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Raped and Killed by the Sequester?

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After more than 27 years in the news business, I’m used to reading about frightful events — war, terrorism, catastrophic floods and earthquakes — but every once in a while even I can be stunned into horrified silence when I encounter a sentence like this:

The girl later required surgery, Fitzpatrick said.

Oh. My. God.

Exactly how painfully horrifying that sentence is, you can’t really understand outside the context of the headline:

Lori Bresnahan died trying to save
10-year-old, Onondaga County DA says

The conventions that prohibit journalists from identifying the victims of sexual assault inhibit the Syracuse Post-Standard from saying that the 10-year-old whose life Lori Bresnahan saved was her own daughter. And similar inhibitions — the presumption of innocence, yadda, yadda — require journalists to say that the evil monster who raped that little girl and stabbed her mother to death is merely a “suspect.”

Bresnahan put up a fight and told the girl to run. The girl opened the back door and ran.
As the girl ran away, she noticed Bresnahan was able to break free from the car. She saw Renz chasing Bresnahan around the car, but did not witness the murder.
Two citizens driving on Verplank Road saw the girl running and stopped. They helped her and called 911 at 8:58 p.m. They did not see Renz, who had run into the woods. . . .
State police officers began tracking Renz on foot and with K-9 units. They were helped by the Sheriff’s Office and the Air One Helicopter. At 9:53 p.m., an officer saw a person matching a description of the suspect, stopped his car and tackled David Renz.
Renz had Bresnahan’s keys in his pocket and blood on his clothes, said Fitzpatrick. DNA testing matched the blood to the little girl . . .

He had the little girl’s blood on his clothes. She “later required surgery.”

David Senz is merely accused of this, you see.

The conventions of journalism require us to refer to him as a “suspect” or a “defendant,” and the same was true in January — two months before this brutal atrocity — when 29-year-old David Renz was arrested on a federal child pornography charge.

According to authorities (another one of those journalistic conventions, the attribution necessary to make the libel lawyers happy) David Renz had more than 500 illegal videos and more than 3,000 illegal images stored in encrypted files on his computer.

You might think that if the feds nabbed this kind of pervert criminal accused suspect, they would never turn him loose. But you’re not a Harvard Law graduate like U.S. Magistrate Andrew T. Baxter:

When Renz appeared in U.S. District Court Jan. 11 for a hearing about whether he should be detained over the child pornography charges he was facing, Magistrate Judge Andrew Baxter mentioned that he knew Renz had a juvenile record . . .

What? A juvenile record? Yeah: In 1999, when David Renz was 15, he molested a 9-year-old girl. And then the FBI busts him in January with thousands of child pornography files and, despite knowing that Benz also had a juvenile record, U.S. Magistrate Andrew T. Baxter (J.D., Harvard Law, 1981) turned him loose two days after his Jan. 9 arrest.

Oops.

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‘It’s for the Children!’

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Next time you hear a Democrat make that kind of argument, please keep in mind this headline from Ace of Spades HQ:

Ambassador Who Ran off to Have Sex
With Minor Children ID’d as Major Obama Bundler
& Political Appointee; Hillary’s Lawyer Cheryl Mills
Once Again Stepped In to “Fix” Matters

Or how about this for a book title?

“It Takes a Village to Rape a Child.”

Because, after all, it was Hillary Clinton’s State Department — indeed, her personal fixer — that tried to cover this up:

A [diplomatic security] agent was called off a case against US Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman over claims that he solicited prostitutes, including minors.
“The agent began his investigation and had determined that the ambassador routinely ditched his protective security detail in order to solicit sexual favors from both prostitutes and minor children,” says the memo.
“The ambassador’s protective detail and the embassy’s surveillance detection team . . . were well aware of the behavior.”

For the record, Gutman denies it:

“I am angered and saddened by the baseless allegations that have appeared in the press . . . at no point have I ever engaged in any improper activity.”

Translation: “You can’t prove it, hahaha!”

Exit Question: What Obama administration scandal is this Obama administration scandal supposed to distract our attention from?

 

Al Gore Has More Nerve Than The NHL Has Hockey Sticks

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by Smitty

Al Gore at Breitbart (no embed for autoplay reasons) was whinging on about the failure of Democracy, mainly because (a) he couldn’t tip the 2000 election his way, and (b) anybody with a shred of sense understands he IS the quintessential vulture capitalist.
I like to call as much attention as possible to his doofery in the NYT:

From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption.

No, you moron: no.

Obama Keeps Lying; Reporters Don’t Care

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Frankly, I don’t know which pisses me off more: Obama’s shameless dishonesty or the White House press corps’ evident indifference to truth. The Obama presidency has been one big lie all along, and by now there is not an honest or intelligent person who believes a word he says, and you might think that White House reporters would be so thoroughly fed up with his reeking bullshit, they would call him on it.

