Obozo announces "independent" investigationi of intel...to be chaired by his director of intel
Man, this just keeps getting funnier!
Well, unless you want the U.S. to survive. If you don't, the acts of Obozo and company are a real hoot.
Consider: The "Director of National Intelligence" is a guy named James Clapper. Two months ago--meaning most Americans have forgotten, as intended--Clapper testified before a senate committee, where Dem Sen. Ron Wyden asked him whether the NSA had collected information about millions of Americans. Clapper said no.
Clapper has since conceded that this answer was “clearly erroneous” and that he gave the "least-untruthful answer."
Roll that around a second: "the least-untruthful answer" will get you past a senate committee--at least if you work for B.H. Obozo and the senate is controlled by Democrats.
And lest you have a doubt: Of course Obozo didn't fire him--Clapper is still Director. And of course you never really thought he'd be fired, because the norm in politics nowadays is lie, lie, lie.
Lie like there's no tomorrow. Lie like you'll never get caught. Lie like you're working for a greater good. Transparency? Why in the world would we want that?
Last Friday B. H. Obozo promised to appoint an “independent group” of “outside experts” to review the government’s surveillance programs.
Just three days after making the above promise, Obama announced the name of the man he was appointing to not only select the members of this "independent" group but also to chair it: the same man who lied to the senate, James Clapper.
This is an "independent group" of "outside experts"??
Even the staunchly pro-Obozo Washington Post noted, "The announcement doesn’t inspire confidence that the president is interested in truly independent scrutiny of the nation’s surveillance programs."
In 1975 President Gerald Ford created a commission headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to examine allegations of abuses by American intelligence agencies. But the commission’s close ties to the executive branch suggested it was unlikely to do any serious investigating. Instead, a Democrat-controlled congress appointed its own members--chaired by staunch Democrats--to investigate the matter.
How well is the system rigged? Consider that the chairman of the senate intelligence committee is a Democrat--Dianne Feinstein. When asked about the discrepancy between Clapper’s testimony and the statements by a recent NSA turncoat, Feinstein said Clapper is one of the most honest people she knows and suggested he misunderstood the question.
Feinstein either didn't know--or hoped you wouldn't learn--that her fellow Democrat, senator Whyden, had notified Clapper's office of the question he would be asking Clapper at the hearing. If he "misunderstood the question" he certainly had both the time and the resources of a gazillion intelligence experts to puzzle out the mysterious language.
Even the WaPo noted that "independent oversight will only come from Congress, not a commission hand-picked by the nation’s top intelligence official." But of course we've come a long way since 1975. Democrats in congress will continue to support Obozo as he repeatedly violates the Constitution.
And today's Republicans lack the will to do anything about it.
Well, unless you want the U.S. to survive. If you don't, the acts of Obozo and company are a real hoot.
Consider: The "Director of National Intelligence" is a guy named James Clapper. Two months ago--meaning most Americans have forgotten, as intended--Clapper testified before a senate committee, where Dem Sen. Ron Wyden asked him whether the NSA had collected information about millions of Americans. Clapper said no.
Clapper has since conceded that this answer was “clearly erroneous” and that he gave the "least-untruthful answer."
Roll that around a second: "the least-untruthful answer" will get you past a senate committee--at least if you work for B.H. Obozo and the senate is controlled by Democrats.
And lest you have a doubt: Of course Obozo didn't fire him--Clapper is still Director. And of course you never really thought he'd be fired, because the norm in politics nowadays is lie, lie, lie.
Lie like there's no tomorrow. Lie like you'll never get caught. Lie like you're working for a greater good. Transparency? Why in the world would we want that?
Last Friday B. H. Obozo promised to appoint an “independent group” of “outside experts” to review the government’s surveillance programs.
Just three days after making the above promise, Obama announced the name of the man he was appointing to not only select the members of this "independent" group but also to chair it: the same man who lied to the senate, James Clapper.
This is an "independent group" of "outside experts"??
Even the staunchly pro-Obozo Washington Post noted, "The announcement doesn’t inspire confidence that the president is interested in truly independent scrutiny of the nation’s surveillance programs."
In 1975 President Gerald Ford created a commission headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to examine allegations of abuses by American intelligence agencies. But the commission’s close ties to the executive branch suggested it was unlikely to do any serious investigating. Instead, a Democrat-controlled congress appointed its own members--chaired by staunch Democrats--to investigate the matter.
How well is the system rigged? Consider that the chairman of the senate intelligence committee is a Democrat--Dianne Feinstein. When asked about the discrepancy between Clapper’s testimony and the statements by a recent NSA turncoat, Feinstein said Clapper is one of the most honest people she knows and suggested he misunderstood the question.
Feinstein either didn't know--or hoped you wouldn't learn--that her fellow Democrat, senator Whyden, had notified Clapper's office of the question he would be asking Clapper at the hearing. If he "misunderstood the question" he certainly had both the time and the resources of a gazillion intelligence experts to puzzle out the mysterious language.
Even the WaPo noted that "independent oversight will only come from Congress, not a commission hand-picked by the nation’s top intelligence official." But of course we've come a long way since 1975. Democrats in congress will continue to support Obozo as he repeatedly violates the Constitution.
And today's Republicans lack the will to do anything about it.
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