Obama Scandal Scorecard

I will update this as new stories appear, and as I work backward. Recent stories will be added to the top of each list.

2/7/14 Update of All Scandals

Domestic Spying


  • Reporter Killed in High Speed Crash Working on Story About Obama Administration’s Takedown of General Petraeus

  • Reporter Killed in High Speed Wreck Sent Email Claiming He Had to Hide Hours Before Death

  • Top Secret Rules Allow NSA To Snoop Without Warrant

  • Witness Recounts Crash That Killed Reporter Investigating Obama Administration

  • Reporter Killed in High-Speed Car Accident Contacted Wikileaks; Claimed He Was Being Investigated By FBI

  • Lawyers Eye NSA Data For Domestic Cases

  • Why Democrats Love To Spy On Americans (author killed in high-speed car accident)

  • Yahoo Received 12,000 Requests

  • Obama Spying Excludes Mosques, Missed Boston Bombers

  • Patriot Act Author: Obama Administration’s NSA Assurances a “Bunch of Bunk”

  • NSA Surveillance Played Little Role in Foiling Attacks Experts Say

  • Secret Service “Visits” Outspoken Obama Critic – Because of Twitter

  • FBI Sharply Increases Use of Patriot Act Provision To Collect Citizen Records

  • Earlier Denials Put Intelligence Chief in Awkward Position

  • Germans Accuse Obama of Stasi Tactics

  • Under Obama the NSA Has More Power

  • Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind Revelations of NSA Surveillance

  • Backlash Over Snooping Intensifies

  • Justice Dep’t Fights Release of Secret Court Opinion Finding Unconstitutional Surveillance

  • Whistleblower’s NSA Warning: Just the Tip of the Iceberg

  • Gov’t to Open Probe Into Leaks

  • Tech Companies Concede to Government Surveillance

  • Source: NSA Sucks In Data From 50 Companies

  • Justice Department Fights Release of Secret Court Opinion Finding Unconstitutional Surveillance 

  • Administration Has Lost Credibility On Issue

  • NSA Taps into User Data of Google, Skype and Others Secret Document Reveals 

  • US Intelligence Mining Data from 9 Leading Internet Firms

  • Phone Records Shared with UK

  • NSA Collecting Credit Card Records

  • NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily

  • U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls

  • Can You Hear Me Now? The Feds Sure Can

  • Feds Specifically Targeted Americans, Not Foreigners in Breach of Law

  • Personal Items Can Be Searched “On a Hunch”

  • NSA Spying Bigger Than Verizon

 

Benghazi


  • The Missing Benghazi Email

  • Valerie Jarret Blocked Rescue in Benghazi

  • Obama White House Hiding Benghazi Survivors, Changing Their Names

  • Obama Admin Forces Benghazi Survivors to Sign Non-Disclosure Agreements 

  • “Allahu Akbar” State Dept Releases First Pictures from Benghazi 

  • Issa Subpoenas State Dept Documents on Benghazi Talking Points

  • Lawmakers Seek To Interview 13 More Officials

  • Howard Dean: Benghazi “A Laughable Joke”

  • CBS News President’s Brother Is White House Official Tied to Benghazi Scandal

  • Administration Figures Admit Mistakes – Off the Record

  • New Whistleblowers to Emerge Shortly

  • Hillary Clinton’s Scapegoat Speaks Out

  • Bob Woodward: Benghazi Similar To Watergate

  • White House Still Hasn’t Explained Why it Blamed the YouTube Video

  • Benghazi Scapegoat Remains In Prison For Film

  • Emails Contradict White House Claims

  • Critical Two Day Gap in Emails

  • Holder Says No to Special Counsel

  • Talking Points Changed at State Dept’s Request

  • Obama’s Claim He Called Attack Terrorism: Four Pinnochios

  • White House Spinning Benghazi

  • NBC Spiked Story ID’ing Benghazi Whistleblower as Obama Voter

  • White House Meets Privately With Press to Discuss Benghazi

  • The Benghazi Scandal Grows

  • Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions: Scrubbed of Terror References

  • Afghanistan Whistleblower: The Gov’t Is Trying to Silence Me

  • White House Struggles To Respond to New Benghazi Revelations

  • Diplomat Says Questions Over Benghazi Led To Demotion

  • Moment By Moment Account of Attack

  • Whistleblower: Everyone Believed It Was a Terror Attack

  • Special Ops Halted From Responding to Benghazi Attack

  • US Military Could Have Stopped Attack

  • State Dept Caught Editing Talking Points

  • Whistleblower: My Jaw Hit the Floor When YouTube Video Blamed

 

IRS


(additional links at TaxProf Blog)

