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You know, I've always thought that the Barack "Hussein" Obama political attacks that allege that he's not a citizen, he's a muslim, and he's part of some conspi
by programminggeek 13y ago
You know, I've always thought that the Barack "Hussein" Obama political attacks that allege that he's not a citizen, he's a muslim, and he's part of some conspiracy to bring down the USA are particularly crazy insomuch as we have the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. whose job is to investigate people to keep our country safe.
I've always thought that if the allegations were somehow true, that someone at one of those groups would have leaked something that would keep Obama from being president or from continuing as president. Yet, that never happened despite the fact that he obviously would have been investigated by plenty of people in those spy organizations.
So, the fact that Obama was spied on should not come as a surprise. It would surprise me if people in power weren't spied on.
- LoganCale 13y agoMaybe it's not surprising, but it's bad. It puts the non-elected agency officials in a position of power over the people who are supposed to be their bosses and make sure they aren't going out of line. It basically nullifies a lot of checks and balances if the agency officials want to blackmail or threaten to blackmail elected officials.
- trevelyan 13y agoNot to mention that the state spying on its citizens without probable cause and judicial review is unconstitutional, illegal and anti-democratic.
- drawkbox 13y agoI don't think the Constitution really made it into this century with us. Sad really. The footnotes and exceptions on the Bill of Rights due to executive orders is probably longer than the whole Constitution.
- squozzer 13y agoMaybe. But someone who would have been disqualified from the presidency might prove useful to those who hold the information. It would explain the 180 on Gitmo, ferinstance.
- gnaritas 13y agoWhat 180 on Gitmo? Obama's stance on it has never waivered, congress blocked his attempts to close it.
- msandford 13y agoHe's still the commander in chief and he could still order the end to the detainment program even if he can't cause the base to be closed. And yet he didn't.
- mikeash 13y agoWithout funds to move them, what would he do with the former prisoners? Just let them sleep and starve on the streets of Guantanamo?
- CWuestefeld 13y agoMaybe ask for private-sector volunteers to help evacuate them?
- betterunix 13y agoHe could make a deal with their home countries and the government of Cuba, and send them home. Why does he need extra money to free them?
- spdy 13y agoOr they found something and use it against him to keep him in check and get what they want. This system is all about control and preserve power.
- glesica 13y agoSo if spying on people in power is good, who spies on the people in charge of the NSA?
- josefresco 13y agoChina.
- Zakharov 13y agoTheir employees.
- duwease 13y agoThe Watchmen. But wait, who watches..
- chubot 13y agoIt kind of makes you rethink the whole Petraeus ordeal. Everyone commented on how the director of the CIA couldn't keep his own communications secret. Maybe he pissed off the NSA somehow? Not sure how closely the organizations work together.
- Uhhrrr 13y agoIt is up to us.
- Tangaroa 13y agoRegarding the idea that someone would have leaked something, WorldNetDaily seems to get a lot of leaks from the CIA. This raises several questions about any of these stories starting with how fake is it, what kind of person would leak to WND, and are they trying to plant a story or suppress one?
- programminggeek 13y agoI'm not saying any of this is good, I'm saying it's not surprising.
- Torgo 13y agoIf you really want to think like a conspiracy theorist, then they would LET him win so that they had a completely controllable puppet in office.