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@Thom_Hartmann blog: Darryl Issa's Political Sideshow


Now is about the time for Republican Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Darryl Issa, to offer an apology to Attorney General Eric Holder.  Back in June, House Republicans voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt after Congressman Darryl Issa held a series of witch hunt hearings trying to implicate Holder in the non-existent Fast and Furious conspiracy.  

Now, a new report out by the DOJ’s Inspector General confirms that the case against Holder was completely baseless.  The report was focused on Fast and Furious and found no evidence of wrongdoing or misleading on the part of Attorney General Holder.  

Similarly, there was absolutely no evidence that Fast and Furious was a secret plot to flood Mexico with guns, spark violence, and give the Obama administration good reason to confiscate everyone’s gun, which was an actual theory presented by Issa and other Republicans.  

Republicans spent huge amounts of taxpayer money trying to embarrass the nation’s first black Attorney General and the President.  Now we know all that money was wasted on a political sideshow.

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@Thom_Hartmann blog: Use an Apple Product? The FBI is Spying on You!



Hacktivists working within the group “Anonymous” are claiming they’ve caught the FBI spying on more than 12 million Apple customers.  On Monday night, the hacktivists released FBI files that contained over 12 million Apple UDID’s – which are specific numbers exclusively assigned to apple products like Iphones and Ipads.  Along with the UDIDs, Anonymous is saying the FBI database also included user names, cell phone numbers, and addresses.

The FBI has yet to comment on the story.  In a statement on the discovery, Anonymous said, “For the last few years we have broke [sic] into systems belonging to Governments and Big corporations just to find out they are spending millions of tax dollars to spy on their citizens. They work to discredit dissenting voices.”

It’s true, we are being spied on.   The emerging surveillance state is a consequence of corporations taking over our government.  One major difference between democratic rule and corporate rule – there is no transparency or individual privacy when corporations are in control.

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