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(Oct. 7, 2013) — Before enrollment for individuals began on October 1 for the health care law known as “Obamacare,” the Department of Health & Human Services announced that it would be performing minimal background checks without fingerprinting on “navigators” hired to assist applicants through the process.

William L. Bryan, aka “PJ Foggy,” wearing hat with sickle and hammer on it, the symbol of the former communist Soviet Union

It has been reported that those hired as navigators have “absolutely zero background in insurance.” Navigators will earn “up to $48.00/hour” out of a $54,000,000 HHS “grant” to fund them during a time of continued high unemployment and a $17 trillion debt increased significantly by the Obama regime.

A “data hub” has been established to verify Obamacare applicants’ personal information with various government departments including the Social Security Administration, Internal Revenue Service, Planned Parenthood, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which many fear could lead to identity theft, as deadlines for security testing had been consistently missed during the preparation period.

According to John Fund of National Review, navigators will have “access to reams of personal information compiled by federal agencies ranging from the IRS to the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration.” Quoting from an article in USA Today, Fund reported that “The federal government is planning to quietly enact what could be the largest consolidation of personal data in the history of the republic.”

Lifesite News reported that “HHS will not require background checks or fingerprinting of employees, and a previous criminal conviction – including one for identity theft – does not necessarily disqualify an employee from becoming a navigator.”

Investigative journalist Ben Swann reported that navigators will “have access to just about every piece of personal information on millions of Americans…they are not even required to pass a background check.” He described navigators’ training as “just an online course” consisting of “20-30 hours.”

Swann had hosted a prime-time television show on WXIX in Cincinnati, OH entitled “Reality Check” and worked in mainstream news media for 14 years. “There’s more to the role of the navigators than just signing Americans up for the health care exchange. Navigators will also be responsible for registering Americans to vote,” Swann reported. He raised the question of whether or not the data hub could be breached by “those inside the departments” with a corrupt agenda.

After the 20 hours of training, navigators are expected to “provide fair, impartial and accurate information that assists consumers with submitting the eligibility application, clarifying distinctions among [qualified health plans] and helping qualified individuals make informed decisions during the health plan selection process.”

On October 1, “RC” of the Reality Check Online radio show announced that William L. Bryan, aka “PJ Foggy,” has been hired to work as an Obamacare navigator (5:39). The show attempts to discredit, disparage, insult, defame and disseminate false information about anyone researching the background, identity and birthplace of Barack Hussein Obama using the label “birthers.”

Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution requires that the president and commander-in-chief be a “natural born Citizen.” Obama’s constitutional eligibility for the presidency was first questioned in 2008 when African newspapers were found to have reported that Obama had been born in Kenya, while at least one American media outlet reported that he was born in Indonesia. Obama’s claim of a British-citizen father raised additional questions, as historically, citizenship was passed from father to son. Obama himself claimed dual citizenship at birth on his now-defunct “Fight the Smears” website.

Progressive commentator and once-ardent Obama supporter Chris Matthews has stated on his show in late 2007 that Obama was born in Indonesia.

In 1991, Obama’s own literary agent had published a biography of Obama stating that he was born in Kenya and raised in Hawaii and Indonesia. In April 2007, the bio was changed to read that Obama was born in Hawaii only two months after Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency and attributed to a “fact-checking error.”

Bryan (Foggy) is a former California attorney who resigned “with charges pending” from the State Bar of California in 2001 after two suspensions and a notation of “manic depressive illness.” Early in Obama’s first term, Foggy launched a website called “Politijab” which eventually melded into “The Fogbow,” whose purpose is to “debunk birthers.” In its forum, The Fogbow boasts a “Birther Gallery” with “mugshots” and claims that anyone opposing Obama is a “racist xenophobe.”

At 5:53 in the October 1 broadcast, RC states that he “agrees with Foggy” that “birthers” are “terrorists because they want to destroy the United States…”

RC referred to a September 24 broadcast which Bryan hosted during which he announced that he had been hired as a navigator for Obamacare (10:29). “My wife and I are going to be enrolling people in Obamacare and it’s been a struggle trying to get ready for that. In fact, I spent most of the day studying to be certified so that I could use the federal marketplace that they established here in North Carolina,” Bryan told the audience. Bryan said that as navigators, “We’re going to be extremely aggressive in marketing (Obamacare)” and that he was “looking forward to it.”

