IRS Delegated Communication Dirty Work to College Student


The IRS is loathe to take responsibility for its actions and dereliction of duties.  Just see our story on Lois Lerner incorrectly invoking the 5th Amendment in today’s Congressional Inquiry into IRS’ wrongdoing.  Complicated and potentially criminally liable written communications were apparently left to a college student.  The resulting delay, in at least one instance, for the IRS to update Congressional inquiries was due to college “finals.”-PBN

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa on Wednesday displayed a string of emails showing his failed efforts to get an update from the Treasury Department inspector general’s office about its investigation into the IRS practice of targeting conservative groups who sought tax-exempt status. read more

IRS Lerner Incorrectly Invokes the 5th Enraging America

“Pleading the 5th is an all or nothing proposition.” According to Judge Andrew Napolitano.  ”You don’t get to tell your side of the story and not be subjected to cross-examination! …That’s not the way it works!” Congressman  Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C) stated emphatically to Lois Lerner gaining a round of applause from Congress. Lerner invoked the 5th Amendment during her testimony to Congress regarding her involvement in the IRS’ illicit behavior towards US Citizens. Lerner stated, “I have not done anything wrong. I have not violated any laws. I have not broken any IRS rules.” Perhaps Ms. Lerner obtained council that did not sufficiently inform her that if she denied any culpability on any specific topic she was giving authoritative judicial ammo to Congress. Congress can now obtain a subpoena from a Federal Judge ordering her to testify to Congress on the same three points she claimed to be either ignorant or innocent of.   When correctly invoking the 5th Amendment according to legal professionals you may do nothing other than state your name, position and plead the 5th.  Nothing more.-PBN

 

 

 

Nationwide Noon Protest IRS – May 21st 2013

TeaPartyPatriots Protest at DC "Rein In The IRS" May 21st, 2013

TeaPartyPatriots Protest at DC “Rein In The IRS” May 21st, 2013

 

According to the Tea Party Patriots website, there were over 100 separate protests across the Nation and, as Rush Limbaugh predicted on his radio program yesterday, the turn out was HUGE! Tea Party Patriots would love to share your photos and your personal stories.  You may visit TeaPartyPatriots.org to reach them or you may share with us at News@PushBackNow.com

Tea Party Patriots, Tea Partiers, Patriots & Concerned Citizens took to a nationwide protest today at IRS offices throughout the country at noon Local Time.  Today’s “Rein In the IRS” protest was motivated by the shocking revelation at case after case of law abiding tax paying citizens being intimidated and/or harassed by IRS officials and the lack of response from IRS officials to individuals and potential social welfare organizations seeking status acknowledgements for 501 (C)(3) applications.  Many people have waited years with no response from the IRS either way.  Jay Sekulow of the ACLJ stated on Fox  last week that, “The IRS has not only refused to respond and failed to approve the tax-exempt status of 10 of our clients, the agency is still targeting and harassing our clients. ”

Fox News is reporting that Lois Lerner  is going to plead the 5th at an upcoming Congressional Hearing to investigate how the IRS got away with targeting US Citizens for political reasons.  ”We need to understand how and why this targeting occurred.”-Senator Max Baucus stated.  In days previous the acting interim IRS commissioner Mr. Steve Miller wanted to apologize for “the mistakes made and the persons targeted.” Mr. Miller is not willing to say who is responsible yet he mysteriously appears to be willing to be the “fall guy” and stated the “planted question” to the press was his idea.  However Miller’s predecessor and the former Internal Revenue Service Chief, Doug Shulman would not apologize no matter how many times he was goaded by Congressional members.  More questions than answers arise as the ongoing inquiry deepens.

 

The White House is going to have to wiggle its way out of a myriad of time-line lies and fables, such as Jay Carney’s statement, “We’ve learned about this from your reports.”  referring to the White House obtaining  its knowledge of its own Treasury Department’s  IRS and its own Department of Justice’s behavior solely from the press.

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Patriotic Cow Sick of Lies

IRS Big Brother Hath NO Boundaries – Stop IRS & Government Overreach Now!

Patriotic Cow Sick of LiesA Commentary: Our thoughts on IRS & Government’s Unlawful Actions:

Americans, We who have been born, bred and raised in the Land of The Free & The Home of the Brave, realize for the most part how truly blessed we are.  In comparison to third world countries we are extremely blessed!  Most of us Generation X’ers and definitely the Baby Boomers, grew up hearing about those less fortunate in faraway lands and to be sure to “clean your plate because there are starving children in the world!”

