IRS Exempt Organization Unit Chief Officer Violated U.S. Laws

[From article]
When Lois Lerner, the former IRS chief of the Exempt Organization unit and figure at the center of the targeting scandal, transferred 1.25 million IRS documents to the Justice Department in October of 2010, she almost certainly broke the law, according to new documents unearthed by the group Cause of Action in a FOIA suit.
The documents contained tax returns and other private tax information from non-profit groups. The transfer was done in advance of a meeting between IRS and Justice Department officials to discuss prosecuting non-profits for illegal political activity.
But federal law prohibits the transfer of tax returns to any agency without following set procedures. Lerner's transfer was thus highly illegal.
[. . .]



Documents suggest that Lerner’s massive document transfer to the DOJ didn’t meet any of those exceptions, including one that allows the agency to disclose returns for use in criminal investigations — if they’ve been requested in relation to “an actual investigation about a person to whom the investigation is related,” says O’Connor. Both Lerner and the DOJ were interested in figuring out how to prosecute non-profit groups they believed were engaging in improper political activity, and Lerner sent the documents over to the department days before an October 8 meeting with several of her IRS colleagues, an FBI agent, and attorneys from the DOJ’s public-integrity section.
[. . .]
A lawful transfer of the documents would have required a formal request from the DOJ to the IRS, but DOJ trial attorney Stephanie Sasarak told Cause of Action in a March 9, 2016, letter that the department did not make any requests to the IRS for the documents it received. Alternatively, the secretary of the Treasury could have turned the documents over to the DOJ. In either case, section 6103 requires the Treasury secretary to disclose the transfer to the bipartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, which releases publicly a list of disclosures each year. But the Joint Committee on Taxation’s 2010 disclosure report does not show a transfer to the Department of Justice that matches the one Lerner sent in October of that year.
[. . .]



Thousands of non-profit groups had their tax returns transferred illegally, while the IRS and Justice deliberately kept Congress in the dark.
The FBI closed its investigation of the Tea Party targeting scandal in October of 2015 without indicting anyone.
It doesn't get any clearer than this. Procedures set down by law on how taxpayer info can be disclosed were discarded, and a cover-up of the transfer to DoJ was initiated. What's worrisome is, if they are covering up disclosure violations like this, how many more taxpayers are in the cross hairs of the IRS and DoJ without knowing it, and is there any way to find out?

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/06/new_docs_show_irss_lois_lerner_broke_the_law.html

June 30, 2016
New docs show IRS's Lois Lerner broke the law
By Rick Moran

U.S. Government Incompetence, Negligence, Cover-Ups, Abuse of Power

[From article]

America continues its devolution into a feudal society, with an overclass that lives by very different rules from those of the ordinary people, who labor mightily to pay the taxes that sustain the overclass in an existence untroubled by the concerns that preoccupy the serfs.
Getting fired for incompetence is far less of a worry than dying at your desk from a heart attack if you are a government bureaucrat. So is having your misbehavior exposed to the serfs. A pair of stories from the Daily Caller News Foundation illustrate the immunity from public accountability that shelters our masters.
Ethan Barton documents the effort made to prevent disclosure of the federal bureaucrat who caused the Gold King Mine disaster that polluted the Animus River and caused millions of dollars in damage.



Environmental Protection Agency worker Hays Griswold was in charge at the Gold King Mine in August 2015 when a three-million gallon flood of dangerous mine waste — including 880,000 pounds of toxic elements like lead and arsenic — poured into Colorado’s Animus River, turning it yellow for nearly a week and poisoning the drinking water source for residents of three states and the Navajo Nation.



But somebody contrived to remove critical details, including Griswold’s name, from an “independent” review of the disaster, according to documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Officials at the Department of the Interior – and perhaps EPA – had access to the draft.
Of course, nobody in the federal bureaucracy has suffered any consequences.
[N]o one has been punished for the disaster, which likely will ultimately cost state and federal taxpayers millions of dollars. The disaster also negatively affected the area’s farming and tourism industries and may even be linked to suicides.
In a second instance of protecting its own, the same Ethan Barton reports:
A U.S. attorney sexually harassed an ex-lover and former subordinate, then tried hiding the deed from federal investigators, a government watchdog reported Tuesday.



The unnamed U.S. attorney resigned during the investigation and was not prosecuted, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) reported. The lovers’ genders weren’t identified.
The public is like mushrooms as far as the feds are concerned. We’re kept in the dark and covered in dung.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/06/feds_shield_misbehaving_bureaucrats_from_public_exposure_for_their_misdeeds.html

June 9, 2016
Feds shield misbehaving bureaucrats from public exposure for their misdeeds
By Thomas Lifson

White House Orders Lawlessness Extended to State Courts, Selective Enforcement Of Laws Based On Race, Contrary To Repeated Supreme Court Rulings

More racial discrimination by the Civil Rights Division Of the Justice Department. See e.g., J. Christian Adams' book, Injustice; and John Fund and Hans van Spakovsky's Who's Counting?

[From article]
As New York moves to decriminalize low-level offenses, arguing enforcement is “rigged against communities of color,” other large cities are coming under pressure from the Justice Department to do the same thing.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch has issued a warning to municipal and state judges across the country that their courts could lose federal funding if they don’t ease up on fines and arrest warrants for minor crimes involving poor offenders, indigent minorities in particular.
In lieu of fines and jail time, Lynch urges the nation’s 6,500 municipal courts to provide an avenue for offenders to perform “community service” or take advantage of “amnesty days,” whereby outstanding arrest warrants are cleared for nominal fees.[. . .]
A strongly worded “guidance” letter, written by her civil-rights team, warns that a local court policy of enforcing warrants for failure to pay court fines and fees can have an adverse “disparate impact” on African-Americans, who are fined and/or arrested for outstanding warrants at “disproportionate” rates versus whites.
Federal data also show that blacks tend to break both felony and misdemeanor laws at a disproportionate rate. Even if applied evenly across all races and in neutral, color-blind fashion, such policies could be found by Justice to be discriminatory.
[. . .]
The Supreme Court has ruled that disparate impact doesn’t violate Title VI, only “intentional” discrimination does. “The administration is quite wrong to say that Title VI incorporates a ‘disparate impact’ standard,” Roger Clegg of the Center for Equal Opportunity points out. “The Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that it does not.”
This new court “reform” will only exacerbate the crime problem. Studies show ignoring low-level crimes like warrant violations only leads to bigger crimes.
Under Mayor de Blasio, the NYPD has scaled back its aggressive enforcement of low-level offenses only to see both minor and serious crime rebound. Already cops have backed off public urination and other public nuisance violations, while overlooking outstanding warrants for many other misdemeanor crimes.
Even a senior Justice Department official predicts the decriminalization-cum-deincarceration movement will backfire in higher crime nationwide. “In five years the crime rate is going to be crazy again,” he said.

