Each item in this report includes a source as well as a link to a third-party news site containing more information.
And even as we tried to be as comprehensive as possible, the federal government is massive and it’s impossible to catch everything. If you’re aware of a scandal we missed, write us at tips@grabien.com (and include a link for a corresponding news account). We’ll continue updating this list in the days ahead.
Note: To sort by date, click the top of the date column. To sort by agency, click the top of the agency column.
| Agency | Date | Description | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms | 01/04/2010 | Obama's ATF, in tandem with the DoJ, arranged for thousands of heavy assault rifles to make their way into the hands of Mexican narco warlords, setting the stage for a mass slaughter of Mexicans (more than 300 to date). | The Washington Times |
| 2 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms | 28/06/2011 | The Obama Administration fired the ATF whistleblower who exposed the Fast and Furious scandal. | Fox News |
| 3 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms | 07/12/2011 | Documents reveal Obama's ATF used "Fast and Furious" as part of a campaign for more gun control. | CBS News |
| 4 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms | 15/12/2011 | More than 1,000 guns from Obama's "Fast and Furious" program remain lost. | The Washington Times |
| 5 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms | 25/09/2013 | The DoJ's internal watchdog says the ATF let a confidential informant keep as much as $5.2 million from illicit cigarette sales. | CBS News |
| 6 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms | 25/09/2013 | The DoJ's internal watchdog says the ATF somehow "lost track" of 420 million cigarettes | CBS News |
| 7 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms | 09/12/2013 | Obama's ATF used mentally disabled teens to run drug-and-gun stings. | Reason |
| 8 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms | 04/08/2015 | Guns from Obama's "Fast and Furious" programs were used in the killings of at least two Americans, and probably more. | National Review Online |
| 9 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms | 20/09/2015 | Obama's ATF is using its resources to threaten the makers of kombucha, a fermented tea with trace amounts of alcohol. | The Denver Post |
| 10 | AmeriCorps | 10/07/2009 | After AmeriCorps' Inspector General uncovered corruption in the office of an Obama ally, Sacramento's major Kevin Johnson, Obama fired the IG. | The Washington Times |
| 11 | AmeriCorps | 10/07/2009 | In firing AmeriCorps' IG for doing his job too effectively, Obama broke a law that he as a senator sponsored. | The Washington Examiner |
| 12 | Amtrak | 31/05/2010 | After Amtrak's inspector general uncovered waste, fraud, and abuse within Amtrak, Obama fired him. | The Washington Times |
| 13 | Barack Obama White House | 11/09/2001 | As recounted in his autobiography, Obama reacted to 9/11 by worrying it might dampen his political career on account of his middle name. | The Audacity of Hope |
| 14 | Barack Obama White House | 09/05/2008 | While campaigning, Obama said he had visited "57 states" in America, and had two more to go before seeing them all. | Snopes |
| 15 | Barack Obama White House | 09/12/2008 | Before he was even in office, Obama was enmeshed in scandal. He was accused of consorting with then-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich over who would get his Senate seat, although he denied making contact with the governor's office. However a witness says this wasn't true, and Obama was pushing for Valerie Jarrett. | TIME |
| 16 | Barack Obama White House | 18/03/2009 | When British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the White House, Obama gave him a bunch of DVDs as a gift (worse: they were in the wrong format). | The Daily Telegraph |
| 17 | Barack Obama White House | 24/03/2009 | Despite running on a promise to go through the budget "line by line" to cut wasteful spending, Obama quadrupled the deficit in his first year of office. | The Heritage Foundation |
| 18 | Barack Obama White House | 07/04/2009 | Obama seemed to think Austrians speak "Austrian" | The Washington Post |
| 19 | Barack Obama White House | 15/04/2009 | When one of his staffers referred to the pope as a "discredited leader," Obama refused to say if he agreed. | CNS News |
| 20 | Barack Obama White House | 17/04/2009 | After enduring hours of anti-American speeches from crackpot South American leaders at the 2009 Summit of the Americas conference, Obama said ... nothing. | Bloomberg |
| 21 | Barack Obama White House | 19/04/2009 | When the Grateful Dead was in D.C. for a show, Obama made sure they paid him a secret visit in the Oval Office. | The Washington Post |
| 22 | Barack Obama White House | 19/04/2009 | After Iran convicted an American journalist in a sham trial, the Obama White House was mute. | Yahoo News |
