Showing posts with label State Secrets Privilege. Show all posts
Showing posts with label State Secrets Privilege. Show all posts

Thursday, June 21, 2012

President Obama Invokes State Secrets Act To Cover Up Criminal Murders Caused By The Justice Department In The 'Fast And Furious' Scandal

 

Barack Obama

President Barack Obama's gross lack of transparency surfaced again, as yesterday he invoked and abused the State Secrets privilege, to cover up crimes being committed at the Department of Justice, by his Attorney General Eric Holder, in the "Fast and Furious" scandal. The people expect more than this from you, Obama.   

Holder faces a contempt charge in Congress for the cover up he launched, regarding illegally trafficking guns to drug cartels in Mexico. It was discovered shortly after that the weapons were used to murder several hundred innocent Mexican civilians and two U.S. Border Patrol agents, whose families are outraged and heartbroken at their senseless and preventable deaths.


Eric Holder: Bring it! The president is helping me with the cover up!

It has been publicly stated by the government, the weapons will likely be used in the murder of thousands more people in Mexico and America, as Holder using the Department of Justice and offshoots the ATF and FBI, trafficked the guns to see what would happen, but negligently failed to place any tracking devices on them, losing track of the high powered, sophisticated weapons he inexcusably bought with U.S. taxpayer money. In a time when states are cutting vital services to citizens, due to lack of funds during the financial crisis, it is disgusting that the Justice Department is wasting taxpayer money in this manner (and that's just the tip of the iceberg).

Obama's Department of Justice is famous for covering the crimes of criminals they are connected to and as such are not worthy of office in America, deserving to be voted out. This madness cannot continue. These brazen acts of corruption, absence of transparency in government and and self-serving criminality, are impeachable offenses and the administration needs to get a hold of itself before the worst happens in this regard. The State Secrets act needs to be repealed, as it is being abused to cover up criminal conduct that defies the U.S. Code and Constitution.

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Obama Agrees With Bush On Wiretapping

President Obama

U.S. President Barack Obama is reneging on a campaign promise he made regarding transparency in government and honoring the Constitution, by asserting State Secrets Privilege, in having an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) lawsuit thrown out of court, which was brought on behalf of a group of people, alleging they have been wrongfully, unlawfully and unethically wiretapped.

The mere fact the government is moving to have the lawsuit tossed out of court, lends credence to the EFF's claims. Clearly, something very egregious is going on and this is indeed a cover-up.

Thanks to the New York Times, the public has learned the White House, under George W. Bush, had been engaging in warantless wiretapping. The public learned the U.S. FBI has been reading citizens emails, scanning bank accounts and engaging in warantless wiretapping thanks to the Sound Off Column.

We've learned through Fox News the FBI routinely uses roving cell phone bugs (mobile phones), even when one's cell phone is turned off, to surreptitiously listen into conversations being held in the same room the phone is located. Other items hit the news such as the FBI's spyware program CIPAV.

The public also learned over a decade ago that the NSA routinely spies on select U.S. citizens via Echelon in England, as a technical, but unethical way to sidestep U.S. law, regarding spying on domestic citizens.

As many surveillance tools have now been uncovered, one can deduce, as there are only a number left that remain hidden, this case is based on covering ongoing behavior the government told the nation and the world it denounced and discontinued, but clearly have not, much to the chagrin of the Constitution. Such conduct erodes the nation's name.

I agree with the EFF regarding the current administration's about face, as it is indeed, "Incredibly disappointing." The public expected more.

Obama administration: Toss wiretap lawsuit

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder says a lawsuit in San Francisco over warrantless wiretapping threatens to expose ongoing intelligence work and must be thrown out.

In making the argument, the Obama administration agreed with the Bush administration's position on the case but insists it came to the decision differently. A civil liberties group criticized the move Friday as a retreat from promises President Barack Obama made as a candidate...

The Bush administration invoked the privilege numerous times in lawsuits over various post-9/11 programs, but the Obama administration recently announced that only a limited number of senior Justice Department officials would be able to make such decisions...

The lawsuit was filed by a group of individuals who claimed the government illegally monitored their communications. To proceed with the case, Holder said, would expose intelligence sources and methods...

Kevin Bankston, a lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group in San Francisco that is pursuing a similar lawsuit against the government, called Holder's decision "incredibly disappointing."

"The Obama administration has essentially adopted the position of the Bush administration in these cases, even though candidate Obama was incredibly critical of both the warrantless wiretapping program and the Bush administration's abuse of the state secrets privilege," said Bankston.

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