White House on rule of law
The Whitehouse press secretary insulted the American citizenry when he said: “I will just say on principle that the success of our democracy depends on the rule of law and there is no public official that is above the rule of law,” Earnest said. “Certainly not the President of the United States. But neither is the Rowan county clerk. That’s a principle that is enshrined in our Constitution and in our democracy.”
US president defending China
Pentagon officials said Thursday that five Chinese warships that appeared near Alaska during President Barack Obama’s visit this week passed through U.S. territorial waters–and hastened to defend China’s actions as being consistent with international law.
The Pentagon’s rush to excuse Chinese behavior fits a pattern across the Obama administration. Throughout the spring, the State Department was determined to ignore or spin Iranian violations of the interim nuclear deal. The main goal is to prevent any conclusion being drawn that would require an assertive U.S. military or diplomatic response, which would interfere with President Barack Obama’s political claims to have ended war.
Obama on making law
“This is something I’ve struggled with throughout my presidency. The problem is that I’m the president of the United States; I’m not the emperor of the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed. And Congress right now has not changed what I consider to be a broken immigration system. And what that means is that we have certain obligations to enforce the laws that are in place even if we think that in many cases the results may be tragic. … [W]e’ve kind of stretched our administrative flexibility as much as we can[.]”
Hillary on Snowden
In 2014, Clinton accused Snowden of inadvertently helping terrorists. Since then she has toned down such criticism and said the NSA needs to be more transparent.
Snowden (Traitor?) on server security
On Thursday, Snowden was asked what he would say to Clinton now that she is being investigated for sending emails containing classified information while using a private server.
“This is a problem,” Snowden said, “because anyone who has the clearances that the secretary of state has, or the director of any top-level agency has, knows how classified information should be handled.”
He added: “If an ordinary worker at the State Department or the CIA … were sending details about the security of embassies, which is alleged to be in her email, meetings with private government officials, foreign government officials and the statements that were made to them in confidence over unclassified email systems, they would not only lose their jobs and lose their clearance, they would very likely face prosecution for it.”
Asked if Clinton “intentionally endangered US international security by being so careless with her email”, Snowden said it was not his place to say.
He did comment on Clinton’s choice of email server, Platte River Networks. “When the unclassified systems of the United States government, which has a full-time information security staff, regularly gets hacked, the idea that someone keeping a private server in the renovated bathroom of a server farm in Colorado is more secure is completely ridiculous,” he said.
Other tidbits:
Lois Lerner protected and now comfortably collecting her retirement. Many believe she should be in prison.
Eric holder, protecting criminals including Black Panthers practicing intimidation at polling places.
Jeh Johnson, releasing thousands of convicted criminals who are here illegally while citizens are prosecuted or intensely investigated for protecting themselves.
Sanctuary counties and cities the department of Justice, State and Local law enforcement routinely refuse to prosecute the elected officials who encourage this policy.
We could go on and on we are sure you can add to the list of indications that, yes the world is upside down.
OOPS, John Kerry getting even for the swift boat treatment he received by giving away the security of the world as a result of his “negotiation” of a treaty with IRAN that enables them to step up their terrorism and they still have 4 American hostages. He may have actually made Secretary of State Clinton look competent.