Our Nation is starving right now.  It is starving for Truth with a Capital “T” and it is starving for Justice for We the People.  We are a smart Nation.  I’m not talking about High School Diplomas or College Degrees up to the PHD level, I’m talking about Common Sense Smart.  Did you know that the Bible talks about Common Sense as being a Fruit of the Holy Spirit?  Those of us who have it, have been gifted it, to us, by God.  No wonder we walk around shaking our heads at the dismal state of affairs in the schools, the courtrooms, the halls of the Senate, House of Congress and yes even the White House.  We have presumptuously removed God from all public places of work, education and even worship!  Legal experts on the US Constitution understand that the “Separation of Church & State” does not even exist in the US Constitution, and in the letter the slogan emanated from, was never meant to be misused and misinterpreted to such a degree as to destroy Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Worship in Public Places.  The 1st Amendment to free speech and freedom to worship is a guaranteed RIGHT to be used PUBLICLY not in a closet!

When we attempt to remove the Giver of all Good Gifts from the daily affairs of men (and women you PC types), we shoot ourselves in the proverbial foot!  How can we judge justly and govern effectively without being held to the scrutiny of our Creator God?  We can’t.  We can fool ourselves that our belief in God doesn’t matter that we can do everything on our own power.  For a time, even a majority of some people’s lives, it may seem like that deception works.  In the end, when nations rise and fall and the innocent are hurt, maligned or  killed in the name of agendas and propaganda and control, we will see the Truth or the effect of the lack of Truth in our societies, nations and families.

That is where we now find ourselves.  We appear to be at the mercy of a government without respect, care or concern of who “We The People” are and why we are free. Why is our nation Free?  It is not because of man/woman.  Our Freedoms as Americans exist solely because of The One Triune Judeo Christian God whom our Founders recognized properly in the Declaration of Independence and in our US Constitution as Our Creator.  As common sense only prevails in the Believer, let us pray for our Nation to turn from its wicked ways, repent, so that the Lord Our God will hear us and come and heal our Nation.  In Jesus Most Holy Name We Pray & For our Jewish Brothers & Sisters in USA & Israel Yashua Ha Mashiach – Selah Amen- PBN

Please join USA in protesting the unlawful and immoral use of the IRS in our nation by locating your local IRS office and joining up with friends, neighbors, co-workers and family members at Noon tomorrow with the Tea Party Patriots, all Tea Partiers & Concerned US Citizens.  Take a stand.-PBN

Protest IRS May 21st Noon Local Time Nationwide:

Watch “Take Up The Torch” Video:

Tea Party Patriot Updates on Website Crash:

 

 

IRS Protest Today 05/21 Noon – Tea Party Patriots Website Crashed Due to High Volume of Interest in

Jenny Beth Martin, Co-Founder of Tea Party Patriots w/ Congresswoman Michele Bachmann

Jenny Beth Martin, Co-Founder of Tea Party Patriots w/ Congresswoman Michele Bachmann

Dear USA, Here is a link to locate your local IRS office in your Town & State.  Please don’t let anyone or anything stop you from expressing your opinion in public in a peaceful manner.  Please  research where your local IRS offices from the above link.  There is more than one location. We must continue to Pushback now for our Freedom and our Future as A Republic of These United States of America.  

We The People are our only hope!  God Bless Patriots all across this land and May God Bless The USA for which its stands!  The Creator, The Word, The Triune Judeo Christian God is our Nation’s Cornerstone upon which our Founders Founded Our United States. Amen -PBN

Please vist The Tea Party Patriot site is back online since yesterday afternoon . Visit now!-PBN

The Tea Party Patriots website has crashed, organizers say, due to the high volume of interest in the nationwide protests planned for over 100 Internal Revenue Offices across the nation.

The website crashed after Rush Limbaugh highlighted the grassroots organization as a place to get information about the protests.

“We are working hard to have our website back online after we saw a sharp increase in traffic surrounding the IRS protests we plan to host across the country tomorrow,” explained Jenny Beth Martin to the Washington Examiner. “The media, including Rush Limbaugh, have been directing people to our website which collapsed under the heavy load.”

By Charlie Spiering-Commentary Staff Writer – Washington Examiner

Original Source Here:

USA May 21st Protest IRS Noon Nationwide Locations- Take Up The Torch [VIDEO]

Event: US Citizens “We The People” Protest IRS Unconstitutional Intimidation & Harassment of US Citizens Nationwide

Time: 12:00/ Noon Local Time in Your Area

Where: IRS Locations Nationwide

Goal: Use our 1st US Constitutional Amendment Right to Gather Peacefully & Publicly to Protect Our US Constitutional 4th Amendment Right

Who is INVITED: The Entire Nation

We invite the Nation to gather peacefully and orderly at the IRS location closest to each person’s home or work on behalf of The Tea Party Patriots & Tea Partiers & Patriots & Concerned Americans Nationwide,  Please use common sense. Obey local laws. Be respectful to all.-PBN

We will let you know how it went so stay tuned America!

 

IRS Illegally Seizes 60 MILLION Documents – IRS’ Data Theft Affects Roughly One Out of Every Twenty-five Adult American Citizens


IRS_MoneyThis is NOT in conjunction with the Zstreet.org IRS attack of the illegal targeting of Americans who desire for better stewardship of our tax dollars and nations financial responsibility, no, this is yet another attack that is breaking now. 

