Conyers calls for investigation into Aunti Zeituni info leak; Joe the Plumber still on his own
I predicted the totally predictable last night. And so it has come to pass: The left-wing fairweather friends of privacy are all over the leak of Aunti Zeituni’s immigration info — while Joe The Plumber remains persona non grata. Democrat Rep. John Conyers has already called for a federal investigation. The WaPo is already up with an A-section story on the anonymous leak. And the liberal blogs are up in arms.
The MSM abhor anonymous leaks — unless they’re helping to undermine Bush administration anti-terrorism programs or conservative causes and candidates.
Laughably, the Obama cultists suspect that Bush administration officials are in cahoots with the McCain campaign and the Associated Press.
These people have reading comprehension and reality comprehension problems. It’s the Bush administration that has moved to protect Aunti Zeituni. It’s the pro-shamnesty Bush administration that will ensure that nothing happens to her. Pro-shamnesty McCain isn’t going to touch the story. McCain adviser Mark Salter told WaPo that it’s a “family matter.”
Another predictable prediction: McCain will issue an edict forbidding staff from talking about this the same way the staffers are forbidden from mentioning Jeremiah Wright — with disastrous results.
Never mind that the massive, systemic problem of deportation fugitives is a matter of national security and rule of law.
“Family matter,” my foot.
By the way: Where in the world is Aunti Zeituni? Who knows? And if it wasn’t Barack Obama who helped her get here, who did? How did she get a Social Security card? Who advised her to apply for public housing? Who did she know with a saavy enough legal background to help her navigate the paperwork of the welfare state?
Hmmmm?
Obama and his future wife, Michelle, met Onyango on a subsequent visit to Kenya in 1992, and she visited the Obama family in Chicago on a tourist visa about nine years ago, his campaign said. Onyango attended Obama’s U.S. Senate swearing-in ceremony in 2005, and the senator last heard from her about two years ago, according to the campaign.
A campaign source said Obama provided Onyango no assistance in obtaining a tourist visa or housing, or in her immigration case.
In an interview with the Times of London, which first reported Onyango’s presence in Boston and her campaign contributions, Onyango said she had traveled to and from the United States since 1975. Commercial databases indicate she received a Social Security card in 2001, indicating she was legally present and authorized to work at that time.
Onyango was not at her state-subsidized West Broadway residence yesterday in South Boston, and no one answered her telephone.
William McGonigle, deputy director of the Boston Housing Authority, said Onyango applied for public housing in 2002 and was approved in 2003 as an eligible noncitizen. She was paid a small stipend for volunteering as a resident health advocate starting in December 2007, he said.
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Another ILLEGAL ALIEN using MY tax dollars to live here.
I can only imagine how bad it will get once the income redistribution starts.
They are as predictable as the sun rising and setting.
If you believe this I have some really choice swampland I’ll sell you at a really great price.
I’m sure you will be proven right again Michelle.
You know, this is the SECOND call by Conyers requesting a leak investigation. The first being that ACORN is under federal investigation. That made Conyers mad.
Where has this public servant been when multiple top secret programs have been leaked to the media? He wroet NO letters.
SUCK IT CONYERS
Imagine how many federal investigations will be launched when/if Obama is elected!
Don’t give taxpayer money out to those who aren’t citizens. Stipend for volunteering? Sounds like a job to me. You know, their making this true blue turn red real quick.
Worthless hypocrites.
An Illegal alien has more rights than Joe the Plumber to privacy…atrocious.
McCain really wants to lose-that’s why he is still ‘playing nice’…
HOWEVER–
Governor P_A_L_I_N wants to win and for the right reasons!!!
PALIN/mccain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxhYampIl7A&eurl=http://dirtyharrysplace.com/?p=4913
Umm Obama David Axerod the astroturfer isnt the best guy to send out to play defense.
But some from the article
An Illegal alien has more rights than
Joe the Plumber toany citizens privacy…atrocious.BTW anyone want to get a shot at Bil Cliton AND John Murtha on monday ?
Man I cant type clintons name to save my life
By his personal Security Services–no messy Due Process and such.
