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Attorney: "Insecurities" Caused Ex-EPA Climate Scientist To Be A Phony CIA Operative

An attorney for former Environmental Protection Agency climate scientist John Beale said In sentencing memos detailed by NBC News on Monday that his client lied about working with the CIA because of his “insecurities.”

However, federal prosecutors said Beale’s lies were designed to help him bilk about $ 900,000 in salary and other benefits from the EPA in what they described as a “crime of massive proportion” that was “offensive” to people who work for the CIA.

“With the help of his therapist,” Beale’s attorney, John Kern, wrote in his sentencing memo, “Mr. Beale has come to recognize that, beyond the motive of greed, his theft and deception were animated by a highly self-destructive and dysfunctional need to engage in excessively reckless, risky behavior.”

NBC also reported on documents it said provided new details about Beale’s crimes, for which he pleaded guilty in September.

Beale was the EPA’s highest paid employee in his role as a “senior policy advisor” in the agency’s Office of Air and Radiation. Court documents showed he did not work for six months in 2008 and told supervisors he was working with the CIA on an election-year project involving “candidate security. In late 2010, Beale justified another absence from work by claiming to be in Pakistan.

In his sentencing memo, Kern admitted Beale did “absolutely no work” for an 18 month period that started in June 2011. In addition to his salary, Beale charged more than $ 200,000 in flights and hotel expenses to the EPA, including some that Kern said were made for “personal reasons.”

The EPA began investigating Beale in early 2012 after an administrator noticed he was still on the payroll months after holding a retirement party in September 2011. Beale officially retired in April. 

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Obama"s phony debt default threat

To paraphrase a famous Democrat, “It’s the Federal Debt Stupid.”  On this issue, the Tea Party probably can win.  And, now a knowledgeable Washington insider is on their side.

When he took office, President Reagan promoted a young Michigan congressman, considered a federal budget whiz kid at the time, to head the Office of Management and Budget.  David Stockman was convinced that federal spending had to be reduced.  I can still recall a famous headline at the time likening him to the Grim Reaper:   ”The Stockman Cometh.”

Now he’s arguing in an interview at Yahoo Finance that the President can indeed prioritize Federal spending so that the debt limit does not  have to be mindlessly raised.

He tells The Daily Ticker the real story is the debt ceiling, and he thinks we’re “finally getting to a defining moment when the truth comes out…if we run out of debt ceiling, the president does have the power to prioritize the inflow of revenue which is still massive coming in.”

And the first thing the government will do, he says, is spend $ 30 billion paying the interest on the debt (according to Stockman, the government could also pay social security retirees, the armed services, and Medicare reimbursements despite broaching the debt limit).

“It is a complete red herring to say there will be a default,” he tells us. “There will never will be a time in which there is not enough cash to pay the interest.”

Stockman’s no lightweight.  He knows the law and encourages House Republican’s to call Treasury Secretary Jack Lew’s bluff about breaching the debt ceiling.  According to Stockman Uncle Sam is collecting $ 250 billion a month, which leaves plenty of cash for Social Security, Medicare, the armed forces and a host of other things.    He also argues that Obamacare should be delayed.  Let’s face it — who knows how much that’ll cost?

“The fiscal process doesn’t work. It’s broken and the only way to get the wheels of this thing to stop turning is for a determined minority to grab the bull by the horns. And if they want to call it ‘hostage taking’ they can use that term but why do people think we can keep adding to the national debt?”

Stockman sees the government shut down morphing into a national debate about spending and the federal debt.  It looks to me like most democrats and lobbyists agree — which explains the apocalyptic, wailing and gnashing of teeth from liberaldom over the shutdown.

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Obama Blames “Phony Scandals” & “Distractions” For Five Years Of A Bad Economy

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By Tim Brown
Freedom Outpost
July 25, 2013

Remember when Barack Obama told the American people that if he couldn’t fix the economy (not like a president has that power anyway), that it would be a one term proposition?

Well, apparently he didn’t mean it. In fact, in a speech at Illinois’ Knox College, Obama blasted Republicans for his five years of a failing economy, blaming it on “distractions, political posturing and phony scandals.”

The speech is the “same old same” old from Obama. He talks about roads and bridges that need repair, fighting those making too much money and fighting poverty, all of which continue to exist. One of the points he made really made me chuckle and that is how he continues to promote the idea of “saving the auto industry.” In light of the recent admission by the city of Detroit that they are bankrupt and the fact that General Motors is building plants in Mexico, after stiffing taxpayers for $ 10 billion, I just shook my head at the outright lies this man tells.

“Today, five years after the start of that Great Recession, America has fought its way back. Together, we saved the auto industry, took on a broken health care system, and invested in new American technologies to reverse our addiction to foreign oil and double wind and solar power,” Obama said. “Together, we put in place tough new rules on big banks, and protections that cracked down on the worst practices of mortgage lenders and credit card companies.  We changed a tax code too skewed in favor of the wealthiest at the expense of working families, locking in tax cuts for 98% of Americans, and asking those at the top to pay a little more.”

First and foremost the auto industry was not dying, just General Motors. Ford didn’t have their hand out and neither did many auto manufacturers. The real issue was Obama was out to pay his buddies back for helping him get into office.

Second, the health care system is broken far more now than it was when he took office. In fact, it’s so broken, that his administration is pushing back certain aspects of his “not so” Affordable Care Act for an entire year.

It’s true he did change the tax code, in more ways than one. He, along with Congress, did stick it to the American people for sure when they did their little fiscal cliff deal earlier this year and Nancy Pelosi basically said that the Democrats aren’t done taxing Americans!

As for his investments, I mean, redistribution of wealth to wind and solar companies, we saw how that worked out. Solyndra, anyone? That entire fiasco was more pay back and a complete waste of American’s money,but what did David G. Frantz, Obama’s Acting Executive Director of the Department of Energy Loan Program back in July of 2012 say about those loans, including those to Solyndra? He said the Department of Energy’s loans were and “enormous success.”

Ultimately it led to thousands of jobs lost and literally billions of dollars squandered, all at the expense of the American taxpayer.

We’ve got 50 million people on food stamps and 23 million people unemployed. Our gas prices are averaging about $ 3.68 per gallon and yet we keep getting stuck with the tab for Obama’s Keynesian economic incompetence.

Ah, but that was just the warm up. Instead of taking blame for his agenda’s failure, he turns to Republican and blames the economy on “distractions, political posturing and phony scandals.”

“With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball.  And I am here to say this needs to stop.  Short-term thinking and stale debates are not what this moment requires.  Our focus must be on the basic economic issues that the matter most to you – the people we represent,” Obama said. 

Hmmm. Well, let’s see. Was Operation Fast and Furious, which his Justice Department and ATF oversaw and which resulted in the deaths of 2 federal agents and hundreds of Mexicans, including a beauty queen and police chief phony? How about Benghazi and his administration knowingly engaging in lies to the American people about it and then knowingly did nothing to help Americans who were under attack from Muslim jihadists? Was that phony? Was it phony that Obama’s IRS targeted his political enemies? Was it phony that Obama’s NSA has been spying, apparently unlawfully, on millions of Americans? Was it phony that his Justice Department were sticking their noses where they didn’t belong when it came to AP and other media reporters?

I didn’t even mention that a budget has yet to be passed under his administration and he has overseen four consecutive years of over $ 1 trillion in deficits, while claiming to cut deficits, plus an ever growing national debt. Obama is a big believer in taxing and spending your way to prosperity. The only problem is, it’s an illusion.

It’s true there are lots of distractions, but those aren’t among them. Obama just sticks to the playbook and continues to blame everyone and everything for his failures, but himself.    

Here’s the entire speech, if you can stomach it.

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