New York Times proves another President has been caught lying to American public

Impeach Obama?

From Obama vs. Obama flip-flops to outright deception of American people

HAIKU, Maui, Aug 9, 2013 - Every 15 years or so an American president seems to get caught with his pants down and brought up on impeachment charges. In one instance, Bill Clinton, "pants down" took a literal meaning, not just a figure of speech.

New York Magazine - http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/08/obama-to-leno-we-dont-have-domestic-spying.html

After Obama's "performance" this week on Jay Leno show, during which he said that his government does not have a domestic spying program, the question may be raised once again - has the time come to start impeachment proceedings against yet another sitting American president? Sadly, the answer seems to be "yes."

And here's why...

Clinton Shadow Looms over Obama

Bill Clinton (Jan 27, 1998): "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."

Barack Obama (Aug 6, 2013): "We don't have a domestic spying program." 

Of course, the president has admitted that the NSA collects phone and Internet data, but accord to his definition, "What we do have are some mechanisms where we can track a phone number or an e-mail address that we know is connected to some sort of terrorist threat."

Bill Clinton Redux (Aug 17, 1998): Clinton admitted in taped grand jury testimony on Aug 17, 1998, that he had had an "improper physical relationship" with Lewinsky. That evening he gave a nationally televised statement admitting his relationship with Lewinsky which was "not appropriate"

Barack Obama Redux (standing by for it...): "..." 

We did not have to wait very long for proof that Obama lied. The Aug 8 New York Times story "NSA Said to Search Content of Messages to and from US" contradicts what Obama said to Leno on national TV.

Trevor Timm, Freedom of the Press Foundation executive director and Electronic Frontier Foundation director, told Huffington Post today (Aug 9) that the (NYT) news directly contradicts what President Obama told Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" earlier in the week.

"There is no spying on Americans. We don't have a domestic spying program. What we do have are some mechanisms where we can track a phone number or an email address that we know is connected to some sort of terrorist threat," Obama told Leno on Aug 6.

"That statement is just unbelievable and it reeks of this Orwellian newspeak," Timm said.

Of course, the NSA spying did not start with Obama. George W. Bush did. Which is why we said even before this candidate was elected president that, for all their alleged differences, Bush and Obama are two peas in a pod, serving the same NWO masters. We even coined the name for them - Bushama.

Nor was this the first time he or other high level administration officials lied to the American public. But it may be the first time they have been caught so quickly, before the nation's memory was obliterated by other lies and deceptions (also see Political Pole Shift: Cold War Role Reversal).

From NSA to DEA to SOD: SOD IT!

Our Constitution is being shredded by three-letter government agencies 

["Sod it!" - British slang. Look it up if you don't know what it means. You'll find out that DEA could have been a little more savvy in picking an acronym for that division] 
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Check out the latest news break about the government spying scandal in this Reuters investigative story (see below). Here's the gist...

NSA illegally collect personal data on American citizens. NSA pass it on to SOD (Special Operations Division of the DEA). SOD lob it over to the local law enforcement officials to make an arrest of a suspect using false pretenses. 

The real victim? Our Constitution. And, therefore, our liberty.

So what the US government is now doing is nothing short of defacing Miss Liberty and all she stands for. 

But don't take my word for it.

"I have never heard of anything like this at all," said Nancy Gertner, a Harvard Law School professor who served as a federal judge from 1994 to 2011. Gertner and other legal experts said the program sounds more troubling than recent disclosures that the National Security Agency has been collecting domestic phone records. The NSA effort is geared toward stopping terrorists; the DEA program targets common criminals, primarily drug dealers.

"It is one thing to create special rules for national security," Gertner said. "Ordinary crime is entirely different. It sounds like they are phonying up investigations."

Actually, I beg to differ. There must not be any special rules for "national security" or any other "higher cause." Our Constitution makes no provision for such exceptions. You are either free or you are not. "National security" is a subjective notion that the government officials frame in secrecy. In other words, it is subject to abuse. Which is exactly what our Constitution was trying to protect the American people from. Until it got shredded by the US government in the last 12 years.

