Tea Party: American Update
1. Eric Holder Resigns to run from Scandal
Statement of Tea Party Patriots Co-founder Jenny Beth Martin on Holder resignation
Following the abrupt announcement of Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation, Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, issued the following statement:
“On its face, Eric Holder’s resignation is a good thing. America is a better place without such a lawless partisan occupying the nation’s top law enforcement office.
He will go down in history as the nation’s most corrupt attorney general. Americans must never forget that the blood of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry is on his hands. Eric Holder’s illegal scheme to put guns in the hands of the Mexican cartels led to that brave patriot’s death. He became the first attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress, which is fitting, given his utter and open contempt for the American people and the Constitution.
He began his tenure by dismissing the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia, and he slithers out of office having played defense for Lois Lerner by his refusal to appoint a special prosecutor. He is a disgrace to that honorable office.
As one chapter ends in the Obama Administration’s war on the Constitution, Americans must remain engaged and vigilant. There’s no doubt the President will try to ram through a lame-duck Senate another partisan hack for Attorney General. We cannot allow that to happen.”
2. Immigration Agent Union: Obama Admin ‘Widened the Loopholes’ for ISIS Terror to Enter U.S.
The Obama administration has “widened the loopholes” that Islamic State and other extremist fighters could use to enter the United States, a leading union of immigration officials says.
In a statement obtained by National Review Online, the U.S. National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council, a union representing 12,000 federal immigration agents, sounded the alarm that not only could jihadists “slip across our porous southern border,” but that fighters could also “exploit our loose and lax visa policies to gain entry to the United States.”
USCIS cites two main issues: a dearth of resources for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for enforcement and tracking and the administration’s decision to increase the number of immigrants allowed in for asylum purposes.
“Our caseworkers cannot even do in-person interviews for people seeking citizenship, they cannot enforce restrictions on welfare use, and they even lack even the basic office space to properly function,” union president Kenneth Palinkas said in the statement. “Applications for entry are rubber-stamped, the result of grading agents by speed rather than discretion. We’ve become the visa clearinghouse for the world.”
President Obama’s potential executive action to grant legal status to certain illegal immigrants, including those who have overstayed their visas, is another opportunity for people “who are being targeted for radicalization or who already subscribe to radicalized views” to stay in the country, the union said.
3. The Constitution Matters
Our Founders in 1776 pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor in declaring independence from the tyranny of a distant, imperial government. Eleven years later, our nation was organized as a more perfect union with the formal signing of the Constitution on September 17, 1787. Today, we commemorate this event, honor the Constitution, and reflect upon what prompted the Founders to take the risks they did in establishing the United States.
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4. Scandal: Has the State Department learned nothing post-Benghazi?
Todd Keil, one of the experts who testified at the first Benghazi hearing [1] on Wednesday told the committee that the State Department has failed to follow through on proposals that would improve diplomatic security.
“Clear the smoke. Remove the mirrors,” said Keil. He later added, “Words and cursory actions by the Department of State ring hollow absent transparency and verifiable and sustainable actions to fully put into practice the letter and the intent of our recommendations.”
Wednesday’s hearing by the Benghazi Special committee, chaired by Rep. Trey Gowdy, focused on the State Department’s implementation of the Accountability Review Board’s (ARB) recommendations to improve security.
The committee was formed and given the go-ahead to investigate on the basis that sunlight is always the best disinfectant. If something goes wrong, the only way to make sure it doesn’t happen again is to clearly and publicly make changes.
Later, Chairman Gowdy pinned down [2] witness Gregory Starr, assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, about a pattern dating back to 1999 of the State Department not implementing recommendations from the ARB. According to Starr, he has, throughout his career at State, heard every secretary talk about security. But as Gowdy pointed out, talking about security isn’t good enough.
It’s obvious there needs to be more accountability from the top down inside the State Department. Ultimately, actions matter and simply talking about security doesn’t protect lives. Hillary Clinton learned that the hard way in 2012. One would think that after losing four Americans in a gruesome terrorist attack, the department would have implemented some of the ARB changes by now. One would think.
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