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Originally Posted by saltine
Allowed O to run the most corrupt admin ever.
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Obama did not have the most corrupt administration ever. And comments like the above from conservative news groups are the real "fake news."
"Barack Obama administration (2009–2017) Executive Branch Scandals"
"Katherine Archuleta, Director of the Office of Personnel Management, resigned on July 10, 2015 after cyberintrusions allowed the theft of data concerning 22 million people, some of whom had applied for sensitive security clearances.[14]
Hillary Clinton (D) Secretary of State, deleted over 33,000 emails on her private server. Despite allegations, there is no evidence to suggest that any of those deleted emails were classified.[15]
Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014 Officials in the Phoenix, VA hospital lied about how long the wait times were for veterans to see a doctor.[16][17][18] The newly selected Secretary of Veterans Affairs, General Eric Shinseki, voluntarily resigned.[19]
2013 IRS scandal – IRS admitted to inappropriate investigation of conservative political groups associated with the Tea Party that may not have met the criteria for certain tax exemptions.[20] Later, it was found that the IRS investigated groups with the label "progressives", "tea party, and "patriots", but "tea party" applications specifically had to be sent to Washington for review, substantiating the claims of partisan audits.[21][22][23][24][25] The president demanded and accepted the resignation of Steven T. Miller, Acting Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. Other actions arising from the scandal included:
Lois Lerner, head of the IRS Office of Exempt Organizations, stated she had not done anything wrong and then took the Fifth before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.[26] She retired in 2013 after an internal investigation found that she neglected her duties and was going to call for her ouster.[27]
Joseph H. Grant, commissioner of the IRS Tax-exempt and Government Entities division, resigned on May 16, 2013.[28]
ATF gunwalking scandal – Attorney General Eric Holder (D) was held in Contempt of Congress after refusing to release all documents which the House of Representatives had demanded concerning the Fast and Furious gun walking operation. (2012)[29]
Terence Flynn (R) an appointee of Barack Obama to the National Labor Relations Board, resigned in May 2012 after being accused of serious ethical violations by leaking information to the National Association of Manufacturers.[30][31]
Martha N. Johnson (D) head of the General Services Administration, fired two top GSA officials and then resigned herself after it was revealed that $822,000 had been spent in Las Vegas on a four-day training conference for 300 GSA employees. (2010)[32][33][34][35]"
"George W. Bush administration (2001–2009) Executive Branch Scandals"
"Joseph E. Schmitz (R) was nominated by President George W. Bush (R) to be Defense Department Inspector General on June 18, 2001. He resigned on September 9, 2005 in the wake of several allegations by Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), including that he had obstructed the FBI investigation of John A. Shaw.[113][114][115][116][117]
Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal – Secretary of the Army Francis J. Harvey (R) abruptly resigned over substandard conditions for wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center including long delays in treatment, rodent infestation and outbreaks of mold. Harvey had been appointed to the position by George W. Bush. (2007)[118]
Maj. Gen. George Weightman was fired for failures linked to the scandal. (2007)[119]
Maj. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley resigned for failures linked to the scandal.[120]
Felipe Sixto was appointed by President George W. Bush to be his Special Assistant for Intergovernmental Affairs as well as Duty Director at the Office of Public Liaison. He resigned a few weeks later on March 20, 2008 because of his misuse of grant money from the U.S. Agency for International Development when he had worked for the Center for a Free Cuba.[121] He was sentenced to 30 months in prison for stealing almost $600,000 for personal use.[122]
Timothy Goeglein, Special Assistant to President Bush, resigned when it was discovered that more than twenty of his columns had been plagiarized from an Indiana newspaper. (2008)[123]
Scott Bloch was appointed by President George W. Bush to head the United States Office of Special Counsel. On April 27, 2010, Bloch pleaded guilty to criminal contempt of Congress for "willfully and unlawfully withholding pertinent information from a House committee investigating his decision to have several government computers wiped ...."[124] On February 2, Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson ruled that Bloch faces a mandatory sentence of at least one month in prison.[125][126]
Lewis Libby, Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney (R) and also known as "Scooter", was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in the Plame Affair on March 6, 2007. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $250,000. The sentence was commuted by George W. Bush on July 1, 2007. The felony remains on Libby's record, though the jail time and fine were commuted.[127][128]
