Posts Tagged ‘lies’
“Obama likes to say two different things in the same speech, usually prefaced by his trade-mark ‘Let me be clear.’
‘And let me be clear,’ he told the Russians in Moscow, even as he presses forward with the Clinton/Bush policy of NATO expansion, ringing Russia with missile bases, ‘NATO seeks collaboration with Russia, not confrontation.’
You think ’saying’ and ‘doing’ are far apart on that one? Try this gem, also delivered in Moscow: ‘Now let me be clear, America will not seek to impose any system of government on any other country, nor would we presume to choose which party or individual should run a country…. America will never impose a security arrangement on another country.’ … Obama has been perfectly clear on so many pledges, on restoring constitutional protections such as habeas corpus, respect for international treaties and covenants on torture and the treatment of prisoners, on eavesdropping and, when you take even a quick glance at what he’s done, he’s been perfectly awful on so many fronts.”
via counterpunch.org
“The House Intelligence Committee formally announced Friday that it will probe whether the CIA broke the law by failing to inform Congress about a top secret assassination program reportedly aimed at targeting leaders of al-Qaeda.
Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes said the probe would be part of a wide-ranging investigation about the way in which the CIA informs Congress about its covert activities and other matters.
Reyes, in announcing the wide-ranging probe Friday, said he had consulted with the panel’s ranking Republican minority leader, Rep. Pete Hoekstra, and other committee members and concluded that an investigation into “possible violations of federal law, including the National Security Act of 1947″ were warranted. Under that law, the CIA must keep Congress “fully and currently informed” via classified briefings about its intelligence activities. “
via truthout.org