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128. Patrick Howley, “Separate from Shulman, IRS official Sarah Hall Ingram Recorded 165 White House Visits,” DailyCaller.com, June 5, 2013, http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/05/irs-official-sarah-hall-ingram-recorded-165-white-house-visits-never-overlapped-with-shulman/.
129. Aaron Blake, “Shulman: ‘I Feel Very Comfortable with My Actions,’ ”WashingtonPost.com, May 22, 2013 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/22/the-houses-irs-hearing-live-updates/.
130. Erb, “Defying Directive, IRS Set to Pay Out $70 Million In Employee Bonuses.”
131. Allahpundit, “ABC: Yes, It’s True, the Acting IRS Commissioner Was Preparing to Leave in a Few Weeks Anyway,” HotAir.com, May 16, 2013, http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/16/abc-yes-its-true-the-acting-irs-commissioner-was-preparing-to-leave-in-a-few-weeks-anyway/.
132. Eliana Johnson, “Report: IRS Lawyer Who Oversaw Tea-Party Targeting Said to Be Retiring,” NationalReview.com, June 6, 2013, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/350390/report-irs-lawyer-who-oversaw-tea-party-targeting-said-be-retiring-eliana-johnson.
133. Stephen Dinan, “Officials Thought Obama Wanted Crackdown on Tea Party Groups, Worried About Negative Press,” WashingtonTimes.com, September 17, 2013, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/17/report-irs-staff-acutely-aware-tea-party-antipathy/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS.
134. Adan Salazar, “DoD Training Manual: ‘Extremist’ Founding Fathers ‘Would Not Be Welcome in Today’s Military,’ ” Infowars.com, August 24, 2013, http://www.infowars.com/dod-training-manual-suggests-extremist-founding-fathers-would-not-be-welcome-in-todays-military/.
135. Ben Wolfgang, “IRS Continues to Hound Tea Party Patriots, Demands More Data for Tax-Exempt Status,” WashingtonTimes.com, August 29, 2013, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/29/irs-continues-to-hound-tea-party-patriots/.
136. “Big Government Meets Big Data,” Economist.com, January 8, 2013, http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2013/01/tax-evasion-italy.
137. Angus Roxburgh, Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia (New York: I. B. Tauris, 2013), 78.
138. Meghashyam Mali, “Poll: 76 Percent Want Special Prosecutor to Investigate IRS Scandal,” TheHill.com, May 30, 2013, http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/302479-poll-76-percent-want-special-prosecutor-to-investigate-irs-scandal.
139. Dana Blanton, “Fox News Poll: Phony Scandals? Not to Voters,” FoxNews.com, August 8, 2013 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/08/fox-news-poll-phony-scandals-not-to-voters/.
Count 4: Unauthorized Disclosure of Information
1. “Osama Bin Laden Dead: Obama Speech Video and Transcript,” HuffingtonPost.com, May 2, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead-obama-speech-video-transcript_n_856122.html.
2. “Remarks by the Vice President at the Atlantic Council’s 50th Anniversary Dinner,” WhiteHouse.gov, May 4, 2011, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/04/remarks-vice-president-atlantic-councils-50th-anniversary-dinner.
3. Jeffrey T. Kuhner, “Who Betrayed Navy SEAL Team 6?,” WashingtonTimes.com, August 9, 2013, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/9/kuhner-who-betrayed-navy-seal-team-6/.
4. Bob Cusack, “Congress to Probe Lethal Crash That Killed SEAL Team 6 Members,” TheHill.com, July 24, 2013, http://thehill.com/homenews/house/313039-congress-to-probe-lethal-seal-crash.
5. “Helicopter Crash in Afghanistan Reportedly Kills Members of SEAL Team 6,” FoxNews.com, August 6, 2011, http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/06/afghan-president-31-americans-killed-in-helicopter-crash/.
6. Cusack, “Congress to Probe Lethal Crash That Killed SEAL Team 6 Members.”
7. Fox News Insider, “Parents of Slain Navy SEAL: Obama Admin Put a Target on Our Son’s Back,” FoxNewsInsider.com, May 10, 2013, http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/05/10/parents-navy-seal-aaron-vaughn-blast-biden-2011-helicopter-crash-killed-their-son.
8. Ann E. Marimow, “A Rare Peek into a Justice Department Leak Probe,” Washington Post, May 19, 2013, http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-19/local/39376688_1_press-freedom-justice-department-records.
9. Aaron Blake, “Holder: I Didn’t Lie About James Rosen,” WashingtonPost.com, June 20, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/06/20/holder-i-didnt-lie-about-james-rosen/.
