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Dan Pfeiffer is a senior White House Advisor, whatever that means. Obama and Valerie Jarrett sent him out to present the White House line. Schieffer isn’t having any of it. He correctly notes that the line this administration is handing out is exactly the same one that the Nixon administration used to try to divert attantion away from the Watergate scandal.

Then he notes that they are sending subordinates to do the dirty work. He wants to know why the White House Chief of Staff isn’t there talking with him.

Schieffer is on to something but he has an inflated idea of the importance of him, his program and CBS News in general. During the time Watergate happened CBS was at or near the peak of their influence. Today, with all the other news sources available to the public, and CBS’ history of distorting and creating news stories they are just another source. Schieffer hasn’t noticed that yet but the White House has.

That doesn’t surprise me. Nothing surprises me any more when it comes to the Obama administration. But if this is true, how will the Congress react?

From Hot Air:

That’s the revelation made by California Congressman Devin Nunes, who sits on the House Ways And Means Committee on Hugh Hewitt’s Show Wednesday night. Here’s the key part of that transcript:

HH: The idea that this might be a Geithner-Axelrod plan, and by that, the sort of intimation, Henry II style, will no one rid me of this turbulent priest, will no one rid me of these turbulent Tea Parties, that might have just been a hint, a shift of an eyebrow, a change in the tone of voice. That’s going to take a long time to get to. I don’t trust the Department of Justice on this. Do you, Congressman Nunes?

DN: No, I absolutely do not, especially after this wiretapping incident, essentially, of the House of Representative. I don’t think people are focusing on the right thing when they talk about going after the AP reporters. The big problem that I see is that they actually tapped right where I’m sitting right now, the Cloak Room.

HH: Wait a minute, this is news to me.

DN: The Cloak Room in the House of Representatives.

HH: I have no idea what you’re talking about.

DN: So when they went after the AP reporters, right? Went after all of their phone records, they went after the phone records, including right up here in the House Gallery, right up from where I’m sitting right now. So you have a real separation of powers issue that did this really rise to the level that you would have to get phone records that would, that would most likely include members of Congress, because as you know…”

Charlie Rangel doubts Obama? That’s what Politico says:

Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that he believes President Barack Obama owes the American public explanations for both the seizure of Associated Press phone records by the Department of Justice and the IRS targeting of conservative groups.

“I don’t think anyone truly believes that the president has given us a sufficient answer for America, much less the press,” Rangel said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “I think this is just the beginning and the whole idea of comparing this with Nixon, I really think is just, it doesn’t make much sense. But the president has to come forward and share why he did not alert the press they were going to do this. He has to tell the Americans, including me: What was this national security question? You just can’t raise the flag and expect to salute it every time without any reason and the same thing applies to the IRS.”

How stupid do they think we are? I guess we know the answer.

State Department shuts down Benghazi questions: ‘You’ll have to take my word for it’

“You’ll have to take my word for it,” said a spokesperson for the most transparent administration in history when reporters asked her to substantiate her claim that the CIA removed references to terrorists from the Benghazi talking points before the State Department ever saw them.

“If you look at the talking points and the train of that, the reference to al Qaeda was taken out even before the State Department saw the talking points,” Jen Psaki, former traveling campaign press secretary for the Obama team in 2012, told reporters during the State Department press briefing Monday.

This comment put Psaki in a tight spot because she had just denied a reporter’s request that the State Department release all drafts of the talking points.”

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Powers has come a full 180 degress from being an Obama sycophant to here calling him a liar.

He’s so centrally involving himself with these repeated lies. And, I’m just going to call them lies because they’re lies. They’re on tape. Nobody thought that he called it a terrorist attack. Last night I went up and I looked at the New York Times how they reported it (Benghazi) the day after. They never reference that we had a terrorist attack against the United States. On September 20th, however, they run a story that says Libyan envoys killing was a terrorist attack. And they say until now White House officials have not used that language in describing the assault. That is September 20th. That is The New York Times. Now at what point are people going to get tired of the president coming out and over and over saying things like don’t believe your lying eyes?”

First there was the lack of interest they showed in protecting the lives of four Americans as an American facility in Benghazi, Libya was attacked. The four were murdered and the Obama administration covered it up by lying about what happened and why. They’re still doing it.

Second the Internal Revenue Service harassed conservative groups like the TEA party and others. Also several other groups with connections to Israel were targeted. The administration first said it was low-leve people who did it. Then the head of the IRS said it was a top-level decision and apologized for it. The asministration denied knowledge.

Third it was reported today that the Department of Justice has been spying on the Associated Press by illegally tapping their telephone lines. It went on for months.

In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.

In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies.

“There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP’s newsgathering operations, and disclose information about AP’s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know,” Pruitt said.”

So, we have the Department of State in a scandal because of the handling of Benghazi, the department of the Treasury for the IRS lawbreaking, and now the Department of Justice for illegally tapping the phones of the AP.

How many more departments are there and how many of them are engaged in scandalous behavior? Things are breaking fast. The Chicago way is being exposed for what it is: corrupt.