Obama Legal Fees Admission; Key Witness in Passport Fraud Dead; New Quo Warranto Suit Submitted; Update: Atlas on Passport Story
In from the tip line, the Politico is reporting that the Obama campaign fund is still in full operation. The posting includes this very interesting tid-bit:
Other interesting payments during the first three months of the year, the period covered by Wednesday’s report, included $688,000 in legal fees to the firm of Bob Bauer — the top lawyer for the campaign, the Democratic National Committee, the Obama political group Organizing for America, and the Obama family — and $6,400 to a firm founded by Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. [emphases mine]
You know where I’m going with this, right?
Yes, a tacit admission concerning the eligibility cases!
But wait, “illegitimizers” — a term I coined for those who think this President shouldn’t be questioned over eligibility — will counter, “But, Phil, I don’t see anything in there specifically pertaining to any eligibility cases.”
OK, then answer me this question: What is the President doing spending three-quarters of a million dollars from January forward to incur legal fees? After all, the campaign is over. And we already know that the Politico has a beef against “birthers,” so if some/most/all of these fees were regarding eligibility, I would not expect them to fully disclose this info.
Also from the tip line, The Washington Times had reported that a “Key witness in passport fraud case fatally shot:”
A key witness in a federal probe into passport information stolen from the State Department was fatally shot in front of a District church, the Metropolitan Police Department said yesterday.
Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, who had been cooperating with a federal investigators, was found late Thursday night slumped dead inside a car, in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist Church in Northeast, said Cmdr. Michael Anzallo, head of the department’s Criminal Investigations Division.
Cmdr. Anzallo said a police officer was patrolling the neighborhood when gunshots were heard, then Lt. Harris was found dead inside the vehicle, which investigators would describe only as a blue car. …
The Washington Times reported April 5 that contractors for the State Department had improperly accessed passport information for presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain, which resulted in a series of firings that reached into the agency’s top ranks.
One agency employee, who was not identified in documents filed in U.S. District Court, was implicated in a credit-card fraud scheme after Lt. Harris told federal authorities he obtained “passport information from a co-conspirator who works for the U.S. Department of State.”
You will recall my January 13, 2009 posting covering NewsMax’s coverage of then-President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama’s intelligence advisor had been involved in a security breach as the head of a State Department contractor.
Obviously, this story is becoming even more interesting.
Update: Pamela Gellar at AtlasShrugged brings huge context to this story, something of which many of us are only now becoming aware:
OMG, they are killing people.
Do you remember this curious story during the Presidential election? A couple of months before rumblings began about Obama’s birth circumstances and the discovery that BHO’s COLB (certification of live birth) was a forgery, a story broke in late March 2008 that State Department employees had tampered with the passport files of Barack Obama.
At the time ”State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the violations of McCain and Clinton’s passport files were not discovered until Friday, after officials were made aware of the unauthorized access of Obama’s records and a separate search was conducted”.
The incidents raise questions as to whether the information was accessed for political purposes and why two contractors involved in the Obama search were dismissed before investigators had a chance to interview them.
I always thought they rifled through Clinton’s and McCain’s to make it look like it was all three but it was Obama’s passport records that they accessed. Secondarily, almost as an afterthought, there were “violations” concerning Clinton and McCain. But who stood to gain from a tampering, and why?
There is a video here of Obama’s response to the passport “breach” back on March 21, 2008. Watch it – I think it’s telling that he says, not that he has anything to hide, “not because I have any particular concerns” [minute -.23]. This is before the birth certificate scandal. Who would say that? …
Oil of Immigration goes one step further:
Comment: See my article about General Dynamics – the company used by the Obama campaign to tamper the passport. Tom Ayers (Bill Ayer’s Father) was on the board of General Dynamics. Also, right after Obama Usurped Office, GD was contracted to improve the security of the Passport system.
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Gets better ……….Tom Ayers served on board of General Dynamics. General Dynamics now wants “hackers” to work for the Government hat tip Denice
Federal authorities aren’t looking to prosecute them, but to pay them to secure the nation’s networks.
General Dynamics Information Technology put out an ad last month on behalf of the Homeland Security Department seeking someone who could “think like the bad guy.” Applicants, it said, must understand hackers’ tools and tactics and be able to analyze Internet traffic and identify vulnerabilities in the federal systems.
