Hope and Change
Feds want more authority to wiretap skype, facebook, blackberry, and, generally, anything you do.
From Joe: You can have my crypto keys when you reanimate your cold dead hands.
And the Obama administration is arguing that it can execute American citizens without a trial.
September 28th, 2010 at 8:58 am
Now here is, ladies and gentlemen…. your “What if Bush did it” moment of the day.
September 28th, 2010 at 9:48 am
A capture or kill list is a hit list. It means capture or kill targets of opportunity. If you see him and he is beyond of arms length kill him. As for the encryption why is this a shock?? Obama and bush are related what do you expect….
September 28th, 2010 at 9:49 am
i didn’t like it when bush did it either.
September 28th, 2010 at 10:10 am
If its ok for the government to kill American citizens without a trial, is it ok for American citizens to …..never mind.
September 28th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Remember, “the Constitution gets in the way” of things Obama would like to do.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
So much for the “fierce moral urgency”, but more significantly so much for the idea that those attacking Bush for his admin’s conduct of the war on terrorism were doing so for pure principle.
September 28th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Illegal combatant fighting with the enemy trumps citizenship any day.
Remeber Lt. Spears in Band of Brothers, and his run-in with captured US citizens, now German soldiers, who had returned to Germany with their parents before the war? Did he shoot them all or was that just a rumor?
September 28th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
i didn’t like it when bush did it either.
Did Bush ever order a hit on a US citizen. I don’t believe he did. IIRC correctly (too lazy to look it up), the NYT article says he went as far as building a list of US citizens that were suspected jihadists, but never gave the order.
And I’m fine with that. There’s a brightline between the President’s responsibility to foreign nationals and US citizens, and that bright line is the level of due process. I don’t want the President killing foreign nationals on a whim, but if he’s got credible evidence, fuck ’em. If you don’t like it, either don’t screw with us, or build a country that we don’t want to screw with. OTOH, the President is obligated to give a citizen their day in court.