This is a public lynching of Ray Rice

In the same fashion as Darren Wilson?

Who's telling the truth?

Report: Ray Rice told Roger Goodell that he hit fiancee

This guy?

Roger Goodell is at a crossroads in his tenure as commissioner. (USATSI)

Or this one?

Don't really know and not crazy about "unnamed 4 sources". 

But I do know this. The last paragraph...Mueller..he was the one who was supposed to be investigating the IRS targeting of the Teaparty. Not one Teapartier was ever interviewed by the FBI.

This is how it went down:

The country’s top investigator seemed to be in the dark when pressed to provide details of the IRS investigation into the tax agency’s targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups.

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, seemed to rattle FBI Director Robert Mueller for not knowing the specifics surrounding the IRS probe.

“You’ve had a month now to investigate,” Jordan said. “This has been the biggest story in the country and you can’t even tell me who the lead investigator is. You can’t tell me the actions the inspector general took which are not typically how investigations are done. You can’t tell me if that’s appropriate or not. This is not speculation. This is what happened.”

Mueller repeatedly declined to answer Jordan’s questions, saying he couldn’t because the investigation was ongoing or that he’d have to get back to the lawmakers with answers.

When Jordan asked again,” Can you tell me who the lead investigator is?” Mueller responded, “Off the top of my head, no.” 

Why? Because there was no investigation going on. A crime onto itself. 

Just thought I'd throw this in. I heard he's great at investigating the NFL though because he doesn't have to answer to Barry.

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In an interview Tuesday with CBS Morning News, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the league requested the surveillance video from the Atlantic City hotel where Ray Rice punched then-fiancée Janay Palmer in the face, "Because when we make a decision we want to have all the information that's available. When we met with Ray Rice and his representatives it was ambiguous about what actually happened."

Thursday night, four sources told ESPN's Don Van Natta Jr. that when Rice met with Goodell, he told the commissioner that he did in fact punch his fiancee.

"Ray didn't lie to the commissioner," one source with knowledge of the meeting told Van Natta Jr. "He told the full truth to Goodell -- he made it clear he had hit her, and he told Goodell he was sorry and that it wouldn't happen again."

"He told the truth," a second source said. "This is a public lynching of Ray."

A third source, who also had knowledge of Rice's discussions with Goodell, added: "There was no ambiguity about what happened [in the elevator]." A fourth source also confirmed this to Van Natta Jr., although a fifth source said Rice told Goodell he had "slapped" Palmer.

On Wednesday, Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome said: "Ray had given a story to John [Harbaugh] and I. And what we saw on the video was what Ray said. Ray didn't lie to me. He didn't lie to me."

This latest development comes hours after a Wall Street Journal report that Goodell backed off his investigation of what happened between Rice and Palmer after hearing Palmer's side of the story. Reportedly, she told the commissioner that she had hit Rice and felt partially responsible for what happened on the night in question.

According to the WSJ, Goodell "felt it would have been insensitive to question Janay Rice's story because it would have come across as an indictment of her character."

Meanwhile, if Goodell had viewed the video there would be no room for ambiguity or concerns about being insensitive to the victim. Goodell told CBS This Morning that neither he nor anyone in his office saw the video, a claim that was refuted in an Associated Press report that said a law enforcement official sent the video to the league in April.

The NFL announced Wednesday night that former FBI Director Robert Mueller will head an independent investigation into what Goodell and the league did and didn't know regarding the Ray Rice case. Whatever comes of that, this much is a near certainty: Goodell will keep his job.

This is a public lynching of Ray Rice

13 years ago...

And I still remember it like it happened yesterday. 

May God keep those Americans who died that fateful day close to his heart.

Bretagne too! 

Meet Bretagne, The Last Known 9/11 Service Dog That Worked At Ground Zero...

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Good dog.

13 years ago...

Obama: ‘I Should’ve Anticipated The Optics’ Of Golfing After Foley Beheading

What about the “optics” of going to Vegas for a fundraiser less than 24 hours after 4 Americans died in the Benghazi debacle?

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The Daily Caller

By Brendan Bordelon

President Obama admitted on Sunday that he “should’ve anticipated the optics” of golfing just minutes after a sober statement on the brutal beheading of American journalist James Foley by ISIS, noting that “part of this job is also the theater of it.”