http://nypost.com/2016/03/27/ag-loretta-lynch-wants-to-let-nation-break-law-without-consequences/

AG Loretta Lynch wants to let nation break law without consequences
By Paul Sperry
New York Post
March 27, 2016 | 6:00am

Dinesh D'Souza's New Book On Criminal Justice Corruption, Book Review

Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party, by Dinesh D’Souza, Broadside Books, HarperCollins Publishers, November, 2015 (336 pages, $29.99, Hardback)


Dinesh D'Souza

[From book review]
But what does a conservative become when he’s mugged by a corrupt, politically driven justice system? Dinesh D’Souza’s latest book, Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party answers that question. D’Souza now views the Progressive movement as a criminal enterprise designed to pull off the biggest heist in world history -- effective control of the enormous wealth created by America’s entrepreneurs. This bounty, the author argues, was made possible by the country’s embrace of a capitalist system that rewards industry and customer-centered innovation and discourages the hitherto ubiquitous ethic of theft. Democrats, however, through a reversal of traditional American values, seek to acquire power by vilifying wealth-creators and rewarding “victims” with trickle-down shares of the national loot -- all while portraying themselves as righteous advocates of social justice.
D’Souza’s book begins by discussing aspects of his prosecution for illegally contributing $20,000 to a friend running for a Senate seat in New York State. Of his case Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz commented, “What you did is very commonly done in politics, and on a much bigger scale. Have no doubt about it, they are targeting you for your views.” Dershowitz’s opinion coincided with D’Souza’s own -- namely, that his politics and especially the negative portrait of Obama in his 2016 documentary had ticked off the protagonist-in-chief himself. Clinton-appointed judge Richard Berman, however, denied D’Souza access to papers that could prove selective prosecution, arguing in Alice in Wonderland fashion that only evidence of selective prosecution could justify access to papers that would provide such evidence.
[. . .]
D’Souza was able to avoid the prosecution’s desired prison stint of ten to sixteen months -- an outrageous punishment since, in the defendant’s words, “no person who had done what I did had even been prosecuted, let alone sentenced.” Instead, D’Souza’s sentence consisted of 8 months of overnight confinement in a halfway house, community service, psychological counseling, a $30,000 fine, and five years probation. By contrast, consider Democrat fundraiser Sant Singh Chatwal, who clearly tried to buy influence, instructed a government witness to lie under oath, and made “more than $180,000 in straw donations to several Democratic candidates, including Hillary Clinton.” For these far more egregious offenses “Chatwal received a fine, community service, and three years probation. No prison time, no confinement.”
[. . .]
D’Souza began to see prisoners and a flawed justice system in a different light. He also began to understand “the psychology of crookedness” -- a “system of larceny, corruption, and terror” that’s “been adopted and perfected by modern progressivism and the Democratic Party.”
[. . .]
D’Souza explores the connection between mafia-friendly con-man, Saul Alinsky, who died living the Goodfellas dream life in Carmel, California, and his two most famous pupils, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The author also investigates the emotional tie between the President and his father -- a consummate con-artist and polygamist. Instead of focusing on “anti-colonialism,” as in prior paternal analyses, D’Souza now emphasizes outright criminality and skillful lying, traits that connect the failed elder Obama to his wildly successful offspring who, in true Chicago style, perpetrates his cons inside the system.
[. . .]
To carry out their grand political heist, Democrats must marshal the emotions and votes of an army of envious underlings -- stoking resentment among minorities, women, the poor, immigrants, gays, and other potential victim groups.
[. . .]
These professional propagandists promulgate their ideas out of envy, seeing themselves as members of the rightful ruling class based on their superior intellects and abilities. This same exalted self-image applies to educators who chafe over not being recognized and rewarded by their society any better than the average plumber.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/stealing_america_what_my_experience_with_criminal_gangs_taught_me_about_obama_hillary_and_the_democratic_party.html

January 13, 2016
Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party
By Richard Kirk

Filling In Cambridge, MA Living Spaces

"if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death." Similarly if freedoms are reduced small pieces at a time, their complete absence will not be recognized until it is too late. Why will this proposal to increase the density of living spaces in the city, not have a similar effect making parking, walking, driving and emergency services more difficult?

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20151208/NEWS/151206907

LETTER: Support the 'Barrett Petition' for Cambridge homeowners
Posted Dec. 8, 2015 at 11:14 AM
Updated at 11:15 AM
To the editor:
Patrick W. Barrett III, Broadway

MBTA Publishes Anti Israel Ads, Refuses Pro Israel Ads

November 17, 2015

Boston: Anti-Semitic Ads OK, Pro-Israel Ads Forbidden

It's not just the jihad attacks in Paris and the Muslim refugee crisis -- in this age of Obama, the forces of hatred and oppression are emboldened and on the offensive everywhere. Officials all over the country are kowtowing to evil instead of standing up to it -- even in unlikely places like Boston, which has just agreed to run vicious anti-Israel ads, while continuing to refuse to run our AFDI ads defending Israel and freedom.
The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) has long refused to our pro-Israel/anti-jihad advertisements on their buses. And now, with their acceptance of the Jew-hating ads, their bias is naked and obvious -- and anti-American and anti-freedom.

