Name after name comes rolling off the Trump pipeline. Not since
Pandora's Box has anything looked so ugly. With the addition of Mike
Pompeo, Trump's choice for director of the CIA, can there still be
those who believe we are not in for a major national witch hunt? Just
hope your skin is White and your name is something akin to Jones or
Smith.
Carl Jarvis(a good old white English name)
On 11/19/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Excerpt: "President Obama Indicated on Friday that he won't pardon NSA
whistleblower Edward Snowden, even as President-elect Donald Trump
announced
his pick to run the CIA: Kansas congressman Mike Pompeo, who has called for
'the traitor Edward Snowden' to be executed."
President Barack Obama. (photo: Getty Images)
Obama Refuses to Pardon Edward Snowden. Trump's New CIA Pick Wants Him
Dead.
By Alex Emmons and Naomi LaChance, The Intercept
19 November 16
President Obama indicated on Friday that he won't pardon NSA whistleblower
Edward Snowden, even as President-elect Donald Trump announced his pick to
run the CIA: Kansas congressman Mike Pompeo, who has called for "the
traitor
Edward Snowden" to be executed.
Pompeo has supported nearly unfettered NSA surveillance, has blamed Muslim
leaders for condoning terror, and is one of the most hyperbolic members of
Congress when it comes to describing the Islamic State, which he has called
"an existential threat to America" and "the most lethal and powerful
terrorist group ever to have existed."
In an interview with Obama published on Friday, German newspaper Der
Spiegel
asked: "Are you going to pardon Edward Snowden?" Obama replied: "I can't
pardon somebody who hasn't gone before a court and presented themselves, so
that's not something that I would comment on at this point."
But P.S. Ruckman, editor of the Pardon Power blog said Obama is wrong to
suggest he couldn't pardon Snowden if he wanted to. Ruckman noted that
Obama
has previously only granted pardons and commutations to people who have
already been convicted. "I just think what he may have better said is: 'I
prefer that he present himself to a court and then we'll talk turkey.' But
technically in terms of the Constitution, there are no restrictions at
all."
The operative Supreme Court ruling, from 1886, states that "The power of
pardon conferred by the Constitution upon the President is unlimited except
in cases of impeachment. It extends to every offence known to the law, and
may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal
proceedings are taken or during their pendency, or after conviction and
judgment. The power is not subject to legislative control."
Obama said that although Snowden "raised some legitimate concerns," he "did
not follow the procedures and practices of our intelligence community."
Obama also suggested that the debate is between people holding two
extremist
positions: people who "think we can take a 100-percent absolutist approach
to protecting privacy" and "those who think that security is the only thing
and don't care about privacy."
Very few people actually occupy either extreme. But Pompeo, a three-term
congressman and former Army officer, is about as close as it comes to the
latter.
In a 2014 letter, Pompeo accused Snowden of "intentional distortion of
truth
that he and his media enablers have engaged in." Pompeo supports virtually
no legal barriers to having the NSA spy on Americans, and has alarmed civil
liberties advocates with many of the positions he has taken while serving
on
the House Intelligence Committee. Not only has he argued that the NSA
should
resume its phone records program, he has called on Congress to "pass a law
re-establishing collection of all metadata, and combining it with publicly
available financial and lifestyle information into a comprehensive,
searchable database."
"What's needed is a fundamental upgrade to America's surveillance
capabilities," reads a Wall Street Journal piece Pompeo co-wrote in
January.
Pompeo is also a staunch defender of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, calling
it an "important national asset," and repeatedly arguing that closing the
facility would endanger Americans. He has also defended CIA torturers,
saying that "these men and women are not torturers," and that "the programs
being used were within the law." He called the exhaustive, 6,000-page
Senate
torture report "some liberal game being played by the ACLU and Sen.
Feinstein."
Civil liberties groups immediately expressed concern about Pompeo as CIA
director. The position requires Senate confirmation.
"Congressman Pompeo's positions on bulk surveillance and Guantanamo Bay
also
raise serious civil liberties concerns about privacy and due process," the
ACLU said in a statement. "These positions and others merit serious public
scrutiny through a confirmation process. His positions on mass surveillance
have been rejected by federal courts and have been the subject of several
lawsuits filed by the ACLU."
Pompeo has also accused Islamic faith leaders of being "potentially
complicit" in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. "When the most devastating
terrorist attacks on America in the last 20 years come overwhelmingly from
people of a single faith, and are performed in the name of that faith, a
special obligation falls on those that are the leaders of that faith,"
Pompeo said in a speech on the House floor. "Instead of responding, silence
has made these Islamic leaders across America potentially complicit in
these
acts and more importantly still, in those that may well follow."
