{"id":2567,"date":"2009-12-09T15:26:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T20:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2009-12-09T15:26:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T20:26:41","slug":"acorn-internal-probe-sees-no-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2567\/acorn-internal-probe-sees-no-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"ACORN Internal Probe Sees No Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nothing to see here, folks&#8230;\u00a0 Move along.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That was the convenient and laughable conclusion of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/12\/07\/AR2009120701878.html?wpisrc=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">self-serving ACORN-supported investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You remember ACORN&#8230;\u00a0 It recently became famous for being <a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/acorn\/\" target=\"_blank\">caught red-handed on hidden video<\/a> on multiple occasions and at multiple sites sharing advice on how to use government largess to engage in child prostitution.\u00a0 Well, ACORN&#8217;s executives hired former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger to investigate.\u00a0 The conclusion?\u00a0 &#8220;We did not find a pattern of intentional, illegal conduct by ACORN staff involved.\u00a0 In fact, no action, illegal or otherwise, was ever taken by any ACORN employee on behalf of the videographers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other than dispensing advice for all the world to see with their own eyes, that is.<\/p>\n<p>Tellingly, ACORN and Mr. Harshbarger refused to admit how much his law firm was paid for his &#8220;investigation.&#8221;\u00a0 ACORN&#8217;s CEO Bertha Lewis conveniently demurred, saying that its board would have to determine at some later date whether to disclose that amount.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that&#8217;s a subject for the next undercover investigation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nothing to see here, folks&#8230;\u00a0 Move along.&#8221; That was the convenient and laughable conclusion of a self-serving ACORN-supported investigation. You remember ACORN&#8230;\u00a0 It recently became famous for being caught red-handed on hidden video on multiple occasions and at multiple sites sharing advice on how to use government largess to engage in child prostitution.\u00a0 Well, ACORN&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120,618,273],"class_list":["post-2567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-acorn","tag-acorn-internal-investigation","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}