[h=1]A Complete Guide to the Scandals of the Obama Administration[/h]
| Obama's ATF, in tandem with the DoJ, arranged for thousands of heavy assault rifles to make their way into the hands of Mexican narco warlords, setting the stage for a mass slaughter of Mexicans (more than 300 to date). | 04/01/2010 | The Washington Times | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms |
| The Obama Administration fired the ATF whistleblower who exposed the Fast and Furious scandal. | 06/28/2011 | Fox News | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms |
| Documents reveal Obama's ATF used "Fast and Furious" as part of a campaign for more gun control. | 12/07/2011 | CBS News | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms |
| More than 1,000 guns from Obama's "Fast and Furious" program remain lost. | 12/15/2011 | The Washington Times | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms |
| Obama's ATF used mentally disabled teens to run drug-and-gun stings. | 12/09/2013 | Reason | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms |
| The DoJ's internal watchdog says the ATF let a confidential informant keep as much as $5.2 million from illicit cigarette sales. | 09/25/2013 | CBS News | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms |
| The DoJ's internal watchdog says the ATF somehow "lost track" of 420 million cigarettes | 09/25/2013 | CBS News | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms |
| Guns from Obama's "Fast and Furious" programs were used in the killings of at least two Americans, and probably more. | 08/04/2015 | National Review Online | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms |
| Obama's ATF is using its resources to threaten the makers of kombucha, a fermented tea with trace amounts of alcohol. | 09/20/2015 | The Denver Post | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms |
| After AmeriCorps' Inspector General uncovered corruption in the office of an Obama ally, Sacramento's major Kevin Johnson, Obama fired the IG. | 07/10/2009 | The Washington Times | AmeriCorps |
| In firing AmeriCorps' IG for doing his job too effectively, Obama broke a law that he as a senator sponsored. | 07/10/2009 | The Washington Examiner | AmeriCorps |
| After Amtrak's inspector general uncovered waste, fraud, and abuse within Amtrak, Obama fired him. | 05/31/2010 | The Washington Times | Amtrak |
| Generally ignored South America despite consequential developments during his presidency. | 11/08/2011 | The Washington Post | Barack Obama White House |
| Despite campaign promise to retain ban on slaughtering horses for meat, he ended the ban. | 12/10/2011 | NewsBusters | Barack Obama White House |
| During his State of the Union address, Obama misquoted Lincoln. | 01/25/2012 | Human Events | Barack Obama White House |
| The Obama White House somehow spelled Rhode Island as "Road Island." | 02/20/2012 | The Daily Mail | Barack Obama White House |
| Two of Obama's three biggest bills were only accomplished through political bribery. | 02/21/2012 | The Daily Signal | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama used executive powers to benefit close friends' private investment firms | 03/20/2018 | The Washington Examiner | Barack Obama White House |
| He threatened Israel not to protect itself against Iran's nuclear threat. | 02/22/2012 | The Wall Street Journal | Barack Obama White House |
| During an interview with Grantland's Bill Simmons, Obama claimed to have known about then sensation Jeremy Lin before anybody else in the world. | 03/01/2012 | New York Magazine | Barack Obama White House |
| Despite a recent scandal involving throwing like a girl on national TV, Obama boasted Bill Simmons he's actually an incredible athlete. | 03/01/2012 | NewsBusters | Barack Obama White House |
| During an interview with Grantland's Bill Simmons, Obama claimed he was "way ahead of the curve on the podcast thing." | 03/01/2012 | Grantland | Barack Obama White House |
| More than half of Obama's big money contributors received plum payouts or positions. | 03/07/2012 | The Washington Post | Barack Obama White House |
| Tried to bribe Israel to promise not to challenge Iran while he was running for re-election. | 03/08/2012 | Reuters | Barack Obama White House |
| While mocking Republicans' lack of historical knowledge, Obama mangled history himself. | 03/15/2012 | ABC News | Barack Obama White House |
| On the campaign trail, Obama often talked about how his cancer-stricken mother had to battle insurance companies to receive payments; in fact that was not true. | 03/19/2012 | The Washington Post | Barack Obama White House |
| Despite having taught constitutional law, Obama badly misstated the Constitution during an unscripted effort at defending ObamaCare (eventually forcing the DoJ to issue a "correction"). | 04/03/2012 | The Wall Street Journal | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama's senior adviser, David Plouffe, violated the Hatch Act by participating in campaign activities. He went unsanctioned. | 04/09/2012 | The Washington Free Beacon | Barack Obama White House |
| After repeatedly bemoaning the injustice of Warren Buffett's secretary paying a higher net tax rate than Warren Buffett, it was revealed Obama also pays a lower rate than his White House secretary. | 04/13/2012 | ABC News | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama signed an executive order giving himself power to regulate anything to do with water (even non-waters) | 04/17/2012 | Human Events | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama White House counsel, Greg Craig, is being investigated for failing to register as a foreign agent over Ukraine work | 07/31/2018 | NBC News | Barack Obama White House |
| As a candidate, Obama ran afgainst the use of signing statements and executive orders; as president he did a 180. | 04/22/2012 | The New York Times | Barack Obama White House |
| A pro-life Chinese dissident sought protection from the U.S.; the Obama State Dept. tricked him into coming to our Beijing embassy, where he was promptly returned to the Chinese (facing possible execution). | 05/02/2012 | HotAir | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama admitted having invented a central character in his supposedly nonfiction autobiography (his girlfriend). | 05/02/2012 | Politico | Barack Obama White House |
| While still supposedly opposed to gay marriage, Obama lectured North Carolina about his "disappointment" in their constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. | 05/09/2012 | The Hill | Barack Obama White House |
| As a candidate, Obama ran on an anti-gay marriage platform; once in office, he announced he supports gay marriage. | 05/10/2012 | CNN | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama's White House quietly inserted him into existing WhiteHouse.gov biographies of past presidents. | 05/15/2012 | Commentary Magazine | Barack Obama White House |
| President Obama Broke Promise for Charity Donation, ISIS Hostage Family Says | 08/26/2016 | ABC News | Barack Obama White House |
| Despite his promise to keep lobbyists away from his administration, visitor logs showed their visits were frequent. | 05/20/2012 | The Washington Post | Barack Obama White House |
| If the government used the same budgeting rules it forces on the private sector, it's annual deficit would actually be $5 trillion (not $1.3 trillion). | 05/24/2012 | USA Today | Barack Obama White House |
| Despite boasting of imposing tough sanctions on Iran, his administration granted waivers to all 20 of Iran's primary trading partners | 07/04/2012 | The Wall Street Journal | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama's "jobs council" was packed with companies known for outsourcing. | 07/12/2012 | The Huffington Post | Barack Obama White House |
| The White House Facebook page somehow misspelled "Americans" | 07/26/2012 | The New York Daily News | Barack Obama White House |
| Under Obama, the number of regulators grew more than 25 percent. | 09/12/2012 | The Washington Post | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama's White House staff was also caught up in the Colombia prostitution scandal. | 09/20/2012 | Fox News | Barack Obama White House |
| For years, the Obama Administration falsely reported progress in its war in Afghanistan | 12/09/2019 | The Washington Post | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama Admin. regulations cost businesses $1.8 trillion in lost revenue, more than 20 times the White House's estimate | 09/20/2012 | The Washington Examiner | Barack Obama White House |
| Under the Great Recession, the number of Americans who killed themselves began outpacing those who die in car accidents. | 09/22/2012 | The Daily Mail | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama kicked off his Middle East foreign policy by condemning U.S. foreign policy in the region until his presidency; by 2012, opinions of America in the Middle East were worse than when Obama arrived. | 09/23/2012 | Reuters | Barack Obama White House |
| At a United Nations meeting, Obama skipped out on meeting with his counterparts so he could instead focus on his re-election campaign. | 09/25/2012 | Associated Press | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama touted his "balanced approach" to debt reduction, but it was actually 88 percent percent tax hikes. | 10/04/2012 | AEI | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama crafted a tax plan that would have lowered taxes on the millionaires working in the White House. | 10/10/2012 | The Washington Free Beacon | Barack Obama White House |
| When Obama met the father of one of the men who died trying to save America's consulate in Benghazi, the father described Obama as cold, impersonal, and ungrateful. | 10/25/2012 | The Weekly Standard | Barack Obama White House |
| The Obama Administration regularly ignored a law requiring information about the impact of proposed regulations. | 11/01/2012 | The Daily Signal | Barack Obama White House |
| The number of Americans on food stamps outnumbers the population of 24 states combined. | 11/23/2012 | Breitbart | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama's vice president quickly developed a reputation for copping feels whenever meeting the wives of his colleagues, at one point even saying "Spread your legs I'm going to frisk you." | 01/03/2013 | HotAir | Barack Obama White House |
| Despite being legally required to do so, Obama repeatedly failed to submit a budget by the first Monday of February. | 01/16/2013 | Heritage Action | Barack Obama White House |
| On a per-household basis, Obama's first term raised the national debt more than 42 presidents in 53 terms combined. | 01/19/2013 | CNS News | Barack Obama White House |
| Despite promising to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term, Obama actually did the opposite, doubling it to $1.1 trillion. | 01/26/2013 | Congressional Budget Office | Barack Obama White House |
| Under Obama, for the first time a majority of Americans said the federal government threatens their personal rights. | 01/31/2013 | The Pew Research Center | Barack Obama White House |
| Under Obama, food stamp rolls have grown to more than 47 million -- greater than the entire population of Spain. | 02/11/2013 | CNS News | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama has said his biggest regret as president is not passing new restrictions on gun ownership; a Gallup poll found only 4 percent of Americans agreed. | 04/16/2013 | CNS News | Barack Obama White House |
| An official with the UN Human Rights Council said Americans got what they deserved in the Boston Marathon bombing; the Obama Administration did not respond. | 04/22/2013 | Breitbart | Barack Obama White House |
| Agencies in the Obama Administration have created "secret" email addresses to conduct government business, but would not turn them over the the Associated Press despite FOIA requests. (The DoJ even asked for $1 million to do so.) | 06/04/2013 | Associated Press | Barack Obama White House |
| During Obama's economic "recovery," average Americans' incomes dropped twice as much as during the recession. | 08/23/2013 | The Weekly Standard | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama's budget for his final year in office called for $4 trillion in spending, $1.6 trillion in new taxes, $700 billion in new deficits, and would never balance. | 03/26/2014 | The Heritage Foundation | Barack Obama White House |
| Michelle Obama, in touting the success of her school lunch campaign, cited a bogus study claiming to show a drastic drop in childhood obesity. | 03/17/2014 | The Weekly Standard | Barack Obama White House |
| When Congress refused to raise the minimum wage again, Obama unilaterally raised it on federal properties (i.e., military bases), forcing the closure of many beloved fast food restaurants. | 04/28/2014 | The Washington Examiner | Barack Obama White House |
| Even as Obama's Labor Department effectively banned unpaid internships, the White House refused to pay its own interns anything, much less than $10.10 minimum wage it sought to impose on the private sector. | 04/29/2014 | The Huffington Post | Barack Obama White House |
| Thanks largely to ObamaCare, a majority of Americans now receive some form of government benefits. | 07/02/2014 | Forbes | Barack Obama White House |
| Under Obama, the average American household is worth a third less than in 2003. | 07/26/2014 | The New York Times | Barack Obama White House |
| After discussing his dismay over the beheading of American journalist James Foley, Obama headed straight to the golf course. | 08/24/2014 | The New York Post | Barack Obama White House |
| After Congress wouldn't agree to pass his sought after immigration reform, Obama signed an executive order effectively legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants -- despite earlier saying he didn't have the power to do so | 11/20/2014 | Rep. Kevin McCarthy | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama adviser David Axelrod wrote in his book that Obama lied during his first presidential campaign about supporting traditional marriage. | 02/10/2015 | TIME | Barack Obama White House |
| Under Obama, Americans' confidence in the federal government fell to historic lows, with just 11 percent expressing confidence in the executive branch. | 03/11/2015 | Associated Press | Barack Obama White House |
| Despite regular boasts he's orchestrated the longest jobs expansion in history, an ex White House economist admitted that 94 percent of jobs created under Obama were part time | 01/02/2016 | ZeroHedge | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama has effectively doubled the national debt, from $10.6 trillion upon taking office to $19.5 trillion as of this writing. | 01/04/2016 | U.S. Debt Clock | Barack Obama White House |
| Under Obama, the national debt per taxpayer increased to $166,769. | 01/04/2016 | U.S. Debt Clock | Barack Obama White House |
| Under Obama, unfunded liabilities -- spending the government has already promised but can't actually afford -- grew to more than $104 trillion. | 01/04/2016 | U.S. Debt Clock | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama regularly boasts of cutting the deficit two-thirds. In reality, he's grown the deficit from $458 billion in 2008 to $591 billion as of this writing. | 01/04/2016 | U.S. Debt Clock | Barack Obama White House |
| Under Obama, America's debt-to-GDP ratio soared to 106 percent (by comparison, Spain -- a country governed by a socialist workers party for much of the last 30 years -- is 68 percent). | 01/04/2016 | U.S. Debt Clock | Barack Obama White House |
| Under Obama, the number of Americans not in labor force skyrocketed from 80.5 million to 96 million. | 01/04/2016 | St. Louis Federal Reserve | Barack Obama White House |
| Food stamp usage is up 42 percent under Obama. | 01/12/2016 | FactCheck.org | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama made at least 140 promises in his State of the Union addresses that he never fulfilled. | 01/12/2016 | Grabien | Barack Obama White House |
| Despite promise to be "the most transparent administration in history," Obama ended up denying 77 percent of Freedom of Information Act requests. | 03/18/2016 | The Washington Examiner | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama admitted he moved the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. (Earlier his press secretary claimed it had been given back to the British embassy, a tale Obama contradicted.) | 04/22/2016 | ABC News | Barack Obama White House |
| A study found regulations under Obama exploded to cost $1.9 trillion in 2015, or $15,000 per American household. | 05/03/2016 | The Competitive Enterprise Institute | Barack Obama White House |
| Despite making almost daily calls for "equal pay for women," Obama's own White House has for years been found to pay women at least 11 percent less than men. | 07/06/2016 | The Washington Examiner | Barack Obama White House |
| America's home ownership is now at the lowest rate since 1965. | 07/28/2016 | Bloomberg | Barack Obama White House |
| In 2015, the Obama Administration set a record for not fulfilling FOIA requests (despite claiming to be the "most transparent in history"). | 08/11/2016 | Associated Press | Barack Obama White House |
| Despite claiming to have only learned about Hillary Clinton's secret server in the news, the FBI revealed that Obama communicated with her, using a pseudonym. | 09/26/2016 | National Review Online | Barack Obama White House |
| On his final day in office, Obama signed an executive order banning "traditional ammunition" from federal grounds, which it said is meant to protect birds and fish from lead poisoning. | 01/23/2017 | The Washington Examiner | Barack Obama White House |
| Amongst those to receive a last-minute commutation from Obama was Oscar Lopez, "one of the most violent" terrorists of his time. | 01/24/2017 | Politico | Barack Obama White House |
| After the Obama Administration ended, many joined the board of the Holocaust Museum, where they oversaw the creation of a report absolving the administration for inaction during the Syrian genocide. The report was pulled amid criticism. | 09/05/2017 | Tablet Magazine | Barack Obama White House |
