Posted on 10/17/2013 2:36:54 PM PDT by matt1234
President Obama is expected to nominate former Pentagon lawyer Jeh Johnson as the next Homeland Security secretary, ABC News has learned.
--SNIP--
Johnson has called working for the Obama administration "the highlight of [his] professional life."
"I have been on an incredible journey with Barack Obama ... going back to November 2006 when he recruited me to the presidential campaign he was about to launch," Johnson said in a speech at Yale Law School last year. "I remember thinking then, 'This is a long-shot, but it will be exciting, historic, and how many times in my life will someone personally ask me to help him become president.'"
--SNIP--
In addition, Johnson [..] helped write the 250-page report that led to the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in 2010, as his firm's website put it.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Political Hack bump for later.........
I do not understand why the MSM cannot see past the skin color to be a least a little critical of this persons lack of experience for the post to which he is appointed.Now Homeland Security will become nothing but an arm of the Obama campaign.
Johnson actually reminds me of Heinrich Luitpold Himmler, who founded the SS, and was instrumental in prosecuting The Holocaust..Johnson has the same squinty eyed, benevolent coercive utopian look about him.
Rand Paul’s immigration speech
03.19.13 | Hon Sen Rand Paul (KY)
Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2998395/posts
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
[but he’s not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
A former top lawyer in the US Defence Department who drew criticism from some when he told an audience at Oxford University last year that America's war on terror would not go on forever will be nominated by President Barack Obama as his next Secretary of Homeland Security...
Interesting comment; just when can you expect Homeland Security to stop fighting terrorism?
The Christians and Conservatives response? Like the Jews in the 1930s Germany, they feel that if they do not acknowledge the problem, it does not exist along with the tried and true, "It will never happen here."
Well he certainly has the only qualification that seems to matter in this administration.....
They all get their chance for a position who worked for Obams campaign, the 'promise' was to "reward" all those who did so....experience isn't required...all that's required is they are favorable to Obamas agenda and willing to push it like they did his election. Which is how they are running our nation........Because there are no experienced people at the top is why our nation is in the state it is.
He sure got a purty mouth...
He just has to be an improvement over lezbo Napolitano. Right? Right? lol never mind. Another cog in our idiocracy government
Noting that there is no new African cursive...
Pray for America.
Previously...
Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288699/posts
Obama’s Assistant Attorney General Tells Senate: Terrorists Captured on Battlefield...
CNSNEWS.com ^ | Wednesday, July 08, 2009 | By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer
Posted on July 9, 2009 1:59:46 AM PDT by Cindy
“Obama’s Assistant Attorney General Tells Senate: Terrorists Captured on Battlefield Have Constitutional Rights”
SNIPPET: ““Does that infer that these individuals have constitutional rights?” McCain asked Kris.
“Ah, yes,” Kris answered.
“What are those constitutional rights of people who are not citizens of the United States of America, who were captured on a battlefield committing acts of war against the United States?” McCain asked.
“Our analysis, Senator, is that the due process clause applies to military commissions and imposes a constitutional floor on the procedures that the government sets on such commissions …” Kris said.
“So you are saying that these people who are at Guantanamo, who were part of 9/11, who committed acts of war against the United States, have constitutional rights under the Constitution of the United States of America?” McCain asked.
“Within the framework I just described, the answer is yes, the due process clause guarantees and imposes some requirements on the conduct of (military) commissions,” Kris said.
“The fact is they are entitled to protections under the Geneva Convention, which apply to the rules of war,” McCain said. “I do not know of a time in American history where enemy combatants were given rights under the United States Constitution.””
SNIPPET: “Kris and Jeh C. Johnson, general counsel for the Department of Defense, said that military commissions were a viable “alternative” but that prosecuting terror suspects as criminals in U.S. federal courts was preferable – a position Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) took issue with at the hearing.
“Why would anyone prefer to try people apprehended for violations of the law of war?” Lieberman asked. “The fact is that from the beginning of our country, from the Revolutionary War, we’ve used military tribunals to try war criminals, or people we have apprehended, captured for violations of the law of war.
“Again, I think the unique circumstances of this war on terrorists, against the people who attacked us on 9/11, have taken us down, including the Supreme Court, some roads that are not only to me ultimately unjust but inconsistent with the long history of military commissions,” Lieberman said.
“Why would you say the administration prefers to bring before our federal court system instead of military commissions that are really today’s version of the tribunals that we’ve used throughout our history to deal in a just way with prisoners of war?” Lieberman asked.”
Read the whole article at the link provided.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2287858/posts
Top Defense Lawyer Calls for Military Commissions Reform
DEFENSElink.mil - AMERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE ^ | July 7, 2009 | By Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden
Posted on July 7, 2009 11:59:53 PM PDT by Cindy
Note: The following text is a quote:
News American Forces Press Service
Top Defense Lawyer Calls for Military Commissions Reform
By Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, July 7, 2009 – Closing the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and reforming military commissions will enhance national security, the Defense Department’s chief legal advisor said today before Congress.
Echoing President Barack Obama’s recent call to reform the Military Commissions Act of 2006, General Counsel Jeh C. Johnson told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he welcomes the opportunity to help change military commissions into a more viable forum.
“By working to improve military commissions to make the process more fair and credible, we enhance our national security by providing the government with effective alternatives for bringing to justice those international terrorists who violate the laws of war,” Johnson said.
Under the Senate’s recent Defense Authorization Act, several provisions were made to reform the 2006 legislation. Johnson expressed confidence in the ability of the Obama administration and Congress to continue working together to improve the law.
“Military commissions can emerge from this effort as a fully legitimate forum,” he said.
