Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/16/2010 10:00:38 AM PST by Para-Ord.45
The revelation that the Obama administration used a covert CIA program to dig up dirt on countries opposed to the Copenhagen climate treaty shows a White House desperate to enforce its orthodoxy on global warming, Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe told The Daily Caller.
Earlier this month, The Guardian newspaper reported that State Department administration officials, acting at the request of the CIA, sent a secret cable on July 31, 2009, asking U.S. diplomats to gather intelligence on other countries’ preparations for the then-pending Copenhagen climate conference. The request also asked diplomats to be on the lookout for indications that countries were not fostering environmental cooperation and for evidence of countries circumventing U.N.-sponsored environmental treaties.
The cables do not make clear whether CIA Director Leon Panetta was directly involved in the request. Panetta has a long, documented history of environmental activism, particularly on climate change, going back several decades…
According to a leaked Feb. 17, 2010 cable, Michael Froman, Obama’s deputy national security adviser for international affairs, held a meeting with the EU’s climate commissioner-designate, Conne Hedegaard, looking for ways to work around “unhelpful countries such as Venezuela or Bolivia” and get the treaty into force.
The cable quotes Froman as saying the U.S. and E.U. “need to neutralize, co-opt or marginalize, co-opt or marginalize these and others such as Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador.”
Froman also advocated using divide and conquer tactics to confront the BASIC bloc and other Copenhagen treaty opponents, saying the U.S. and E.U. needed “to better handle third country obstructionism and avoid future trainwrecks on climate …”
The Obama administration subsequently cutoff aid to Ecuador and Bolivia last April that would have helped them reach the Copenhagen treaty’s carbon emissions targets, citing their opposition to the agreement.
“I think this goes to show that to the left-wing of the Democratic Party, national security means anything you want it to,” former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said. “I don’t mind using any instruments of persuasion…but I think it is certainly a misallocation of priorities to be using intelligence capabilities on something like climate change.”
Inhofe expressed similar sentiments, suggesting Obama’s use of the CIA and diplomatic threats to push his climate agenda around the world are part of what Inhofe considers Obama’s larger “liberal agenda.” …
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sounds typical for a Chicago schoolyard (community organizer) bully. intimidation to get his agenda or a shakedown of others. Come now Odumbo come to the UP of Michigan and strive to shake me down you will meet your match you POS
Actually it proves that this Administration views anyone that stands in the way of their agenda is their enemy and they will use the full force of their resources to strong arm everything they want.
This is no longer a Republic based on freedom it is a dictatorship based on flawed ideology that only desires complete and utter tyranny in the name of good.
Truly evil if it ever existed...
FOLLOW THE MONEY.
This isn’t about Global Warming, It’s about a scam for the Government to be able to take control and power and tax us, and about People like Pelosi and Reid and hundreds of other investing in it and getting rich. As if they aren’t already.
If you wonder why the rich like Pelopsi and Reid and Obama are so willing to taxe th rich, remember they have ways of sliding through loopholes you and I never heard of. Some of them like Rangel don’t care because they will not pay anyway.
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Assange the Anti-American
President Obama insisted that America’s adversaries hated his predecessor, not this country. Julian Assange begs to differ.
If electing a black president with the middle name Hussein was supposed to assuage anti-Americanism around the world, Julian Assange didn’t get the message.
The first batch of WikiLeaks documents undermined the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, violent conflicts started by the hated, warmongering Bush administration. The latest batch undermines American diplomacy, the soft art of international bargaining and persuasion as practiced by the highly anticipated, engagement-loving Obama administration.
Assange is an equal-opportunity America hater. It doesn’t matter if our president is black or white, left or right, with the middle name Hussein or Walker, so long as he’s leader of the country Assange perversely calls a threat to democracy, even as he provides aid and comfort to our violent, undemocratic enemies overseas.
The classic justification for a leak is to expose malfeasance. In all his tens of thousands of released documents, Assange has exposed none, despite his typically delusional boast that the first dump revealed “thousands” of possible war crimes. Assange’s goal is wanton destruction, pure and simple.