The MBTA is currently running these vicious, libelous anti-Israel ads.

 

But they refused our pro-Israel ads:

And they refused this pro-Israel ad:

And they refused this Truth About Muhammad ad:

We are not taking this without a fight.

You would think that officials in Boston would have more sense. In the city where Islamic jihadists sowed murder and mayhem at the Marathon, the MBTA claimed our ads criticizing Islamic anti-Semitism and jihad terror were demeaning to Muslims - as if all Muslims were Jew-haters and jihadists.

Now the MBTA has compounded its moral inversion by approving and running anti-Semitic ads that include libels and lies against Israel.

It's beyond appalling: in a city repeatedly wracked by Islamic terror attacks -- the blood of its citizens stains the streets of the city -- the MBTA refused to run our ads opposing jihad.

We are never going to acquiesce to this evil. AFDI vs. Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA)
is going to the Supreme Court. But the costs involved are astronomical. This case is far more important than what ads run or do not run: it's a question of whether our public forums are going to be available to all people, or whether whole segments of the American public are simply going to be silenced and disenfranchised.

The MBTA has repeatedly refused to run our pro-Israel ads, which we submitted in response to vicious anti-Israel ads. This is just the latest in a number of antisemitic ad campaigns. We are fighting the MBTA in the courts. We have filed a cert petition to SCOTUS (attached). Imagine, the city of the Boston jihad bombings refusing to run anti-jihad ads. Despicable.


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NYPD Adopts Unequal Application of Laws For Muslim Hooligans

Is this DeBlasio's idea?

[From article]
New York City residents were treated to a glimpse of their (and our!) future recently when Egyptian journalists in town to cover the visit of Egyptian president Al-Sisi to the U.N. were assaulted by Muslim Brotherhood agents -- in full view of New York City police.
The journalists were assaulted verbally and physically while New York’s finest looked on, deigning to intervene in much the same way a schoolteacher does with a recalcitrant student – tut-tutting and tsk-tsking – rather than apprehending and jailing the violent assaulters as one would expect on the streets of an American city.
[. . .]



Threaten to riot, and watch the spineless politicians quail in revulsion from the prospect of confrontation.
This is the model by which Islamic enclaves have gained supremacy over entire swaths of major European cities, creating functional "no-go" areas where even the police will not enter for fear of sparking a violent reaction from the Muslim residents. This results in what you might expect – the utter abandonment of native citizens who live in the area or happen to wander into the neighborhood by mistake.
[. . .]
Nigel Farage – leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) – says:
It's happening right across Europe. We have got no-go zones in most of the big French cities. We've been turning a blind eye to preachers of hate that have been coming here from the Middle East and saying things for which the rest of us would be arrested. In parts of northern England we've seen the sexual grooming of under-age girls committed by Muslim men, in the majority, and for all of these things we are seeing the law not being applied equally, we're seeing the police forces not doing their job because we've suffered from moral cowardice. We have through mass immigration and through not checking the details of those people who have come to our countries, we have allowed big ghettos to develop
[. . .]



Steven Emerson, director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, in a Fox News interview January 11, 2015, said, “There are actual cities like Birmingham that are totally Muslim, where non-Muslims just simply don’t go in.”
The usual suspects on the political left wasted no time in demanding that Fox issue an apology for permitting Emerson to malign an entire religion with a demonstrable falsehood. Fox (and Emerson) complied, issuing apologies and a retraction.
[. . .]
The behavior of these Muslim Brotherhood thugs on the streets of a premier American city like New York is unacceptable. However, the reaction on the part of the police (and presumably their superiors, who appear to have given them orders to stand down) is far more disturbing, as it reveals a dangerous attitude of appeasement that enables lawlessness and rewards thuggery.
When the law refuses to act, citizens inevitably fill the vacuum with action of their own – the very definition of civil breakdown.
[. . .]


United Nations Building In New York City

The individuals involved in this incident need to be identified, arrested, prosecuted, and, if not American citizens, deported permanently after serving their sentences. Tolerance of other views is an essential element of a free society, but such tolerance doesn’t constitute a suicide pact, nor does it permit the use of violence.
We have no legal or moral obligation to tolerate the advocates of our destruction and enslavement, which is precisely what the Muslim Brotherhood intends to do.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/10/nyc_police_ignore_muslim_brotherhood_assault_on_the_streets_of_new_york.html

October 5, 2015
NYC Police Ignore Muslim Brotherhood Assault on the Streets of New York
By Joe Herring and Mark Christian

Settled Law For Liberals Are Laws They Like, Strategy To Defeat Selective Enforcement, Unequal Protection

[From article]
Ever notice that radical leftists never say, "It's the law of the land" when speaking of a national law they fundamentally disagree with?
Barack Obama and the Defense of Marriage Act is a glaring example. DOMA was the law of the land, but Mr. Obama's Justice Department refused to enforce the law, and the Department was the only agency responsible for its enforcement.
[. . .]
This piece could be filled with examples of President Obama's refusal to uphold the laws of the land (and even to obey direct federal court orders to his administration), but space doesn't permit.
[. . .]


Gov. Mike Huckabee

Governor Mike Huckabee's response is creative and shocks the automated thinking of jurists. Mr. Huckabee is pointing out that Kim Davis should not have been held in contempt of court because there is currently no law a court could order her to obey. Mr. Huckabee asks the question: under what law does Kim Davis have authority to issue same-sex marriage licenses?
The argument is legally valid. The judiciary's role is to decide individual disputes between parties. The courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, do not write laws. The legal system sort of operates under the mistaken notion that all High Court rulings somehow automatically become the law of the land.


