Posted on 06/06/2013 10:10:23 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Within hours of the disclosure that federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation, the Obama administration issued the same platitude it has offered every time President Obama has been caught overreaching in the use of his powers: Terrorists are a real menace and you should just trust us to deal with them because we have internal mechanisms (that we are not going to tell you about) to make sure we do not violate your rights.
Those reassurances have never been persuasive — whether on secret warrants to scoop up a news agency’s phone records or secret orders to kill an American suspected of terrorism — especially coming from a president who once promised transparency and accountability.
The administration has now lost all credibility on this issue. Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive branch will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it. That is one reason we have long argued that the Patriot Act, enacted in the heat of fear after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by members of Congress who mostly had not even read it, was reckless in its assignment of unnecessary and overbroad surveillance powers.
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Channeling LBJ....”When you’ve lost the New York Times, you’ve lost”.......
Too bad he's not running for office. *sigh*
Too little too late NY times. You owe the nation a huge apology for your slavish support of this little communist dickhead.
War on America.
I’m so damned tired of this administration. With years yet to go.
The domestic data mining is no doubt in fear of civil uprisings to bring down this administration.
Perhaps even decades...
Today I went to the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA. Wow, Obama isn’t even on the same plant as Reagan. They have a section where there are large photo’s of Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chairman Mao and Chernenko. And there was a tape of Reagan railing against Communism and how we must defeat it, which he did.....at least in the USSR. But I can’t help but think about Obama’s library and how he’d probably have these same six in his slide show only he would be praising them.
With the presidential election over and Obama back in office, the New York Times appears to be trying to build its subscriber base among conservatives.
Hmmmmm, would he pick the same six?
Stalin and Mao are givens. Pol Pot is highly probable. Fidel Castro, certainly.
Two openings.
Marx? Suleiman? Mohammad? Tamerlane? Mussolini?...
......the New York Times appears to be trying to build its subscriber base among conservatives.
Ain’t gonna happen.
Only reason you are seeing this is because they have suddenly realized that they have been recorded and watched too
Bill Ayers, Anita Dunn, Frank Marshall Davis, Mike Klonsky, Mike Kruglik, Bea and Frank Lumpkin, Saul Mendelson.....So many for him to choose from.
“by members of Congress who mostly had not even read it,”
Seems to be a reoccurring problem...
Hmmmm....
Become? He was an embarrassment from the beginning. He is more embarrassing now and hasn’t hit his peak yet. Alas, he will be relected through ignorance and fraud if he runs again.
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