Federal marketplaces have been established in the majority of states which declined to operate their own health care exchanges under Obamacare.

In recent months “RC” and his cohorts have particularly targeted the ongoing investigation of the Maricopa County, AZ Cold Case Posse, which announced in March 2012 that Obama’s long-form birth certificate and Selective Service registration form are “computer-generated forgeries.” Posse lead investigator Mike Zullo has been seeking a congressional investigation into the conclusions which is reported by radio show host Carl Gallups to be under consideration. Gallups also said that several “Obots” had become persons of interest in the ongoing criminal investigation into the forgery of Obama’s documents.

Lord Moncton of Brenchley has written that all members of Congress are aware that the long-form birth certificate posted on the White House website since April 27, 2011 is a forgery.

An acquaintance of RC’s, retired Capt. Charles Tuttle, reportedly runs a Facebook page entitled “The Many Lies of Mike Zullo and Carl Gallups” in an attempt to discredit their work. However, Gallups accompanied Zullo to the CPAC conference in March, where the two met with congressmen and others to reveal the posse’s evidence of the forgery of Obama’s documents. Since that time, many more such meetings have taken place.

Several minutes into a June 18, 2013 broadcast at America’s Web Radio, Bryan identifies himself to the host as “a retired attorney.” The interview, hosted by Immigration attorney Charles Kuck, focused on the “natural born Citizen” clause of the U.S. Constitution, although it shifted to “statutes in force at the time” which determined “citizenship” and “citizenship at birth” rather than the higher standard of “natural born Citizen.” However, Atty. Kuck properly identified the topic of the show as “citizenship at birth.”

Bryan claimed to Kuck that those who have expressed doubt about the constitutional eligibility of Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Bobby Jindal are motivated by racial bias because the potential candidates’ “skin” is darker than his. On its website, members of The Fogbow decries “affluent white males.”

According to an acquaintance identified by RC as “Dr. Conspiracy,” Bryan sent a fake birth certificate image bearing Obama’s name to private investigator Neil Sankey and Atty. Orly Taitz “as a prank,” hoping that they would believe it to be authentic. As Dr. Conspiracy appears to affirm that “Obots” cannot be trusted to tell the truth.

RC claims to have replicated many of the anomalies identified by the Cold Case Posse in the long-form birth certificate image posted on the White House website, but he reportedly will not send his personal identification to Zullo along with his research. Zullo has said that RC’s research is “irrelevant” to the Cold Case Posse’s investigation and conclusions.

Bryan claimed responsibility for summoning between 100 and 200 law enforcement officers from the local, county state and federal levels prior to an April 20, 2010 court hearing for CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III in Madisonville, TN. Members of The Fogbow, perhaps including Bryan, admitted in their “forum” to planting false reports that Fitzpatrick and another man, Darren Huff, had planned to “take over the courthouse” that day. Fitzpatrick has reported Bryan to the FBI and other “law enforcers,” but no report of an arrest has ever been issued.

As a result of a false FBI affidavit which claimed that Huff had intended violence against the Madisonville courthouse that day, Huff is serving a four-year prison sentence for a crime he did not commit. The local prosecutor in the case, R. Steven Bebb, has recently had several ethics complaints filed against him by members of the Tennessee General Assembly, and a joint panel is seeking his removal from office.

Long before the Obama IRS, NSA, DOJ and EPA corruption scandals were exposed, Fitzpatrick, who had filed a complaint for treason against Obama on March 17, 2009, had contended that the effort to frame Huff and him “goes right into the White House.” An RC radio broadcast from September 10, 2010 boasts a “White House attorney” as its guest host that evening.

A member of the The Fogbow is an attorney working for the IRS. In February 2012, Fitzpatrick discovered that his military pension had been reduced by two-thirds without an explanation. When he contacted his financial institution, he was told verbally that the IRS had ordered a levy of that amount for the next two years. Fitzpatrick received no letter, notification that taxes might be due, or a hearing before his pay was garnished.

