the need to update the Presidential Records Act, the Obama team demonstrated during the transition that open government is attainable, and they can do so again in the White House. TORTURE -- LEVIN: HOLDER SHOULD APPOINT AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR ON TORTURE: Responding to a question earlier this month about whether he would appoint a special prosecutor to "independently investigate" the "greatest crimes" committed by the Bush administration, President Obama didn't rule out a prosecutor, but said that his "orientation" was "to look forward as opposed to looking backwards." Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have said that Congress should continue to investigate Bush's torture policies regardless of Obama's plans. At the Progressive Media Summit on Capitol Hill yesterday, blogger Marcy Wheeler asked Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) about congressional plans to investigate torture. "There needs to be, I believe, an accounting of torture in this country," replied Levin. He then said that he had suggested to Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder that he appoint "an outside person who's got real credibility, perhaps a retired federal judge," to continue to investigate. In December 2008, Levin's committee released theexecutive summary of an investigation into the Bush administration's detainee policy, which concluded that top Bush administration officials "bore major responsibility for the abuses committed by American troops in interrogations." Levin said yesterday that the full report would be released "in the next couple of weeks." CONGRESS -- CORNYN DELAYS CONFIRMATION VOTE ON HOLDER TO PROTECT BUSH OFFICIALS: Republican lawmakers yesterday forced a one-week delay in the confirmation vote of Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder amid concerns that Holder might prosecute officials involved in the Bush Administration's enhanced interrogation techniques. Holder previously stated that he believes that "waterboarding is torture" and has signaled that he is open to investigations on the use of torture. Torture advocate Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is holding up the nomination because he wants to know exactly whether Holder willpursue criminal prosecutions of "intelligence personnel" involved in torture. "Part of my concern relates to his statements at the hearing with regard to torture and what his intentions are toward our intelligence personnel who were operating in good faith based on their understanding of what the law was," Cornyn said. The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote on Holder on Jan. 28. ECONOMY -- GEITHNER FACES TOUGH CONFIRMATION DESPITE EARLY WARNINGS ON BAD ECONOMY: Yesterday, President Obama's Treasury Secretary nominee, Timothy Geithner, faced "a grilling" on Capitol Hill during his confirmation hearing after reports surfaced that he failed to pay self-employment taxes on his 2001-2004 returns while working at the International Monetary Fund. Geithner apologized and told Congress that his failure to pay the taxes was a careless mistake and avoidable but "completely unintentional." But because of the tax mishap, some on the right -- such as Michelle Malkin and Newt Gingrich -- are trying to stall Geithner's confirmation. But when it came to predicting the economic crisis, Geithner was much more prescient than the man he has been tapped to succeed, Henry Paulson. For example, in February 2006, Geithner warned that financial innovation was "increasing systemic risk," but later that year, then-Treasury Secretary Paulson proclaimed, "I say with confidence that over the last couple of years, the world economy has been stronger than I have ever seen it." Read the entire report, "The Coming Of The Crisis: Henry Paulson vs. Tim Geithner," at the Wonk Room. EXCERPTS After running "the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history,"President Obama's staffers encountered "a jumble of disconnected phone lines, old computer software, and security regulations forbidding outside e-mail accounts" on their first day at their new jobs. "It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. It appears that President Obama will get to keep his Blackberry. More specifically, he'll get a "spy-proof" alternative that is "reportedly capable of encrypting top secret voice conversations and handling classified documents." Yesterday, President Obama began "fulfilling his campaign promise to pull combat forces out of Iraq in 16 months" and ordered a new mission to end the war. He "held off ordering a troop withdrawal right away to hear concerns and options from his military commanders." Also, Gen. Ray Odierno said that if the country held peaceful elections this year, the relative calm that had settled on Iraq would be "irreversible." Amnesty International said it found "indisputable evidence" of Israel’s widespread use of white phosphorus “in densely populated residential areas in Gaza City and in the north," a violation of international law. The Israeli military said yesterday that it is investigating the matter. "Medicaid rolls are surging, by unprecedented rates in some states, as the recession tightens its grip on the economy and Americans lose their employer-sponsored health coverage along with their jobs." In many states, Medicaid rolls grew by 5 to 10 percent in the last year, often double the growth the previous year. Congress is likely to extend Medicaid aid to states in the upcoming stimulus package. In a move signaling his "intent to keep one of the most ambitious and politically crucial campaign promises at the top of his agenda," President Obama will convene a White House working session on health care reform in the late winter or the early spring. The meeting, which could come as early as March, is expected to bring together members of Congress and other stakeholders inhealth care reform. President Obama's ethics rules may slow the nomination of William Lynn, a former Raytheon lobbyist, as deputy defense secretary. "[I]t's a problem," said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), who may place a hold on the nomination. "You can't just recuse yourself from huge programs at the Pentagon if you're going to do that job." by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Ali Frick, and Ryan Powers --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ShadowGovernment -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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