Yes this is in addition to the attack on Billy Graham’s organization for being a Christian organization.

Yes, this is an attack on pro life groups because their agenda of life does not fit in accordance with the Obama administration.

Yes this is yet another attack on our most personal medical records and the most intimate details of our private lives as American citizens in this great Republic of the United States.

We are being persecuted for abiding by the United States constitution itself. For excercising our 1st and 4th amendment rights. And the backstory behind all of this, is the somewhat silent attempt at removing our 2nd Amendment rights which were created to care for all the other amendments.

The Obama administration is using the IRS as a bludgeoning tool to manipulate opposing political groups and persons for it’s own goals. These goals, we believe, are to achieve a quasi fascist dictatorship, for starters.-PBN

SAN DIEGO (CN) – A lurid but vague class action accuses corrupt and abusive IRS agents of stealing 10 million people’s medical records without a warrant – including “intimate medical records of every state judge in California.”
John Doe Company sued 15 John Doe IRS agents in Superior Court.
“This is an action involving the corruption and abuse of power by several Internal Revenue Service (‘IRS’) agents (collectively referred to as ‘defendants’ herein) during a raid of John Doe Company, in the Southern District of California, on March 11, 2011,” the complaint states. “In a case involving solely a tax matter involving a former employee of the company, these agents stole more than 60,000,000 medical records of more than 10,000,000 Americans, including at least 1,000,000 Californians.
“No search warrant authorized the seizure of these records; no subpoena authorized the seizure of these records; none of the 10,000,000 Americans were under any kind of known criminal or civil investigation and their medical records had no relevance whatsoever to the IRS search. IT personnel at the scene, a HIPPA [sicrecte HIPAA] facility warning on the building and the IT portion of the searched premises, and the company executives each warned the IRS agents of these privileged records. The IRS agents ignored and discarded each of these warnings, ignored their own published and public-reliant rules and governing ethical requirements, and ignored the limitations of the court’s search warrant authorization, seizing the records under threat of destroying company property.”
Plaintiff’s attorney Robert E. Barnes declined to elaborate on the complaint’s allegations, saying he will have more information “in a few months.”
“I had to file to protect against the statute of limitations being an issue, but am still investigating all facts,” Barnes told Courthouse News in an email.
The putative class claims the IRS agents’ seizure of medical records violated the 4th Amendment.
“These medical records contained intimate and private information of more than 10,000,000 Americans, information that by its nature includes information about treatment for any kind of medical concern, including psychological counseling, gynecological counseling, sexual or drug treatment, and a wide range of medical matters covering the most intimate and private of concerns,” the complaint states.
“Despite knowing that these medical records were not within the scope of the warrant, defendants threatened to ‘rip’ the servers containing the medical data out of the building if IT personnel would not voluntarily hand them over. Moreover, even though defendants knew that the records they were seizing were not included within the scope of the search warrant, the defendants nonetheless searched and seized the records without making any attempt to segregate the files from those that could possibly be related to the search warrant. In fact, no effort was made at all to even try maintaining the illusion of legitimacy and legality.
“After being put on notice of the illicit seizure, the IRS agents refused to return the records, continued to keep the records for the prying eyes of IRS peeping toms, and keep the records to this very day. The records may concern the intimate medical records of every state judge in California, every state court employee in California, leading and politically controversial members of the Screen Actors Guild and the Directors Guild, and prominent citizens in the world of entertainment, business and government, from all walks of life.”
To top it off, the IRS agents were rude, childish and arrogant, the complaint states:
“Adding insult to injury, after unlawfully seizing the records and searching their intimate parts, defendants decided to use John Doe Company’s media system to watch basketball, ordering pizza and Coca-Cola, to take in part of the NCAA tournament, illustrating their complete disregard of the court’s order and the Plaintiffs’ Fourth Amendment rights.
“This complaint seeks justice for each and all of those individuals subjected to the invasive and unlawful search and seizure conducted on March 11, 2011.”
The complaint adds: “The search warrant authorized the seizure of financial records related principally to a former employee of the company; it did not authorize any seizure of any health care or medical record of any persons, least of all third parties completely unrelated to the matter.
“While executing the warrant, the defendants seized personal mobile phones, including all the data and information on those phones, without any employing the proper and procedurally correct screening methods to protect private and privileged information, all of which was completely unapproved by the search warrant.”
The IRS’ data theft was so enormous it affects “roughly one out of every twenty-five adult American citizens,” the complaint states.
It claims that one of the IRS agents involved has a “history of misconduct, ethical breaches, and criminal activity,” including lying to grand juries, lying to witnesses about their rights during investigations, and “abusing search warrants and subpoenas for privileged information.”
It claims the IRS refuses to reveal which agents participated in the raid, who saw the medical records, and which agents have the records today.
The class seeks $25,000 in compensatory damages “per violation per individual” and punitive damages for constitutional violations.
It also seeks declaratory judgment “to protect the proprietary and privileged information of the medical records seized,” an injunction preventing the IRS from sharing the information, and an order “compelling the return of all such records and the purging of government databases of all such records, in whatever form kept or accessible.”
The class is represented by Robert E. Barnes of Malibu.  

