Obama Promise To 'Protect Whistleblowers' Just Disappeared From Change.gov
from the not-the-change-we-were-looking-for dept
The folks from the Sunlight Foundation have noticed that the Change.gov website, which was set up by the Obama transition team after the election in 2008 has suddenly been scrubbed of all of its original content. They noted that the front page had pointed to the White House website for a while, but you could still access a variety of old material and agendas. They were wondering why the administration would suddenly pull all that interesting archival information... and hit upon a clue. A little bit from the "ethics agenda":Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process.Yeah. That statement seems a bit embarrassing at the very same time Obama's administration is threatening trade sanctions against anyone who grants asylum to Ed Snowden. Also... at the same time that we get to see how whistleblower Bradley Manning's "full access to courts and due process" will turn out. So far, it's been anything but reasonable, considering that the UN has already condemned Manning's treatment as "cruel and inhuman." And people wonder why Snowden left the country...
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Streisand Effect, meet the Obama administration.
Have fun you two...
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it should go in r/circlejerk
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0bama corruption
How is 0bama spending hundreds of millions of dollars on family vacations less corrupt than Lula?
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Lets not forget the power were given to the NSA under Bush, not Obama.
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Wally, I keep telling you to stop making strong claims when you're wrong. The bulk data collection that people are talking about was initiated in 2007. Yes, on Americans. In 2007. As admitted by Dianne Feinstein, a major supporter of the program. http://thehill.com/homenews/news/303891-senators-nsa-phone-sweeping-has-been-going-on-since-2007
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Especially when he got elected specifically on the premiss he would clean up Bush's mess, not make it worse.
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BTW - I'm not a Republican or Tea Party troll. I am a regretful 2 time voter for Obama; feeling frustrated and abandoned seeing the number of Constitutional rights that have been compromised under the Obama administration. As a trained Constitutional lawyer, one can only conclude that he has known exactly what he and his administration have done and has decided the Constitution isn't relevant if it conflicts with what he wants to do. His administration has no hold on the moral high ground in criticizing SCOTUS for any of its actions comprising citizens' rights under the Constitution.
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We have no idea what he studied in college or law school, or how well he did, because every record from his birth forward has been sealed. All we know are the whoppers put into his fake autobiographies ghostwritten by professional writers, but for which he receives and takes gushing literary credit. (The only known example of his writing--a single college paper--is illiterate.) Virtually none of the grand stories included in his fake autobiographies are factual.
The man is a pathological liar, and a consummate huckster. He was selected, groomed, and packaged for the office by some unseen players, and his entire life history was fabricated to make him seem bigger than life. I call him Barry von Munchhausen, but that's being too kind.
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I wouldn't doubt that his autobiographies are ghostwritten. Please tell me who the true authors are? Perhaps the same team that's been writing J.K. Rowling's books since the first Harry Potter novel? So who are they, and what's your proof?
Snopes offers a good rebuttal to the "not a professor" charge: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/50lies.asp. Please don't delay in calling Snopes a CIA front or repeating some other baseless slander that's been going around!
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Jack Cashill, a specialist in literary forensics, names Bill Ayers as the author of "Dreams From My Father," and Obama's speech writer as the author of his second "autobiography."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/who_wrote_dreams_from_my_fathe_1.html
Obama was not a professor of Constitutional law by the standards of any normal university; however, I concede that the University of Chicago Law School, which formerly called him a senior lecturer, now says he was a professor of law, without the title, though he only worked part-time.
Don't dismiss the birthers out-of-hand. They have legitimate questions that Obama could answer in one minute by unsealing his records. Instead, he doubles down on the secrecy, and ridicules skeptics. Have you noticed that he ridicules everyone who doesn't kiss his feet or agree with him? Have we ever before had a president who spitefully ridiculed half the population to humor the other half?
There is something very wrong with him and his wife. They are not remotely normal by any stretch of the imagination. They are nasty, vindictive, and deceitful.
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Calling Obama's critics racists has become so predictable and trite with him and his minions that nobody listens anymore. Well, nobody other than his minions, who spend inordinate amounts of time circling the wagons and making fools of themselves defending a loathsome entity who wouldn't lift a finger on their behalf. So worship your manufactured celebrity to your heart's content. Someday, soon I hope, his real history will be exposed, and I feel pretty confident you won't like what you learn. But, it really doesn't take a genius to realize that a man who not only supports elective (i.e., non-medically necessary) abortions at nine months gestation, but also voted against a law requiring medical care for babies who survived abortion, is not a decent, kind, or generous man. He's a sociopath.
