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It could be one of the biggest political intelligence coups of the 2012 battle to control Congress. Media Trackers, a conservative investigative watchdog group, discovered nearly three-dozen Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee opposition research notebooks – extensive secretive manuals outlining anything that could be used against a political opponent. Several news outlets have reported that some of the files have been quietly published on the DCCC’s website to facilitate their use by independent expenditure groups. On Thursday, however, Media Trackers published a dozen opposition research books that Democrats have so far managed to keep secret.

The twelve unpublished manuals range in size from a few dozen pages to hundreds of pages, depending on the personal, business and civic record of the Republican target. Incumbent members of Congress, like Florida’s Allen West and California’s Dan Lungren, have long files, whereas the individual Republican candidates in North Carolina’s 7th Congressional District share a single book.

Democrats expanded the research division of the DCCC at the start of the 2012 cycle in an effort to create good political intelligence for their drive to capture 25 seats in the House and swing control of the majority away from Republicans. The D.C.-based newspaper Roll Call covered some of the meetings at which Democratic political staffers discussed ways to effectively gather information for the intel files they were building on Republicans. But the paper was granted access on the condition that they not publish the names of key targeted Republicans.

An apparent IT failure at the DCCC caused the books to become available via Google searches that combined targeted candidate’s names with opposition research search terms. They appeared in both Microsoft Word and PDF form (though Media Trackers had to convert the Word documents to PDF to upload them below) on a URL linked to a file sharing and storage service used by, among others, the DCCC.

The information found in the documents appears to be routine material one would expect to see. Biographical details, copies of land plots, voter registration records, tax information, business records, and press clippings and for incumbents voting records make up the bulk of the information. It is anticipated that individual Democratic campaigns and the DCCC itself will leverage the information into usable political fodder based on the dynamics of a particular race. Reading the books one can obtain a general outline of where Democrats are most likely to attack the Republican subject of the manual.

Although the sudden availability of the files may trump any timetable Democrats may have put together for distributing the information, their value to Republicans depends largely on the individual campaign’s own strategic response. The information – if damaging in anyway – could be pre-empted or attacks based on the material could be headed off at a time when they are not quite so damaging as the final weeks of a campaign. As is often the case, the general dynamics of a race will impact the value of the early release almost as much as the substance of the intelligence itself.

The full list of still-secret opposition books discovered and released by Media Trackers is as follows:

Allen West FL-22 DCCC2012AllenWestFLResearchBook
Bill Young FL-10 DCCC2012OppoBookBillYoung
Nan Hayworth NY-18 DCCC2012RepNanHayworthNY18-ResearchBook
Matt Doheny NY-21 DCCC2012MattDohenyNY-ResearchBook
Larry Buschon IN-8 DCCC2012OppoBookLarryBucshon
Dan Lungren CA-7 DCCC2012DANLUNGRENCA-07-ResearchBook
Gary DeLong CA-47 DCCC2012GaryDeLongCA-ResearchBook
Janice Arnold-Jones NM-1 DCCC2012JaniceArnold-JonesNM-ResearchBook
John Tavaglione CA-41 DCCC2012JohnTavaglioneCA-41ResearchBook
Tim Wilkes, David Rouzer, Illario Pantano NC-7 DCCC2012NC-07ResearchBook
NC-11 (All GOP candidates) DCCC2012-NC11-ResearchBook
NC-8 (All GOP candidates) DCCC2012OppoBookNC08

Americans have come to accept the fact that most politicians lie to them. It’s just who politicians are. However, no one was prepared for the master of all fabricators, Barack Obama, whose entire past has been the creation of a vivid, yet calculating imagination. Unfortunately for the President, all liars are eventually exposed. Is 2012 the year Obama gets caught in his own web of deceit?

Barack Obama: Not a 'Real' Boy

You would have thought after enduring eight years of a Bill Clinton presidency, the Republican Party would have figured out how to handle a chronic liar in the game of politics.

Nope!

Bill Clinton with the Infamous Intern

Not even spinmeister Bill Clinton could prepare America for the mountain of myth that was to come. See…Bill Clinton was a liar, but most of his lies stemmed from his efforts to cover up his juvenile, sexual escapades. Harmless lies, in the eyes of many. Sadly, a good number of Americans were even able to relate to his lies, which led to their rationalization. After all, many Americans have had their own troubles with marital fidelity, and most have spun their own web of lies as they’ve tried to hide their adultery. On that level, people actually identified with Clinton. He was ‘one of them,’ and they even pitied him for being forced to face his shame in such a public fishbowl. And so, with an empathetic bite of the lower lip…and a ‘heartfelt’ point of the thumb, Bill Clinton got a pass.

But Bill Clinton was a complete amateur when compared to Barack Obama. Even though people knew Clinton lied, they still knew who he was. They knew where he was born…where he was raised…where he was educated…who his friends were…and what his political beliefs were. He was a known quantity, and with two assists from H. Ross Perot, the loveable Arkansas pig was provided with enough lipstick to pretty himself up for 8 years.

With Barack Obama, it was different. In 2008, neither the media, nor his political opponents properly vetted him. Some tried. The Hillary Clinton primary campaign began looking into Barack Obama’s mysterious past, and found out quickly that anyone who attempted to go there would be facing the most vicious, retaliatory attack dog imaginable. Even the popular Bill Clinton backed off after the Obama campaign painted “the first black president” as a southern racist, simply for questioning Obama’s eligibility.

Amazingly, Obama’s story seemed to blossom as the campaign progressed. The most incredible fairytale emerged of a boy with humble beginnings, with all the odds against him, on the rise to the most powerful position in the world. Audiences cheered. Women fainted. The media swooned. Chris Matthews felt thrills run up his leg. And political opponents cowered. The Republican Party was completely unprepared to campaign against such a storybook candidate. Even John McCain, the 2008 GOP sacrificial lamb, seemed to be enamored by this heartrending underdog story. McCain campaigned like he felt it would be an honor just to lose to Barack Obama. It was as though a team of Hollywood screen writers was creating this unlikely character and his rise to glory, on the fly.

Ironically, it appears now that they were. After 3 1/2 years as president, more and more facts are coming to light proving that very little of Barack Obama’s amazing story is actually true. His fairy tale life is just that; a fairy tale. The fabrications have become so blatantly apparent that even Obama, when caught in his own lies, has been forced to admit that much of what he wrote in his “autobiography,” Dreams From My Father, is fiction and metaphor.

A Ringing Endorsement from Terrorist Bill Ayers

As the end of Obama’s first (hopefully his only) term in office approaches, the beautiful facade has begun to crumble. One by one, his warts are being exposed. He has a record that tells us who ‘Barack Obama’ really is, and his extremist ideologies have been dragged kicking and screaming into the sunlight as we’ve seen the radicals with whom he surrounds himself.

But the most important change from 2008 has been opponents’ willingness to go after him. Led by a courageous army of new media, bloggers, and the Tea Party, the GOP has finally figured out that Obama isn’t bulletproof. There are so many inconsistencies in his story that the list of what is true about Barack Obama is much shorter and easier to compile than the list of fantasies.

As his costume is slowly and steadily stripped away, America is finding out that Barack Obama doesn’t look very good naked.