President Barack Schultz

I see nuttink! I hear nuttink! I know nuttink!
I am only der president!

In 1965 a comedy show about American POWs in Nazi Germany (think that one through) premiered on CBS. Called Hogan's Heroes, one of the main players was John Banner as Hauptfeldwebel (Senior Master Sergeant) Hans Schultz, a

... bumbling, highly unmilitary 300-pound Sergeant of the Guard. Schultz is a basically good-hearted man who, when confronted by evidence of the prisoners' covert activities, will simply look the other way, repeating "I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!" (or, more commonly as the series went on, simply "I see nothing–NOTHING!") to avoid being blamed for allowing things to have gotten as far as they already had ... . This eventually became one of the main catchphrase's of the series and probably the most widely used by fans of the show.

Gee, who does that remind us of now?

When the Fast And Furious gunwalking scandal broke, following the deaths of border agent Brian Terry and a few hundred Mexicans, President Obama said he didn't know anything about it. Attorney General Eric Holder said he didn't know anything about it either, even though records proved that Holder's immediate underlings at Justice knew about it. Subsequently, it was discovered that Holder lied to Congress about his knowledge of Fast And Furious (in spite of that, he is STILL Obama's Attorney General. Go figure).

When the Benghazi talking points were scrubbed of references to an al-Qaeda affiliated group being behind the attack, and also scrubbed of the CIA's warnings about a coming attack at Benghazi, President Obama said he had nothing to do with it. He didn't know anything about it, even though the talking points were changed 12 times, and even though CIA chief David Petraeus said the altered talking points were "essentially useless" and were the White House's call. Obama also claimed to know nothing about requests for increased security at Benghazi being denied.

When it was discovered that the IRS had been improperly targeting conservative political groups for a couple years, President Obama said he didn't know anything about it. Obama said he just found out about the IRS's nefarious activities last friday, even though Obama's own Press Secretary, Jay Carney, said White House lawyers knew about the IRS investigation in April. It has also been learned that senior IRS officials knew about the targeting long ago

The presidential training film:



(Image and idea ripped off from Nonsensible Shoes.)