Obama and Bush Scandals:

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I have a democrat friend who was excited about an article where President Obama said he was proud that he had no scandals during his administration. I sent a list of scandals that my friend may want to consider. And in all fairness, I also sent a list of Bush scandals. List provided by: http://www.dailywire.com/news/10982/obama-says-hes-had-scandal-free-administration-aaron-bandler. Supporting links I looked up myself.

1. “Operation Fast and Furious involved the Obama administration arming drug cartels and thugs south of the border as a means to undermine the Second Amendment It has also been revealed that Joaquin Guzman, better known as the drug lord “El Chapo,” acquired a .50 caliber rifle as a result of Fast and Furious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2015/10/01/guilty-verdict-border-patrol-agent-brian-terry-killing-trial/73144850/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-found-guilty-in-border-agent-killing-tied-to-fast-and-furious/
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biggest-controversies-eric-holders-term-attorney-general/story?id=25758871
2. Benghazi. The terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya resulted in four brave Americans dying despite the fact that help could have been sent, but wasn’t. Requests for security prior to the attack were repeatedly denied, and after the attack, Obama and Hillary Clinton falsely blamed it on a video considered offensive to Muslims. During the election, Benghazi became associated with Clinton—and rightly so—but it is also Obama’s scandal as well. It is still not known what Obama was doing that night.
http://www.factcheck.org/2016/06/the-benghazi-timeline-clinton-edition/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/10218288/CIA-running-arms-smuggling-team-in-Benghazi-when-consulate-was-attacked.html
http://www.committeeforamericansovereignty.com/benghazi_cover_up
http://www.aim.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/AIM-Citizens-Commission-on-Benghazi-FINAL-REPORT-June-2016.pdf
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/04/real-benghazi-story.html

3. The IRS targeted conservative organizations. In 2013, Lois Lerner, who directed the Internal Revenue Service’s Exempt Organizations Unit, admitted that Tea Party organizations were targeted under the agency, but blamed it on lower-level employees. Such organizations were heavily scrutinized with invasive questions. Since then, Lerner and IRS commissioner John Koskinen have denied any wrongdoing and have stonewalled congressional efforts to investigate the matter, citing computer crashes for being unable to turn over related emails.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/court-finds-irs-may-still-be-targeting-conservatives/article/2598741
https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2013reports/201310053fr.pdf
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/16/irs-aware-of-tea-party-targeting-as-early-as-2011-/
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/282307-irs-targeted-426-groups-report

4. The DOJ seized Associated Press phone records as well as phone and email records from Fox News reporter James Rosen

http://www.npr.org/2013/05/14/183810320/justice-department-secretly-obtains-ap-phone-records
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/justice-departments-scrutiny-of-fox-news-reporter-james-rosen-in-leak-case-draws-fire/2013/05/20/c6289eba-c162-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_story.html?utm_term=.a41fe71c7564
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/ap-phone-records-doj-leaks_n_3268932.html

5. The NSA conducted mass surveillance against American citizens without a warrant. Thanks to leaking from former government contractor Edward Snowden, it was revealed that the National Security Agency had been conducting mass surveillance against American citizens—a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment. In 2015, the NSA eventually ended their bulk data collection of phone records.
NSA conducted mass surveillance against American citizens https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/under-sweeping-subpoenas-justice-department-obtained-ap-phone-records-in-leak-investigation/2013/05/13/11d1bb82-bc11-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_story.html?utm_term=.57ee1f96be3a

6. The Obama administration paid ransom to Iran for hostages and lied to the American people about it. The Obama administration claimed that they were giving a total of $1.7 billion to Iran to settle a failed arms deal with the previous Iranian regime, and it just happened to coincide with the release of four American hostages.
http://nypost.com/2016/08/03/us-sent-400m-to-iran-as-us-detainees-were-freed-report/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CdBAKfyR7M

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/08/obamas-ransom-payment.php

7. Hillary’s email scandal. Clinton’s use of a private email server that was unapproved and unsecured has been written about extensively, but it is also Obama’s scandal as well since it has been revealed that not only did Obama know about her private email server, he also communicated with her under the use of a pseudonym. If their email exchanges involved classified information, then Obama also would have violated the Espionage Act.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/hillary-clinton-emails-fbi-228607
http://nypost.com/2016/09/24/obama-used-pseudonym-to-talk-with-hillary-on-private-server/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/05/13/justice-department-associated-press-telephone-records/2156521/
https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/hillary-r.-clinton-part-03-of-04/view

8. The Environmental Protection Agency poisoned a Colorado river. The EPA breached the Gold King mine in the state and “mistakenly dug at the bottom” as well as didn’t test for pressure, leading to “three million gallons of toxic mine waste” being dumped into a river
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/07/24/gold-king-mine-spill-animas-river-one-year-later/
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/epa-owns-toxic-sludge-leak-tainting-colorado-river
http://www.businessinsider.com/epa-caused-colorado-river-disaster-2015-8
http://www.mtv.com/news/2236654/epa-toxic-waste-turned-colorado-river-orange/

9. The EPA also broke federal law in promoting a regulation. In 2015 that the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office concluded that the EPA broke the law in using Thunderclap to tout their “Waters of the United States” regulation as well as their use of “hyperlinks to the [Natural Resources Defense Council] and Surfrider Foundation web pages provided in the EPA blog post.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_on_mass_surveillance
https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/privacy-and-surveillance/nsa-surveillance
http://time.com/3909293/edward-snowden-obama-nsa-spying/

10. The GSA scandal. The General Services Administration was busted in 2012 for spending $823,000 on an extravagantly decadent conference in Las Vegas, and it became a shining example of government waste. Several people in the agency were fired, with one facing an indictment. Despite the scandal, lavish spending still occurred within federal agencies under the Obama administration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gsa-chief-resigns-amid-reports-of-excessive-spending/2012/04/02/gIQABLNNrS_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.0e734a9aeecd
http://www.govexec.com/management/2015/01/where-are-they-now-where-players-gsa-scandal-have-landed/103743/
http://fusion.net/story/245349/government-agency-breaks-law-using-social-media/
http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015-12-14/auditors-epa-broke-law-in-social-media-blitz-on-water-rule

11. The Secret Service scandal. The Secret Service was caught in 2012 engaging with prostitutes during a trip to Cartegena, Columbia, with one Secret Service agent emailing another: “Swagg cologne-check/Pimp gear-check/ Swagg sunglasses-check/Cash fo dem hoes-check.” They “also left sensitive government documents unprotected in their Cartagena rooms
https://www.washingtonian.com/2013/03/25/secret-service-prostitution-scandal-one-year-later/
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/04/17/11251326-nbc-prostitutes-50-fee-for-two-agents-triggered-secret-service-scandal
http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-secret-service-agents-suspended-military-involved-colombia-prostitute-scandal-2012-4
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-secret-service-agents-partied-with-strippers-ahead-of-obama-el-salvador-visit/

Bush scandals http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/badges-of-dishonor/
https://www.nytimes.com/…/investigation-into-missing…

http://www.nytimes.com/…/bush-lets-us-spy-on-callers…
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/…/2005-01-06-williams…
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/…/2004-05-16-yee-cover_x…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…/01/26/AR2007012601717.html
https://www.aclu.org/other/nsa-spying-americans-illegal

 

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