Alphonso Jackson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, resigned while under investigation by the Justice Department for alleged cronyism and favoritism[129]
Karl Rove, Senior Adviser to President George W. Bush, was investigated by the Office of Special Counsel for "improper political influence over government decision-making", as well as for his involvement in several other scandals such as Lawyergate, Bush White House e-mail controversy and Plame affair. He resigned in April 2007. (See Karl Rove in the George W. Bush administration)[130]
Richard J. Griffin, the Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security appointed by George W. Bush who made key decisions regarding the department's oversight of private security contractor Blackwater USA, resigned in November 2007, after a critical review by the House Oversight Committee found that his office had failed to adequately supervise private contractors during the Blackwater Baghdad shootings protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq.[131]
Republican contributor Howard Krongard[132] was appointed Inspector General of the US State Department by President George W. Bush in 2005.[133] was accused by the House Oversight Committee of improperly interfering with investigations into private security contractor Blackwater USA concerning the Blackwater Baghdad shootings. Krongard resigned in December 2007.[134][135]
"Lawyergate"[136] or the Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy refers to President Bush firing, without explanation, eleven Republican federal prosecutors whom he himself had appointed. It is alleged that they were fired for prosecuting Republicans and not prosecuting Democrats.[137][138] When Congressional hearings were called, a number of senior Justice Department officials cited executive privilege and refused to testify under oath and instead resigned, including:
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales[139]
Karl Rove, Advisor to President Bush[140][not in citation given]
Harriet Miers, Legal Counsel to President Bush, was found in Contempt of Congress[141]
Michael A. Battle, Director of Executive Office of US Attorneys in the Justice Department[142]
Bradley Schlozman, Director of Executive Office of US Attorneys who replaced Battle[143]
Michael Elston, Chief of Staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty[144]
Paul McNulty, Deputy Attorney General to William Mercer[145]
William W. Mercer, Associate Attorney General to Alberto Gonzales[146]
Kyle Sampson, Chief of Staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales[142]
Monica Goodling, Liaison between President Bush and the Justice Department[147]
Joshua Bolten, Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bush was found in Contempt of Congress[141]
Sara M. Taylor, Aide to Presidential Advisor Karl Rove[148]
Bush White House e-mail controversy – During the Lawyergate investigation it was discovered that the Bush administration used Republican National Committee (RNC) web servers for millions of emails which were then destroyed, lost or deleted in possible violation of the Presidential Records Act and the Hatch Act. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Andrew Card, Sara Taylor and Scott Jennings all used RNC webservers for the majority of their emails. Of 88 officials investigated, 51 showed no emails at all.[149] As many as 5 million e-mails requested by Congressional investigators were therefore unavailable, lost, or deleted.[150]
Lurita Alexis Doan resigned as head of the General Services Administration. She was under scrutiny for conflict of interest and violations of the Hatch Act.[151] Among other things she asked GSA employees how they could "help Republican candidates".[152]
John Korsmo, chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board, pleaded guilty to lying to congress and sentenced to 18 months of unsupervised probation and fined $5,000. (2005)[153]
Darleen A. Druyun was the Principal Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force nominated by George W. Bush.[154] She pleaded guilty to inflating the price of contracts to favor her future employer, Boeing. In October 2004, she was sentenced to nine months in jail for corruption, fined $5,000, given three years of supervised release and 150 hours of community service. She began her prison term on January 5, 2005.[155] CBS News called it "the biggest Pentagon scandal in 20 years" and said that she pleaded guilty to a felony.[156]
Philip Cooney, Bush appointee to chair the Council on Environmental Quality, was accused of editing government climate reports to emphasize doubts about global warming.[157] Two days later, Cooney announced his resignation[158] and later conceded his role in altering reports. Stating "My sole loyalty was to the President and advancing the policies of his administration," .[159][160]
Jack Abramoff was involved in a scandal in which the prominent lobbyist with close ties to Republican administration officials and legislators offered bribes as part of his lobbying efforts. Abramoff was sentenced to 4 years in prison.[161][162] See Legislative scandals.