Obama sat down Sunday with NBC’s new “Meet The Press” host Chuck Todd for a wide-ranging interview that touched on immigration, ISIS and other White House challenges. But Todd made sure to ask about that golf game, a moment that even supporters of the president admitted made him look tone deaf and disengaged.

“I gotta ask, during that vacation,” Todd said. “You made the statement on Foley, you went and golfed. Do you want that back?”

The president claimed it’s “always a challenge when you’re supposed to be on vacation, because you’re followed everywhere. And part of what I’d love is a vacation from the press –.”

“I promise you, in two and a half years I think that happens,” Todd joked.

“But there’s no doubt that, after having talked to the families — where it was hard for me to hold back tears listening to the pain that they were going through, after the statement that I made — that I should’ve anticipated the optics,” Obama admitted. “That’s part of the job.”

“You take this stuff, and it’s serious business, and you care about it deeply,” he explained. “But part of this job is also the theater of it. How you –.”

“You hate the theater of it,” Todd replied.

“Well, it’s not something that always comes naturally to me,” Obama conceded. “But it matters. And I’m mindful of that.”

Theater?

His entire presidency is predicated on it.

Obama: ‘I Should’ve Anticipated The Optics’ Of Golfing After Foley Beheading

Barry to Delay Executive Action (Amnesty) Until After November Election

And why is that...?

For the same reason he dropped the employer mandate. He knows it stinks! This is just another con job perpetrated by Barry on the low information voter.  Obviously this is purely political, knowing if he uses executive action now to grant 5 million amnesty it will be the kiss of death for Dem's in November. 

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Two White House officials said President Obama decided on Friday to delay executive action on immigration until after the November congressional elections, as reported by the Associated Press.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the President's decision has not been announced yet but told The Associated Press, "Obama decided that circumventing Congress with executive action would politicize immigration further and hurt efforts to pass a broader immigration reform program." 

There are six U.S. Senate seats vulnerable to Republican take over in the upcoming election -- Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Louisiana and North Carolina. Iowa's Democratic Senator Tom Harkin is retiring.

News reports have been surfacing over the past week suggesting Obama might delay administrative immigration reform because of the elections, but immigration groups were adamant there be no delay.  

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On Friday a letter was sent to the President by 136 immigration lawyers from 32 states informing him of his powers of executive action.

Also late Friday, a coalition of grassroots groups, including LULAC, faith leaders and religious groups wrote to ask Obama not to delay as families are being torn apart daily by deportations. 

The coalition's letter said, "Every day, more than 1,100 immigrants are separated from their families and their communities because of deportations. And despite assurances from your administration, immigrant workers and their families continue to live in fear of employer retaliation and intimidation, as well as racial profiling and excessive use-of-force by Department of Homeland Security agents who continues to abuse, arrest, detain, and deport our family members and loved ones. Any delay in announcement of administrative relief for aspiring Americans only compounds the suffering, changes ... are already long overdue."

LULAC's Luis Torres said it is not a political organization, but they are concerned with civil rights.

"I think we need to remember here we are talking about real human beings who are affected every day because of the broken immigration system. We are not talking about political calculations and it is unfortunate that has become a part of this conversation recently. If there are people looking at the political calculations, I would suggest they look at the long-term implications of turning their backs on the fastest growing segment of the population and that will be felt. We have Latinos being elected in record numbers, our community is coming out to vote in record numbers, it increases every single year. I think making a short term calculation would be a severe mistake," Luis Torres, director of policy and legislation for LULAC, told Latin Post.

President Obama announced in June he was willing to issue an executive order because of inaction by Congress. 

The U.S. Senate did introduce immigration reform legislation which passed in June. 

The Republican-led House introduced their own bill, HR 5230, a border supplemental bill with language making it easier to deport Central American children, and HR 5272, which would have ended the President's DACA program. Those bills passed just before the August recess, but they will be unacceptable to the Senate after Congress reconvenes.

In August, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest stated a presidential executive action could come in September

The officials told The Associated Press that Obama had no specific time to act, but he wants to take executive steps before the end of the year. 

During a press conference in Wales at the NATO summit, Obama said he would act without Congress to increase border security and upgrade processing, plus offering immigrants already in the U.S. a way to become legal residents, pay taxes, pay a fine and learn English.

In other words AMNESTY.

Barry to Delay Executive Action (Amnesty) Until After November Election

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Wonder if we'll ever see another one like him again?

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