Kim Davis, freed from jail

[. . .]
Kentucky law has yet to be changed to redefine marriage and to authorize its local clerks to issue same-sex marriage licenses. Until the Kentucky law is amended, clerks in Kentucky granting such licenses are doing so out of gratuitous deference, not legal obligation. If U.S. District Judge David Bunning were to give this legal reality some honest reflection, he might get the cold sweats, because he wrongly held Ms. Davis in contempt and took away her liberty.
[. . .]



The United States Code, Section 455, states that "[a]ny justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned." The law continues: "He shall also disqualify himself in the following circumstances: (1) Where he has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party ..."
Justices Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg had, prior to sitting and voting on the same-sex marriage case (Obergefell v. Hodges, 2015), officiated same-sex marriages.
[. . .]


If Kagan and Ginsburg had followed the law of the land, same-sex marriage would not be the "law of the land."
The Court's ruling is not valid for that reason alone. State governments may reasonably consider the ruling void ab initio.
[. . .]



The ongoing abuse of the Commerce Clause and the 14th Amendment to illegitimately expand federal power must end.
Instead of agreeing that same-sex marriage is "the law of the land," conservative candidates might want to remind reporters that 30 states went through the arduous process of amending their constitutions to protect their time-honored definitions of marriage.
[. . .]
For a few men and women in black robes to nonchalantly overturn the will of the people is unacceptable and unconstitutional. It's not the law of the land; it's an overreach and abuse of power. In other words, as our founders would say, it's federal tyranny.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/09/stop_saying_samesex_marriage_is_the_law_of_the_land.html

September 14, 2015
Stop Saying Same-Sex Marriage is the 'Law of the Land'
By Monte Kuligowski

Character Assassination, How Government Destroys Lives

Dinesh D'Souza

[From article]
His Wikipedia page, for instance, references him as an “Indian American political commentator, convicted felon and author” (emphasis added) – making sure his brush with the law is listed ahead of his status as a best-selling writer, and well ahead of his status as the most successful conservative documentary filmmaker of all time.
If one searches for recent news about D’Souza, one will find that a federal judge recently ordered him to undergo ongoing psychiatric treatment as a condition of his probation.
“Mr. D’Souza has weaknesses in controlling his own impulses and … is prone to anger in reaction to criticism,” the judge stated.
Really? Or was he too successful in criticizing Barack Obama?
[. . .]



it becomes readily apparent that D’Souza isn’t mentally ill – far from it.
Rather, he's the latest victim of America’s “culture war” – an attempt to radically remake this nation in the image of Soviet Russia.
The tarring and feathering of D’Souza is but one high-profile example of a pervasive, anti-American assault on core conservative, constitutional values – and those who dare to advance them. It is no longer merely “government overreach,” “liberal bias in the media,” or “political correctness run amok.” It is something more sinister: an increasingly brazen totalitarian effort to remake American democracy in the image of statist, conformist, command-economy orthodoxy.
[. . .]
Its objectives? Compulsory tolerance, selective justice, the perpetual subsidization of our dependency culture, open borders, a disarmed populace, vaporized property rights, warrantless mass surveillance, the ceding of popular authority to the state (and American sovereignty to the world), the deification of progressive leaders, mass youth indoctrination via government-subsidized revisionist history, the debasing of religious freedom, the erosion of the U.S. Constitution, and the relegation of our nation’s two founding pillars – freedom and free markets – to the dustbin of history.
Think that’s hyperbolic? Consider retired liberal general Wesley Clark – the former supreme NATO commander in Europe – who last month said American citizens who disagreed with their government should be sent to internment camps. Then consider U.S. senator and 2016 presidential candidate Lindsey Graham – who said he’d consider using military force on the U.S. Congress if it didn’t fund the Department of Defense to his liking.
Where are the charges against these traitors? And which federal judge is ordering them to be subjected to mental evaluations?
[. . .]
Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards, who was indicted for allegedly funneling $1 million in campaign contributions to his mistress, Rielle Hunter.
[. . .]
Edwards got off scot-free. Not one of the charges against him stuck. And no one accused him of being crazy.
D’Souza? He was sentenced to eight months in a halfway house and five years’ probation and ordered to pay $30,000 in fines. He was also required to undergo eight months of court-mandated “therapeutic counseling” by liberal U.S. district court judge Richard Berman
[. . .]



This is eerily reminiscent of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, in which the director of a Moscow paper factory received a ten-year sentence for sitting down at the eleven-minute mark of a standing ovation to Joseph Stalin. For his crime of insufficient enthusiasm, he was arrested later that night on a trumped up charge and bluntly told by his interrogator, “Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.”
“That was how they discovered who the independent people were,” Solzhenitsyn wrote. “And that was how they went about eliminating them.”
Make no mistake: this is where America is headed.
[. . .]
American freedoms and free markets are under attack – from Obamacare’s insidious individual mandate to the IRS persecution of conservative groups to the NSA’s warrantless mass surveillance of all Americans.
All the while, the national debt is soaring, our entitlements are on the verge of being exhausted, labor participation is at four-decade lows, wages are stagnant, and America’s status as the world’s only superpower is crumbling every bit as fast as the rule of law is eroding here at home

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/08/americas_culture_war_starts_claiming_victims.html

August 16, 2015
America's Culture War Starts Claiming Victims
By Bill Wilson

Updated: Selectively Enforcing The Laws Massachusetts Style

Posted July 30, 2015 3:11 AM ET Last updated August 15, 2015 4:00 PM ET



She made her "investigation" within two weeks before all of the videos were released. She admitted she did not view them. It is clear she is a spokesman for Planned Parenthood, not the only one in Massachusetts government.

