Lawless Presidency: Obama's secret kill list

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Lawless Presidency: Obama's secret kill list

 

In a stunning act of hypocrisy and deception, the bombshell news story breaks this week that Obama "loves blowing the hell out of people.” The killer-in-chief excoriates America for GITMO that provides its enemy combatants with qurans, laptops, duck a la'orange and my oh my the inhumanity of it all. He flogged and beat us with his wet waterboarding noodle. He cried for Khalid Sheik Muhammad's nose -- despite the fact that the enhanced interrogations saved the lives of thousands in Los Angeles. Three mass murderers were waterboarded (along with scores of CIA and military folks) and Obama was shocked, shocked I tell ya ....

...the New York Times revealed how Barack Obama refers to drone killings as “an easy call” and how military officials have grown increasingly uncomfortable with the ease and enthusiasm exhibited by a president so willing to utilize drone technology – technology that related reports suggest is now being prepared for use within the United States:

What is it going to take for Americans to wake up to the nightmare in the White House?

And where is the enemedia's outrage? Millions of column inches on GITMO and the war on terror, but they are OK with a murdering president?

"The Secret Kill List" Town Hall Judge Andrew Napolitano

The leader of the government regularly sits down with his senior generals and spies and advisers and reviews a list of the people they want him to authorize their agents to kill. They do this every Tuesday morning when the leader is in town. The leader once condemned any practice even close to this, but now relishes the killing because he has convinced himself that it is a sane and sterile way to keep his country safe and himself in power. The leader, who is running for re-election, even invited his campaign manager to join the group that decides whom to kill.

This is not from a work of fiction, and it is not describing a series of events in the Kremlin or Beijing or Pyongyang. It is a fair summary of a 6,000-word investigative report in The New York Times earlier this week about the White House of Barack Obama. Two Times journalists, Jo Becker and Scott Shane, painstakingly and chillingly reported that the former lecturer in constitutional law and liberal senator who railed against torture and Gitmo now weekly reviews a secret kill list, personally decides who should be killed and then dispatches killers all over the world -- and some of his killers have killed Americans.

Can the president legally do this? In a word: No.

The president cannot lawfully order the killing of anyone, Read More

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