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FBC Lou Dobbs Tonight January 16, 2014

Good evening, everyone. The president insisted that al qaeda was on the run. Numerous times throughout his 2012 president ial campaign. That the Senate Select committee on intelligence found that statement to be absolutely untrue. The committee is now declassified with a bipartisan report on the terrorist attacks, determining that the administration was warned up to seven times between june and september of 2012. Here are some of the explosive unredacted findings. In the growing ties between libyanbased terrorists. On june 18 the pentagons joint staff concluded that it will also increase the number of terrorist connect with al al qaeda associates in libya. And Al Qaeda Affiliated groups and associates are exploring the permissive security environment to enhance their operational reach. These warrants from the intelligence agencies and a request for more security from those on the ground and benghazi are ignored. Leading to the death of four americans, including Christopher Stevens on september 11, 2012 and leading the Senate Committee to determine if the attack was preventable. White House Press Secretary jay carney took up the issue and he was asked to address by the white house pushed the absolutely false story about protests and demonstrations that grew out of control in light of this report. A question that jay carney dodged with a three paragraph answer about cooperating with correctional investigations before he ultimately been referred to the state department for further explanations. And we also learned tonight that general Martin Dempsey made a startling statement in front of a topsecret House Armed Services committee in october. He told that committee that the military cannot hunt down and kill the terrorists responsible for the benghazi attacks because congress had not authorized the use of such force. And turning to the nsa. The highly anticipated a ballyhoo speech on the matter and suggested that the president will embrace on the most farreaching proposals of his advisers and will in fact punt on the boldest changes to congress. According to the New York Times, president obama plans to increase access to telephone data and he will have piracy safeguards and propose a creation of a public advocate with privacy concerns at a secret intelligence court. And it would certainly strongly reject any proposed changes at all to their review process, arguing that it will hamper the work of federal courts. Including collecting and storing metadata, nor will he require Court Permission for socalled National Security letters that the federal agency used to obtain financial information. It slowly trickled out since last june and in some cases they have gushed out. Today the times reported that the nsa has been using radio waves to gain access to computers even when they are not connected to the internet. The previously secret technology involves planning surveillance on computers and transmitting data on the covert radio channel. And so a Bipartisan Group of lawmakers is now urging president obama to be more transparent about how much he spends on surveillance activities. They have introduced a bill that would require the president to reveal details about the socalled black budget. Including intelligence activities across 16 different agencies. And these congressmen, peter welch, cynthia loomis, introducing the bill. It even has the backing of some conservatives, including jim jordan and jim sensenbrenner, the author of the patriot act. The government last year spent about 53 billion on clandestine activities without publicly accounting for the money and as best as we can understand it, because they are part of this, we have it all covered for you tonight and we will be joined by her panel of radio superstars tonight will weigh in on these folks who want to reveal the black budget for Intelligence Agency work. Can you imagine . We will have on the Senate Intelligence Committee Report and benghazi and the recommended changes to be robust with the idea of changes at the and nsa. We will be joined by the ateam in our radio talkers panel. And jay joins us from the American Center of law and justice to talk about their surveillance activities that they wanted for five years and now somehow they are not responsible for. So they want to change things but maybe not. We will take all of that up. Also a New York Times bestselling thriller writer, brad meltzer expanding his empire and he has a new project aimed at our children. And president obama trying to shift the focus. Shifting the focus to his economic agenda ahead of the state of the Union Address. The president spending three hours in North Carolina today where he announced a new public manufacturing institute. Developing nextgeneration power and here he is. The reason i came here today is because we have to do more to connect universities to make america the number one place in the world to open new businesses and create new jobs. We want to do that here in North Carolina and all across america. Exciting but strangely familiar. And this was something he was talking about in his state of the Union Address nearly a year ago. He has now committed, if you will, back to that address and not proposal. The North Carolina project is the first of three that the president promised during the state of the unit in the event was all about the economy down in North Carolina and that was without some political drama. Kay hagan, who is facing a tough reelection bid this fall shows not to join the president. Her office said she was in there the senate is in session and republicans dont seem to be buying her excuse. In another day and another obamacare delay. The Obamacare Administration announcing it is extending the obamacare enrollment deadline for people with preexisting conditions for a second time. Those who wish to unroll have been told the 15th of march instead of by the end of this month. But maybe some good will come of it. We will see. So far the Obama Administration has delayed the signup date for coverage that began on january 1 and pushed back the signup date for those seeking coverage by april 1, telling the secondyear Enrollment Period until after the 2014 election in delaying the of obamacare employer mandate until 2014 and the individual mandate oh, im sorry. The individual mandate has not been delayed. In the house taking care of an important piece of business today. Approving a 1. 1 trillion government for the end of september. That is through the end of this fiscal year. The senate votes on it later this week in negotiations for the longterm unemployed have stalled, making it likely that the senate will leave town this week without restoring those benefits to some 1. 13 Million People lost him last month. And on wall street today stocks rallied for a second straight day. The dow jones up and the s p up nine points. Closing a new record high. The nasdaq up 32 points. Bank of america earnings surged 3. 