The corruption just keeps getting thicker. Allegations against Harry “omnibus spending bill” Reid, investigated by the FBI, have run into a road-block. No, not Reid himself, but the Department of Justice, lead by arch criminal Eric Holder. Holder is Obama’s lap dog, and without Reid and Pelosi keeping democrats in line, Obama would be left to swing in the wind.
Our government is officially a criminal organization, and the department in charge of pursuing criminals is blocking criminal investigations. Instead of pursuing Reid and the rest of the criminals running our government, the DOJ is blocking investigations. Can anyone say impeachment? Obama, Holder and Reid need to be impeached. They are using extortion and trying to cover up corruption (which always leads to more corruption). The criminally insane convicts are running the asylum. When is this fiasco going to end?
FBI Blocked In Harry Reid Corruption Probe
DOJ PULLS FBI OFF HARRY REID…
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/14/2014 13:43 -0400
Utah state prosecutors have received accusations of wrongdoing and gathered evidence in a wide-ranging corruption scandal involving Majority Leader Harry Reid and rising Republican Senator Mike Lee. However, as The Washinton Times reports, FBI agents have been thwarted in their efforts to launch a full federal investigation by the Justice Department. “DOJ risks creating the perception of a cover-up,” warned one senior FBI official.
Via The Washington Times,
FBI agents working alongside Utah state prosecutors in a wide-ranging corruption investigation have uncovered accusations of wrongdoing by two of the U.S. Senate’s most prominent figures — Majority Leader Harry Reid and rising Republican Sen. Mike Lee — but the Justice Department has thwarted their bid to launch a full federal investigation.
The probe, conducted by one Republican and one Democratic state prosecutor in Utah, has received accusations from an indicted businessman and political donor, interviewed other witnesses and gathered preliminary evidence such as financial records, Congressional Record statements and photographs that corroborate some aspects of the accusations, officials have told The Washington Times and ABC News.
But the Justice Department’s public integrity section — which normally handles corruption cases involving elected figures — rejected FBI agents’ bid to use a federal grand jury and subpoenas to determine whether the accusations are true and whether any federal crimes were committed by state and federal officials.
The information involving Mr. Reid and Mr. Lee is not fully developed but centers on two primary issues:
Whether both or either politician sought or received money or other benefits from donors and/or fundraisers in connection with doing political favors or taking official actions.
Whether Mr. Lee provided accurate information when he bought, then sold a Utah home for a big loss to a campaign contributor and federal contractor, leaving his mortgage bank to absorb large losses.
“There are allegations, but they are very serious allegations and they need to be looked at by somebody,” Sim Gill, a Democrat who is the elected chief prosecutor in Salt Lake County, told The Times. “If true, or even if asserted, they truly should be investigated and put to rest, or be confirmed.”
Paging Frank Underwood?
Spokesmen for both senators denied their bosses engaged in any wrongdoing and said the lawmakers were unaware of the investigations.
But the rabbit-hole goes deeper…
The investigative efforts have been further complicated by the fact that Mr. Reid worked to get Mr. Lee’s chief counsel, David Barlow, confirmed in 2011 as the U.S. attorney in Salt Lake City. That action — a Democratic Senate leader letting a Republican be named to a key prosecutor’s position in the Obama administration — raised many eyebrows and angered some Democrats.
Subsequently, the entire office of federal prosecutors in Utah was forced to recuse itself from the corruption case after questions surfaced about a conflict of interest involving one prosecutor and a subject of the probe. After the recusal, state prosecutors secured a court order transferring the federal evidence gathered up to that point to their possession.
However, it appears, the local FBI office got a tap on the shoulder…
People familiar with the probe said both FBI agents and local investigators have been frustrated for months by the Justice Department’s inaction on the initial accusations and evidence against the two senators, and those concerns were recently elevated to FBI headquarters.
The special agent in charge of the Utah office was summoned earlier this month to Washington to meet with senior FBI officials, and the bureau’s Utah office has been instructed that the FBI agents working the case may only assist in the state probe and cannot pursue federal criminal investigative leads — unless Justice finally approves a corruption probe.
