Obama lied again

During his campaign he promised to talk to Iran with no preconditions. But sadly the preconditions are on the US side.

The Obama administration and its European allies are preparing proposals that would shift strategy toward Iran by dropping a longstanding American insistence that Tehran rapidly shut down nuclear facilities during the early phases of negotiations over its atomic program, according to officials involved in the discussions.

The proposals, exchanged in confidential strategy sessions with European allies, would press Tehran to open up its nuclear program gradually to wide-ranging inspection. But the proposals would also allow Iran to continue enriching uranium for some period during the talks. That would be a sharp break from the approach taken by the Bush administration, which had demanded that Iran halt its enrichment activities, at least briefly to initiate negotiations.

The proposals under consideration would go somewhat beyond President Obama’s promise, during the presidential campaign, to open negotiations with Iran “without preconditions.” Officials involved in the discussion said they were being fashioned to draw Iran into nuclear talks that it had so far shunned.

So instead of the Iran giving up the nuclear plant for the privilege of us not blowing them up, Obama has the bright idea to let them build more nuclear plants.

I really hope Israel doesn't bow down to Obama and does what is right and what is needed. And destroys any nuclear plant that Iran might even think of building.

Obama lifting restrictions to Cuba

I guess he just wants to reach out to a fellow communist.

President Barack Obama directed his administration Monday to allow unlimited travel and money transfers by Cuban Americans to family in Cuba, and to take other steps to ease U.S. restrictions on the island, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.

The formal announcement was being made at the White House Monday afternoon, during presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs' daily briefing with reporters. The official spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to upstage the president's announcement.

With the changes, Obama aims to create new space for the Cuban people in their quest for political freedom and a democratic government, in part by making them less dependent on the Castro regime, the official said.

Other steps taken Monday include allowing gift parcels to be send to Cuba, and issuing licenses to increase communications among and to the Cuban people. About 1.5 million Americans have relatives in Cuba.

Obama had promised to take these steps as a presidential candidate. It has been known for over a week that he would announce them in advance of his attended this weekend of a Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago.

"There are no better ambassadors for freedom than Cuban Americans," Obama said in a campaign speech last May in Miami, the heart of the U.S. Cuban-American community. "It's time to let Cuban Americans see their mothers and fathers, their sisters and brothers. It's time to let Cuban American money make their families less dependent upon the Castro regime."

That's because they risked their lives to leave communist Cuba. There aren't people risking their lives to leave the US yet. Why should we open up trade and give money to an openly communist nation? I'd have no problem with this if Cuba was a democracy or was on the verge and just needed a push to become a democracy. But as far as I know that isn't going to happen anytime soon.

Don't say we didn't warn you

Instead of building a giant fence and putting our military down at the Mexican border Obama plans to let illegals become legal.

While acknowledging that the recession makes the political battle more difficult, President Barack Obama plans to begin addressing America's immigration system this year, including looking for a path for illegal immigrants to become legal, a senior administration official said Wednesday.

Obama will frame the new effort — likely to rouse passions on all sides of the highly divisive issue — as "policy reform that controls immigration and makes it an orderly system," said the official, Cecilia Munoz, deputy assistant to the president and director of intergovernmental affairs in the White House.

Obama plans to speak publicly about the issue in May, administration officials said, and over the summer he will convene working groups, including lawmakers from both parties and a range of immigration organizations, to begin discussing possible legislation for as early as this fall.

Some White House officials said immigration would not take precedence over the health care and energy proposals that Obama has identified as priorities. But the timetable is consistent with pledges that Obama made to Latino groups in last year's campaign.

He said then that comprehensive immigration legislation, including a plan to make legal status possible for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, would be a priority in his first year in office. Latino voters turned out strongly for Obama in the election.

We tried this before in the past. This just gives other people incentive to come over here illegally. Because they know eventually dumb ass politicians will pander to their votes and make them legal. Why do liberals always want to reward bad behavior and punish good behavior?

This reminds me of some old cartoons

You know the old ones where a character calls another out for doing something right in front of them and they deny it as if it never happened. It is pretty sad that the Obama administration has already turned into a parody of a cartoon.