| As recounted in his autobiography, Obama reacted to 9/11 by worrying it might dampen his political career on account of his middle name. | 09/11/2001 | The Audacity of Hope | Barack Obama White House |
| While campaigning, Obama said he had visited "57 states" in America, and had two more to go before seeing them all. | 05/09/2008 | Snopes | Barack Obama White House |
| Before he was even in office, Obama was enmeshed in scandal. He was accused of consorting with then-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich over who would get his Senate seat, although he denied making contact with the governor's office. However a witness says this was | 12/09/2008 |
| When British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the White House, Obama gave him a bunch of DVDs as a gift (worse: they were in the wrong format). | 03/18/2009 | The Daily Telegraph | Barack Obama White House |
| Despite running on a promise to go through the budget "line by line" to cut wasteful spending, Obama quadrupled the deficit in his first year of office. | 03/24/2009 | The Heritage Foundation | Barack Obama White House |
| When one of his staffers referred to the pope as a "discredited leader," Obama refused to say if he agreed. | 04/15/2009 | CNS News | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama seemed to think Austrians speak "Austrian" | 04/07/2009 | The Washington Post | Barack Obama White House |
| After enduring hours of anti-American speeches from crackpot South American leaders at the 2009 Summit of the Americas conference, Obama said ... nothing. | 04/17/2009 | Bloomberg | Barack Obama White House |
| When the Grateful Dead was in D.C. for a show, Obama made sure they paid him a secret visit in the Oval Office. | 04/19/2009 | The Washington Post | Barack Obama White House |
| After Iran convicted an American journalist in a sham trial, the Obama White House was mute. | 04/19/2009 | Yahoo News | Barack Obama White House |
| Breaking a decades long precedent, Obama happily met with then-Libya dictator Muammar Gaddafi at a G8 Summit. | 07/09/2009 | Tripoli Post | Barack Obama White House |
| After committing to cut a mere $100 million in spending in 90 days (around 1/10th of 1 percent of the budget), Obama missed his deadline. | 07/21/2009 | CNN | Barack Obama White House |
| Despite admitting "not having all the facts," Obama said a Boston police officer "acted stupidly" when arresting a professor who resisted questions while the officer responded to a 911 call. Obama later said he regretted his comments. | 07/22/2009 | Wikipedia | Barack Obama White House |
| Despite publicly asking federal agencies to look for places to cut costs, Obama arranged a massive spending boost for a legal aid agency whose own inspector general accused it of wasting money on goodies for its execs. | 07/29/2009 | The Washington Times | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama tried turning 9/11 into some kind of national holiday for liberalism. | 08/24/2009 | The American Spectator | Barack Obama White House |
| Barack Obama, commander in chief, pronounced Navy "corpsman" like "corpse-man." | 02/04/2010 | YouTube | Barack Obama White House |
| While Obama hosted an Earth Day celebration in the Rose Garden, the Deepwater Horizon, which had been burning for two days, sank into the Gulf | 04/22/2010 | The Daily Caller | Barack Obama White House |
| The Coast Guard announces 11 Deepwater workers are dead; Obama travels to N.C. for a vacation, where he eats BBQ with Michelle. | 04/23/2010 | The Daily Caller | Barack Obama White House |
| Coast Guard announces oil is spewing into the Gulf; the Obamas continued their vacation | 04/24/2010 | The Daily Caller | Barack Obama White House |
| James Comey accused Obama and Loretta Lynch of repeatedly interfering in the FBI's Hillary probe | 04/15/2018 | The Washington | Barack Obama White House |
| After an attempt at stopping the leak fails, the spill is now the size of Rhode Island; Obama hosts a ceremony with the Yankees and then plays a round of golf | 04/26/2010 | The Daily Caller | Barack Obama White House |
| The spill rate is upgraded to 5,000 barrels/day; Obama spends the day doing political events in Illinois | 04/28/2010 | The Daily Caller | Barack Obama White House |
| Louisiana Gov. declares a state of emergeny as the 600 mile spill is just 16 miles off the coast; Obama delivers a speech on cybersecurity and meets with FEMA -- about hurricane preparedness | 04/29/2010 | The Daily Caller | Barack Obama White House |
| Efforts at stopping the leak continue to fail; Obama attends the White House Correspondents Dinner to tell jokes. | 05/01/2010 | The Daily Caller | Barack Obama White House |
| BP's "containment dome" fails to contain the leak; Obama plays golf at Fort Belvoir | 05/08/2010 | The Daily Caller | Barack Obama White House |
| Tar balls begin reaching the Alabama coastline; Obama delivers a commencement address at Hampton Univ. | 05/09/2010 | The Daily Caller | Barack Obama White House |
| By now the spill rate has been upgraded to 50,000 barrels/day; Obama hosts UCONN's women's basketball team at the White House | 05/17/2010 | The Daily Caller | Barack Obama White House |
| Oil balls are now washing ashore in Fla.; Obama meets with members of the Democratic Caucuses | 05/18/2010 | The Daily Caller | Barack Obama White House |
| The spill continues unabated; Obama announces a renovation project at the White House and delivers another commencement address | 05/22/2010 | The Daily Caller | Barack Obama White House |
| The spill continues unabated; Obama hosts the U.S. World Cup soccer team and Duke's basketball team | 05/26/2010 | The Daily Caller | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama makes a brief visit to Loisiana to inspect the recovery efforts, then heads on vacation | 05/28/2010 | The Daily Caller | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama tried to illegally bribe a Democratic senatorial candidate (Joe Sestak) out of running. | 05/29/2010 | CNN | Barack Obama White House |
| After the Gulf disaster was finally contained, Obama commissioned a taxpayer funded study to see what Americans thought of his handling of the crisis | 09/13/2010 | Yahoo News | Barack Obama White House |
| When Obama met with elementary school children in Virginia, he read them his own book. | 12/17/2010 | USA Today | Barack Obama White House |
| Against advice, Obama invited China's government to a White House state dinner; the Chinese pianist ended up playing an anti-American tune during the event. | 01/22/2011 | The Epoch Times | Barack Obama White House |
| Under Obama, regulations soared to more than 1,500/year (by contrast Congress averages 200 laws/year). | 02/08/2011 | The Competitive Enterprise Institute | Barack Obama White House |
| For months Obama deflected calls to act on the deficit/debt by creating a commission to handle the issue; when the commission issued its report, Obama ignored it entirely. | 02/14/2011 | The Heritage Foundation | Barack Obama White House |
| After Obama touted China's high-speed rail system as a model for America, the system announced it's fighting corruption and insolvency. | 02/17/2011 | The New York Times | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama ordered the killing of a 16 yr old US citizen who had not been charged with a crime | 04/06/2010 | The New York Times | Barack Obama White House |
| Despite taking credit for disposing of Gaddafi, Obama was the last Western leader to speak in favor of regime change. | 02/23/2011 | The Washington Post | Barack Obama White House |
| Since taking office, Americans' share of the debt increased $50/day. | 03/08/2011 | The Washington Times | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama said he would like to be president of China so that criticism of him could be outlawed. | 03/10/2011 | The New York Times | Barack Obama White House |
| Despite it being constitutional questionable, Obama began signing legislation -- without actually signing it (but rather with an "autopen"). | 05/27/2011 | NPR | Barack Obama White House |
| When business leaders came to meet Obama at the White House to discuss improved relations, they left "infuriated" with his behavior. | 06/16/2011 | The Washington Post | Barack Obama White House |
| During a debt ceiling debate, Obama claimed 80 percent of Americans wanted higher taxes as part of the deal; a Rasmussen poll that week showed that just 34 percent thought so. | 07/23/2011 | Human Events | Barack Obama White House |
| After Obama touted China's electric car makers, they soon thereafter began focusing on gas engines. | 08/11/2011 | Future of Capitalism | Barack Obama White House |
| Obama wanted to apologize to Japan for America dropping nukes during WW2, but Japan told him not to. | 10/11/2011 | Investors Business Daily | Barack Obama White House |
| GAO report says Obama broke the law in using taxpayer funds to host bilateral China talks focused on aerospace | 10/25/2011 | The Washington Examiner | Barack Obama White House |
| Bypassed Congress on student loans, contracts, drugs, and mortgage legislation. | 10/31/2011 | The Daily Caller | Barack Obama White House |
| The CIA informed Obama within 24 hours of the Benghazi attack it had found terror links, but Obama nonetheless kept blaming an unrelated YouTube video for weeks. | 10/19/2012 | USA Today | Central Intelligence Agency |
| Obama's pick for the CIA, John Brennan, once said Gitmo's 20 percent recidivism rate was unbothering. "20 percent isn't bad." | 01/07/2013 | National Review Online | Central Intelligence Agency |
| Obama's pick for the CIA, John Brennan, was described as "instrumental in preventing ... an operation in 1998 that would have killed or captured Osama bin Laden." | 01/07/2013 | National Review Online | Central Intelligence Agency |
| Obama's pick for the CIA, John Brennan, supported direct talks with the designated terrorist organization, Hezbollah, which is second only to al Qaeda in the number of Americans it's killed. | 01/07/2013 | National Review Online | Central Intelligence Agency |
| Obama's pick for the CIA, John Brennan, is the leader of the push to kill, not capture, suspected terrorists (robbing them of intel value). | 01/07/2013 | National Review Online | Central Intelligence Agency |
| Obama's pick for the CIA, John Brennan, admitted to worrying about receiving security clearance on account of his past allegiance to the Communist Party. | 01/07/2013 | CNN | Central Intelligence Agency |
| Obama's pick for the CIA, John Brennan, argued for government censorship in his graduate thesis; "too much freedom is possible," he wrote. | 01/23/2013 | The Daily Caller | Central Intelligence Agency |
| After Congress failed to confirm Richard Cordrary to the CFPD, Obama unconstitutionaly appointed him to the board anyway. | 01/20/2010 | The Daily Signal | Consumer Finance Protection Board |
| Despite swearing to uphold and defend the Constitution, Obama frequently flouted its limitations, as seen -- take one example -- with his decision to name commissioners to positions that require Senate approval ... without Senate approval. | 01/05/2012 | The Washington Post | Consumer Finance Protection Board |
| The CFPB collects intrusive data on consumers in an NSA-like dragnet fashion. | 06/11/2013 | The Daily Signal | Consumer Finance Protection Board |
| The CFPB's warrantless surveillance of Americans is creating data that will likely be shared with other parts of the federal government. | 06/28/2013 | Judicial Watch | Consumer Finance Protection Board |
| The CFPB, considered both the most powerful yet least acccountable agency in the government, is intent on keeping things that way. When a congressman attempted attending an advisory meeting, he was refused entry. | 03/20/2014 | National Review Online | Consumer Finance Protection Board |
| The CFPB's performance reviews have been called racist, as whites were twice as like to receive a top rating than minorities. | 03/24/2014 | The Washington Free Beacon | Consumer Finance Protection Board |
| The CFPB has a socialist on one of its advisory boards. | 04/02/2014 | The Washington Free Beacon | Consumer Finance Protection Board |
| A CFPB staffer said racism is pervasive within the agency; a primarily black division is referred to internally as "the plantation" or "cesspool" and that black employees struggle to leave that division. | 04/02/2014 | Politico | Consumer Finance Protection Board |
| When the House held a hearing on accusations of racism and bigotry within the CFPB, the bureau refused to send anyone to testify. | 04/02/2014 | Politico | Consumer Finance Protection Board |
| When a CFPB staffer/whistleblower spoke out about "pervasive" culture of intimidation and discrimination, the CFPB Director Richard Cordray personally told her to "back down." | 04/03/2014 | The Washington Free Beacon | Consumer Finance Protection Board |
| CFPB spent more than $215 million renovating its temporary office ($120 million over its initial estimate), making it one of the most expensive construction projects in the world. | 07/02/2014 | The Financial Services Committee | Consumer Finance Protection Board |
| The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the CFPB is unconstitutionally structured and violates due process rights. Obama had argued otherwise. | 10/12/2016 | The Washington Post | Consumer Finance Protection Board |
| CFPB chief Richard Cordrary used a private device to conduct government-related communications while skirting federal record keeping laws. | 01/23/2017 | The Daily Caller | Consumer Finance Protection Board |
| Obama's top campaign ad firm received nearly $60 million in federal contracts, almost all of which came from the CFPB he setup with Sen. Elizabeth Warren | 09/14/2017 | The Daily Caller | Consumer Finance Protection Board |
| Obama's CPSC sued the maker of a perfectly safe toy, leading the company to stop manufacturing it. | 07/26/2012 | NewsBusters | Consumer Product Safety Commission |
| Even as the Obama Administration portrayed the Flint, Mich., water crisis as a failure of Michigan's Republican governor, records show his EPA knew about the issue but didn't tell anyone. | 01/12/2016 | The Detroit News | Environmental Protection Agency |
| After committing one of the worst environmental atrocities in Colorado history with the Gold King Mine disaster, the EPA still insisted it should have control over the nearby Animas River. | 02/23/2016 | The Daily Caller | Environmental Protection Agency |
| While conducting water tests in Alaska, EPA agents treat locals like enemy combatants, even pointing a shotgun at a septuagenarian. | 09/29/2016 | Alaska Daily News | Environmental Protection Agency |
| The EPA warned Alaskans to stop burning wood to keep warm. | 01/01/2017 | Townhall | Environmental Protection Agency |
| Obama EPA employees earned overtime without justification | 08/14/2017 | The Washington Free Beacon | Environmental Protection Agency |
| Obama's EPA hid experimental data debunking the 2015 ozone rule | 09/12/2017 | JunkScience | Environmental Protection Agency |
| After a Democrat-led Senate rejects his global warming emissions law, Obama uses the EPA to impose them anyway | 01/20/2010 | The Heritage Foundation | Environmental Protection Agency |
| After Obama's EPA enacted new rules on greenhouse gases, political ally General Electric received an exemption. | 02/04/2011 | The Blaze | Environmental Protection Agency |
| Obama's EPA imposed burdensome regulations instructing how to put canoes in the water in Canton, Conn. | 01/13/2012 | Patch | Environmental Protection Agency |
| Under Obama, the EPA ordained that "environmental justice" must govern their every decision; one effect was that people could sue a polluter, claiming racism. | 05/17/2012 | Breitbart | Environmental Protection Agency |
| The EPA ruled that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant -- as a means to enact global warming regulations -- even though life on earth could not exist without it. | 06/26/2012 | The Daily Signal | Environmental Protection Agency |
| Obama's coal regulations led to PBS Coals to lay off 225 works, about 30 percent of its workforce. | 07/23/2012 | The Washington Examiner | Environmental Protection Agency |
| The EPA funneled money to a newspaper that largely focused on covering the EPA. | 09/12/2012 | The Washington Guardian | Environmental Protection Agency |
| The EPA honored Hispanic Heritage Month with a poster of Che Guevara "and a bit of plagiarism." | 09/13/2012 | BuzzFeed | Environmental Protection Agency |
| Obama's coal regulations led to Alpha Natural Resources to cut 1,200 jobs and close 8 mines. | 09/18/2012 | Associated Press | Environmental Protection Agency |
| The EPA celebrated "Children Health Month" by encouraging schools to create "energy patrols" aimed at making students feel guilty for using electricity. | 10/05/2012 | CNS News | Environmental Protection Agency |
| To avoid federal laws governing electronic record keeping, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used "alias" email accounts. | 11/20/2012 | NewsBusters | Environmental Protection Agency |
| The EPA mandate that cars in 2025 get 54.5 miles per gallon will effectively outlaw cars under $15,000, and will increase the average price of a car by $3,000. | 12/26/2012 | The Daily Signal | Environmental Protection Agency |
| The EPA's mandated ethanol blend E15 has been discovered to destroy engines -- but the rule has not been repealed. | 01/31/2013 | The Blaze | Environmental Protection Agency |
| The EPA mandated gasoline blenders use a fuel ... that doesn't exist. | 02/05/2013 | The Christian Science Monitor | Environmental Protection Agency |
| Emails from EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's secret account reveal her contempt for congressional oversight, the Wall Street Journal, and attempts to borrow art work from the Smithsonian for the EPA's office. | 02/20/2013 | The Washington Free Beacon | Environmental Protection Agency |
