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Barack Obama’s imperial presidency is just what his controversial predecessor wanted. Jonathan Turley USA Today 3/26/2013 This month, I spoke at an event commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Watergate scandal with some of its survivors at the National Press Club. While much of the discussion looked back at the historic clash with President Nixon, […] March 26th, 2013 | Tags: "imperial Presidency", "kill list", Cambodia, cult of personality, impeachment, Libya, President Richard M. Nixon, warrantless surveillance, Watergate, whistle blowers | Category: Barack Obama, civil liberties, Congress, corruption, Military, SCOTUS | Comments are closed
10 March 2013
What, exactly, does the Obama administration mean by “engaged in combat”? The extraordinary secrecy of this White House makes the answer difficult to know. We have some clues, and they are troubling.
~ Ryan Goodman The Drone Question Obama Hasn’t Answered The New York Times March […] March 10th, 2013 | Tags: "kill list", drones, transparency | Category: Barack Obama, Department of Justice, terrorism, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Fox News Insider 2/6/2013 …the Justice Department has “resisted in every forum” attempts to gain access to the legal opinions that the drone policy is based on. He said the government has persuaded judges that releasing the information could threaten national security. “Suddenly it shows up in an NBC newsroom earlier this week! It could […] February 6th, 2013 | Tags: "kill list", Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, al Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, drones, due process, Judge Andrew Napolitano, President George W. Bush, Rep. Trey Gowdy, Samir Khan, Saudi Arabia, tyranny, waterboarding | Category: Barack Obama, Colorado, corruption, Department of Justice, Media accountability, National Security, New Mexico, SCOTUS, terrorism, US Constitution | Comments are closed
The president’s partisan lawyers purport to vest him with the most extreme power a political leader can seize Glenn Greenwald The Guardian [UK] 5 February 2013 The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. […] February 5th, 2013 | Tags: "kill list", Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, Anwar al-Awlaki, Attorney General Eric Holder, drones, due process, gun control, hypocrisy, Jay Carney, John Brennan, Rick Sanchez, Samir Khan, Yemen | Category: 5th Amendment, Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Justice, terrorism, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Mike Riggs Reason Magazine 2/4/2013 For over a year now journalists, civil liberties advocates, and members of Congress have been asking the Obama administration to release internal memoranda from the Office of Legal Counsel justifying Obama’s targeted killing program. While the White House continues to deny that such memos exist, NBC is reporting that it […] February 4th, 2013 | Tags: "kill list", al Qaeda, Algeria, Anwar al-Awlaki, Attorney General Eric Holder, drones, Libya, Mali, Samir Khan, Yemen | Category: Africa, Barack Obama, civil liberties, Congress, Department of Justice, Islam, terrorism, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Patrick Burke CNSNews 1/14/2013 MIT Professor of Linguistics Noam Chomsky, a long-time left-wing writer and activist, told Al-Jazeera that he does not believe President Barack Obama has a “moral center,” and that he is running a “global assassination campaign” using drone warfare. “There’s some nice rhetoric here and there, but you look at the actual […] January 14th, 2013 | Tags: "kill list", Al-Jazeera, assassination, drones, Noam Chomsky | Category: Barack Obama, Marxism, Politics | Comments are closed
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