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That Every Man Be Armed–You Too ladies
Headline cnn.com: Obama “unaware” of aunt’s immigration status.
Yeah, right.
Thanks malkin_fan I love that guy.
Now this really is not rocket science.
I came across the link months ago but had no way to check it out since I don’t live in that neck of the woods.
Simply start taking all the names in Obama’s books and start plugging them into internet phone directories looking for a match.
As long as the phone is not unlisted it shows up.
Thus we have the listing
George W Onyango
work
street address not available
Walpole, MA
(508) 660-XXXX edited to not give full number in case someone else has it now and drive them crazy
Is it just me, or does this not have an Obama stink about it? Volunteering? Indeed…!
She apparently didn’t need all that “small stipend.”
She attended Obama’s swearing in for his U.S. Senate office, so how did they know where to contact her?
More honesty from Obama and the Democrat leadership.
Of course Obama can admit to knowing anything about this…it would make him culpable. But, you know, this is no big deal…it’s simply a “family matter.”
retch
Careful, Obama will pin a scarlet S for Selfish on you with talk like that.
This little story says volumes about the so called MSM “journalists”.
There’s a loophole in MA’s public housing laws from 1977 that says “As a result of a consent decree in federal court in 1977, the state cannot deny state-subsidized public housing to undocumented immigrants.” She wouldn’t have needed anyone’s help to get into public housing. If she had applied for political asylum and the case was pending at the time she applied for public housing, she would have had a temporary proof of asylum card.
So what do we know about Auntie Z?
She broke the law by ignoring a judges order for deportation.
She broke the law by someone getting a social security card.
She broke the law by fraudulently applying for, and securing public housing.
She broke the law by donating to a presidential campaign and not being a US citizen.
Hmmmm…. sounds like those Obama’s just love to break the law.
It seems to be both her and her nephew Barry need to be deported.
The case wasn’t pending according to reports. She was booted… but ignored the order to leave.
Asylum?… please. Spare me the drama. Was her Kenyan Blockbuster account past due and she had to get out of there before they took their movies back?
I am always amazed at how often the third world immigrants manage to afford flying back and forth so many times.
I think fair is fair. Whoever knows can say they will reveal their source when the L.A. Times releases their little video tape they keep hiding under the same premise. But the deal is only good until Monday afternoon. Isn’t that the OBVIOUS solution?
Applied in 2002, approved in 2003, asylum denied in 2004.
I just get irritated at the endless, liberal rallying cries for “more public housing” when I learn that there is already enough of it to give to illegals with standing deportation orders.
Does this make me a selfish person?
What’s the liberal and communist mantra again? Oh yeah… do as I say, not as I do…
Good call Michelle, they are so easy to predict.
Man, the Democrats sure do love investigations. Why isn’t any Congress critter calling for an investigation to check on BHO’s sealed birth certificate? What about an investigation into the voter registration mess? How about an investigation into the extent of Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac and the economic crisis? Why don’t the repubs ever call for any of these investigations?
BHA Deputy Director William McGonagle said:
I believe that the Massachusetts Department of Motor Vehicles has the ability to check on the status and to suspend the licenses of those caught drinking and driving after they are initially deemed to be eligible.
Why can’t the Boston Housing Authority do the same?
Hypocrisy like the garbage spewing from conyer truly sickens me. These leftists are political crack-whores and I hope to some day see them booted out of office, their progressive poison refuted and discredited. Their poisonous idiology must be stamped out.
At this point I think this is where its at, going after Obama’s aunt isn’t helpful, in my humble opinion.
I also think Barack Obama’s 20 year love of Trinity Church and its influence of Black Liberation Theology is highly relevant to his candidacy.
BLT is proof of Obama’s far, far left of center beliefs and shows where Barack’s axe to grind against America comes from.
Looking deep enough might show its Michelle O. who took him there.
According to Obama it does.
He also doesn’t have a problem with you educating, feeding and providing health care to them or subsidizing a home for them that YOU can not afford. And BTW you should be thrilled to do it for them.
