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ACLU Ad: The President Lied to the American People and Broke the LawRemember whistleblower Thomas Tamm?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023032225
http://web.archive.org/web/20081216011008/http://www.newsweek.com/id/174601/output/print
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023032225
Clearly, it's time to impeach Obama for conducting a legal program that's: Worse. Than. Watergate!!!!!
cali
(114,904 posts)"you love you silly little straw men. You have whole phalanxes of them. cute, pro."
...it is: Worse. Than. Watergate.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023339427
I really am into criticizing Republicans more than Democrats.
leftstreet
(36,109 posts)Safetykitten
(5,162 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)Wasn't that clear?
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)No, much better than watergate.
Oh, and look:
Criticism alters US drone program in Pakistan
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023338376
The CIA embraced the measures, feeling the drone program may be under threat from public scrutiny, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the classified program publicly.
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Senior Pakistani army officers made it clear that the program could not continue at the tempo it was being carried out and expressed concern that civilian casualties were breeding more militants, said the U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
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President Barack Obama signaled the administration's new approach to drones in a landmark speech in May in which he said attacks would be carried out only on "terrorists who pose a continuing and imminent threat to the American people" and when there is "near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured."
(gosh - so they were not aimed at imminent threats to the US before??)
U.S. officials often point to Pakistan's failure to shoot down the slow-flying drones as evidence that they aren't sincere in wanting the program to stop, although this would likely cause a huge crisis in relations between the two countries
Not to mention we had Yemen lie for us and claim they were the ones doing the attacks in their country when civilians were killed.
--Don't care if someone sees it all as worse than watergate or not, wrong is still wrong. Though some will defend the killing of kids and other innocent civilians because their loyalty is to a single person and screw everyone else in the world.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)The similarities are uncanny.
Silliness.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)Oh... they didn't.
So the point is that Nixon and Bush were bad?
Good tip.
"So the point is that Nixon and Bush were bad? "
...the point is Obama is worse than Nixon because he did something...Worse. Than. Watergate.
Did you miss the part about where it's time to impeach Obama? I mean, if this is worse, let's not be hypocrites.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)nt
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Obama should put an end to the program that collects metadata. Congress has warned him. He should pay attention.
This program will not get more popular. It will become less and less popular.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)"Obama should put an end to the program that collects metadata. Congress has warned him. He should pay attention."
...is legal. Congress is claiming that loopholes exists. The program is finally getting the strict oversight that should have been there all along. Congress has also proposed ways to fix the program.
Do you support Senator Leahy's Patriot Act/FISA reform bill?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023135750
rug
(82,333 posts)Has he broken the law?
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)and the IRS guy did?