| The EPA conducted a study in which children were intentionally exposed to diesel exhaust; when asked about it, they deleted all records of it from their website. | 02/25/2013 | JunkScience | Environmental Protection Agency |
| A study found the EPA routinely waives fees for environmental groups seeking informatiom from the agency (more than 90 percent), while the media and watchdog groups received no such favors. | 05/14/2013 | The Washington Examiner | Environmental Protection Agency |
| An EPA mandated vehicle emissions reduction device forward an ambulance to shut down on the way to the hospital; the patient died. | 05/31/2013 | The Daily Caller | Environmental Protection Agency |
| An inspector general's report found that conditions at an EPA warehouse included mold, rot, vermin feces, and "generally deplorable conditions." | 06/04/2013 | Reason | Environmental Protection Agency |
| EPA workers at a Landover warehouse turned the space into a personal rec room/gym. | 06/05/2013 | The Washington Post | Environmental Protection Agency |
| The EPA leaked private information on farmers to radical environmental groups. | 06/07/2013 | Townhall | Environmental Protection Agency |
| The EPA gave an ethics award to a fake employee, "Richard Windsor," which was actually an alias the EPA administrator used to avoid federal record keeping laws. | 06/10/2013 | HotAir | Environmental Protection Agency |
| IRS agents seized almost $1 million from an Iraq war vet in Athens, Ga., which they justified as a result of his having made many deposits under $10,000. Despite no unlawful activity, the IRS refused to give back his money, only surrendering the majority | 04/01/2013 | The Daily Signal | Internal Revenue Service |
| The IRS's Lois Lerner announced the agency had unfairly targeted conservative groups and apologized -- but Obama later claimed this was a "phony scandal." | 05/10/2013 | Associated Press | Internal Revenue Service |
| While the IRS kept Tea Party groups' tax exempt applications in limbo during the 2012 election, groups with "progress" or "progressive" in the title were ushered through quickly. | 05/13/2013 | USA Today | Internal Revenue Service |
| The IRS leaked confidential information on conservative groups to ProPublica. | 05/14/2013 | The Washington Post | Internal Revenue Service |
| As an example of the kind of pressure applied to conservative groups, the IRS asked a Tea Party group about everything its members read. | 05/14/2013 | ABC News | Internal Revenue Service |
| After St. Louis reporter Larry Conners gave Obama a tough interview, the IRS "hammered him" with audits. | 05/14/2013 | RedState | Internal Revenue Service |
| After a prominent Catholic wrote an oped attacking the Obama Administration, she was audited (although not her husband despite them joint filing). | 05/15/2013 | The Blaze | Internal Revenue Service |
| The IRS is accused of stealing 60,000,000 medical records from 10,000,000 Americans held by a private company it was not investigating. | 05/15/2013 | National Review Online | Internal Revenue Service |
| The IRS demanded of a pro-life group to know the content of their prayers. | 05/17/2013 | Yahoo News | Internal Revenue Service |
| Lois Lerner was personally involved in the targeting of conservative groups -- nine months before she claimed to have learned about it. | 05/24/2013 | Human Events | Internal Revenue Service |
| The commissioner of the IRS visited the White House several times per week during the height of the IRS scandal, with 118 visits in all (the previous IRS commissioner visited the White House once during his four year term). | 05/27/2013 | Commentary Magazine | Internal Revenue Service |
| Evidence indicates the IRS also targeted pro-Israel organizations at the request of Palestinians. | 05/29/2013 | Commentary Magazine | Internal Revenue Service |
| An internal report found that IRS agents routinely abuse their government credit cards. | 05/29/2013 | Watchdog.org | Internal Revenue Service |
| Records show the IRS commissioner had more visits to the White House than any other cabinet member. | 05/29/2013 | The Daily Caller | Internal Revenue Service |
| In addition to having tax-exempt applications intentionally delayed, many of these same conservatives were audited by the IRS. | 05/30/2013 | McClatchy | Internal Revenue Service |
| Obama's deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, admitted she attended White House meetings with the IRS chief. | 06/01/2013 | Rare | Internal Revenue Service |
| The IRS leaked a conservative group's donor list to an oppositional progressive organization. | 06/04/2013 | Fox News | Internal Revenue Service |
| The IRS spent $4.1 million on a single conference, which included gifts for all in attendance as well as luxury accommodations. | 06/04/2013 | The New York Times | Internal Revenue Service |
| Contrary to IRS officials trying to blame a rogue office in Cincinnati, a staffer in that office said the IRS in D.C. was very interested in the Tea Party cases. | 06/07/2013 | The Hill | Internal Revenue Service |
| Even after being put on leave, Lois Lerner still had access to IRS computers, which she accessed while "on leave." | 06/11/2013 | National Review Online | Internal Revenue Service |
| A FOIA request found that the IRS has 201 employees working full time on union business. | 06/13/2013 | The Daily Caller | Internal Revenue Service |
| At the height of the IRS scandal, the agency doled out $70 million in employee bonuses. | 06/20/2013 | The Hill | Internal Revenue Service |
| The IRS sent tens of millions of dollars in refunds to illegal aliens at one address. | 06/22/2013 | PJ Media | Internal Revenue Service |
| Charities with "Israel" flagged for greater scrutiny | 06/24/2013 | National Review Online | Internal Revenue Service |
| Despite the IRS insisting progressive groups seeking non-profit status were also flagged for increased scrutiny, that later proved to be untrue. | 06/24/2013 | National Review Online | Internal Revenue Service |
| IRS chief council William Wilkins, one of the orchestrators of the agency's improper targeting of conservative groups, visited the White House the day before issuing guidelines on tea party groups. | 07/23/2013 | The Wall Street Journal | Internal Revenue Service |
| The IRS secretly seized the entire bank account of a small business owner in Spirit Lake, Iowa. Again the agency explained they could take the money because she had made several deposits under $10,000. | 08/01/2013 | The Daily Signal | Internal Revenue Service |
| Despite having claimed to learn about the scandal in the press, emails show Lois Lerner had initially said Tea Party applications were too sensitive for the supposedly "rogue" Cincinnati office. | 09/11/2013 | The Wall Street Journal | Internal Revenue Service |
| Documents show the IRS, in reviewing applications from conservative groups, described anti-Obama rhetoric as "propaganda." | 09/17/2013 | USA Today | Internal Revenue Service |
| After the IRS granted tax-emempt status to some conservative groups, those groups said they were "spied on" by the IRS. | 09/19/2013 | The Washington Times | Internal Revenue Service |
| Ben Carson said after he attacked Obama during the National Prayer Breakfast, he was audited. | 10/01/2013 | The Daily Caller | Internal Revenue Service |
| A study found tht the IRS's suppression of Tea Party groups swung the 2012 election. | 10/03/2013 | The Washington Examiner | Internal Revenue Service |
| Emails show the IRS disussed confidential taxpayer information with White House officials during the 2012 campaign. | 10/09/2013 | The Daily Caller | Internal Revenue Service |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare Individual Mandate Excise tax took effect. | 01/01/2014 | Americans for Tax Reform | Internal Revenue Service |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare Tax on Health Insurers took effect. | 01/01/2014 | Americans for Tax Reform | Internal Revenue Service |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare Employer Mandate Tax took effect. | 01/01/2014 | Americans for Tax Reform | Internal Revenue Service |
| The IRS was not going rogue in targeting conservative groups; the White House and Senate Democrats explicitly told them to. | 02/26/2014 | The Wall Street Journal | Internal Revenue Service |
| The IRS was required by law to print out Lois Lerner's emails. It didn't. | 06/17/2014 | The Daily Caller | Internal Revenue Service |
| An inspector general's report found the IRS "prematurely" destroyed computer data storage devices. | 06/25/2014 | The Daily Caller | Internal Revenue Service |
| IRS commissioner John Koskinen claimed Lois Lerner's emails were lost in a 2011 computer crash; a hard drive backing them up was also "recycled." | 06/25/2014 | The Daily Caller | Internal Revenue Service |
| The IRS claimed it lost the emails from six other employees in six other computer crashes. | 06/25/2014 | The Daily Caller | Internal Revenue Service |
| An IRS official tasked with spinning Congress on the IRS scandal lost all of his emails in a "computer crash." | 07/07/2014 | The Daily Caller | Internal Revenue Service |
| The IRS said Lois Lerner's hard drive had been "scratched"; when it was recommended a third party recovery firm might be able to recover the contents, the IRS then "shredded" the drive. | 07/22/2014 | The Daily Caller | Internal Revenue Service |
| After the IRS learned Lois Lerner's computer "crashed," destroying her emails, and a backup storage device was prematurely "recycled," it went ahead and destroyed her Blackberry. | 08/25/2014 | The New York Observer | Internal Revenue Service |
| A White House staffer divulged information about the Koch Brothers' tax returns in 2010, indicating the White House and the IRS were sharing taxpayers' private information. | 06/19/2015 | Roll Call | Internal Revenue Service |
| Emails show the Obama Administration discussed its plan to target conservative groups before the IRS scandal began. | 07/06/2015 | The Daily Caller | Internal Revenue Service |
| Emails show the IRS gave Obama's DoJ 21 disks with 1.25 million pages of taxpayer records. | 07/06/2015 | The Daily Caller | Internal Revenue Service |
| With Americans renouncing their citizenship in record numbers (up more than 500 percent since the Bush Administration), the Obama Administration hiked the tax on doing so 422 percent. | 02/20/2016 | Forbes | Internal Revenue Service |
| The IRS identified 1.1 million cases of identity theft but did not notify the victims. | 08/31/2016 | HotAir | Internal Revenue Service |
| The Obama Administration used information from Americans' tax returns to market ObamaCare (specifically to young adults). | 11/07/2016 | The Daily Caller | Internal Revenue Service |
| An investigation found IRS workers spent more than $1.4 million for the travel of just 27 staffers, which included high-end car services and luxury apartment/hotel stays. | 12/14/2016 | Fox News | Internal Revenue Service |
| An Inspector General report found the IRS prioritized ObamaCare enforcement over taxpayer customer servide. | 01/05/2016 | The Washington Times | Internal Revenue Service |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare Excise Tax on Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans takes effect. | 01/01/2018 | Americans for Tax Reform | Internal Revenue Service |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare BlueCross/BlueShield tax took effect. | 01/01/2010 | Americans for Tax Reform | Internal Revenue Service |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare excise tax on charitable hospitals took effect. | 03/23/2010 | Americans for Tax Reform | Internal Revenue Service |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare "Black Liquor" Tax hike took effect. | 03/23/2010 | Americans for Tax Reform | Internal Revenue Service |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date ObamaCare codified the "economic substance doctrine," which disallowed unspecified tax deductions. | 03/23/2010 | Americans for Tax Reform | Internal Revenue Service |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the tax on Indoor Tanning Services took effect. | 07/01/2010 | Americans for Tax Reform | Internal Revenue Service |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare Medicine Cabinet Tax took effect. | 01/01/2011 | Ame |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare Tax on Innovator Drug Companies took effect. | 01/01/2011 | Americans for Tax Reform | Internal Revenue Service |
| Obama nominated David Hamilton, infamous for his rulings favoring sex offenders, to the 7th Court of Appeals. | 04/30/2009 | Front Page Mag | Judiciary |
| Obama nominated Louis Butler, who Wisconsin voters twice voted off the state Supreme Court after weakening laws against frivilous lawsuits, to a federal district court. | 11/19/2009 | The Wall Street Journal | Judiciary |
| Obama nominated Robert Chatigny, who infamously partially excused a rapist/murderer of his crimes because of the perp's penchant for "sexual sadism," to the 2nd Court of Appeals. | 03/16/2010 | The Washington Times | Judiciary |
| As a senator, Obama warned ending the filibuster would worsen "the fighting, the bitterness, and the gridlock." When Harry Reid ended the filibuster for Obama's nominees, he applauded the move. | 11/21/2013 | The Washington Post | Judiciary |
| Obama's NIH spent taxpayer money studying gay men's penis sizes. | 07/18/2011 | The Daily Caller | National Institute for Health |
| The NIH funded a study that (wrongly) claimed the tobacco industry created the Tea Party movement. | 02/18/2013 | The Competitive Enterprise Institute | National Institute for Health |
| Obama NIH courted the alcohol industry to fund study showing benefits of drinking | 03/17/2018 | The New York Times | National Institute of Health |
| Unconstitutionally named three officials to the NLRB (side-stepping the Senate) and was later slapped down by the Supreme Court. | 01/20/2010 | The Daily Signal | National Labor Relations Board |
| Obama's NLRB imposed new rules requiring nonunion businesses to encourage their workers to ask to unionize. | 12/21/2010 | The New York Times | National Labor Relations Board |
| After Congress rejected the Employee Free Choice Act (aka "card check"), which would have eased unions' ability to unionize non-union companies, his NLRB imposed new rules that sought to achieve the same outcome. | 06/21/2011 | The Daily Signal | National Labor Relations Board |
| Obama's NLRB sued Boeing for trying to open a plant in South Carolina (because it wouldn't be unionized). | 02/17/2012 | The Washington Examiner | National Labor Relations Board |
| Under Obama, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court granted broad new powers to the NSA to collect data on average Americans (with no public input, of course). | 07/07/2013 | The New York Times | National Security Agency |
| Under Obama, the NSA now has access to 75 percent of America's Internet traffic. | 08/21/2013 | NBC News | National Security Agency |
| The NSA's spying on Israel's Netanyahu ended up also eavesdropping on U.S. congressmen. | 12/29/2015 | The Wall Street Journal | National Security Agency |
| Obama's rule changes opened the door for NSA intercepts of Americans to reach political hands (e.g., the Trump campaign) | 03/29/2017 | Circa | National Security Agency |
| The FISA court recently unleashed on the former Obama Administration for trying to cover up the NSA's widespread, and illegally, domestic spying. | 05/26/2017 | National Review Online | National Security Agency |
| Obama's NTSB is seeking to require cars install "black boxes," which is raising privacy concerns. | 12/07/2012 | USA Today | National Transportation Safety Board |
| Obama's NTSB, in pushing to regulate out of business the "Chinatown Bus Industry," used "statistical malpractice" to show the industry is dangerous; when asked, the agency refused to release its data. | 05/07/2013 | Reason | National Transportation Safety Board |
| Obama's NRC chairman was forced to quit after accusations of serial sexual/sadistic harassment. | 05/21/2012 | The Washington Free Beacon | Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
| Obama's nuclear regulations caused Dominion Resources to close its Kewaunee plant, resulting in 600 job losses. | 03/27/2013 | The Milwaukee Business Journal | Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
| Created "truth teams" to snitch on Americans criticizal of the president. | 02/13/2012 | ABC News | Obama for President (2012 campaign) |
| Obama, in attempting to refer to the Falkland Islands by their Spanish name, instead called the archipelago "The Maldives," a completely different place. | 04/16/2012 | The Daily Telegraph | Obama for President (2012 campaign) |
| Breaking promise, Obama campaign raised money from lobbyists in 2012 | 04/22/2012 | The Washington Examiner | Obama for President (2012 campaign) |
| Claimed he was outspent in 2008 campaign; in reality, he outspent McCain 3-1. | 07/06/2012 | YouTube/FactCheck | Obama for President (2012 campaign) |
| Obama attacked Romney for being in charge of Bain Capital during a particular set of layoffs; in fact his top bundler Jonathan Lavine was running Bain at the time. | 07/18/2012 | Gateway Pundit | Obama for President (2012 campaign) |
| Despite 2008 promise to never run negative ads, Obama was widely criticized for negativity of his 2012 campaign | 07/30/2012 | BuzzFeed | Obama for President (2012 campaign) |
| Obama compared his campaign volunteers to embassy staff killed in Libya | 09/12/2012 | The Washington Examiner | Obama for President (2012 campaign) |
| Obama only met with students during an event if they pledged to support him. | 10/01/2012 | AEI | Obama for President (2012 campaign) |
| Despite regularly claiming foreign funds improperly influenced U.S. elections, Obama's campaign actively enabled such (illegal) contributions. | 10/08/2012 | The Daily Caller | Obama for President (2012 campaign) |
| After claiming in the second presidential debate to have labeled the Benghazi attack "terrorism" the following day, he admitted immediately after the debate he avoided describing it that way. | 10/17/2012 | The Washington Post | Obama for President (2012 campaign) |
