{"id":21659,"date":"2014-01-24T11:04:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T16:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21659"},"modified":"2014-01-24T11:04:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T16:04:12","slug":"things-that-make-me-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21659","title":{"rendered":"Things That Make Me Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ed Morrissey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ed_Morrissey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Ed Morrissey<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2014\/01\/24\/obama-critic-indicted-for-campaign-finance-fraud-obstruction\/\">Hot Air<\/a> posted an article today about the indictment of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Dinesh D'Souza\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dineshdsouza.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Dinesh D\u2019Souza<\/a>, the producer of the documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2247692\/combined\" target=\"_blank\"><em>2016: Obama\u2019s America. <\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr. D&#8217;Souza is being charged with allegedly pushing $20,000 in straw-man contributions into a Senate race in New York. <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">The US<\/a> Attorney\u2019s office in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States District Court for the Southern District of New York\" href=\"http:\/\/nysd.uscourts.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Southern District of New York<\/a> released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao\/nys\/pressreleases\/January14\/DineshDSouzaCharges.php\">statement<\/a> that included the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Indictment\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indictment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Indictment<\/a> is the result of a routine review by the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Federal Bureau of Investigation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.894465,-77.024503&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.894465,-77.024503 (Federal%20Bureau%20of%20Investigation)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">FBI<\/a> of campaign filings with the FEC by various candidates after the 2012 election for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Senate\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8905555556,-77.0088888889&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8905555556,-77.0088888889 (United%20States%20Senate)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">United States Senator<\/a> in New York. Mr. Bharara praised the investigative work of the FBI.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>This case is being prosecuted by the Office\u2019s Public Corruption Unit. Assistant <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Attorney\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Attorney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">United States Attorneys<\/a> Carrie H. Cohen and Rebecca Ricigliano are in charge of the prosecution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The charges contained in the Indictment are merely accusations and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This indictment raises a lot of questions in my mind. I don&#8217;t know whether Mr. D&#8217;Souza is guilty or innocent, but I would love to know how many other people were investigated by this group. It is also ironic that Mr. D&#8217;Souza is being investigated when there was no investigation of the security on the website for donations to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/celebrity\/barack_obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"rottentomatoes\">President Obama&#8217;s<\/a> campaign when the website disabled the programming that would have disallowed foreign contributions.<\/p>\n<p>This appears to be more thuggery from the Obama Administration, but we shall see what happens next.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?x-id=557ff092-8358-4757-8e73-31c7d7bd11b6\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Morrissey at Hot Air posted an article today about the indictment of Dinesh D\u2019Souza, the producer of the documentary 2016: Obama\u2019s America. 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