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Flashback: "Obama says his is ‘most transparent administration' ever"
The Hill ^ | Feb 14, 2014 | JONATHAN EASLEY

Posted on 05/18/2020 6:34:38 PM PDT by llevrok

President Obama on Thursday hailed his administration for its transparency.

“This is the most transparent administration in history,” Obama said during a Google Plus “Fireside” Hangout.

“I can document that this is the case,” he continued. “Every visitor that comes into the White House is now part of the public record. Every law we pass and every rule we implement we put online for everyone to see.”

The president said this holds true even on the issue of the attack on a U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, a controversy which he said was “driven by campaign” politics and one that Congressional Republicans were clinging to even though they’ve “run out of questions.” “Benghazi is not a good example,” Obama said. “We’ve had more testimony and more paper than ever before.”

The president has also been criticized – even by some liberals – for his use of drones to target terrorist suspects abroad, some of whom have been U.S. citizens. Obama said there are “a handful of issues, mostly surrounding national security,” that require some confidentiality.

However, the president pledged to be open about how drones are used, saying the public will “know the parameters” around the program.

“What I think is absolutely true is it’s not sufficient for citizens to just take my word for it that we’re doing the right thing,” Obama said.

The president added that there are different policies on how drones are used abroad, compared to how they’re used in the United States.

“I think there’s never been a drone used on an American citizen on American soil,” Obama said. “We respect and have a whole bunch of safeguards into how we conduct counter-terrorism outside the United States ... the rules are different inside the United States.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: lie; obama
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Hmmm. He did not lie to us about this too? Naw. Just a malicious internet rumor.
1 posted on 05/18/2020 6:34:38 PM PDT by llevrok
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To: llevrok

Stalininist lie. Always


2 posted on 05/18/2020 6:35:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: llevrok

And we saw right through his lies


3 posted on 05/18/2020 6:38:07 PM PDT by digger48
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To: llevrok

>>The president said this holds true even on the issue of the attack on a U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, a controversy which he said was “driven by campaign” politics and one that Congressional Republicans were clinging to even though they’ve “run out of questions.”

Hillary told Chelsea on 9-12-2012 that Benghazi was a terrorist attack that very day, but she and Obama lied to the American people for months.

What was Chelsea’s security clearance?

Why did Youtube delete that man’s video that was wrongfully blamed for the attack?

Why was a filmmaker imprisoned as a patsy fallguy without outrage from academics, journalists, and Hollywood?


4 posted on 05/18/2020 6:38:08 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: llevrok

Only because his media friends told him so.


5 posted on 05/18/2020 6:38:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: a fool in paradise

yup


6 posted on 05/18/2020 6:39:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Puke, puke, puke.....


7 posted on 05/18/2020 6:39:42 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: llevrok

him acting transparent isn’t the same thing as running a transparent administration


8 posted on 05/18/2020 6:40:00 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: llevrok

From the man who said he was smarter than any of his advisers but never knew about anything until he read it or saw it on the news


9 posted on 05/18/2020 6:40:53 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: llevrok

Technically, he’s correct.

There has never before been an administration as transparently hostile to the continued sovereign existence of the US as the Obama Administration.

Every act action and inaction had one overall goal in mind.

The reduction and eventual elimination of the US of A.


10 posted on 05/18/2020 6:41:06 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: llevrok

More delusion from the poster boy of the Delusional Lying Left.


11 posted on 05/18/2020 6:41:34 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: llevrok
Uyghur, PLEASE!
12 posted on 05/18/2020 6:41:36 PM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: llevrok
... the most transparent administration in history...

Okay, Mister Transparancy...

...Does this mean that you will release ALL of your collegiate transcripts? (All classes, professors, and whether passed or not. All degrees and awards and "issues", if any. Grades are unimportant. The name that you used IS important.)

Will you do this easy, easy thing in the name of TRANSPARANCY?

Of course not.

13 posted on 05/18/2020 6:42:08 PM PDT by Seaplaner
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To: Feckless

interesting stuff about Obama:

18 May: Gateway Pundit: Deep State Actions in Italy Are the Focus of Durham’s Investigation as Obama’s Italian Ambassador Turns Up on List of General Flynn Unmaskers
By Joe Hoft
The list of unmaskers also included some individuals you would never suspect of requiring the need to unmask an American citizen, including Obama’s Ambassador to Italy, John R. Phillips and the Deputy Chief of Mission in Italy, Kelly Degnan...

Italian nuclear engineer and deep state target Giulio Occhionero pointed out the Italian connection in the release. Giulio has an interest in Obamagate since 2016...
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/deep-state-actions-italy-focus-durhams-investigation-obamas-italian-ambassador-turns-list-general-flynn-unmaskers/?


14 posted on 05/18/2020 6:43:21 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: llevrok; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...

Everything Demonrats say, consider the opposite is true. That’s what you get when you follow Satan. Lies.


15 posted on 05/18/2020 6:44:31 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: a fool in paradise

Nothing has changed...and it will not. After all, look at what he is apparently getting away with courtesy of the DOJ...why should it change??


16 posted on 05/18/2020 6:44:47 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: llevrok

imwould seal team six his ass from wherever he tries hiding


17 posted on 05/18/2020 6:50:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: llevrok
"Obama says his is ‘most transparent transexual administration' ever"
18 posted on 05/18/2020 6:50:45 PM PDT by dynachrome (The panic will end, the tyranny will not)
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To: digger48
"And we saw right through his lies."

His motives and actions were transparent to us, but not to his legion of zombies.

19 posted on 05/18/2020 6:51:34 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Seaplaner

Can’t find it tonight but I was culling old stuff and found my printout of FReeper’s long ago post of a meme with about 20 secrets of Obama (medical,educational,financial and more). All totally top secret. When I find it again I’ll list them. Sorry. Working through tons of clutter is hard for a hoarder.


20 posted on 05/18/2020 6:56:30 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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