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President Obama: I'm no Dick Cheney on drones
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Posted on 03/14/2013 7:59:25 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

President Obama: I'm no Dick Cheney on drones By: Josh Gerstein and Manu Raju March 14, 2013 04:37 AM EDT

President Barack Obama’s defense to Democratic senators complaining about how little his administration has told Congress about the legal justifications for his drone policy: Dick Cheney was worse.

That’s part of what two senators in the room recounted of Obama’s response when, near the outset of his closed-door session with the Senate Democratic conference on Tuesday, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) confronted the president over the administration’s refusal for two years to show congressional intelligence committees Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel memos justifying the use of lethal force against American terror suspects abroad.

Obama recently allowed members of those panels to see the memos, but only after senators in both parties threatened to hold up the confirmation of John Brennan as Central Intelligence Agency director. Brennan was confirmed last week, but lawmakers not on one of the intelligence panels are still being denied access to the memos and several are steamed over being frozen out.

In response to Rockefeller’s critique, Obama said he’s not involved in drafting such memos, the senators told POLITICO. He also tried to assure his former colleagues that his administration is more open to oversight than that of President George W. Bush, whom many Democratic senators attacked for secrecy and for expanding executive power in the national security realm.

“This is not Dick Cheney we’re talking about here,” he said, according to Democratic senators who asked not to be named discussing the private meeting.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhodhs; cheney; denial; drones; nationalsecurity
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To: TexasCajun

Obama’s “Not Me” is not complete without his twin “Ida Know.”


21 posted on 03/14/2013 8:24:52 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: Sub-Driver

When I was a kid, and got into trouble, my parents NEVER accepted the, “He did it too” excuse. Obozo is a child holding an office which requires an adult.


22 posted on 03/14/2013 8:25:07 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: Sub-Driver

So true! When Dick Cheney shot a fellow American it was an accident, Obama’s is by policy.


23 posted on 03/14/2013 8:25:30 AM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: Sub-Driver
This usurper is so-o-o unlike Dick Cheney...

Dick Cheney is a hardworking, decent, honest, patriotic American who cares about his country and our Constitution.

As I said, this usurper is so-o-o unlike Dick Cheney...

24 posted on 03/14/2013 8:33:12 AM PDT by Gritty (The Constitution's purpose is to insulate personal freedom from the lust for power-Judge Napolitano)
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To: Sub-Driver

Damned straight he’s no Dick Cheney.


25 posted on 03/14/2013 8:36:49 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
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To: Kozak

Much as he’d like to...


26 posted on 03/14/2013 8:38:59 AM PDT by gnickgnack2 (QUESTION obama's AUTHORITY)
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To: NonValueAdded

27 posted on 03/14/2013 8:39:37 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Barry feeling the heat from his Code Pink/Michael Moore base.


28 posted on 03/14/2013 8:40:49 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: NonValueAdded

That’s such a beautiful hat for that man!

Always loved that pic.

Almost as much as I loved to see him interviewed on ANY show. He always had the straightforward answer with explanation and common sense, never said something that was evasive or needed to be parsed like most every other politician.


29 posted on 03/14/2013 8:44:49 AM PDT by gnickgnack2 (QUESTION obama's AUTHORITY)
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To: Sub-Driver
No, Dick Cheney was, and is an American citizen, American Patriot, an honorable man, a hetrosexual man, a man who loves and believes in America and her founding documents.

This Marxist, Mooslim, Kenyan, Steaming pantload is none of the above.... and F him and the moose he rode in on. What? That's not a moose? Oh, sorry MO.

30 posted on 03/14/2013 8:53:30 AM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: Sub-Driver

The more these morons attack Cheney the higher he goes in my estimation. God Bless Dick Cheney!


31 posted on 03/14/2013 8:56:21 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Sub-Driver

Showtime has a ‘documentary’ on Cheney coming Friday.

No doubt a hit piece, but lots of interviews with him are in it so I’ll try to watch it.


32 posted on 03/14/2013 9:17:44 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: NonValueAdded

Looks as if bush is thinking hey the guy has no balls.


33 posted on 03/14/2013 9:45:19 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama must be haunted by Republicans. Remember before he was even inaugurated the first time he made a wisecrack about Nancy Reagan and seances?

At least Joe Wilson said what he felt to Obama’s face. Obama had to go after a widowed former first lady like the coward he is.

Don’t make fun of his wife’s butt, though. That would be racist, don’t you know?


34 posted on 03/14/2013 9:53:48 AM PDT by TheGipperWasRight
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To: Clarence

He is a liar. Here is a ory I ran into when I signed in this morning:

The tittle is “Obama Rebuffs Democrats On Drone Kill Memos, Asserts Executive Secrecy Prerogative”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/13/drones-obama-rebuffs-demo_n_2869156.html?utm_hp_ref=politics


35 posted on 03/14/2013 9:58:24 AM PDT by marstegreg
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To: Sub-Driver

Sounds like Bammy is transforming into Nixon before our lyin’ eyes. : )


36 posted on 03/14/2013 10:51:20 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Sub-Driver

He’s no Dick Cheney. Period.


37 posted on 03/14/2013 10:51:21 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: DPMD

Obama doesn’t know Dick.


38 posted on 03/14/2013 10:52:38 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: gnickgnack2

“That’s such a beautiful hat for that man!”

He resembles Levy Lebanon from the Amish Mafia show. My gosh,... could it be?.


39 posted on 03/14/2013 10:58:46 AM PDT by chooseascreennamepat (It only takes one to start hostilities. It takes two to agree to end them.)
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To: Sub-Driver
 photo cheneyobama_zpsb126935d.jpg
40 posted on 03/14/2013 11:01:00 AM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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