BTW, as soon as he took office he lifted the national restriction on wolf hunting. So much for his professed support of animal rights.
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Can you supply evidence of Obama displaying kindness to anyone not in front of a photographer? Can you cite a single act of charity in his entire life? The Democrats trashed Romney, who spends forty hours every week doing charitable stuff, and has done since he was in his early twenties. Obama has never done any. In fact, until he became president, he barely even donated to charities, despite a very large income.
We have his published speeches going back for years: They're all laced with spite, ridicule, and sarcasm for everyone not on far left or on the receiving end of taxpayers' money. But, otherwise they say nothing. He uses platitudes and slogans, not rational sentences, to mesmerize the gullible. He plays the race card at every available opportunity.
As for his birth certificate: It's a fake. So was the previous one, and yet his campaign and his administration produced both of them, claiming they were authentic. Evidently, the fools didn't bother comparing them. If one says he was born in hospital A the other says hospital B, and different attending physicians are listed, you automatically KNOW that at least one of the two is erroneous. But, now we know both are erroneous. And the real one is sealed up, shielded from inspection. How come? What's he hiding?
I have no doubt the FBI, CIA, and the other alphabet federal police agencies have every sordid detail of his life in big fat files, and the fact that they have managed to keep it all secret is very suggestive. Perhaps, they are the ones who wanted him to be president in the first place? How come he gets to keep his secrets, but we, the People, don't get to keep ours?
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Now Obama is a great admirer of Reagan, and has copied his style and approach to great success. Like Reagan, and unlike Nixon, he jokes with the press, which helps to coat him with teflon like his role model. Unlike Reagan, he has tremendous discipline - I certainly believe he's a very arrogant man, but if he's ever publicly threatened people who oppose him with a bloodbath, or told them to "shut up," I'd like to know about it.
I don't watch Obama's public appearances on TV, I don't think there's anything to be learned from these prefab interactions with people, but I can't help but occasionally run across clips of him making the rounds, and he seems as at ease and for lack of a better word "friendly" as anybody else.
It just seems to me you are putting Obama in a special, separate category of political evil because of personal antipathy, not because of an objective look at recent US political history or at Obama's character.
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BTW, I'm gay. His miraculously timed flip-flop on gay marriage right before the last election didn't fool me, but it obviously fooled millions of other gays. Gay fools, all.
George Bush, Jr. did more for AIDs victims in Africa than all other presidents combined, but I never saw or heard any liberals, except for Bono, praising him for it. You see, in politics it isn't what you do that matters; it's that you do it in concert with whatever side is judging. Obama could slaughter and eat babies on television, and Democrats would think it was adorable. And so would several million gay fools, who think getting married to each other is more important (though most of them will never have the storybook weddings they fantasize) than tens of millions of American families facing long-term unemployment, poverty, and misery because of the destructive, self-serving policies of this administration.
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Cashill makes a couple of errors that make me think he isn't as smart as he thinks he is; from what is a simple mistake, where he refers to Obamas election as "Harvard's first black president" to one that is a real whopper: where he says "Obama guards these more zealously than Saddam did his nuclear secrets." Saddam had no nuclear weapons, and said so. Bush said he was lying, and invaded. The invasion created the opportunity to expose the nuclear weapons and prove Bush was a hero, but none were ever found and the world knows Saddam was telling the truth, and Bush was lying. Surely Cashill wouldn't want to suggest that Obama is telling the the truth and he, Cashill, is lying? But that's exactly what his clumsy metaphor suggests.
RE: Birther claims - snopes debunks the stuff you cite, and some you haven't cited yet. I suggest you read the following to spare yourself the bother of dredging up more of this stuff.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/birthcertificate.asp
http://www.snopes.com/ politics/obama/birthers/booklet.asp
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/kenyacert.asp
ht tp://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/citizen.asp
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http://www.snopes.com/politi cs/obama/muslim.asp
I had thought they'd printed a copy of an Obama birth announcement in the local papers in Hawaii, I didn't see it this time. But it's just a short google search away: http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/obamabirth.php. This source isn't neutral like snopes, it's clearly partisan.