| 23 | Barack Obama White House | 09/07/2009 | Breaking a decades long precedent, Obama happily met with then-Libya dictator Muammar Gaddafi at a G8 Summit. | Tripoli Post |
| 24 | Barack Obama White House | 21/07/2009 | After committing to cut a mere $100 million in spending in 90 days (around 1/10th of 1 percent of the budget), Obama missed his deadline. | CNN |
| 25 | Barack Obama White House | 22/07/2009 | Despite admitting "not having all the facts," Obama said a Boston police officer "acted stupidly" when arresting a professor who resisted questions while the officer responded to a 911 call. Obama later said he regretted his comments. | Wikipedia |
| 26 | Barack Obama White House | 29/07/2009 | Despite publicly asking federal agencies to look for places to cut costs, Obama arranged a massive spending boost for a legal aid agency whose own inspector general accused it of wasting money on goodies for its execs. | The Washington Times |
| 27 | Barack Obama White House | 24/08/2009 | Obama tried turning 9/11 into some kind of national holiday for liberalism. | The American Spectator |
| 28 | Barack Obama White House | 04/02/2010 | Barack Obama, commander in chief, pronounced Navy "corpsman" like "corpse-man." | YouTube |
| 29 | Barack Obama White House | 22/04/2010 | While Obama hosted an Earth Day celebration in the Rose Garden, the Deepwater Horizon, which had been burning for two days, sank into the Gulf | The Daily Caller |
| 30 | Barack Obama White House | 23/04/2010 | The Coast Guard announces 11 Deepwater workers are dead; Obama travels to N.C. for a vacation, where he eats BBQ with Michelle. | The Daily Caller |
| 31 | Barack Obama White House | 24/04/2010 | Coast Guard announces oil is spewing into the Gulf; the Obamas continued their vacation | The Daily Caller |
| 32 | Barack Obama White House | 26/04/2010 | After an attempt at stopping the leak fails, the spill is now the size of Rhode Island; Obama hosts a ceremony with the Yankees and then plays a round of golf | The Daily Caller |
| 33 | Barack Obama White House | 28/04/2010 | The spill rate is upgraded to 5,000 barrels/day; Obama spends the day doing political events in Illinois | The Daily Caller |
| 34 | Barack Obama White House | 29/04/2010 | Louisiana Gov. declares a state of emergeny as the 600 mile spill is just 16 miles off the coast; Obama delivers a speech on cybersecurity and meets with FEMA -- about hurricane preparedness | The Daily Caller |
| 35 | Barack Obama White House | 01/05/2010 | Efforts at stopping the leak continue to fail; Obama attends the White House Correspondents Dinner to tell jokes. | The Daily Caller |
| 36 | Barack Obama White House | 08/05/2010 | BP's "containment dome" fails to contain the leak; Obama plays golf at Fort Belvoir | The Daily Caller |
| 37 | Barack Obama White House | 09/05/2010 | Tar balls begin reaching the Alabama coastline; Obama delivers a commencement address at Hampton Univ. | The Daily Caller |
| 38 | Barack Obama White House | 17/05/2010 | By now the spill rate has been upgraded to 50,000 barrels/day; Obama hosts UCONN's women's basketball team at the White House | The Daily Caller |
| 39 | Barack Obama White House | 18/05/2010 | Oil balls are now washing ashore in Fla.; Obama meets with members of the Democratic Caucuses | The Daily Caller |
| 40 | Barack Obama White House | 22/05/2010 | The spill continues unabated; Obama announces a renovation project at the White House and delivers another commencement address | The Daily Caller |
| 41 | Barack Obama White House | 26/05/2010 | The spill continues unabated; Obama hosts the U.S. World Cup soccer team and Duke's basketball team | The Daily Caller |
| 42 | Barack Obama White House | 28/05/2010 | Obama makes a brief visit to Loisiana to inspect the recovery efforts, then heads on vacation | The Daily Caller |
| 43 | Barack Obama White House | 29/05/2010 | Obama tried to illegally bribe a Democratic senatorial candidate (Joe Sestak) out of running. | CNN |
| 44 | Barack Obama White House | 13/09/2010 | After the Gulf disaster was finally contained, Obama commissioned a taxpayer funded study to see what Americans thought of his handling of the crisis | Yahoo News |
| 45 | Barack Obama White House | 17/12/2010 | When Obama met with elementary school children in Virginia, he read them his own book. | USA Today |
| 46 | Barack Obama White House | 22/01/2011 | Against advice, Obama invited China's government to a White House state dinner; the Chinese pianist ended up playing an anti-American tune during the event. | The Epoch Times |
| 47 | Barack Obama White House | 08/02/2011 | Under Obama, regulations soared to more than 1,500/year (by contrast Congress averages 200 laws/year). | The Competitive Enterprise Institute |
| 48 | Barack Obama White House | 14/02/2011 | For months Obama deflected calls to act on the deficit/debt by creating a commission to handle the issue; when the commission issued its report, Obama ignored it entirely. | The Heritage Foundation |
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