WHEN A PRESIDENT GOES ROGUE
By George F. Will Washington Post June 4 2014
What Winston Churchill said of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that
he was a bull who carried his own china shop around with him is
true of Susan Rice who is to be polite
accident-prone .
IT MUST HAVE BEEN THAT DARN INTERNET VIDEO AGAIN
When in
September 2012 she was deputed to sell to the public the fable that the Benghazi attack was just an unfortunately vigorous movie review a response to an Internet video it could have been that she rather than Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was given this degrading duty because Rice was merely U.N. ambassador an ornamental position at an inconsequential institution. Today however Rice is Barack Obamas national security adviser so two conclusions must be drawn:
Perhaps she did not know in advance of the
swap of five terrorists for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and the shall we say
ambiguities about
Bergdahls departure desertion from his platoon in Afghanistan and
the reportedly deadly consequences of his behavior.
OBAMAS SHIP OF FOOLS
If so then she has pioneered a degree of incompetence exotic even for this 10-thumbed administration.
If however she did know and still allowed Obama to present this as a mellow moment of national satisfaction she is condign punishment for his choice of such hirelings.
NO REGRETS; NO POSITIVE RESULTS
At a joint news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron
President Obama said he made absolutely no apologies for the way Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was returned from Afghanistan:
The Taliban released Bergdahl in exchange for five of their commanders.
Perhaps this exchange really is as Obams said in defenidng it an excellent thing regardless of the circumstances whatever those circumstances may turn out to be."
His confidence in its excellence is striking considering that he acknowledges that we do not know the facts about what would seem to be important circumstances":
IN AN AGE OF NON-STOP POLITICAL DECEIT DESERTION AS AN ART FORM
Such as
the note Bergdahl reportedly left before disappearing in which he supposedly said he did not approve of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan.
And especially the strong & numerous expressions of anger by members of Bergdahls battalion concerning his comportment eager to abandon his post as well as its costs in dead American soldiers.
IN THE CONSTITUTION WE DO NOT TRUST
Obama did not comply with the law requiring presidents to notify Congress 30 days before such exchanges of prisoners at Guantanamo.
Politico headlined a story on his noncompliance with the law:
Obama May Finally Be Going Rogue on Gitmo."
It approvingly said that Obamas assertive" act defied Congress" Congress not the rule of law in order to get that process of closing the prison at Guantanamo moving."
It sent
a clear message" that
Obama is now willing to wield his executive powers to get the job done."
White House Talking Points 101
Or as used to be said in extenuation of strong leaders
like Mussolini to make the trains run on time."
Our own 44th president may say: When the president does it that means that it is not illegal."
AND that events dictated a speed that precluded complying with the law.
This explanation should be accorded open-minded but not empty-minded consideration.
EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY GONE WILD
It should be considered in light of the fact that as the Veterans Affairs debacle continued Obama went to Afghanistan to hug some troops then completed the terrorists-for-Bergdahl transaction.
And also in light of the fact that Obama waged a seven-month military intervention in Libyas civil war
without complying with the law (the War Powers Resolution) that requires presidents to terminate within 60 to 90 days a military action not authorized or subsequently approved by Congress.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) vice chairman of the intelligence committee says the administration told him he would be notified about negotiations for the release of terrorists.
He now says he can NOT BELIEVE A WORD THIS PRESIDENT SAYS."
Obama says that his agents consulted with Congress for quite some time" about prisoner exchanges with the Taliban.
LIAR LIAR YOUR PANTS ARE ON FIRE
Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) chairman of the House intelligence committee says there have been NO consultations since 2011 ....
This episode will be examined by congressional committees if they can pierce the administrations coming cover-up which has been foreshadowed by the response to congressional attempts to scrutinize the politicization of the Internal Revenue Service.
If the military stalls on turning over files to Congress pertaining to the five years of Bergdahls absence we will at least know that there is NO NATIONAL INSTITUTION left TO BE CORRUPTED.
WHAT DO I THINK OF ALL THESE NEFARIOUS EVENTS?
Kudos to George Will for an op-ed that pretty well says everything that can be said about this amazing White House screw-up.
Except perhaps that Americas self-anointed
EMPEROR has no clothes ... and
should be IMPEACHED as soon as possible.
Nuff said!
Murray Soupcoff is editor and co-author of
Good Buy Canada" as well as author of
Canada 1984".
He was a founding member (and senior partner) of Ian Sone & Associates Ltd -- Canadas first independent social-research company specializing in the evaluations of federal provincial & municipal government projects in Canada.
He is also the publisher of the FREE Soupcoff Report" investment newsletter whose distribution is partly subsidized by paid subscriptions from former research clients.
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