Because numerous Islamic leaders had in fact condemned the attack, the
Council on American Islamic issued a letter calling his remarks "false and
irresponsible," and urged him to publicly correct them.
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President Barack Obama. (photo: Getty Images)
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/18/obama-refuses-to-pardon-edward-snowden-t
rumps-new-cia-pick-wants-him-dead/https://theintercept.com/2016/11/18/obama-
refuses-to-pardon-edward-snowden-trumps-new-cia-pick-wants-him-dead/
Obama Refuses to Pardon Edward Snowden. Trump's New CIA Pick Wants Him
Dead.
By Alex Emmons and Naomi LaChance, The Intercept
19 November 16
resident Obama indicated on Friday that he won't pardon NSA whistleblower
Edward Snowden, even as President-elect Donald Trump announced his pick to
run the CIA: Kansas congressman Mike Pompeo, who has called for "the
traitor
Edward Snowden" to be executed.
Pompeo has supported nearly unfettered NSA surveillance, has blamed Muslim
leaders for condoning terror, and is one of the most hyperbolic members of
Congress when it comes to describing the Islamic State, which he has called
"an existential threat to America" and "the most lethal and powerful
terrorist group ever to have existed."
In an interview with Obama published on Friday, German newspaper Der
Spiegel
asked: "Are you going to pardon Edward Snowden?" Obama replied: "I can't
pardon somebody who hasn't gone before a court and presented themselves, so
that's not something that I would comment on at this point."
But P.S. Ruckman, editor of the Pardon Power blog said Obama is wrong to
suggest he couldn't pardon Snowden if he wanted to. Ruckman noted that
Obama
has previously only granted pardons and commutations to people who have
already been convicted. "I just think what he may have better said is: 'I
prefer that he present himself to a court and then we'll talk turkey.' But
technically in terms of the Constitution, there are no restrictions at
all."
The operative Supreme Court ruling, from 1886, states that "The power of
pardon conferred by the Constitution upon the President is unlimited except
in cases of impeachment. It extends to every offence known to the law, and
may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal
proceedings are taken or during their pendency, or after conviction and
judgment. The power is not subject to legislative control."
Obama said that although Snowden "raised some legitimate concerns," he "did
not follow the procedures and practices of our intelligence community."
Obama also suggested that the debate is between people holding two
extremist
positions: people who "think we can take a 100-percent absolutist approach
to protecting privacy" and "those who think that security is the only thing
and don't care about privacy."
Very few people actually occupy either extreme. But Pompeo, a three-term
congressman and former Army officer, is about as close as it comes to the
latter.
In a 2014 letter, Pompeo accused Snowden of "intentional distortion of
truth
that he and his media enablers have engaged in." Pompeo supports virtually
no legal barriers to having the NSA spy on Americans, and has alarmed civil
liberties advocates with many of the positions he has taken while serving
on
the House Intelligence Committee. Not only has he argued that the NSA
should
resume its phone records program, he has called on Congress to "pass a law
re-establishing collection of all metadata, and combining it with publicly
available financial and lifestyle information into a comprehensive,
searchable database."
"What's needed is a fundamental upgrade to America's surveillance
capabilities," reads a Wall Street Journal piece Pompeo co-wrote in
January.
Pompeo is also a staunch defender of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, calling
it an "important national asset," and repeatedly arguing that closing the
facility would endanger Americans. He has also defended CIA torturers,
saying that "these men and women are not torturers," and that "the programs
being used were within the law." He called the exhaustive, 6,000-page
Senate
torture report "some liberal game being played by the ACLU and Sen.
Feinstein."
Civil liberties groups immediately expressed concern about Pompeo as CIA
director. The position requires Senate confirmation.
"Congressman Pompeo's positions on bulk surveillance and Guantanamo Bay
also
raise serious civil liberties concerns about privacy and due process," the
ACLU said in a statement. "These positions and others merit serious public
scrutiny through a confirmation process. His positions on mass surveillance
have been rejected by federal courts and have been the subject of several
lawsuits filed by the ACLU."
Pompeo has also accused Islamic faith leaders of being "potentially
complicit" in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. "When the most devastating
terrorist attacks on America in the last 20 years come overwhelmingly from
people of a single faith, and are performed in the name of that faith, a
special obligation falls on those that are the leaders of that faith,"
Pompeo said in a speech on the House floor. "Instead of responding, silence
has made these Islamic leaders across America potentially complicit in
these
acts and more importantly still, in those that may well follow."
Because numerous Islamic leaders had in fact condemned the attack, the
Council on American Islamic issued a letter calling his remarks "false and
irresponsible," and urged him to publicly correct them.
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