Back to Reuters story...

"That's outrageous," said Tampa attorney James Felman, a vice chairman of the criminal justice section of the American Bar Association. "It strikes me as indefensible."

Lawrence Lustberg, a New Jersey defense lawyer, said any systematic government effort to conceal the circumstances under which cases begin "would not only be alarming but pretty blatantly unconstitutional."

Lustberg and others said the government's use of the SOD program skirts established court procedures by which judges privately examine sensitive information, such as an informant's identity or classified evidence, to determine whether the information is relevant to the defense.

"You can't game the system," said former federal prosecutor Henry E. Hockeimer Jr. "You can't create this subterfuge. These are drug crimes, not national security cases. If you don't draw the line here, where do you draw it?"

[snip]

"One current federal prosecutor learned how agents were using SOD tips after a drug agent misled him, the prosecutor told Reuters. In a Florida drug case he was handling, the prosecutor said, a DEA agent told him the investigation of a U.S. citizen began with a tip from an informant. When the prosecutor pressed for more information, he said, a DEA supervisor intervened and revealed that the tip had actually come through the SOD and from an NSA intercept.

"I was pissed," the prosecutor said. "Lying about where the information came from is a bad start if you're trying to comply with the law because it can lead to all kinds of problems with discovery and candor to the court." The prosecutor never filed charges in the case because he lost confidence in the investigation, he said."

Good for this FL prosecutor! But how many other America were charged on such false pretenses?

Read more...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/05/dea-surveillance-cover-up_n_3706207.html

SHADES OF REVERSE COLD WAR: TRUTH VS. POWER

This time, the American president says "Nyet" to the summit in Russia - in response to Putin's "Nyet" to turn over Snowden

In response, Russia's government said Obama's decision showed the U.S. is unable to develop relations with Moscow on an "equal basis" (see the story below).

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Question: Why is Obama so scared of Snowden? 

Answer: Why were Soviet leaders like Brezhnev so scared of the "truthmongers" like Solzhenitsyn, the 1970 Nobel Prize winner? Because both are scared of the Truth about their wrongdoings being publicly revealed. 

Yet, in the end, the Truth trumps Power every time. 

Like Snowden, Solzhenitsyn was persecuted by his home country. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 for telling the world the truth about the Soviet human rights abuses. But he returned to Russia in 1994 after the Soviet system had collapsed.

Will Snowden have to wait that long before being able to return home?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/07/obama-putin-meeting_n_3718825.html

For more on this topic, also see...  Obama vs. Obama - flip-flops of political acrobat;  Bilking Main Street to finance Wall St.'s greed (May 1997), DANCING 'ROUND THE GOLDEN CALF (Aug 1997), WIPING OUT THE MIDDLE CLASS (May 1998), Toward a Nation of Morons  (Washington Times, Jan 2006, click here for the TiM version), etc.

Election 2008 Editorial: The Great Divide Widens ... - Truth in Media   Oct 29, 2008 ... Here's what I wrote in a Washington Times column “Plutocrats of the NewWorld Order,” 11 years ago (also see “The Great American Divide,” ... www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2008/Great_Divide.html

WIPING OUT THE MIDDLE CLASS - Truth in Media   Phoenix, Washington, DC, and many other American cities have their own "Great American Divide" stories, but nowhere is the desecration of the American ... www.truthinmedia.org/Columns/chronicles-may-98.html

Great American Divide Widens   (1998), "The Great American Divide Widens" - about the increasing income gap between the various social classes in America. This was also a lead to the TiM ... www.truthinmedia.org/about.html

The Great American Hoover II (Aug 3, 2010) - Truth in Media   Aug 3, 2010 ... And guess where the Great American Divide, which separates the rich and the ... by then the Wall Street Hoover will have sucked it out of the... www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2010/Hoover2.html

Poverty Up in U.S., Again (Sep 16, 2010) - Truth in Media   Sep 16, 2010... Up in U.S., Again. Plutocracy flourishing in America: Poor get poorer, rich get richer ... The Great American Divide (Jan 1998). Wiping Out the ... www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2010/Poverty.html

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