| Flew Air Force One to Chicago -- just to vote for himself (rather than using a mail-in ballot). | 10/25/2012 | USA Today | Obama for President (2012 campaign) |
| Flew Air Force One to a campaign office in Orlando ... to deliver pizza. | 10/29/2012 | The Washington Times | Obama for President (2012 campaign) |
| The Obama White House covered up a program that pays union workers taxpayer money to lobby the government for more unions. | 04/08/2011 | The Washington Times | Office of Personnel Management |
| OPM offered "hints about how to cut corners" during the screening of federal employees, which may have helped the Navy Yard shooter to slip through the cracks. When Congress attempted to investigate, OPM refused to hand over documents. | 11/20/2013 | The Washington Times | Office of Personnel Management |
| The OPM announced 21.5 million Americans (mostly government workers) had their personal information compromised after China hacked its computers. | 07/09/2015 | Reuters | Office of Personnel Management |
| Obama political group created thousands of fake Twitter accounts to agitate for gun control | 02/26/2013 | The Daily Signal | Organizing for America |
| Despite promising not to engage in lobbying, Obama's political group registered as lobbyists | 04/12/2013 | The Washington Free Beacon | Organizing for America |
| A study found that the stimulus bill actually 'forestalled or destroyed' one million private sector jobs. | 05/20/2011 | NewsBusters | Recovery.gov |
| Cree Inc., an LED lightbulb maker that received $5.2 million in stimulus funds, created ... 3.02 jobs. | 06/17/2011 | Townhall | Recovery.gov |
| A $130K stimulus grant went toward buying 8,000 "social justice" manuals for Omaha janitors, effectively teaching them to resent white people. | 07/12/2011 | The Blaze | Recovery.gov |
| While selling the stimulus, Obama regularly assured shovel ready projects were awaiting to be funded; he later admitted to the New York Times "there's no such thing as shovel ready projects" | 07/23/2011 | Human Events | Recovery.gov |
| Stimulus dollars somehow ended up paying teenagers to wrestle alligators. | 08/11/2011 | Breitbart | Recovery.gov |
| A stimulus grant directed billions to California so it could build a train to connect two cities no one has ever heard of. | 08/14/2011 | HotAir | Recovery.gov |
| A $20 million stimulus project for Seattle was supposed to create 2,000 jobs. Actual result? 14. | 08/17/2011 | Human Events | Recovery.gov |
| A $1.2 million stimulus grant went to studying erectile dysfunction of overweight middle aged men and sexual history. | 05/17/2012 | NBC San Francisco | Recovery.gov |
| An $11 million stimulus grant meant to outfit 400 Detroit job seekers with fresh clothes somehow only ended up helping two people. | 03/07/2012 | Fox News | Recovery.gov |
| $9 billion in stimulus funds for clean energy projects ended up creating just 910 jobs ($9.8 million per job) | 06/20/2012 |
| $1.4 billion in stimulus funds went to tax cheats | 06/27/2012 | The Washington Times | Recovery.gov |
| Despite regularly promising the stimulus spending would be completely transparent, its website, recovery.gov, was completely opaque. (Today it doesn't even exist.) | 09/21/2012 | The Washington Free Beacon | Recovery.gov |
| Obama's VP, the "sheriff" of the stimulus, was used by companies to procure stimulus cash. | 10/10/2012 | The Washington Times | Recovery.gov |
| Obama regularly promised the stimulus would create 5 million jobs; at most it created 1/10th of that. | 10/12/2012 | Bloomberg | Recovery.gov |
| Obama's vice president's brother received plum government contracts through the program run by the vice president himself. | 10/23/2012 | The New York Post | Recovery.gov |
| At one point there were more than 1,000 investigations into stimulus project wrongdoing. | 11/04/2012 | The Washington Guardian | Recovery.gov |
| A $2 million Obama stimulus progream created just 17 jobs in Kentucky's coal country. | 07/21/2017 | The Daily Signal | Recovery.gov |
| Obama's "Wall Street Reform" resulted in the end of free checking accounts (by trying to outlaw credit card "swipe fees"). | 09/25/2012 | The Week | Securities and Exchange Commission |
| A number of Dodd-Frank's boards and commissions are unconstitutional | 10/11/2012 | The Washington Free Beacon | Securities and Exchange Commission |
| Obama financial regulations are spurring foreign banks from doing business with Americans. | 10/19/2012 | The Wall Street Journal | Securities and Exchange Commission |
| The Social Security Administration bought 174,000 rounds of hollow point bullets, explaining they were needed for its 295 "special agents." | 08/07/2012 | Fox News | Social Security Administration |
| The number of Americans on disability has skyrocketed 975 per day under Obama, reaching more than 10.6 million -- exceeding the entire population of Greece. | 05/07/2013 | CNS News | Social Security Administration |
| Over the last decade, the Social Security Administration paid $1 billion in benefits to people without social Security numbers | 02/22/2017 | The Washington Free Beacon | Social Security Administration |
| Obama admin spent $36M on lawsuits to keep info secret | 03/14/2017 | CBS News | The Obama White House |
| Despite studies revealing their lack of utility as well as their cancer risk, the TSA has pressed forth with deploying thousands of full body scanners in America's airports. | 12/28/2011 | ProPublica | Transportation Security Agency |
| Terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev, per a terror watch list, was not supposed to be allowed to leave the country. However he did without even being pulled aside for questioning. | 01/21/2012 | NBC News | Transportation Security Agency |
| Terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev, per a terror watch list, was not supposed to be allowed to leave the country. However he did without even being pulled aside for questioning. | 07/17/2012 | NBC News | Transportation Security Agency |
| The TSA, which rejected congressional requests to screen its agents' criminal records, has seen hundreds of agents be caught for stealing from passengers. | 09/28/2012 | ABC News | Transportation Security Agency |
| When asked about a secret Twitter-like program in Cuba that backfired, USAID hid behind the Freedom of Information Act to drag its feet as much as possible. | 08/11/2016 | Associated Press | U.S. Agency for International Development |
| Obama's Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack violated the Hatch Act which forbids federal employees from campaign activities; he went unsanctioned. | 04/09/2012 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Agriculture |
| Michelle Obama directed the Agriculture Department to eradicate "food deserts" (the apparent scarcity of healthy food in poor neighborhoods), despite studies showing no such things exist and there is no relationship between the availability of healthy foo | 04/17/2012 | The New York Times | U.S. Dept. of Agriculture |
| The USA used $22,000 in taxpayer funds to commission a painting of the department secretary, Tom Vilsack. | 11/20/2012 | Reason | U.S. Dept. of Agriculture |
| Obama's USDA banned schools from selling soda, candy, and other unhealthy snacks. It was even claimed doing so will raise students' GPAs. | 02/01/2013 | The Hill | U.S. Dept. of Agriculture |
| Under Obama, 101 million Americans now receive food aid -- more than the number of fulltime private sector workers. | 07/08/2013 | CNS News | U.S. Dept. of Agriculture |
| Thanks to "use it or lose it" spending rules, the Dept. of Agriculture bought $127,000 worth of printer cartridges -- in a single day. | 09/30/2013 | The Washington Post | U.S. Dept. of Agriculture |
| The USDA opted to update its dietary recommendations based on -- global warming. | 03/09/2014 | The Washington Examiner | U.S. Dept. of Agriculture |
| Obama's USDA instructed grandparents to read bedtime stories encouraging healthy eating to their grandkids. | 03/31/2014 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Agriculture |
| USDA regulations have proven so burdensome they've put out business restaurants like Pittsburgh's Crested Duck. | 12/07/2015 | The Pittsburgh Tribune | U.S. Dept. of Agriculture |
| Obama's USDA created fines for schools not following Michelle Obama's lunch rules. | 03/28/2016 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Agriculture |
| Obama's secretary of Commerce, Gary Locke, said Americans "need to pay" for Chinese emissions | 07/17/2009 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Commerce |
| Obama's regulations meant to protect turtles are putting American shrimpers out of business. | 08/01/2012 | U.S. News and World Report | U.S. Dept. of Commerce |
| The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) bought 46,000 rounds of ammo, which it said were necessary for its 63 "enforcement personnel." | 08/17/2012 | Fox News | U.S. Dept. of Commerce |
| When the Economic Development Administration noticed its computers had a virus, they ... destroyed their printers and mice. | 07/09/2013 | RedState | U.S. Dept. of Commerce |
| The Census Bureau was caught inflating jobs data by itself continually re-hiring the same short-term workers. | 11/21/2013 | The New York Post | U.S. Dept. of Commerce |
| Dozens of Census Bureau employees billed taxpayers for hours they never worked, wasting more than $1 million. | 09/17/2015 | The Washington Examiner | U.S. Dept. of Commerce |
| One Census Bureau employee was caught using his position to give jobs to friends and family, including someone he was sexually involved with. | 09/17/2015 | The Washington Examiner | U.S. Dept. of Commerce |
| Census Bureau officials attempted to "intimidate" a whistleblower who alerted a watchdog to the above-described billing fraud. | 09/17/2015 | The Washington Examiner | U.S. Dept. of Commerce |
| The Obama Administration relinquished control of the Internet's "address book" to an international group. | 09/29/2016 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of Commerce |
| A high-ranking Obama Commerce Dept. official commuted by taxi -- and billed taxpayers | 01/11/2018 | The Washington Post | U.S. Dept. of Commerce |
| After inviting a police officer who helped stop the Fort Hood terrorist attack to the 2010 State of the Union, promising she would be taken care of, the officer, Kimberly Munley, later reported being ignored and feeling "betrayed" | 02/12/2013 | ABC News | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| The Obama administration used a Pakistani dentist, Dr. Shakil Afridi, to gather intel on Osama bin Laden. Yet after the raid they left him, ignoring his requests for help, and he was sentenced to 33 years in jail. | 02/28/2013 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| Obama claimed sexual assaults in America's military was getting out of control and presented a national security threat; in reality sexual assault in the military is lower than comparable civilian populations. | 07/10/2013 | Foreign Policy | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| The Obama Administration attempted to stop the Navy-Air Force football game during the shutdown, but the schools used non federal funds to play the game. | 10/02/2013 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| During the government shutdown, the feds blocked tourists from visiting ... Normany Beach (as well as 24 other overseas cemeteries). | 10/03/2013 | HotAir | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| On the 7th day of the government shutdown, the National Guard bought a $47,174 mechanical bull. | 10/07/2013 | CNS News | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| Obama announces he's releasing five Taliban from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for the release of Bowe Bergdahl, who was later charged with desertion. | 05/31/2014 | CNN | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| It's revealed Bowe Bergdahl's dad, who converted to Islam, vowed revenge "for the death of every Afghan child" and to "free all Guantanamo prisoners." | 06/01/2014 | Allen West | U.S. D |
| Obama Administration released a terrorist from Gitmo "because he took up yoga." | 06/07/2014 | New York Post | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| When the longtime property owners near Area 51 refused to sell their land to the feds, the Air Force threatened to destroy it. | 09/17/2015 | news.com.au | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| After the family that owned the land near Area 51 for more than 100 years refused to sell, the feds just took it. | 10/16/2015 | Las Vegas Now | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| In a bid to become "gender neutral," the Navy scuttled sailors' enlisted rating titles. | 09/29/2016 | Navy Times | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| In a new handbook on transgenders warned the U.S. military not to make "assumptions" about someone's gender and to be "sensitive" about pronoun use. | 10/03/2016 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| Ran on promise of closing the Guantanamo Bay detention camp; didn't. | 01/20/2017 | Wikipedia | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| Obama asked the UK to cover up a failed Trident missile test as U.S. technology was to blame. | 01/24/2017 | The Daily Express | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| Obama freed two Gitmo detainees, sending them to Senegal, where they were then let return to Libya, where they finally disappeared | 04/23/2018 | The New York Times | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| Obama negotiated the START Treaty with Russia, which triumphed Russia reducing a nuclear stockpile it was planning on discarding anyway. | 07/08/2009 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| The START Treaty committed the U.S. to reduce its number of launchers to match Russia; Russia wasn't require to reduce any of its launchers. | 07/08/2009 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| The START Treaty left Russia with a 10-1 nuclear weapons tactical advantage. | 07/08/2009 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| When Afghanistan was falling apart and debate simmered over what course to take, Obama dithered, waiting several months to weigh in. | 11/09/2009 | Fox News | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| Despite Russia's reputation for ignoring arms treaties it's party to, START made no effort to police Russia's compliance. | 07/08/2010 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| Obama negotiated the START Treaty with Russia, which forced the U.S. to reduce its nuclear stockpile while unilaterally commiting to not upgrade our nuclear weapons (Russia was not similarly bound). | 04/09/2010 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| Despite warnings from generals, Obama opted to leave just 160 soldiers in Iraq, creating a dangerous vacuum later filled by ISIS. | 12/01/2010 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| The Obama Administration created "fake people" on social networks to promote propaganda. | 02/18/2011 | The Washington Examiner | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| In order to woo Russia to engage in the START talks, Obama first ended America's missile defense alliances with Poland and the Czech Republic | 06/15/2011 | ABC News | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| Released a major terrorist from Gitmo, Majid Khan. | 02/23/2012 | The Washington Post | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| Fearing a Jimmy Carter-like Iran hostage rescue fiasco and it's resulting political fallout, Obama said the Bin Laden raid "was the longest 40 minutes of my life." | 05/03/2012 | The Hill | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| The Obama Admin. leaked classified information about the bin Laden raid to filmmakers so as to play up his own role in the raid. | 05/23/2012 | The Daily Mail | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| Despite promising as a candiate to shutdown Guantanamo Bay, he later admitted to the New York Times he had no plan to do so. | 05/29/2012 | The New York Times | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| Russia quickly violated the START treaty but faced no repercussions from the Obama White House | 07/19/2012 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| U.S. soldiers were ordered not to shoot the Taliban at night so as to avoid bothering locals trying to sleep. | 10/05/2012 | Breitbart | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| The Obama Administration offered to pay U.S. defense companies to break the law and not issue mandated job loss announcements (which would embarrass him during an election year). | 10/26/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Defense |
| The Obama Administration colluded with infamous short-seller Steve Eisman when dishing out new for-profit college regulations (which Eisman happened to be short-selling). | 03/01/2011 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Education |
| Sidestepping Congress altogether, his Department of Education tied waivers to No Child Left Behind to new national education standards. | 01/10/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Education |
| His Dept. of Education used its budget to shutdown a popular voucher program in D.C. that helped poor minorities -- twice. | 02/13/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Education |
| Because black students are disproportionately disciplined in school, the Education Department alleged that America's schools are racist. | 08/08/2012 | Townhall | U.S. Dept. of Education |
| In trying to make the case against the sequester, Education Secretary Arne Duncan claimed "there are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips," which he later admitted was untrue. | 03/04/2013 | The Washington Post | U.S. Dept. of Education |