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Whether Constitutional law professor or not, it appears from the rest of your comment that we have basically the same view of the outcome of his actions related to Constitutional rights. I focused more on the outcomes of his actions without considering his character and you focused more on your view of his character that drove the outcomes.
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His public statements and actions do not comport with the Constitution or his sworn oath to protect and defend it. He is a lifelong rabble-rouser, for which his euphemism is "community organizer." His real job during all those years was to stir up trouble, to pit one group against another, which is something obviously specializes in. He's still doing it. Never before in my life have I witnessed a U.S. president turning one group of citizens against another, but he does so continuously.
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Just because it was started under Bush, doesn't mean Obama should expand, or allow it to exist. But yeah, let's just blame Bush for everything like always.
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No to your inquiring sentence and yes to your question.
I hate Obama because he did nothing to lobby to put a stop on the 2008 FISA Amendments. He vowed to do that in his 2008 Campaign yet here we are today. The 2008 amendment only gave the NSA the extended power to collect the metadata of US Citizens who called into the US from foreign soil...the 2010 Amendment added all incoming and outgoing calls and pretty much everyone.
Now no matter who you think started it. This current administration EXTENDED THE POWERS OF THE NSA when Obama said he would put an end to it during both his 2008 and 2012 campaigns.
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It's so pathetic watching Obama drones make excuses for him FIVE YEARS after he took office.
Especially when he got elected specifically on the premiss he would clean up Bush's mess, not make it worse.
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Anhd now its hate to accurately criticize Obama for things he did?
Uh uh, indeed. No sir, I don't like it.
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However, the author didn't predict that Obama would turn into Nixon. As little expectation I had from Obama, I thought he would be another Carter, but it's clear that Nixon is the antecedent.
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His entire administration's transgressions couldn't hold a candle to one week of Obama's dismantling of our Constitutional freedoms and protections.
And he loved our Country enough to resign rather than subject it to crisis.
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Nixon would have gone as far as he thought necessary to maintain power, including martial law. I suppose Obama would too, but we have different circumstances that make direct comparisons difficult. For example, we have a more passive population. Would people have been gunned down instead of beaten up when Obama closed down Occupy camps if Nixon had been in office? And if Obama explores imposing Martial Law, would his advisers advise against it, or say, "Yes, we can!" It hasn't come up because the great majority of the herders and the sheep are on the same page. If we get serious opposition, we'll be in a better position to know.
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If that doesn't speak volumes about how serious the Obama white house is about silence being golden, I don't know what does.
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Cameron promises to scale back on the nanny state but wants porn blocked from the Internet.
Heads of government on both sides of the Atlantic don't know how to keep a promise.
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What I do doubt is how effective those people can be given how rotten politics are nowadays.
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...and they are faithfully keeping every promise they've made to those who have bankrolled their elections campaign.
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I would say it's more a corporatocracy or at the very least an oligarchy. Whatever label applies, though, it's certainly tyranny.
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Bye troll, the black list has you now...
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A dictatorship is a state where there is a single individual whose word is law. The US isn't anything even close to that.
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Oh, please. Please find some creativity and replace that tiresome flat remark.
While Obama's tyranny is being funded by Democrat-liberal-leftist collaborators in corporate America, it required the votes from the intellectually and morally vacant, cowardly and divisive millions -- including the meanstream media -- to help install him.
Were the Fourth estate to have any integrity and character, Obama would never have been elected.
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Like somehow if the guy in charge was wearing a nice little red pin he would somehow be less treacherous than what we currently have.
Pshaw, I say to that.
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There's two ways to have a completely untarnished reputation:
Either make everyone so scared to talk they won't say a single bad word about you...
Or do the right thing.
It always amazes me how many people can't figure that one out.
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Plenty of people "do the right thing" and are still admonished or castigated for their efforts.
The sad truth is that no matter what a person does these days, there will be a group of people who come forward to accuse them of some kind of impropriety.
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Then you should get your spidey-sense adjusted, as it should have also been triggered by Bush, Clinton, and Bush Sr. (I could keep going, but I don't know how old you are.)
BTW, why did you bring up race? That seems an awfully random thing to slip in.
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(Just to be clear, I'm not saying that WG is racist, just that the language raises a red flag.)
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I've seen many, many politicians come and go, of all colors, that have never made me feel this way. There is something wrong here with Obama and his cronies that goes way beyond your instantaneous racial shrill. Get over yourselves.