But no, their supine obeisance to the Hope and Change mythology has become so habitual that, even after he has been caught in lie after proven lie, they’re still rolling over like gutless punks.

Based on past experience, every time Obama begins a sentence by saying, “In fact …” or “The truth is …” whatever he says after that is going to be the exact opposite of fact and truth. This is how we now can be certain that the government is listening to our phone calls:

The only time Barack Obama has ever been within arm’s reach of the truth was when he was trying to strangle it with his bare hands. His name should be a synonym for deliberate deception. His presidency is a stain on the White House, and on the nation that elected him.

This Reign of Deceit cannot possibly end soon enough.

 


Doug Shulman: IRS Fall Guy?

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Just a few thoughts while watching today’s House Oversight Committee hearings about the IRS scandal:

Schulman was caught in lie after lie after lie, saying he didn’t remember this or that, and then being reminded of his own previous testimony demonstrating either (a) he did know about what he denied remembering, or (b) his earlier denials were false.

And I think I wasn’t the only viewer whose head exploded when Shulman was asked why he made more than 100 visits to the White House in a single year and began his answer, “Easter Egg Rolls with my kids . . .”

This guy has refused to apologize for the IRS scandal. Exactly why the hell George W. Bush would appoint Shulman — a donor to the Democratic National Committee — to a five-year term as IRS Commissioner is one of the great mysteries of our age. Lois Lerner has pleaded the Fifth, and it’s basically impossible to fire anybody at the IRS, so if Democrats are looking for a scapegoat to throw under the bus, the “bipartisan” Shulman seems to be a likely fall guy.

On the other hand, Ezra Klein’s Juice Box Mafia seems prepared to throw Lois Lerner under the Obama bus, too.

 


Ruh-Roh: Ambassador Killed by Secret State Department Weapons Program?

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Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers
with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama
— Roger L. Simon, PJ Media

Benghazi witness points finger at Clinton
on lapses in consulate security
— Julian Pecquet, The Hill

New whistleblowers coming forward on Benghazi?
— Ed Morrissey, Hot Air

Lawmakers dig into life-and-death issues of Benghazi
— Byron York, Washington Examiner

Breaking: New Crop of Benghazi Whistle-Blowers
Will Testify on Obama’s Missiles to Al-Qaeda Program
— Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit

Pretty serious stuff here, eh? If the latest reports are true, this is much more serious than who edited the talking points:

Ambassador Chris Stevens, killed along with three other Americans in the September terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, was reportedly attempting to buy back arms sold to Libyan rebels. Roger L. Simon of PJ Media reports that whistleblowers are prepared to testify that a State Department program of arming insurgents who overthrew Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi was the secret the Obama administration sought to conceal . . .
Such testimony, if verified, might help explain why Obama administration officials spent several days after the deadly Libyan attack — which occurred on the 11th anniversary of the 2001 9/11 attacks — promoting the falsehood that the four Americans killed in Benghazi died as a result of “demonstrations” inspired by a YouTube video.

You can read the rest at Viral Read and while, of course, I cannot vouch for information from Roger Simon’s sources, common sense actually argues on behalf of the story they’re telling, because this has been the Benghazi mystery all along: Why all the lies?

Was the State Department’s blame-the-video story just about protecting President Obama’s re-election chances? Maybe, but the intensity of the pushback seems a bit too much to be so easily explained by “politics as usual.” And this may be the Big Secret:

Stevens’ mission in Benghazi, [new whistleblower witnesses] will say, was to buy back Stinger missiles from al-Qaeda groups issued to them by the State Department, not by the CIA. Such a mission would usually be a CIA effort, but the intelligence agency had opposed the idea because of the high risk involved in arming “insurgents” with powerful weapons that endanger civilian aircraft.
Hillary Clinton still wanted to proceed because, in part, as one of the diplomats said, she wanted “to overthrow Gaddafi on the cheap.”
This left Stevens in the position of having to clean up the scandalous enterprise when it became clear that the “insurgents” actually were al-Qaeda – indeed, in the view of one of the diplomats, the same group that attacked the consulate and ended up killing Stevens.
The former diplomat who spoke with PJ Media regarded the whole enterprise as totally amateurish and likened it to the Mike Nichols film Charlie Wilson’s War about a clueless congressman who supplies Stingers to the Afghan guerrillas. “It’s as if Hillary and the others just watched that movie and said ‘Hey, let’s do that!’” the diplomat said.
He added that he and his colleagues think the leaking of General David Petraeus’ affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell was timed to silence the former CIA chief on these matters.

Oooh! Hillary and her staff ignored the CIA’s advice and decided — with presidential authorization, of course — to provide arms to these shadowy “insurgents” anyway? And also, maybe, the takedown on Petraeus was part of an elaborate effort to cover their tracks?

Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. Nobody’s verified this stuff yet, but exactly what has Joe Curl been hinting at lately?

Care to guess where this stuff is leaking from? I could, but I won’t.