The Donkey
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The Obama Administration just convinced a federal trial court that the National Security Council runs something like this:
[video=youtube;TuujTYHCmgs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuujTYHCmgs[/video]
The Court held that since the 130 or so NSC staff members serve solely as "advisors" to the President, the NSC is not an "agency" and therefore need not ever release any documents to the public in response to the Freedom of Information Act.
In this case, the documents in question have to do with the lists of drone attack targets -- "the People's" very own kill list.
With all this work figuring out who goes on the "kill" list, I wonder where he finds the time for golf?
I don't think Awlaki was the only US citizen on those lists. Strangely, folks are curious as to who is being killed in their name, how they are being selected, and why.
I wonder that the current administration -- with all its talk of "transparency" -- has adopted a legal position right out of the Republican "grandeous executive" playbook -- asking courts to "interpret" statutes contrary to their plain meaning when presidential national security and foreign policy prerogatives are involved.
I marvel that democratic and republican administrations seem to have little trouble finding federal judges who are prepared to bend facts and history into pretzels to agree with the government when it makes these arguments.
To read the decision, click through the facebook link below. To follow further developments regarding this and other related cases, "like" the page on the way through.
https://www.facebook.com/GreidingerLegalWorks/posts/544535542263071
[video=youtube;TuujTYHCmgs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuujTYHCmgs[/video]
The Court held that since the 130 or so NSC staff members serve solely as "advisors" to the President, the NSC is not an "agency" and therefore need not ever release any documents to the public in response to the Freedom of Information Act.
In this case, the documents in question have to do with the lists of drone attack targets -- "the People's" very own kill list.
With all this work figuring out who goes on the "kill" list, I wonder where he finds the time for golf?
I don't think Awlaki was the only US citizen on those lists. Strangely, folks are curious as to who is being killed in their name, how they are being selected, and why.
I wonder that the current administration -- with all its talk of "transparency" -- has adopted a legal position right out of the Republican "grandeous executive" playbook -- asking courts to "interpret" statutes contrary to their plain meaning when presidential national security and foreign policy prerogatives are involved.
I marvel that democratic and republican administrations seem to have little trouble finding federal judges who are prepared to bend facts and history into pretzels to agree with the government when it makes these arguments.
To read the decision, click through the facebook link below. To follow further developments regarding this and other related cases, "like" the page on the way through.
https://www.facebook.com/GreidingerLegalWorks/posts/544535542263071