Full IRS Inspector General Report On Targeting Of Conservative Groups

We are currently reading through the just released 54 page report from the IRS’ Acting Deputy Inspector General Michael McKenney, but for now here are the key excerpts from the findings section.

From Inappropriate Criteria Were Used to Identify Tax-Exempt Applications for Review

The mission of the IRS is to provide America’s taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and by applying the tax law with integrity and fairness to all. According to IRS Policy Statement 1-1, IRS employees accomplish this mission by being impartial and handling tax matters in a manner that will promote public confidence. However, the criteria developed by the Determinations Unit gives the appearance that the IRS is not impartial in conducting its mission. The criteria focused narrowly on the names and policy positions of organizations instead of tax-exempt laws and Treasury Regulations. Criteria for selecting applications for the team of specialists should focus on the activities of the organizations and whether they fulfill the requirements of the law. Using the names or policy positions of organizations is not an appropriate basis for identifying applications for review by the team of specialists.

The Determinations Unit developed and used inappropriate criteria to identify applications from organizations with the words Tea Party in their names. These applications (hereafter referred to as potential political cases) were forwarded to a team of specialists for review. Subsequently, the Determinations Unit expanded the criteria to inappropriately include organizations with other specific names (Patriots and 9/12) or policy positions. While the criteria used by the Determinations Unit specified particular organization names, the team of specialists was also processing applications from groups with names other than those identified in the criteria. The inappropriate and changing criteria may have led to inconsistent treatment of organizations applying for tax-exempt status. For example, we identified some organizations’ applications with evidence of significant political campaign intervention that were not forwarded to the team of specialists for processing but should have been. We also identified applications that were forwarded to the team of specialists but did not have indications of significant political campaign intervention. All applications that were forwarded to the team of specialists experienced substantial delays in processing. Although the IRS has taken some action, it will need to do more so that the public has reasonable assurance that applications are processed without unreasonable delay in a fair and impartial manner in the future.

The Determinations Unit developed and began using criteria to identify potential political cases for review that inappropriately identified specific groups applying for tax-exempt status based on their names or policy positions instead of developing criteria based on tax-exempt laws and Treasury Regulations.

According to media reports, some organizations were classified as I.R.C. § 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations but operated like political organizations.  Soon thereafter, according to the IRS, a Determinations Unit specialist was asked to search for applications with Tea Party, Patriots, or 9/12 in the organization’s name as well as other “political-sounding” names. EO function officials stated that, in May 2010, the Determinations Unit began developing a spreadsheet that would become known as the “Be On the Look Out” listing (hereafter referred to as the BOLO listing),15 which included the emerging issue of Tea Party applications. In June 2010, the Determinations Unit began training its specialists on issues to be aware of, including Tea Party cases. By July 2010, Determinations Unit management stated that it had requested its specialists to be on the lookout for Tea Party applications. In August 2010, the Determinations Unit distributed the first formal BOLO listing. The criteria in the BOLO listing were Tea Party organizations applying for I.R.C. § 501(c)(3) or I.R.C. § 501(c)(4) status. Based on our review of other BOLO listing criteria, the use of organization names on the BOLO listing is not unique to potential political cases.16 EO function officials stated that Determinations Unit specialists interpreted the general criteria in the BOLO listing and developed expanded criteria for identifying potential political cases.17 Figure 3 shows that, by June 2011, the expanded criteria included additional names (Patriots and 9/12 Project) as well as policy positions espoused by organizations in their applications.

Determinations Unit employees stated that they considered the Tea Party criterion as a shorthand term for all potential political cases. Whether the inappropriate criterion was shorthand for all potential political cases or not, developing and using criteria that focuses on organization names and policy positions instead of the activities permitted under the Treasury Regulations does not promote public confidence that tax-exempt laws are being adhered to impartially. In addition, the applications for those organizations that were identified for processing by the team of specialists experienced significant delays and requests for unnecessary information that is detailed later in this report.

* * *

While the team of specialists reviewed applications from a variety of organizations, we determined during our reviews of statistical samples of I.R.C. § 501(c)(4) tax-exempt applications that all cases with Tea Party, Patriots, or 9/12 in their names were forwarded to the team of specialists.

We determined this through two statistical samples of 338 (7.5 percent) from a universe of 4,510 I.R.C. § 501(c)(4) tax-exempt applications filed during May 2010 through May 2012 that were not forwarded to the team of specialists. See Appendix I for details on our sampling methodology.

