Four months into the year and we still do not know who Barack Obama is.
Obama’s attorneys and the attorneys of his associates are doing double duty to keep Obama’s dirty dealings from becoming public. So much so that any investigations into to Tony Rezko continues to be hampered. Why? Apparently, where there is smoke, there is a hell of a lot of fire.
“Why is there so little media investigation of the financing behind Barack Obama’s early political sponsor-and now convicted felon-Tony Rezko?
The dual US-Syrian citizen Rezko–who assisted Obama in the purchase of his Chicago mansion–was heavily funded by loans from Iraqi-British ex-Baathist billionaire Nadhmi Auchi. According to testimony at Rezko’s trial, Obama met Auchi at an April 3, 2004 event at Rezko’s home during Obama’s 2004 US Senate campaign. The Times of London reports discovering, “state documents in Illinois recording that Fintrade Services, a Panamanian company, lent money to Mr. Obama’s fundraiser in May 2005.” Fintrade directors, according to The Times “include Ibtisam Auchi, the name of Mr. Auchi’s wife”.
Media bias is an easy-and intellectually lazy–explanation. Journalists digging into stories involving Auchi often find themselves peppered with threats of libel litigation from a London law firm known as Carter-Ruck. Hawai’i Free Press has received several such letters.
In a free society, one might expect reporters confident of the accuracy of their reporting to shrug off such threats. But Auchi’s attorneys are operating under the laws of an increasingly un-free society-England.
Auchi’s litigation threats have chased eight articles from the internet sites of the UK Guardian, Observer and New Statesman. Sweden-based website Wikileaks has posted the eight articles but writes:
“The censorship of The New Statesman’s political editor, Martin Bright, who was co-author for some of the Guardian and Observer articles, is particularly galling. In April Mr. Bright warned New Statesman readers about the censorship of the Guardian and Observer in an article on the Index on Censorship’s annual Freedom of Expression Awards (one of which was won by Wikileaks). Then, in a bow to Kafka’s The Trial, Mr. Bright’s warning was in its turn censored by legal threats from Auchi.”
Wikileaks itself is now under legal attack by Auchi’s lawyers…. “
A lot of money is being put out to keep the truth from coming out. This is censorship and suppression. We have a right to know without our journalists being shut down and threatened with litigation.

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