NYT: Obama Administration Has Lost All Credibility

[TemplarKormac]

You know it's troubling when you've ticked off the most liberal news outlet in America. The New York Times has now come out swinging after news broke that the NSA signed off on an order requiring Verizon Wireless to submit the phone records of over 120 million subscribers to government officials. The Obama Administration has now come out defending the move.

Within hours of the disclosure that the federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation, the Obama administration issued the same platitude it has offered every time President Obama has been caught overreaching in the use of his powers: Terrorists are a real menace and you should just trust us to deal with them because we have internal mechanisms (that we are not going to tell you about) to make sure we do not violate your rights.

Those reassurances have never been persuasive — whether on secret warrants to scoop up a news agency’s phone records or secret orders to kill an American suspected of terrorism — especially coming from a president who once promised transparency and accountability. The administration has now lost all credibility. Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it. That is one reason we have long argued that the Patriot Act, enacted in the heat of fear after the 9/11 attacks by members of Congress who mostly had not even read it, was reckless in its assignment of unnecessary and overbroad surveillance powers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/o...dragnet.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0&pagewanted=all

 

[OriginalShroom]

Damn.

The Times has finally woken up.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Repeal the Patriot Act now!

 

[The Rabbi]

The media have found themselves in teh administration's crosshairs and it is affecting their bottom line. Obama has kicked the sleeping lion. Watch how fast the media turns on him and starts doing actual investigative work again. Then watch his poll numbers tumble.

 

[tinydancer]

Interesting. Thanks for putting this up.

 

[Dugdale_Jukes]

Damn.

The Times has finally woken up.

Twelve years late is better than never.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

I'm sure Lakhota will dig up an article from Salon.com that says otherwise!

 

[TemplarKormac]

Interesting. Thanks for putting this up.

You're welcome TD!

 

[g5000]

Hey, the right wing lost the 2008 election and suddenly realized it was passing the totalitarian torch it had created to a Democrat.

A little late to be waking up, kids.

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

God only knows the damage this THUG has done to our National Security. His hatred of America and Israel should have been a clue to his LOUSY ass lickers but he's BLACK so who the fuck cares?! Right race baiters?????

 

[The Rabbi]

Hey, the right wing lost the 2008 election and suddenly realized it was passing the totalitarian torch it had created to a Democrat.

A little late to be waking up, kids.

Good gawd. Can you be any dumber?

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

Hey, the right wing lost the 2008 election and suddenly realized it was passing the totalitarian torch it had created to a Democrat.

A little late to be waking up, kids.

You have ZERO credibility here too..YOU ARE The LOSER who demanded WITHOUT any proof that the film-maker , you know that 9-11 video that caused Benghazi??? The one your god Obama used to cover his sorry ass.. that very same one.. you DEMANDED in that thread for this man to be executed.. YOU SAID THAT.. I have it bookmarked ..

 

[TemplarKormac]

The media have found themselves in teh administration's crosshairs and it is affecting their bottom line. Obama has kicked the sleeping lion. Watch how fast the media turns on him and starts doing actual investigative work again. Then watch his poll numbers tumble.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto probably felt the same way after he bombed Pearl Harbor.

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

 

[TemplarKormac]

Hey, the right wing lost the 2008 election and suddenly realized it was passing the totalitarian torch it had created to a Democrat.

A little late to be waking up, kids.

Wow.

And the Obama Administration took the torch, and didn't put it out, they ran with it.

Quiet you.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Not only that, it has also been revealed that the NSA has also subpoenaed your web history... links will be forthcoming as they become available.

 

[francoHFW]

BS- Latest news is this whole thing is a renewal, every 3 months, of a policy in place for the last SEVEN YEARS. ANOTHER BS Pub "scandal"...

OP- RW spam for dupes only. Who wrote this, and how is it NOT the "NYT"?, lying RW swine and silly dupes...lol

 

[Sherry]

Hey, the right wing lost the 2008 election and suddenly realized it was passing the totalitarian torch it had created to a Democrat.

A little late to be waking up, kids.

Yeah, remember when the left tried to paint McCain as a Bush third term.

 

[TemplarKormac]

BS- Latest news is this whole thing is a renewal, every 3 months, of a policy in place for the last SEVEN YEARS. ANOTHER BS Pub "scandal"...

OP- RW spam for dupes only. Who wrote this, and how is it NOT the NYT"?, lying RW swine and silly dupes...

The New York Times editorial board wrote this, you idiot. Stop trolling my thread.

 

[Sarah G]

You know it's troubling when you've ticked off the most liberal news outlet in America. The New York Times has now come out swinging after after news broke that the NSA signed off on an order requiring Verizon Wireless to submit the phone records of over 120 million subscribers to government officials. The Obama Administration has now come out defending the move.

Within hours of the disclosure that the federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation, the Obama administration issued the same platitude it has offered every time President Obama has been caught overreaching in the use of his powers: Terrorists are a real menace and you should just trust us to deal with them because we have internal mechanisms (that we are not going to tell you about) to make sure we do not violate your rights.

Those reassurances have never been persuasive — whether on secret warrants to scoop up a news agency’s phone records or secret orders to kill an American suspected of terrorism — especially coming from a president who once promised transparency and accountability. The administration has now lost all credibility. Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it. That is one reason we have long argued that the Patriot Act, enacted in the heat of fear after the 9/11 attacks by members of Congress who mostly had not even read it, was reckless in its assignment of unnecessary and overbroad surveillance powers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/o...dragnet.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0&pagewanted=all

You all were just as certain that Romney was going to win the election too. You've also brought scandal after scandal that simply hasn't worked out as you expected.

Calm down. Your bullshit has ticked off America. Nothing you say has any cred.

 

[TemplarKormac]

You know it's troubling when you've ticked off the most liberal news outlet in America. The New York Times has now come out swinging after after news broke that the NSA signed off on an order requiring Verizon Wireless to submit the phone records of over 120 million subscribers to government officials. The Obama Administration has now come out defending the move.

Within hours of the disclosure that the federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation, the Obama administration issued the same platitude it has offered every time President Obama has been caught overreaching in the use of his powers: Terrorists are a real menace and you should just trust us to deal with them because we have internal mechanisms (that we are not going to tell you about) to make sure we do not violate your rights.

Those reassurances have never been persuasive — whether on secret warrants to scoop up a news agency’s phone records or secret orders to kill an American suspected of terrorism — especially coming from a president who once promised transparency and accountability. The administration has now lost all credibility. Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it. That is one reason we have long argued that the Patriot Act, enacted in the heat of fear after the 9/11 attacks by members of Congress who mostly had not even read it, was reckless in its assignment of unnecessary and overbroad surveillance powers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/o...dragnet.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0&pagewanted=all

You all were just as certain that Romney was going to win the election too. You've also brought scandal after scandal that simply hasn't worked out as you expected.

Calm down. Your bullshit has ticked off America. Nothing you say has any cred.

Soooo, what does this have to do with my thread exactly?