Can we just stop with the illegal alien thing where they live off the $$ of others, when they shouldn’t even BE here???
hmmm…..interesting
Have you seen Michelle O’s thesis?
What a clear difference. The run out to protect someone who has clearly broken the law and ignore someone who did nothing but ask a great question.
No surprise here.
Right about now, Joe the Plumber wishes the Obama thugs would ignore him. Instead they have turned his life into a nightmare by parading details of his private life in public for everyone to see.
Get used to it if BO becomes POTUS. The new way of doing business is free sppeech for me (Obama and anyone he designates), but not for thee.
Free housing for the Aunt. I bet she has had free health care to the tune of a 100,000 bucks. Paid for by the American tax payer.
Socialism is already here. Stinking illegal aliens. Deport all of them now!
But the most telling aspect of this is that, when asked about his aunt, Obama said he had no idea about her situation and that he thought any applicable laws should be observed.
Translation: ‘I’m lying again. See-my lips are moving.” And then, for political expediency, he sells his aunt out and says ‘The law says deport her…then deport her!’
He’ll sell out his ‘friends’, he’ll sell out his poor aunt that he lets live in poverty, I wonder what excuse it will take for him to sell out his-oops! I mean OUR country?!?!
I wonder who’s social security number she’s using?
Here is one more reason that we are :
SCREWED ‘08
Of course Conyers is looking into Auntie’s revelation and ignoring Joe. He’s as big a racist as Obama.
Youtube has some excerpts from Barry’s book, “Dreams of My Father” and the guy is definitely a racist.
Too bad the media has ignored Barry’s books. They would see that he was indeed in the church when Wright was railing against whites and they would see that Barry has spent significant time and energy into cultivating his disdain for whites.
Although, if Joe had asked McCain about something that the dems had liked the sounds of, they would be protecting Joe too.
Screw Conyers and that gaggle crap in the congress.
How about a special investigation into something really important:
1. Fannie/Freddie
2. Barnie Frank
3. Chris Dodd
4. ACORN
5. Obama’s Donations.
6. …
Isn’t there a republican out there somewhere that will call for special investigations into any of these things?
Whenever I want to have a good inner chuckle I think of what it would be like if Obama was the GOP nominee. He would have been tarred and feathered running down the street like the San Diego Chicken on roids. The left would be having a field day destroying this dipstick.
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
There is that word again. The great eperiment of America has come down to both sides yelling racist at each other.
If the weather was better in Norway, and they didn’t eat so much fish, I think I would move there.
With all due respect, I think BOTH issues are very relevant. Don’t forget that Auntie said she couldn’t comment on anything until after Nov. 4. There’s MUCH more to this story than we will probably ever know.
Very OT, but I just saw this:
Obama Tells SF Chronicle His Plan Will Bankrupt the Coal Industry
(From a Jan. 2008 interview)
note to Webmaster guys or Michelle:
thanks for fixing the clock issue
Hiya AJ!!!
happy Blessed Sunday
Electing Obama will completely change the United States, and it looks like it is going to happen. I don’t want it to, I have enjoyed my life and was looking forward to my plans and retirement. Now, I don’t know what will happen.
I hope it works out for us… but I just am not sure.
Auntie’s just doin’ her Thug Thizzle!
Runs in the family, know what I’m sayin……….
teach,
that was posted on the other dead thread as well
ops time is messed up again I typed too soon
whorebama!!
MWAHAHAHA
You know, liberals and conservatives may inhabit the same real estate, but we live in two different Americas. Every day I read stuff like this post and wonder what the heck goes through the minds of liberals. I simply do not understand their thought processes.
joann,
I am waiting for deatails as to what exactly makes her a health expert that she should be paid a stipend.
my belly says she knows every soft tissue ache and pain to get disability and can give lectures on how to slip in stores. advanced course in whiplash providing you pay a cash fee shhhhh
JJ,
don’t try to think like they do, what does that serve you or them? Show them how to think as a human and if they won’t, well God gave us two middle fingers.
As Mark Steyn said today on NRO’w web site, an illegal alien such as Auntie Obama, once served with a deportation order they ignore, is considered a FUGITIVE ILLEGAL ALIEN and can be arrested at any time. Why she wasn’t is anyone’s guess, but she could have been (and should have been) deported years ago.