| Despite publicly pledging to improve access to education, the Obama Administration tried effectively shutting down non-federally funded colleges. | 03/13/2014 | Politico | U.S. Dept. of Education |
| His Dept. of Education decreed Title 9 covers transgendered students, meaning they will need separate and equal accommodations. | 04/29/2014 | The Department of Education | U.S. Dept. of Education |
| After passing regulations that made it impossible for the University of Phoenix to continue in its current form, the school was bought by three of Obama's best friends at a bargain price. | 06/29/2016 | Politico | U.S. Dept. of Education |
| Blaming Obama's Department of Education, ITT Technical Institute it was shutting down all of its campuses and lay off its thousands of employees, leaving its thousands of students stranded. | 09/06/2016 | NPR | U.S. Dept. of Education |
| Obama's chosen secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, who said he wanted to double, or triple, gas prices. | 12/12/2008 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Despite receiving a warning from a donor not to do so, Obama visited Solyndra, touting it as a model for government-driven clean energy/job creation. The company laid off its entire workforce less than a year later. | 03/24/2009 | The Washington Post | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Range Fuels, which received $80 million in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 02/10/2011 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Stirling Energy Systems, which received $7 million in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 06/10/2011 | Renewable Energy Focus | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Green Vehicles Inc., which received $700,000 in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 07/18/2011 | NewsBusters | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Evergreen Solar, which received $24 million in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 08/15/2011 | Wikipedia | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| The Energy Department decreed that its rules governing urinal efficiency shall preempt state urinal rules. | 08/23/2011 | Government Printing Office | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| SpectraWatt, which received $500,000 in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 08/24/2011 | CNET | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Solyndra, which was run by an Obama campaign supporter and received more than half a billion in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 08/31/2011 | The Washington Post | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Olsen's Crop Service, which received $10 million in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 09/10/2011 | Fox News | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Nevada Geothermal Power, which received $145 million in stimulus, went bankrupt. | 10/02/2011 | The New York Times | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| National Renewable Energy Lab, a non profit that received $200 million in stimulus failed, soon thereafter laid off 10 percent of its workforce. | 10/04/2011 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Just as the Dept. of Energy's loan program was set to expire, SunPower received a $1.2 billion loan, which provided the politically connected insiders to cash out. | 10/11/2011 | Human Events | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Obama's Dept. of Energy invested hundreds of millions in Tesla Motors, which was owned by one of his donors. | 10/17/2011 | PJMedia | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Mountain Plaza Inc., which received almost half a million in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 10/19/2011 | The Blaze | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Raser Technologies, which received $33 million in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 10/20/2011 | BreakingEnergy.com | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Obama's Dept. of Energy gave a $527 million loan to Al Gore connected Fisker Automotive -- which used the funds to create jobs ... in Finland. | 10/26/2011 | The National Center for Public Policy Research | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Obama's Dept. of Energy invested almost half a billion in the Al Gore connected Silver Spring Networks, a smart grid contractor that's since laid off much of its workforce. | 10/26/2011 | The National Center for Public Policy Research | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Beacon Power, which received $43 million in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 11/01/2011 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| A123 Systems, which received stimulus funds as well as a personal Obama visit, failed. | 12/02/2011 | The Ann Arbor News | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Willard & Kelsey Solar Group, which received $6 million in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 01/17/2012 | The Toledo Blade | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Energy Conversion Devices, which received $13.3 million in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 02/14/2012 | Wikipedia | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Unisolar, which received $100 million in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 02/15/2012 | Renewables International | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Sapphire Energy, which received $100 million in stimulus funds, created ... 36 jobs. | 02/22/2012 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Abound Solar, which received stimulus funds and a shoutout from Obama, went bankrupt. | 02/29/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Obama's Dept. of Energy doled out favors to the politically connected Pacific Gas (a number of employees have cycled in and out of the Obama Admin.). | 03/14/2012 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Azure Dynamics, which received $120 million in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 03/28/2012 | AutoBlog | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Ener1, which received $118.5 million in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 03/30/2012 | Wikipedia | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Solar Trust, which was offered $2.1 billion in stimulus funds, went bankrupt before it could accept them. | 04/02/2012 | Reuters | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| BrightSource Energy, which received $1.6 billion in stimulus funds, canceled its IPO and all U.S. related projects. | 04/13/2012 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Obama's Dept. of Energy granted Reliant Energy, a $1.237 billion loan; the company's run by the husband of an Obama bundler. | 05/22/2012 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| First Solar, a politically connected company that received more than $3 billion in stimulus funds, soon thereafter laid off 30 percent of its workforce (as well as sold solar panels to itself). | 05/30/2012 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Genesis Poly, which received $500,000 in stimulus funds, went bankrupt -- twice. | 06/24/2012 | HotAir | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Thompson River Power, which received $5 million in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 07/17/2012 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Greenvolts, which received $500 in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 09/12/2012 | Forbes | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Australian company Babcock & Brown, which received $178 million in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 10/18/2012 | PJMedia | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Armonix, which received $6 million in stimulus funds, is faltering. | 10/18/2012 |
| Armonix, which received $6 million in stimulus funds, is faltering. | 10/18/2012 | PJMedia | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Satcon Technology Corp., which was granted $6 million in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 10/18/2012 | Fox News | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Nordic Wind Power, which received $16 million in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 10/19/2012 | Kansas City Business Journal | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Korean owned Compact Power received $150 million in stimulus funds and a visit from Obama; it soon thereafter began furloughing workers before having produced a single battery (it's workers reportedly spend their days playing cards). | 10/19/2012 | HotAir | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Two high tech electric car companies sued the Department of Energy, accusing it having passed them over for loans in favor of politically connected, but less promising, Fisker Automotive (which later went bankrupt). The DoE was also accused of passing alo | 01/15/2013 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Navistar's estar electric van, which was introduced after a $40 million in stimulus funds, was discontinued in 2013. | 05/16/2013 | Trucking Info | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| The Dept. of Energy decided to give $100 million to an over-budget clean energy project after a Democratic donor, James Croyle, got involved. | 06/12/2013 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| In violation of anti-nepotism rules, more than a dozen Energy Department officials arranged summer jobs for their kids at the department. | 06/10/2013 | The Associated Press | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| ECOtality, which received $126.2 million in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 09/16/2013 | Wikipedia | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Fisker Automotive, which received $192 million in stimulus funds, went bankrupt. | 11/22/2013 | The Energy and Commerce Committee | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| The Department of Energy dumped at least $259 million into a uranium company that admitted being near bankruptcy and having no business plan before finally going bankrupt. | 11/27/2013 | The Washington Examiner | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Obama began bragging about low gas prices, despite actually attempting to raise them. | 01/26/2015 | The Washington Examiner | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| ObamaCare imposed a tax on unprocessed fuels. | 08/20/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare imposes a tax on employers that do not offer health coverage. | 08/20/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Obama's HHS has attempted to ban smoking on college campuses. | 09/11/2012 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| The Obama Admin. paid Hollywood to promote ObamaCare in TV shows. | 09/14/2012 | The New York Times | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| On this date, Americans who use medical devices were forced to start paying another ObamaCare-related tax. | 01/01/2013 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Obama's HHS conducted an exhaustive, years-long study into the efficacy of Head Start; the results showed that, if anything, it hurts children's progress; Obama pledged to expand the program anyway. | 01/10/2013 | The Heritage Foundation | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare moved much of the middle class into a welfare program originally meant for the very poor. | 03/05/2013 | The Heritage Foundation | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| An HHS website for girls 10-16 taught them about "mutual masterbation" as well as gay sex and birth control. | 05/31/2013 | CNS News | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Former Obama campaign staffers have since admitted that the idea for ObamaCare came when they needed something to talk about during an education speech. | 09/23/2013 | HotAir | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare does not view races equally under the law. | 10/29/2013 | The Competitive Enterprise Institute | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| A San Francisco couple donated to and volunteered for the Obama campaign; a year later ObamaCare canceled their insurance plans. | 11/06/2013 | ProPublica | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| An estimated 87 percent of ObamaCare waivers went to Obama's allies and supporters. | 11/20/2013 | Newsmax | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare forbids insurance companies from considering drug abuse when setting their clients insurance premiums. | 11/25/2013 | Fox News | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare forbids insurance companies from considering alcoholism when setting their clients insurance premiums. | 11/25/2013 | Fox News | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare encourages insurance companies to charge smokers more (apparently being a less acceptable vice than drinking or using drugs). | 11/25/2013 | Fox News | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| After failing to win carveouts for unions in ObamaCare itself, Obama used an executive order to exempt unions from fees other large employers pay. | 12/22/2013 | Forbes | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| On this date, ObamaCare began taxing full coverage insurance plans (perversely raising premiums and encouraging Americans to seek worse care). | 01/01/2014 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| On this day, ObamaCare partially defunded a popular Medicare home health care program. | 01/01/2014 | The Washington Examiner | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber said the federal exchanges were designed to prevent people in conservative states resisting the Affordable Care Act from buying health insurance. | 07/25/2014 | The New Republic | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare extempted Congress and their staff; a federal judge recently upheld the carveout. | 02/26/2015 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| After videos exposed Jonathan Gruber saying ObamaCare passed thanks to "the stupidity of the American people," the White House insisted he did not have an official role crafting the law; emails later showed that was untrue. | 06/22/2015 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| HHS employees infected their computers with viruses after watching too much pornography (none was fired). | 07/29/2015 | The Daily Mail | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Medicare under the Obama Administration has increased funding for "end of life" consultations, which critics accuse of promoting euthanasia. | 08/05/2015 | The Huffington Post | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Once it became clear insurance costs were still rising despite passing ObamaCare, Obama changed the goalposts, arguing that prices would have increased even more without the law, and therefore he helped Americans save "$2,600" on their premiums. | 06/01/2016 | Grabien | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Despite promising ObamaCare would, on average, lower families' premiums by $2,500/annually, costs have skyrockted under the law; in 2016, premiums shot up nationwide -- even by more than 100 percent in Arizona. | 10/21/2016 | ZeroHedge | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Despite a majority of states (unsuccessfully) suing the federal government in a bid to not participate in ObamaCare, on this date states are required to pick up the tab for the ObamaCare-mandated Medicaid expansion. | 01/01/2017 | The Heritage Foundation | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Obama's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services paid $729 million in erroneous payments to doctors as part of a stimulus program. | 06/12/2017 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Obama's first pick for HHS, Tom Daschle, quit after it was revealed he hadn't paid all of his taxes; Obama, however, had urged him to remain. | 02/03/2009 | NBC News | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Polls showed Americans hated ObamaCare even more than HillaryCare | 06/18/2009 | Pew Research Center | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare amendments that would have banned rationing health care were blocked. | 07/10/2009 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Obama sought to repeal (outside of Congress) ERISA, a law ensuring large companies can manage their employees under one set of rules, as opposed to 50. | 07/20/2009 | The Wall street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Obama touted the Mayo Clinic as an example of what ObamaCare can accomplish; the Mayo Clinic trashed ObamaCare. | 07/21/2009 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Obama regularly claimed 47 millions were insured while pitching ObamaCare. The real number was closer to 8 million. | 07/22/2009 | The American Spectator | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Americans lost five specific freedoms with ObamaCare (freedom to choose what's in your plan; the freedom to be rewarded for living a health life; the freedom to choose high-deductible coverage; the freedom to keep your existing plan, and the freedom to ch | 07/28/2009 | Fortune | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Despite promising ObamaCare hearings would be televised, CSPAN was denied access during final meetings. | 01/01/2010 | ABC News | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Obama crafted a secret deal with the pharmaceutical industry in order to get ObamaCare passed. | 02/12/2010 | The Sunlight Foundation | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare effectively banned physician-owned hospitals (which have a strong track record). | 03/23/2010 | Forbes | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Breaking a promise that ObamaCare would let you keep your plan if you like, ObamaCare specifically outlawed a broad swath of existing plans. (Politifact even named this its 2012 Lie of the Year.) | 03/23/2010 | Politifact | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare violates the First Amendment (which protects religious liberty). | 03/23/2010 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Obama promised not to levy a tax on the uninsured; ObamaCare broke that promise. | 03/23/2010 | Keith Hennessey | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare includes $10 billion for ... the United Auto Workers. | 03/24/2010 | Foundation for Economic Education | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Obama's secretary of the HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, threatened to put out of business insurance companies that communicated with their clients about the potential impact of ObamaCare. | 10/14/2010 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Even as one arm of the HHS was telling Americans to restrict fat, sugar, and salt, the HHS spent $776,000 to open an International House of Pancakes in an affluent neighborhood in Washington, D.C. | 11/24/2010 | The Competitive Enterprise Institute | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare requires insurers to "justify" to bureaucrats increases over 10 percent. | 12/21/2010 | The New York Times | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Obama used an executive order to reinsert an "end of life" provision of ObamaCare that was so unpopular it had to be stripped for the bill to pass. | 12/25/2010 | The New York Times | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| The Obama Admin. cooked the books to show ObamaCare reduces the size of government. | 01/06/2011 | The American Spectator | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Within the first year, Obama's HHS granted 733 waivers from ObamaCare -- almost all to political allies. | 02/02/2011 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Obama's HHS let four states avoid ObamaCare's most punitive provisions. | 02/17/2011 | The New York Times | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Even Democratic governors sought an escape hatch from ObamaCare. | 02/28/2011 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Even the liberal CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, attacked ObamaCare's onerous effects on small business. | 03/12/2011 | The Seattle Times | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Nearly 20 percent of ObamaCare's early waivers webnt to restaurants, nightclubs, and fancy hotels in Nancy Pelosi's district. | 05/17/2011 |