He wants to expose to retribution those who cooperate with us on the ground in war zones. He wants to undercut domestic support for our wars. He wants to embarrass our foreign allies and exact a price for their trust in us. He wants to complicate sensitive operations like securing nuclear material in Pakistan and attacking terrorists with missiles in Yemen.
Assange is Noam Chomsky with a knack for computers and a determination to do the “American empire” more harm than just lashing out against it in feverish books gobbled up by college sophomores.
Rep. Peter King, a Republican from New York, proposes designating WikiLeaks a terrorist organization. That won’t happen. In his left-wing nihilism, though, Assange shares something of the spirit of the Red Brigades or the Baader-Meinhof Gang, the leftist European terrorist organizations of the 1970s. His propaganda of the deed is malicious exposure.
Assange is too blinded by zeal to realize that the content of his documents runs counter to his twisted worldview. As Tom Joscelyn of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies notes, his leaked Afghan war materials referred to numerous instances of decapitations perpetrated by the Taliban. The documents told the story of a civilized army struggling to prevail against barbarism while honoring its own norms.
Our leaked diplomatic cables again do more to vindicate a hawk’s view of the world than Assange’s juvenile leftism. The Gulf Arab states are as eager as Israel, perhaps more so, for the United States to strike Iran’s nuclear program. North Korea is transferring missile technology to Iran, in a concrete expression of the Axis of Evil. Syria is arming Hezbollah. And on it goes.
One hopes that the Obama administration has learned a little something about the difference between governing and spouting comforting bromides. In keeping with his pledge to talk to our enemies, Barack Obama fruitlessly reached out to Tehran — and alarmed our allies. The most pathetic episode in the documents is the administration begging such countries as Slovenia and Kiribati to take prisoners from Gitmo, in its desperation to fulfill its foolish promise to shutter the facility rapidly.
Confronting a dangerous world is difficult enough without the brazen exposure of the nation’s secrets. The Obama administration must hold accountable whoever established the woeful security procedures that allowed Bradley Manning, an Army private in Iraq and the alleged source of the documents, to capture massive amounts of sensitive data with the ease of an iTunes download. Manning should face the sternest possible charges, with the severest possible punishment. Assange himself exists as the cyber equivalent of a pirate, an Australian floating between European countries and operating with impunity. Surely, the same Justice Department that sued Arizona for daring to enforce the nation’s immigration laws can find a creative way to harry and shut down Assange.
Barack Obama came into office hawking the illusion that America’s adversaries hated his predecessor, not this country. Julian Assange begs to differ.
never mind, found it: http://dailycaller.com/2010/12/15/inhofe-wikileaks-climate-revelations-show-obama%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98desperation%E2%80%99/
I had to ask myself; Do we know anything about this 39 year-old character before he garnered so much publicity with the document dump from Pvt. Bradley Manning?
Interesting beginnings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange
O’s priorities are “gayism” and carbon trading. Which is to say, promoting perversion and financial fraud.
The normal priorities of governing a self-governing people he finds tedious.
He is one of the dimmer bulbs we have seen in high office. There are others, but he is right there with the dimmest.
Excellent post.
Democrats / progressives will use every tool at reach to remain in power or to get what they want.
Conservatives limit themselves to ethical means to achieve what they want.
Democrats and Progressives expect our military to restrain themselves so as to not offend those who they have been sent to wage war on. Going as far as tying our soldiers hands behind their backs.
With the odds stacked against us, I hope that we are winning and people see the black path that the Democrats and progressives are leading us down.
Thank you.
ping
after turning 16, Assange began hacking under the name "Mendax" (derived from a phrase of Horace: "splendide mendax", or "nobly untruthful").Well, there you go!
Say... am I the only one who thinks Assange and Bill Maher were separated at birth?
Good match - I have the same habit.
Compare Humphrey Bogart and John Boehner - wish I could post pics. Ha ha.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Remarkable ain’t it?????????????? LOL!!!
Chicago-style politics at an international level is an international disgrace.
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