According to explosive new assertions from a credible former CIA agent, President Barack Obama’s administration is said to have attempted to use the CIA to target, spyon, and smear an American conservative blogger and university professor on Middle-Eastern affairs, simply because he opposed the President’s policies in Libya.
The alleged attempt to use the powerful U.S. intelligence agency for domestic spying and/or discrediting of a private American citizen would be in gross violation of the law disallowing domestic use of the agency. Uncomfortably, it’s also precisely what so many on the Right have long warned of in regard to this President’s proclivity for turning Big Government apparatchiks against the freedoms and liberties of private, law-abiding citizens simply because they dared to use their constitutionally protected rights of free speech to criticize his policies. It would also be, as folks on the Right have also long charged, a gross violation of the U.S. Constitution, which the President is sworn to defend, rather than abuse.
Republicans in Congress have vowed to investigate the matter, while Democrats, hypocritically and shamefully, have remained completely silent.
Given this startling and exceedingly troubling news — particularly in light of Democrats ignoring the revelations, after so many years of charging George W. Bush with similar behavior — we have to admit that perhaps we were too quick to ridicule the many Tea Party patriots for their warnings about the dangers of Obama’s Stalinist and Maoist tendencies!
If the details of this story turn out to be true — and so far, they certainly seem credible, as the blogger/professor says he was no longer invited to CIA conferences following the incident — as much as we’d hate to admit it, we’d suggest impeachment or even legal proceedings against the President of the United States would be entirely appropriate here.
CORRECTION: It’s a little embarrassing, but it appears we got at least one key detail in the above story completely wrong…
As it turns out, the President who allegedly attempted to abuse Big Government apparatchiks to illegally strip a private American citizen of his liberties and freedoms by ordering the CIA to spy and discredit him, was actually George W. Bush, not President Obama. It was, according to the former CIA agent, Bush’s administration, not Obama’s, who ordered that non-Rightwing blogger and Middle-East scholar Prof. Juan Cole of the University of Michigan be discredited due to his public criticism of Bush’s policies in Iraq, not Libya.
Oh, and it’s not the Democrats who have remained silent about this matter, it’s the Republicans who have so far failed to criticize the apparent gross abuse of power by the Bush White House, as Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has now vowed to open a probe in the Senate Intelligence Committee to investigate the extraordinarily troubling allegations against the Bush Administration.
The BRAD BLOG regrets the error.
Nice indirection.
But see this and this for an inverse.
Wonderful literary technique Brad!
Hey DiFi ,
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY TOO LITTLE TOO LATE!
Where was your backbone when we needed it, tied up in profits?
Here’s my latest poem though,
and it includes you…
Coming Together
Pray for the right
and the wrong
Pray for us all — The Whole.
We are all pieces of God.
The whole that moves
toward redemption
and light.
Interesting exercise – draw in traffic from those looking to nail Obama and turn the table to illustrate that they abandon principles in pursuing this president. If it’s actually Juan Cole who cares.
The doubly ironic thing is that the left is apathetic about high crimes and misdemeanors committed by Obama – as is Congress after Bush skated, the whole concept offered accountability crumbled before us.
Communism=govt. owns everything
Socialism= citizens actually receive benefits from their taxes
Fascism= govt and corporations are merged together as one. That’s our govt. under bush and obama.
We are not communist or socialist.Bernie Sanders is socialist…that should be a big tip off.
Kudos for admitting the error and putting up a very clear correction.
However – Given the repercussions of a president using the CIA to spy on a citizen, and given that it was Bush and not Obama, you should do more than the correction you have on this article. At least take away the picture on the front page that refers (in error) to the offense.
Anybody looking at the BradBlog’s front page still is shown that it is Obama who is the citizen-spying-sunuvabitch.
NC Resident – Um. Yes. I know.
You had me going for a while and feeling queezy, Brad. I was ready to adjust my thinking on Pres. O. That shows how insidious that situation would be. I want to accept what the president does, but, if this president would be guilty of a framing of a conservative, it would not be acceptable to me. No president should get away with defaming or destroying a citizen for their own political reasons, that is why I am so angry that the Bush Administration got away with so much criminal activity and that no one has been charged with anything.
Nice job, will retweet this.
Nice, Brad.
#5 NC Resident
Facetious much?
Very confusing, and I’m still not sure whether this is some kind of weird hoax by the author or a normal correction, although I’m leaning towards the former, because for something like that, I think the author would have just taken the whole story down rather than issue a “correction” that a lot of people don’t read. Is not the news excitable enough these days without stirring up stuff? Although, given Obama’s unfortunate Bushian predelictions in all sorts of things from war to the environment, it didn’t really sound all that untrue.
Boy, it’s late — that should be “predilections,” not the way I spelled it above.
Good article and nice misdirection however many like myself never get to the 2nd page. Of course this time I did!
Very interesting turn around. I was shocked at first because I usually gravitate toward the left but still accepted the original article because corruption is so rampant in our government. Enjoyed the piece!