After stonewalling for more than a year federal judges and ordinary citizens who sought the revelation of its secret legal research justifying the presidential use of drones to kill persons overseas – even Americans – claiming the research was so sensitive and so secret that it could not be revealed without serious consequences, the government sent a summary of its legal memos to an NBC newsroom earlier this week.
This revelation will come as a great surprise, and not a little annoyance, to U.S. District Court Judge Colleen McMahon, who heard many hours of oral argument during which the government predicted gloom and doom if its legal research were subjected to public scrutiny. She very reluctantly agreed with the feds, but told them she felt caught in “a veritable Catch-22,” because the feds have created “a thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow the executive branch of our government to proclaim as perfectly lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our Constitution and laws, while keeping the reasons for their conclusion a secret.”
She was writing about President Obama killing Americans and refusing to divulge the legal basis for claiming the right to do so. Now we know that basis.
The undated and unsigned 16-page document leaked to NBC refers to itself as a Department of Justice white paper. Its logic is flawed, its premises are bereft of any appreciation for the values of the Declaration of Independence and the supremacy of the Constitution, and its rationale could be used to justify any breaking of any law by any “informed, high-level official of the U.S. government.”
The quoted phrase is extracted from the memo, which claims that the law reposes into the hands of any unnamed “high-level official,” not necessarily the president, the lawful power to decide when to suspend constitutional protections guaranteed to all persons and kill them without any due process whatsoever. This is the power claimed by kings and tyrants. It is the power most repugnant to American values. It is the power we have arguably fought countless wars to prevent from arriving here. Now, under Obama, it is here.
Read more at The Daily Sheeple. By Andrew P. Napolitano.
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Wow! SO the judicial branch supports the overthrow of the Constitution to
“justify any breaking of any law by any “informed, high-level official of the U.S. government.”
The quoted phrase is extracted from the memo, which claims that the law reposes into the hands of any unnamed “high-level official,” not necessarily the president, the lawful power to decide when to suspend constitutional protections guaranteed to all persons and kill them without any due process whatsoever. .”
How soon do you think it will be before our Dictator in Chief has his head blown off by another ‘high-level government official’? And we won’t be able to stop all manner of evil because we have no right to question the ‘POWERS THAT BE. Come on AMerica, you can’t keep sleeping, the enemy isn’t at the doorstep, he is in the White House and he has given himself the right to kill whom he sees fit to kill, and he has already killed using weapons your tax dollars paid for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I word, TREASON
Only a complete moron would approve giving the president this power.
American military is made up of American Citizens most of which are on
foreign soil. As commander in chief he only needs to declare that they are
terrorists and may as such,destroy our entire army and other military forces
on foreign soil. Only the Navy will be left to defend the United States.That
is why our founding fathers wrote into the Constitution that we MUST
establish a Navy with continuing enlistments and that only the Army would be
limited to 2 year terms of enlistment or conscription.
With our citizens totally disarmed by his NEW gun laws and no ARMED
forces to speak of [ the navy has only minimal ground forces], he could
declare himself KING of the WORLD. I’m sure the Muslim countries would
accept him redily as their Pharoah [ The living God on Earth ] having killed
more Americans with the stroke of his pen than any other person on
earth.Since the other countries are already infiltrated with enough Muslims
to take control of them, there would be little or no resistance.
NOTE:
Drones are arms just as guns are and if you take away the peoples’ guns,they are entitled to buy DRONES to replace their guns. that might be the answer to STREET CRIME in yur state as drones can’t be pointed at a person in a bank ,grocery, or drug store,or home to THREATEN OR A SCHOOL,THEATER,or CHURCH to KILL MANY as has been done with guns.
Asking for this power shows only ONE of the Presidents’ many multiple PERSONALITIES
So, like Lucifer, Obama wants to BE God and be able to kill anytime he fells like it. May God have mercy on him.
Write your USA Rep and Senators, what you say does not matter except for that.
Honorable Senator Ted Cruz,
Eric Holder has recently justified killing (Murdering?) American citizens when they are suspected of Terrorism.
The Constitution, Article 1, Section 9, Clause2 says, “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended…”.
The Constitution, Bill of Rights, Amendment 5 says, “no person shall be … deprived of Life, Liberty or Property without the due process of Law”.
Is murdering American Citizens the same as or worse than suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus? Is murdering them without Trial or conviction by a Lawful Court decision worse than “Water-boarding”?
This President, Barack Obama is the Most Lawless President in American History. He is Foreign Born, guilty of using and displaying on the White House Website a forged Birth Certificate and he uses a Stolen Social Security Number and an obviously Forged Selective Service Registration. If our CIA and FBI do not know all of these statements to be “The Truth”, you should investigate them to show they are totally incompetent or Traitors and should be removed from Office, Tried for Treason, found guilty, then Hanged by the Neck Until Dead.
This Kenyan Born, British Subject and Indonesian Citizen is not even an American Citizen and could never be considered a Natural Born Citizen as the definition has been known and decided by the Supreme Court as “Born In Country of Citizen Parents” and as the Unlawful President of the United States, he has become the most powerful man in the World and he and everything about him is a Total Lie. The Broadcast Media is his Propaganda Ministry and they Brain Wash all of the Low Information Voters. If you do not stop him, he will succeed in his goal to “Fundamentally Transform”, his words, the USA from a “Free Republic founded on Liberty” to a “Socialist Democracy with Slavery as its Core”.
His goal is to destroy the United States!
What are you going to do to Stop Him?
You and the Senate and the House should investigate his Non Eligibility to be President, immediately.
If you do nothing to stop him, you are as bad as he is, but probably even worse than he is, because you have a “duty to stop him”, and HE IS JUST “PLAINLY EVIL”.