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) was reprimanded twice by the House Ethics Committee and his aides indicted (2004–2005); eventually DeLay himself was investigated in October 2005 in connection with the Abramoff scandal, but not indicted. DeLay resigned from the House June 9, 2006.[163] DeLay was found to have illegally channeled funds from Americans for a Republican Majority to Republican state legislator campaigns. He was convicted of two counts of money laundering and conspiracy in 2010.[164]
GSA (General Services Administration) Chief of Staff David Safavian[165] found guilty of blocking justice and lying,[166] and sentenced to 18 months[167]
Roger Stillwell, staff in the Department of the Interior under President George W. Bush (R), pleaded guilty and received two years suspended sentence.[168]
Susan B. Ralston, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to Karl Rove, resigned on October 6, 2006 after it became known that she accepted gifts and passed information to her former boss Jack Abramoff.[169]
Former Deputy to the Secretary of the Interior J. Steven Griles pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and was sentenced to 10 months.[170]
Italia Federici, staff to the Secretary of the Interior, and President of the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, pled guilty to tax evasion and obstruction of justice. She was sentenced to four years probation.[171][172][173]
Jared Carpenter. Vice President of the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, was discovered during the Abramoff investigation and pled guilty to income tax evasion. He got 45 days, plus 4 years probation.[174]
Mark Zachares, staff in the Department of Labor, bribed by Abramoff, guilty of conspiracy to defraud.[162]
Robert E. Coughlin, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, pleaded guilty to conflict of interest after accepting bribes from Jack Abramoff. (2008)[175]
CIA Executive Director Kyle Foggo was convicted of honest services fraud in the awarding of a government contract and sentenced to 37 months in federal prison at Pine Knot, Kentucky. On September 29, 2008, Foggo pleaded guilty to one count of the indictment, admitting that while he was the CIA executive director, he acted to steer a CIA contract to the firm of his lifelong friend, Brent R. Wilkes.[176]
Julie MacDonald, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior, resigned on May 1, 2007, after giving government documents to developers (2007)[177]
Claude Allen, appointed as an advisor by President Bush (R) on Domestic Policy, was arrested for a series of felony thefts in retail stores. He was convicted on one count and resigned soon after.[178]
Lester Crawford, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, resigned after two months. He pleaded guilty to conflict of interest and received 3 years suspended sentence and fined $90,000 (2006)[179]
The 2003 Invasion of Iraq depended on intelligence that Saddam Hussein was developing "weapons of mass destruction" (WMDs) meaning nuclear, chemical and/or biological weapons for offensive use. As revealed by The (British) Downing Street memo "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and the facts were being fixed around the policy" The press called this the 'smoking gun."(2005)[180]
Yellowcake forgery – Just before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration presented evidence to the UN that Iraq was seeking material (yellowcake uranium) in Africa for making nuclear weapons. Though presented as true, it was later found to be not only dubious, but outright false.[181][182]
Coalition Provisional Authority Cash Payment Scandal – On June 20, 2005, the staff of the Committee on Government Reform prepared a report for Congressman Henry Waxman.[183] It was revealed that $12 billion in cash had been delivered to Iraq by C-130 planes, on shrinkwrapped pallets of US $100 bills.[184] The United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, concluded that "Many of the funds appear to have been lost to corruption and waste.... Some of the funds could have enriched both criminals and insurgents...." Henry Waxman, commented, "Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone?" A single flight to Iraq on December 12, 2003, which contained $1.5 billion in cash is said to be the largest single Federal Reserve payout in US history according to Henry Waxman.[185][186]
Bush administration payment of columnists were done with federal funds to say nice things about Republican policies. Illegal payments were made to journalists Armstrong Williams, Maggie Gallagher and Michael McManus (2004–2005)[187]
John A. Shaw (R) was appointed by George W. Bush as Under Secretary of Defense.[188] He was investigated on corruption although charges were never filed against him, he was asked to resign in 2004.[189] When he refused to resign, he was fired by the Bush administration on December 10, 2004.[190][191][192]
The Bernard Kerik nomination in 2004 as Secretary of Homeland Security was derailed by past employment of an illegal alien as a nanny, and other improprieties. On November 4, 2009, he pleaded guilty to two counts of tax fraud and five counts of lying to the federal government and was sentenced to four years in prison.[193]
Plame affair – CIA agent Valerie Plame's name was leaked by Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State, to the press in retaliation for her husband's criticism of the reports used by George W. Bush to legitimize the Iraq war.[194] Armitage admitted he was the leak[195] but no wrongdoing was found.
