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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Methinks it’s time for the House to take up Articles of Impeachment now.
How about we use our military to defend our thousand mile border with Mexico? Since when did the Military servicemen take an oath to police the world. Just look how malicious and evil the Afghans are..and for that matter the arrogant Europeans that couldn’t sustain their bombing campaign in Libya.
Wasn’t Sec. of Def. Panetta just in Congress informing them the UN and Nato are the new authorities on if they’ll go to war or not?
According to this article, the House went along with it. Is there any confirmation of this? Is it a bill that was actually passed?
Planning for the next Honduras' type situation? Keeping those "democratically elected" presidents-turned-treasonous-dictators in power?
Obama thinks he is the King Of The World.
He wants to make the world safe for the new Caliphate.
The USSR had Uncle Joe.
The PRC had Chairman Mao.
The USA gets Uncle Chairman BO.
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Who is the enemy? islamism or the American people?
“...Methinks it’s time for the House to take up Articles of Impeachment now....”
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Something has to be done to stop this power-mad dictator. Impeachment would never make it through the Senate I think, and I don’t think the Repubs would have the guts to put it all on the line. So I don’t know — but again, America has got to purge itself of this uncontrolled evil.
And his budget cuts 100 billion out of the Pentagon every year. It’s as if we’re being set up for a fall.
I’ve always said 0bama is doing his best to set the United States up for the greatest economic and military “hit” in the history of the world.
The GOP has a war fetish, so anything goes with them.
Why?
Well, Homeland Security didn’t buy 450 million rounds of high performance, jacketed, hollow point ammunition just to plink at George Bush posters.
Its all true.
Yes indeed
And what would you suggest?
Not a challenge just a real question
What’s he need all that for. He can kill Osama in a sovereign nation and kill a whole hunnert tribes of Libyan’s without anyones say so, he doesn’t need anymore power, fact is he needs a good arse whoopin( sorry, been watchin Gunsmoke reruns).
“And why does he want this?”
To shore up Moslem fringe groups and help them to seize power so they can treat us like sh*t and wipe out Israel.
Hey, it makes an Obama kinda sense.
“..And what would you suggest?
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The Congress should shut him down flat. He has all the war powers he needs and he is afraid to use those, on foreign interests like Iran, that is.
This could just be another distration from the Obamacare fiasco, but hard to say. He is too dangerous to America in too many respects to give him ANY more powers, especially over the people which like any wanna-be dictator, wants with a radical passion.
Pray the Congress has the sense to put a stop to this.
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