"Sarcasm the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."
Simpler version: Sarcasm is the last refuge of those with no real argument.
The democratic republic exists as a careful balance between 3 branches of government, each looking over the other shoulders to keep everything on the up and up.
In 1978, the FISA court was established, over my (and many others) objections and warnings. It was specifically for the purpose of hearing information that the government claimed was too sensitive to be known publicly and had to remain secret. Information so secret that even a defendant's lawyer couldn't be clued in, but the FISA judge would make sure that the government wasn't blowing smoke up everyone's ___.
What the Obama administration wants is to lie not just to the American people, but to the courts, too. Obama wants to eliminate the courts from the equation, to lie to the courts and say "No such evidence exists for you to even evaluate whether it should be public". That's more of the same 'unitary executive' that Obama's 'most ardent supporters' railed against when it was Bush and Cheney asserting it.
We on the left saw where such a precedent and departure from the Constitution the creating of the FISA law could and would lead. But due to those like you (cognitively challenged), we were shouted down. Just as you're trying to do now.
What you trust is a facade, a persona of no substance, a fakir, created specifically to appeal to the weak-minded and ignorant. Obama is a product that was marketed, nothing more. You really have no business offering opinions when, in fact, you don't know what you're talking about and should be asking questions of power, and demanding they answer. And if you don't know what questions to ask, then you'd better get the heck out of the way and leave it to those who do know.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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