[From article]
Attorney General Maura Healey is blasting the debate in Washington over defunding Planned Parenthood as “the most recent offensive in a decadeslong campaign to cut off women’s access to health care,” according to an email she fired off to supporters yesterday.
That missive quickly led abortion opponents to accuse the state’s top law enforcement officer of taking a political stance they say disqualifies her from probing whether the women’s health provider is scoring illegal profits from fetal parts. That charge has been leveled by anti-abortion
activists in a series of disturbing undercover videos of staffers at Planned Parenthood and another abortion provider.
“I’ve had enough. The latest attacks in Washington on Planned Parenthood are nothing new,” Healey wrote in the email. “This debate in Congress? There’s simply no ‘there’ there. ... For the sake of those women and their families, let’s put this smoke-and-mirrors ‘debate’ to rest. Standing up for women’s health care means standing with Planned Parenthood.”
Opponents were quick to seize on Healey’s message, which was sent out just days after she cleared the state’s chapter of Planned Parenthood in the scandal.
[. . .]
“It’s not a smart thing to do for a politician to take such a public advocacy stance, particularly in her position, on something that she may be ruling on down the road,” said Anne Fox, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life. “So she’s going to have to plan on recusing herself.
“If she were dog catcher or something it wouldn’t matter, but in her position, for her to make these statements, it makes it kind of embarrassing to be a citizen of Massachusetts.”
Healey, who declined to comment, has been a poster pol for Planned Parenthood, crediting its endorsement as “a game changer for my campaign” for AG, according to a posting featured prominently on the website of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, which donated $1,256 to her.
“Obviously your attorney general is in the tank for Planned Parenthood and refuses to weigh the evidence like a prosecutor ought to,” Center for Medical Progress board member Troy Newman told the Herald. “She is taking something that is a simple law and order matter and turning it into a political issue and burying her head in the sand.”

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/08/foes_eye_ag_bias_for_planned_parenthood

Foes eye AG bias for Planned Parenthood
Friday, August 7, 2015
By: Owen Boss
Boston Herald

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Nothing to see here folks, move along. 

July 16, 2015 Boston Herald reports MA Attorney General says she is waiting to be asked to investigate Planned Parenthood. Link herehttp://enoughroom.blogspot.com/2015/07/massachusetts-attorney-general-maura.html

By July 23, 2015 the Attorney General agrees to investigate and concludes there is no illegal activity. How does she know? Someone in her office spoke with the Planned Parenthood Office in Massachusetts. Link here

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2015/07/ag_maura_healey_will_review_planned_parenthood_practices

On July 29, 2015  the AG issues a formal statement declaring the investigation is complete, finding no wrongdoing.  Does she sound as if she applies the Obama-Holder doctrine to Planned Parenthood? Inconvenient laws may be ignored. In Massachusetts state laws are optional, just in case. 

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/herald_bulldog/2015/07/ag_healey_clears_mass_planned_parenthood 

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[From article]
“My office spoke with Planned Parenthood and they assured us this type of alleged activity does not happen here,” Healey told Boston Herald Radio’s “Morning Meeting.” “That said, we are going to review it, we are going to ask questions, as always is the case. We will always make sure to look at any evidence of illegal activity here in Massachusetts.”
[. . .]
Healey emphasized such tissue donation is legal, although selling fetal tissue is not. “I want to emphasize and not conflate the story on the national level with what might be happening here,” she said.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2015/07/ag_maura_healey_will_review_planned_parenthood_practices

AG Maura Healey will review Planned Parenthood practices
Thursday, July 23, 2015
By: Chris Villani

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[From article]
There is no "evidence" that the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts engaged in the illegal sale of fetal tissue, Bay State Attorney General Maura Healey announced today.
[Full statement embedded]
[. . .]
My office was asked to review the practices of Planned Parenthood in Massachusetts to ensure that their practices conform to state and federal law. Over the past week, my office has conducted a thorough review and found that Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts’ health care centers are fully compliant with state and federal laws regarding the disposition of fetal tissue. Although donation of fetal tissue is permissible under state and federal law, PPLM does not have a tissue donation program. There is no evidence that PPLM is involved in any way in the buying or selling of tissue. As such, our review is complete.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/herald_bulldog/2015/07/ag_healey_clears_mass_planned_parenthood

AG Healey clears Mass Planned Parenthood
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
By: Boston Herald staff

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[From article]
A third highly damaging video surfaced yesterday of Planned Parenthood’s disturbing practice of harvesting tissue from aborted 
babies.
Enough already. A full investigation by Congress should follow — today.
Despite the mounting allegations, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards recently went on television attempting 
to smear the messenger by attacking the makers of the undercover videos, The Center for Medical Progress.
It’s an age-old misdirection play to change the subject.
And now California’s Democratic Attorney General Kamala Harris and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch have been asked by four Democratic congresswomen to investigate The Center for Medical Progress.
Harris, a California paper reported, said her 
office will “review any materials” filed by The Center for Medical Progress “with the Attorney General’s Registry of Charitable Trusts to determine whether the organization violated laws.”
You read that right. They are already going 
after the whistleblower.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/adriana_cohen/2015/07/adriana_cohen_attacks_on_whistleblower_hypocritical

Adriana Cohen: Attacks on whistleblower hypocritical
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
By: Adriana Cohen
Boston Herald

MA State Senate President says Immigration System Broken, Wants Feds To Fix It; MA State Rep. Rushing Agrees But Wants State To Fix It

Not everyone agrees with Rep. Rushing that encouraging illegal aliens to move to Massachusetts is what is needed.  He fails to consider the many Americans who were killed, and injured by illegal aliens. Or Americans who are unemployed because illegal aliens took their job opportunities. Rushing fails to include that immigrants arrive in the US contrary to US laws. Neither Rushing or Rosenberg discuss enforcement of current laws. It is more of the Obama-Holder doctrine, which allows elitists to ignore inconvenient laws. 