  • House Republicans Find 10% of Tea Party Donors Audited by IRS

  • Emails Suggest Elijah Cummings Prompted IRS Scrutiny of Tea Party Affiliate

  • Vote For Obama Stickers, Campaign Cheerleading Commonplace in Dallas IRS Office

  • IRS agents’ testimony: NO progressive groups were targeted by IRS

  • White House, IRS Exchanged Confidential Taxpayer Info

  • Emails Show IRS’ Lois Lerner Specifically Targeted Tea Party

  • Lois Lerner Discusses Political Pressure on the IRS in 2010

  • IRS Still Targeting Conservative Groups Three Months After Scandal Broke

  • IRS Scandal Now Leads Directly to the White House

  • Delaware Officials Admit Tax Snooping, Won’t Identify O’Donnell as Target

  • IRS Admits It Leaked GOP Senate Candidate’s Tax Records to Opposition

  • IRS Lawyer Says Scandal Overseen by Washington DC

  • Feds Admit to Improper Scrutiny of Donor, Candidate Tax Records

  • Treasury: IRS Targeted 292 Tea Party But Only 6 Progressive Groups

  • IRS Auditor Reaffirms Agency Targeted Conservatives Not Liberals

  • IRS’ Greg Roseman Pleads the Fifth

  • IRS Credit Cards Used For Wine, Pornography

  • Inappropriate Screening Not as Broad as Previously Reported: Progressive Groups Treated Better Than Conservative Groups

  • IRS: Inappropiate Screening Broader Than Previously Reported

  • IRS Sent $46 million to 24k Bogus Illegal Aliens at One Atlanta Address

  • IRS Sends Pro-Israel Applications to Anti-Terror Unit

  • FBI Hasn’t Contacted A Single Tea Party Group in its IRS Probe

  • IRS Fires Manager Who Oversaw Conservative Targeting

  • George Will: There’s More, Much More to the Lois Lerner Story

  • Media Drops Coverage of IRS Scandal

  • 322 IRS Visits to White House

  • IRS Siezed 60 Million Medical Records

  • Camp Says IRS Targeting Began In Washington

  • IRS Agent Tells Pro-Life Group to Keep Faith to Itself

  • 5 IRS Myths Spread by IRS Defenders

  • Washington IRS Official Who Oversaw Targeting is a Registered Democrat

  • More Evidence of Abuse at IRS

  • Long History of Scandal At IRS

  • GOP Demands IRS Be Stripped of Obamacare Enforcement

  • Investigators Work To Dispel IRS Claim that Tea Party Targeting Limited to Cincinnati Office

  • The wife of the former IRS commissioner works for the left-wing 501©(3)

  • IRS Workers Say Supervisors Directed Targeting

  • Misfired 2010 Email Alerted IRS Officials in Washington of Targeting

  • “I’m not begging my lords for mercy. I’m a born-free American woman.”

  • IRS Agents: Washington Involved in Tea Party Targeting

  • President’s Deputy Campaign Manager Attended Meetings with IRS Chief

  • DC Wanted Wanted Some Cases, I Sent Seven

  • IRS Spent $50 Million on 220 Employee Conferences While Pleading Poverty

  • IRS Commissioner Met With White House More Than Any Other Cabinet Member

  • IRS Met With Obama 118 Times – Once With Bush

  • Future Bankrupt/Underemployed Sign Thank You Card To IRS For Targeting Conservatives

  • “Rogue IRS Agent” Who Attacked Tea Party Group Promoted

  • IRS Audited 5 Pro-Israel Groups Who Disagreed With Administration

  • GOP Takes On IRS

  • Goolsbee Saw Koch Industries Tax Returns

  • The Pitbull Reporter the White House Fears

  • Washington Launches Four Separate Investigations Into IRS Scandal

  • Conservatives Targeted in 2008

  • IRS Lerner Refused to Resign

  • IRS Lerner Directly Involved in Intimidation Letters Show

  • What Government Intimidation Looks Like

  • St. Louis Anchor Fired from TV Station After 27 Years

  • IRS Lerner Waived 5th Amendment Right By Making Opening Statement

  • IRS Lerner Sued Christian Group as FCC Enforcer – Lost

  • IRS Made Pro-Life Group Promise Not To Picket Planned Parenthood

  • Rogue IRS Story Falling Apart

  • IRS Probe Concluded 6 Months Before Election, Hidden From Congress

  • IRS Blows Off Congress

  • Cincinnati Scapegoats: Scandal Not Limited To Low Level Employees

  • Who Are These Guys? Armed DHS Guards Protect IRS From Tea Party Protesters

  • Washington Post’s Scandal Timeline

  • Top IRS Official Lerner To Take the Fifth

  • Former Chief Can’t Say How It Happened

  • Internal IRS Probe Found Same Problems in 2012 But Failed to Brief Lawmakers or Notify Public

  • Conservative Group Waiting 3 Years Files Suit Against IRS

  • 83 Year Old Internment Camp Survivor Targeted by IRS

  • Reporters Stonewalled in Cincinnati

  • The White House’s Shifting IRS Account

  • 15 Romney Donors Audited

  • Senior White House Staff Knew of IRS Investigation, Did Not Tell Obama

  • Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun?