4 billion in the Fourth Quarter as mortgage losses tomball. Shares up more than 2 . On the economic front, wholesale prices in the largest increase in six months. Climbing to the highest level since may of 2012. Were coming right back. Please stay with us. Is the Obama White House wallace . Targeting conservatives ruling by fiat, running guns and ignoring immigration laws. Spying on journalists and the American People. The American Center for law and justice have the answer next. [ male announcer ] this is the story of the little room over the pizza place on Chestnut Street the modest first floor bedroom in tallinn, estonia and the southbound bus barreli down i95. This magic moment it is the story of where every great idea begins. And of those who believed they had thpower to do more. Dell is honored to be part of some of the worlds great stories. That began much the same way ours did in a little dorm room 2713. This magic moment lou obtaining new video of the only american prisoner of war. This Army Sergeant with this proof of life video which was on a thumb drive and accepted by the United States last week. Making a reference to the death of nelson mandela. Was stationed in afghanistan more than four years ago. And a cheating scandal rocking the air force nuclear command. Nearly three dozen officers allegedly cheated by text on a routine test that they have watched over this nuclear arsenal. And the scandal emerged after the separate allegations of recreational drug use after they turned up evidence during the criminal charges. The woman leading that investigation is civil rights attorney Barbara Boxer man. She noted a trend donated and darrell issa releasing that a federal employee must refuse themselves from investigation of their anticipation creates an appearance of a conflict of interest. And it is now eight months since the investigation were Tea Party Groups was supposed to begin. Our first guest is not one of his has been interviewed by the fbi. He represents 41 organizations in 22 states and a federal lawsuit against the Internal Revenue service. Joining us now is the chief counsel for the center of law and justice. It is good to have you with us. The victims of the scandal. Heres what you have which is more ironic. We get a call from the fbi at the end of december say that they want to interview three of our clients after the first of the year. So we wait for the response call and we get it in january, early january, and the question is will you sit down and meet with us. Youre getting ready for the response to that, the information about Barbara Boxer and comes out and we found out that shes a major donor to the Obama Campaign and to the dmz, which she has the right to be. And that she has a professional obligation as you pointed out earlier to step aside. But it does not have this investigation. Lou i think that we need to point out that the Justice Department responded one that obvious conduct was raised but they have no responsibility to take into account the donations. And as we just reported that is absolutely untrue. There is a model rule of professional responsibilities. And the department of justice has the same rules and regulations you have to avoid the appearance of impropriety. But heres the irony of ironies. So as we respond back to the fbi saying that we have an appointment heading up this investigation and we are evaluating the response, we get announcements and we start seeing that we dont get a phone call or anything. And so then the fbi announced it and they have never interviewed a victim of the acknowledged targeting. Not one interview with one of our clients. And they decided it was not a criminal case without talking to the purported victims of the crime and that is the irony of all of this. And it just shows that this investigation was nothing but a sham investigation by the department of justice or the white houses request to act like they are doing something and they have really done nothing and that is why we are in federal court against the irs now. Lou and the information youre referring to, the disclosure that there wouldnt be a criminal prosecution. And it reported that we can put this up with precisely what the journal reported. Investigators did not find the kind of political bias or enemy hunting that would amount to a violation of criminal law and what emerged instead was evidence of a mismanaged bureaucracy enforcing rules. And this means that the Oversight Committee can have everything that it is asked for because the investigation is over by the fbi. And so the fbi is right now in the position of destroying its credibility with the American People. It is one thing for the Justice Department and to be politicized, which is repugnant as one can imagine. But to have the fbi as a chief Law Enforcement officer and now a National Security has been attached to the fbi. The new director to permit this kind of nonsense. I would call it out bridges and tragic for this agency to behave in this manner. There is something that we have to get and i dont even want to blame the new fbi. Lou i have to be honest with you. But the fact of the matter is you are not. Heres what im going to say. Lois leonard took the fifth amendment to the United States constitution to not permit herself. Pleading the fifth and the fbi does not investigate or talk to a witness or victim of this crime. And it was eric holder brought up the criminality. He can understand that. He said it may well be criminal. And the end result is no victim of the activity is interviewed in the fbi determined there is not a crime. Lou why would you not hold a director responsible for the conduct being made by his agency . Lou i was hoping you wouldnt say that. But go ahead. Lou i will tell you i i think you cant hold him responsible. Ultimately it is really eric holder that is responsible. And the fbi is simply the agent. Im not blaming the individual agents but its the department of justice. We have to remember the hierarchy here and if the doj that made the determination and the agency should investigate as instructed. Lou at some point there has to be some integrity. That means people willing to stand up and say that this is treading the credibility of the fbi. It is the agency is so politicized. I mean, that it is losing the this line throughout the Justice Department and i dont see how anyone can not be outraged by this. It really should have been public corruption because that is what was at the end of the day. It certainly is. Government overuse of authority. Lou you and i are absolute agreement there. And i admired this very much. Good to have you and thank you. Coming up next, the president talks about bringing jobs back to this country. He hasnt done a lot about it and today he only mentioned chinas name once. In my new book of people, i devote an entire chapter to china. And that will be in the choctaw coming up next. Across america people are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes with ninsulin victoza®. For a ile, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar, but it didnt get me to my goal. So i asked my doctor about victoza®. 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It is based in part on some of my nightly chalk talks, if this seems familiar. You all need to read it, perhaps no one more than president obama, buy two copies sudden him one. It was send him one. He took himself to North Carolina today proposing new ways for government private sector to keep growing our monopoliemonopoly manufacturingd corps our manufacturing sector, i wish we had known it was that easy. Here is president s only reference to china. I dont want the next big job creating discovery, research and technology to be in germany or china or japan. I want it to be here in the United States of america, right here in North Carolina. Lou he should have told us that 5 years ago. I devote an entire chapter to chain in upheaval to china in upheaval. We need to bridge back the export of our middle class jobs. How many jobs have we lost . No one knows, best estimates are 3 million lost to china, how . By removing high tariffs on chinese imports and thinking w

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