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Obama DOJ again refuses to tell a court whether CIA drone program even exists. As the nation spent the week debating the CIA assassination program, Obama lawyers exploit secrecy to shield it from all review
Freenet or die
If more people would participate. They can use the Internet.
Eric Holder Is Something Other Than a Corporate Tool and That for Once, Is Not Good…
…so what is Eric’s agenda? What is Eric after… what makes this head of the DOJ tick? I mean really, marijuana demonization is at best ridiculous (alcohol and cigarettes are incredibly more harmful and everyone knows it). So is there anything about Eric’s efforts that make sense? His moves are certainly aimless but do hint at a desperate need to look “effective” or at least busy. As most law enforcement heads, Eric is inclined to depend on the paranoid narrative to guide his moves - “it is good to fear the fear” and especially whatever Eric dictates is to be feared.
Squashing journalistic effort and thereby government transparency should make us more than a little queasy; this action by the DOJ, grabbing private mail, anyone’s private mail, is tyranny in the extreme and a ploy transcending plutocracy. This is the state transforming itself into evil. This is the state showing it can play the trump card over plutocracy if it really wants to, via a throat crush of our constitutional rights. It is a personal act that is pathetic, insanely reckless and of abject disregard for and insult to the people of the United States.
We need to give serious consideration to who will run the FBI, Homeland Security and the DOJ in 2016. The path Eric has us on, whether intentional not, is the end of “We the People”. There is good reason to ask for Eric’s resignation now and unfortunately for the Democrat party, with all the whistleblower prosecution by Obama, perhaps Obama should be impeached too.
Maybe all this behavior by Holder and Obama is a gut reaction to the monumental obstructionism of the Republican party - less of an administrational ideology and more of a futile attempt to do something, anything as long as it is as hurtful as the Republican abandoning their constituency just to damn the other side of the aisle.
Nothing funny here, it is much worse than Obama and Eric are incompetent; they are damn near evil. Time to go Eric.
Prosecuting Americans for Marujuana
Keeping Secret the Report on the Uselessness of Torture
Not Prosecuting the Banksters
Prosecuting Government Whistle blowers more than the USSR did
![Why Is a Report on Bush’s Torture Program Being Kept Classified by Obama? A massive report on torture reveals it’s far less effective than reported. But the CIA refuses to declassify it.
1) Because any diminution of the effectiveness of violence or the application of dehumanization as the means to achieve a military goal has a direct negative relationship on a thuggish administrations ability to justify murder for profit?
2) Obama is the same kind of drunken dipshit as George Bush?
Much of what you’ve been told (or seen in movies) about George W. Bush’s supposedly effective torture program is false and overhyped. At least, that’s one of the conclusions of the 6,000-page review of the program the Senate Intelligence Committee completed last year.
Yet, right now, President Obama is preventing you from learning any of this, by keeping the report classified.
Before the end of the Bush Administration, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)—then the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee—started investigating the torture program. When Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) took over as Chair of the Committee in 2009, she intensified the investigation and negotiated with the CIA to get access to its files. After almost four more years of work and reviewing 6 million pages of documents, the Committee voted out the report in December on a mostly party line vote.
As you may recall from the debate around the film “Zero Dark Thirty debate,” Senators Feinstein, Carl Levin (D-MI), and John McCain (R-AZ) have said the report shows that torture didn’t produce the intelligence that led us to finding Osama bin Laden. According to reports, it shows that torture didn’t produce much useful information. While discussing the report, Jay Rockefeller described the torture program this way:
[T]he people who ran it were ignorant of the topic, [it was] executed by personnel without relevant experience, managed incompetently by senior officials who did not pay attention to crucial details, and corrupted by personnel and pecuniary conflicts of interest. It was sold to the policymakers and lawyers of the White House, the Department of Justice, and Congress, with grossly-inflated claims of professionalism and effectiveness, so-called lives saved.
In short, the report rebuts claims that torture worked—and specifically the claim made by torture boosters from Dick Cheney to former Counterterrorism Center head Jose Rodriguez that it helped to find Osama bin Laden.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/1ede4840e7fb34120f36bdbd55c8e1ba/tumblr_mmeckotkBo1qjrap6o1_400.jpg)
Why Is a Report on Bush’s Torture Program Being Kept Classified by Obama? A massive report on torture reveals it’s far less effective than reported. But the CIA refuses to declassify it.
Double Tap Drone That Brown Child and Somebody Fuckin Bless ‘Meerika!
