unions, labor
and auto bailout, 162–65
and Boeing Dreamliner factory, 166–67
elections and, 162–63, 176–77
and Obama appointments, 167–68
Obamacare and, 174–75, 206
violence of, 192
United Auto Workers (UAW), 162–64, 165
United Nations
Benghazi abandoned by, 34
and Libya uprising, 27
Obama at, 46
Qaddafi sanctions and, 24
and Rosen–North Korea reports, 122
United States
destruction of, 214
role in world of, 204, 209
United States v. Price (1966), 141
University of Chicago Medical Center, 160–61
Univision: Obama comments about Fast and Furious to, 71, 75
Upstream program, 144
Urban League, 180
USA Today, 14
Van Hollen, Chris, 114
VanderSloot Farms, 103
VanderSloot, Frank, 103
VantagePoint Capital Partners, 171
Vaughn, Aaron, 120, 121
Vaughn, Billy, 121
Vaughn, Karen, 120
Vehicle Production Group (Perseus), 172
Venezuela: Chávez rule in, 86
Verizon, 152–53
Victory Fund, Obama’s, 194
Vietor, Tommy, 40–41
voter fraud, 198–99
Voth, David, 65, 66–67, 79
Wagle, Sanjay, 171
Walden, Greg, 26
Wall Street businesses, 193–94, 210
Wall Street Journal
AmeriCorps/Walpin story and, 190
Wall Street Journal
and bribery cases, 167
and Fast and Furious Operation, 79
and “Innocence of Muslims” video, 38
and IRS activities, 115
Walpin, Gerald, 188–90, 201, 210
Walsh, Kenneth T., 95
Walther, Michael F., 72
Walton, Reggie B., 148
war on terror: ending of, 140–41, 143
Warriner, Jeremy, 164
Washington Post
and Energy Department activities, 172
and Fast and Furious Operation, 63, 65, 69, 76–77, 79–80
and IRS activities, 105–6, 107
and Israeli-U.S. relations, 131
and Rosen–North Korea case, 122
and Sebelius’s solicitation of donations for Obamacare, 195
and surveillance programs, 143, 144, 210
and Syrian aid, 27
Washington Times
and bin Laden’s death, 120
and IRS activities, 117
Watergate, 72
Waters, Maxine, 180
Watts, Naomi, 205
Weich, Ronald, 68, 72, 80
Weinstein, Jason, 74
Wells, David, 194
Wells Fargo, 194
Werfel, Danny, 113, 114
Western Center for Journalism, 91
Wetumpka Tea Party (Alabama), 106
whistle-blowers
about Benghazi, 42, 48, 53, 155, 204
and Fast and Furious Operation, 62, 77–78, 83, 121–22, 155
Snowden as, 145
Whitaker, Eric, 161
Whitehouse, Sheldon, 99
WikiLeaks, 19, 22
Wilkinson, Monty, 67, 74
Wilson, Frederica, 180
Wilson, Joe, 205
Wilson, Woodrow, 7–8, 12, 204
Winfrey, Oprah, 175
wiretaps
and Fast and Furious Operation, 64
See also surveillance programs
witnesses, silencing/tampering of
and Benghazi, 1, 47, 50–53, 58, 122
and Fast and Furious Operation, 62, 79–80
Wolfinger, Norm, 181
Wood, Andrew, 34, 35
Woods, Charles, 44
Woods Fund, 198
Woods, Tyrone, 18, 39, 41, 44
Woodward, Bob, 14
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 87
Wright, Jeremiah, 128, 161
Wurzelbacher, Samuel Joseph “Joe the Plumber,” 92–94
Wyden, Ron, 142, 143, 148
XP Technology, 172–73
Ya’alon, Moshe, 134
Yahoo, 143
Yedioth Ahronoth, 132
Yeltsin, Boris, 200
Yemen
al-Qaeda in, 31, 38
leaks about terror plot in, 123–26
Younes, Abdel Fattah, 33
Younis, Fawzi, 36
YouTube
Benghazi and, 42–47, 55
“Innocence of Muslims” video on, 38, 41, 42–47, 55
surveillance programs and, 143
Zapata, Jaime, 68, 82
Zarqawi, Abu Mussab al-, 26
Zawahiri, Ayman al-, 38, 126
Zawahiri, Mohammed al-, 38
Zimmerman, George, 178–84, 185, 186, 201, 206, 208, 210
Zindani, Abdul Majeed al-, 38
Zywicki, Todd, 164
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Shapiro, Ben.
The people vs. Barack Obama : the criminal case against the Obama administration / Ben Shapiro.
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1. Obama, Barack. 2. Executive power—United States. 3. Abuse of administrative power—United States. 4. United States—Politics and government—2009– I. Title. II. Title: People versus Barack Obama.
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