You can't spell "accountability" without "A," "C" and "T." But in Washington, government officials routinely get away with "taking personal responsibility" by mouthing empty words devoid of action. Heads nod in collective agreement that mistakes were made. But heads never roll. The Obama administration has raised this accountability charade to an art form.

At a House Energy Committee hearing on the half-billion-dollar bankrupt Solyndra loan-guarantee disaster, Energy Secretary Steven Chu made a grand pretense of falling on his sword. The neon-green solar energy zealot told lawmakers in prepared testimony that the "final decisions on Solyndra were mine, and I made them with the best interest of the taxpayer in mind." But again and again, Chu admitted, those decisions were made with serial cluelessness about the political jockeying, dire financial warnings, legal red flags and conflicts of interest that "everybody (else) and their dog" knew about (as GOP Rep. Joe Barton of Texas politely pointed out).

While former Democratic chief inquisitor Henry Waxman praised Chu's "reputation for integrity" as "unimpeachable," Chu came across as more Mr. Magoo than Mr. Clean.

Chu said he was "unaware" of the Department of Energy's own staff predictions two years ago that Solyndra would face a serious cash-flow crisis today.

Chu said he was "unaware" of administration pressure on Solyndra to suppress layoff announcements until after the November 2010 midterm elections. "I don't know. I just learned about that," he shirked.

In fact, he used the phrase "I am aware of it now" at least a half-dozen times. If there were a Nobel Prize for Unknowing, Chu would be two-time shoo-in. GOP House Energy Committee Chairman Cliff Stearns summed up:

"We talked about the August 2009 email predicting Solyndra would be out of cash in September 2011. You knew about that, but you didn't seem to know about that.

The PricewaterhouseCoopers concerns about Solyndra, you didn't seem real concerned or weren't aware of it.

The White House emailing your chief of staff regarding their concerns with the PricewaterhouseCoopers report, you didn't seem to know too much about your chief of staff's awareness of that.

The request to hold off announcement of the DOE loan, and request by your agency to Solyndra to hold off on announcing layoffs till after the midterm election, you don't have any recollection of this. So what I am saying is that through all of this you seem to have an unawareness."

In short, Chu took full responsibility for everything he wasn't aware of ... until it was too late.

Sound familiar? It was the leitmotif played in last week's Fast and Furious hearings with Attorney General Eric Holder.

Despite a raft of briefing memos with his name on them, Holder claimed he never received or read them. Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse ran interference, sanctimoniously explaining for all the non-career government attorneys in the audience -- including the family of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry -- that nooooooo one in the top echelons of the federal lawyers' bureaucracy actually reads memos addressed to them. It's merely a "convention" for junior staff to feel better and more important about themselves.

Taking his boss's lead, former Holder Chief of Staff Kevin Ohlson -- who is seeking a federal judicial slot -- explained away his failure to do anything about the festering Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal. He had "been informed that routine courtesy copies of weekly reports were forwarded to me that referred to the operation by name, but that did not provide any operational details and did not refer to gun walking or anything similar."

Although his name was on the documents, Ohlson just didn't bother to read them because they weren't marked important or sensitive. Imagine an ordinary small businessman or taxpayer trying that one out on the IRS.

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

Michelle Malkin

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Attack On White House By Mexican Cartel Stuns Obama Regime – Cant understand why, They armed them in exchange for Drugs.

Attack On White House By Mexican Cartel Stuns Obama Regime

Eutimes.net

A new Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the Obama regime was stunned this past weekend after a brazen attack on the White House was carried out by members associated with at least two Mexican drug cartels that shattered at least one window in what is arguably the most protected building in the world.

According to this report, and confirmed by the US Secret Service, this Friday past at least 2 bullets from an AK-47 semi-automatic assault rifle were fired at the White House with one reported to have reached the building’s internal anti-ballistics glass which was shattered by the impact.

The timing of this attack, according to the FSB, was meant to occur when President Obama (he had just begun a trip to Asia) was not in the building as the normally high security when he is there, though still potent, is somewhat relaxed.

The FSB further reports the firing of just 2 bullets was a deliberate attempt by the attackers to thwart the White House areas acoustical-detection system which under normal conditions needs at least 3 shots before it can accurately pinpoint the location from which the shots are being fired from.

Later Friday evening, this FSB report continues, the vehicle from which the shots were fired from was located by US Secret Service, FBI and local police authorities with the AK-47 laying across the back seat with a warning note saying “Aquí está uno de los nuestros, no la suya necesitan,” roughly translated from its original Spanish meaning… “Here’s one of ours, we don’t need yours.”

The FSB states that the warning note found on the AK-47 was in direct reference to the Obama regimes gun-running efforts (known as Operation Fast and Furious) to arm the dangerous Sinaloa Cartel as it battles to gain supremacy in a Mexican Drug War that has so far cost nearly 40,000 lives.

The Sinaloa Cartel, whose leader Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was just named by Forbes as one of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world, is backed by the Obama regime over their fears the Mexican government is collapsing.

Citing an unnamed CIA source, a recent Washington Times article theorizes that the Obama regime was actively aiding the Sinaloa Cartel with guns and immunity in an effort to stymie the Los Zetas Cartel. That’s because, according to the article, the powerful and brutal criminal Zetas syndicate has the potential to overthrow the government of Mexico — and might be planning to do so.

To who directed this unprecedented attack against the White House the FSB states was a Knights Templar Drug Cartel assassin smuggled into the US from Mexico by the brutal drug gang known as Barrio Azteca which has recently extended its reach to the American State of Idaho.

Both the FSB and US news report identify the Knights Templar assassin as Oscar Ramiro Ortega, a 21-year-old Mexican national who the FBI is currently seeking in Idaho, but who Russian intelligence experts say may already have already been secretly captured by the CIA.

Lending credence to the Russian experts who say Ortega may have already been captured and tortured for information by the CIA are reports emerging from Mexico that the leader of the quasi-religious Knights of Templar drug gang, Juan Gabriel Orozco Favela, was captured Monday in a combined raid on his headquarters by US and Mexican special forces troops.

Important to note, this FSB report says, is that coinciding with this historic attack on the White House was the assassination of Mexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora whose helicopter was shot down over Mexico City on Friday, a shocking death that saddened President Obama.

The FSB reports that Mora was “targeted” due to his allowing the Obama regime to send hundreds of CIA and US Military forces into Mexico in what many Mexicans consider a blatant violation of their sovereignty, but Russian intelligence experts say were needed due to the inability of Mexican authorities to control what is actually an “all-out” war.

Unfortunately for the American people is their not being allowed to know from their “mainstream” media that the deadliest war of the 21st Century is currently being waged on their own border, and with Mexican drug cartels now reported to be operating in nearly every US State.

As American law enforcement authorities are now warning that they are tracking what appears to be a more aggressive approach toward the United States by Mexican drug cartels, and the powerful Sinaloa Cartel is now warned is considering a military assault against US government or media buildings in Mexico City, and as many of these cartels also have moved some of their marijuana cultivation into the Upper Midwest of the United States, one should think the knowledge of these things should be of vital importance.

The “powers that be” in the US, however, think otherwise leaving their citizens in great danger from the greater horrors to come…and by this latest attack on the White House shows its coming much sooner than later.

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