Which is why now I don't trust Gallup's polls anymore. Polling Poorly? Just Have Your Justice Department Sue Gallup http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/polling-poorly-just-have-your-justice-department-sue-gallup/ Posted by Daniel Greenfield Bio ↓ on Sep 9th, 2012 Is there anything that Eric Holder can’t do? Before breakfast, he’s already plotting to eliminate the Second Amendment by smuggling guns to Mexico. By lunch he’s ordered a raid on Gibson Guitars because he could never fulfill his dream of playing guitar. And by dinner, he’s suing Gallup because the man who put him in here ain’t polling so well. This is Step 1 “As they say in b-ball: he’s trying to work the refs,” that official wrote to other senior Gallup staffers. “What a joke. Axel’s had a bad week. He got in the middle of the Ann Romney thing. Then said the country is going in the wrong direction. (Oops!) Now he’s swinging at us….” In response to that email, a third senior Gallup official said he thought Axelrod’s pressure “sounds a little like a Godfather situation.” “Imagine Axel[rod] with Brando’s voice: ‘[Name redacted], I’d like you to come over and explain your methodology…You got a nice poll there… would be a shame if anything happened to it…’” Sure they might have laughed because everyone complains about polling methodologies. But everyone doesn’t have their own Justice Department and about as much compunction about using it to intimidate their critics as a thug in an alley with a 9mm. And so this was Step 2. The United States has joined a whistleblower lawsuit against The Gallup Organization, the Justice Department announced today. The lawsuit was filed by Michael Lindley, a former Gallup employee, who alleges that Gallup violated the False Claims Act by making false claims for payment under contracts with the U.S. Mint, the State Department and other federal agencies to provide polling services for various government programs. According to the whistleblower’s complaint, Gallup violated the False Claims Act by giving the government inflated estimates of the number of hours that it would take to perform its services, even though it had separate and lower internal estimates of the number of hours that would be required. The complaint further alleges that the government paid Gallup based on the inflated estimates, rather than Gallup’s lower internal estimates. The government intervened in the lawsuit with respect to Gallup’s contracts with the Mint and the State Department. Now the Obama Administration has a stunning record of prosecuting whistleblowers. And this whistleblower, Michael Lindley, just happened to be a field organizer for the Obama Campaign. The lawsuit may have merit, but that’s the beauty of a corrupt system. Virtually every contractor is guilty of something, which gives the authorities the leverage to go after everyone at any time. That’s the Chicago way. In America, polls decide which candidate is ahead. In Chicago, candidates decide which polling company gets sued by the Justice Department.
The incredibly politicized Justice Department of Obama's is nothing more than a tool used to achieve political power. I hope when Romney assumes office Holder is prosecuted for his many misdeeds and illegalities.
The pre-election GOP whining has already kicked into high gear in anticipation of the inevitable ass whippin' coming up in November.....Waaaah, waaaah! LOL .....You gotta love it!!
Wait a minute, Axelrod went all Chi-Town on Gallup???? No way.... The most transparent administration on Earth would never allow such a thing... There is no way this isn't total bunk, its simply unbelievable that our government would do anything to deceive us... Never happen, we had an Obama promise of openness, what on Earth could trump that???? I'll wait for the bots to confirm my ideas, otherwise, I'll simply be shocked, our president wouldn't lie, would he????
The same people who were "horrified" at Nixon's tactics, have never had a problem with Sleazocrats doing the same or worse...
