Posted on 06/07/2013 6:33:21 PM PDT by bestintxas
On Friday morning, President Barack Obama defended his administration’s massive telephone records surveillance programs by explaining that “every member of Congress has been briefed on this program.”There’s only one problem: both Republican and Democrat Congresspeople say that isn’t true. On Friday afternoon, the press office for Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), one of the authors of the Patriot Act, tweeted, “Obama’s claim that ‘every Member of Congress’ was briefed is FALSE.”
It wasn’t just Sensenbrenner. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said that only certain members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees had been told about the program, and he only knew about it because he received “special permission” to be briefed after hearing about it through the grapevine. “I knew about the program,” he said on MSNBC, “because I specifically sought it out. It’s not something that’s briefed outside the Intelligence Committee.” Merkley added that the administration had ignored the law. “Clearly the administration has not followed what an ordinary person would consider to be the standard of the law here,” he said.
Merkely summed up: “when the president says all members of Congress were briefed … well, I think a very small number of Senators in Congress had full details on these programs.”
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) said he only knew about the program after asking for a briefing under “classified circumstances.” The “average member,” he said, had no access to this information. “They don’t receive this kind of briefing.”
Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Jim Inhofe (R-OK) said they had not been briefed on the phone surveillance program, either. “Not quite!” Rep. Billy Long (R-LA) tweeted after hearing about Obama’s claim.
Obama’s claim was not a slip of the tongue.
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I believe I heard today that Jim Sensenbrenner who helped write the Patriot Act said that what Obama is doing is exceeding what the legislation allows. No kidding.
Maxine waters knew and bragged about it being a powerful tool in the coming 2016 campaign.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIA1lQBqH1s&feature=youtu.be
They will probably send an all caps email to Obama and everything will be fixed.
Gunny how some congressional pigs are more equal than others ain’t it?
I don’t rightly understand why the place is run like the House of Lords...nope...not at all...
Not just Obama, but the Republican leadership will stop any special investigation
from happening because they want that POWER when/if it's their turn again!
The Democrats and the Republicans have become the same party, only the Republicans
are the Concubines of the Democrats looking for any hand out that the Democrats will
bless them with.
BOEHNER needs to be kicked out at all costs and replaced with conservative leadership
if America has any chance past this point. To many people are turning their heads
and ignoring the sociopathic Donkey in the china shop.
If his purple lips are movin’, BO is lyin’. It’s time to get the impeachment charges going to get rid of the poseur.
There are two nations within our borders. The First Nation is The United States of America. It has a Constitution. The second nation is Democratland. The citizens of Democratland are out to loot the public treasuries of The United States of America.
Thanks bestintxas.
Thanks bestintxas.
Only historians knew what it meant when Snuffleupagus, during the Clinton administration said, “We have crossed the Rubicon!”
“The die has been cast.”
His Arrogance should be referred to as “Lord of Lies” from now on.
He lies so much that he doesn’t know what the truth is. He lies merely for the sake of lying.
A lot of people have understood the nature of government since the time of Aristotle.
Control it or else.
Boehner the BASTARD is already planning to PROTECT
Obama.
THE GOP is as evil as the DNC and is guilty to the MAX
of misprision of felony.
THOSE THAT DEFIED THE CONSTITUTION AND LAW BELONG IN PRISON.
Speaker Boehner, & Ted Cruz are just two prominent GOP leaders who have not spoken on the PRISM program. Did they even know about it? Do they have a problem with it? I also have not of any comments by the Dems, Sen Reid or Minority Leader Pelosi. People spoke about the phone thing, but not PRISM. I consider PRISM MUCH, MUCH worse.
Bookmark for later. Scary!!!
Don’t trust Merkley. He’s just providing himself cover for his involvement in the IRS scandal.
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