General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPoll: The Petraeus Affair Should Be a Call for Executive Branch Housecleaning.
It's time to clear away Bush appointees and hangers-on from all positions of authority. Since this is President Obama's second and last term, there is no earthly reason to keep those connected with the Bush administration in any way in cabinet or other executive positions. President Obama should demand the immediate resignation of each and every person over whom he has appointment authority who has or has had any connection to Bush or Republicans .
Then, new appointees to each position should be carefully selected to exclude anyone with ties to the Republican Party or the Bush Administration. It is simply time for all such people to be excluded from leadership of all organizations under the authority of the Executive Branch. New appointees should have, as their earliest responsibility, the immediate removal of all personnel in their organizations who have engaged in any obstructive behavior.
20 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited | |
I Agree | |
17 (85%) |
|
I Disagree | |
2 (10%) |
|
I Don't Care | |
0 (0%) |
|
Other | |
1 (5%) |
|
0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided. | |
Show usernames
Disclaimer: This is an Internet poll |
IphengeniaBlumgarten
(328 posts)"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
Maybe that was/is the strategy?
MineralMan
(146,116 posts)Most of those appointments were made to keep the Republicans from blocking the appointments.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)MineralMan
(146,116 posts)should be unencumbered with worrying about anything but governing.
librechik
(30,659 posts)they burrowed in everywhere (the head of the CIA fgs!) and job one for them is to invisibly fuck over the Obama admin.
Get them out and get your own liberal staff to do your programs, Mr. President--you've waited long enough!
99Forever
(14,524 posts)I can't figure out why it doesn't seem to even raise a bit of concern about personal privacy and unwarranted searches, simply because it's "one of theirs" being the target. Not a single judge was even consulted in this witch hunt. NOT A SINGLE WARRANT WAS EVEN SOUGHT.
None. Zero. Ziltch.
I don't know about anyone else, but that troubles the fuck out of me. If it doesn't you... well......
Romulox
(25,960 posts)duties.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... authoritarian surveillance society, that is certainly your right to have that opinion. I don't think it bodes well for any of us. Big Brother IS watching.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)Are you serious?
"If you are ok with living in an...authoritarian surveillance society"
Do you know what the "Central Intelligence Agency" ("CIA" is?
99Forever
(14,524 posts)Last edited Wed Nov 14, 2012, 12:18 PM - Edit history (1)
To make what I am saying clear, I do not consider ANY member of our government, either above the law, or undeserving of the law's basic protections and rights. There was NO judicial oversight in this mess. People who were NOT government officials and those who were, had their PRIVATE communications HACKED, without warrants. That is wrong, very fucking wrong IMO. just because YOU have a hardon for "them," doesn't make doing the wrong thing right.
Tho you might think that insulting people for simply expressing an opinion you don't agree with, is a valid form of discussion, I don't. You've simply made yourself and your words, irrelevant.
Have a nice day.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)We moved way past spying long ago!
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)This was a prearranged deal, Broadwell admitted she had these documents, and gave the FBI permission to retrieve them.
While I am in agreement with your overall argument, in this case, I don't think any rights were violated.
99Forever
(14,524 posts).. the only PRIVATE communications hacked, WITHOUT a warrant, even after the fact. Nor has ANYONE been charged with a crime to justify invading other peoples PRIVATE conversations. This woman does NOT sit on a Federal judicial bench and as such, cannot grant permission to search and seize ANYONE'S PRIVATE conversations, except her own.
We screamed when it happened to Bill Clinton. We were OUTRAGED at the Nixon Enemies List and the actions taken against those on it. But now, simply because it's a "we gotcha" on "them," it's a-okay.
We go closer and closer to an authoritarian police state with each and every new violation of our rights (yes, even the rights of those who's politics we oppose) that we let slide by.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)I suggest you continue to make hyperbolic comments that don't really engage in the specifics of the facts of this case. That way, you can maintain your outrage even when, as here, there is really no basis in reality for it.
Uncle Joe
(58,029 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014304358
A source familiar with case told ABC News that Broadwell admitted to the FBI she took the documents from secure government buildings. The government demanded that they all be given back, and when federal agents descended on her North Carolina home on Monday night it was a pre-arranged meeting.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)privacy with regard to behavior that has to do with her enhanced security clearance.
99Forever
(14,524 posts).. a search warrant or did they not? This woman's PRIVATE communications were not the only ones hacked. Did they have warrants or written permission to do so? Did the FBI even seek warrants, even after the fact? What Federal law was violated to justify search and seizure? Is having an affair now a violation of Federal Law? Under what statute would that fall?
Uncle Joe
(58,029 posts)A source familiar with case told ABC News that Broadwell admitted to the FBI she took the documents from secure government buildings. The government demanded that they all be given back, and when federal agents descended on her North Carolina home on Monday night it was a pre-arranged meeting.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... the woman's PRIVATE communications WERE NOT the only people's hacked. She cannot give permission to HACK anyone's email except her own, that is, unless she is a Federal Court Judge. Is she?
