{"id":191672,"date":"2009-07-09T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/09\/it-would-be-nice-if-obama-didnt-try-so-hard-to-emulate-the-worst-excesses-of-bush-and-his-evil-minionstrade\/"},"modified":"2009-07-09T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T01:56:00","slug":"it-would-be-nice-if-obama-didnt-try-so-hard-to-emulate-the-worst-excesses-of-bush-and-his-evil-minionstrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/09\/it-would-be-nice-if-obama-didnt-try-so-hard-to-emulate-the-worst-excesses-of-bush-and-his-evil-minionstrade\/","title":{"rendered":"It Would Be Nice if Obama Didn&#8217;t Try So Hard to Emulate the Worst Excesses of Bush and His Evil Minions&#038;trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, it&#8217;s his <a href=\"http:\/\/emptywheel.firedoglake.com\/2009\/07\/08\/obama-and-gang-of-eight-veto-threat-fundamental-compact-my-ass\/\">veto threat of the intelligence authorization bill<\/a>, because the notification requirements have been strengthened in it.<\/p>\n<p>As opposed to just notifying the gang of 8 (4 actually) who are not allowed to discuss the contents with anyone else, the whole intelligence committee would have to be notified.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Barack Obama wants to preserve the, &#8220;long tradition spanning decades of comity between the branches regarding intelligence matters,&#8221; which BTW, involves the CIA having, &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/cq\/20090708\/pl_cq_politics\/politics3159736\">affirmatively lied to<\/a><\/span>&#8221; the panel, according to House Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that a briefing be given in a closed room, with no notes taken, and so few people as to make verification of a felony impossible is somehow &#8220;comity,&#8221; is setting George Orwell spinning so rapidly in his grave that he could power all of Sussex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, it&#8217;s his veto threat of the intelligence authorization bill, because the notification requirements have been strengthened in it. As opposed to just notifying the gang of 8 (4 actually) who are not allowed to discuss the contents with anyone else, the whole intelligence committee would have to be notified. It appears that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1102,1103,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-intelligence","category-secrecy","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}