| HHS granted hundreds of ObamaCare "waivers" to political allies -- despite having no formal power to do so. | 06/07/2011 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare arranged for the hiring of spies to investigate private doctors. | 06/27/2011 | The New York Times | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare immunizes the Independent Payment Advisory Board from lawsuits resulting from the way its decisions impact patients. | 07/09/2011 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Obama sold ObamaCare promising Americans could keep their current doctors; that quickly proved untrue. | 07/23/2011 | Human Events | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Only a month into his presidency, Obama broke his promise not to raise taxes, raising taxes on cigarettes more than 100 percent (a regressive tax that hits poor Americans hardest). | 02/04/2012 | Wikipedia | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Obama changed his argument defending ObamaCare's constitutionality as soon as it became a Supreme Court case. | 02/25/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Starting in 2012, ObamaCare began severely restricting the use of highly popular health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts (HSAs and FSAs). | 03/07/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare created an entirely new tax on investments. | 03/07/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare created a new, actuarially unsound longterm entitlement called the CLASS program. | 03/07/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare makes more than half of the American population dependent on government through its expansion of Medicaid and subsidies. | 03/07/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare puts Medicare decisions in the hands of an unelected, unaccountable board. | 03/07/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare violates religious liberty, requiring religious charities, for example, to pay for abortion-inducing drugs and a full range of contraceptives. | 03/07/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare creates a new marriage penalty (as two individuals receive higher subsidies than a married couple). | 03/07/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare takes an increasing chunk out of middle class wallets as a tax set for families earning over $250K is not indexed for inflation. | 03/07/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare violated existing federal laws (by conferring benefits on same-sex couples). | 03/26/2012 | The Washington Post | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Obama's HHS secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, violated the Hatch Act, which forbids participation in campaigning. She went unsanctioned. | 04/09/2012 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Despite Obama's promises, ObamaCare expands the deficit, not reduces it. | 04/11/2012 | Forbes | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare funds pet neutering and bike lanes. | 05/03/2012 | The Hill | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare funds were used to give business to Obama's senior adviser, David Axelrod. | 06/02/2012 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| HHS waived welfare reform's work requirements -- despite having no legal authority to do so | 08/08/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare imposes a tax on health insurance providers based on their share of the market. | 08/20/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare imposes a tax on Americans who do not want health insurance. | 08/20/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare imposes a tax on drug manufacturers/importers based on their market share. | 08/20/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare lowered the medical expenses deduction. | 08/20/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare imposed a tax on retirees' prescription expenses (via the elimination of a corporate deductions). | 08/20/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare raised taxes on health insurance companies by limiting the amount of compensation that can be deducted. | 08/20/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare imposed a tax on BlueCross/BlueShield by removing their special deduction. | 08/20/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare imposed a tax on indoor tanning services. | 08/20/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare imposed a tax on self-insured health plans. | 08/20/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare imposed another tax on HSAs/FSAs by reducing the number of allowable purchases. | 08/20/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare raised the tax/penalty for puchasing disallowed products with HSAs | 08/20/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| ObamaCare raised corporate taxes by making it harder for companies to use business activities that reduce their liabilities. | 08/20/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| Obama's DHS authored a report suggesting conservatives are potential anti-American terrorists. | 05/05/2009 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security |
| Obama's DHS denied FOIA request from Rep. Darrell Issa that could have hurt Obama politically. | 02/01/2011 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security |
| After Congress rejects the immigration rules-laxing DREAM Act, Obama's DHS asks Customs officials to enforce the defeated law anyway | 04/19/2011 | PJMedia | U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security |
| An illegal immigrant/sex offender/intern for Sen. Bob Menendez, was to be arrested, but at the DHS's instructions, it was delayed until after Menendez was safetly re-elected. | 12/12/2012 | The Huffington Post | U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security |
| Obama's DHS stole a boat from the founder of TechCrunch over their own paperwork error. | 02/25/2013 | HotAir | U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security |
| While border control agents faced salary cuts during the sequester, illegal immigrant detention centers included free health care, dental services, barbers, bingo, and movie nights. | 03/20/2013 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security |
| A DHS employee was caught running a website teaching blacks to prepare for the "inevitable clash with the white race," agitating for a "purge." | 08/22/2013 | The Blaze | U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security |
| Russia warned the Obama Administration about Tarmerlan Tsarnaev, but authorities failed to detain him before the Boston Marathon bombing. | 03/25/2014 | NBC News | U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security |
| The DHS/TSA missed multipled chances to detain Tsarnaev, including once when he was supposed to be pulled aside at JFK Airport. | 03/25/2014 | NBC News | U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security |
| Even as Obama's DHS suffered a number of terror attacks on its watch, it still managed to hassle a small business in Kansas City for selling (unlicensed?) baseball themed women's underwear. | 10/23/2014 | Reason | U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security |
| Obama's DHS tried to hack Indiana's election system while Pence was governor | 02/21/2017 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security |
| Days before the 2016 election, the Obama Admin. blocked efforts to arrest a terrorist who snuck into Texas, so as to deny Trump a talking point. | 03/08/2017 | Fox News | U.S. Dept. of Homeland |
| HUD engages in racism and social engineering, as seen with its lawsuit compelling Westchester County to build certain numbers of homes for certain races. | 08/17/2009 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development |
| HUD-funded housing projects wasted money on belly dancers, sex offenders, and dead residents. | 01/26/2011 | The Center for Public Integrity | U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development |
| The Federal Housing Authority is legally required to maintain reserves of at least 2 percent; under Obama it's gone bankrupt. | 11/15/2012 | The New York Times | U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development |
| When the "stress test" the Federal Reserve applies to big banks it applied to the government's own Federal Housing Authority, possible losses extend to $115 billion. | 06/04/2013 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development |
| Obama's HUD created a "fair housing" rule requiring neighborhoods report racial data to the feds, which can then be used for creating more desirable racial blends via federal edict. | 07/22/2013 | CNS News | U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development |
| HUD tried forcing Westchester County to state it engaged in racially segregated housing practices -- even though it doesn't -- as a condition to accept federal funds. | 09/05/2013 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development |
| An HUD staffer who threatened to beat up his female boss, complained about his small desk, and said his colleague was a member of the KKK and should die, was given ... a six figure settlement from then feds. | 03/17/2016 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development |
| Clinton ally and Virginia governor, Terry McAuliffe, was caught having donated $500,000 to the wife of the FBI agent overseeing the investigation into Clinton's email server. | 10/24/2016 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| When the FBI began investigating the Clinton Foundation and believed it found leads worth pursuing, Obama's Department of Justice issued a "stand down" order. | 10/30/2016 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Emails show the Justice Department official overseeing the Clinton probe has close ties to her confidante, John Podesta. | 11/01/2016 | The Washington Examiner | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| A DoJ official involved with the probe into Huma Abedin's email ... donated to Hillary Clinton. | 11/01/2016 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Obama's DoJ sued the Denver Sheriff Department for ... only hiring American citizens. | 11/22/2016 | LawNewz | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| In a final act, Loretta Lynth granted more power to the NSA to share intercepted communications of Americans with other federal agencies. | 01/12/2017 | The New York Times | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Obama's DoJ freed Iranian spies still under investigation in bid to win over Iran on nuclear deal. | 04/24/2017 | Politico | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| A years long DEA operation that undercovered how Hezbollah imported cocaine into the U.S. was effectively shutdown by Obama's DoJ/Treasury Dept. in a bid to save the Iran nuclear deal | 12/01/2017 | Politico | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| DoJ says Attorney General Lynch used alias to conduct official business to protect privacy | 02/28/2018 | Judicial Watch | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Unsealed documents show the Obama DoJ performed a coverup of Operation: Chokepoint | 10/12/2018 | CFSA | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Obama's DoJ launched investigations into Bush Administration officials over interrogation techniques that led to the killing of Bin Laden. | 04/23/2009 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Obama's DoJ threatened Oklahoma not to pass a law making English the state's official language. | 07/29/2009 | The Oklahoman | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Obama's DoJ helped a political ally -- Gov. Bill Richardson -- by killing a probe. | 08/27/2009 | Fox News | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Obama's DoH overturned a legitimate North Carolina vote that ended the use of party ID in local elections because it was thought to potentially hurt Democrats. | 10/20/2009 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Obama claimed that Arizona's immigration law would permit cops to harass parents out with their kids buying ice cream. Not true. | 04/27/2010 | CBS News | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Decided to stop enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act, even though it was the duly enacted law of the land. | 02/24/2011 | CBS News | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Obama's DoJ sought to dramatically expand its workforce, despite lawyers having so little to do, they're often found playing Solitare, watching videos, and venting about their lack of work. | 02/28/2011 | The Washington Examiner | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Obama's DoJ raided Gibson Guitar's facilities allegedly over violations of the Lacey Act (though there were no violations). | 08/24/2011 | Investors Business Daily | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Obama's DoJ removed all references of Islam from terrorist training manuals. | 10/21/2011 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| After the "Fast and Furious" project was exposed, Obama's DoJ attempted a cover up. | 12/15/2011 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Obama's DoJ sued Arizona for trying to enforce existing immigration law. | 12/15/2011 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Obama's chosen attorney general, Eric Holder, was infamous for arranging the pardons of Puerto Rican terrorists. | 12/15/2011 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Obama's DoJ sued Alabama for trying to enforce existing immigration law. | 12/15/2011 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Two DoJ prosecutors were caught accepting bribes; Obama's AG, Eric Holder, did nothing. | 02/02/2012 | PJMedia | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| After some states decriminalized marijuana, Obama's DoJ stepped up raides on those states' dispensaries. | 04/25/2012 | The Huffington Post | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Agents from the Drug Enforcement Agency visited a woman who grew poppy flowers for flower decorations, and destroyed $12 million worth of her crops -- despite having no evidence she was doing anything wrong. | 05/24/2012 | Phoenix New Times | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Obama Admin. required mini golf courses to limit the angle of the slope on their holes. | 06/26/2012 | CNS News | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Obama Admin required businesses to admit mini horses as guide animals. | 06/26/2012 | CNS News | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| A federal court found Obama political appointees at the DoJ helped end a case against two black panthers -- which it had effectively already won. | 07/30/2012 | The Washington Examiner | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Under Obama, the DoJ asset forfeiture fund (money legally stolen from Americans) soared from $500 million to $1.8 billion. | 07/31/2012 | Reason | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| A recently released Eric Holder memo shows the DoJ advised that journalists can be spied on via FISA surveillance | 09/18/2018 | Reason | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Emails reveal the Justice Department routinely enlists Media Matters to help spin the press. | 09/28/2012 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Documents reveal that the ATF/DoJ "Fast and Furious" campaign was all part of a "deliberate strategy." | 10/29/2012 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| The