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Resister User ID: 36421936 United States 05/16/2013 01:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Complicit mass media + easily misdirected public + spineless congress = no accountability for incompetence, fraud, and criminal neglect resulting in the death of American citizens. "God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, & always, well informed... If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty... Let them take arms... What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. " - Thomas Jefferson in 1787 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 20093181 United States 05/16/2013 02:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | why the Obama administration may come out smelling like a rose, on the only real issue of the current three "scandals". the confiscation of telephone records is a serious charge that could be a death knell, if it can be proven to be done w/o merit. now consider this, the purpose of the confiscation was in order to determine where national security leaks were transpiring. the punishment for such leaks are very punitive. now in determining the source of the leaks, the DOJ had a very limited number of suspects to investigate. the list includes the Presidents national security staff and the Senates intelligence committee. now if through an investigation none of the NS staff came up as having no contact with any AP reporters, then the focus would be turned on the Senate Intelligence committee. this is now getting into an investigation of some very powerful people. its a tight wire investigation. at this point the WH has refused to submit any pertinent email contents to the Senate intelligence committee. the only thing the Intelligence committee has received are emails whose contents have been redacted to reveal only the name of the senders and the receivers. what the email contents reveal is a mystery. again, we get into a scenario where revealing anything but the parties involved might tip the hand of the investigation as to whom are/is the suspected leaker/leakers. what would a very powerful individual do to obstruct an investigation if he/she felt they were the focus of an investigation? the obvious answer is to muddy the water with allegations of improprieties of the investigator. again this is only a possible scenario, but it does fall into the distinct possibilities presented so far. the fact that the administration is playing this one so closely to the chest requires a deep examination as to why. why sweat the Senate intelligence committee, unless, there was some suspicion of guilt for leaking classified intelligence? if proof can be obtained to indict a suspect, I would seriously doubt that charges would be brought. what I would expect is a retirement of a high placed committee member/members followed by the dropping of any mention of wrong doing by the Obama administration. leaking national security information can be viewed as treason. the SCOTUS, would look upon such an offense by an individual or enterprise within a very narrow confine of the 1st Amendment. |