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A big deal: Bipartisan Senate panel investigates Obama link to anti-Netanyahu electioneering

Interesting times go bipartisan.

Bipartisan pals: the "Mc" twins investigate State Department funding of OneVoice and V15. — Bipartisan pals: the “Mc” twins investigate State Department funding of OneVoice and V15.

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Obama’s campaign field director to lead Israeli election campaign against Netanyahu

Campaigning, but not influencing?

Obama's national campaign field director heads to Israel to avoid influencing the March 2015 election. — Obama’s national campaign field director heads to Israel to avoid influencing the March 2015 election.

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UPDATE Sonasoft, IRS email contractor; Lerner email connection fades, Obama link remains

The usual suspects.

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*UPDATE*: Sonasoft posted a statement on its website on Tuesday evening (about an hour ago as of this update posting), in which it clarifies three important things.

1. The company never had access to or stored or otherwise manipulated IRS emails. IRS emails were handled and stored at all times on servers in IRS facilities which were not managed or maintained by Sonasoft representatives.

Comment: This is what I assumed to be the case (see discussion in the comments section), and what reader NW Conservative, among others, affirmed.

2. Sonasoft’s contract was with one division of the IRS, the Office of Counsel. According to Sonasoft:

“In regards to the IRS as one of Sonasoft’s customers, it is true that one Division within the IRS was Sonasoft’s customer from 2005 to 2011,” clarified Andy Khanna. “This Division was the IRS Counsel. The main branch of the IRS did not use Sonasoft’s software for its operations…”

Comment: This would mean that Sonasoft’s services were not implicated in the email archiving practices that may or may not have affected Lois Lerner’s emails.

3. The IRS Office of Counsel used Sonasoft’s email replication software, SonaExchange. Sonasoft did not provide archiving software under the IRS contract. Sonasoft again:

“To further clarify, no Division within IRS ever used Sonasoft’s email archiving software. Only a Division within the IRS used any Sonasoft product and that was our email replication software, not our archiving or backup software. ”, said Andy Khanna.

Comment: Fair enough. Looks like the Sonasoft inquiry may be a dry hole in terms of figuring out who did what with the Lerner emails.

That said, it is absolutely classic that investigating the Sonasoft tip turned up an Obama crony connection anyway. There’s one under every rock.

Battleground Texas: Defending the vote

Making the Eyes of Texas blue.

Image via Fort Bend Democrats (who, bless their hearts, love this display because it involved "recycling"). — Image via Fort Bend Democrats (who, bless their hearts, love this display because it involved “recycling”).

The new video from James O’Keefe (see below) has gone viral in the last 72 hours. It was the first big “get” for Breitbart Texas, and for good reason: it shows an operative from the Obama-affiliated Battleground Texas PAC apparently violating Texas law on voter registration. Continue reading “Battleground Texas: Defending the vote”