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The team of specialists stopped working on potential political cases from October 2010 through November 2011, resulting in a 13-month delay, while they waited for assistance from the Technical Unit. Figure 5 illustrates significant events and delays concerning potential political cases. For a comprehensive timeline of events related to potential political cases, see Appendix VII.

* * *

After receiving draft guidance in November 2011, the team of specialists began sending requests for additional information in January 2012 to organizations that were applying for tax-exempt status. For some organizations, this was the second letter received from the IRS requesting additional information, the first of which had been received more than a year before this date. These letters requested that the information be provided in two or three weeks (as is customary in these letters) despite the fact that the IRS had done nothing with some of the applications for more than one year. After the letters were received, organizations seeking tax-exempt status, as well as members of Congress, expressed concerns about the type and extent of questions being asked. For example, the Determinations Unit requested donor information from 27 organizations that it would be required to make public if the application was approved, even though this information could not be disclosed by the IRS when provided by organizations whose tax-exempt status had been approved. Figure 7 shows an example of requests sent to organizations applying for tax-exempt status regarding donors.

As part of this effort, EO function Headquarters office employees reviewed the additional information request letters prepared by the team of specialists and identified seven questions that they deemed unnecessary. Subsequently, the EO function instituted the practice that all additional information request letters for potential political cases be reviewed by the EO function Headquarters office before they are sent to organizations seeking tax-exempt status. In addition, EO function officials informed us that they decided to destroy all donor lists that were sent in for potential political cases that the IRS determined it should not have requested. Figure 8 lists the seven questions identified as being unnecessary.

 

New York Legislator, Vito Lopez, Accused of Harassment, Speeds Up His Resignation

 

Leave it to the dems to be sick in the noodle, and the men and women of decent characrter to take them to take! Vito the sicko wannabe molester of 14 year olds had his behind handed to him, yes he tried to keep his job for another 5 weeks, but alas and alak NY citizen pushed back. So America, now is not the time to be shrinking violets, not is the time to  come to the aid of your country. Let everyone who has ears let them hear, FIRE every Dem, GOPer and Indy who is not a man or woman of decency and integrity, because that is how our nation was founded. -PBN

 

Mr. Lopez, who said on Friday that he would seek to remain in office for five weeks before resigning and would then run for the New York City Council, sent a one-sentence letter on Saturday to the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver.

“I hereby resign the public office of Member of Assembly from the 53rd Assembly District, Kings County, effective 9 a.m. Monday, May 20, 2013,” the letter said, in its entirety.

Mr. Lopez’s lawyer, who has been acting as his spokesman, did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and it was not clear whether Mr. Lopez, a Brooklyn Democrat, would pursue his bid for the City Council.

Mr. Lopez, who had wielded considerable power in New York and Albany as a senior lawmaker and as the chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, has faced increasing anger over his conduct toward women since Mr. Silver first revealed in August that the lawmaker had been accused of sexually harassing female legislative employees.

At the time, Mr. Silver censured Mr. Lopez and stripped him of the privileges of seniority, but the furor intensified after The New York Times reported that Mr. Silver previously agreed to confidential settlements with other women who had accused Mr. Lopez of harassment. And then, last week, a lengthy report by the state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics detailed the allegations by several women, and that report prompted intensified calls for Mr. Lopez’s expulsion.

The Assembly has not expelled one of its members since the 1920s. On Friday, Mr. Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, circulated a draft resolution that would begin the process of expelling Mr. Lopez, and the Assembly had planned to adopt the resolution on Monday.

Mr. Lopez, 71, was first elected to the Legislature in 1984.

Secret Recording: Feds taped CT House Minority leader Lawrence Cafero who said ‘No’ to a bribe

By CHRIS BOSAK
Posted on TheHour.com Friday, May 17, 2013 8:59 pm
Please share this post of an overtly vile
government high on their own power and hell bent on destroying any valee call by the vast majority of American citizens. Values like marriage, life, freedom, liberty, decency and faith in the USA.

Share this and contact your reps, this not okay. -PBN

NORWALK — House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero Jr. said he is proud of the actions of himself and his staff after a video emerged that showed a union official allegedly attempting to place $5,000 into a refrigerator in Cafero’s legislative office during an FBI sting.

The video was shown Thursday during the federal trial in U.S. District Court in New Haven against a campaign aide to former state House Speaker Chris Donovan. In testimony, Harry Ray Soucy, a former Department of Correction officer and union official, said he left $5,000 in cash in Cafero’s office, but that the money was returned.

Cafero told The Hour on Friday that Soucy asked for a cold drink and went to the refrigerator and placed an envelop inside. Cafero said he told Soucy that is not the way donations are made and demanded that Soucy take the envelop outside of the legislative office and give it to a Republican House staff member. When the staff member returned and Cafero discovered it was $5,000 in cash, Cafero made the staffer drive to a restaurant in Waterbury to return the money. Cafero said the staff member missed a law school class in order to return the money that day. Cafero said he also instructed the staff member to send an e-mail to Soucy explaining the proper way to make a contribution to a Republican committee.

