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Obama’s “Scandal-Free Administration”

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As regular readers here know, it’s a myth:

All of these scandals were accompanied by a lack of transparency so severe that 47 of Mr. Obama’s 73 inspectors general signed an open letter in 2014 decrying the administration’s stonewalling of their investigations.

One reason for Mr. Obama’s penchant for secrecy is his habit of breaking rules—from not informing Congress of the dubious prisoner swap involving Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and the Taliban, to violating restrictions on cash transfers to Iran as part of a hostage-release deal.

The president’s journalistic allies are happily echoing the “scandal-free” myth.

If it was “scandal free,” it was only because the anointed media refused to report it honestly.

10 thoughts on “Obama’s “Scandal-Free Administration””

  1. Valerie Jarrett, the president’s closest adviser, has said he “prides himself on the fact that his administration hasn’t had a scandal and he hasn’t done something to embarrass himself.”

    Eviscerating the middle class’ health insurance isn’t something to be embarrassed by?

    Doubling the national debt and making our children and grandchildren debt slaves isn’t embarrassing?

    Destabilizing Libya and allowing thousands of migrants into Italy and running guns to ISIS isn’t embarrassing?

    Using the IRS to intimidate citizens isn’t embarrassing?

  2. If anything can bring back tireless, party-line regurgitating, “no truth but statist truth” Obama defender Baghdad Jim, this will.

  3. Obama’s signature achievements came with great dishonesty. The dastardly way the ACA was passed always jumps out. But the Iran deal had secret provisions that directly contradicted what Obama told the American public. I am sure we will find something about the Paris Climate Accords as time goes on. Even day to day management of the federal government was done through fake emails and aliases at all levels of the administration

    The weaponization of the IRS was a big scandal but the politicization of the CIA, DIA, and the rest of the intelligence agency was also a huge scandal that never got covered. Political operatives, on more than one occasion, changed the intelligent assessments that were being fed up the chain of command. This was done to support disastrous public policy.

    Perhaps the biggest scandal, in light of the freak out now over Russia, was how OPM, Manning, Snowden, and a bunch of other high level breaches of security went unanswered and were poorly prepared for. And it looks like Wikileaks is transitioning from Russian agents to national heroes again with the commutation of Bradley Manning’s sentence.

  4. And today letting “Chelsea” Manning out of prison for no reason other than that he is a transsexual culture hero.

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