The Obama Justice Department’s Secret Blogging Team… Is it Illegal?
Interesting to say the least, now this makes me wonder whether the Holder Blog Squad could also be involved in the constant hacking attacks against for example Dr. Orly Taitz. Just thinking but it may be good to do some research into that direction.
- David Crockett
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Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, has apparently hired a cadre of left-wing, Democrat campaign bloggers to troll through the Internet looking for news stories and blog posts that denigrate the Obama agenda. After such websites are found it is the job of these secret lefty bloggers to leave comments that come to the support of Obamaism in the comments sections. It seems that Eric Holder has created his own little propaganda unit in a valiant effort to become the Bloggi Riefenstahl of the Obama era.
As reported at The Muffled Oar, a blog that first broke the story of Holder’s secretive blogging unit — dubbed the “Blog Squad” by blogger Isaac Muzzey — Holder has housed this unit in the Office of Public Affairs at the Department of Justice. It also appears that former John Edwards staffer Tracy Russo is part of this special unit.
A site called whorunsgov.com reported back in May that DOJ hired Russo to do “media outreach for the whole department.” It is, according to whorunsgov.com, the first time such an effort has been made at DOJ.
Of Russo’s duties, The Muffled Oar says:
Not only is the Department of Justice Blog Squad going to reach out to nontraditional media like TPM Muckraker or the Muffled Oar, but they are also tasked with fostering anonymous comments at conservative leaning blogs such as the Free Republic. They are also tasked with fostering anonymous comments, or comments under pseudonyms, at newspaper websites with stories critical of the Department of Justice, Holder and President Obama.
If indeed this is what DOJ media outreach does it would most certainly qualify as “astroturfing.” Astroturfing is the action of using fake commenters and multiple screen names on all sorts of sites to push a similar opinion to create the appearance of a grass roots movement and make it seem as if there are all sorts of individuals naturally supporting a product or political movement.
It most certainly is a creepy, propagandistic sort of effort that Holder’s office is involved in and it is one that certainly seems an immoral one. After all, it most certainly is lying to the public if there are a handful of DOJ employees casting about on hundreds of different websites pretending that they are just your average citizen coming to the support of the Obama administration. But is it illegal? Hans von Spakovsky of National Review’s the corner blog certainly thinks so.
I doubt that the Office of Public Affairs (OPA) has received an ethics opinion from Justice’s Professional Responsibility Advisory Office (PRAO) saying that it is acceptable for OPA employees to be harassing critics of the department through postings that deliberately hide their DOJ affiliation (a practice that is not very “open” or “transparent”). DOJ lawyers also ought to be aware of ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4, which states that it is professional misconduct for a lawyer to engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation. If the report in The Muffled Oar is correct, tax dollars are being used directly for such dishonest, deceitful behavior.
I must say, it’s hard to disagree with von Spakovsky (if that’s his real name! — a little joke there).
Mr. von Spakovsky also makes a perfectly pertinent point to wrap up his blog post on this matter. He wonders if the Obama administration will ever learn the difference between political campaign and the “entirely different responsibility it now has to enforce this nation’s laws in an objective, nonpartisan, nonpolitical manner”?
I think that the question is a good one. After all, after nearly a year in office, we have yet to see the end Obama’s constant blaming of Bush for every little problem he runs up against not to mention the constant campaign speeches and appearances on TV at every hour, day and night. One gets the uneasy feeling that Barack Obama has yet to put in an actual day’s work as he constantly campaigns for office instead.
It won’t do them any good. Most of us KNOW o is not constitutionally qualified! Goodbye mr.holder too!
Another rumour, with no facts. Just stirring it up because some people love to think they are being persecuted.
In fact, the assertions in this latest silliness are so ridiculous that they defy any credibility. However, some paranoids who think the world revolves around them want to believe this stuff because it makes them feel important.
Time to get a life.