But Obama is denying he ever bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia.

The White House is denying that the president bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at a G-20 meeting in London, a scene that drew criticism on the right and praise from some Arab outlets.

"It wasn't a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he's taller than King Abdullah," said an Obama aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The Washington Times called the alleged bow a "shocking display of fealty to a foreign potentate" and said it violated centuries of American tradition of not deferring to royalty. The Weekly Standard, meanwhile, noted that American protocol apparently rules out bowing, or at least it reportedly did on the occasion of a Clinton "near-bow" to the emperor of Japan.

Interestingly, a columnist in the Saudi-backed Arabic paper Asharq Alawsat also took the gesture as a bow and appreciated the move.

"Obama wished to demonstrate his respect and appreciation of the personality of King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, who has made one of the most important calls in the modern era, namely the call for inter-faith and inter-cultural dialogue to defuse the hatred, conflict and wars," wrote the columnist, Muhammah Diyab.

This just makes me laugh on how we have picture and video evidence of something happening and Obama is out right lying and denying it ever happened. It must be nice to live in another alternative dimension.

Obama breaks another promise

I wouldn't expect anything less from Obama. I'm surprised people actually believed him when he told us he wouldn't raise taxes on anyone earning under $250,000/year. This is exactly what liberals do. They say one thing and govern another way. But you'll never hear this from the main stream media. They are too concerned with protecting their Messiah rather than reporting the news.

One of President Barack Obama's campaign pledges on taxes went up in puffs of smoke Wednesday.

The largest increase in tobacco taxes took effect despite Obama's promise not to raise taxes of any kind on families earning under $250,000 or individuals under $200,000.

This is one tax that disproportionately affects the poor, who are more likely to smoke than the rich.

To be sure, Obama's tax promises in last year's campaign were most often made in the context of income taxes. Not always.

"I can make a firm pledge," he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. "Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

He repeatedly vowed "you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime."

Now in office, Obama, who stopped smoking but has admitted he slips now and then, signed a law raising the tobacco tax nearly 62 cents on a pack of cigarettes, to $1.01. Other tobacco products saw similarly steep increases.

Instead of raising revenue like I'm sure he thinks this will do. This will actually decrease revenue to the government. People will find ways to get around paying the extra taxes by either buying them illegally or just stopping to smoke altogether.

6th Obama nominee with tax problems

Maybe this is why the liberals are always bitching about the rich not paying their fair share because they don't pay their taxes.

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who testified before Congress on Tuesday on her nomination for Health secretary, has paid nearly $8,000 in back taxes after discovering "unintentional errors" in her tax returns. Sebelius is the second nominee for the Cabinet post; former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle previously withdrew from consideration due to tax issues.

Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), chair of the Senate Finance Committee, said in a statement on Wednesday that Sebelius had informed him in a letter the same day that "minor, unintentional errors" were discovered by an accountant reviewing her 2005, 2006 and 2007 returns. These errors were "immediately corrected through amended returns."

Baucus, whose committee has jurisdiction over Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP and other health entitlement programs, did not reveal details of the letter. According to Bloomberg, the governor paid $7,040 in back taxes and $878 in interest for errors that included the absence of acknowledgment letters for three of the 49 charitable donations she made.

The letter was sent the same day Sebelius testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions in her first confirmation hearing. She testifies in a second hearing on Thursday, before Baucus' panel.

The 60-year-old Sebelius was nominated by President Barack Obama early March, a month after Daschle pulled out for failing to pay $128,000 in taxes.

Like I've said before. Rules don't apply to the elite liberals. They want everyone else to pay a higher share of the taxes but they don't want to pay any themselves.

The people wanted change...this is what they wanted.

If Obama favors bankruptcy for GM

Why did we bail them out at all? I agree that bankruptcy would have been the best thing for GM but I don't think Obama believes the same. If he did he wouldn't have pushed for a bail out.

The Obama's administration's leading plan to fix General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC would use bankruptcy filings to purge the ailing companies of their biggest problems, including bondholder debt and retiree health-care costs, according to people familiar with the matter.