The video, which is now on YouTube and The Hour’s website, was filmed by an FBI informant and Soucy was being used to try to catch legislators in the act of receiving bribes, according to Cafero. The video, both visually and auditorily, is rather unclear, but at one point Cafero is heard saying: “No, no, no.”

“I’m very proud of my staff and proud that we did the right thing,” Cafero said. “I take very seriously the proper procedure. I take solace in the fact that the FBI said I did nothing wrong and my staff is not a target of investigation. They thanked me for my cooperation.”

Soucy later sent Cafero five $1,000 checks. The FBI told Cafero he could keep that money for a Republican committee, but Cafero returned that money as well.

“I’m not sure if that money is tainted,” Cafero said. “I told them (FBI), with all due respect, I can not accept any check of a tainted origin.”

Cafero may have been given the OK by the FBI, but the entire situation left a bad taste in his mouth.

“It’s ugly and seedy what went on,” he said. “It’s a disgusting and upsetting experience.”

The meeting with Soucy took place on March 14, 2012.

Soucy visited Cafero’s office under the guise of discussing a tax potentially levied on roll-your-own cigarette establishments. Cafero knew Soucy previously as a union leader and Department of Correction officer.

Soucy brought two other men with him to the meeting and introduced them as being in the roll-your-own cigarette industry.

Cafero questioned Soucy why a corrections officer would want to discuss the topic and Soucy said he was thinking of opening a roll-your-own business, according to Cafero.

After the meeting, Soucy asked Cafero if he had anything to drink and walked toward the refrigerator.

Cafero said Soucy then told him that “my guys” want to make a contribution to a Republican Political Action Committee, then proceeded to try to put an envelop in the refrigerator.

Cafero stopped him and told him to meet one of his staff members across the street as contributions may not be accepted in the legislative office.

Cafero assumed Soucy meant fellow corrections officers when Soucy said “my guys.”

He did not think the contribution was on behalf of the roll-your-own cigarette lobby.

“I thought it was a very clumsy way to try to make a contribution,” he said.

Cafero said Soucy’s testimony that he left $5,000 in Cafero’s refrigerator is an “absolute lie.

A Childless Mother On Mother’s Day – Baby Noah’s Story

 

Beach Angel Baby Noah Photo Credit: Kaity Meyer Walter

Beach Angel Baby Noah Photo Credit: Kaity Meyer Walter

Today, as we celebrate Mother’s Day around the world, please remember to say a prayer for those mothers who have lost their little one before they had a chance to truly live. Say a prayer for those who have lost their little ones who have grown up and died protecting our nation. The family is a young hard working couple who fought the good fight with their little warrior son.  He was born pre-maturely at just 3 & 1/2 pounds by emergency C-Section. He died at just five weeks and two days old.

There is a fund set up for Baby Noah.  Baby Noah’s mom is the namesake of one of the members of our staff. Our prayers and our thoughts remain with Noah’s family forever.-PBN

C/I Baby Noah Hill’s Fund
First State Bank of The Florida Keys
97670 overseas hwy
Key largo FL 33037
Baby Noah
If you are moved to help Noah’s family please pray and give as generously as you are able. They have outstanding medical/funeral expenses. The goal is to raise $75,000.00 May God Richly Bless you as you share this story with friends and family.-PBN

On Board With Noah - The Story of Our Precious Noah Jay Hill & God’s Love For Us!!!

By Michelle Hager Hill – Noah’s Mom

I’ve always wanted to be completely honest here, so here it is.

It’s 4am mothers day…

I should be holding my precious Noah in my arms, with my heart filled with love and joy, whispering in his ear how much I love him, how happy I am to be his mommy.

Instead my arms are empty, my heart is shattered with a love that was lost and dreams that will never be seen. Instead of whispering my love into his ear, I sit here with tears streaming down my face at the memories of our short time with our precious little hero! I wish his time here was filled with hugs and kisses instead of medicines and surgeries.

I can’t look at his picture without completely shattering all over again. I try to be strong and hold it all together but I’ve come to grips with the fact that, that’s just completely unrealistic right now. The reality is, my son died, and I’m still here, still living, still breathing. I’m a childless mother on Mother’s Day, that’s my new reality and it hurts. Only God can bring the pieces of my shattered heart and put it back together, I’ll never be the same, but I know He’ll make something beautiful out of our tragedy.

That saying, “time heals all wounds” is a big fat lie, whoever says that has not had to bury their baby. I thought it would get better, that as each day went by this would hurt a little less, but that’s just not true, the pain is just as strong, just as heavy as that Tuesday morning when we held our Noah for the first and last time.

