ACORN Caught in Massive Documents Dumps Across the Nation

But...but they care about "the community," so it's okay to dump private information in the garbage, right?

I hope their dumpsters are being checked everywhere. Their plans to take over the state legislature in Oklahoma is very telling. And racist.

But once again, where is the media in all this? Too busy sucking up to Obama, apparently, to cover things like this and global warming hoax.

5 stars

What really salts my snails is that if this were you or I caught dumping people's private information in a dumpster and dumping financial docs during a federal investigation, we'd be put in jail!

I have no doubt about that.

The high-profile lawyer hired to investigate ACORN has found no pattern of intentional illegal conduct in the community organizing group -- a finding that was dismissed as "damage control" by one of the two filmmakers who, posing as a pimp and prostitute, videotaped staffers offering advice on how to operate a brothel .

Former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger was commissioned by ACORN to produce the 47-page report, which suggested that the group remain focused on community organizing and hire an independent ethics officer to oversee an internal governance program already under way.

"We did not find a pattern of intentional, illegal conduct by ACORN staff involved; in fact, no action, illegal or otherwise, was ever taken by any ACORN employee on behalf of the videographers," Harshbarger said in a statement. "Instead, the videos represent the byproduct of ACORN's longstanding management weaknesses, including a lack of training, a lack of procedures and a lack of on-site supervision."

Filmmaker James O'Keefe, who posed as a pimp on the videos along with purported prostitute Hannah Giles, dismissed the report on Monday.

"They probably didn't find anything wrong because Harshbarger probably spent more time investigating me than ACORN," O'Keefe told FoxNews.com. "The videos speak for themselves, really. Just watch the videos, the content is all there. You'll see the illicit conduct on the videos."

O'Keefe said the report is part of the group's "damage control," and he said more videotape footage is forthcoming. He declined further comment.

The videos -- first obtained by BigGovernment.com -- depicted ACORN employees offering advice to O'Keefe and Giles on how to skirt tax laws and avoid detection by authorities while operating a brothel. Videos from ACORN offices in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Brooklyn, N.Y., San Diego and San Bernadino, Calif., led to the firing of four employees and the suspension of two others.

The undercover sting also prompted the IRS and the U.S. Census Bureau to sever all ties to the organization, which bills itself as the nation's largest grassroots organization of low- and moderate-income families. A criminal probe was also launched by the Kings County District Attorney's Office to investigate activities at ACORN's Brooklyn office.

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SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.

The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.

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