Tom Ayers, father of Obama friend, communist and unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, served on the General Dynamics Board. As head of the corporation’s finance committee, Northern Trust was the trustee of the corporation’s Salaried Savings Plan and the Hourly Savings Plan that was overseen by the committee along with fellow members Lester Crown whose son, Jim, and daughter-in-law, Paula, are $200,000 bundlers for Obama’s presidential campaign.
Northern Trust Bank is also the same bank that gave Obama his below prime rate home loan for his current mansion.
Many believe General Dynamics was also involved in the “security breach” or tampering with the Obama Passport before the election.
Just after the election, the State Dept. awarded the same company that breached the initial passports to come up with a new Passport technology:
(Source) The State Department awarded a $99.3 million, five-year contract today to a team led by General Dynamics Information Technology to print the passport card.
The contract calls for one base year and five option years. State’s Logistics Management Office, Management Acquisition unit processed the acquisition.
Research is pending on this, but you can already see disturbing [emphases in original]
Dr. Orly Taitz, one of the prominent attorneys and activists in the eligibility saga, has begun yet another blog, OrlyTaitzEsq.com. She also mentions some news on the quo warranto front:
As I finally have a new blog, new home free of all the Obama thugs, I can finally launch a new line of attack, that got delayed by two weeks because of the blog problems. I am sending today Matthew Michael Edwards v Obama Quo Warranto to the Attorney General of Wyoming and Governor of Wyoming.
I will explain in simple terms, what I am doing. Quo warranto, as I explained previously is a cause of action that is usually filed by the government against one holding a position in the government, whereby he is required to prove that he is eligible for the position. The first Quo Warranto I served on Attorney General Eric Holder, second on US attorney for the District of Columbia Jeffrey Taylor. This third one I am filing on behalf on my client Matt Edwards, active National Guardsman in Wyoming.
What most people don’t understand is that Quo Warranto can be not only federal, but also state. Each governor of a state is in charge of it’s National Guard, however in the military theatre in Iraq and Afghanistan all the National guards are under orders of commander in Chief or greatly influenced by the orders of Commander in Chief. Their lives are dependent on the decisions of the Commander in Chief. In this Quo Warranto on behalf of my client, Wyoming Guardsman Matthew Michael Edwards I demand that the Governor and the Attorney General of Wyoming institute proper Quo Warranto action to verify Obama’s eligibility to serve as Commander in Chief, due to the fact that he is not a Natural born citizen and never qualified to be the President and Commander in chief.
A current listing of eligibility lawsuits can be found here.
-Phil
How did they get caught? Databases routinely keep access logs. The sensitive record alert trigger for Obama’s record is a product of KJ’s imagination.
Perhaps. That how I remember it being reported in the news.
For access logs, there must be at least thousands maybe millions of entries in a month. (Just consider the people entering and exiting the country and applying for and renewing passports.) Is there a department in the State Department just reading these access logs? Or do they just “search” for access to certain files? Could a search for the access of a “sensitive file” be considered a “trigger”? Why would someone be searching to see if Mr. O’s passport file had been accessed?
“Access security” should have different levels. Top secret files should only be accessible by people with top secret clearance. “Sensitive” passport files should only be accessible by people with “sensitive?” clearance. Contract workers should probably not be able to access “sensitive” files – there should be some higher level protection on such files.
If someone viewed Mr. O’s passport file, where is that person and what did that person see? Why hasn’t that person talked?
If it was the “disciplined” person, then the State Department could keep an eye on them. A dismissed person would be more likely to “sing”. In any account, intimidation has been used in the past.
The published story simply doesn’t add up very well.
Oh, I must have hit a nerve to get the replies!
Why wasn’t Lt. Harris placed into the federal witness program for protection? There was simply too much risk for him to be out there where people could kill him and they did sucessfully.
Obama has placed key people in position where any evidence will come up missing and destroyed.
People are now worried that a birth certificate will be made to look authentic. I PRAY TO GOD that the FBI will get Obama’s vault copy of his birth certificate from Hawaii befoe it too comes up missing cause you know it will or someone will get killed or buildings bombed to prevent anyone from having it.
earl says:
April 21, 2009 at 3:55 pm
JeffM says:
April 20, 2009 at 5:50 pm
“there are too many coincidences to be coincidental”
I see no coincidences. I see a guy who got shot on a DC street. Nothing less, nothing more. My favorite old sayings: “There’s no ‘there’ there.” and “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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A cigar is not just a cigar as was in Bill Clinton’s case!!!!!!!!!!
