GOOD AFTERNOON TO EVERYONE!
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President Obama's apologists defend him by painting him as disconnected, aloof, and out of the loop (and you're having a bad month when that's how your defenders portray you!) but it certainly does seem like bad things happen to people after Obama criticizes them.
The tax exempt organizations division of the IRS began subjecting conservative and Tea Party groups to outrageous levels of scrutiny, dragged out for months and years, after the President and his allies described those groups as obstacles to progress, or even threats to democracy. But it goes even further than that, as at least one donor to Mitt Romney's campaign was hit by surprise audits after his name appeared on an enemies' list published by the Obama 2012 campaign... and he says other Romney supporters were given similar treatment. Conservative groups like the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute also complain of being singled out for audits.
And it's not just the IRS. Other agencies, including the FBI, BATF, and OSHA, mysteriously decided to dog-pile on groups criticized by President Obama or his party's congressional representatives. And now we've learned that the Justice Department directed extraordinary levels of surveillance at James Rosen, who works for Fox News, a media organizationrelentlessly attacked by this White House.
It remains for urgently-needed investigations - conducted completely outside the influence of the Obama Administration - to determine if all this behavior was coordinated. The current Administration defense, painting it as the work of numerous low-level employees in various agencies acting independently, might be even more chilling than an orchestrated conspiracy. One way or the other, a chilling message about the high price of dissent has been sent.
-- John Hayward
Senior Writer HumanEvents
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