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Juan Williams: Where's the outrage over Obama's drone policy?
Fox News ^ | February 7, 2013 | Juan Williams

Posted on 02/08/2013 11:30:51 AM PST by EveningStar

Imagine if President George W. Bush or senior members of his administration asserted that they had the power to assassinate any person, including American citizens on American soil, because they merely suspected them of being involved in a terrorist plot.

Now, imagine that they went a step further and claimed that this broad new power was not subject to any oversight by Congress or the judiciary or international law.

A lot of left-wingers would be apoplectic. And they would be right.

Sadly, a Democratic president, Barack Obama, and senior national security officials in his administration appear to be wielding just that kind of power without any oversight, according to a memorandum outlining the extent of the U.S. drone program uncovered by NBC News Investigative Reporter Michael Isikoff.

Yet, the absence of national outrage is deafening.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drones; juanwilliams; obama
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To: JaguarXKE
Blind squirrels and acorns come to mind.


Ahh, you beat me to it. Although I heard one about the old blind sow. Either one fits.
41 posted on 02/08/2013 12:25:24 PM PST by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: EveningStar

Well, Juan may not be too happy, but, sounds like it is more because of Republican reaction.

If Juan is outraged let us hear his rage not looking for sound bites!


42 posted on 02/08/2013 12:25:31 PM PST by malia
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To: GSWarrior

ok


43 posted on 02/08/2013 12:27:13 PM PST by stuartcr ("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
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To: EveningStar

Juan is so effing stupid I can’t watch him anymore. The only thing I enjoy about watching him is when Krauthammer tells Juan how stupid he is. Juan will be a die-hard leftie forever.


44 posted on 02/08/2013 12:27:28 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: EveningStar

Most of the hard lefties I know that know about it are apoplectic. Of course as always outrage accomplishes nothing, lots of people are mad about it, and nothing is changing.


45 posted on 02/08/2013 12:27:50 PM PST by discostu (I recommend a fifth of Jack and a bottle of Prozac)
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To: canuck_conservative
so where’s the media outrage now??

over there behind the leprechaun's pot of gold.

46 posted on 02/08/2013 12:29:20 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: EveningStar

47 posted on 02/08/2013 12:30:39 PM PST by Former Fetus (Saved by grace through faith)
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To: llevrok

@11: “Nothing in the breathless news anchor reports about the SPD drone issue said squat about Obama’s drone plans.”

That says all that need be said about the left’s consistency.


48 posted on 02/08/2013 12:46:15 PM PST by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: mirkwood
Version 1 had over 300 members so it's possible; he always had the talking points memorized. Then again, I'm suspect of all left leaners and if he wasn't a forum member, I'd bet you he was at least on Media Matters ‘Holiday Greetings’ card list.
49 posted on 02/08/2013 12:48:30 PM PST by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: GSWarrior

“I can assure you that my outrage is not partisan.”

Second that!


50 posted on 02/08/2013 12:48:39 PM PST by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: cymbeline

Could Juan be in the process of ending his support of Obama?”

Nah. He’s a liberal. they can’t see past their own nose.


51 posted on 02/08/2013 12:50:09 PM PST by Daveinyork (."Trusting government with power and money is like trusting teenaged boys with whiskey and car keys,)
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To: EveningStar

National outrage is deafening. Why? That’s simple. The “They” are not only deaf but also dumb and can’t see the forest cause of the trees and the trigger man is their Saint Santa Claus!


52 posted on 02/08/2013 12:57:20 PM PST by Rock N Jones
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To: EveningStar

Juan,

If you weren’t a clueless hypocrit, I would give you credit for recognizing hypocracy. OK, now get back to being a useless idiot.


53 posted on 02/08/2013 1:10:15 PM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: EveningStar
But Juan, how about the Brennan/Hagel/Panetta/Dempsey hearings/admissions and news coming out about Benghazigate/Libya/Syria and Obama "rebuffing" Clinton/Patraeus and gunrunning, and the lies and reducing the carrier groups in the Middle East from two to one, and and.........oh,.... now I understand your "outrage".

It's the drones! It's the drones!! Gosh darn it, it's the drones!!

(Conservatives n sheople, keep your eyes on the birdies(drones)!)

54 posted on 02/08/2013 1:11:28 PM PST by haffast (Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. -Abe Lincoln)
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To: EveningStar


55 posted on 02/08/2013 1:16:29 PM PST by Iron Munro (I miss America, don't you?)
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To: ex-snook; EveningStar; stuartcr
Stuartcr, you're right: there should be nothing "partisan" about this: everyone should be outraged, at least as regards the stated policy behind the drones, which is: the targeted person "need not be actively involved in any plot to harm the US..."

Damn funny stuff. As Senator, Obama railed against 'possible torture of a US citizen'. As president - he´s fine w/ offing ´em based on 'suspicion' and without Due Process.

As Americans, we believe in a God-given (not Congress-given, not Court-given, not even Constitution-given, but "God-given") Right to Life, which does not mean "pacifism" but which does at least mean you have a right not to be intentionally targeted and killed unless you have been found guilty of a capital crime or are presently involved in an act of aggression.

We also believe (Constitution, 14th Amendment) that a citizen must not be deprived of life, liberty or property without Due Process of Law.

And that is not synonymous with "The Say-So of the Powerful".

There are excellent reasons why these rights are so prominent in our Declaration of Independence and in the U.S. Constitution. It's because if you give some "informed high official" a license to kill, you have given him a power not safely placed in the hands of any human being.

This is the kind of thing that gave Stalin a bad name.

And for conservatives to want to limit the government's power to tax us, but not the government's power to kill us --- people, this is insanity beyond all telling.

56 posted on 02/08/2013 1:49:43 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
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To: Iron Munro

Yawn..... Left wing Friday news dump. Ask Juan this on Tuesday and see what he says.


57 posted on 02/08/2013 1:53:08 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (I own a weapon to protect my family from those wanting to take that weapon away.)
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To: EveningStar

Hey Juan,STUFF IT YOU PHONY BLABBERING HYPOCRIT!
How about Obama getting his Beauty Sleep while our Ambassador and Former Navy Seals were Murdered? Where was the Hildabeast hiding while this was going on,She claimed she was involved ,Panetta says they could not find her. What about that Juan?


58 posted on 02/08/2013 3:04:30 PM PST by ballplayer
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To: EveningStar
Juan Williams: Where's the outrage over Obama's drone policy?

Juan...you just aren't paying attention!

59 posted on 02/08/2013 3:19:42 PM PST by luvie (All my heroes wear camos!)
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To: stubernx98
Yeah, and what about the TSA, NSA, SSA arming up and buying millions of rounds of ammo.???

A couple years ago the "Department of Education" stocked up on riot shotguns. Explain that one!

Regards,
GtG

60 posted on 02/08/2013 3:37:07 PM PST by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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