JeffM says:
April 20, 2009 at 5:50 pm
“there are too many coincidences to be coincidental”
I see no coincidences. I see a guy who got shot on a DC street. Nothing less, nothing more. My favorite old sayings: “There’s no ‘there’ there.” and “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
A few contractors looked up records for which they had no official need. The database did have “access security”. The contractors had legitimate access; they simply used it improperly. A State Department spokesman called it “imprudent curiosity”.
<<<< Three contractors looked up passport information on presidential candidates. Two were fired and one was disciplined. Why the different penalties? If they used their access improperly, what would be the purpose of their access? Imprudent curiosity, as in what was on Obama’s passport?
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How did they get caught? Databases routinely keep access logs. The sensitive record alert trigger for Obama’s record is a product of KJ’s imagination.
<<<<< Please site your source for what exactly occurred here.
KJ says:
It was nothing like that. A few contractors looked up records for which they had no official need. The database did have “access security”. The contractors had legitimate access; they simply used it improperly. A State Department spokesman called it “imprudent curiosity”.
How did they get caught? Databases routinely keep access logs. The sensitive record alert trigger for Obama’s record is a product of KJ’s imagination.
That’s how conspiracy theories build: the clueless imagine they understand how everything works, then go wild with their inferences.
earl said:
I cite what we publically know. Drug deals or no you don’t know the answer any more than anyone else on here. By all means if you come up with some tangible research confirming your assumption, please feel free to post it here.
The bottom line goes back to the phrase:
“There are too many coincidences to be coincidental”.
When it smells fishy, there’s most likely a dead carp under the seat.
Case is closed. Earl has proof that it was a drug hit. Harris using information from a passport break-in from a contact at the State Dept. when there was a breach of security for three presidential candidates as well? Passport breaches happen all the time. Everyone knows that. Nothing to see here, move along. What happens in D.C. stays in D.C. If it happened a year ago, irrelevant. Bush is really off the hook.
JeffM says:
“and this means what”
It means the guy was probably assassinated at point blank range in a bad drug deal. Find anything in the year-old story or a subsequent story about a police investigation into his death to suggest anything other than a drug hit. But by all means, run around waving your arms and screaming ” zOMG!!! now Obama’s assassinating people!!!!” More ridiculous by the day. But I am enjoying watching the narrative advancing leaving behind ” he’s just not eligible, it’s the Constitution.”
Facts known: Someone tripped a trigger on Mr. O’s electronic passport file. Condoleezza Rice personally apologized for the breach.
Another unknown: Whether the file was tampered with or even viewed when the alert was tripped.
Opinion: It is a little odd that the breach on his file would have been discovered before the breaches on McCain’s and Hilary’s files. Their files could have served to test a procedure/code for avoiding the alert mechanism in the future. Accessing a sensitive file without tripping the alert would have allowed Mr. O’s file to be modified at will without being detected.
Supporting observations:
If there was an automatic alert mechanism set up and the files were accessed at the same time, all of the alerts should have shown up at the same time.
An access alert mechanism was in place instead of some sort of access security to protect “sensitive” files. The alert mechanism would be more like a trap to catch someone doing something they shouldn’t be doing instead of “protection” for “sensitive” information. Consider: when a cashier has to remove a “rung” item from a ticket, a manager must enter a code instead of an alarm bell going off. Alarm bells do sound when someone tries to walk out the door with something not paid for.
A professional hacker would want to get in and get out undetected. A good hacker could cover most (or all) of his tracks during an unanticipated access and he would have probably been aware that some trigger may have been set. Tripping the trigger may have provided information on the trigger to allow avoiding it in the future. The trigger avoidance procedure/code could have been tested on McCain’s and Hilary’s files.
Mr. O’s eyes are half closed during much of the video – no eye contact.
Concluding Remarks:
Was this a diversionary tactic again, implying that someone viewed the file and did not see anything suspicious? Where is the person that tripped the trigger now? Did he see the file?
Also, the State Department would have been put on alert to prevent access to any other passport information about Mr. O.
JeffM wrote
quote/ With regards to the National Guard…Orly’s citation of the National Guard under presidential control confirms the fact that it is clearly not the “well regulated militia” required by the U.S. Constitution and we cannot rely on the Governors to have a militia at their disposal. We have neglected our precious protection. With all of these sovereignty bills and resolutions, now is the correct time to act.