[From article]
Beacon Hill lawmakers are quietly pushing legislation that could offer sanctuary protections to illegal immigrants across the state, the Herald has learned.
The new legislation, filed by state Rep. Byron Rushing (D-Boston), would ban public agencies from giving or sharing information on illegals with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement unless forced to do so by a court or a federal order.
The bill also would ensure illegal immigrants have access to state benefits — such as welfare and driver’s licenses — and it would prohibit Bay State employees from denying “assistance, benefit, payment, service or participation in any program or activity” on the basis of immigration status, except as required by federal law.
State Rep. Shaunna O’Connell (R-Taunton) immediately decried the bill, saying, “This will make Massachusetts a sanctuary state that harbors illegal aliens and makes available to them every benefit under the sun.”
“I think this would be devastating to Massachusetts in many ways,” O’Connell said.
The sanctuary aspects of the bill mirror rules in San Francisco, where the July 4 random shooting death of Kathryn Steinle — allegedly at the hands of an illegal immigrant deported five times — brought the city’s lax practices into question.
[. . .]
But Rushing responded to the outcry over his bill, saying it doesn’t ask anyone to break federal laws and that he simply wants to encourage immigrants to move to the Bay State.
“It prohibits barring people on the basis of immigration status,” said Rushing, adding that hot-under-the-collar politicians should “calm down.”
“We want to make sure all people of Massachusetts are here legally, and we do that by helping them become legal citizens,” he said.
Rushing admitted that there is nothing in his legislation to ensure that illegal immigrants are on a path to citizenship before they receive state services, but said he’d be open to adding that language.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2015/08/beacon_hill_forces_line_up_for_fight_over_sanctuary_protections

Beacon Hill forces line up for fight over sanctuary protections for illegal immigrants
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
By: Hillary Chabot
Boston Herald

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http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/08/senate_president_feds_need_to_fix_immigration_system

Senate president: Feds need to fix immigration system
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
By: Fiona Molloy
Boston Herald

Democrats Show Lack of Consistency, Double Standard, Selective Outrage, Oppostion to Free Speech

Whether Trump's comments are true or not they are protected speech, opinions under the Constitution. It is something that Democrats are selective about supporting. The specific case of John McCain being a war hero was attacked by Democrats in 2008 when he ran for President. More and more propaganda, deception, fact spinning from journalists instead of facts to help voters and taxpayers make decisions. 

[From article]

The media is very conveniently joining in the outrage over Trump's comments. Like most media outrage, it relied on a very short attention span. Until fairly recently, comments about McCain not being a hero were most likely to come from liberals and the occasional Paultard.
Here are a few sample titles from progressive outposts like DailyKos and Democratic Underground.

John McCain Is NOT a 'War Hero'
John McCain American Hero?
It's Time To Stop Pretending John McCain Is A "Hero"

They recite most of the same talking points that were part of the Obama whispering campaign against him back in '08.
Then again there was the Chris Rock joke, "He a war hero that got captured. There's a lot of guys in jail that got captured. Sh*t, f**k that. I don't want to vote for nobody that got captured. I wanna vote
for the mothe____ that got away."
The origin of Trump's line turns out to be Chris Rock. But don't expect the media to acknowledge that.
[. . .]
But the media has only loved McCain when it can use him to sell its narrative about Republicans. The moment he's an obstacle, it gives him both barrels. And so the same people who mocked McCain and Bob Dole's disabilities suddenly pretended to be outraged on McCain's behalf. Much like outrage over sexism, it's highly selective.

After spending decades mocking Bob Dole's disability, liberals suddenly feigned outrage when Republicans didn't pass a bill on disabilities that he wanted. This is more of the same.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/259516/remember-when-liberals-were-claiming-mccain-wasnt-daniel-greenfield

REMEMBER WHEN LIBERALS WERE CLAIMING MCCAIN WASN'T A HERO?
Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president"
July 19, 2015

Daniel Greenfield

Innocence, Guilt, Until Proven, Depends on the Suspect, No?

Is this policy only for black comedians? Does it apply to Dylann Storm Roof? No one was watching Bill Cosby? Wonder what Tawana Brawley thinks about Cosby? Unlike multi millionaire, if not billionaire television personality and celebrity, Bill Cosby, I was not and am not a wealthy famous, powerful person. When I was a student in law school a thoughtful government agency began a relentless, now 45 year, campaign of character assassination and harassment. They accused me of many offenses. No police agency ever arrested me or charged me with any of the offenses. No one ever gave me notice of the accusations. I was clueless why I was being harassed, why some people shunned me. This pattern continues after 45 years. Unlike the paradigm suggested by Bill Cosby's admirer herein, I was treated as if I was guilty without ever being proven guilty, without ever having a chance to defend myself. 

That did not inhibit hundreds of police employees, crime family associates, FBI informants, Communists, and after 45 years on July 7, 2015 Harvard University employees from having their own private opportunity to punish me themselves. They punish me for allegations over and over again and again. Hundreds of times for each allegation. 

The moralists among us found me guilty without being proven so. The punishment was meted out over and over, again and again. No arrest, no notice, no defense, no appeal. Nothing for my part. No due process. But the accusers had their way and still have their way.  I was unaware of the allegations unable to defend myself. I'm still unable to defend myself. One woman I met 20 years ago, 25 years after the alleged incident(s), told me "You were guilty." How does she know what event(s) happened? I did not know her and never told her because I do not know what event(s) she "knows" about.  45 years later I am still without notice, and still do not know what the allegations are.

But that does not stop the ongoing harassment. After so many years because I do not accept whatever the allegations are, the accusers (also known as the character assassins) employ psychiatrists saying "He's crazy." If you do not accept reality you may be crazy. They test me, do evaluations without consent. That is a violation of state and federal laws. But psychiatrists "don't need no stinkin' laws." Who is to say what is real? Character assassination repeated often and long enough becomes reality. It may not be true but most people believe it. There are many recent and historical events which are examples. 

Prominently the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. Communist propagandists and useful idiot politicians, multi millionaire athletes, Harvard University students and misguided journalists all promoted the false narrative Brown was murdered as he stood passive with his hands up. It was proven by three autopsies to be a false narrative. One gentleman traveled to NYC and shot dead two NYPD officers as retaliation for the false narrative. What harm comes from propaganda? A lot. I am still alive but I am still being punished for false allegations from 45 years ago. 

