'Top Obama Administration Officials Increasingly See Themselves As Above The Law' by Jongsstraw

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'Top Obama Administration Officials Increasingly See Themselves As Above The Law'

POSTED BY: JONGSSTRAW
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 08:56
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 5:25 AM

Of course they do. All administartions do. Then they get caught.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/issa-top-obama-administration-officials-
increasingly-see-themselves-as-above-the-law/article/2529588

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 5:30 AM

REAVERFAN

Issa said that? There's a shocker.

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 5:41 AM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

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Originally posted by reaverfan:
Issa said that? There's a shocker.

Yeah, that's what I thought too.

But he's not partisan. Just because he's a Republican and his district is in
San Diego and Orange counties of California, that doesn't mean he's PARTISAN, oh for God's sake, NO. Not NOW, Not EVER, NEVER...

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 7:24 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

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Of course they do. All administartions (sic) do. Then they get caught.

WHEN they get caught. IF they get caught. And I'd bet we don't know 1/10th of the times they behave above the law and never DO get caught.

I could say something about the Bush Administration, but why bother?

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Amid all the frothing media terror hype, the fact that the Bush administration has once again declared itself above the law has been relegated to the "and also in the news" sections. The decision came after a federal appeals court refused on Monday to step in and delay sending Libby to prison. http://infowars.net/articles/july2007/030707Libby.htm

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Raise a hand if you’re surprised, the Bush administration says Congress – in their Constitutional role as one of the “checks” on the executive branch – has no right to subpoena it for information about illegal activity or get testimony from staff members.

It’s the height of hubris and just plain wrong when any elected official thinks the rule of law no longer applies to them. http://dancody.org/archives/its-official-bush-administration-says-its-
above-the-law.html]
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The Bush administration is arguing that it has the right to lock up U.S. citizens forever -- without evidence, witnesses, lawyers or trials. http://www.salon.com/2004/04/28/combatants/]
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Of course they do. All administartions (sic) do.

Abso-friggin-lootely correct.

ETA: Don't get me started on Issa, that sick fuck...

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 7:33 AM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

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ETA: Don't get me started on Issa, that sick fuck...

I knew he was a scumbag. This morning I looked up his bio on Wikipedia, just to be sure. Lotta stuff in there confirmed that I was right.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 2:35 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Gross, isn't it? I try not to think about him...

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:13 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

What Issa focused on was

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This is obviously disturbing. Coming within a week of revelations that the White House lied to the American people about the Benghazi attacks and the IRS targeted conservative Americans for their political beliefs, Americans should take notice that top Obama Administration officials increasingly see themselves as above the law

What he DOESN'T talk about are Obama's
(1) Drone attacks on Americans (Obama had to make up a whole new set of secret laws to kill Americans overseas) and everyone else
(2) Unwavering support of the government's right to snoop into anyone's records anywhere, at any time, without a warrant
(3) Unprecedented prosecution of whistleblowers (yes, even more than Bush) despite having promised an government of never-before seen transparency
(4) Continued use of George Bush's indefinite detention without trial
(5) Complete lack of prosecution of the financial institutions which brought down our economy due to fraudulent practices ("too big to prosecute")

Maybe that's because Issa supports THOSE trangressions.

What I see is that both Obama and the rightwing Congress have a common interest in burying the Constitution, and are busy shoveling dirt over its face. Anyone leftish here who believes in Constitutional protections and equal standing before the law and who still supports Obama is fooling themselves. Obama is not the hapless victim of rightwing obstructionism, he is actively pursuing the same courses of action as GWB.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 6:22 AM

JONGSSTRAW

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

What he DOESN'T talk about are Obama's
(1) Drone attacks on Americans (Obama had to make up a whole new set of secret laws to kill Americans overseas) and everyone else
(2) Unwavering support of the government's right to snoop into anyone's records anywhere, at any time, without a warrant
(3) Unprecedented prosecution of whistleblowers (yes, even more than Bush) despite having promised an government of never-before seen transparency
(4) Continued use of George Bush's indefinite detention without trial
(5) Complete lack of prosecution of the financial institutions which brought down our economy due to fraudulent practices ("too big to prosecute")

What I see is that both Obama and the rightwing Congress have a common interest in burying the Constitution, and are busy shoveling dirt over its face. Anyone leftish here who believes in Constitutional protections and equal standing before the law and who still supports Obama is fooling themselves. Obama is not the hapless victim of rightwing obstructionism, he is actively pursuing the same courses of action as GWB.

I agree.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 6:27 AM

STORYMARK

Next thing we know, he'll be having his AG rewrite the meaning of torture, just so he can order it!

Oh, wait...

Excuse me while I soak in all these sweet, sweet conservative tears.

"We will never have the elite, smart people on our side." -- Rick "Frothy" Santorum

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 6:39 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

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Maybe that's because Issa supports THOSE transgressions

Of course he does, Sig, that's what Issa's all about. It's not about "right" or "wrong" to him, it is, has been and always will be about "left" and "right", and nothing else.

Those ARE the things our government should be demanding action on, among many others, but they never will, Issa and his buddies will see to that. Their ONLY focus will always be on anything that makes Obama look bad; it always has been.

Issa is a self-made millionaire with a net worth estimated at as much as $450 million, making him the wealthiest currently-serving member of Congress, and he works for the rich, period. He originally went to Washington to lobby Congress and became one of California's largest individual campaign contributors to Republican candidates. He came to national prominence in 2003 when he contributed over $1.6 million to help fund a signature-gathering drive for the petition to recall Gray Davis. At the time he made the contribution, it was widely believed that Issa intended to place himself on the ballot to replace Davis. However, following the entrance of fellow Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger into the race, two days before the filing deadline, Issa announced that he would not run. He's found a niche for himself in Washington as the Republican "attack dog" when it comes to investigating anything that could even conceivably tar Democrats.

Issa questioned federal expenditures made after 9/11. He was criticized for making comments that the federal government "'just threw' buckets of cash at New York for an attack 'that had no dirty bomb in it, it had no chemical munitions in it'" and asking "why the firefighters who went there and everybody in the city of New York needs to come to the federal government for the dollars versus this being primarily a state consideration." Remember, in 2010 he told the press that he wanted the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to hold investigative hearings "seven hearings a week, times 40 weeks." He's the one who kept Fluke from testifying. He voted for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, of course, and supported them at every turn, as well as voting for the authorization of the PATRIOT Act and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. He co-sponsored legislation which aimed at a reversal of the NIH's Public Access Policy, which mandates open access to NIH-funded research. It goes on and on, ad infinitum; he is the Republican's Republican, through and through.

Redistricting gave him our 49th District in 2002, which is heavily Republican and has a Cook Partisan Voting Index (PVI) of R+10. We can't get rid of him. Redistricting in 2012 gave him the smallest margin of victory in his political career--San Diego is smartening up, finally--but it added Orange back in, so he won again. He's the bug you just can't stamp out...yet!

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 8:56 AM

JONGSSTRAW

During one of Bill Clinton's court depositions he said "Tt all depends on what the meaning of the word issa issa." ... or something very close to that.

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