It’s time to pick up the broken pieces and begin the transition of militia power back to its rightful place: under direct control of the states and only the states. Otherwise we the people of this country have only one way to protect ourselves, and that is to maintain our own armory. This is not the correct or Constitutional way to protect our sovereignty. What we must do is work with our state governments to organize arms owners, i.e. Volunteers into the structured militia that was intended by the framers of the U.S. Constitution. Only then will our states be truly sovereign./endquote
Jeff, When that phrase “A well regulated militia” in the second amendment was written The meaning of the word “Regulated” back then was well armed or well supplied.Not controlled or within the law or whatever.Also the words Militia and people were used interchangeably many times and in many other writings of the time, So what the founders were saying When writing ” a well regulated militia” was a well armed and supplied citizenry or people. Nothing in there about government control…state or federal. Also nothing in there about only using arms meant for hunting as many want, and in fact should read Best arms obtainable. Limiting our population to only semi auto non military style weapons hinders our ability to defend ourselves and our country if the needs arise to defend either against fully armed, fully auto assaults…from without or within.
So,the second amendment as written…. “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”.
In today’s language would read “A fully armed and supplied citizenry, being necessary to the security of their home,state,and country, the right of the people to keep and bear any and all weapons,ammunition, or supplies shall not be banned or limited in any way”.
Ayers father is very wealthy and has served on other boards including Searle which makes one of the sweetners and was also in pharamaceuticals if I remember correctly. Was he on the board of Northern Trust? Let me tell you – you don’t sit on the boards of companies this big unless you are plugged in. Looks like someone santized O’s passport files possibly working for General Dynamics and one person may have already been murdered for what they knew.
NT was also know for being one of the few banks that would clear credit card trasnactions for internet porn in t he early days of the Net. Most banks would not touch it. I knew someone who worked at NT.
Earl said:
And this means “what” to being assassinated as point blank range?? Nice try derailing the discussion again.
Gee, let’s just close the case if a man is shot and no killer is brought to justice a year later. What kind of people are you? Are you making murder have a one year statute of limitations? Ignore, ignore, ignore.
“A key witness in a federal probe into passport information stolen from the State Department was fatally shot in front of a District church, the Metropolitan Police Department said yesterday.”
At the end of the article:
“One agency employee, who was not identified in documents filed in U.S. District Court, was implicated in a credit-card fraud scheme after Lt. Harris told federal authorities he obtained “passport information from a co-conspirator who works for the U.S. Department of State.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/apr/19/key-witness-in-passport-fraud-case-fatally-shot/
The latter information does not negate the first part of the article.
Thanks for the update. I just used this information to comment at a site that was lumping together “birthers” with “truthers.” So many people remain ignorant of important information.
Obviously you didn’t notice the Washington Times report is from April 19, 2008. But anything for a story, right Phil?
Phil,
I think it is time for the Obots to chime in on this. I want to know why they stated that Obama wasn’t paying for legal defense. I want to know how they feel about the sudden shooting of a key witness outside a church (predictable pattern of going to church) who was cooperating with the investigation. Something is starting to smell..like..well like…..fascism. When high ranking elected officials start using the “s” word, bad things are going to happen.
I say to the Obots, think about what it is your supporting. It should be Constitution and Country before Party and POTUS, because POTUS come and POTUS go. Everyone together, democrat and republican independent and libertarian, should be asking for the Constitution to be fulfilled as it pertains to POTUS, and not accept potentially photoshopped internet documents.
Phil -
You may want to look at the date on that Washington Times article you posted.
Because it’s Saturday, 18 April 2008 Which means the article is a bit over a year old. The primaries were still in effect when this happened, and the only people who wanted to see the birth certificate were those who were claiming that his middle name was “Mohammed”. The whole snowball about citizenship, overseas birth, claims of forgery and the like, wasn’t on anyone’s radar when this article was written and published.
It’s quite old news.
The Washington Times story about Harris being found shot is dated SAT APRIL 19, 2008. A year ago. Harris was also pulled over in March 2008 and charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell.
Stick with it Orly, just be careful and stick to the facts as their are. You are the only lawyer involved who has experienced life in a police state, where a formal constitution was flagrantly violated, and who knows from experience what is truly at risk.
