Op-ed: 
The NSA Scandal…Obama tried to make it go away...he failed
By: Diane Sori

“I will end the program as it currently exists."                                                     - Barack HUSSEIN Obama, 1/17/14
           
OK folks…I’ll begin at the end…Barack HUSSEIN Obama saying “God Bless America” twice at the end of yesterday’s press conference just turned my stomach because you could see him choking on those words while trying to get them out…good thing they were on the teleprompter or I doubt they would have come out at all, but back to the beginning.

Yesterday, after a six-month White House ‘supposed’ investigation into whistleblower Edward Snowden’s flood of disclosures about the true scope of U.S. spying, President Obama (gag) held a press conference to discuss the changes he will implement in how the NSA collects and stores data on ‘We the People,’ our allies, and our enemies.

Saying that the NSA officials did NOT “intentionally abuse” the program to invade our privacy…yeah right…Obama went on to say that he believed opponents of the program had been correct in saying that without proper safeguards the data collection could be used to garner even more personal information about the private lives of Americans then they already had, and that it could open the door to even more intrusive programs.  Nice words but the thing is Barack HUSSEIN Obama was the very man who ordered the NSA to 'spy' on American citizens and will continue to order them do so.

And critical to all he said…actually to what he did NOT say (taqiyya in action)…is that in NO way will the invasion of our privacy be stopped… translating into the information will still be collected just NOT as much of it…at least that we can see that is. 

Also, Obama said that ‘some’ of the changes he intends to make will take effect immediately, but that ‘other’ changes will require further study…which means more of our taxpayer dollars will be wasted on a study of a program that clearly violates our 4th Amendment rights…and that those changes may take an action of Congress to be implemented.  Uh oh…this sitting Congress does NOTHING as it is so I guess that means that in regards to spying on ‘We the People’ they will do even less than NOTHING.

"The reforms I am proposing today should give the American people greater confidence that their rights are being protected, even as our intelligence and law enforcement agencies maintain the tools they need to make us safe,” Obama said during the press conference.

Greater confidence in an administration that shoved the ObamaCare monstrosity down our throats, still covers-up ‘Fast & Furious and does even worse in regards to Benghazi…NO...I don’t think we have any confidence at all in anything this most miserable of presidents proposes.

So folks here now is just a bit of what Obama proposed…and just this bit alone should have you hopping mad.  First off, effective immediately, the NSA will be required to get a ‘secretive' court’s (actually the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court) permission before accessing phone records and data that will still be collected from millions of law-abiding Americans…but I say why NOT an ‘open court’ of public record...why a ‘secretive court’…what’s he still trying to hide…hmmmmm…

And Obama said that those phone records...which includes numbers dialed and length but NOT content of calls...will NO longer be stored by the government itself but either by a third party or by the phone providers themselves. Oh really…and what of the huge data mining storage center that he had built in Bluffdale Utah…who now will be the keeper of the phone records when a  ‘For Sale’ sign gets tacked to its front door.  And with the phone companies opposing the expense and potential liability of holding said data, and with NO ‘credible’ third party yet to come forward, you can rest assured that if a third party does takes over they will be one hand-picked from his many campaign donors so that all Obama has to do when he wants to do his snooping is just mossy on over to that third party and say, ‘let me see’…just a slight detour in his targeted control of ‘We the People.’

And this little goody…which al-Qaeda operatives and other assorted terrorists will love…borders on the outright dangerous when it comes to the monitoring of true terrorist activity (the only activity that actually should be monitored), as Obama has said that the government will NO longer be allowed to access phone records beyond two so-called ‘hops’ from the person they are targeting... meaning NO access to phone records for someone who called someone, who called someone, who called the suspect, will be allowed…. NOTHING like helping the brethren yet again.

  Also saying that the U.S. won’t monitor the communications of “our close friends and allies overseas” unless there’s a ‘compelling’ national security reason is pure hogwash as Obama is NOT releasing a list of which countries fall under that category…and Obama being what he is with America’s allies being his enemies and America’s enemies being his allies, heaven only knows where he’s going with this one…or should I say hell only knows to be more exact.

And Obama stating that he will be issuing a ‘presidential directive’ (an order that has the same legal standing as an executive order that remains in effect until a change in administration deems otherwise),that will state the government can only use collected phone data for counterintelligence, counterterrorism and cyber-security to protect U.S. forces and allies, and to "combat weapons proliferation and transnational crime” is again even more hogwash as first, we cannot believe a single word coming out of his proven to be lying mouth ("If you like your current health insurance policy you can keep it…period”) and second, everyday Americans like you and me are NOT involved in spying, terrorism, cyber-hacking, weapons trading, or international crime and Obama and his NSA buddies know it as well as we know that it’s ‘We the People’ who will still be the ones spied on.

And proof is that Obama wants to give foreigners protections against spying and is directing the Director of National Intelligence and his ‘good bud’ AG Eric ‘Fast & Furious’ Holder to put in place safeguards as to how long the U.S. can hold information on non-citizens overseas, and restrictions on how the data is used.  This he does for non-Americans while ‘We the People’ continue to get the proverbial shaft…and again continue to be spied on.