John Conyers is an idiot, and the type of permanent governmental fixture in Washington that gives the city such a bad name. He’ll end up in the Obama administration too, if there is one. We’ll be plagued with this level of incompetence for years.
Good morning folks.
It’s all about security. Conservatives want to be on our own. Liberals what to be taken care of. When we use the images such as “sucking on the teats of the giant sow of government” we are describing a child unable to let go of their mommy.
Conservatives and liberals both what freedom but liberals want some safe place to go if they fail.
I truly believe that liberals are scared of life.
Good morning Banshria, my mind is good with the time thing, I was up at 2a.m. which was really 3a.m. ick. i see a nap in my future.
Bansharia – lol, sometimes I feel like I need ten middle fingers.
FamilyMan – Very true. I’ve always viewed liberals as people who never matured past junior high, but maybe I was giving them too much credit. (And insulting a lot of good junior high kids.)
I like your “giant sow” imagery better.
Have liberals ever stop to consider what their lives would be like if they got all the government they’ve been asking for? They are building a trap for themselves. Once they have their security of government, they won’t have any freedom from government.
They just don’t get it.
Tru Dat, Bansharia
America is the land of opportunity. If she stole from citizens in Kenya, Winnie might toss her one of those fancy gas necklaces-
Because of the content of his character,
I will not be voting for B-HO.
There are groups such the anarchist movement that demands complete freedom , but need government control to have it. There is no perfect government. There is no utopia. There is the U.S. Constitution that gives us a chance to make “a more perfect union”.
I’m done! I can’t take anymore. How outraged can a person be, before they just go nuts. This has to end. Too much. How can I be so out of the mainstream thought processes? Then I see Palin and McCain on SNL cavorting with what I would consider the enemy. Why am I in such a state if they can handle it just fine, win or lose? And I’m not the only one. There are millions of us. There is no relief in site. I will vote for McCain and then go on with my life. Iraq will deteriorate into civil war. North Korea will rear it’s ugly side again. Israel will be forced to take action against Iran. And we will be here with our heads up our proverbial @$$e$ as we discuss reparations. Fillibuster? Maybe not. Ruth Bader-G. will wake up to retire. I’m just voting for McCain and then going on with my daily routine and wait for the end.
Mookie said in post 24:
“She wouldn’t have needed anyone’s help to get into public housing.”
This is correct, but my bet is that she needed help in getting here in the first place! A tourist visa issued to a person from a developing or poor nation is rare. The person requesting the visa must prove to the satisfaction of the adjudicating officer that they have:
1. Ties which would compel them to return home. Ties like real estate, a good business, husband and kids, money in the bank.
2. The means to make the trip to the US of their own accord, and live like a tourist while in this country. This means that a second party cannot just bank role the intending tourist: the tourist must show receipts proving that they can make the trip on their own, rent a car, go to Disney world, stay in a hotel, and return home.
If the immigration officer feels for a moment that the petitioner might overstay the visa, he will not issue for fear of a black mark on his record.
Kenya has a per capita GDP of less than $2000. Auntie is on subsidized housing.
This stinks to high heaven.
I want to know when exactly did she arrive in the US and who was the adjudicating officer at the US embassy in Kenya. My bet is that she came here to see her nephew elected to office with plans to overstay her visa. Premeditated immigration fraud.
I have already voted for McCain, and now I wait, and then, I too, will just have to go on and hope Obama doesn’t screw it up too bad.
I am really disappointed in our law enforcement community to do their duty in arresting, detaining, and deporting another Fugitive Illegal Alien. God forbid she is related to the anointed one so the Bush administration is paralyzed with fear of being called “RACIST” for sending another illegal invader to their country of origin. I believe every conservative that has issues with Obama Lama Ding Dong’s policies or positions has already been painted with the racist paint brush (even those possessing the same pigmentation).
