Ben Shapiro - The People Vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against the Obama Administration

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Shapiro, Ben.

The people vs. Barack Obama : the criminal case against the Obama administration / Ben Shapiro.

pages cm

1. Obama, Barack. 2. Executive powerUnited States. 3. Abuse of administrative powerUnited States. 4. United StatesPolitics and government2009 I. Title. II. Title: People versus Barack Obama.

E907.S43 2014

342.73'06dc23

2014009187

ISBN 978-1-4767-6513-6

ISBN 978-1-4767-6514-3 (ebook)

To my daughter, Leeya Eliana, who deserves the country of God-given rights promised in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution

O n November 4, 2008, Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. It was a time of hope. It was a time of restoration. Three months later, President-elect Obama stood at the podium before cheering throngs, and he raised his right hand. I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Fast-forward five years. White House press secretary Jay Carney takes to the podium in the press briefing room. The Obama administration, now in its second term, has been plagued by scandal after scandal:

On September 11, 2012, the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked by terrorists after months of desperate pleas for more security from Ambassador Christopher Stevens and his staff; Stevens and three other Americans were murdered as American forces remained mere hours away. Now State Department witnesses from Libya have testified that higher-ups at the department tried to stifle them from speaking with Congress.

The IRS has admitted that its nonprofit division targeted conservative groups in the years leading up to Obamas reelection effort; further evidence showed that conservative nonprofits were subjected to costly audits.

The Associated Press has revealed that the Department of Justice had secretly obtained months worth of call logs from its reporters. A few days later, reports emerged that the Department of Justice had obtained a warrant for Fox News reporter James Rosens personal emails and tracked his movements at the State Department.

Within a few days of that, Congress sends a letter to the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, asking why she had solicited donations from nonprofit organizations to push Obamacarethe same organizations responsible for directly implementing Obamacare and therefore subject to HHS oversight.

At virtually the same time, Republican lawmakers send a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency asking why the EPA has forced conservative groups to pay fees for Freedom of Information Act requests while simultaneously waiving those fees for liberal groups.

In early June, former Booz Allen Hamilton employee Edward Snowden, who worked with the National Security Agency, reveals that the NSA PRISM program is tracking all American phone calls. Soon, revelations emerge that the NSA collects nearly everything a user does on the Internet. Snowden says that the government has the ability to collect your keystrokes as they appear.

Facing down this cornucopia of political horror, Carney peers through his MSNBC glasses and begins to speak. Carney has already become infamous for spewing gobbledygook at the pressso infamous that the left-leaning parody site The Onion prints a mock op-ed by Carney playfully titled Well, Time to Go Out in Front of a Bunch of People and Lie to Them.

On this day, July 22, President Obama is preparing to relaunch another failed attempt at economic mumbo jumbo, a desperate try at shifting the narrative from the bevy of scandals. Unprompted, Carney

Phony scandals. All phony scandals.

A few hours later, President Obama himself repeats the phony scandal meme. With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball. And I am here to say this needs to stop. Short-term thinking and stale debates are not what this moment requires, Obama intones.

What, exactly, made these scandals phony?

According to the administration, these scandals are phony because they say so. According to the White House, White Houseinitiated investigations had shown that President Obama didnt personally engage in any of them. Though the White House still hasnt revealed President Obamas whereabouts during the seven-hour Benghazi attacks, Obama, his investigative team assured us, did everything necessary to save the men in harms way. And Secretary of State Hillary Clinton assured us that while there was negligence, there was no need for firingsfor, after all, what difference, at this point, does it make? Meanwhile, Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew told Fox News that there was no evidence that the White House was involved with improper targetingas though absence of evidence were evidence of absence, especially given the fact that the investigators were from the Obama administration itself. Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress about targeting the Fox reporter, then somehow got away with claiming it wasnt a lie at all. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper did the same with regard to the NSAs surveillance programs. Sebelius and the EPA didnt even bother making excuses for their actions.

All of this was nobodys fault. Wrongdoing, if it existed at all, took place at the individual level. Low-level staffers were responsible. Mistakes were made. We dont know what happened, but well initiate an investigation. We cant comment on pending investigations, even if we control them. These are not the droids youre looking for. Move along.

Only nobody ever got fired, many people got promoted, and all of those mistakes by all of those low-level staffers just happened to synchronize precisely with the wishes of the White House. Every day, Obamas knights were ridding him of meddlesome priestsbut that was all just a big coincidence.

Theres only one problem with Obamas routine: its not just a lie, its a crime.

The Obama administration has become a full-fledged criminal enterprise. Riddled up and down with executive branch appointees engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors, the administration has not merely failed to cleanse itself, it has incentivized ambitious bureaucrats throughout the government to take action on behalf of the Obama political agenda.