Posted on 04/04/2012 8:21:06 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The Obama administration wants Congress to grant it even broader authority and more funding to send U.S. troops on missions around the world dealing with everything from terror and narcotics to supporting national governments facing opposition and law enforcement operations, senior Defense Department officials told a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee. And lawmakers seemed happy to comply.
According to the administration, the line between terrorism and crime is becoming increasingly blurry. And so, the Pentagon officials claimed, legislation is needed to further blur the line between national defense and law enforcement. More power should also be granted to allow U.S. troops to intervene at home and abroad even more frequently than they already do.
"Most of the authorities that we have right now are narrowly construed to counter-terrorism,” said Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict Michael Sheehan (above left) in a hearing with legislators on the Senate Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. “I think for some countries we may need a little bit more flexibility to go in there."
Sheehan, citing Obama’s new “strategy” policies, said that the Defense Department would like to begin “integrating” its terror, drug trafficking, and transnational crime operations to “make better use of resources.” He also noted that the U.S. government’s propaganda apparatus — or its effort to “shape the global information and ideas environment,” in Sheehan’s words — would become increasingly important going forward.
But further blending traditional civilian law enforcement with raw military power will be crucial to implementing the administration’s terror and “security” strategy, Sheehan alleged. “In order to confront increasingly networked threats, we need to be increasingly networked as a government,” he explained. “Active threat networks will exploit the limitations the U.S. government often faces because of separate agency authorities, budgets and institutional cultures.”
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why does any dictator want more power? why does a snake bite?
Whatever happened to “We can’t be the world’s policeman”???....
true. I was born and raised in Fort Worth.
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Repeal The War Powers Act. Now.
Probably. We don’t like traitors.
Therein lies the money quote. Time to hit the phones, guys. I'm sick of these imbeciles giving O whatever the hell he wants with zero consideration for the people. Let them know we're watching them!
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“Where are the code pink protests?”
Code Pink was air-kissing Bigfoot Obama/Soetero in `Frisco last week.
Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq ...
Barry could bomb Ghiardeli Square and the pinkos would still give him a pass.
This could serve various aspects of his Marxist agenda. I doubt if it has anything to do with the benefit of America’s national defense — more like his own defense.
Only a minority of Americans are still naive enough to trust the motives of this person. Every move he makes lends more POWER TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT over domestic forces primarily. Again, I doubt if he really cares about foreign matters at all.
This could serve various aspects of his Marxist agenda. I doubt if it has anything to do with the benefit of America’s national defense — more like his own defense.
Only a minority of Americans are still naive enough to trust the motives of this person. Every move he makes lends more POWER TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT over domestic forces primarily. Again, I doubt if he really cares about foreign matters at all.
The evidence is there...Code Pinkos were playing rope a dope with you. Do you really think that was their values? Once they got one of theirs in...the values changed...WAKE UP, PEOPLE!
Meanwhile, the drumbeat of Dictator Baby-Doc Barack continues to grow louder : -— regulate -— control -— destroy -— Regulate -— control -— destroy -— REgulate -— control -— destroy -— REGulate -— control -— destroy -— REGU
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