As usual wealthy, prominent persons like Mr. Cosby are defended as innocent until proven guilty. But I was guilty without knowing I was being accused and without having been proven guilty. Just allegations and punishment. Not just once but multiple, hundreds of times per allegation.  Which is still going on. Don't forget the 24/7 surveillance and harassment even after hundreds of punishments for allegations. Is that called disparate treatment? Gasp!

[From article]
Whoopi Goldberg is doubling down in her defense of Bill Cosby despite his admission in sworn testimony he gave women quaaludes to have sex with them.
“The View” host spoke about the most recent damning evidence against Cosby, which was revealed on Monday when previously sealed court documents were released. In a sworn deposition taken in 2005, the married entertainer admitted to purchasing quaaludes with the intention of giving them to women he wanted to have sex with.
“I think it’s, again, we’ll see what happens,” Goldberg said of the Cosby developments. “As more information comes out, people can make judgments. I don’t like snap judgments.”
The TV host added she didn’t care what critics would say of her stance.
“Save your texts; save your nasty comments. I don’t care. I say this because this is my opinion, and in America, still, I know it’s a shock, but you are still innocent until proven guilty," she said. "He has not been proven.”
Meanwhile, co-host Raven Symoné, who starred on “The Cosby Show” alongside the comedian, seemed hesitant to chime in during the conversation. She admitted it was a tough topic for her to discuss.
“I don’t really like to discuss [this] because he is the reason I am on this panel in the first place. He gave me my first job,” she said. “You need proof and then I will be able to give my judgment here or there.”

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/07/07/whoopi-goldberg-bill-cosby-is-innocent-until-proven-guilty/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29

Whoopi Goldberg: Bill Cosby is 'innocent until proven guilty'
Published July 07, 2015

FoxNews.com

Ann Coulter Speaks The Unspeakable

[From article]
Author and political commentator Ann Coulter said there should be a 10-year freeze on immigration to the U.S. since the federal government has demonstrated it cannot enforce current law.
“There’s a law on the books that says if a country will not take a criminal back the attorney general shall, not may, shall deny visas, any visas coming from that country – that is on the books right now. Has it been enforced by Republicans or Democrats? No, it has not,” Coulter said during an interview with PJ Media.
“There’s a law on the books right now that says an immigrant who has been convicted of a crime in America who does not cooperate in being sent home, that itself is a crime, not signing the papers, not showing up when you’re supposed to, that itself is a crime punishable by 4 years in prison – that’s never enforced. It’s just not enforced. Three times Congress has voted to build a fence and it never gets built,” she added.
According to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released 33,007 illegal immigrants with criminal records in 2013. Following these releases, 121 were charged with homicides.
Based on the research Coulter conducted, she concluded that a legal fix is not going to improve the immigration system.
“The entire thing has to be shut down. No more immigration for 10 years. We get our books in order. We assimilate the ones already here. Build a fence. Repeal anchor babies and then we start up with the pre-1970 immigration policies,” Coulter said.

http://pjmedia.com/blog/coulter-to-pjm-cut-off-all-immigration-focus-on-white-voters-to-win/

Coulter to PJM: Cut Off All Immigration, Focus on White Voters to Win
"The entire immigration bureaucracy is corrupt; it is run by and staffed by left-wingers who hate America."
by Nicholas Ballasy
June 27, 2015 - 9:25 pm

Cambridge, MA Police Ignore Residency Laws

Cambridge is covered by the Obama-Holder doctrine, i.e., inconvenient laws may be ignored by selected persons. Not a problem. And then there is (if necessary) prosecutor discretion. 

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20150501/NEWS/150509701

Cambridge Police Department not prioritizing residency law
By Sara Feijo
sfeijo (at) wickedlocal.com
Posted May. 1, 2015 at 10:40 AM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

Citizens Group Criticizes Hillary Clinton Supporters For Exercising Privileges Under Obama-Holder Doctrine of Ignoring Inconvenient Laws

[From article]

A taxpayer watchdog group is calling for an ethics investigation into meetings between Hillary Clinton's team and key Senate Democrats inside official Senate offices where political activities are barred.
The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust has asked the Senate Select Committee on Ethics to probe the "apparent breach of ethics rules" stemming from an April 21 Clinton strategy session in a room just off the Senate floor.
The group said that the rules need to be reinforced because it appears that "ongoing" strategy sessions are planned between the Democratic frontrunner and Senate supporters.
[. . .]
The group cited federal and Senate rules barring political activities inside Senate offices. The rules are typically directed at senators, though the Senate Ethics Manual reads, "Senate space may NOT be used for any political campaign activity, fundraising (including charitable contributions in lieu of honoraria), commercial, promotional, or profit-making purpose whatsoever."
At issue is an April 21 visit by two of Clinton's top aides to the weekly Senate Democratic lunch. The complaint included copies of news stories about the "huddle" with Democrats.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/watchdog-blows-ethics-whistle-on-clinton-reid-senate-democrat-meetings/article/2563948

Watchdog blows ethics whistle on Clinton, Reid, Senate Democrat meetings
BY PAUL BEDARD

MAY 4, 2015 | 6:26 PM

Cambridge, MA Politicians Want New Immigration Laws, Because Current Laws Are Not Being Enforced?

Is this an example of cognitive dissonance? If current immigration laws are not being enforced what good will new laws do? They can as easily be ignored. Obama-Holder doctrine provides exemptions from inconvenient laws which the City of Cambridge and Harvard University enjoy regularly. As for new laws or court decisions harming families, how many other policies, law and codes encourage the breakdown of families? Why is this one any different? One example is feminists encouraging women to leave abusive husbands. How does that help keep families together? Then there is celebrating single parents. Who needs husbands and families for children-rearing?

