LinkSwam for June 8, 2013

It’s hard to find time to do an ordinary LinkSwarm with so much Obama scandal news breaking. It’s like ScandalPalooza. And there are some scandal tidbits here as well.

  • Inside the life of Kim Il-Sung’s personal sushi chef.
  • Obama’s arguments for vast NSA powers amounts to “Terrorism is on the run. That’s why we have to tap all your phones and read all your email.”
  • You know what the great weasel word in common for tech giant non-denial denials on the NSA PRISM scandal? “Direct access.” Or “we give them boatloads of indirect access.”
  • The IRS scandal is like Enron: criminality by underlings empowered by a toxic culture at the top by people who think the rules don’t apply to them because they’re smarter than everyone else. “Any good CEO will tell you that ethical meltdowns like the IRS political-targeting scandal are rarely the work of a few rogue employees. Such messes are the result of a toxic culture that has been allowed to fester.”
  • That Gibson guitar raid now makes sense as part of Obama’s weaponizing of the federal government.
  • ObamaCare advocates are just fine with doubling premiums for the poor.
  • Code Pink learns that Michelle Obama may not be criticized any time, ever, for anything.
  • Oh, come on! You can’t even parody this stuff any more. (Hat tip: Ace of Spades.)
  • Fake EPA employee wins real EPA award. (Also from Ace of Spades, which has a lot more EPA malfeasance, including the same sort of conservative targeting the IRS used.)
  • The idea that conservatives oppose Obama just because he’s black is an outrageous, pernicious lie that harms America.
  • Mark Steyn: Why are we spending billions on the NSA when we don’t have the guts to actual screen Muslim immigrants?
  • A former Communications Intelligence officer looks at PRISM.
  • 24 Turks arrest for anti-Erodgan Tweets.
  • Complex regulation i strangling American business.
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