It will only get worse should the empty suit win with a Democrat super majority there will be nothing to stop the double standard of conservative lives being open to government investigation and harassment over the sacred privacy rights of the liberals and their minions. I can’t wait until he starts to build his Civilian National Defense Force (the kind and gentile version of the Gestapo) to assist these investigations with the willing hands of the IRS, FBI, and ATF (all proven to violate law and privacy of the individual citizen).
Like our good friend Arizona Neanderthal always states a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE!
Commenting on anything illegal that has ties with the Obambi is way beyond redundant. In his administration nothing he has done or will do will be illegal. Everything Bush has done is illegal in the interest of “fairness”. Conyers and Rangel and the rest are in the business of nullification.
If odumbo wins, I can hardly wait until the secret police is established here, courtesy of the communist wing of the democrap party.
Yea, those civilians he talks about.
Maybe I’m uninformed.
CORRECT ME.
It’s expected the Dems will defend the criminal, etc etc….
But enough of the Waaambulancing…
WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN STANDING UP TO DEFEND JOE WURZELBACHER?!
Mytake #71 – I completely understand your sentiments, as I have a lot of them also. It is far easier to give in and just sit out what will happen if Obama wins. (There is even the urge to hope the idiots that voted him in get what they deserve.) However, our country is worth a fight. It will be a long, tough fight, but it is winnable. Too many of our ancestors died fighting for their version of a free USA to give up on their sacrifice.
So turn any despair into a fighting spirit. You’ll feel better, and even doing a little to reclaim our freedom is still doing something!
I work with two extreme libs who will jump at the chance to ‘join up’ with the SS and report on their co-workers.
See you all at the re-ed camps.
Bring your guitars-
I’ll be damned, whats good for the goose is not good for the gander.
Leak? The lady is a fugitive, how the frig do you leak that?
Conyers, GFY!!!
Good luck, Ill be killing the enemy or will have been killed before that occurs.
It’s very, very sad that I am not surprised, shocked, enraged; this kind of stuff is par for the course, and in the stomach-turning event of The Dear Obama and his Ministry of Truth and Information (aka Mid-Stream Media) winning, get ready for lots, lots more of this type of rank hypocrisy and abject moral bankruptcy.
If that turkey wins, I’ve got $20 dollars that says that, at his inauguration, he’ll be wearing mirrored sunglasses and an ostentatious military-appearing uniform with a chest full of medals.
*B*E*A*U*T*I*F*U*L*
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTJjMTY0OWEyNDdmZmM5YzhmOTYzOTk4NTY2ZjE4MzM=
“Mark Levin is right. The Undocumented Auntie isn’t even one of the 12, 15, 30, whatever million run-of-the-mill Undocumented-Americans who just wander into the country and decide to stay. She’s one of the far more select number – half a million or so – who’ve been served a deportation order. She is, in law, not merely an illegal immigrant but what ICE call a “fugitive alien”.
So when John Conyers gets huffy about “leaks”, is it even possible to “leak” that someone’s a “fugitive”? When regular boring US citizens are fugitives, they get pasted up on Post Office walls and written up in the papers. And, in the event that someone discovers that the guy on the lam is holed up at 27b Elm Street, there’s not usually a wave of outrage on the appalling breach of the fugitive’s privacy rights.
If I were Joe the Plumber, I’d ask Aunt Zeituni if I could move in. It’s his best chance of a quiet life.”
Viper,
Thank you for your strength.
That is what we all need now.
My comment was tongue in cheek-
If B-HO gets in,, it will surely come to this. People like me who are right thinking patriotic citizens, but have never served their county will get their chance to stand up for it one final time.
Believe me, I will.
I can advocate health too, can I get a stipend?
Everyone listen up: health is good!
There you go. Where’s my check?
We hear a story leaked about TOP SECRET program to listen in on SAT PHONE calls from OBL, OBL ditches the SAT PHONES… No investigation called for… FEDS listening in on calls from US to terror friendly nations around the world, story leaked, no investigation from the likes of MR. CONYERS… State employees looking up CONFIDENTIAL INFO on Joe the Plumber, the GOV of Ohio says no big deal… The COJONES of thse people is astounding, and they haven’t won anything yet… JUST WAIT!!!