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20150418/NEWS/150417107

Cambridge takes legal action in support of immigration reforms
Posted Apr. 18, 2015 at 12:30 PM
Cambridge Chronicle

Cambridge City Council Imitates The White House

This "dispute" within the Cambridge City Council is instructive in several ways. First it indicates that some of the Councilors decided that the goal is all that matters and procedure be damned. That is what the White House is doing with its executive orders acting contrary to the Constitution and laws of the United States. Under the Obama-Holder doctrine selected individuals may ignore inconvenient laws. This appears to be what is happening at the City Council. Perhaps Mazen and Carlone enjoy special privileges under Obama-Holder, and the rest of the Council remains clueless. But also the Council itself ignores its own rules. 

The Council is obligated to run its meetings according to Robert's Rules of Order. For more than ten years I repeatedly petitioned the council to do so. But it failed then and it still ignores that rule of its own  making. The most used rule under Robert's Rules is to suspend the rules. That eliminates the need to even learn the rules which few of the councilors ever know. If there is so much concern with bypassing procedure submitting  an order to the council without first going through the Planning Board or the housing or ordinance committees, why are the other rules less important? That is called selective enforcement of laws, which is what the council did for many years and still does. 

With a lawless White House and Attorney General in Washington DC, it was only a matter of time before state and local officials, ordinary taxpayers and voters began to ignore the laws of the states and the US. Is that why the US military is conducting civil disorder control operations with local police? Is that why Homeland Security is stockpiling billions of rounds of ammunition? 

[From article]

In a 1-7-1 vote, the policy order failed on Monday with Mazen voting in favor and Carlone being absent. The order asked the council to refer the proposed amendment to the Planning Board and Ordinance Committee.
“There’s nothing collegial about filing a zoning amendment without consulting or at least giving the co-chair of the Ordinance Committee the benefit of a brief discussion,” Vice Mayor Dennis Benzan told Mazen on April 13. “There’s nothing collegial about a zoning amendment coming before this council without having at least a brief conversation with the chair of the Housing Committee. It’s becoming a way that yourself and Councilor Carlone are doing business before this council.”

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20150415/NEWS/150417734

Cambridge councilors' actions fuel strong criticism from rest of board
By Sara Feijo
sfeijo (at) wickedlocal.com
Posted Apr. 15, 2015 at 12:06 PM
Updated Apr 15, 2015 at 12:42 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

Does A Left Wing Conspiracy Run US Government?

Tea Party members gather in St Louis, Mo., Sept. 12, 2010.

(Associated Press) ** FILE **
White House abuses of power targeting conservative patriotic Americans continues. First the IRS, now Department of Homeland Security focuses on conservative Americans, instead of the real threat from Muslim terrorists.  

[From article]
A new Department of Homeland Security intelligence assessment circulated this month focuses on the threat of right-wing sovereign citizen extremist groups in the U.S. Some law enforcement groups say the threat is equal to, and occasionally greater than, the threat from Islamic extremist groups.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/21/dhs-intelligence-report-warns-of-domestic-right-wi/

DHS report warns of domestic right-wing terror threat
By Kellan Howell

The Washington Times

Saturday, February 21, 2015

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[From article]
Terror group Al-Shabaab has released online a video calling for attacks on shopping malls in Canada, the UK and the United States.
But "there is no indication of any specific, real threat" against malls in the U.S., according to FBI spokesman Rich Quinn.
Another U.S. law enforcement official familiar with the situation also told CNN that there is no actual working threat against any mall in the country and added that no one should avoid going to the mall because of the online threat.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/21/us/al-shabaab-calls-for-mall-attacks/index.html

Al-Shabaab threatens malls, some in U.S.; FBI downplays threat
By Faith Karimi and Ashley Fantz

CNN
Updated 11:26 PM ET, Sat February 21, 2015

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Terrorist group Al-Shabaab has threatened to attack shopping malls in the US like the Mall of America.

Photo: Getty Images

[From article]
Terrorist group Al-Shabaab released a video calling for attacks on shopping malls in the US, Canada and the United Kingdom, which included mention and images of the Mall of America in Minnesota.
“I would say that if anyone is planning to go to the Mall of America today, they’ve got to be particularly careful,” Johnson said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
The al Qaeda-linked group was responsible for the deadly Nairobi, Kenya mall attack in 2013. The Mall of America has responded by beefing up security.

http://nypost.com/2015/02/22/terrorist-threat-calls-for-attacks-on-american-shopping-malls/

Terrorist threat calls for attacks on American shopping malls
By Marisa Schultz
February 22, 2015 | 11:12am

New York Post

White House Shows Contempt For Constitution and Oath of Office

[From article]

American constitutions generally precluded any executive acts suspending or dispensing with the law.” Law professors Robert Delahunty and John Yoo make similar points in a recent Texas Law Review article, noting that Pennsylvania’s James Wilson, the Take Care Clause’s original proponent, explained years after the Constitution’s ratification that the president has no authority “to make, or alter, or dispense with the laws.”
[. . .]
After years of controversy over his targeted nonenforcement of federal laws—from “waiving” inconvenient provisions of the Affordable Care Act to disregarding provisions of the Clean Air Act that would render his climate-change program unsustainable—the president announced that he was effectively waiving the federal immigration laws with respect to 5 million illegal immigrants. He justified his policy on the basis of scarce government resources—the administration cannot deport all 11 million illegal immigrants, the argument goes, so it should at least set policies that prioritize particular deportations over others.
[. . .]
where OLC concludes that the president’s policy does not, “under the guise of exercising enforcement discretion, attempt to effectively rewrite the laws to match [his] policy preferences,” the president speaks to the contrary. “I just took an action to change the law,” he told an audience days after the OLC issued its analysis.
It is this unbridgeable gap between the president’s actions and the Justice Department’s rationalizations that reveals Obama’s failure to satisfy his constitutional obligation to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” Though a certain degree of statutory under-enforcement is tolerable (and often laudable) under our constitutional framework, the president is not “faithful” when his approach is fundamentally dishonest.

http://www.city-journal.org/2015/25_1_snd-presidential-oaths.html

ADAM WHITE
Unfaithful Executive
On presidential oaths and obligations
Winter 2015