The Week that went to Hell,
And all we got was a lousy Patriot Act, 2012 Defense Act and retaliation against Whistleblowers. Next time, at least bring us a tee-shirt...
A "sleeper provision" deep inside the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act the House is expected to take up today, lies the single biggest hand-over of unchecked war authority from Congress to the executive branch in modern American history.
President Obama has not sought new war authority. In fact, his administration has made clear that it believes it already has all of the authority that it needs to fight terrorism.
But Congress is considering monumental new legislation that would grant the president - and all presidents after him - sweeping new power to make war almost anywhere and everywhere. Unlike previous grants of authority for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the proposed legislation would allow a president to use military force wherever terrorism suspects are present in the world, regardless of whether there has been any harm to U.S. citizens, or any attack on the United States, or any imminent threat of an attack.
www.whistleblower.org/.../1128-nsa-whistleblowers-on-60-minutes-911-could-have-been-prevented
And then there’s the Patriot Act…
- KBOO