10. Michael Isikoff, “DOJ Confirms Holder OK’d Search Warrant for Fox News Reporter’s Emails,” NBCNews.com, May 27, 2013, http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/23/18451142-doj-confirms-holder-okd-search-warrant-for-fox-news-reporters-emails.
11. Jack Mirkinson, “Obama Administration Doubled Down on Theory That James Rosen Was a Potential Criminal,” HuffingtonPost.com, May 24, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/24/james-rosen-obama-criminal-secret-warrant_n_3333424.html.
12. Josh Feldman, “Fox’s Bret Baier Reveals That DOJ Also Seized Phone Records for James Rosen’s Parents,” Mediaite.com, May 21, 2013, http://www.mediaite.com/tv/foxs-bret-baier-reveals-that-doj-also-seized-phone-records-for-james-rosens-parents/.
13. Blake, “Holder: I Didn’t Lie About James Rosen.”
14. “U.S.: CIA Thwarts New al-Qaeda Underwear Bomb,” Associated Press, May 8, 2012, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-05-07/al-qaeda-bomb-plot-foiled/54811054/1.
15. Mark Sherman, “Gov’t Obtains Wide AP Phone Records in Probe,” Associated Press, May 13, 2013, http://bigstory.ap.org/article/govt-obtains-wide-ap-phone-records-probe.
16. Mark Hosenball, “Exclusive: Did White House Spin Tip a Covert Op?,” Reuters, May 18, 2012, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/18/us-usa-security-plot-spin-idUSBRE84H0OZ20120518.
17. Sherman, “Gov’t Obtains Wide AP Phone Records in Probe.”
18. Michael Calderone, Sam Stein, and Ryan J. Reilly, “AP Phone Records Seized by Justice Department as War on Leaks Continues,” HuffingtonPost.com, May 13, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/ap-phone-records-doj-leaks_n_3268932.html.
19. Sherman, “Gov’t Obtains Wide AP Phone Records in Probe.”
20. Dana Milbank, “Obama, the Uninterested President,” Washingtonpost.com, May 14, 2013, http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-14/opinions/39254536_1_phone-records-president-obama-press-secretary.
21. Chris Lawrence, Barbara Starr, and Tom Cohen, “Embassies Close as U.S. Issues Global Travel Alert Due to Threat,” CNN.com, August 3, 2013, http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/03/politics/us-embassies-close-duplicate-2.
22. Eli Lake and Josh Rogin, “Exclusive: Al Qaeda Conference Call Intercepted by U.S. Officials Sparked Alerts,” TheDailyBeast.com, August 7, 2013, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/07/al-qaeda-conference-call-intercepted-by-u-s-officials-sparked-alerts.html.
23. Barbara Starr, Chris Lawrence, and Tom Cohen, “Intercepted al Qaeda Message Led to Shuttering Embassies, Consulates,” CNN.com, August 4, 2013, http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/04/politics/us-embassies-close.
24. Lara Jakes and Adam Goldman, “Terrorists Turn to Online Chat Rooms to Evade U.S.,” Associated Press, August 14, 2013, http://bigstory.ap.org/article/terrorists-turn-online-chat-rooms-evade-us.
25. Jo Becker and Scott Shane, “Secret ‘Kill List’ Tests Obama’s Principles,” NYTimes.com, May 29, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html.?pagewanted=all.
26. Greg McNeal, “Obama’s Self-Serving Leaks, His Selective Outrage, and the Need for a Special Counsel,” Forbes.com, June 8, 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2012/06/08/obamas-self-serving-leaks-his-selective-outrage-and-the-need-for-a-special-counsel/.
27. Suzanne Kelly, “Feinstein: ‘Avalanche of Leaks,’ ” CNN.com, June 6, 2012, http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/06/feinstein-avalanche-of-leaks/.
28. Daniel Stone, “Obama on National Security Leaks: It Wasn’t Me,” TheDailyBeast.com, June 8, 2012, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/08/obama-on-national-security-leaks-it-wasn-t-me.html.
29. Gregory Kane,
“What a Piece of anti-Semitic Work is Rev. Jeremiah Wright,” WashingtonExaminer.com, March 15, 2012, http://washingtonexaminer.com/what-a-piece-of-anti-semitic-work-is-rev.-jeremiah-wright/article/37269.
30. Pamela Geller with Robert Spencer, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America (New York: Threshold Editions, 2010), 76.
31. John Podhoretz, “Derrick Bell in 1994: ‘Jewish Neoconservative Racists,’ ” CommentaryMagazine.com, March 9, 2012, http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/03/09/derrick-bell-jewish-neoconservative-racists/.