DoJ sued to block a merger between ... a Belgium company and a Mexican company. | 01/31/2013 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Obama Admin decreed that all swimming pools must install an expensive machine that can lift wheelchairs in and out of the pool. | 02/01/2013 | CNN | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| After the ratings agency S&P downgraded America's debt, the DoJ sued in what most saw as retalliation. | 02/06/2013 | Bloomberg | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| The DoJ/FBI claimed that two private jets were to be used primarily for counterterrorism, but were actually used primarily for Eric Holder and Robert Mueller's business and personal travel. | 02/28/2013 | CBS News | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Despite promise of being "most transparent administration in history," DoJ replied to an ACLU FOIA request on warrantless snooping of Americans' text messages with a completely redacted document | 05/13/2013 | Reason | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| The DoJ secretly obtained months of telephone records of AP reporters and editors. | 05/14/2013 | The Associated Press | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Eric Holder, upset over a leak, tracked a Fox News reporter's every movement and tracked every call. | 05/19/2013 | The Washington Post | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Eric Holder personally signed off on surveilling a Fox News reporter; the DoJ also told Google not to tell the reporter his emails were being monitored. | 05/23/2013 | NBC News | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| In seeking a warrant to snoop on a Fox News reporter, Eric Holder went "judge shopping" until he found one who would agree he did not have to tell the reporter about the warrant. | 05/24/2013 | The New Yorker | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| During congressional testimony, Holder lied, claiming he was never involved in investigating a member of the press. | 05/24/2013 | HotAir | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Obama's chosen attorney general, Eric Holder, was infamous for arranging the pardons of Puerto Rican terrorists. | 07/02/2013 | Slate | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| During the George Zimmerman trial, the DoJ "organized and managed rallies and protests against George Zimmerman." | 07/10/2013 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| The DoJ published claims about the success of its Mortgage Fraud Working Group that were quickly shown to be phony. | 08/12/2013 | HotAir | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| After Louisiana passed a student voucher program, the DoJ sued, claiming it hurts minority students (despite 90 percent of the beneficiaries being minorities). | 08/27/2013 | HotAir | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| The DoJ arrested a Texas businessman after determining two ducks had died in a waste pool next to a drill site he ran in North Dakota. | 09/01/2013 | Christian Broadcasting Network | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| An audit found the Justice Dept. vastly overstated terrorism conviction statistics. | 09/17/2013 | The Washington Post | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| The DoJ cited D.C.'s popular Newseum over nearly 100 Americans with Disabilities Act violations, including placing coffee lids six inches too high. | 12/09/2013 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| A Catholic Navy chaplain who was threatened with arrest for attempting to perform mass during the government shutdown says after he spoke out, the DoJ fired him. | 01/17/2014 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| A federal anti-drug task force obstructed an internal investigation and retaliated against cooperating agents. | 03/26/2014 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| The DoJ argued a Michigan high school broke the law after renovating its baseball field (as it was apparently better than the softball field). | 03/28/2014 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Obama's DoJ decreed that pregnancy is a new "disability" that requires protection under the Americans with Disability Act. | 07/29/2014 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| After being caught grossly overstating the success of the Mortgage Fraud Task Force, Obama's DoJ edited the transcript of an old Eric Holder speech so it wasn't inaccurate. | 08/14/2014 | Rolling Stone | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Obama's DoJ brought charges against conservative filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza over a campaign finance violation; unlike Obama's own contributors who skirted the rules, the DoJ sought 10-16 years in jail for D'Souza, and in so doing, misrepresented comparable | 09/23/2014 | Townhall |
| The FBI raided a Texas political meeting, finger printing, photographing, and seizing the phones from attendees (the group believes in restoring Texas as an independent constitutional republic). | 03/01/2015 | WorldNetDaily | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| The DoJ added to the FBI's list of organized gangs fans of the musical group, Insane Clown Posse, leading the group to sue the DoJ on behalf of its fans. | 09/18/2015 | Rolling Stone | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Bank of America was able to cut its settlement with the DoJ after agreeing to donate to liberal groups approved by the Obama Administration. | 06/01/2016 | The Washington Examiner | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Documents reveal that DoJ ensured the Bank of America settlements routed to community organizations were specifically prevented from ending up at free-market groups. | 10/25/2017 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| The Department of Justice argued the Confederate Flag is "indicative of white supremacy" in a case trying to prove a white man was racist. | 07/29/2016 | The Smoking Gun | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| After UC Berkeley began posting some course materials online for free, the DoJ accused the scool of discrimination, as blind people couldn't read the materials. | 08/30/2016 | UC Berkeley | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Despite knowing that Hillary Clinton's lawyer/aide, Cheryl Mills, orchestrated the destruction of documents under subpoena, he gave her immnuity anyway (which enabled her to simply walk out when she didn't like agents' questions). | 09/24/2016 | The New York Post | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| According to legal experts, James Comey's decision to give Clinton's closest aides before they testified ensured he would sabotage his own investigation. | 09/28/2016 | The Federalist | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| The FBI, as part of its immunity deal with Clinton aides, agreed to destroy their laptops. | 10/03/2016 | Fox News | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Wikileaks revealed the Justice Department was in touch with the Clinton campaign about the FBI investigation, giving her team a heads up about important developments. | 10/12/2016 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| An FBI source said the "vast majority" of agents thought Hillary Clinton should be indicted, but Comey overruled them. | 10/13/2016 | Fox News | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| The DoJ announced that no one from the EPA would face charges for the mine disaster that resulted in 3 million gallons of toxic waters polluting multiple Colorado rivers. | 10/13/2016 | Government Executive | U.S. Dept. of Justice |
| Obama's DoL scrapped its own rules requiring transparency with union spending as they were too effective exposing fraud. | 05/18/2009 | Investors Business Daily | U.S. Dept. of Labor |
| Obama's Dept. of Labor sought to outlaw unpaid internships. | 04/07/2010 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Labor |
| Obama's DoL imposed spent taxpayer dollars regulating the living quarters of immigrant goat herders. | 04/24/2011 | Human Events | U.S. Dept. of Labor |
| Obama's DoL attempted outlawing kids from working on their family farms. | 04/25/2012 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Labor |
| Obama's DoL used stimulus funds to run ads during Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow's MSNBC shows. (No jobs were created.) | 08/21/2012 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of Labor |
| An acting secretary of the Department of Labor, Seth Harris, mocked "small government" conservatives and CEOs at a union confab. | 03/19/2013 | The Weekly Standard | U.S. Dept. of Labor |
| Obama's Labor Department spent millions to try starting labor unions and promote collective bargaining in foreign countries. | 04/28/2013 | Fox News | U.S. Dept. of Labor |
| After technologist Peter Thiel endorsed Donald Trump, Obama's Department of Labor sued his company Palantir over "racial discrimination" for not hiring enough Asians, despite disproportionately hiring Asians. | 09/26/2016 | Breitbart | U.S. Dept. of Labor |
| Obama's secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, gave her Russian counterparts a symbolic "reset" button written in Russian, but which actually translated to "overloaded." | 03/07/2009 | BBC | U.S. Dept. of State |
| At the request of Cuba, Obama's State Dept. turned off a Havana billboard that broadcast pro-freedom messages. | 07/27/2009 | The New York Times | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Obama's State Dept. canceled the visas of Honduras' de facto government, thus helping clear the way for a Chavez/Castro ally to assume power. | 07/29/2009 | The Washington Post | U.S. Dept. of State |
| During a meeting Obama hosted with foreign dignataries, the Philippines flag was flown upside down, prompting a later apology from the U.S. | 09/27/2010 | The Daily Mail | U.S. Dept. of State |
| After attacking the Bush administration for involving itself in foreign countries' affairs, Obama's State Dept. created a program to push LGBT activism abroad. | 12/06/2011 | The New York Times | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Obama's State Dept. cleared the way for exporting sensitive military technology to China. | 07/23/2012 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of State |
| State Department documents were edited to tout Obama. | 08/17/2012 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of State |
| The day after the Benghazi attack, Obama promised swift justice for the perpetrators. However it would be more than a year before anyone was captured. | 09/12/2012 | Wikipedia | U.S. Dept. of State |
| The accused ringleader of the Benghazi attack, Ahmed Abu Khattala, was so unconcerned with the U.S. response, he gave lengthy interviews from his home, even announcing his schedule to Reuters. | 10/18/2012 | Reuters | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Amb. Chris Stevens repeatedly warned the State Dept. about gathering threats against the Benghazi consulate. | 10/20/2012 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of State |
| The Benghazi consulate was the focus of a number of attacks before the 9/11 attack, yet the State Dept. failed to improve security. | 10/23/2012 | AEI | U.S. Dept. of State |
| When Obama's secretary of State met the father of one of the SEALs slain at Benghazi, she vowed to prosecute an American filmmaker who played no role in the attack. | 10/25/2012 | PJMedia | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Obama's vice president's words of consolation to the father of a Navy SEAL killed during Benghazi: "Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls?" | 10/25/2012 | The Blaze | U.S. Dept. of State |
| During the Benghazi attack, CIA operators were denied request for help. | 10/26/2012 | Fox News | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Obama's State Department was sued by 24 Americans living in Israel over funding Palestinian terror groups. | 11/27/2012 | Israel Law Center | U.S. Dept. of State |
| To this day families of the victims at Benghazi say the Obama Administration has still not given them a rundown on what happened. | 12/04/2012 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of State |
| When the State Department released a report showing many benefits of the Keystone Pipeline, the administration bured it. | 03/04/2013 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of State |
| A diplomat reported that U.S. special forces were told "you can't go" to Benghazi during attacks | 05/06/2013 | CBS News | U.S. Dept. of State |
| During a House Oversight Committee hearing, Obama's secretary of State, upon being asked about the Benghazi attack, blurted out, "What difference does it make!?" | 05/08/2013 | PolitiFact | U.S. Dept. of State |
| When an upheaval in Egypt unfolded, Secretary of Kerry spent the day sailing on his boat in the Nantucket Sound. | 07/06/2013 | CBS News | U.S. Dept. of State |
| A whistleblower claims 400 U.S. surface-to-air missiles were stolen during the Benghazi attack | 08/12/2013 | The Daily Mail | U.S. Dept. of State |
| During the Bush Administration, John Kerry and Barack Obama attacked "unilateralism." Yet once in power, they unilaterally attacked Syria. | 08/30/2013 | American Enterprise Institute | U.S. Dept. of State |
| A Senate report concluded the Benghazi attack should have been prevented. | 01/16/2014 | The New York Times | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Obama's secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, like him supports raising the death tax; however, she has setup trusts to avoid paying it herself. | 06/17/2014 | Bloomberg | U.S. Dept. of State |
| A State Dept. whistleblower reports that while documents were being gathered for the Benghazi review, someone from Clinton's team came to separate out damaging docs. | 09/15/2014 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of State |
| During an investigation into Benghazi, it emerged that Obama's secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, setup a secret email so as to sidestep the Freedom of Information Act and federal laws governing the preservation of government communication. | 03/11/2015 | The New York Times | U.S. Dept. of State |
| An aide to Hillary Clinton, Cheryl Mills, was discovered to be working on a project with the United Arab Emirates while also working for the State Department. | 06/24/2015 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Despite assurances otherwise, the State Department announced it had found at least two dozen of Clinton's emails contained classified information. | 07/02/2015 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Despite assurances from the State Department it had turned over all of its Clinton emails to congressional investigators, a separate batch from John Podesta later showed they had in fact left out many related to Libya. | 07/02/2015 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of State |
| The State Department insisted Clinton turned over all of her work-related email, but when John Podesta turned over his email, there were many to Clinton not included in her batch. | 07/02/2015 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Clinton was caught editing emails before turning them over to investigators. | 07/02/2015 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Despite claiming to have had no knowledge of her secret email, Obama's White House aide, David Axelrod, was revealed to have specifically requested her email address in 2009. | 07/02/2015 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of State |
| In a "side deal" not announced to the public, the Obama Administration allowed Iran to inspect its own nuclear sites. | 08/12/2015 | Associated Press | U.S. Dept. of State |
| The Obama Admin. created a secret banking pipeline from Oman to move dollars to Iran | 06/06/2018 | Associated Press | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Despite his own administration finding the Keystone Pipeline would benefit the environment and would boost job creation -- and more than 70 percent of Americans supporting it -- Obama rejected it after years of delays. | 11/06/2015 | NBC News | U.S. Dept. of State |
| The Obama Admin. urged U.S. banks to ignore restrictions on banking with Iran | 06/07/2018 | The Washington Post | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Emails show the Pentagon was ready to respond during the Benghazi attack -- "spinning up as we speak." | 12/09/2015 | Fox News | U.S. Dept. of State |
| The Obama Admin. repeatedly lied to Congress and the media about its efforts to help Iran bypass sanctions | 06/06/2018 | Associated Press | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Clinton's secret server, per the inspector general of the intelligence community, contained "special access programs," one of the highest levels of classification. | 01/19/2016 | Hot Air | U.S. Dept. of State |
| An ex-CIA officer facing jail in Italy says Clinton and the State Department have ignored her pleas. | 06/16/2016 | Fox News | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Rep. Trey Gowdy, who chaired the Select Committee on Benghazi, said the White House, State Department and Pentagon were watching the Benghazi attack via drone. | 06/28/2016 | Breitbart | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Iran has already said it plans to restoring its full nuclear program. | 07/19/2016 | Associated Press | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Despite assurances the U.S. does not pay ransoms, the Obama Administration sent a plane of cash to Iran the day American hostages were released. | 08/03/2016 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of State |
| When the Clinton Foundation caught wind that the State Department was considering revoking the visa of the Haitian prime minister, it voiced it's objections, and the visa was not revoked. | 09/18/2016 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Obama's secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, arranged 194 State Department appointments to donors to the Clinton Foundation. | 09/20/2016 | The Washington Examiner | U.S. Dept. of State |