But NO matter what changes Obama says he will make but NOT really do, the bottom line remains that Barack HUSSEIN Obama stands by and completely supports the NSA’s spying on ‘We the People.’  By calling said spying "necessary for national security” he continues to look away at what he called ‘the foreigners’ in our country…meaning his muslim brethren…who are the only real terrorists this program needs to keep track on. And being that he left all the final decisions primarily to Eric Holder's anything but Justice Department and to intelligence agencies that oppose making any changes to the current surveillance operations at all, you just know this entire matter will soon be swept under the rug...or at least that is what Obama will try to do.  Maybe this time Congress will make sure it's NOT but I'm NOT going to hold my breath for that.

Oh and by the way, Obama's shiny and sweating face...that you can see got shinier, sweatier, and pastier as time went on...is a dead give-away that even he knows all his talk was NOTHING but empty political bloviatings...smoke and mirrors if you will...as he tried to get our attention focused off ObamaCare and Benghazi...and to that I say he failed miserably.

Op-ed: 
The timing says it all

By: Diane Sori

The games this White House plays just keep getting better and better as yet another diversion has popped up in Obama's effort to try and distract us from Benghazi...to try and distract us just as more whistleblowers are scheduled to give testimony...for 'suddenly and miraculously' this past Monday, one year after the events in question occurred, mega news giant, The Associated Press (AP), comes forward and discloses that the Justice Department had seized their phone records.

While this had to come out, the timing of this disclosure is just too coincidental to NOT be suspect and in a word, stinks.  And don't try to tell me the AP, known for their investigative reporting, just found out about this seizing of records now...they didn't and they know we know they didn't.

But I digress...The AP says that just months before last November's presidential election (if you call that usurping an election), Eric 'Fast & Furious' Holder's Justice Department stormed into the main AP office and seized two months worth of more than 20 reporters and editors incoming phone records, cell records, and personal phone records, and also seized records for the main AP number in the House of Representatives press gallery...seized in a deliberately calculated intrusion on the First Amendment right to a free press...and did so without giving rhyme or reason for the seizure or the AP knowing if a judge or grand jury had signed off on needed warrants.

In a report to Holder criticizing the records seizure, AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt called the Justice Department's actions “a massive and unprecedented intrusion into how news organizations gather the news."

Further saying, “There can be no possible justification for such an overboard collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters"...“These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the news gathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP’s news gathering operations and disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know.”

Of course he's right but there's that timing issue again as Benghazi, as it should, throws a shadow over all...a shadow that mustn't be ignored.

And as expected the White House says they had NO knowledge of this event or any of the other scandals coming forward...and if you believe that I've got some swamp land to sell you for even 'Prince' Harry Reid is denouncing this seizure along with the recently, as in last Friday, disclosed and admitted IRS targeting of conservative groups for additional screening of tax-exempt applications right before the election, saying "these actions are NOT partisan matters but Constitutional matters".

Constitutional matters..but...but during yesterday's hastily arranged press conference, Eric Holder looked straight into the camera and said the Justice Department "had a right to seize the records and trample on the Constitution" because last year the AP put American lives on the line when their wire service revealed details of a foiled plot to detonate a bomb on a US-bound airplane.

Saying that trying to determine who at the AP was the one responsible for the leak required aggressive action, Holder added that this was one of the “top two or three most serious leaks I’ve ever seen.”

Now ain't that something because we all know that if a terrorist attack had really been thwarted Obama would have been all over the television taking credit for it...narcissist that he is.

But even more unsettling than a questionable foiled terrorist attack...even more unsettling than any possible leak...is that United States Attorney General Eric Holder said that the government had a "right to trample on the Constitution".

NO FREAKIN' WAY! Neither the government nor Barack HUSSEIN Obama himself have any right for any reason to trample on the United States Constitution...NO right at all...EVER!

In fact, NO legitimate government dedicated to serving the people they actually work for would feel that way, but the Obama government doesn't give a damn about the rights of 'We the People' for they don't give a damn about the rights guaranteed us in the Constitution, because they simply don't give a damn about the Constitution itself.

Don't think I can make it any clearer than that.

And isn't it odd that Holder has now stepped aside...recusing himself from the investigation...claiming he's unfamiliar with the current status and details of the ongoing probe...yet still defending the probe...still defending the Justice Department's actions...almost like the ghosts of 'Fast & Furious' coming back to haunt.

And that timing issue keeps rearing its head yet again and again...calculated timing used to deflect all scandals away from the White House...away from Obama.  Timing used to protect his job at all costs even if it means this newest scandal will be used in helping to cover-up the murder of four Americans.

But could the AP's disclosure, even with its bad timing, possibly be the wake-up call for the mainstream media to finally accept the fact that they're also targets of this nefarious administration.  How I wish it were so but I know the sad reality is that they must protect their 'savior' NO matter the cost...after all, they created the myth and must see it through for if Obama falls they fall with him.