The new legislation proposes changes that ban in-court use of statements obtained by cruel interrogation methods, which Johnson said will “go a long way toward enhancing the legitimacy and credibility of commissions.”
Johnson also addressed the need for a program to monitor detainees even after they are transferred from Guantanamo Bay to accepting nations. He stressed the concern that terrorists and enemy combatants might return to the battlefield.
“It’s not as simple as, ‘Oh X-Y-Z country is willing to take the detainee back,” he said. “There needs to be in place an adequate rehabilitation program to monitor in that accepting nation … [so] that we minimize to the fullest extent possible any acts of recidivism for those who are transferred or released.”
“The safety of the American people is the utmost concern,” he continued. “So we believe strongly that rehabilitation programs are something that we should encourage, promote. It’s something we’re very focused on.”
Navy Vice Adm. Bruce MacDonald, the Navy’s Judge Advocate General, also spoke before the committee and expressed support for military commissions reform and the Defense Authorization Act. The new legislation addresses concerns he had with the enactment of the 2006 law, he said.
“I believe that the [Defense Authorization Act] establishes a balanced framework to provide important rights and protections to an accused while also providing the government with the means of prosecuting alleged alien, unprivileged enemy belligerents,” MacDonald said.
Witnesses, including Johnson and MacDonald, however, asked for certain clarity regarding the new bill.
MacDonald recommended the committee develop a list of considerations to be evaluated in determining the extent in which a statement may be corroborated as well as the overall reliability of the statement.
But overall, MacDonald stressed the importance of having “full faith and confidence that what we’re creating in the military, in this bill, is a fair and just process.”
“It’s absolutely vital that when we leave here at the end of the day, it’s not because we believe that what we’ve created is a second-class legal system,” he said. “You ought to feel very comfortable sending anybody to this commissions process with these changes, because we believe it’s a fair and just system.”
Biographies: General Counsel Jeh C. Johnson
2012:
“First Ever Gay Pride Event at Pentagon Features Messages from President and Defense Secretary – on Video”
June 26, 2012 - 6:11 PM
By Penny Starr
SNIPPET: “(CNSNews.com) – For the first time in the history of the U.S. military, the Pentagon auditorium on Tuesday was the setting for a celebration of homosexuality, bisexuality, and transexuality that included short addresses by the commander and chief and the defense secretary via video.
President Barack Obama’s video message was initially released on June 1, the first day of Gay Pride Month. In the message, Obama praises lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Americans as “unsung heroes.”
“Bit by bit, step by step, they bent the arc of the moral universe towards justice,” Obama said.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s video message was also featured on the purple program handed out at the event, which included a panel of gay men and women speaking about their experiences in the U.S. military.”
SNIPPET: “Keynote speaker Jeh Johnson, general counsel for the Department of Defense and the person credited for spearheading the effort to overturn “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” said that the next step is to mount efforts to provide federal benefits to “partners and other family members of gay and lesbian service members.”
But, Johnson said, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), hinders that effort.”
2012:
http://freebeacon.com/the-book-on-bin-laden/
“The Book on Bin Laden
Navy SEAL reveals Obama administration misled public for over a year on bin Laden killing”
BY: Bill Gertz
September 7, 2012 5:00 am
SNIPPET: “The administration and the military have criticized the book.
Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson, a political appointee, accused Owen and his publisher Penguin Putnam of violating Owen’s nondisclosure agreement by publishing the book without submitting it for security review in advance.
Owen’s lawyer denied the claims.
Johnson in a letter stated that Owen was in material breach of his secrecy agreement and that legal action against him is being considered.
The book is expected to be a bestseller and Owen has promised to give all the proceeds to charities that help families of fallen SEALs.”
H/T:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3080332/posts?page=4#4
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2012:
“Jeh Johnson’s Speech on “National Security Law, Lawyers and Lawyering in the Obama Administration”
Speaker: Jeh Johnson
Published February 22, 2012
SNIPPET: “I have been General Counsel of the Department of Defense now for exactly 3 years and 12 days, having been appointed to that position by President Obama on February 10, 2009. I have been on an incredible journey with Barack Obama for longer than that, over five years, going back to November 2006, when he recruited me to the presidential campaign he was about to launch.”
SNIPPET: “As I stated earlier in this address, within the Executive Branch the views and opinions of the lawyers on the President’s national security team are debated and heavily scrutinized, and a legal review of the application of lethal force is the weightiest judgment a lawyer can make. (And, when these judgments start to become easy, it is time for me to return to private law practice.)
Finally: as a student of history I believe that those who govern today must ask ourselves how we will be judged 10, 20 or 50 years from now. Our applications of law must stand the test of time, because, over the passage of time, what we find tolerable today may be condemned in the permanent pages of history tomorrow.”
BHO to name, that’s all I need to know. Every single appointment named by BHO has been awful!
Really Jeh?? One thing that it is aligned to is the commands throughout the Qur’an to kill infidels.
I have known Jeh Johnson and his family for nearly 50 years. His father is a semi-famous architect, his mother was a social worker, and his sister is a social worker. I have had many conversations with them over the years and they are no doubt far-left, abortion-loving liberals. They also happen to be very nice people who are sincere in their beliefs as wrong and misguided as they may be.
I can state with 100% certainty that Jeh is not an affirmative action flunkie. He graduated near the top of his high school class where he was a scholar athlete and graduated near the top of his class at Columbia Law School.
I can also state with 100% certainty that he is not gay. He is married to a female dentist and they have several children together.
Attack Jeh for his far-left politics and his membership in the OBL Fan Club, but lay off the childish, petty comments that attack him personally for something that he is not.
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