Although I doubt that Mr. O is planning a “takeover” at this time, his thoughts are not transparent to us. We do know that he is implementing a proposed campaign agenda (that could bankrupt the United States) and consolidating power with with help of the “politically correct” in Congress and the media.
And you never totally know what to expect from a person who says “… a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany … and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama” – Barack Obama; Lebanon, New Hampshire. January 7, 2008.
Lt. Quarles Harris Jr. was shot. Was he shot in the “normal” violence that occurs in DC? Was he shot by someone like the Black Panthers who were afraid of what he might say? Or was he shot by someone (or a proxy) aware of what he had already divulged or might divulge to the State Department/Justice Department investigation?
A memorial website has a photo of two teddy bears with black balloons strapped to a pole were he was shot.
Is there anyone else in the know that might be at risk and who might meet with an “unfortunate accident”? I hope that the individuals who viewed the file in question are aware of the recent events.
God Bless you Orly Taitz for all that you are doing to help save the United States of America. You give us all hope and the encoragement for our Grassroot efforts to make our Government accountable to us, “We the People”.
Yes please I am interesting to receive your programs Thank you.
It is very sad to hear and see that murder for no reason, that is OBAMA’s HITMAN STYLE JUST LIKE “RUSSIA COMMUNIST KGB”. Thank you. Robert Sewell Sr 78
Killing of people to silence them is very effective. Also let’s look at the problem with not wanting a secure border. Let’s for one day remove all of the Border Patrol from let’s say Texas as ‘bama proposes because that right there will spread love and understanding to our friends to the south. How many criminals would come streaming across the border? This wpuld also open a floodgate of illicit drugs and gang activity associated with that. That’s a good idea. No wonder I voted for ‘bamy. I’m in favor of young kids getting caught in the crossfire after all if this pathetic fool calls for it than that is what it should be. The man is lawless in his intent and if he is a NBC he is a traitor to this country. I think the DHS needs to investigate and imprison my mother because her husband has a rifle and believes in the right to bear arms.
Very interesting information. This is all unfolding as it should have 6 months ago with regards to Soetoro’s regime. But alas, we may not see anything come out of the assassination of Harris. We saw similar actions during prior administrations and nothing was resolved in those situations either.
With regards to the National Guard…Orly’s citation of the National Guard under presidential control confirms the fact that it is clearly not the “well regulated militia” required by the U.S. Constitution and we cannot rely on the Governors to have a militia at their disposal. We have neglected our precious protection. With all of these sovereignty bills and resolutions, now is the correct time to act.
It’s time to pick up the broken pieces and begin the transition of militia power back to its rightful place: under direct control of the states and only the states. Otherwise we the people of this country have only one way to protect ourselves, and that is to maintain our own armory. This is not the correct or Constitutional way to protect our sovereignty. What we must do is work with our state governments to organize arms owners, i.e. Volunteers into the structured militia that was intended by the framers of the U.S. Constitution. Only then will our states be truly sovereign.
Your “tip line” is getting stale, Phil. I call things that happened in 2008 “history”, Phil, not “news”:
The Washington Times article you cite is a YEAR old:
See: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/apr/19/key-witness-in-passport-fraud-case-fatally-shot/
(And the passport fraud case he was involved in had nothing whatsoever to do with the separate incident in which several contract employees were fired for unauthorized snooping into the records of Presidential candidates and various celebrities.)
The murder of the guy with the passport information has Obama/Biden THUGS written all over it!!! Why wasn’t someone protecting this witness if this is a federal probe and he was a key witness and appears that the dots can be connected somewhat back to the IMPOSTER in the White House…..reminds me of what happened to Donald Young….BO’s gay lover from Rev. Wright’s church….still NO arrests in his murder???? When will the real THUGS be investigated????
Patience is a virtue and with GOD in control….none of us really know when the truth will unveil itself….JUST know that eventually it will…whether in this life or the next!!
“Fear God… For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” Ecc. 12:13,14
UUMMMMM….This just might blow Sue’s “pro bono” claim right out of the water!!!
I was waiting for the first murder to happen regarding covering up Obama’s eligibility. Sorry that this poor guy was murdered over politics.
The Clinton Murder Saga is repeating.
Hi Phil,
Atty Bauer was the attorney defending Obama in the Hollister v Obama case. He may have been involved in defending other cases too, but I do remember seeing his name in the responses to Hollister v Obama.
RJ
The following dots connect:
Vince Foster…Donald Young…Quarles Harris, Jr…