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Obama Adopts Cheney Policy and Opposes Release of White House Logs

225px-official_portrait_of_barack_obama225px-richard_cheney_2005_official_portraitPresident Obama has already adopted or expanded many of the most controversial Bush policies on executive privilege, detainee treatment, termination of privacy lawsuit, and other matters. Now, he has adopted the identical position of Vice President Dick Cheney in seeking to withhold visitor logs to the White House.

While the Bush/Cheney fight to withhold the logs was denounced by liberals, there is relative quiet again over Obama’s position on the very same issue.

The Secret Service has denied msnbc.com’s request for the names of all White House visitors from Jan. 20 to the present as well as a request by the nonpartisan watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

There is again a sharp difference between President Obama’s rhetoric of transparency and civil liberties in government and his actual policies, here and here and here and here and here .

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179 thoughts on “Obama Adopts Cheney Policy and Opposes Release of White House Logs”

  1. excerpt from: “IN THE SHADOW OF NEMESIS”

    Edwin Vieira, Jr., holds four degrees from Harvard: A.B. (Harvard College), A.M. and Ph.D. (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), and J.D. (Harvard Law School).

    http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin186.htm

    One scenario will suffice: On some Monday not so far in the future, “President” Obama meets with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to announce that “Operation Sandblaster,” for a massive nuclear attack on Iran’s supposed “weapons of mass destruction,” will be launched on the coming Friday. The Joint Chiefs remonstrate, pointing out that such aggression will trigger retaliation by Russia and China, almost surely plunging the whole world into a thermonuclear World War III. “President” Obama, however, is adamant, and instructs the Joint Chiefs to have the necessary orders for “Sandblaster”—or their resignations—on his desk by Wednesday morning. Knowing that, if they resign, “President” Obama will simply appoint some unprincipled uniformed “yes men” to carry out his plan, the Joint Chiefs immediately order covert break-ins around the country to obtain his original birth certificate and other material evidence relating to his ineligibility for the Office of President. With these documents in hand, on Wednesday morning, accompanied by a contingent of heavily armed Marines, the Joint Chiefs confront “President” Obama with the evidence, arrest him as an usurper and all the Members of Congress as his co-conspirators, and appoint themselves a Military Commission to function as a “caretaker government” during the ensuing “national emergency.”

    So, at that point, because the courts did not act, and Congress did not act, and We the People did not act, the Praetorians will see fit to act. And even if the Military Commission eventually returns power to civilians, the precedent will be set in steel for “the Latin American solution” — government by junta. That, surely, would be “change we can believe in”—with a capital “C.”

  2. excerpt from: “OBAMA MUST STAND UP NOW OR STEP DOWN”

    Edwin Vieira, Jr., holds four degrees from Harvard: A.B. (Harvard College), A.M. and Ph.D. (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), and J.D. (Harvard Law School).

    http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin84.htm

    The cat is already out of the bag and running all over the Internet. If he continues to dodge the issue, Obama will be dogged with this question every day of his purported “Presidency.” And inevitably the truth will out. For the issue is too simple, the evidence (or lack of it) too accessible. Either Obama can prove that he is “a natural born Citizen” who has not renounced his citizenship; or he cannot. And he will not be allowed to slip through with some doctored “birth certificate” generated long after the alleged fact. On a matter this important, Americans will demand that, before its authenticity is accepted, any supposed documentary evidence of that sort be subjected to reproducible forensic analyses conducted by reputable, independent investigators and laboratories above any suspicion of being influenced by or colluding with any public official, bureaucracy, political party, or other special-interest organization whatsoever.

    Of course, if Obama knows that he is not “a natural born Citizen” who never renounced his American citizenship, then he also knows that he and his henchmen have perpetrated numerous election-related frauds throughout the country—the latest, still-ongoing one a colossal swindle targeting the American people as a whole. If that is the case, his refusal “to be a witness against himself” is perfectly explicable and even defensible on the grounds of the Fifth Amendment. Howsoever justified as a matter of criminal law, though, Obama’s silence and inaction will not obviate the necessity for him to prove his eligibility for “the Office of President.” The Constitution may permit him to “take the Fifth;” but it will not suffer him to employ that evasion as a means to usurp the Presidency of the United States.