The move would in essence split both companies into their "good" and "bad" components. The government would like to see the "good" GM to be a standalone company, according to an administration official. The "good" Chrysler would be sold to Fiat SpA, assuming that deal is completed, this person said.

GM and Chrysler have had bankruptcy attorneys devising plans for such a move in recent months.

President Barack Obama's task force has told both companies that the administration prefers this route as a way to reorganize the two auto makers, rather than the prolonged out-of-court process that has thus far frustrated administration officials.

GM looks increasingly like it will be forced into filing for bankruptcy protection, sometime in mid-to-late May, in a plan where the automaker breaks into two companies, the surviving entity a "new GM" that maintains key brands such as Chevy and Cadillac and some international units, say several people familiar with the situation.

But in reality Obama forces the CEO of GM to resign and appoints his own to run it. Basically having the government take over GM. They are going to force GM to make all the "environmentally friendly" cars that no one wants. Hybrids aren't going to bring GM back from the dead. We want trucks and SUVs. Vehicles we feel safe driving. Especially up here in the North East where we need 4 wheel drive to get around in the winter.

China wants a world currency

Much like they have with the euro. And as bad of an idea as it was in Europe it will be even worse if there is only one currency through out the world. But of course the Worlds Smartest Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, is open to this ridiculous idea.

Geithner, at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the U.S. is "open" to a headline-grabbing proposal by the governor of the China's central bank, which was widely reported as being a call for a new global currency to replace the dollar, but which Geithner described as more modest and "evolutionary."

"I haven’t read the governor’s proposal. He’s a very thoughtful, very careful distinguished central banker. I generally find him sensible on every issue," Geithner said, saying that however his interpretation of the proposal was to increase the use of International Monetary Fund's special drawing rights -- shares in the body held by its members -- not creating a new currency in the literal sense.

"We’re actually quite open to that suggestion – you should see it as rather evolutionary rather building on the current architecture rather than moving us to global monetary union," he said.

"The only thing concrete I saw was expanding the use of the [special drawing rights]," Geithner said. "Anything he’s thinking about deserves some consideration."

The continued use of the dollar as a reserve currency, he added, "depends..on how effective we are in the United States...at getting our fiscal system back to the point where people judge it as sustainable over time."

And they say the Neo Cons were the ones who wanted the New World Order? Either that or it is Obama's plan to bankrupt the country and start fresh with a world government.

And of course everytime Geithner opens his mouth the dollar drops.

He said increased use of SDRs should be thought of as an “evolutionary” step rather than a step towards “global monetary union”.

The dollar fell 1.3 per cent against the euro as headlines saying “Geithner open to SDR currency” flashed across traders’ screens. With the currency falling, Mr Geithner’s interviewer – Roger Altman, a deputy Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration – gave Mr Geithner the chance to clarify.

Hopefully we can survive these next 4 years until we can vote in a Conservative to fix the messes these big government liberals have created.

Hello Socialism here we come.

Now Obama wants the right take control of any financial firm. This is the problem with our economy now. The government shouldn't be bailing out any company that is failing and they definitely shouldn't be taking control and running any such firm. That is called socialism when the government runs business.

The Obama administration is considering asking Congress to give the Treasury secretary unprecedented powers to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies, such as large insurers, investment firms and hedge funds, whose collapse would damage the broader economy, according to an administration document.

The government at present has the authority to seize only banks.

Giving the Treasury secretary authority over a broader range of companies would mark a significant shift from the existing model of financial regulation, which relies on independent agencies that are shielded from the political process. The Treasury secretary, a member of the president's Cabinet, would exercise the new powers in consultation with the White House, the Federal Reserve and other regulators, according to the document.

The administration plans to send legislation to Capitol Hill this week. Sources cautioned that the details, including the Treasury's role, are still in flux.

And the government just can't keep printing money to take over companies. Enough is enough. Our dollar is going to be so under valued soon and we are going to get hyper inflation.

Obama will bankrupt our country

That according to Senator Gregg will happen if Obama gets his budget passed.

But Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire also says President Barack Obama's massive budget proposal will bankrupt the country.

Gregg says he has no regrets in withdrawing his nomination to become commerce secretary. He pulled out after deciding he could not fully back the administration's economic policies.

The senator said Obama's spending plan in the midst of a prolonged recession would leave the next generation with a country too expensive to live in.

While this might be a little over exaggerated I don't think he is far off. If Obama keeps on spending like Ted Kennedy after a drunken all night and continues to print money like it is Monopoly we will face an even worse financial mess. What he is doing now will lead to double digit inflation and unemployment. I'm not sure if Obama just doesn't understand economics but at some point the market will have to correct itself and when it does we will be in a world of hurt.

Obama on Leno

Someone must be lying. Obama said last night that he didn't know anything about the AIG bonuses but yet Chris Dodd is saying the the administration was the one who told him to put the amendment in the bill so they can keep the bonuses. Of course I don't trust either of them so I'm just going to assume they are both lying.

President Barack Obama has told Jay Leno he was stunned when he learned of the bonuses that bailed-out insurance giant AIG was paying its employees.

Obama told "The Tonight Show" host the payments raise moral end ethical problems — and the administration's going to do everything it can to get them back.

But Obama added the bigger problem is the culture that allowed traders to claim them. He says that's got to change if the economy is to recover.

My big question is, will Obama give back his $100,000 he got from AIG? Some how I doubt it.

Also on Leno, Obama took a swipe at the Special Olympics. I know if Bush made fun of the Special Olympics they would be calling for impeachment.

owards the end of his approximately 40-minute appearance, the president talked about how he's gotten better at bowling and has been practicing in the White House bowling alley.

He bowled a 129, the president said.

"That's very good, Mr. President," Leno said sarcastically.

It's "like the Special Olympics or something," the president said.

Inflation here we come

If the Government keeps on printing money and putting it into the economy that is the only thing that can happen. The more Obama prints the more inflation we will have to suffer. So when the Feds decide to put in $1 trillion into the economy by buying Treasury bonds where do you think that money comes from?

The Federal Reserve sharply stepped up its efforts to bolster the economy on Wednesday, announcing that it would pump an extra $1 trillion into the financial system by purchasing Treasury bonds and mortgage securities.

Having already reduced the key interest rate it controls nearly to zero, the central bank has increasingly turned to alternatives like buying securities as a way of getting more dollars into the economy, a tactic that amounts to creating vast new sums of money out of thin air. But the moves on Wednesday were its biggest yet, almost doubling all of the Fed's measures in the last year.

The action makes the Fed a buyer of long-term government bonds rather than the short-term debt that it typically buys and sells to help control the money supply.

The idea was to encourage more economic activity by lowering interest rates, including those on home loans, and to help the financial system as it struggles under the crushing weight of bad loans and poor investments.

This will have an initial positive reaction in the economy but will only lead to inflation in the end when the market starts correcting itself. We are already starting to see some of the negative effects of this too.

Oil rose to $50 a barrel for the first time since January on Thursday after a move by the Federal Reserve to buy government bonds hit the dollar and revived hopes the U.S. economy could soon begin its recovery.

The Fed announced on Wednesday it would pump another $1 trillion into the U.S. economy by buying long-term government debt for the first time since the 1960s and by expanding purchases of mortgage bonds.

"It's a combination of a drop in the U.S. dollar and the Fed's move that has pushed up oil prices," said David Moore, a commodity strategist at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Add this with Obama raising taxes and we are really screwed this summer.

Us Mass residents have it even worse. Gas is going to start going up and Deval is still going to try and raise our gas tax. Although I haven't heard much news about it lately.

Obama has a change of heart on the troops

Probably from all out cry of the American Legion leaders and the criticism on the right Obama has decided to shelve his idea to not take care of the troops.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced on Wednesday afternoon that President Barack Obama is shelving a controversial proposal that would have forced the private health insurance of veterans to pay for their war- and service-related injuries.

