Posted on 07/25/2014 5:20:11 PM PDT by BAW
Eleanor Holmes Norton, the non-voting congressional delegate for the District of Columbia, angrily sputtered during a congressional hearing Friday that the White House should not be held up to scrutiny, saying that there was no right to know what it was doing behind closed doors.
"You don't have a right to know everything in a separation-of-powers government, my friend. That is the difference between a parliamentary government and a separation-of-powers government," Norton said during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing.
It was, to put mildly, a significant departure from the more traditional liberal stance that openness and transparency are must to prevent abuses of power by government officials. Instead the leading advocate for statehood for the District of Columbia literally argued that even the congressional committee charged with oversight shouldn't be asking questions in the first place.
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One day we may find out that Norton, a New York City political rat, is more than just a Democrat Rat. She has a smell about her that says that she, like Obama, is not what she seems to be.
Put a Defcon 4 on this SOB.
So I presume that this gal and Elijah Cummings would say that the executive branch has no business spying on the Congressional coat room and any other spying that the executive office may be doing on the other branches of government?
If they claim “national security” as the reason for executive branch spying and usurpation of Constitutional freedoms, then they should be aware that the Constitution gives the responsibility of national security to CONGRESS, not to the executive branch. So if ANYBODY could justifiably be spying on anybody else, it would be at the direction of CONGRESS, not the POTUS.
It’s a pity that cotton grows in America.
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- 85-90 average iQ in USA
- 65-80 average IQ in Africa
- Homo Hussein Electus (or else we will loot, burn, kill)
- barack terrorism has been in America long time - Anger in the White House because Israel is launching rockets at HAMAs
- Obama family update : Berry Hussein Ebola Junior’s brother in Kenya is actively involved in the slave trade and has joined HAMAS
- Is Beery a Muslim - or is he “the Taliban within the walls”
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- I thought she was still dead . . .
- Eleanor Holmes Norton - “PigFart 3” and other barack Homo Electus bullschiitt scams
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