  3. Oh, goody!

    More trolls for the kiddies to see how long it’ll take to do something stupid enough to get them banned!

    Come on. Attack me more. Please.

    It’s so amusing and it’s been months since a lot of trolls lost their composure on me!

    And Insipidly Stupid, when you come to a site frequented by people trained to argue and make your blanket assertions without proof and then act purposely evasive, don’t complain when they don’t fight fair. You did it to yourself. Sure, I helped, but you did all the heavy lifting required to discredit yourself. Enjoy being a bigot or learn better. Your choice.

  4. BVM:

    “BIL = SON”

    I agree, hesheit of the Wikipedia and Huffington Post op ed. If hesheit had a thought of hisherits own it would be a miracle from God.

    Hesheit is all bluster, an intellectual poser who at core is a brutish thug. In a dictatorship hesheit would be a Joseph Goebbles or Henrich Himmler or a Beria, the enforcer but not the leader.

  6. See kiddies! When cornered, the troll will snap at the zoo keepers! Don’t worry though! It’s all bluster. His fangs are dull and he’s not very smart. If you cover his head with a towel he won’t attack you. It figures if it can’t see you then it must not exist.

    Listen, BM, I’ll stand on my track record here over yours any day, troll boy. But you keep up that wishful thinking! It adds a certain panache to the troll exhibit.

  8. Much of the sight is short here but the bull is long.

    The intelligent pick you apart as just wanting attention and not understanding the issues but just have to give your little half-baked notions.

  9. That’s because there were no merits, BM. That’s what cert denied meant in this instance. You don’t mind if I call you BM instead of BVM do you? It’s shorter and oh so much more descriptive.

  10. Look at him go, kiddies! Trolls squirm a lot don’t they?

    BVM w(sh)ould show *the world* as fools and become a personae non gratae.

    But then where would we get another pet troll to show the kids?

    Oh, bother.

  13. BVM,

    I don’t see MSNBC with Olbermann / Maddow inviting your opinion on, well, anything.

    I guess that about sums it up, no?

    You do know your only value here is so that the regulars can point you out to the new comers and say, “That’s what a mindless troll looks like! Isn’t it cute!”, don’t you?

    You “birthers” are the political equivalent of a tin foil hat. Look up the term res judicata, sport. Obama is as American as you are. The Courts already said so.

  14. JT: I don’t see MSNBC with Olbermann / Maddow inviting your opinion on the Obama birth certificate controversy. I believe your legal research, logic, comprehension and honesty would prove too much for them. You would tell the truth therefore they ask no word from you.

  16. To date Citizen’s Grand Juries in 12 states have indicted Obama for fraud and treason. Foreman of the first grand jury intends to serve him at the White House with the indictments on June 29th.

  17. Mr Grashow’s comment about the silence on the left is wrong. There is silence from the Democrats, but certainly not from the left.

    I can only add my voice to those who are blogging about the abject failure of the Obama administration to follow through on its campaign promises. All we need now is a further capitulation to the Health Insurance industry and we might just have well elected any politician to the White House.

    I will certainly not work for Obama’s re-election, although, and here’s the trap, the Republicans are sure to nominate an absolute jerk and I will vote for the lesser of two evils. The 2008 election was the first in many years where I didn’t have to hold my nose to vote, but I am now ashamed that I believed Obama.

  18. I am seriously disappointed in the action taken by the White House to protect the secrecy of the Visitor logs. One thing to remember is that the lawsuit to force the disclosure is being appealed by the White House so they may get their lunch handed to them by the court. I think it would be an appropriate slap in the face for the Obama administration.

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