The IRS has targeted dozens and possibly hundreds of applicants for tax-exempt status based on their perceived political positions or opposition to Barack Obama.

Bryan also took credit for quashing an investigation begun by Officer Ronald Dischler in Beaumont, TX into Obama’s background and eligibility in 2009.

It is unknown how many Obots are working as navigators or behind the scenes for the Obama regime.

During the 2012 presidential campaign, chief Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett had promised that, “…the ones who helped us will be rewarded…” and that their opponents would be objects of “payback time.”

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One time Palin supporter, who may be having second thoughts.

Courtesy of the Heartless Harridan's Facebook page:

In case you missed it, "60 Minutes" did an excellent segment on the waste and fraud in the Federal Disability Insurance Program. Kudos to Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and his staff for leading the investigation into this. And thank you, CBS, for covering it!

She then links to this story on 60 Minutes in which Steve Kroft, with the help of Senator Coburn and some shady attorneys, supposedly lays bare the overwhelming fraud within the Social Security disability programs.

Now in my job I actually do some work with this program so I was surprised at how aggressively and unfairly 60 Minutes seemed to go after them. And apparently I was not alone, as indicated in the comments section of their own website.

Here is a sampling:

I am a Social Security Disability Attorney in New York City. I watched the website recording of a 60 Minutes spot that aired last night and was disheartened by the sophistry I witnessed. Anytime I hear words like "It's been called a Secret Welfare System," which has been ravaged by waste and fraud, I cringe. First of all, I would like to know who has called it a secret welfare system --incendiary remarks like that must be backed up with facts. Secondly, who says it has been ravaged by waste and fraud -- this uncorroborated remark was left hanging out there as if it accurately reflected the System as a whole.

I also find it troubling and unacceptable that the only attorneys discussed in the program were Binder and Binder and Eric C. Conn. There were so many others you could have contacted about their experiences with the System.

Mr. Kroft, this irresponsible and short-sighted report should never have aired. I am surprised and disappointed in 60 Minutes, a program I have long admired, Please go back to the drawing board and deliver a revised program worthy of the name 60 Minutes.

Here is another:

Agree with all that this is a shameful 60 Minutes segment. Not that I doubt some lawyers are making money or that some of our fellow citizens are marginal disability recipients. Rather that 60 Minutes has what I hope is sheer ignorance (and not something else) wrapping the sheep's clothing of revealing fraud around the wolf of Tom Coburn who is a fervent advocate of Republican efforts to destroy America's safety net. Coburn's fundamental mission is not to reform Social Security Disability, but to destroy it by privatization. Too bad 60 Minutes is an enabler in his efforts.

And another:

I am one of the allegedly evil attorneys on TV .It might help for people to learn the day I heard of this story the two clients I signed up are typical of our business. The first was a fellow with very bad sarcoidosis affecting many aspects of his ability to work including hands , feet, breathing ,stamina. He was trying for many years to learn what was wrong with him but could not get access to treatment or meds. He is a very religious , humble man who would love to work and has been unable for years ; his church may not be able to help any longer.

The second was a family whose mother described an adult daughter unable to work for many years now with debilitating psych issues since age 8 including a horrific set of symptoms associated with obsessive compulsive disorder along with severe depression . Ridicule and stigmatize her associated panic attacks after you have spoken with her and her family. The mom called because she reported she never wanted to bother with a claim before , but recognizes she can no longer support this adult daughter whom she had home schooled .

The truth , as I tell interviewees each day, is that contrary to the harsh stereotypes now circulating with the help of 60 Minutes and other media is that it is very hard to get Social Security disability ;they're gonna think and treat you with cynicism and sometimes almost like a fraudster . Scapegoating those on the receiving end of " hard things happen to good people " is not fair reporting and does great damage. Tom

Then I did a quick Google search to find out if any other news outlets had addressed this obviously biased report.

I quickly found this over at Media Matters:

Sarah Palin pimps a 60 Minutes "expose" on the Social Security Disability Insurance program. Well you know what THAT means!
National disability organizations have criticized a misleading CBS News 60 Minutes report on Social Security disability which relied on anecdotal evidence to deceptively portray the vital program as wasteful and unsustainable, despite the fact that award rates fell during the recession and that fraud is less than one percent of the program.

