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Panetta: Obama Can Unilaterally Use Military to Protect ‘National Interests’
CNSNews ^ | 6/13/11 | Matt Cover

Posted on 06/13/2011 8:01:10 AM PDT by CNSNews

(CNSNews.com) - CIA Director Leon Panetta, who President Barack Obama has nominated to be secretary of Defense, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that he believes the president can unilaterally use military force, without congressional authorization to “protect our national interests.”

Panetta’s claim of broad unilateral presidential power to initiate U.S. military action absent an attack or imminent threat to the United States came in response to a question from Sen. John McCain—who said he agreed with Panetta.

The U.S. is now involved militarily in Libya even though Congress has never authorized that involvement.

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1 posted on 06/13/2011 8:01:14 AM PDT by CNSNews
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how about some HEARINGS on libya?


2 posted on 06/13/2011 8:01:44 AM PDT by rokkitapps ( Hearings on healthcare waivers NOW! (If you agree make this your tagline))
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What are our national interests in Libya?

Before the revolt, Hadn't Bush cowed Qaddafi into behaving himself?

3 posted on 06/13/2011 8:02:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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So what would happen if they used the same reasoning in the USA? Protecting national interest say in downtown Boston or NYC?


4 posted on 06/13/2011 8:03:11 AM PDT by SkyDancer (It's not the police that protect our rights, it's our military)
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Where are all the Dems that grandstandingly whined about Bush?............................


5 posted on 06/13/2011 8:03:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
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They can’t talk because they have their mouths full of.....


6 posted on 06/13/2011 8:04:17 AM PDT by Kozak ("It's not an Election it's a Restraining Order" .....PJ O'Rourke)
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And of course “national interests” are whatever the President says they are. Pretty short step to rationalizing martial law on the same basis.


7 posted on 06/13/2011 8:04:47 AM PDT by circlecity
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I’m guessing that if we dig deep enough, they will claim that its the Commerce Clause that lets the president do this. They seem to think the Commerce Clause lets them do anything and everything.


8 posted on 06/13/2011 8:05:53 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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Would that include against Americans also?


9 posted on 06/13/2011 8:06:07 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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Weiner?.............


10 posted on 06/13/2011 8:06:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
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Oh yeah...Panetta is such a legal genius.

/sarc


11 posted on 06/13/2011 8:06:25 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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how about some HEARINGS on libya?

Why? To listen to the excuses for why they defied the Constitution and violated the law? A waste of time. The weak, effete, Republican elite were, again, the partners of the liberals in the defiling of our Country.

12 posted on 06/13/2011 8:06:48 AM PDT by Prokopton
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Anyone asking whose going to protect us from Obama? The silence out of DC and this Congress is deafening!


13 posted on 06/13/2011 8:07:07 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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Read this then:

http://trevorloudon.com/2011/06/will-the-senate-pick-anti-defense-cia-chief-with-red-ties-as-secdef-more-damaging-disclosures-about-leon-panetta/


14 posted on 06/13/2011 8:07:48 AM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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So, Bush in Iraq and A’stan is an “illegal war” but Obama’s attack on Linya and other nations is “Unilaterally Use Military to Protect ‘National Interests’”?

Communists are liars.


15 posted on 06/13/2011 8:08:55 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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So Obama and Panetta vindicate Nixon, Reagan, and both Bushes. All said the WPA was unconstitutional and void. Nice of them to finally admit it.


16 posted on 06/13/2011 8:09:10 AM PDT by tlb
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Maybe it’s in our “national interest” to prop up the president and create the impression of an adored leader - while struggling with this global economy and three wars.

Maybe we can silence these annoying conservatives all in the name of our “national interests.”

These people need to be impeached.


17 posted on 06/13/2011 8:10:04 AM PDT by nhwingut (Palin '12... Accept No Other)
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Let's face it -- these power-hungry and egotistical creatures mean to be kings, and I mean kings. Every usurpation of power and every encroachment on our Liberty moves them closer to this goal, where they will walk upon marble floors and we peons are simply grease for the machine.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

18 posted on 06/13/2011 8:10:51 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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Why? Just to shine a light on what this guy (Barry) is doing. He loves using chicago style politics, but HATES being questioned.

When you question King Barry, he gets irate at being questioned, and he get mad. When he gets mad, he is not likeable. Shine the light on this thug.


19 posted on 06/13/2011 8:11:18 AM PDT by rokkitapps ( Hearings on healthcare waivers NOW! (If you agree make this your tagline))
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INCREMENTALISM
20 posted on 06/13/2011 8:12:08 AM PDT by FrankR (A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.)
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