I am betting that about 30 of the names that are constantly on the obama defense probably are working for that secret blogging team otherwise known to the internet news searchers as obots. LOL I am laughing because does anyone actually believe them ……….no ………….the truth must come out its just a matter of time. I can’t for the life of me see any other reason why someone would spend their entire day trying to knock the conservatives in search of the truth. Unless they are just plain strange….on koolaid. LOL
There’s a basic error at the end of this article: clearly Obama IS doing a tremendous amount of work–and the constant proselytizing and speechifying is necessary for him to spin his actions in a way so that the public and media do not catch on to what is really happening and the destructiveness of it all.
MARTINE:
How’s your day job at the DOJ going??? I believe I’ve seen your “stuff” at that other site heavily populated by the dozen or two other Obots that are “regulars” there.
I assume you realize that once your buds are removed from office your credibility is shot, too!!
Sic transit gloria!!
YES, MOST OF HIS PEOPLE ARE JUST STRANGE, I HAVE NEVER IN ALL THE 85 YEARS I HAVE BEEN ALIVE HEARD OF THE DESTRUCTION HE AND HIS PEOPLE ARE DOING. BLATANT LYING AND NEVER ACTING GUILTY. I WAS TOLD LYING IS A SIN AND MUST NOT DO, BUT OBAMA LIES THE MINUTE HE OPENS HIS MOUTH, NO NEW TAXES, BUT IF YOU DON’T TAKE HIS TYPE OF HEALTHCARE YOU WILL NOW PAY $750. FINE OR IS IT A TAX, BUSH NOT THE GREATEST, BUT I DO THINK HE WAS MUCH MORE HONEST THAN OBAMA. ALL THESE CZARS SHOULD BE FIRED, GET OFF THE PAYROLL, WE ARE ALSO PAYING FOR 24 ASSISTANTS TO MAKE MICHELLE, PRESENTABLE, OR TO KEEP HER SAFE, WHO WANTS TO HARM THE OTHER FOOL. IF I WAS WISE, I WOULD JUST SAY NO BIG DEAL, THEN WHEN I AM BEHEADED, OR PUT IN JAIL I WOULD WONDER WHY??????????????????/
Maybe the slime Holder can try doing some real work…
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Civil-Rights-Commission-to-Holder-Investigate-ACORN-now-63887527.html
Holder and his gang are desperately trying to cover up their criminal activities.
Soon, they will fall flat on their faces and butt!!!
BHO is not a legal US citizen….therefore he is an illegal POTUS…. Hitler and Mussolini had a tragic end…. all his acomplises will have the same end. It is just a matter of time.
TRUST IN GOD AND HE WILL DELIVER HIS WRATH.
THEY WILL BE DESTROYED LIKE FLIES…..
KEEP PRAYING. JERICOH WALLS WERE DESTROYED WHEN THEY PLAYED THEIR HORNS.
BLOW YOUR HORN DAILY AND CONSTANTLY.
It’s funny how we can tell who is a obot and who isn’t. It comes out sooner or later. Their comments are always like Martine’s as being “silliness are so ridiculous” or “Another rumor, with no facts” and are always trying to tell people “its nothing”. And there are alot of lawyers on this one, trolling, pretending not to be obots.
GOD bless America!!!!
jtx,
Thank you, wish I had your skills. Expose these pukes! Bless you! The Truth will out!
David:
I hate to be pushy, but O is giving a speech tonight to rich Homos, Congress want him to get rid of Jennings, and the cry-baby Yahoo media is whining about the O keeping his promises to the Homos. Will homosexuality be a requirement by 2012? If left to the MSM. You guys are our best hope!
Often they pretend to be sympathizers, and spout ridiculous or offensive nonsense to discredit themselves. I call it the “Colbert Repor’ ” method. Others call it a false flag operation.
Sometimes they work in tandem, pretending to be two sypathizers who are disaffected with some aspect or other of our cause or heroes. They pretend to have a mutally supportive conversation online while we watch. This is known as the “divide and conquer” tactic, an attempt to sow discord. Of course, they do this singly as well.
Longknife,
don’t worry about it my friend as soon we get hold of information it will get published here. Well let’s make sure that the band of perversts gets kicked out od office long before 2012.
The system was somewhat slow, I had to respond to a DOS attempt.