  • Chief IRS Counsel Helped Jeremiah Wright Before Joining Agency

  • Washington Post: IRS Lerner Lied

  • IRS Source: Everything Comes From the Top

  • IRS Sued For Seizing 60 Million Medical Records

  • St. Louis Anchor Barred From Facebook, Interviews About IRS Harassment

  • IRS Asked Group About Content of Their Prayers

  • Charlie Rangel: This is Wrong To Abuse the Tax System

  • Treasury Dept Knew of IRS Inquiry in 2012

  • St. Louis Anchor Who Complained About IRS Harassment Off The Air

  • Liberal Senators Schumer, Franken Urge IRS to Target Tea Party in 2012

  • IRS Chief: Actions a Mistake Not an Act of Partisanship

  • IRS Hid Probe Until After Election

  • Is This Still America?

  • IRS Stalled Conservative Groups, But Gave Speedy Approval to Obama Foundation

  • IRS Scandal Started at the Oval Office

  • Peggy Noonan: IRS Scandal Threatens the Basic Integrity of Government

  • Conservative Hispanic Groups Targeted By IRS

  • IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office

  • Camp Says IRS Shows Administration’s Culture of Coverups

  • IRS Boss of Tea Party Probes Targeted Anti-Clinton Group in 1990’s

  • Fox News Host Audited After Criticizing Obama

  • IRS Went After National Organization for Marriage

  • IRS Denied Tax Exempt Status for Pro-Lifers on Behalf of Planned Parenthood

  • IRS Employees: Simply Did What Their Bosses Ordered

  • IRS Spared Liberal Groups as Tea Party Languished, More Conservative Org’s Targeted Than First Thought

  • IRS Asked for Printout of Facebook Posts

  • Director of IRS Tax-Exempt Determinations is Obama Donor

  • IRS Employees Donate Disproportionately to Obama

  • Committee Chairman: Yes I Was Lied to By IRS

  • Catholic Professor Claims IRS Audited Her After Speaking Out About Obama and Demanded To Know Who Was Paying Her

  • Democrat Carl Levin Pressured IRS to Investigate Conservative Non-profit Groups

  • Senate Democrats Repeatedly Pressured IRS to Investigate Conservative Groups

  • IRS Approved Liberal Groups While Tea Party in Limbo

  • IRS Targeted Billy Graham

  • Obama Campaign Co-Chair Attacked Romney with Leaked Documents

  • IRS Ordered Conservative Educational Group to Turn Over Names of High School Students it Trained

  • “Inappropriate Criteria” Stalled IRS Approval of Conservative Groups

  • Progressive Group ProPublica Admits IRS Gave Them Conservative Groups’ Confidential Docs

  • St. Louis TV Anchor Targeted by IRS After Obama Interview

  • IRS Senior Official Speedily Approved Exemption for Obama Brother’s Charity 

  • White House Admits Aware Conservatives Targeted By IRS, Did Nothing About It

  • Special IRS Unit Targeted Pro-Israel Groups

  • IRS Headquarters Involved in Targeting Conservative Groups

  • Nancy Pelosi: IRS Scrutiny of Conservative Groups Opportunity to Overturn Supreme Court Ruling

  • High Level IRS Tax Officials Knew Tea Party Groups Targeted in Aug 2011

  • Inspector General Reports IRS Targeted Groups That Opposed Government

  • IRS Sent 55 Questions to Conservative Group: Demanded Volunteer and Donor Names

  • 2010: Koch Brothers Lawyer to White House: How Did You Get Our Tax Information?

