Austan Goolsbee: It's Good That WH Counsel Didn't Tell Obama about the IRS Scandal Because the Pres. Can't Get Involved in Ongoing Investigations

Good one Austan.

Austan Goolsbee on CNBC's Kudlow

Marathon bombing Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev Played Direct Role in 2011 Triple Homicide Outside Boston -Law Enforcement Official

CNN Susan Candiotti reports

CNN reported: -- Deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in a 2011 gruesome triple homicide outside Boston along with a Chechen killed early Wednesday during a confrontation with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police in Orlando, Florida, a federal law enforcement official told CNN.

Ibragim Todashev, who died during the interview with authorities, not only confessed to his direct role in slashing the throats of three people in Waltham, Massachusetts, but also fingered Tsarnaev in the deaths, the official said Wednesday.

 

Todashev was being questioned about the slayings and his acquaintance with Tsarnaev.

Todashev attacked an FBI agent, who shot him dead, a federal law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the case told CNN.

more here...

Fox News Poll Finds 63% Want to Keep Gitmo Open, While 28% Say Close & Move Terrorist Suspects to Federal Prisons in US

A majority of American voters wants to keep the military prison at Guantanamo Bay open, and many feel it has made the United States safer.

A new Fox News poll finds 63 percent of voters want to keep the detention facility known as Gitmo open, while 28 percent say it should be closed and the terrorist suspects moved to federal prisons in the United States.

There’s across-the-board agreement on keeping the prison open, although the degree of support varies by political party.  Democrats favor keeping Gitmo by a 7 percentage-point margin, independents by 31 points and Republicans by 66 points.   more at  foxnews.com



Poll internals: Even 49% of Dems  say keep in open (42% close)
81% of Republicans, 58% Ind.

Toby Keith, Native of Moore, OK Tours Tornado Damage, Says 3 of His Direct Family Members were Hit By Storm

Moore, Oklahoma native Toby Keith toured the tornado damage to his hometown Wednesday. The popular recording artist said he will plan a benefit concert to raise money to help the community recover, but the first priority is helping people now.

Toby Keith tells reporters that 3 family members who live in the area were hit by the storm and their houses are not 'wiped off the map' but unlivable

Reporter Larry Conners Fired By KMOV

Larry Conners was the STL channel 4 reporter who gave a tough interview to Obama in April 2012

In a Facebook post, Conners talked about being targeted by the IRS following his tough interview with President Obama

That link to his facebook post  is also gone


danaloesch reported:

My producer, Kevin, was just contacted by someone with Conners’s legal team. KMOV just terminated his employed on the basis of, according to them, his Facebook post

KMOV statement

We regret to announce that Larry Conners is no longer a KMOV news reporter. Larry was a valued member of KMOV for a long time, and we will miss him.

For KMOV, there is no higher cause than unbiased, objective news reporting. It is what our viewers expect and it is what we work very hard to deliver. We can accept no less. Larry is certainly entitled to his opinion, but taking a personal political position on one of the Station’s Facebook pages creates an appearance of bias that is inconsistent with important journalistic standards. Larry’s departure has nothing to do with the particular position he took, but it does have to do with our belief that his actions made it impossible for him to report for KMOV on certain political matters going forward without at least an appearance of bias. Bringing you accurate and unbiased reporting is the reason we exist.

via gatewaypundit

U.S. Government Admits Killing 4 Americans in Drone Strikes

4 killed since 2009

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 in Pakistan and Yemen. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama.

In conducting U.S. counterterrorism operations against al-Qaida and its associated forces, the government has targeted and killed one American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, and is aware of the killing by U.S. drones of three others, Attorney General Eric Holder said in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy.

Al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric, was killed in a drone strike in September 2011 in Yemen. Holder said three other Americans were killed by drones in counterterrorism operations since 2009 but were not targeted. The three are Samir Khan, who was killed in the same drone strike as al-Awlaki; al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, a native of Denver, who also was killed in Yemen two weeks later; and Jude Kenan Mohammed, who was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan.

"Since entering office, the president has made clear his commitment to providing Congress and the American people with as much information as possible about our sensitive counterterrorism operations," Holder told Leahy, D-Vt. "To this end, the president has directed me to disclose certain information that until now has been properly classified."

"The administration is determined to continue these

Ted Cruz on the Senate Floor: 'I Don't Trust the Republicans' on the Debt Ceiling

Cruz takes a jab at the 'senior senator from Arizona' (John McCain)

'One of the reason's we got into this mess is because a lot of Republicans were complicit in this spending spree'...'Stop bankrupting our country'

Former IRS Commissioner Shulman Visited White House 118 Times During Tea Party Targeting

townhall Kate Pavlich

According to Republican Rep. Jim Jordan and White House visitor logs, former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman visited the White House 118 times in 2010 and 2011. This is the same time period when Tea Party groups were inappropriately targeted and intimidated by the IRS.

Testifying in front of lawmakers on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Shulman admitted that many of the meetings with the White House were to discuss how to implement ObamaCare.

"The IRS has a major roll in the money flow," Shulman said.

Shulman denied ever discussing 501c(4) groups with White House officials and failed to name who he met with during his visits. At the time Shulman met with the White House throughout 2010 and 2011, Tea Party and Patriot groups were expressing opposition to ObamaCare.

Inspector General Russell George said during testimony that he did not speak with anybody in the White House about targeting of Tea Party groups during his audit and did not ask IRS officials if they communicated with the White House about the targeting.

"We did not question anybody about whether they talked to the White House," George said.

Nope, he never said one word to me about it