I know that I’ll see my precious boy again  once I get to heaven, there I will be able to hold him and cuddle him and tell him how much I love him again, and that’s the hope that keeps me going, that gets me out of bed each day as I try to create a new ‘normal’, whatever that is.

Noah,

“I love you and miss you more than words could express.

Thank you for making me a mommy, your mommy, even if for a very short time.

I want to live to make you proud my boy!

I cannot hear him cry, so I will answer the cry of others.

I cannot encourage him to crawl, so I will help others to walk.

I cannot listen to him speak, so I will speak for others.

I cannot teach him ABC’s, so I will educate those around me.

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Obama’s Imam Desecrates Military Funeral [VIDEO]

What you are about to hear is an Imam praying curses over our murdered military heroes. Seal Team Six Heroes and Army Air Guard who died serving our nation. Most of these soldiers were Christian. Our US Military, headed by Commander In Chief Obama, sent this imam to pray over these soldiers for their military funeral. It appears to be a purposed desecration by our Islamic enemies within this nation and without.  If you are a believer, please pray for the protection of our great US of A and all those military men and women who protect her.  Stay alert and stay tuned here for further updates on this breaking story. 

Let us review history. Going back to August 7th, 2011 in an article written by By Joe Pappalard it reads: “The loss of a Chinook helicopter carrying members of Navy SEAL Team Six made yesterday the deadliest single day in the entire Afghan War for the U.S.  Here are the three most pressing questions that need to be answered after this attack.” Ray RiveraAlissa J. Rubin and Thom Shanker of the New York Times wrote in another article on the day of the attack about the helicopter crash which killed thirty Americans including the Navy SEAL Team IV crew and Army National Guardsman, “Copter Downed by Taliban Fire: Elite U.S. Unite Among Dead.”

Notice: All Patriots: There was a Press Conference Hosted by Freedom Watch at The National Press Club earlier yesterday May 9th, 2013.
Purpose:  To allow the Navy SEAL Team VI families, specifically “Three families of Navy SEAL Team VI special forces servicemen, along with one family of an Army National Guardsman” to reveal the governments culpability in each of their sons deaths via a fatal helicopter crash which occurred in Afghanistan following their successful raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound. There were many other families of fallen heroes that wanted to attend the press conference but were unable to. Please consider supporting this wonderful political advocacy group that “walks the talk” whenever and wherever it is possible to protect the Freedoms of our United States Troops & US Citizens. Donate to Freedom Watch as you are able. Please see reporting of the original story of the unusual helicopter crash occurrence and why by Popular Mechanics below -PBN

(Washington, D.C.)  Three families of Navy SEAL Team VI special forces servicemen, along with one family of an Army National Guardsman, will appear at a press conference on May 9, 2013, to disclose never before revealed information about how and why their sons along with 26 others died in a fatal helicopter crash in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011, just a few months after the successful raid on the compound of Osama Bin Laden that resulted in the master terrorist’s death.

Accompanying the families of these dead Navy SEAL Team VI special operations servicemen will be retired military experts verifying their accounts of how and why the government is as much responsible for the deaths of their sons as is the Taliban.

The areas of inquiry at the press conference will include but not be limited to:
How President Obama and Vice President Biden, having disclosed on May 4, 2011, that Navy Seal Team VI carried out the successful raid on Bin Laden’s compound resulting in the master terrorist’s death, put a retaliatory target on the backs of the fallen heroes.

How and why high-level military officials sent these Navy SEAL Team VI heroes into battle without special operations aviation and proper air support.

How and why middle level military brass carries out too many ill-prepared missions to boost their standing with top-level military brass and the Commander-in-Chief in order that they can be promoted.

How the military restricts special operations servicemen and others from engaging in timely return fire when fired upon by the Taliban and other terrorist groups and interests, thus jeopardizing the servicemen’s lives.

How and why the denial of requested pre-assault fire may have contributed to the shoot down of the Navy SEAL Team VI helicopter and the death of these special operations servicemen.

How Afghani forces accompanying the Navy SEAL Team VI servicemen on the helicopter were not properly vetted and how they possibly disclosed classified information to the Taliban about the mission, resulting in the shoot down of the helicopter.

How military brass, while prohibiting any mention of a Judeo-Christian God, invited a Muslim cleric to the funeral for the fallen Navy SEAL Team VI heroes who disparaged in Arabic the memory of these servicemen by damning them as infidels to Allah. A video of the Muslim cleric’s “prayer” will be shown with a certified translation.

“This press conference takes on special significance given that our government has over the last twelve years since September 11 committed brave American servicemen to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which, in large part as a result of politics, were poorly conceived of and implemented, resulting in the deaths of thousands and the maiming of tens of thousands of our brave heroes. To make matters even worse, America has effectively lost these wars,” stated Larry Klayman, legal counsel for the families.