  • IRS Also Retaliates Against Outspoken Business Leaders

  • The New Enemies List: IRS Scrutiny Broader Than Initially Thought

  • Obama’s Chicago Style IRS

  • IRS Began Targeting Conservatives in 2010

  • Wider Problems Found At IRS

  • IRS Kept Shifting Targets in Tax Exempt Group Scrutiny

  • IRS Mess

  • IRS Targeted Jewish Groups

  • IRS Admits Targeting Tea Party Groups: Apologizes

  • IRS Spokesman: I’m Not Good At Math

  • 2009: Obama Jokes About Auditing Enemies

 

Press Monitoring/DOJ Wiretaps


  • AP: Gov’t Sources Won’t Talk

  • CBS Reporter’s Computer Shows Evidence of Hacking

  • Fast & Furious, Benghazi Reporter’s Computer Hacked

  • “Some” in White House Want Holder to Resign

  • Brokaw: It’s Tough To See How Holder Keeps His Job

  • AP CEO: Thousands And Thousands of Phone Records Seized

  • News Organizations Boycott Off The Record Meeting With Holder

  • Holder Facing Perjury Investigation

  • Holder At Odds With Sworn Testimony

  • New York Times Boycottign Off The Record Meeting With Holder

  • Holder to Meet Press Regarding Guidelines Off The Record

  • Two Judges Refused DOJ Subpoena of Fox News’s James Rosen

  • House Investigating Whether Holder Perjured Himself

  • Holder “Beginning to Feel Creeping Sense of Remorse”

  • Roger Ailes: Speak Truth To Power

  • Obama Using World War I Act To Muzzle Press

  • Sen. Graham: Obama Criminalizing Journalism

  • Scandal Draws Questions About IRS Role in Obamacare

  • Roger Ailes: Attempts to Intimidate Fox News Will Not Succeed

  • Obama Orders Holder To Investigate Himself

  • Holder OK”d Search Warrant To Access Fox News Reporter’s Private Email

  • DOJ Seized Phone Records of Reporter’s Parents

  • DOJ Seized Records from 5 Fox News Phone Numbers

  • Federal Attorney Investigating Fox News Donated to Obama

  • CBS Reporter Who Covered Fast & Furious Finds Computer Hacked

  • Fox News Reporter James Rosen Named Co-Conspirator

  • Google Turned Over Reporter’s Private Emails to DOJ

  • Inspector General: DOJ Leaked Docs to Smear Fast And Furious Whistleblower

  • Fox News: We Will Unequivocally Defend a Free Press

  • AP CEO: Records Seizure Unconstitutional

  • The Administration’s Two Front War on Fox News

  • DOJ Targeted Fox News Reporter James Rosen

  • Pentagon Papers James Goodale: Obama Worse For Press Freedom Than Nixon

  • More Mystery Over AP Subpoena Process at Justice Dept

  • Justice Dept Wired House Cloak Room

  • Bush Administration Refused to Wiretap Press

  • Holder Isn’t Sure How Often Reporters’ Records Seized

  • Holder Points Finger at Deputy Who Secretly Obtained Journalist Phone Records

  • DOJ Tracked 20 Phone Lines at AP

  • Government Obtains Wide AP Phone Records in Probe

  • ACLU: Private Emails, Facebook Not Safe From Gov’t Surveillance

  • All Telephone Calls Recorded and Accessible by US Government

 

Gross Incompetence


  • Obama’s Watergates

  • The White House: Two Dozen Scandals (and Counting)

  • President Obama’s Historic Firsts

  • Obama Phone: Good For Scoring Heroin, Lining Billionaire’s Pockets

  • When Incest is Best: The Press’s Incestuous Relationship with the Administration

  • Multitude of Press/Administration Connections

  • Obama’s Scandals Are “Chicago Way”

  • Senior White House Staff Knew of IRS Investigation, Did Not Tell Obama

  • Nixon Vs. Obama

  • Invoking Watergate Makes Scandals Seem Smaller Than They Are

  • Obama Fires IRS Boss – Who Was Leaving Anyway

  • Hand on Heart It Wasn’t Us! Obama and his AG Stand Side By Side in Blaming Others for Scandals Engulfing White House

  • A Brief History of Slimy Dem Snoops and Dumpster Divers

  • Obama The Uninterested President

  • Axelrod: Gov’t Too Vast For Obama

  • The Buck Stops… Where?

  • Obama to Grads: Reject Voices That Warn About Government Tyranny

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  5. Pumabydesign001:

    Barack Hussein Obama, a recurring nightmare that leaves dead bodies all over the map.

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  6. bernie from Planck's:

    Thanks for linking to my article (2/7/14 Update of All Scandals), it’s appreciated.

    12 February 2016, 8:16 am

  7. Ed Drass:

    When are you going to update this list? It’s the best source to follow BHO’s screwups.

    22 August 2016, 2:00 pm

  8. Scott Kirwin:

    Ed
    No one paid any attention to it, yet the scandals continued “fast and furious”ly so I gave up. Would be a monumental effort to update, but at least it captures some of the older stuff that would be lost in a Google search.

    22 August 2016, 3:12 pm

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