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There is something profoundly creepy about Obama and his adoring sycophants. He's an absolute fraud, a PR invention marketed like a boy band, who pretends to be knowledgeable about many things, but seems, in fact, to know nothing about any of them. His tent revival preacher act is appalling. This political Elmer Gantry should have been thrown out of office on Day One.
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If he faced death, so be it. If his family faced death, so be it.
They chose to reach for the highest of the high places; they should have been willing to risk the fall.
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Make it into a petition
I want to see them craft a response to that.
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Info still on whitehouse.gov
Quick search for whistle blowers on whitehouse.gov found this PDF.
Not that anything our gov puts out in public means anything anyway, it's all just to keep the majority of the population happy enough that they dont notice the downward spiral they are caught up in.
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Um. Did you read the post? We explained that the front page was set as a whitehouse.gove redirect *in the very first paragraph*. But the underlying content *had* remained. Until now.
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Response to: luke on Jul 26th, 2013 @ 2:24pm
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Hmmm, maybe that's not the best idea...
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Change.gov website content deletion
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So what does Obama & Congress think is Treason ? The enemy is the American public then. Wake up folks we are the governments enemy, that is why Homeland Security purchased 2 billion rounds of UN illegal hollow point bullets.
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Rand Paul 2016 - Uphold the United States Constitution
Libertarianism is a set of related political philosophies that uphold liberty as the highest political end. This includes emphasis on the primacy of individual liberty, political freedom, and voluntary association. It is the antonym to authoritarianism.
One of the most salient features of constitutionalism is that it describes and prescribes both the source and the limits of government power. William H. Hamilton has captured this dual aspect by noting that constitutionalism "is the name given to the trust which men repose in the power of words engrossed on parchment to keep a government in order."
http://www.randpac.com
http://www.paul.senate.gov
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Also not true. He sent it to Wikileaks, who worked with a variety of news organizations (including The Guardian, the NY Times, Der Spiegel and others) to comb through and release only key documents with redactions.
So, no.
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So... Daniel Ellsberg? Not a whistleblower in your book?
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This article is incorrect.
I was there when Change.org launched, involved in the top 10 ideas for change in america campaign and personally spoke with the founders. This article is wrong.
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Re: This article is incorrect.
Furthermore...the article is quite accurate about the owners of that website completely going by and believing in Obama's statement and thus changing the website content itself to hide Obama's earlier protests and agenda to end unwarranted spying. You think that this nation is that stupid?
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Re: This article is incorrect.
How?
I suggest the writer of this article cite his sources or correct his mistake.
Did you even read the article? The source is cited and linked to IN THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE.
Change.org was not set up by the Obama transition team.
Well there's your problem. This story is not about change.org, but change.gov.
That's the most ridiculous accusation so far and that's defamation.
Oh really now? Do tell me your theory on defamation law...
I was there when Change.org launched, involved in the top 10 ideas for change in america campaign and personally spoke with the founders. This article is wrong.
According to your (wrong) theory of "defamation" making an incorrect statement is defamation. You've made a series of incorrect statements in your comment, including claiming that this is about change.org, instead of change.gov, and that I didn't cite my sources. Curious: are you guilty of defamation?
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If you were the real Al Sharpton, there's a better chance you'd hurl the accusation around with a bit more accuracy.
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OBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Obama
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Response to: Roger on Jul 26th, 2013 @ 8:05pm
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"We protect Whistleblowers" said Putin.
K.G.B. Former Boss - 1 vs.
Community Organizer - 0.
Translation: "You remember when you said that you would have more leeway after your re-election, Comrade Barack ..... " Reset - Reset....where is the Reset button when you need it.....L.O.L!
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http://www.boomfox.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=6233
Yep, nothings ever really gone from the internet, silly government. :-)
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Change.Gov
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Re: Change.Gov
Couldn't even read the very first paragraph of the actual post, could you? I mean, really, it's only explained in the second sentence... Yes, the FRONT PAGE redirects, but all the other content had remained. Until just recently.
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Well what are the informed masses going to do about it?
New information has definitely changed views and roused human spirit. What do we do now?
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Neo-Hooverism
It's hard to tell with the neo-Hoover NSA blackmail machine in place.
For those who missed it - people were institutionalized, forcibly medicated and even lobotomized for claiming Hoover was using the FBI to blackmail people. Decades later it turned out to be true. We had a filthy fascist running our national police.
