by Robert Romano. Let us take Edward Snowden at his word. For a moment, assume he disclosed publicly the National Security Agency’s (NSA) broad, sweeping surveillance of all telephone, Internet, and email communications everywhere — not to hurt people or undermine security but to stop an unconstitutionally intrusive program. Did he do ... MORE
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Showing posts with label secrecy. Show all posts
Edward Snowden: Hero Or Traitor?
by Robert Romano. Let us take Edward Snowden at his word. For a moment, assume he disclosed publicly the National Security Agency’s (NSA) broad, sweeping surveillance of all telephone, Internet, and email communications everywhere — not to hurt people or undermine security but to stop an unconstitutionally intrusive program. Did he do ... MORELiz Sidoti: Mounting Controversies Are All About Trust
Another day, another scandal. As a candidate, Barack Obama vowed to bring a different, better kind of leadership to the dysfunctional capital. He'd make government more efficient, accountable and transparent. He'd rise above the "small-ball" nature of doing business. And he'd work with Republicans to break Washington paralysis. You can trust me, ... MOREWhy Obama Wanted NSA Data-Mining Program Kept Secret
by Mike Riggs. I was reading up on the National Security Agency's data-mining program when I came across this tweet by Matt Apuzzo of the Associated Press: If the programs needed secrecy to succeed, will NSA shut them down now? If not, did they ever need be secret? Or did I just blow your mind? — Matt Apuzzo (@mattapuzzo) June 7,
2013 ... MOREJacob Sullum: Obama's Cloak Of Invisibility
Secrecy and counterterrorism tactics. When he was running for president, Barack Obama criticized George W. Bush’s expansive vision of executive power, saying, “I reject the view that the president may do whatever he deems necessary to protect national security.” The day after taking office in 2009, Obama declared that “my Administration ... MOREJacob Sullum: Obama Debates War On Terror With Self
President criticizes his own abuses of executive power. Last week a guy named Barack Obama gave a
speech in which he expressed appropriate concern about the
abuse of government power in the name of fighting terrorism. Too
bad he's not in a position to do anything about it. Obama, who used to teach constitutional law at the University of ... MOREUncle Sam Wants You ... Under His Thumb
by Jim Yardley. It's really difficult to keep track of the many ways that the Obama administration is chipping away at the freedoms and independence that were the foundations of our nation, bequeathed to us as a birthright. Let's just summarize the more egregious behavior of our Beloved Leader and his Apostles. Fast and Furious: The ... MORE
The Obama IRS Nightmare Is Just Getting Started
by Ed Rogers, Washington Post. Your government, as currently administered by President Obama, doesn’t like the word “patriot.”
If you associate yourself with an organization using that word, you may
be investigated and prosecuted. Under Obama, government employees think
they are doing what their superiors want them to do when they ... MOREMedia Scrambles To Minimize Team Obama Deception
by Dan Gainor. In the real world, when you cover up four murders after the fact, you likely go to jail. In government, you retire with dignity and run for president with full media support. Up until yesterday, that was the Benghazi scenario following the death of four Americans including our ambassador to Libya. The Obama administration has lied, ... MOREMark Hendrickson: Big Brother Is Increasingly Watching You
Every breath you take, every move you make. One of the most hotly debated of all individual rights is the right to privacy. Generations of immigrants came to the United States
to escape religious persecution, economic oppression, and the danger of
becoming embroiled in the Old World’s frequently recurring wars. These
reasons are variations ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Obama Expands His Power To Kill
While reducing our capacity to defend ourselves. Does the government work for us, or do we work for the government? How can the president claim the lawful power to kill whomever he wishes and at the same time ask Congress to incapacitate our ability to defend ourselves against those who might seek to kill us? Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul ... MOREJacob Sullum: Obama's Cloak Of Invisibility
Secrecy frustrates challenges to counterterrorism tactics. Back in 2007, when he was running for president, Barack Obama
criticized George W. Bush's expansive vision of executive power,
saying, "I reject the view that the president may do whatever
he deems necessary to protect national security." The day after
taking office in 2009, Obama ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Obama's Secret Court For Killing
What about the laws he swore to uphold? President Obama willingly admits he dispatched CIA agents to kill an American and his teenage son and the son's American friend while they were in a desert in Yemen in 2011. He says he did so because the adult had encouraged folks to wage war on the United States and the children were just ... MOREObama Gives Himself Permission To Kill
by Andrew Napolitano. After stonewalling for more than a year federal judges and ordinary citizens who sought the revelation of its secret legal research justifying the presidential use of drones to kill persons overseas—even Americans—claiming the research was so sensitive and so secret that it could not be revealed without serious ... MOREAllyson Mitchell: Obama Making Up Drone Rules As He Goes
Americans need transparency of conventional warfare. The Obama administration has not yet answered concerns regarding the
secrecy, legality and efficacy of the drone warfare program. During the
presidential elections, to avoid leaving business unfinished, a
last-minute effort surfaced in the White House to create a secret rule ... MOREMike Riggs: Obama Is Transparently Disappointing
Where did "unprecedented openness in government" go? On March 28, 2011, a group of leading transparency advocates
passed through the security checkpoints along the perimeter of the
White House compound to present Barack Obama with an
award for his efforts to open up government. The president who took
office promising “an .... MOREDo FEMA Camps And Martial Law Foretell America's Future?
by Darren Weeks. During the 1980s Iran Contra hearings, Lt. Col. Oliver North was questioned by Congressman Jack Brooks concerning North’s role in the development of a continuity-of-government plan called “Rex 84” (“Readiness Exercise 1984”), under which the U.S. Constitution would be suspended, and people moved into FEMA camps in the event ... MOREJulian Sanchez: Our Dishonest Debate Over NSA Spying
Secret FISA court rules the Fourth Amendment be damned. The House of Representatives recently signed off on another five years of sweeping warrantless surveillance by the National Security Agency, voting by a wide margin to extend the controversial FISA Amendments Act of 2008. But the debate on the House floor showed that the law’s ... MOREThe Number Of Americans Spied Upon Is Too High To Count
by Andrew Napolitano. Gazillions. That's the number of times the federal government has spied on Americans since 9/11 through the use of drones, legal search warrants, illegal search warrants, federal agent-written search warrants and just plain government spying. This is according to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who, when he asked the government to tell him what it was ... MORE
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