DATE: MAY 9, 2013
PLACE: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB (HOLEMAN LOUNGE)
529 14th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20045
TIME: 10 AM – 11 AM

For more information, contact Freedom Watch at daj142182@gmail.com or Tel: 424 274 2579

Source: Freedom Watch

The loss of a helicopter carrying more than 20 U.S. special forces and as many as 8 other U.S. military service members is an unprecedented one in this war. The United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DevGru)—better known by its former name, Team 6-reportedly suffered the bulk of the casualties. The incident comes just months after DevGru’s raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

Information about the incident is still trickling in, but these are a few of the most important questions in the immediate aftermath.

Will special forces be put in greater danger during the drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan?

Special Forces are expected to keep the pressure on the Taliban, working closely with Afghan forces to maintain control as U.S and Coalition troops depart. That means more raids, more targets and more reliance on Afghan competence—all of which add up to more special forces casualties.

This incident could be a sign of things to come: The crash happened in Tanji, where the U.S. closed a combat outpost in April. However, the AP has reported, the Afghan forces never staffed the outpost after American forces left, and the Taliban moved back in. That left it to Navy SEALs to undertake a dangerous raid in a notorious insurgent area to stem the Taliban’s advance. As more responsibilities fall on the shoulders of special forces, the risk of more losses like this one will continue to increase.

Was the helicopter shot down, as is being widely reported? And if so, what shot it down?

The Associated Press is reporting that a rocket attack took down the Chinook (probably a MH-47) , quoting an unnamed source in Washington D.C., but this has yet to be confirmed officially. The Taliban, of course, has taken credit, saying it shot down the helo during a special forces raid on a home.

For now, let’s assume the Chinook was shot down, and by a rocket. Chinooks are American forces’ preferred helicopters in Afghanistan because they are powerful enough fly over mountains while carrying a full complement of troops. They are also pretty tough; the only comparable loss to this one was a Chinook shot down in 2005. But Chinooks are at their most vulnerable while hovering in place during raids like the one this team is thought to have been conducting. They have to slow down to land or allow troops to rappel to the ground. However, it would be a very lucky shot to hit a moving Chinook with an RPG and they typically fly high to avoid such dangers as well as small arms fire.

But what if it was a more advanced missile? Insurgents in Iraq have used Russian-made SA-7s, shoulder-fired missiles tipped with infrared homing devices, against U.S. and British aircraft. There are more sophisticated threats out there, such as the SA-16. These missiles add ultraviolet tracking to infrared seekers, making them less susceptible to the flares that Chinooks fire to try to throw incoming missiles off course. Are such missiles appearing in Afghanistan? There’s always the chance that Iran, which has them, or Pakistan, which conceivably could have bought some on the black market, supplied them to the Taliban.

It’s a scary thought. However, a shoot down does not necessarily mean insurgents have changed their tactics or hardware. In fact, Chinooks are better protected from newer, more sophisticated threats than from older, more crude ones. These helicopters have been well protected from long-range missile attacks for years, but still have few defenses against a simple RPG fired at short range while the Chinook hovers in place.

Was it a coincidence that SEAL Team Six was on board?

DevGru is an emblem of U.S. military power, known worldwide. This crash is incredibly demoralizing. Could an enemy have specifically targeted the U.S. special forces team that took down bin Laden? It’s certainly possible. Just last week the Afghans arrested an Army officer for aiding Taliban suicide bombers through checkpoints, and doing so under employ by Pakistan.

Special forces are very selective on who they partner with, but any collaboration with Afghans opens up U.S. Forces to the threat of spying. Several Afghans were on board and were killed, but trust is in short supply in Afghanistan. Add in the fact that more sophisticated foreign intelligence agents are on the ground, with signals intelligence assets and deep pockets, and you have a recipe for a plot.

But it’s just as plausible that the Taliban got lucky. Helicopter raids are dangerous and unpredictable. Not all will end as well as bin Laden’s takedown, as PM noted in July.

The U.S. Army knows the risks when it plans air assault operations in Afghanistan. Its planners and pilots must use whatever intelligence is available (which is usually pretty thin information, and comes from earlier attacks) to plan the flight route. To minimize the danger as much as possible, pilots will land Chinooks out of range of any weapons they know they enemy to have, and an Apache or a UAV will fly overhead to check for threats before the Chinooks drop off any soldiers. But special forces don’t get such a cushion:  Because they can react more quickly, they undertake more dangerous missions; their risk tolerance is much, much higher. Special forces routinely use helicopters in raids on homes in Afghanistan. This time, they might simply have run out of luck and encountered an RPG-armed enemy who was in the right place at the right time.

Coincidence or not, any Chinook shoot-down is a coup for the Taliban. But the Team Six connection makes it a major symbolic victory for them.

Source: Popular Mechanics

Original Story published August 7, 2011 9:00 AM By Joe Pappalard

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