Well, excuuuuuuse meeeee!
Posted on 06/03/2014 2:16:28 PM PDT by bestintxas
A top aide to President Obama is now apologizing to Congress for not informing lawmakers, as required by law, that the White House was planning to trade an alleged deserter for five top Taliban commanders.
The apology comes after Obama himself defended his actions this morning, insisting his administration had discussed the release with Congress “for some time.”
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) told reporters that she received a call from Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken on Monday evening apologizing for failing to inform Congress about the deal to exchange five Taliban detainees for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
“I had a call from the White House last night, from Tony Blinken, apologizing for it,” Feinstein, the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told reporters at the Senate on Tuesday.
Feinstein said that it was “very disappointing” that President Obama decided not to alert Congress about the deal, suggesting that there was not a “level of trust” at the White House.
"He apologized for it and said it was an oversight," Feinstein said about the call with Blinken, clarifying that it was her “impression” of the call.
Feinstein said that in previous conversations with Senators about the trade, “there were very strong views and they were virtually unanimous against trade.”
“The White House is pretty unilateral about what they want to do when they want to do it,” she added, pointing out that the White House failed to work together with Congress in the
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To Quote Hillary " At this point, what difference does it make?"
To Quote and revise Hillary: “ At this point, what difference does it make because nothing is going to be done about it.”
and then he admits he broke the Law ,then the sounds of crickets
A Republican President doing this would have caused dozens of hearings on Capitol Hill, numerous stories on TV News Magazine shows, endless handwringing about “The Imperial Presidency” and questions about “Does the President understand the way Our Government Works?”
“Smart” leadership in action... they can’t even get their lies straight.
Try that the next time something happens to you. We are treated as less than serfs.
Isn’t that what Dinesh D’Souza said?
0bama: Pro-Taliban, Pro-Deserter, Anti-America.
Dinesh D'Souza is a mere citizen, and a Conservative one at that.
It’s understandable. What with him not being a US Citizen and raised as an Indonesian mooseSlime.
But, magnificent Won, you love your subjects. And, after all, Love means never having to say you're sorry.
He’s the lawless President this is only posturing.
Period!
Freegards
LEX
Reminds me of the old bit that Steve Martin used to do. When the IRS would ask him why he didn’t pay his taxes, he would just say, “I FORGOT!!!!”
They are so predictable.....now they’re saying he’s “Too Fragile” for desertion questions.
You won’t hear anything from this until the end of November.
Yep, that’s exactly how it works. Sometimes you don’t even have to apologize.
0bama didn’t apologize. Tony Blinken did.
Yes Obama, you are sorry.
A sorry son of a bitch (and that wasn’t a curse but a declaration of our birth).
He wanted to do it and knew he’d have pushback and maybe some public leaks that would prevent him from doing it. So, he just did it. Asking for forgiveness from somebody who won’t call him to task is easy. Even if they had the balls to take him to task, what can they do aside from impeachment? An action he knows they won’t take.
Well, excuuuuuuse meeeee!
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