(Washington, D.C.) – Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW)

(CAGW) celebrates All Hallow’s Eve with its annual compendium of scary, grotesque, and spine-tingling examples of wasteful government spending.  The list of nominees for inclusion in this Fiscal House of Horrors was longer than last year, as it was difficult to unearth the full breadth of the mayhem.  So consider this as a shadow of the creepy crawlies lurking around corners and skulking down every dark stairwell, nook and cranny of the federal government.  Not one agency is free of the scourge of waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement.  Be very afraid…

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Gateway Pundit:
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Allow me to present the counter point after John Kerry’s initial point:

(CNSNews.com) – Secretary of State John Kerry argued Thursday that the United States cannot push its weight around in a changing and “complicated” world, and implied that the previous administration having done so had led to today’s security crisis in Iraq.
In an appearance at the Washington Ideas Forum, Kerry said that although the Obama administration wanted to see a less sectarian government in Iraq – a prerequisite for tackling the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) threat – it could not have simply demanded that former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki be replaced.
“The United States couldn’t just crash in and say, ‘Hey, you’re out. Here are the guys that are in.’ That’s not our – it would be playing into all of the worst stereotypes that have brought us to the difficulties we’re living with today.”  (link)

Here’s the counter point:

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Saint Louis County Prosecuting Attorney, Robert P McCullough, strikes back against U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

The New York Times, CNN and Editor Chris King have all admitted the leaks to them are from Washington DC.

Weird, I didn't hear CNN say they were debunking their own reporting from the other night in this "exclusive" pic.twitter.com/5pFxt2fJsz

— Alexis Zotos (@alexiszotos) October 31, 2014

Samantha Power

Who didn’t see this coming:
https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/527540380808773633
https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/527540520684638208
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Here’s another tidbit just released that Thomas Duncan and Criag Spencer have in common – THEY BOTH LIED TO POLICE.  I swear if the media keep digging they’ll find out Dr. Spencer left Guinea because he knew he’d been exposed to the virus just like Thomas Duncan.
Spencer only confessed to lying about quarantine AFTER his credit card and metrorail card were checked and he was busted. Until the police checked his credit card data Dr. Spencer was saying he never left his home.  Samantha Power demands we call them heroes.
(New York)  The city’s first Ebola patient initially lied to authorities about his travels around the city following his return from treating disease victims in Africa, law-enforcement sources said.
Dr. Craig Spencer at first told officials that he isolated himself in his Harlem apartment — and didn’t admit he rode the subways, dined out and went bowling until cops looked at his MetroCard the sources said.
“He told the authorities that he self-quarantined. Detectives then reviewed his credit-card statement and MetroCard and found that he went over here, over there, up and down and all around,” a source said. (more…)

This has been an interesting story since it first surfaced in May of 2013.  Sharyl has been tight lipped since she announced knowing who had bugged her back in June of 2013.  
The exfiltration and bugging was extensive and highly professional.  Her Skype program was used as a bugging tool for government agencies (NSA, CIA, FBI) to listen in to her conversations, and electronic classified documents were planted in her computer system in case blackmail leverage was needed… This was done while Sharyl was investigating Fast-n-Furious and Benghazi.
(New York Post) A former CBS News reporter who quit the network over claims it kills stories that put President Obama in a bad light says she was spied on by a “government-related entity” that planted classified documents on her computer.
In her new memoir, Sharyl Attkisson says a source who arranged to have her laptop checked for spyware in 2013 was “shocked” and “flabbergasted” at what the analysis revealed.
“This is outrageous. Worse than anything Nixon ever did. I wouldn’t have believed something like this could happen in the United States of America,” Attkisson quotes the source saying.
She speculates that the motive was to lay the groundwork for possible charges against her or her sources. (more…)

WHITE HOUSE – The President on Sunday afternoon convened his public health and national security teams to discuss appropriate measures to mitigate the risk of additional domestic Ebola cases. The President’s advisors updated him on policy considerations for new measures pertaining to returning healthcare workers, whose selfless efforts are critical to fighting this epidemic in West Africa.
The President underscored that the steps we take must be guided by the best medical science, as informed by our most knowledgeable public health experts. He also emphasized that these measures must recognize that healthcare workers are an indispensable element of our effort to lead the international community to contain and ultimately end this outbreak at its source, and should be crafted so as not to unnecessarily discourage those workers from serving. He directed his team to formulate policies based on these principles in order to offer the highest level of protection to the American people.

WH concerned about "unintended consequences" of new quarantine policies adopted by NY, NJ & IL for travelers from west Africa.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 26, 2014

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The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services have put out a contract order for enough holographic paper stock to print 34 million resident alien green cards.  Last Wednesday reporter began questioning White House spokesperson Josh Earnest about the motives behind the order – against the backdrop of reports discussed daily surrounding President Obama’s plans for widespread immigration decrees via executive order.

Josh Earnest awkwardly tried to laugh off the questioning until Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News, Major Garrett, became noticeably irked. “Don’t be absurd with us,” Garrett said. “That’s not just an ordinary colored sheet of paper. That is central, central to what the president has promised in public to do.”