| The U.S. Embassy in Israel supported a boycott of Israeli goods. | 09/20/2016 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of State |
| In the immediate aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, emails show the State Dept. gave special attention to "Friends of Bill," (donors to the Clinton Foundation), to participate in the lucrative relief effort. | 10/11/2016 | ABC News | U.S. Dept. of State |
| After the Haiti earthquake, the State Dept., in coordination with the Clinton Foundation, used global aid to benefit a Clinton Foundation donor, ostensibly to build a garment factory -- but Haitians say none of the promises were delivered. | 10/11/2016 | ABC News | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Wikileaks revealed how the State Department tipped off the Clinton campaign about an impending release of her Benghazi emails. | 10/12/2016 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of State |
| A congressional investigation said Clinton emails show her lawyers attempting to thwart the official congressional investigtion. | 10/20/2016 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of State |
| When Obama was asked about requests for backup during the Benghazi attack being denied, he refused to answer. | 10/26/2016 | ABC News | U.S. Dept. of State |
| A relative of John Podesta, one of Hillary Clinton's closest aides, earned six figure lobbying fees from Clinton's State Department. | 10/26/2016 | Fox News | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Emails revealed by Wikileaks show the Clinton camp telling Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, that "we are going to have to dump all of those emails ... sooner than later." | 11/01/2016 | The Hill | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Emails show that Clinton's IT specialist was aware her secret server was susceptible to hacking. | 11/01/2016 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Despite claiming to not get involved in foreign politics, Obama's State Department spent $349,000 to help the campaign against Israel's Netanyahu re-election (which was unsuccessful). | 12/12/2016 | CNS News | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Despite telling Jews and Israelis as a candidate he supported making Jerusalem the capital of Israel and making it an undivided city, the Obama Administration permitted the U.N. to pass a resolution declaring East Jerusalem to be illegally occupied territ | 12/28/2016 | CNN | U.S. Dept. of State |
| The State Department insisted it played no role in crafting the U.N. resolution condemning Israeli settlements despite Israel saying it had evidence to the contrary; John Kerry later admitted they did help with the resolution. | 12/28/2016 | CNN | U.S. Dept. of State |
| The Obama administration OKed a shipment of uranium from Russia to Iran. | 01/09 |
| The Obama Administration knowingly funded a designated al Qaeda affiliate | 01/01/2015 | National Review | U.S. Dept. of State |
| Despite boasts he expanded domestic oil production, Obama's DoI fought court orders mandating his administration act on deep-water drilling permits. | 03/04/2011 | Politico | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| Obama's DoI's refusal to act on court orders resulted in the administration being found in contempt of court. | 03/04/2011 | HotAir | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| The Interior Department basically invited environmental groups to sue the agency, demanding action on a specific issue; the department would then "settle," having an excuse to expand its domain, and thus encouraging more such lawsuits in the future. | 03/10/2013 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| Obama DoI subagency, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, told companies to lie about job losses related to new coal regulations. | 05/21/2012 | The Washington Free Beacon | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| The U.S. Park Police have lost track of thousands of guns. | 06/28/2013 | HotAir | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| During the shutdown, the National Park Service paid to remove the handles off well pumps along a D.C.-area canal so it would be a less attractive tourist site (bikers were also blocked from its paths). | 10/01/2013 | Cumberland Times News | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| During the shutdown, the National Park Service paid guards to prevent veterans from visiting the open air World War 2 Memorial; some Honor Flight vets ultimately tore down the barriers. | 10/02/2013 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| During the shutdown, the National Park Service erected gates around a small children's park in Washington, D.C., which local moms removed, which led to more barriers. | 10/02/2013 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| Despite shutting down parks as far away as Montana (and France!) during the shutdown, the National Park Service did not shut down a park near some homes of Democratic senators. | 10/02/2013 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| During the government shutdown, the Interior Department spent money on a new website to explain it didn't have enough money to run its old website. (The Ag Dept. did the same.) | 10/02/2013 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| During the shutdown, the Obama Administration appeared to only shutdown parks that are popular with tourists. | 10/02/2013 | The House Committee on Natural Resources | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| During the shutdown the Feds closed open-air memorials usually open 24/7 (without any guards), even though the guards they allegedly needed to staff these sites were exempted from the shutdown. | 10/03/2013 | The Daily Signal | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| During the government shutdown, the Feds rejected Arizona's offer to pay to keep open Grand Canyon National Park. | 10/04/2013 | Fox News | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| During the government shutdown, the Feds tried to shut down access to the ocean. | 10/05/2013 | Breitbart | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| During the shutdown, Park Rangers blocked veterans from visiting the Vietnam Memorial. | 10/05/2013 | The Weekly Standard | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| During the government shutdown, the National Park Service was accused of using "gestapo" type tactics to prevent senior citizens from seeing Yellowstone Park. | 10/08/2013 | Newburyport Daily News | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| During the shutdown, the Interior Department told a private inn located in the Blue Ridge Mountains to shutdown for the season. | 10/09/2013 | The Citizen Times | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| Whenever battling Congress over spending, Obama always invoked the feds' role in weather forecasting as a reason the government is indispensable; however a study found that the NOAA's hurricane forecasts are unfailingly inaccurate. | 12/03/2013 | National Centure for Public Policy Research | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| After the Bureau of Land Management successfully snatched Texas land from a family without compensation in 1986, the BLM is now seeking use that precedent to take another 90,000 acres. | 04/21/2014 | Breitbart | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| The Bureau of Land Management pushed its standoff with the Bundy Ranch after being encouraged by environmentalists who were concerned about an animal called the desert tortoise. | 04/21/2014 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| An Interior Department official was caught steering federal awards to friends. | 06/06/2014 | The Washington Post | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| Obama's Bureau of Land Management wouldn't grant the Burning Man festival a permit unless they arranged for clean toilets and 24-ice cream service for BLM officers. | 07/01/2015 | Raw Story | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| The Obama Administration is enforcing "a string of unprecedented environmental restrictions," which are regulating many western ranchers out of business. | 01/08/2016 | The Washington Post | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| Over objections from the states themselves, Obama, via executive order, took 1.5 million acres of land from Utah and Nevada to turn into a "national monument." | 12/29/2016 | HotAir | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| In total, Obama seized enough land and water over eight years to cover Texas three times. | 01/04/2017 | The Media Research Center | U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| Obama's pick to head the Treasury Department, Tim Geithner, was himself a tax scofflaw. He ended up sending an amended return upon being nominated. | 01/13/2009 | Forbes | U.S. Dept. of the Treasury |
| In "saving" the auto industry, Obama forced out the companies' rightful owners -- public pensioners like teachers and firemen, who unsuccessfully sued. | 05/21/2009 | The Competitive Enterprise Institute | U.S. Dept. of the Treasury |
| In "saving" the auto industry, Obama forced out the companies' rightful owners -- public pensioners like teachers and firemen, who unsuccessfully sued. | 06/10/2009 | Human Events | U.S. Dept. of the Treasury |
| Obama hired John Paulson, the billionaire infamous for his role in the subprime mortgage market meltdown, to help write "consumer protection" legislation at the Treasury Department. | 04/21/2010 | The San Francisco Examiner | U.S. Dept. of the Treasury |
| Obama created a "czar" to govern executives' pay; his legacy was deemed a failure. | 02/10/2011 | Reuters | U.S. Dept. of the Treasury |
| While "saving" GM, Obama's Treasury Dept. ensured union workers' pensions remained intact while non-union workers' pensions were not. | 03/07/2011 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of the Treasury |
| When Ford capitalized on the upopularity of the auto bailout in a TV ad, the Obama Administration pushed the company to stop airing it. | 09/27/2011 | The Blaze | U.S. Dept. of the Treasury |
| Obama's Treasury Dept. issued new rules (outside of Congress) making it harder for company to setup in low-tax nations. | 06/07/2012 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of the Treasury |
| Despite it being illegal thanks to just-enacted legislation, Obama nonetheless channeled almost half a billion to ACORN. | 06/11/2012 | FrontPageMag | U.S. Dept. of the Treasury |
| The Federal Reserve Bank of New York under Tim Geithner was shown to have known about LIBOR issues during 2007-2008 and was criticized for not doing more to stop the flawed global benchmark. | 07/10/2012 | Reuters | U.S. Dept. of the Treasury |
| Obama's Treasury Department cited its officials for soliciting prostitutes and accepting illegal industry gifts. | 07/16/2012 | The Hill | U.S. Dept. of the Treasury |
| Emails show Obama's Treasury Department behind cutting off the penions from Delphi workers (a non-union shop). | 08/07/2012 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of the Treasury |
| Obama's Treasury secretary nominee, Jack Lew, put money in an offshore tax haven (an industry which the administration is highly critical of). | 02/09/2013 | The Washington Post | U.S. Dept. of the Treasury |
| 56 percent of the carmakers who asked for government "green loans" are now dead. | 06/03/2013 | Jalopnik | U.S. Dept. of the Treasury |
| As part of Obama's plan to "save" Detroit, Chrysler was essentially donated to the Italian autom-maker Fiat, which was then trending toward bankruptcy itself. Obama, in effect, saved Italy's auto industry, not America's. | 01/09/2014 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of the Treasury |
| The Obama Administration, hoping to prop up ObamaCare, was caught taking money from Fannie Mae as they knew Congress would not supply additional funds. | 03/13/2017 | InfoWars | U.S. Dept. of the Treasury |
| Obama imposed expensive new tailpipe emissions rules that resulted in Americans driving older, dirtier cars. | 05/22/2009 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Transportation |
| Obama launched the "cash for clunkers," which aimed to replace existing cars with newer, cleaner cars, but ended up incentivizing the destruction of thousands of perfectly good used cars, thus pricing millions of Americans out of the market. | 07/01/2009 | Wikipedia | U.S. Dept. of Transportation |
| Obama's "car czar" intentionally shut down thousands of car dealerships. | 07/14/2009 | The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Dept. of Transportation |
| Obama's secretary of Transportation, Ray Lahood, advocates using government to discourage Americans from driving cars. | 08/05/2010 | Human Events | U.S. Dept. of Transportation |
| Taxpayers are funding 35 six-figure contracts at the Transportation Dept. (except they don't work for the public, they work for unions). | 12/12/2012 | The Washington Examiner | U.S. Dept. of Transportation |
| The DoT enacted new rules requiring truckers to take more breaks and drive less -- despite truckers wanting no part of them (as the rules hurt the industry and the drivers). | 06/30/2013 | The Associated Press | U.S. Dept. of Transportation |
| VA hospital delays -- which were scrubbed from official records -- resulted in the deaths of at least six veterans, but potentially more than 20. | 11/20/2013 | CNN | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| The VA kept secret waiting lists at its hospitals; a Georgia facility had more than 4,500 veterans waiting for care. | 11/20/2013 | CNN | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| The VA received an increase in funds to address the delays mentioned above, but used the funds for something else. | 11/20/2013 | CNN | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| The Phoenix VA facility, the epicenter of the VA scandal, spent more on gardeners and interior decorators than quality assurance. | 05/20/2014 | Capitol City Project | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| Veterans Affairs police stomped on a veteran's head, killing him. | 05/27/2014 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| The VA posted warnings all over its facilities, threatening doctors not to speak to the media. | 06/05/2014 | CNN | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| At least 37 VA whistleblowers allege they faced reprisals from senior staff. | 06/05/2014 | CNN | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| The culture of fear the VA created among its staff led to the system's deplorable conditions remaining secret for years -- rather than being addressed. | 06/05/2014 | CNN | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| The VA admitted that 18 veterans left off a waiting list have since died. | 06/06/2014 | The Associated Press | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| After the VA clinic in St. Augustine, Fla., was unable to move its location in two years, taxpayers were on the hook for an additional $64,000/month. | 03/22/2015 | The Florida Times Union | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| The VA paid $871 million in medical practice settlements over the past decade. | 12/17/2015 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| Calls to the VA's suicide hotline regularly go to voicemail. | 02/17/2016 | The Associated Press | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| VA funds were taken to instead finance the resettlement of 3,000 Afghan interpreters in the U.S. | 05/17/2016 | BizPacReview | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| The head of the Phoenix VA facility, Sharon Helman, admitted not reporting $50,000 in gifts she received from businesses seeking VA contracts, including a car and $5,000 in cash. | 06/01/2016 | CNN |
| The VA spent $670K on two art sculptures for a center for blind veterans. | 07/29/2016 | BizPacReview | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| Over a period during which the VA spent $20 million on its expensive, high-end art collection, more than 1,000 veterans died waiting for care. | 07/29/2016 | BizPacReview | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| The VA spent $21,000 on a fake Christmas tree. | 07/29/2016 | BizPacReview | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| Seven of 10 VA facilities reviewed were caught falsifying appointment books to minimize the appearance of long waits. | 07/29/2016 | BizPacReview | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| VA officials spent more than $1.7 billion ($900 million over budget) creating an ornately designed hospital in Colorado that is "widely considered the biggest construction failure in the agency's history." | 09/21/2016 | The Washington Examiner | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| A VA manager banned Christmas trees from office cubicles. | 11/29/2016 | The Washington Times | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| Four VA staffers were forced to resign after an Oklahoma veteran being treated was discovered with maggots in his wounds. He died. | 12/02/2016 | Tulsa World | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| VA staff left a veteran's body in a shower for nine hours, tried to cover up their mistakes. | 12/09/2016 | Tampa Bay Times | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| VA employees include child molesters, rapists, and kidnappers. | 12/15/2016 | The Daily Caller | U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
| The U.S. Postal Service broke the law in pushing time off for workers to campaign for Clinton | 07/19/2017 | The Washington Post | U.S. Postal Service |
| Claimed during his 2010 State of the Union that foreigners could finance American campaigns; as Justice Alito mouthed from the audience, "Not true." | 01/27/2010 |