32. Michael Medved, “Obama’s ‘Undivided Jerusalem’—More Meaningless Words?,” Townhall.com, June 11, 2008, http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelmedved/2008/06/11/obamas_undivided_jerusalem_-_more_meaningless_words/page/full.
33. Ben Shapiro, “The Jewish Case Against Barack Obama,” Townhall.com, October 15, 2008, http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2008/10/15/the_jewish_case_against_barack_obama/page/full.
34. “Obama: No Green Light for Israel to Attack Iran,” CNN.com, July 7, 2009, http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/07/obama.israel.iran/.
35. “Saudi Arabia Gives Israel Clear Skies to Attack Iranian Nuke Sites,” Times of London, June 12, 2010, http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/middleeast/article2552397.ece.
36. Mark Landler and Steven Lee Myers, “Obama Sees ’67 Borders as Starting Point for Peace Deal,” NYTimes.com, May 19, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/world/middleeast/20speech.html.?pagewanted=all.
37. Benjamin Joffe-Walt, “Is Israel Arming in Saudi Arabia?,” JPost.com, June 27, 2010, http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Is-Israel-arming-in-Saudi-Arabia.
38. Benjamin Netanyahu, “Netanyahu’s Address to U.S. Congress, May 2011,” CFR.org, May 24, 2011, http://www.cfr.org/israel/netanyahus-address-us-congress-may-2011/p25073.
39. Michael Barbaro, “A Friendship Dating to 1976 Resonates in 2012,” NYTimes.com, April 7, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/us/politics/mitt-romney-and-benjamin-netanyahu-are-old-friends.html.?pagewanted=all&_r=0.
40. David Ignatius, “Is Israel Preparing to Attack Iran?,” WashingtonPost.com, February 2, 2012, http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-02-02/opinions/35443465_1_israeli-attack-israelis-fear-israelis-doubt.
41. Seymour M. Hersh, “Our Men in Iran?,” NewYorker.com, April 6, 2012, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/04/mek.html.
42. Mark Perry, “Israel’s Secret Staging Ground,” ForeignPolicy.com, Marcy 28, 2012, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/03/28/israel_s_secret_staging_ground?page=full.
43. Brad Knickerbocker, “Attacking Iran: Did U.S. Just Torpedo Israeli Deal for a Base in Azerbaijan?,” CSMonitor.com, March 29, 2012, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2012/0329/Attacking-Iran-Did-US-just-torpedo-Israeli-deal-for-a-base-in-Azerbaijan.
44. Viola Ginger and Tony Capaccio, “Iran’s Centrifuge ‘Workshops’ Complicate Raid Planning,” Bloomberg.com, March 28, 2012, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-28/iran-s-centrifuge-workshops-add-to-difficulties-facing-israel.html.
45. Alexander Marquardt, “Israelis Suspect Obama Media Leaks to Prevent Strike on Iran,” ABCNews.com, March 29, 2012, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/obama-administration-media-campaign-to-stop-israeli-strike-on-iran/.
46. David E. Sanger, “Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran,” NYTimes.com, June 1, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html.?pagewanted=all.
47. Greg McNeal, “Obama’s Self-Serving Leaks, His Selective Outrage, and the Need for a Special Counsel,” Forbes.com, June 8, 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2012/06/08/obamas-self-serving-leaks-his-selective-outrage-and-the-need-for-a-special-counsel/.
48. Rowan Scarborough, “In Classified Cyberwar Against Iran, Trail of Stuxnet Leak Leads to White House,” WashingtonTimes.com, August 18, 2013, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/18/trail-of-stuxnet-cyberwar-leak-to-author-leads-to-/?page=all.
49. Sharona Schwartz, “Report: Obama Administration Apologizes for Another National Security Leak,” TheBlaze.com, May 19, 2013, http://news.yahoo.com/report-obama-administration-apologizes-another-national-security-leak-182208023.html.
50. Stuart Winer, “U.S. Spills Israeli Missile Defense Secrets,” TimesofIsrael.com, June 4, 2013, http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-leaks-israeli-arrow-3-missile-secrets/.
51. “U.S. Sources: Israel Behind Latakia Attack,” YNetNews.com, July 13, 2013, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4404336,00.html.
52. Michael R. Gordon, “Some Syria Missiles Eluded Israeli Strike, Officials Say,” NYTimes.com, July 31, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/world/middleeast/syrian-missiles-were-moved-before-israeli-strike-officials-say.html.?ref=middleeast.
53. Jonathan S. Tobin, “More Dangerous Administration Leaks,” CommentaryMagazine.com, August 8, 2013, http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/08/01/more-dangerous-administration-leaks-syria-russia-israel-missiles/.
