News We Don’t Want To Lose *Open Thread* UPDATED

Okay, even though I am still recovering from surgery, there were some headlines I just had to mention here for your kind consideration.

The first has to do with former Speaker, and current Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi. Now, when I saw the headlines that “we” gave another solar power company three-quarters of a BILLION dollars, my eyebrows shot up. But then I saw this: Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law is given $737m of taxpayers’ money to build giant solar power plant in middle of the desert. And what desert is that, you might ask? One in Nevada, home of US Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid. Here are the bullet points to this article:

• Obama administration approved $1bn in green energy loans days after failed Solyndra project due to be completed
• $737m handed to Crescent Dunes project in Tonopah, Nevada, for 110-megawatt desert solar power plant
• Investors include firm Minority leader’s brother-in-law and major Solyndra stakeholder
• Republicans warn Energy Department is ‘rushing’ $5bn in loans ahead of Friday deadline

Holy crap. And how is it that this isn’t on the cover of every single mainline paper around? Yeah, I think we all know the answer to that.

Here is one of the reasons I am seriously disappointed with Hillary Clinton as the Secretary of State: U.S. officials met with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood – U.S. diplomat. That is disturbing on so many levels:

U.S. officials met members of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party, a U.S. diplomat said, after Washington announced it would have direct contacts with Egypt’s biggest Islamist group whose role has grown since U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak was ousted. Washington announced the plans in June, portraying such contacts as the continuation of an earlier policy. But analysts said it reflected a new approach to the way it dealt with a group which Mubarak banned from politics.

There are so many issues with us making nice with the Muslim Brotherhood, I scarcely know where to start, though I have discussed this at length in other posts. But one of the biggest is that the Muslim Brotherhood has waged Jihad on the USA. So, if ANYONE can explain to me why our State Department and our president are making nice with them, I would appreciate hearing about it.

Last, but not least, the information coming out about the “Fast and Furious” program is mounting by the day. Today’s newsflash is, despite numerous claims to the contrary, turns out Eric Holder (DOJ) knew about this program over a YEAR ago. Report: Documents show Holder was aware of Fast and Furious in July 2010, contrary to past testimony.

Uh huh. Way back in July of 2010 despite Holder’s lying to Congress about it being just a few weeks before news broke. Can they not hold him in contempt? Charge him with something? Throw his behind into a cell? How can government officials get away with this kind of BS?

And this disclosure comes out after this newsflash:

Late on Friday the Obama White House disclosed a new avalanche of documents related to Operation Fast and Furious, in response to demands from Congressional investigators.

The documents show how often and how extensively Bill Newell, the lead Fast and Furious agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives communicated with senior Obama administration National Security official Kevin O’Reilly.

Among the documents the White House released was a map that Newell sent O’Reilly, documenting the final destinations in Mexico of the weapons ATF was tracking. In an email to O’Reilly, Newell described each arrow on the map as “the ultimate destination of firearms we intercepted and/or where the guns ended up.”

Good grief. This is all making me ill, and making my knee hurt worse.

So, discuss this, or whatever else is on your minds. I need to go get back into my “torture” machine…

UPDATE: Here is an interview with J. Christian Adams regarding his new book, Injustice, and some of the issues going on in the Obama DOJ: