It has been years before anyone seriously in the Administration has claimed that it is “the most transparent Administration” ever — as President Barack Obama once pledged. The Obama Administration instead has set new lows for its pursuit and prosecution of whistleblowers and reporters as well as classifying and withholding information on potentially embarrassing actions or programs. For that reason, there was not much surprise that the White House chose this week — with the National Freedom of Information Day and the Sunshine Week — to remove a federal regulation that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act.
In fairness to the Administration, both President Bush and Obama have rejected requests for information from the office and they have some case support to refusing to share information with the public. However, particularly with the growing controversy over Hillary Clinton unilaterally using her personal server for emails and instructing subordinates to delete tens of thousands of “personal” emails, the timing and symbolism could not be worse.
The liberal Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) denounced President Obama’s broken promises on transparency as well as the specific move to remove the office from information access under the law. Of course, while it may not be required, the Administration could voluntarily make its self accountable to the public. That is, if it wanted to be the most transparent Administration ever.
Source: USA Today
Congress has been Corrupted by Israel and American Traitors
THE DARK TRUTH ABOUT 9/11 EMERGES FROM THE FOG OF INFOWAR
“The facts show that Israel and American traitors inside America’s shadow national security state attacked America on September 11, 2001”
Israel and American traitors did 9/11
http://www.infowars.com/the-dark-truth-about-911-emerges-from-the-fog-of-infowar/
I am so glad everyone is having fun on here again lol 😉 😉 😉
Brucey:
Two congressmen do not a legislature make but let’s play your game, shall we? Staff are excluded from briefings because the texts are secret. There are no complete draft documents yet only sections because they are still finishing the negotiations:
But let’s look at your expert sources who wrote the drivel.
First, here’s Keith Ellison talking to softball heaver Bill-O:
O’REILLY: Congressman, the reason we like you as a guest is because you’re an honest man, But I will point to history. I will point to history. The same mindset was taken when dealing with Nazi Germany. We’re not going to go in aggressive action. We don’t believe they’re going to do this. We don’t believe they’re going to do that. And they absolutely did everything. So I think you’ve got to learn from history.
ELLISON: Let me tell you in World War II, in World War II they attacked Pearl Harbor. That would be enough.
O’REILLY: No, this is the German theater not the Japanese.
Now Here’s your other expert, Raul, calling for businesses to boycott Arizona over immigration policy:
“There has to be an economic sanction for this,” Grijalva said. “Our economic sanction is: Do not do business with a state that is propagating the idea that separate but equal treatment under the law … can be codified.”
Only problem is he represents … Drum roll … Arizona.
Quite the bevy of experts in complicated trade policy you cite there. Neither could find their butt with both hands and a map.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/09/trans-pacific-partnership-rubber-stamp-congress-progressives
sorry…the missing link !
“We in Congress don’t precisely know, because the rules governing negotiations mean we don’t have access to full draft texts and staff cannot be present when we see individual sections. We also cannot provide negotiating objectives for the US Trade Representative. The administration’s request for “fast track” authority is a request for Congress to rubber-stamp a text that more than 500 corporate representatives were able to see and influence.”
Raúl M Grijalva and Keith Ellison
Monday 9 March 2015 06.30 EDT
Raúl M Grijalva
Representative Raúl M Grijalva has represented the third Congressional district in Arizona since his election in 2002. He is the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and a long-standing member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Follow him on Twitter at @RepRaulGrijalva.
Keith Ellison
Representative Keith Ellison represents the fith district of Minnesota and serves as co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
NOTE: the rules governing negotiations mean we don’t have access to full draft texts and staff cannot be present when we see individual sections.
The Congress testifies to mespo72xs3
“Freedom of information…? Obama didn’t even want congress to know what this trading deal entails. So much for the premise that its all about terrorism and National security. Your rights will be arbitrated by a foreign court in Switzerland run by Financial interests. Stealth and wealth will enforce its own contract rules over us all. Due process…you’ve been served !”
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Oh, Bruce, if only the world was like you want it to be you’d be king. Instead, the reality is that Congress is fully briefed about the TPP and has access to secret negotiating documents whenever a member wants them:
Consultation with Congress on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Since its creation, USTR has worked closely with Congress on negotiation of trade agreements and on other trade-related issues. As a matter of longstanding policy and practice, USTR has provided any Member of Congress access to classified negotiating documents and texts on request, and works with the respective security offices in each chamber to accommodate the Members appropriately.
In the Trade Act of 2002, Congress created the Congressional Oversight Group (COG), comprised of: 1) the chairman and ranking member of the House Committee on Ways and Means (Ways and Means) and the Senate Committee on Finance (Finance), and three additional members of each of those committees (not more than two of whom are members of the same political party); and 2) the chairman and ranking member, or their designees, of House committees and Senate committees with jurisdiction over provisions of law affected by ongoing trade negotiations. In addition, five members from each House are formally appointed under statute as official Congressional advisors on trade policy, and additional members may be appointed as advisors on particular issues or negotiations.
USTR consults with Members and staff of the House Ways and Means Committee, Senate Finance Committee, and other relevant committees throughout trade negotiations. Since 2009, USTR has consulted with the staff of the Finance and Ways and Means Committees hundreds of times on the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations. In the same period, USTR has consulted with the staffs of the following committees on TPP negotiating issues related to their particular jurisdiction: House Agriculture, Senate Agriculture, House Judiciary, Senate Judiciary, House Financial Services, Senate Banking, House Foreign Affairs, Senate Foreign Relations, House Education and Workforce, and Health, Education, Labor, and Pension. In addition, USTR has consulted with interested Congressional offices and caucuses. The often daily communication between USTR and Congressional staffs demonstrates the premium USTR has placed on conducting the TPP negotiations with input from those elected to represent Americans’ interests in Washington.
~USTR website
Better call the fire department for those pants.
” Justice Hugo Black in his concurring opinion in the Supreme Court decision favoring The New York Times in the case of the Pentagon Papers said, “Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the Government from deceiving the people. . . .”
JFK AND THE MEDIA / Censorship
from: Jerry Policoff
http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v1n1/policoff.html
FOI Center FYIO?
“The Freedom of Information Center is a reference and research library in the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism on the campus of the University of Missouri.
Established in 1958, the FOI Center and its founders were central to the effort to enact a national Freedom of Information Act. Four of the people associated with the Center have been named to the National Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame.
The FOI Center possesses the oldest and most comprehensive Freedom of Information library in the world, with a collection of more than one million articles and documents about access to information at the state, federal and local levels.”
Read a bit more about the Center,…
http://www.nfoic.org/foi-center
Freedom of information…? Obama didn’t even want congress to know what this trading deal entails. So much for the premise that its all about terrorism and National security. Your rights will be arbitrated by a foreign court in Switzerland run by Financial interests. Stealth and wealth will enforce its own contract rules over us all. Due process…you’ve been served !
https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp
[excerpted]
What Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)?
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multinational trade agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and rewrite international rules on its enforcement. The main problems are two-fold:
(1) Intellectual Property Chapter: Leaked draft texts of the agreement show that the IP chapter would have extensive negative ramifications for users’ freedom of speech, right to privacy and due process, and hinder peoples’ abilities to innovate.
(2) Lack of Transparency: The entire process has shut out multi-stakeholder participation and is shrouded in secrecy.
TPP raises significant concerns about citizens’ freedom of expression, due process,…
Thank goodness Obama didn’t change the NDAA 2012 language since all those dire predictions of gulags and citizen roundups didn’t happen precisely because of that language. We’ve discussed it before, but those Chicken littles saw not one piece of their sky fall yet still clamor “it’s going to happen.” They have all the intellectual appeal and moral authority of the Hale-Bopp cult anxiously awaiting the comet that will never come.
A very slippery slope…
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http://www.salon.com/2013/12/27/obama_signs_ndaa_2014_indefinite_detention_remains/
Obama signs NDAA 2014, indefinite detention remains
“…the troubling NDAA provision first signed into law in 2012, which permits the military to detain individuals indefinitely without trial, remains on the books for 2014. Efforts to quash or reform the provision (especially with regard to the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens) have failed and have been fiercely fought by the administration. Most notably, a lawsuit filed by plaintiffs including journalist Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg against the provision has been aggressively fought at every turn by the president’s attorneys. The plaintiffs argue that the NDAA provision constitutes a significant expansion of the laws regarding indefinite detention already established by Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF).”
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/05/obama-kill-list-doj-memo
Excerpted quotes from the Guardian: Glen Greenwald February 5, 2013
The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process
Not only is the entire process carried out solely within the Executive branch – with no checks or oversight of any kind – but there is zero transparency and zero accountability.
Meanwhile, a Washington Post article from October reported that the administration is formally institutionalizing this president’s power to decide who dies under the Orwellian title “disposition matrix”.
In fact, The Most Transparent Administration Ever™ has been so fixated on secrecy that they have refused even to disclose the legal memoranda prepared by Obama lawyers setting forth their legal rationale for why the president has this power.
In sum, Obama not only claims he has the power to order US citizens killed with no transparency, but that even the documents explaining the legal rationale for this power are to be concealed. He’s maintaining secret law on the most extremist power he can assert.
Laser:
Due process doesn’t mean a result satusfactory to you. It means a fair and impartial review of the circumstances with the right to confront and present evidence being protected. In each case you cite, that was done If allowed to happen by the defendant.
“The incredibly defiant and incredibly evil Operational head of the Khazarian Mafia (KM), Bibi Netanyahu. This is the monster who ordered the 9-11-01 attack on America which killed 3,000 Americans outright with 39,000 dying from radiation caused cancers afterwards with 70,000 now fighting for their lives with radiation caused cancers. This man is evil beyond imagination and represents an the Worldwide Organized Crime Cabal known to Intel insiders as the Khazarian Mafia (KM). Numerous insiders believe that the Khazarian Mafia (KM) is inhuman, evil beyond words, and completely dedicated to destroying all societies of the World and mass murdering 90% of humans everywhere including and especially Americans. And right now the KM is in the process of completely asset stripping and exporting all American industry and manufacturing in order to eliminate as many jobs in America as possible in order to weaken America and prevent it from rising up and revolting against the true root of this parasitical cancer, the KM Banksters (aka the Federal Reserve System Counterfeiters) and Homeland Security, the Israeli Occupation Secret Police Army inside America established through nuclear blackmail (aka the Samson Option). Unless these Parasitical Psychopathic Monsters are stopped cold, America will soon be destroyed economically, and up to 90% of all Americans will be mass-murdered in DHS run FEMA Camps, or by a KM engineered nuclear WW3.”
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/03/12/shockwaves-part-iii
Patriot – will you stop spouting your disinformation site, I have freedom of speech also and I am requesting you stop embarrassing yourself. That is my job on this website and you can’t have it.
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Veterans Today is a well-produced disinformation website that runs an editorial line that is strongly against Israel [1] and Saudi Arabia [2] but has few negative words to say about Pakistan, [3] Iran, [4] and Russia. [5] As of 2014, Veterans Today describes itself as “The True Voice of the World’s Clandestine Community.”
VT claims to be an “independent and unaligned” voice. [6] It shares many contributors and news analysts with Iran’s Press TV. VT’s articles are also reposted widely on the Internet, primarily on pro-Palestine[7] and right-wing extremist websites[8] on topics such as anti-semitic 9/11 conspiracy theories, zionism [9] and the “Jewish question”[10] The Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center have criticized it for promoting anti-semitic and extremist viewpoints and conspiracy theories.[8][11] Veterans Today carries contents directly from the Iranian press outlets such as Press TV and Mehr News, some of which are affiliated with Iranian intelligence agencies. Contributor Mark D. Siljander pled guilty to obstruction of justice and acting as an unregistered foreign agent related to his work for an Islamic charity with ties to international terrorism.
The site was established in 2004. In late 2005, one contributor spoke of “those of us who believe that the U.S. is waging an illegal, immoral, devastating war on the Iraqi people”.
ttp://ppia.wikia.com/wiki/Veterans_Today
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Buyer Beware: Veterans Today and its Anti-Israel Agenda
By Evelyn Schlatter on January 6, 2011 – 4:46 pm, Posted in Anti-Semitic, Extremist Propaganda
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Veterans Today (VT) is a website that bills itself as a “military veterans and foreign affairs journal.” And, indeed, many of its contributors are military veterans or veterans’ advocates from across the political spectrum. VT also offers some information about veterans’ benefits (lifted from the Veterans’ Administration) and links to home and other loans for vets.
But start reading the posts, and you’ll find something else entirely: myriad claims that there was a conspiracy behind 9/11 (Israel orchestrated it, in cahoots with the American government), that the American government is a puppet (of Israel), that the Holocaust never happened or was greatly exaggerated (Jews made it up to manipulate non-Jews), and, most recently, that Julian Assange, the man behind Wikileaks, is a pawn (of Israel).
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/01/06/buyer-beware-veterans-today-and-its-anti-israel-agenda/
On days I need a laugh, I shall turn to Patriot! Where did the nuclear attack take place? I was busy watching Arabs fly planes into NYC World Trade Center and missed it completely!
9/11 was an Israeli Nuclear Attack
Quote from Veterans Today on March 12, 2015;
“Bibi Netanyahu is the Operational Head of the Khazarian Mafia (KM) and was the one that ordered and supervised the Israeli Nuclear Attack on America on 9-11-01.”
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/03/12/shockwaves-part-iii
Due process in America – are Terrorist like our Police
or Police like terrorists?
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Are you Afraid?
If not, you most certainly aren’t Black!
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mespo
Don’t — and I say DON”T tell me about due process being the norm in USofA
Missouri just executed a 75 year old, IQ of 71, with part of his brain gone.
AntiMedia journalist arrested because she reported on Kelly Thomas case.
Guy shot dead – In Public – in Los Angeles, by multiple police faking arrest.
Circuit Courts saying Romney case (with confessions) “insubstantial!
Over a thousand cases have come to me, from around the country, because they have NO place to go. But you bark out – I’ve got a list of those that get due process.
BULL…
In cases where victims are equal and afford lawyers and NO corruption (is readily apparent) – things may appear to flow as A Okay.
But – In REALITY – you’d better not be one who is true Red, White & BLUE
The list I gave you, are all American patriots, tax payers, decent citizens, who sacrificed much, upon the alter of freedom,
only to see people like you – ignore their sufferings.
Just that picture can be enough to judge the character behind that forced smile . I’m assuming there are a lot of faculty bloggers and viewers visiting this site , can anyone tell me how a recent graduate from a law school can call himself a law professor without even having published a single article that I’m aware of ?
“Christopher Bollyn does not have the full story on how Nukes were stolen and planted in the twin Towers, but he is essentially correct in his assertions in this video as to who did the attack on America on 9-11-01 and how the Israelis plotted it to blame it on Arabs:”