54. Jonathan S. Landay and Marisa Taylor, “Experts: Obama’s Plan to Predict Future Leakers Unproven, Unlikely to Work,” McClatchyDC.com, July 9, 2013, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/07/09/196211/linchpin-for-obamas-plan-to-predict.html.#.UiPpLWDrOR-.
55. Adam Kredo, “Shamai Leibowitz Sentenced for Leaking FBI Secret,” Jewish Chronicle, June 3, 2010, http://thejewishchronicle.net/view/full_story/7789457/article-Shamai-Leibowitz-sentenced-for-leaking-FBI-secret.
56. Matt Apuzzo, “State Department Contractor Steven Kim Charged with Leaking Secrets to Press,” Associated Press, August 27, 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/27/steven-kim-state-department-contractor-charged-leak_n_697734.html.
57. Andrea Shalal-Esa, “Advice for Snowden from a Man Who Knows: ‘Always Check Six,’ ” Reuters, June 11, 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/11/us-usa-security-nsa-drake-idUSBRE95A12X20130611.
58. Greg Miller, “Former CIA Officer Jeffrey A. Sterling Charged in Leak Probe,” Washingtonpost.com, January 6, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010604001.html.
59. Marc Ambinder, “Leaks Aren’t ‘In,’ Clapper Tells Intelligence Community,” TheAtlantic.com, August 28, 2010, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/08/leaks-arent-in-clapper-tells-intelligence-community/62195/.
Count 5: Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law
1. George W. Bush, “Address to Congress and the American People following the September 11, 2001, Attacks,” September 20, 2001, http://www.history2u.com/bush_war_on_terror.htm.
2. “President Bush Signs Anti-Terrorism Bill,” PBS.org, October 26, 2001, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/terrorism/july-dec01/bush_terrorismbill.html.
3. Toby Harnden, “Barack Obama and John McCain on 9/11: Statements then and now,” Telegraph.co.uk, September 12, 2008, http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/5213537/Barack_Obama_and_John_McCain_on_911_Statements_then_and_now/.
4. Marc Ambinder, “Obama Embraces Patriot Act; As Senator, He Was Skeptical,” TheAtlantic.com, September 15, 2009, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/09/obama-embraces-patriot-act-as-senator-he-was-skeptical/26614/.
5. Glenn Greenwald, “On Prism, Partisanship, and Propaganda,” TheGuardian.com, June 14, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/14/nsa-partisanship-propaganda-prism.
6. Ben Shapiro, “The Day America Lost the War on Terror,” Townhall.com, January 28, 2009, http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2009/01/28/the_day_america_lost_the_war_on_terror.
7. “Obama Speech on Drone Policy,” NYTimes.com, May 23, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/us/politics/transcript-of-obamas-speech-on-drone-policy.html.?pagewanted=all&_r=0.
8. “Conspiracy Against Rights,” Department of Justice, http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/crm/241fin.php.
9. Glenn Kessler, “James Clapper’s ‘Least Untruthful’ Statement to the Senate,” WashingtonPost.com, June 12, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.
com/blogs/fact-checker/post/james-clappers-least-untruthful-statement-to-the-senate/2013/06/11/e50677a8-d2d8-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_blog.html.
10. Andy Greenberg, “NSA Chief Denies Wired’s Domestic Spying Story (Fourteen Times) in Congressional Hearing,” Forbes.com, March 20, 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/20/nsa-chief-denies-wireds-domestic-spying-story-fourteen-times-in-congressional-hearing/.
11. Andy Greenberg, “Watch Top U.S. Intelligence Officials Repeatedly Deny NSA Spying on Americans over the Last Year,” Forbes.com, June 6, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/06/watch-top-u-s-intelligence-officials-repeatedly-deny-nsa-spying-on-americans-over-the-last-year-videos/.
12. Glenn Greenwald, “NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Verizon Customers Daily,” Guardian (U.K.), June 5, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order.
13. Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras, “U.S., British Intelligence Mining Data from Nine U.S. Internet Companies in Broad Secret Program,” Washington Post, June 6, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_print.html.
14. Ewen MacAskill, “NSA Paid Millions to Cover Prism Compliance Costs for Tech Companies,” Guardian, August 22, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs-tech-companies-paid.
15. Ellen Nakashima, “Obama Administration Had Restrictions on NSA Reversed in 2011,” WashingtonPost.com, September 7, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-administration-had-restrictions-on-nsa-reversed-in-2011/2013/09/07/c26ef658-0fe5-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html.
16. Gellman and Poitras, “U.S., British Intelligence Mining Data from Nine U.S. Internet Companies in Broad Secret Program.”
17. “NSA Slides Explain the PRISM Data-Collection Program,” WashingtonPost.com, July 6, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/.