So much in the way of news today…
1. The Justice Department on Monday charged a John Kiriakou, a Democrat staffer and former CIA officer with repeatedly leaking classified information, including the identities of agency operatives involved in the capture and interrogation of alleged terrorists. Kiriakou was charged with disclosing classified information to reporters and lying to the agency about the origin of other sensitive material he published in a book.
2. Perhaps it those Hollywood fundraisers or days on the golf course, but the Obama White House told Congress on Monday that its budget will be late this year, meaning President Obama once again will miss the deadline set in law. Congressional officials said the president now will send up his budget on Feb. 13, which is a week later than the usual date. The law requires the budget be sent by the first Monday in February. Obama has not made the budget deadline since he’s taken office.
3. Kesler Dufrene, an illegal immigrant, became a twice-convicted felon in 2006, a Bradenton judge shipped him to prison for five years. And because of his convictions, an immigration judge ordered Dufrene deported to his native Haiti. That never happened. The Obama administration ordered a temporary halt of deportations to the island nation. As a result, when Dufrene’s state prison term was up, Miami immigration authorities in October 2010 released him from custody. Two months later, he slaughtered three people, including a 15-year-old girl in a murder case that remains as baffling today as it did the afternoon the bodies were discovered.
4. Tuesday, the day that President Barack Obama will deliver the State of the Union address, also marks the 1,000th day since Senate Democrats last proposed a budget plan. House and Senate Republicans will be making this point often over the next 36 hours to emphasize who are responsible for the current legislative gridlock. “Senate Democrats abandoned their official duty to prioritize Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars and tackle our nation’s most pressing economic challenges — dealing a painful blow to fiscal progress that may be felt for some time,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions and Rep. Paul Ryan.
5. Florida Republican Rep. Allen West said that Democratic Rep. James Clyburn and Rev. Al Sharpton claiming Newt Gingrich used race to win in the South Carolina GOP presidential primary was “absolutely reprehensible.” “Under President Obama’s leadership, there’s been a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients in the United States of America,” West said after hosting a Conservative Black Forum on Capitol Hill Monday. “If there are people such as Rep. Clyburn that don’t want to face up to the truth then that’s on them and I think it’s absolutely reprehensible that they feel that the only thing they can fall back on is try to create some type of racial division which we know that the Democrats are already trying to create some type of class warfare division as well,” he said.” West added, “We don’t need these gimmicks that the Democrats and people like Clyburn and also I heard Al Sharpton made some very ugly remarks, we don’t need that.”
Courtesy: John Paulus
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