The Obama Betrayal
When Mr. Obama ran for office he claimed he was running for change, he claimed he was running for transparency, he claimed he would be a different kind of president. You would have thought that meant not covering up the crimes that the previous administration committed when it ordered thy National Security Agency to wiretap people’s phones without warrant. According to a recent e-mail I received from the Electronic Freedom Foundation “in a brief filed in EFF’s case, Jewel v. NSA, President Obama argued that the wiretapping program is a “state secret” and that the courts are barred from ever judging its legality. Even worse, they’re arguing that under the PATRIOT Act, the United States government possesses complete “sovereign immunity” against lawsuits for spying that violates federal privacy laws.”
Another e-mail goes on to explain in more detail.
“First, they argued, exactly as the Bush Administration did
on countless occasions, that the state secrets privilege
requires the court to dismiss the issue out of hand. They
asserted that simply allowing the case to continue “would
cause exceptionally grave harm to national security.” As in
the past, this is a blatant ploy to dismiss the litigation
without allowing the courts to consider the evidence.
Second, the DOJ claimed that the U.S. Government is
completely immune from litigation for illegal spying
because the USA PATRIOT Act renders the U.S. immune from
suit under the two remaining key federal surveillance laws:
the Wiretap Act and the Stored Communications Act. This is
a radical assertion that is utterly unprecedented. No one
– not the White House, not the Justice Department, not any
member of Congress, and not the Bush Administration — has
ever interpreted the law this way.”
You are a horrible person, Mr. President. Did that oath of office, to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States mean nothing to you. Does a person’s rights mean absolutely nothing to you. Even your personal website laments Mr. Bush’s use of the “state secrets” tool. I thought, even though I knew you would do your best to completely destroy the economy even more than it already was, you would not actually keep the crimes of the last administration under wraps. I thought that you would try to screw the Republicans as much as possible as is always the case when a new group of idiots takes power.
This isn’t really a surprise, when Obama was in the senate, he voted to give immunity to the telecoms – by dismissing the lawsuits against them – who violated people’s privacy right, and the law, by colluding with the government’s wiretapping. (He voted for it despite me contacting his office and explaining that if he votes for this it the murder of Lady Justice.) It is unfortunate that this country continues to use the idea of sovereign immunity to get away with so many things, whether by using the term sovereign immunity itself, or indirectly such as in this case. Nevertheless, violating the oath of office is considered treason, and in this country, even the president can commit treason.
