Lil Red Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 [url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jun/14/rescind-barack-obama-obama-transparency-award"]Rescind President Obama's Transparency Award Now[/url] • President Obama has not decreased, but has dramatically increased governmental secrecy. According to a new report to the president by the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) – the federal agency that provides oversight of the government's security classification system – the cost of classification for 2010 has reached over $10.17bn. That's a 15% jump from the previous year, and the first time ever that secrecy costs have surpassed $10bn. Last month, ISOO reported that the number of original classification decisions generated by the Obama administration in 2010 was 224,734 – a 22.6% jump from the previous year (see The Price of Secrecy, Obama Edition). • Obama has invoked baseless and unconstitutional executive secrecy to quash legal inquiries into secret illegalities more often than any predecessor. The list of this president's invocations of the "state secrets privilege" has already resulted in shutting down lawsuits involving the National Security Agency's illegal wiretapping – Jewel v NSA and Shubert v Obama; extraordinary rendition and assassination – Anwar al-Awlaki; and illegal torture – Binyam Mohamed. • The Obama justice department's prosecution of former NSA official Thomas Drake, who, up till 9 June, faced 35 years in prison for having blown the whistle on the NSA's costly and unlawful warrantless monitoring of American citizens, typifies the abusive practices made possible through expansive secrecy agreements and threats of prosecution. • President Obama has set a powerful and chilling example for potential whistleblowers through the abuse and torture of Bradley Manning, whose guilt he has also publicly stated prior to any trial by his, Obama's, military subordinates. • Under President Obama, the FBI has launched a series of raids and issued grand jury subpoenas targeting nearly two dozen antiwar activists. Over 2,600 arrests of protesters in the US have been made while Obama has been president, further encroaching on the exercise of first amendment rights. • President Obama has initiated a secret assassination programme, has publicly announced that he has given himself the power to include Americans on the list of people to be assassinated, and has attempted to assassinate at least one, Anwar al-Awlaki. • President Obama has maintained the power to secretly kidnap, imprison, rendition, or torture, and he has formalised the power to lawlessly imprison in an executive order. This also means the power to secretly imprison. There are some 1,700 prisoners outside the rule of law in Bagram alone. • The Obama administration is also busy going after reporters to discover their sources and convening grand juries in order to target journalists and news publishers. • President Obama promised to reveal White House visitors' logs. He didn't. In response to outrage over his refusal to reveal the names of health insurance CEOs he had met with and cut deals with on the health insurance reform bill, he announced that he would release the names going forward, but not those in the past. And going forward, he would withhold names he chose to withhold. White House staff then began regularly meeting lobbyists just off White House grounds in order to avoid the visitors' logs. • President Obama has sent representatives to aggressively pressure Spain, England and Germany to shut down investigations that could have exposed the crimes of the Bush era, just as he has instructed the US justice department to avoid such matters. This includes his refusal to allow prosecutions of the CIA for torture, following a public letter from eight previous heads of the CIA informing him that he had better not enforce those laws. (more at the original link, and via [url="http://www.patheos.com/community/diaryofawimpycatholic/2011/06/16/barack-obama-bully-and-cad/#"]Diary of a Wimpy Catholic[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lil Red Posted June 16, 2011 Author Share Posted June 16, 2011 (edited) [quote name='Mr.CatholicCat' timestamp='1308194876' post='2254421'] http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-april-4-2011/victory-lapse---obama-transparency-award [/quote] i remember watching that one "See, when you were running for the White House, you wanted to see what the White House was hiding. Now you live the White House, you want everyone to stop being so *curse word* nosy!" lulzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Edited June 16, 2011 by Lil Red Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Cat Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 [quote name='Lil Red' timestamp='1308195405' post='2254423']i remember watching that one "See, when you were running for the White House, you wanted to see what the White House was hiding. Now you live the White House, you want everyone to stop being so *curse word* nosy!" lulzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz[/quote]I'm glad someone else here