“President Obama listened to the genuine concerns expressed by the veteran service organizations regarding the option of billing service-connected injuries to veterans’ insurance companies,” said Pelosi. “Based on the respect President Obama has for veterans and the principle concerns of our veteran leaders, the president made the decision that combat wounds should not be billed through their insurance policies.”

Pelosi made her comments at a meeting with veterans’ service organizations at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. After her announcement, the group gave her a standing ovation.

The proposal, which was discussed in recent hearings of the Veterans Affairs committees in the House and Senate and in the House Budget Committee, would have shifted more of the cost for service-related injuries from the government--through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)--to the private, third-party insurance plans held by many veterans

It isn't that he changed his mind. He would still go through with this if he could get away with it. He is just afraid of losing any more political capital that he has already lost. He has already took a huge hit from the AIG mess. And he would have taken an even bigger hit from this.

Even some Democrats think Obama is too big government

Of course we on the right have been saying this since 2006 and before. I don't know why everyone, well not everyone, but a lot of people thought he was going to govern as a moderate. He is and has always been a big government socialist. I don't know what part of his voting record or even what he says would make anyone think otherwise?

Barack Obama’s Big Bang Theory of Governance is starting to face its first big test among the new president’s fellow Democrats.

At the White House Tuesday morning, Obama began the day with a sharp push-back against the idea that his uncommonly ambitious agenda on health care, energy and other initiatives is too much, too soon.

As Obama’s remarks echoed on Capitol Hill, it soon became clear that the skeptics are not just Republicans.

There is rising doubt among Democrats — particularly moderates already concerned about the big costs and deficits called for in Obama’s budget — that either Obama or Washington have enough bandwidth this year to stimulate the economy, overhaul the failed financial sector and move on to a far-reaching domestic agenda.

“From the standpoint of the Congress, there’s only so much that we can absorb and do at one time,” Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, told POLITICO Tuesday. “To maintain a schedule like the one we’ve got at this moment, throughout the year, I don’t know if it will be healthy.”

How high can it go

I bashed Bush when he let our debt soar higher and higher...but Obama is in a whole different league to himself. Our national debt has hit a record of $11 trillion. And this is only the beginning. Obama wants to keep on spending and spending. Just wait and see what happens to our debt if they pass cap and trade or national health care.

The eye-popping national debt surpassed $11 trillion Monday, the largest in U.S. history.

The new Treasury Department figures on the national debt were released as the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office is expected to project that the annual budget deficit will be higher than previously estimated by the White House's Office of Management and Budget. The debt, which refers to the cumulative amount of money the government owes, hit $10.9 trillion on Friday.

The whopping number has major ramifications for President Barack Obama, who is trying to push through a raft of big-ticket bills on health care, energy, education and climate change — while also attempting to stabilize the swooning economy.

Veteran leader worried about Obama

Not that I needed a news story to know this, but the leader of the American Legion doesn't particularly like Obama after the two of them met.

The leader of the nation's largest veterans organization says he is "deeply disappointed and concerned" after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries. The Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in such cases.

"It became apparent during our discussion today that the President intends to move forward with this unreasonable plan," said Commander David K. Rehbein of The American Legion. "He says he is looking to generate $540-million by this method, but refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it."

The Commander, clearly angered as he emerged from the session said, "This reimbursement plan would be inconsistent with the mandate ' to care for him who shall have borne the battle' given that the United States government sent members of the armed forces into harm's way, and not private insurance companies. I say again that The American Legion does not and will not support any plan that seeks to bill a veteran for treatment of a service connected disability at the very agency that was created to treat the unique need of America's veterans!"

The few people the government should actually take care of is our vets. But Obama cares more about the crack addict living on the street than the vet that needs medical attention.

Cheney bashed Obama

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Don't blame the Bush administration for all the country's economic problems.

That's the message from former Vice President Dick Cheney.

President Barack Obama constantly talks about the enormous economic troubles that he inherited when he took office in January. Cheney agrees that Obama did indeed came into power amid very difficult economic circumstances.

But Cheney says he doesn't think the Bush administration can be blamed for creating the economic woes. Cheney says it's a global financial problem. He says the idea that fault can assigned to the previous administration is "interesting rhetoric" but he doesn't think people care about that.