On October 6, 60 Minutes stoked fears that the Social Security Disability Insurance program is "ravaged by waste and fraud," relying on Senator Tom Coburn's (R-OK) partisan investigation and anecdotal evidence to hype growth in the program while misleadingly claiming that it "could become the first government benefits program to run out of money."

Lisa Ekman, Director of Federal Policy at Health & Disability Advocates, said the organization was "extremely disappointed that 60 Minutes chose to air such a one-sided story based on anecdote and supposition ... Misleading media reports like the one on 60 Minutes distract from focusing on the real issue of helping American workers with and without disabilities achieve economic security."

The myths pushed by 60 Minutes have been repeatedly debunked by experts. The report admitted that the vast majority of people applying for benefits are denied, but ignored the fact that the majority of appeals are also denied, and that award rates have actually fallen during the economic recession. In April, the Wall Street Journal called the claim that federal disability benefits were to blame for people leaving the labor force "exaggerated," explaining that disability was in fact the least common reason individuals left the workforce.

As the Center for Economic and Policy Research's Dean Baker noted, the report also "completely ignored all the comments from experts in the field ... pointing out that fraud is in fact not rampant in the disability program." Indeed, the Government Accountability Office has repeatedly found that fraud accounts for approximately one percent of all disability payments.

In other words Palin is endorsing an episode that seems to have been a hatchet job and which completely misrepresents the truth about this very necessary program.

I know, shocking right?

But then a thought occurred to me that is the result of my own interactions with the Social Security Disability program. They also serve children born with disabilities, including Down Syndrome.

In fact in my experience gaining to access Social Security Disability insurance is a godsend for some of the kids with physical, cognitive, or behavioral disabilities which make them fall behind their peers and suffer from low self esteem and hopelessness.

The insurance can get them extra support in the home, tutoring in schools, help out in the community, and therapies that can really open doors for them and dramatically improve their lives.

I have little doubt that Trig qualifies for this insurance, even if his mother is well off, and it will last his entire life, so even as an adult he will have services and supports that he will likely always need.

If Palin has NOT taken advantage of this, she is a terrible mother.

And if she HAS, and has then turned around and attacked them along with Senator Coburn and the 60 Minutes crew using trumped up and false information, than she is simply a terrible person.


Or does that latter statement now go without saying?

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3,000 truckers plan to descend on Washington, D.C. five days from now, to protest the NDAA's indefinite detention without trial provision (signed into law by President Obama) as well as to raise awareness for what they perceive as continued Obama administration support for radical Islamic factions in Egypt and Syria.

Despite the near mainstream media blackout of the truckers' plan, it could shut down the entire city. - Rise TV.


Tractor-trailer drivers will intentionally clog the inner loop of the Washington, D.C., beltway beginning on the morning of Oct. 11, according to a coordinator of the upcoming "Truckers Ride for the Constitution" rally.

Organizers of the three-day ride want to call attention to a litany of trucker frustrations and express their disapproval of national political leaders.

Earl Conlon, a Georgia trucker who is handling logistics for the protest, told U.S. News tractor-trailer drivers will circle the beltway "three lanes deep" as he rides with other participants to Congress to seek the arrest of congressmen for allegedly disregarding the Constitution.

[EARLIER: Truckers Say Their D.C. Shutdown Is Full-Speed Ahead]

The truckers circling I-495 will keep the left lane open for emergency vehicles, Conlon said, but "everybody that doesn't have a supporter sticker on their window, good luck: Nobody in, nobody out." The trucks will be going the 55 mile-per-hour speed limit.

D.C. commuters who wish to be allowed past the convoy must have "T2SDA" – an acronym for the event's original name, "Truckers to Shut Down America" – written on their vehicle, he said.

"It's going to be real fun for anyone who is not a supporter," Conlon said, "[and] if cops decide to give us a hard time, we're going to lock the brakes up, we're going to stop right there, we're going to be a three lane roadblock."

Zeeda Andrews, a former country music singer helping promote the protest, said last week participants would present demands to congressmen – including the impeachment of President Barack Obama – and give the congressmen an opportunity to agree to the demands in exchange for canceling the ride. [...] More @ U.S. News.





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