Chomsky: The Boston Bombings Gave Americans a Taste of the Terrorism the U.S. Inflicts Abroad Every Day. “It’s rare for privileged Westerners to see, graphically, what many others experience daily”
On April 23, Yemeni activist and journalist Farea Al-Muslimi, who had studied at an American high school, testified before a US Senate committee that right after the marathon bombings, a drone strike in his home village in Yemen killed its target.
The strike terrorized the villagers, turning them into enemies of the United States - something that years of jihadi propaganda had failed to accomplish.
Uh Duh..Ah Yeah…Uh Duh….Uh Ameriduh
We Piss on Corpses R Us
Banks created risks, Wall St sold them around the world. They both got bailed out after their COMPLETE FAILURE.
And Obama is sucking the Bankster’s cocks.
(via occupyv)
Attorney Stuff Is My Forte
Aaron Swartz lawyers accuse Prosecutor Stephen Heyman of Misconduct
Heymann took the lead in the much-criticized effort to imprison Swartz, who committed suicide in January, and was the attorney who handled the case on a day-to-day basis, reporting to U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz. Swartz’ attorney Eliot Peters has filed a complaint with the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), a step that indicates just how egregious the defense team considers Heymann’s professional behavior. A redacted version of the letter was obtained by The Huffington Post.
Obama: A Constitutional Jackass
gun nuts have zero reading comprehension and even less common sense
United States of Fucking Morons
Listen To My Voice
I remember first hearing Obama’s voice, years ago when he was speaking to a crowd. Obama’s voice sounded as if the volume was always artificially turned up, hollow, a practiced synthetic bellow indicating the man to be of little substance, like a bird that talks. I never had much hope that this glorified disc jockey would bring any worthwhile change. And never thought he be such a fucking loser.
Black or white, those guys and gals in office usually are incompetent.
(Source: awakenthesheeple, via tolibertyandbeyond)
State Department Keystone XL Report Written By TransCanada Hiree
Now we are learning that this document was not prepared by any neutral government officials, but rather by a private company in the pay of the pipeline’s owner. So it’s hardly surprising that the statement came out strongly in favor of the pipeline.
Tar Sands Oil – One of the Dirtiest Fuels on the Planet
Producing a barrel of oil from the oil sands produces three times more greenhouse gas emissions than a barrel of conventional oil due to the energy-intensive extraction and refining processes. The rapid increase in the development of carbon-intensive, unconventional oil “could tip the scales” towards dangerous and uncontrollable climate change.
If we are going to get serious about climate change, opening the spigot to a pipeline that will export up to 830,000 barrels of the dirtiest oil on the planet to foreign markets stands as a bad idea,” said Anthony Swift of the Natural Resources Defense Council.“
NASA climate scientist James Hansen has warned that continued tar sands mining would be ‘essentially game over’ for the climate.
Yet, despite concerns about climate change and environmental destruction brought about from tar sands oil, more than half the Senate on Wednesday urged quick approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, ramping up pressure on President Barack Obama to move ahead with the project just days after he promised in his inaugural address to respond vigorously to the threat of climate change.
In addition to concerns over runaway climate change, tar sands oil is one of the dirtiest fuels on the planet. Here’s what you need to know:
- The proposed pipeline would stretch 2000 miles from Alberta, Canada to Texas, threatening to contaminate freshwater supplies in America’s agricultural heartland and increase refinery emissions in already-polluted communities of the U.S. Gulf Coast
- Oil sands mining uses twice the amount of fresh water that the entire city of Calgary uses in a year. It takes three barrels of water to extract one gallon of oil.
- At least 90% of the fresh water used in the oil sands ends in tailing ponds full of harmful substances like cyanide and ammonia, which has worked its way into neighboring clean water supplies.
- Tar sands oil extraction has led to the stripmining of the boreal forest, a natural carbon reservoir home to the rare and threatened woodland caribou and the nesting ground for millions of the ducks and songbirds that wing their way over the United States every year.
- Indigenous populations in Alberta are most affected. Communities living downstream from tailing ponds have seen spikes in rates of rare cancers, renal failure, lupus, and hyperthyroidism. In the lakeside village of Fort Chipewyan, for example, 100 of the town’s 1,200 residents have died from cancer.
- Processing the oil sands uses enough natural gas in a day to heat 3 million homes.
- There is a high probability of spills. TransCanada’s Keystone I pipeline has spilled a dozen times in less than a year of operation. In summer 2010, a million gallons of tar sands oil poured into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan from a pipeline run by another Canadian company, Enbridge.