And here.

Vice President Cheney charged Sunday morning on CNN that President Obama is using the recession “to try to justify” what is probably the largest expansion of federal authority “in the history of the Republic.”

“I worry a lot that they’re using the current set of economic difficulties to try to justify a massive expansion in the government, and much more authority for the government over the private sector,” Cheney said in his first television interview since leaving office. “I don’t think that’s good. I don’t think that’s going to solve the problem.”

Speaking to host John King on “State of the Union,” Cheney said he thinks the programs Obama has proposed “in health care, in energy and so forth constitute probably the biggest – or one of the biggest – expansions of federal authority over the private economy in the history of the Republic.”

"I worry very much that what is being done here is saying, 'We've got an economic crisis, therefore, we're justified in fundamentally remaking the health program in America,'" Cheney said. "I don't think that's right."

I love hearing Obama say he "had" to sign this bill with 8000 ear marks. Even though he promised the American public he would never sign any ear marks. But after he breaks his promise he has the gall to say it is Bush's fault he did. All because the budget got started when Bush was President.

What really bothers me is, wasn't Obama in the Senate while the were voting on the bill? So either way he is still at fault. Just another hypocrisy the media won't talk about.

Economy is not as bad as we think

Always the great optimist as Obama is, this is the best he can say about the economy. Well of course it isn't that bad yet, we are only 50+ days into his administration.

Confronting misgivings, even in his own party, President Barack Obama mounted a stout defense of his blueprint to overhaul the economy Thursday, declaring the national crisis is "not as bad as we think" and his plans will speed recovery.

Challenged to provide encouragement as the nation's "confidence builder in chief," Obama said Americans shouldn't be whipsawed by bursts of either bad or good news and he was "highly optimistic" about the long term.

I wonder what Obama will be saying next year when we have double digit unemployment along with double digit inflation? Probably "well at least it isn't as bad as it was under Carter."

Change we can believe in

I guess this is the change Obama has been talking about. For the first time since Grover Cleveland the President will not be attending the annual Gridiron Dinner.

A Gridiron Club member tells FBDC first that President Obama will not attend this year's dinner next Saturday, March 21st. He will be the first president since Grover Cleveland not to attend the first Gridiron Club Dinner of his presidency.

This year's date coincides with the spring break of President Obama's daughters' school and club members have been informed the Obama family will be out of town, likely in Chicago.

Vice President Joe Biden will attend and speak at the dinner in his place. This member tells us the club is delighted to have Vice President Biden, but that there will be some very disappointed guests.

Well at least this is some sort of change.

Another Obama appointee in trouble

Not sure what Yusuf Acar did, but his place was raided by the FBI.

An official in the D.C. government's office of the chief technology officer has been arrested in a federal bribery sting, according to law enforcement sources.

Yusuf Acar, 40, was taken into custody this morning by FBI agents at his home in Northwest Washington, the sources said. The nature of the charges could not be determined. Channing Phillips, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, declined to comment on the arrest, saying the case "is under seal."

Acar serves as an information systems security officer in the D.C. government. He worked for Vivek Kundra, the District's chief technology officer. Kundra recently left D.C. government to become President Obama's federal chief information officer. Kundra's deputy, Thomas Jones, is acting as the interim director, city officials said

It is sad...I'm surprised when an Obama appointee is clean.

With an update to this story...

D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer employee Yusuf Acar and Advanced Integrated Technologies Corporation (AITC) President and CEO Sushil Bansal have been arrested, sources tell WTOP.

Acar, 40, was taken into custody Thursday morning by FBI agents at his home in Northwest D.C.

In 2008, Bansal's firm received .Net Development Support and Peoplesoft Consulting Support contracts from the D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Office totaling $350,000.

AITC has also received contracts from the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles. In 2008, Bansal received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Association of Indians in America, according to AITC's Web site.

Government records show Bansal is not a U.S. citizen and holds an H-1B visa, which is given to foreign workers in specialty occupations.

Well at least his other appointments were never arrested by the FBI.