Cliff Stearns Defends Torture Secrecy
The secrecy that Cliff Stearns defends amounts to nothing more than a conspiracy to commit serious crimes that didn’t help the American people one jot. That’s not what I’d call intelligence.
The secrecy that Cliff Stearns defends amounts to nothing more than a conspiracy to commit serious crimes that didn’t help the American people one jot. That’s not what I’d call intelligence.
Pelosi now says, “I have great confidence in Jane Harman. She is a patriotic American. She would never do anything to hurt her country.” That statement, given what Pelosi claims to have known all along about Jane Harman’s alleged attempt to interfere with an investigation into espionage against the United States, is mind boggling.
Obama’s decision to follow the Unitary Executive legal theories of the Bush Administration makes Americans powerless to stop federal government spies from invading their privacy at whim. President Obama, like George W. Bush, is attempting to place himself in a position above the law.