How about the UK? The head of their spy agency (Kim Philby) turned out to be an agent of the USSR and the people he 'caught' were people who might expose him.
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Obama Trying to Prevent Likely Whistle Blowers
Obama is doing the exact opposite of what he promised, and it is so laughably, embarrassingly blatant that he had to slink in with his head down and remove the promise from his website. That's so funny it would be awesome if not so sad for the country.
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Not true, says the WhiteHouse.gov site!
Now you type in "whistle blower" in that site's search, you get the following links: http://search.whitehouse.gov/search?affiliate=wh&query=whistle+blower&submit.x=-330&subm it.y=-484&submit=Search&form_id=usasearch_box
The first three are tied to this, and note that the law is still in effect. However, Snowden is a different case. The law is to protect those who are willing to cooperate with the Government. Snowden decided to expose information and flee, which makes him a very dangerous subject -- He could choose to cooperate with any enemies or give the info away if captured. Either way, he exposes every American to something that even they cannot protect themselves from... As in cyber terrorism that could lead to actual terrorism.
Think about that.
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Re: Not true, says the WhiteHouse.gov site!
Really? So why is it that to this day, he remains in that Russian airport, and neither Russia or China wanted anything to do with him.
Forget Snowden. He's not important. What he revealed is, the massive over-reach of the NSA spying programs. That is terrorism plain and simple.
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Whitey House Whiparound on Whistkleblowers
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LIes, Lies, Lies
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Hypocrisy
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You voted for Clinton and Obama twice now pwn it
Obama doubled down on the Bankster Wall St Bailout, diverted Big Oil no bid contracts to Big Green/Cronies of his own no bid contracts, Continued 2 Bush wars, and started others in the Middle east, Passed a Gaggle of Secret Arrest, Indefinite Detention, Torture and even Assassination of Americans laws and Exec Orders. But you voted for him twice and even thrice.
Time for the designer doped geeks in Silicon Valley to get a taste of their own medicine. You are all spied on, tracked, followed, and recorded, not by evil right wingers, but your own lefto-facist Demorat Party. Remember that when you put the noose over your neck and pull the lever for all the "D"s on the ballot next year and in '16.
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Dems and Republicans Can't Be Trusted
While I don't believe no government is the right approach we need a government we can count on. That means a government where the first order is to obey the Constitution. It is pretty funny that Obama seems to be splitting hairs to support his positions something that makes me very sceptical of him and the both parties. Everything is a nuanced interpretation!!!
Does anyone remember the most popular phrase during '72 election:
"Vote for Nixon in 72, why change Dicks in the middle of a screw!"
We need something like this today because that is what is happening on a bigger and grander scale by both parties and the Whitehouse.
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What what Obama Does
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Politics is a sad game to play, because you never get everything you hope for. Politicians aim high on the campaign trail where they are not encumbered by reality or the need to compromise. Then they get elected, and have to deal with 600 or so other elected people who stood on the campaign trail and pushed for exactly the opposite things.
Obama is not better and no worse that those who went before him (Remember "mission accomplished" with Shrub Bush? Explain to the thousands of families who lost loves ones in Iraq after the mission was "accomplished" how it feels). Clinton got a hummer and played dip the cigar, Bush Sr said "no new taxes" and Reagan said it was morning in America, and used voodoo economics to steal our future - which the world is still paying for today. Carter was harmless, Ford was funny, Nixon was a crook... how far would you like to go back?
Political reality and campaign rhetoric never match up.
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Wake up.
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Beware the 2nd Term
They have nothing to gain in keeping up the micron thin facade that they give a damn.
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2 Veterans walking
www.WalkDaddyWalk.com
The rest of us should also be taking a stand as they are and it's once again veterans defending our freedoms.
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Why not petition the White House to adhere to Obama's 2009 "Ethics Agenda"?
Why not take Obama's (now-disappeared) 2008-election-plus "Ethics Agenda" -- specifically, the "Whistleblower Protections" portion as quoted in the TECHDIRT article above -- and post it, with an introduction, as a PETITION on the White House's own "We the People" petition-site?
