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In reply to the discussion: "President Obama Has Earned Our Disapproval" The Atlantic, Nov 2014 [View all]KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)Senate Select Committee on Intelligence tasked with investigating the CIA and its role in torture, and when it subsequently emerged that President Obama had held no one in the intelligence establishment accountable -- no one fired or even demoted -- we witnessed Obama presiding over a constitutional coup d'etat. That is some seriously scary shit, folks, and only the most willfully blind can fail to see or acknowledge it.
That it fell to war hawk and NSA cheerleader Dianne Feinstein to sound the alarm is merely the crowning irony. Clapper and Brennan should have been fired the same day the news broke. In the absence of that, Obama signals he does not really believe in separation of powers or coequal branches of government, that we have instead moved to full-scale imperium.