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“But in this case, DOJ risks creating the perception of a cover-up rather than let agents use the normal tools and follow the evidence wherever it leads — Republican, Democrat, Senate or not,” the senior FBI official said.
Ya think!?
“Based upon what we know today, we were surprised that the DOJ ran away,” he said.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-14/fbi-blocked-harry-reid-corruption-probe
You will have to excuse me while I go barf in the backyard.
When the criminals and con artists are policing government, what can you do? Holder has been obviously crooked as a dogs hind leg ever since he was confirmed by the other criminals as AG.
It first popped into general view when Place Holder stopped any and all inquiries into “Fast and Furious”, thereby covering up what was obviously multiple criminal actions of smuggling illegal arms into Mexico “to find where they were going”.. Unfortunately they furnished the drug cartels with fully functioning weapons and one of them fired the shot that killed a Border Patrol Agent.
Oooops! End of story.. Move along, nothing to see here. Everything is fine!
How in hell do you fight this kind of criminal behavior of the head cop in the land?
MA
This story is all over the news, I wonder what type of new emergency will develop to divert our attention?
what about the slice of doody twad know as Republipuke Mike Lee?Is he exonerated from corruption as well?
Two local prosecutors in Utah say a corruption investigation looking at state politicians and online gambling interests has yielded evidence that could implicate Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, and Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/utah-officials-call-feds-investigate-senators-reid-lee/story?id=22905068
Elected officials suspected of corruption.
FBI tries to investigate, gets chain yanked hard.
Who did the yanking? Why, that paragon of virtue, Eric (cock)Holder… who happens to be good buddies with…
Obongo…
Yeah… this country is fucking done… just making shit up as they go along, no oversight, no nothin’….
There is no law. I will choose which laws that I. Will obey. The main rule now is “there are no rules”.
Yep, Obama protecting the liberal progressive democrats in Congress. The same ones that have spent our country into bankruptcy.
Yet, nobody arises to present the articles of impeachment, for Obama, Holder, and Reid. I’m sure they can try and impeach Pelosi as well. Obama’s pet spying agency, the NSA, probably has dirty laundry on everyone, including the supreme court. Obama’s worse than Stalin. A fascist’s fascist. The law means nothing anymore, nor does the constitution. So, what’s that leave us with?
This Pretty Much Sums Up The Sad State Of The US Constitution
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog,
My research team recently passed along a piece of legislation they were looking at called the “ENFORCE the Law Act of 2014.”
It immediately piqued my interest… because anytime you see all CAPS in government documents, it signifies some absurd acronym. And the ‘ENFORCE the Law Act’ did not disappoint.
ENFORCE stands for “Executive Needs to Faithfully Observe and Respect Congressional Enactments”.
And the stated objective of the legislation is “to protect the separation of powers in the Constitution of the United States by ensuring that the President takes care that the laws be faithfully executed. . .”
The bill goes on with specific language to authorize Congress bringing civil legal action against the President of the United States, or any cabinet secretary, for implementing some rule or executive order that does not conform with Article II of the Constitution.
This pretty much sums up the sad state of affairs in the Land of the Free.
When Congress has to pass a new law just to get the President of the United States to, you know, follow the Constitution that he swore to ‘support and defend’, you can be certain that the system has become broken beyond all repair.
This isn’t a commentary on the current POTUS; the disturbing trend of rapidly expanding executive abuse has been increasing for years.
It has nothing to do with Mr. Obama, or Mr. Bush before him, or future Presidents that will continue to expand their offices.
It’s the system itself that is fundamentally flawed. The model is simply no longer valid. Having an election and voting in a new commander-in-chief won’t fix the problem. All you’re doing is changing the players. It’s time to change the game.
Congress a few moths ago gave Obama absolute power when he decides to declare martial law.Now, given the absolute corruption in congress,it does not look good for Americans.Will we go Venezuelan Dictator? My guess is yes.