- Refining tar sands oil is dirtier than refining conventional oil, and results in higher emissions of toxic sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide. These emissions cause smog and acid rain and contribute to respiratory diseases like asthma. Communities near the refineries where the Keystone XL pipeline would terminate, many of them low-income and communities of color, already live with dangerously high levels of air pollution.
- The toxic tailing ponds are considered one of the largest human-made structures in the world. The ponds span 50 square kilometers and can be seen from space.
Obama Can Stop This
The Obama administration has twice thwarted the 1,700-mile pipeline, proposed in 2008 by Calgary-based TransCanada, despite pressure from Congress to approve it. This is one action the president can take without approval by the House and Senate.
Investing in tar sands oil now will delay investments in clean and safe alternatives to oil, such as better fuel economy requirements, plug-in electric cars fueled by solar power, and smart growth and public transportation infrastructure that give Americans choices other than cars.
The Drone War Is A Balless Man’s War
“Pretending To Be President”……And The Oscar Goes To……….
I’m So Electable And Ineffectual Vote For Me
Nixon, Ford, Reagan, the two Bushes, Clinton and now Obama are certainly a procession of useless fucks. It’s true, I’m convinced; if we want change, we will have to make it happen without presidential assistance. I feel like I am commenting during a dark time as the rapid decline and decay of this western country accelerates. It does seem hopeless. The corruption and lassitude is entrenched and the American rot began a century ago. There seems to be no pulling back from America’s slide into darkest oblivion. The one inescapable “virtue” of anyone electable to the office of president is their quintessential dickless ineffectualness once crowned. Applicants won’t make it into office unless it’s guaranteed they can accomplish nothing, absolutely nothing once made honorary figurehead of the empire in demise. These are all very tiny, shallow, bribable men who have really never struggled, are a product of extremely limited and superficial life experiences offered by a consumer society and with friends in all the wrong places. None of these gents by any stretch of the imagination are great thinkers and some it seems are almost god damn illiterate.
- Obama DOJ again refuses to tell a court whether CIA drone program even exists.
Footnote:
There is one saving grace about presidential ineffectuality. These president’s inaction is the reason global warming will achieve monumental destructiveness, overwhelm and destroy the elite and wealthy as well as the poor. No rich bitches will survive in their biodomes for the fifty thousand years necessary as the planet arights itself. The annihilation will get us all, the Kochs, the government whores and the pseudo-celebrities too. Total obliteration is truly a compensation for me, for if the folks, who are in a position to do the most to stop the harm resulting from climate change, refuse to act, the very least they can do is die with the rest of the human race they look down on with such regularity.
Concern Over National Security Is a Complete Sham
It is not news that the US government systematically abuses its secrecy powers to shield its actions from public scrutiny, democratic accountability, and judicial review. But sometimes that abuse is so extreme, so glaring, that it is worth taking note of, as it reveals its purported concern over national security to be a complete sham.
Such is the case with the Obama DOJ’s behavior in the lawsuit brought by the ACLU against the CIA to compel a response to the ACLU’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request about Obama’s CIA assassination program. That FOIA request seeks nothing sensitive, but rather only the most basic and benign information about the “targeted killing” program: such as “the putative legal basis for carrying out targeted killings; any restrictions on those who may be targeted; any civilian casualties; any geographic limits on the program; the number of targeted killings that the agency has carried out.” - Glenn Greenwald
Everyone in the world knows that the CIA has a targeted killing program whereby it uses drones to bomb and shoot missiles at those it wants dead, including US citizens. This is all openly discussed in every media outlet.
President Obama, you’re one more fucking loser
John Stewart on Dick Cheney’s Criticism of Obama in the Wake of SOTU
I’d actually love to drink a few beers with Dick Cheney and George Bush, get them drunk, put them on a plane and fly them to a country that has warrants for their arrests for war crimes and put down a few cold ones while watching both of the maggots hang.
Eerily Low Bar for Ordering Americans’ Deaths
“Obviously a Democratic administration’s White House secret war policy memos are very different from the Bush’s secret war policy, in that I assume the Democrats have written them on recycled paper,” Stewart said, comparing Obama’s targeted assassination doctrine to Bush’s torture regime.
Obama’s memo was “leaked” to government censored NBC News who promptly presented the presidential lie in an atmosphere, of well mindless acceptance…Obama is a lying bitch.