Uncle Joe
(58,029 posts)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Broadwell
Petraeus affairIn or about May 2012, Jill Kelley, a social liaison to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, began to receive emails that she considered to be threatening and harassing. She contacted the FBI, who traced the emails to Broadwell.[25] The emails reportedly indicated that Broadwell suspected Kelley of starting an affair with General David Petraeus, who was a friend of Kelley's.[25] Although the sending of the emails was deemed to be insufficient grounds for a criminal charge, the FBI called Broadwell in for questioning, at which time she admitted to the affair with Petraeus.[25] After Broadwell turned over her computer, classified documents were found, which led to further FBI scrutiny of her relationship with Petraeus.[26][25] Although Petraeus was not identified as the provider of the documents, the affair was revealed in early November 2012 and was cited by Petraeus as the reason for his resignation on November 9.[27][3]
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... more than once. You have chosen to ignore the facts I raised. Your circular argument is a waste of both of our time.
Have a nice day.
Uncle Joe
(58,029 posts)to the FBI because we were under investigation, do you honestly believe the FBI or any police organization would require a warrant to view every letter depending on who we received it from?
It would be our mail not the senders as it was sent to us, was in our possession and we handed it over.
If you send me a letter it's not yours' anymore, it's mine and visa versa.
You have nice day as well.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... either honestly because of lack of comprehension, or deliberately for more nefarious reasons, are avoiding the very essence of what I said. The FBI went hunting in other people's PRIVATE communications that were NOT on the computer they had "permission" to go through. Frankly, if that doesn't get through your skull, I can't help you.
Uncle Joe
(58,029 posts)Was it in her house which apparently she allowed the FBI to search without a warrant or was it in her computer which she voluntarily handed over?
99Forever
(14,524 posts)Find someone else to play your games with, I'm done with it.
Uncle Joe
(58,029 posts)1. You don't know.
2. They either found it in her home which she apparently allowed to be searched without a warrant or on her computer which she voluntarily turned over.
I agree with you that warrants should be required to search someone's home or computer but if you voluntarily allow them possession of your computer or to search your home it makes no difference.
In short the FBI is not to blame for trying to find evidence about a potential national security breach either with or without a warrant, it's up to us to exercise our rights and when we give them up, we have no one else to blame but ourselves.
99Forever
(14,524 posts).. fucking thing you please. I told I was finished with your crap. Off to ignored with your rude ass.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)made up BY YOU.
libodem
(19,288 posts)She went to them I'm pretty sure. No one in this day and age has any reasonable expectation of privacy. Right to privacy is long gone. Everything we say on a phone or write in a text or go online is preserved for all eternity. No reasonable guilt exists anymore. It's all recorded somewhere and its a snap to retrieve and translate into script. That getting a warrent went out with Bush. In the name of national security you can fuck probable cause.
We do need to fight to have our right to privacy restored.
It is all but lost in one generation.
Swear, history will look back on Bushco as the begining of a modern dark age. He shock doctrined this country so hard and took so many constitutional laws away with the patriot act.
If anything needs repealed it's that POS.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... and we have let the bastards get away with it. Clearly, from just the legalize horsepucky posted in just this thread, there are lots of fools that really don't understand what it is we have given away. As long as they have a screen to live in, and are "connected" 24/7, that's all that matters. It never dawns on them that a some point, when some bureaucrat decides to fuck with them, they will have provided the means to do it, because as the only hero I've ever had said...
"Everybody's got sumpthin' to hide, 'cept for me and my monkey."
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)You need to frame your questions in terms of the military laws as applied to these persons. They voluntarily place themselves under that set of rules of conduct and consequences, including a law against adultery! So, there was a crime!
Romulox
(25,960 posts)Ben Bernanke is.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)On edit, NOTE who got to send him on his way!!
Director of National Intelligence announces anti-leak measures
June 25, 2012 | By Ken Dilanian
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
gravity
(4,157 posts)The Democratic party is not going to be better than the Republicans if they start housecleaning based on political leanings.
If the person is competent in their job, it shouldn't matter who appointed them or what party they belong to.
And sex scandals are not exclusive to the Republican party. The same thing can happen to Democratic appointees too.
tledford
(917 posts)It's a good thing no one other than Bush appointees has affairs!
Uncle Joe
(58,029 posts)all things being equal a Bush appointee would be more likely to undermine the Obama Administration under the threat of blackmail from adulterous behavior.
flamingdem
(39,300 posts)column of undermining Republicans just chomping at the bit, they need to be put out to pasture
Kaleva
(36,094 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)MineralMan
(146,116 posts)However, there's a better chance for it following this Petraeus crap.
libodem
(19,288 posts)And if the Republicans continue to obstruct the functioning of the government by blocking every appointment just to MAKE our President and OUR county FAIL, the impeachment papers need to be generated.
The taxed enough ready thugs came to congress to represent the Kock brothers. Most of us 47% pay very little in taxes and get it back at the end of the year. The tea party came to disrupt the process of governing. Not to govern or to legislate.
I'm serious as a heart attack. A clear record of obstruction for pure political spite exists from our past four years. It should be public. They should have charges of partisan obstruction leveled at them.
If it continues the charges should be brought and impeachment pursued.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)Good post M.M. The people Bush, put in many of those positions were purely politically motivated. Most of his candidates had no experience and no qualification other that attending, Bob Jones University.
Purely political ideological plants. They should be fired for the reasons they were hired. Bad people. Inferior limited educations and fierce party loyalty. They will always be traitors to this administration.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)and more one to examine the military than the Executive.
libodem
(19,288 posts)To take over a civilian post like that. We used to try and separate the military into its branches and the government provided civil service. Somebody has to be the watch dog if you don't want a military dictatorship.
No wonder fucking Afghanistan is such a narcostate nightmare.