Thomas A. Scully, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), withheld information from Congress about the projected cost of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, and allegedly threatened to fire Medicare's chief actuary, Richard Foster, if Foster provided the data to Congress. (2003)[196] Scully resigned on December 16, 2003.
NSA warrantless surveillance – Shortly after the September 11 attacks in 2001, President George W. Bush (R) implemented a secret program by the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on domestic telephone calls by American citizens without warrants, thus by-passing the FISA court which must approve all such actions. (2002)[197] In 2010, Federal Judge Vaughn Walker ruled this practice to be illegal.[198]
Janet Rehnquist (daughter of former Chief Justice William Rehnquist) was the appointed Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services by George W. Bush. In 2002, Governor Jeb Bush's (R-FL) Chief of Staff Kathleen Shanahan asked Rehnquist to delay auditing a $571 million federal overpayment to the State of Florida. Rehnquist ordered her staff to delay the investigation for five months until after the Florida elections. When Congress began an investigation into the matter, Rehnquist resigned in March 2003, saying she wanted to spend more time with her family.[199][200][not in citation given][201][201][202][203]
John Yoo, an attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel inside the Justice Department who, worked closely with vice president Dick Cheney and The Bush Six,[204] He wrote memos stating the right of the president to –
suspend sections of the ABM Treaty without informing Congress[205]
bypass the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allowing warrantless wiretapping of US Citizens within the United States by the National Security Agency.[205]
state that the First Amendment and Fourth Amendments and the Takings Clause do not apply to the president in time of war as defined in the USA PATRIOT Act[205]
allow Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (torture) because provisions of the War Crimes Act, the Third Geneva Convention, and the Torture convention do not apply.[205]
Many of his memos have since been repudiated and reversed.[205][206] Later review by the Justice Department reported that Yoo and Jay Bybee used "poor judgement" in the memos, but no charges were filed.[207]
Carl Truscott, Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, was appointed in 2004 but was soon under investigation for his management style and allegations of lavish spending and misuse of resources, including requiring a large number of agents as personal security, allocating hundreds of thousands of dollars of expensive upgrades to the ATF HQ building, adding a new garage to his house, detailing 20 agents to help with his nephew's high school project and other examples of poor financial judgment. Truscott resigned as the ATF Director on August 4, 2006.[208][209]
John David Roy Atchison (R), Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, was arrested for intentions of having sex with a five year old. Atchison committed suicide before trial while in custody(2007)[210][211][212]
Ken Mehlman (R), Manager of George W. Bush's Campaign for Re-election and Chairman of the Republican National Committee, which had proposed a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, came out in August 2010 and admitted that he was gay.[213] In an interview, journalist Marc Ambinder noted that Mehlman's roles with the RNC and the Bush campaign "coincided with the Republican Party's attempts to exploit anti-gay prejudices and cement the allegiance of social conservatives".[214] Mehlman stated that he deeply regretted his role in the campaign's push for a constitutional amendment that would have banned gay marriage.[215]"
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The statement "Obama ran the most corrupt administration ever" is fake news (its untrue and a lie.)
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might have to ask a few Democrats friends as they would be the ones in the know