enjoys his humor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kujo Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 [quote name='Mr.CatholicCat' timestamp='1308205030' post='2254475'] I'm glad someone else here enjoys his humor. [/quote] Most trusted man in news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam42 Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 [quote name='Lil Red' timestamp='1308194473' post='2254418'] [url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jun/14/rescind-barack-obama-obama-transparency-award"]Rescind President Obama's Transparency Award Now[/url] • President Obama has not decreased, but has dramatically increased governmental secrecy. According to a new report to the president by the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) – the federal agency that provides oversight of the government's security classification system – the cost of classification for 2010 has reached over $10.17bn. That's a 15% jump from the previous year, and the first time ever that secrecy costs have surpassed $10bn. Last month, ISOO reported that the number of original classification decisions generated by the Obama administration in 2010 was 224,734 – a 22.6% jump from the previous year (see The Price of Secrecy, Obama Edition). • Obama has invoked baseless and unconstitutional executive secrecy to quash legal inquiries into secret illegalities more often than any predecessor. The list of this president's invocations of the "state secrets privilege" has already resulted in shutting down lawsuits involving the National Security Agency's illegal wiretapping – Jewel v NSA and Shubert v Obama; extraordinary rendition and assassination – Anwar al-Awlaki; and illegal torture – Binyam Mohamed. • The Obama justice department's prosecution of former NSA official Thomas Drake, who, up till 9 June, faced 35 years in prison for having blown the whistle on the NSA's costly and unlawful warrantless monitoring of American citizens, typifies the abusive practices made possible through expansive secrecy agreements and threats of prosecution. • President Obama has set a powerful and chilling example for potential whistleblowers through the abuse and torture of Bradley Manning, whose guilt he has also publicly stated prior to any trial by his, Obama's, military subordinates. • Under President Obama, the FBI has launched a series of raids and issued grand jury subpoenas targeting nearly two dozen antiwar activists. Over 2,600 arrests of protesters in the US have been made while Obama has been president, further encroaching on the exercise of first amendment rights. • President Obama has initiated a secret assassination programme, has publicly announced that he has given himself the power to include Americans on the list of people to be assassinated, and has attempted to assassinate at least one, Anwar al-Awlaki. • President Obama has maintained the power to secretly kidnap, imprison, rendition, or torture, and he has formalised the power to lawlessly imprison in an executive order. This also means the power to secretly imprison. There are some 1,700 prisoners outside the rule of law in Bagram alone. • The Obama administration is also busy going after reporters to discover their sources and convening grand juries in order to target journalists and news publishers. • President Obama promised to reveal White House visitors' logs. He didn't. In response to outrage over his refusal to reveal the names of health insurance CEOs he had met with and cut deals with on the health insurance reform bill, he announced that he would release the names going forward, but not those in the past. And going forward, he would withhold names he chose to withhold. White House staff then began regularly meeting lobbyists just off White House grounds in order to avoid the visitors' logs. • President Obama has sent representatives to aggressively pressure Spain, England and Germany to shut down investigations that could have exposed the crimes of the Bush era, just as he has instructed the US justice department to avoid such matters. This includes his refusal to allow prosecutions of the CIA for torture, following a public letter from eight previous heads of the CIA informing him that he had better not enforce those laws. (more at the original link, and via [url="http://www.patheos.com/community/diaryofawimpycatholic/2011/06/16/barack-obama-bully-and-cad/#"]Diary of a Wimpy Catholic[/url] [/quote] Red, I think that we should embrace President Obama, just as Notre Dame did. There is no call for him to be vilified by us Catholics....he's a good man with Christian principles....we should love him just the way he is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixpence Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 [quote name='Mr.CatholicCat' timestamp='1308194876' post='2254421'] [url="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-april-4-2011/victory-lapse---obama-transparency-award"]http://www.thedailys. ..nsparency-award[/url] [/quote] bahahah great video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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