“The biggest problem for the United States is not Iran getting a nuclear weapon and testing it, it’s Iran getting a nuclear weapon and not using it. Because the second that they have one and they don’t do anything bad, all of the naysayers are going to come back and say, “See, we told you Iran is a responsible power. We told you Iran wasn’t getting nuclear weapons in order to use them immediately.”
Daily Archives: 9 December 2011
Obama Lawyers: Killing U.S. Citizens Allied With Al Qaeda is an Executive Decision
The U.S. may target and kill U.S. citizens when they take up arms with al-Qaeda, top lawyers in the Obama administration said Thursday.
CIA counsel Stephen Preston and Pentagon counsel Jeh Johnson were questioned at a national security conference about the drone strike that killed American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, but they would not comment on it specifically. They did say U.S. citizens don’t have legal rights when they side with al-Qaeda.
Johnson maintained that only the executive branch, not the courts, can decide who qualifies as an enemy on a battlefield. Unfortunately for U.S. citizens, the secret, peremptory nature of such executive decisions is not up to a review of any kind and do not require that any evidence be put forth proving the individual’s guilt or association with al-Qaeda.
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Here is a list of who voted for this monstrosity in the Senate. The seven no votes came from:
Coburn (R-OK)
Harkin (D-IA)
Lee (R-UT)
Merkley (D-OR)
Paul (R-KY)
Sanders (I-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)
The 93 other senators voted for it. Terror! Terror! Terror! “War is the health of the state.”
Gingrich: Gov. Should Allow Terror Attacks To Remind People How Much We Need Them
psychopath.
I think all those “prevented” attacks he mentions were examples of the FBI thwarting their own terror plots.
SA@TheDC – The Terrorists Have Won
Gingrich Backed Everything the Right Hated About the Bush Years
Here’s a fun game. Let’s think of all the stuff conservatives say they hated about George W. Bush’s time in office.
No Child Left Behind? Newt Gingrich supported it.
Medicare Part D, the new prescription drug entitlement? Newt Gingrich favored it.
TARP? Newt Gingrich cheered for it.
The Harriet Miers nomination? Newt Gingrich predicted success.
Comprehensive immigration reform? Newt Gingrich endorsed it.
Then there’s “the surge,” Bush’s Iraq war turnaround strategy that conservatives love to laud. Gingrich opposed that.
So what gives?
The former House speaker’s surge makes no sense. The conservative base that was energized partly by fatigue at eight years of Bush missteps is rallying around the candidate who favored them all. What a bizarre turn. (Read more)
Newt to Pelosi: Better not tell on me!!!
How the hell is this guy the front runner?
Hey, Remember When Newt Gingrich Was Sponsored By a Human Chip-Implant Company?
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich once spoke at an Alzheimer’s conference sponsored by PositiveID (PSID), the human microchip implant company that came under fire for injecting 200 Alzheimer’s patients with wireless chips in Florida without properly obtaining their consent.
The issue of whether Americans should receive subcutaneous wireless RFID chip implants that can link to their electronic medical records emerged again in Wisconsin this week, where former governor and Bush Administration secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson is considering a run for Senate. Thompson was a former board member of VeriChip, the company that renamed itself PositiveID, and once appeared on CNBC with PositiveID CEO Scott Silverman to advocate that everyone receive a chip from birth: (Read more)