Constitutional attorney Michael Connelly describes the Justice Department tapping the Associated Press’ phones as part of the Obama Administration’s all-out assault against the US Constitution and Americans’ legal rights. Connelly is especially troubled by the administration’s refusal to appoint an independent counsel to investigate any of the emerging scandals.
Political commentator Monica Crowley talks with the Wall Street Journal about the Department of Justice investigating the IRS’ harassment of conservative groups.
Reacting to Attorney General Eric Holder’s Tuesday afternoon press briefing on the Department of Justice’s secret seizing of Associated Press phone records, Fox senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano tore into the agency for its “direct assault” on the Constitution that he says circumvented the proper channels laid out by the law.
For almost 13 hours on Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) led a filibuster on the Senate floor that called attention to the Obama administration’s refusal to share its case for why the president can target and kill U.S. citizens without oversight. Joined by about a dozen different colleagues throughout the event, Paul hammered home questions surrounding positions advanced by President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Obama’s nominee to head the CIA, John Brennan. The entire filibuster is viewable at C-SPAN’s website. H/T Reason TV
Ah, children are so cute when they are being exploited! The President surrounded himself with kids to announce his sweeping new gun measures. Also learn all about a job that Attorney General Eric Holder can handle, plus hear a Republican joke, on this edition of The Great Eight with Ben Crystal.
President Obama personally inserted himself into the Fast and Furious gun walking scandal after he extended executive privilege over certain Department Of Justice documents. Was the Fast and Furious a botched scandal, or a deliberate effort to undermine the Second Amendment? Find out as Bill Whittle explores the ideological motives behind the Fast and Furious scandal in an installment of PJ Media’s Afterburner.
