What’s news today?

Let’s start with this. Hillary can’t get out of this forever, so let’s get to it.

From TheWashingtonExaminer

“Republican senators will refuse to confirm Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., as Secretary of State until the nation’s current top diplomat, Hillary Clinton, testifies about her handling of the Benghazi terrorist attack.

“The Senate is expected to take up Kerry’s nomination in early January, but multiple Republican senators have already said they won’t agree to a vote on Kerry’s nomination until Clinton testifies about the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi,” The Cable’s Josh Rogin notes.

Clinton backed out of testifying at a congressional hearing last week after fainting and suffering a concussion. She was the first cabinet-level official to acknowledge that terrorists played a role in the assault on the U.S. mission in Benghazi.”

Check. Your move Barry.

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And while she’s there, ask her about this more recent lie to the American people, also involving the Benghazi coverup courtesy of the Obama State Dept.

From TheNYPost

“The four officials supposedly out of jobs because of their blunders in the run-up to the deadly Benghazi terror attack remain on the State Department payroll — and will all be back to work soon, The Post has learned.

The highest-ranking official caught up in the scandal, Assistant Secretary of State Eric Boswell, has not “resigned” from government service, as officials said last week. He is just switching desks. And the other three are simply on administrative leave and are expected back.

The four were made out to be sacrificial lambs in the wake of a scathing report issued last week that found that the US compound in Benghazi, Libya, was left vulnerable to attack because of “grossly inadequate” security.

State Department leaders “didn’t come clean about Benghazi and now they’re not coming clean about these staff changes,” a source close to the situation told The Post., adding, the “public would be outraged over this.””

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This one ticks me off. The stupidity involved is off the charts. These geniuses just told the criminals where the guns are, and who can defend themselves and their property, and who can’t.

From CNN

“An interactive map showing the names and addresses of all handgun permit holders in New York’s Westchester and Rockland counties has infuriated many readers since it was posted Saturday on a newspaper’s website.”

“”One of our roles is to report publicly available information on timely issues, even when unpopular. We knew publication of the database (as well as the accompanying article providing context) would be controversial, but we felt sharing information about gun permits in our area was important in the aftermath of the Newtown shootings,” she said.

The newspaper also said it had wanted to publish even more information.”

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Well then, I guess they won’t mind that some have returned the favor. It being Public info and all.

From Salon

“A New York newspaper, The Journal News, sparked outrage among conservatives earlier this week when it posted an interactive feature showing the addresses and names of individuals who hold gun permits in New York’s Westchester and Rockland counties (screenshot above). The paper  notes that ”the data does not include owners of long guns — rifles or shotguns — which can be purchased without a permit. Being included in this map does not mean the individual at a specific location owns a weapon, just that they are licensed to do so.””

“One lawyer has responded, however, by turning the tables on 50 journalists at The Journal News. The Daily Dot reported today that lawyer Christopher Fountain has posted information on his blog that includes “the home addresses and phone numbers of visual editor Robert Rodriguez, reporter Dwight Worley, and editor Cynthia Royle.””

I’d be willing to bet the newspaper folks see now why stuff like this is a stupid idea.

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This one will just be fun to watch. Will he now at least be consistent and demand his own prosecution? After all, he’s been using his bully pulpit to press for stricter gun laws, so why not just enforce the existing ones in order to demonstrate that the system works?

From Breitbart

“In a discussion about gun control, host David Gregory brandished a 30-round magazine purportedly for an AR-15 or similar “assault rifle.”  The discussion took place on December 23, during the broadcast of NBC’s Sunday morning political talk show.

Washington D.C.’s gun laws, however, state that even possessing such a device is a violation. Meet the Press is filmed at NBC’s D.C. studios.”

“D.C. Official Code 7-2506.01, and reads (my bold):

(b) No person in the District shall possess, sell, or transfer any large capacity ammunition feeding device regardless of whether the device is attached to a firearm. For the purposes of this subsection, the term large capacity ammunition feeding device means a magazine, belt, drum, feed strip, or similar device that has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or converted to accept, more than 10 rounds of ammunition. The term large capacity ammunition feeding device shall not include an attached tubular device designed to accept, and capable of operating only with, .22 caliber rimfire ammunition.”

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UPDATE

Looks like the reporters in the gun owners story may have broken the law as well.

From openNYSenate.gov

“BILL NUMBER:S2488B

TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to pistol permit privacy

PURPOSE:
To require that when a person, other than law enforcement, requests a search of the pistol or revolver automated listing under the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) that it is limited to a search by specific name.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 – Subdivision 5 of Section 400.00 of the Penal Law, as amended by Chapter 332 of the laws of 1994, is amended to make the names of any pistol or revolver permit holders confidential except if a request is made under the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) for a specific individual by name. Any requests for the entire list
of licensees or for all the licensees in a geographic area shall be denied except if requested by law enforcement (to include any district attorney office in New York State).

Section 2 – Sets forth an immediate effective date.”

Is it too much to ask that journalists at least know the subject, and laws about it, before opinionating about it all over the press? I guess so. And does this open the paper up to a civil suit from named gun owners for violating their legal right to privacy in the matter? Let’s hope so.