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String of screw-ups for administration
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Dec. 5, 2013 1:26 pm
We have had a number of Obama administration major screw-ups lately and I have not heard of anyone being fired from their job, demoted, or sent to jail for their crimes or incompetence. In the days of Watergate, several people went to jail. At that time the press was interested in administration crimes. Now the press is not interested.
We start with Fast and Furious where a U.S. Border Patrol officer was killed with a gun sold to a Mexican drug smuggler by the U.S. government. Then we have Benghazi where four Americans were killed because the State Department, under Hillary Clinton, refused to provide them protection that they had requested a number of times. We next have the IRS that was illegally restricting the Tea Party on tax deductible donations with instructions to do this from Washington. Then we have the NSA that is illegally listening to phone calls and reading Internet mail. Finally, we have the Obamacare mess, which among other things, tells us that President Barack Obama has not been telling us the truth.
Robert Cribbs
Mount Vernon
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