He just has to be an improvement over lezbo Napolitano. Right? Right? lol never mind. Another cog in our idiocracy government
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.”
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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.”
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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!
All we need to know is that Obama picked him.
He picks like minded fellow travelers.
Seriously, who he is makes no matter. They are all interchangeable parts of a Marxist machine that is hell bent on seizing permanent power over us.
Johnson thinks the President has the authority to commit the US to war:
"Let's not lose sight of the reality that in this country we have for some time entrusted the President with awesome powers and responsibilities as Commander in Chief; he controls the nuclear arsenal and he alone has the authority to use it; he alone has the constitutional authority, with certain limits, to deploy thousands of men and women in the U.S. military into hostilities on the other side of the world." [emphasis added]
Source: Keynote address at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School: A “Drone Court”: some pros and cons (~0.5MB .pdf file)
“You can call me Reh, or you can call me Jeh, but you doesn’t have to call me Johnson.”