For example, perhaps the petition could say:
"Whereas, We, the People of this great nation, being justly proud of our freedoms-based heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those freedoms and human rights to which this nation has traditionally (until now) been committed, HEREBY PETITION the United States Government -- and particularly the current Administration in the White House, and the person currently sitting as President of this nation -- to now FULLY AND WITHOUT RESERVATION (and without intention to deceive, inveigle, or obfuscate) ADHERE TO A PARTICULAR SET OF ETHICS-BASED PRINCIPLES THAT HE AND HIS ADMINISTRATION PREVIOUSLY PROMINENTLY ESPOUSED -- principles that have now apparently been "disappeared" from the Obama-related "Change.Gov" website -- as to the positive importance of and positive need to support the rights of persons who, by dint of their own courage and often at risk to their own futures, seek to expose malfeasance and corruption in our nation's Government: "WHISTLEBLOWERS". Those principles, as previously (but apparently not quite currently) espoused by the person who now sits in the Presidency, had reportedly been stated on the "Change.Gov" website as follows:
"Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process."
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Change For Worse
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Do The Hustle
The Blamer-in-Chief (and/or his gullible minions as witnessed on this site) will simply label this story as yet another "phony scandal".
His palace guard press will dutifully report same a fact.
And we can all keep pretending that somehow even the slightest perceived flaw of this Admin is actually rooted in our own shortcomings predicated by or inability to digest Obama's towering intellectual prowess.
Stay tuned for Act III - 'It Takes a Woman to Save a Village' starring Hillary Clinton
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Lies Goes On....
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Manning
Learn the facts. He put his brothers and sisters in danger during a time of war. He should be put against a wall, stripped of all rank and insignia and shot for treason.
Snowden is an entirely different matter, as is Assange since neither was in the military and one isn't even an American citizen.
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FBHO
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Whistleblower protection
People like Obama couldn't remove paper content.
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prepare oneself for social justice
So look around and realize that everything is going to change and if you make a dime more than anyone else on the planet you better be prepared to have it taken away from you....in fairness.
***note this does not apply to the leaders bringing about the social justice after all, they deserve more in return for their selflessness.
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He signed it.
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Whistle Blowers Turning in Obama Cronies
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I'm going to just flat out say it.
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to Weiner, Spitzer,and the mayor
he said ...as the tel-prompter went blank
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it's called Change.gov
it's the same thing as expecting the truth from TD !!!..
Just not going to happen..
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Color of his skin makes a difference !!!
But OBAMA IS BLACK !!!!!..
The first Black President, so he just has to be the worst.
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Re: Color of his skin makes a difference !!!
Whatever the case, America wanted the novelty of having its first black president. Well, the novelty wore off long ago, and now we all have to live with the consequences.
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Those promises were just for the campaign - not reality.
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Backup of original site
http://web.archive.org/web/20130607161858/http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/
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The invisible hand
I wish someone would create a website that joins groups on issues we all agree on. They use divide and conquer to keep us divided into two half wits right / left. The little things we don't agree on are chump change compared to what we do.
Let's say Obama's birth certificate can be used to throw him out of office anytime he tries to defend our shrinking rights? That is why that mattered. Politicians are nearly all blackmailed and the NSA is an important part of that control structure. Without privacy, there can be no freedom.
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Whats real
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Illegal and unconstitutional administration
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Military Takeover of the Government
Police already abuse the immense power they have, but when everyone’s actions are being monitored, and everyone technically violates some obscure law at some time, then punishment becomes purely selective. Those in power will essentially have what they need to punish anyone they’d like, whenever they choose, as if there were no rules at all.
Google, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, etc got so many requests from the NSA for your data that they built an automated system to handle these warrantless requests for your private info.
This trend towards automation (which includes things like high res license plate scanners and domestically deployed drones) now represents a significant shift in the way that law enforcement operates. Selective detection, arrest, and punishment becomes automated.
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Myth Debunked (It's just been moved, people)
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Re: Myth Debunked (It's just been moved, people)
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"Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process."
Looking at current events, why hasn't there been a move to impeach Obama... at this point isn't it clear that he lied.
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Punished for the rightful acts of others, double injustice.
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obama hypocrisy
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The "presidnet" of the United States
For what did he get the Nobel Price? For closing Guantanamo prison? Not!
Be prepared! The crisis will come! Soon to a house very, very near yours.
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Aldous Huxley and Orwell were both right
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"Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process."
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SHAME ON YOU
Obama is like EVERY politician! He is a LIAR.
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Change.gov is now back up
http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/07/30/change-gov-is-back-up/
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