Rep. Peter King (R – NY) is publicly fuming tonight after the Treasury Department announced they couldn’t follow through with his demand to place WikiLeaks on the SDN list, insisting that they had absolutely no evidence supporting their addition under any of the existing criteria.
Treasury officials insisted they don’t just get to add whoever they want to the list, which imposes a full embargo on anyone who finds themselves on it, but that they can only amend the list under the terms of executive orders or Congressional legislation.
Which seemed to infuriate Rep. King even further, as he insisted that Treasury officials need to “explain themselves to the American people” and justify exactly why WikiLeaks in general and Julian Assange in particular don’t fit under the “terrorist” criteria.
Several officials have called Julian Assange a “terrorist” over the past few months, but the legal basis for doing so appears murky, at best. The Treasury Department does not appear to have authority to ban people as “terrorists” simply on the basis of a few officials calling someone a terrorist.
Hey King. I are an American people and the Treasury Dept doesn't have to explain a thing to me beyond why they haven't put the Pentagon and WH on the list. "Absolutely no evidence" obviously doesn't cut much ice with a contemptible toad like yourself and your buddies who try to out-patriot each other every day and end up making yourself look like third world thugs in the process. Meanwhile HIllary is over in the UAE telling the Arab countries how they must become more transparent, calm their citizens by stressing the rule of law and equal protection and involve their peeps in the ongoing dialgoue so that religious extremists don't get their ear instead. Next week, I guess the UAE SOS comes here and gives the same speech to us.
Carroll ever say far down this rabbit hole goes?
What I am suprised a US Governemnt department that actually follow its guidelines.
Congratulations!
Let us hope that ignorant Politicians dont change those guidelines!
Now the reality His Majesty Rep. KIng is one of those fools in the legislature of the United States who believes in ONLY the United States of America having Universal Jurisdiction. Ask him whether Germany or Spain could issue an Arrest Warrant for Bush or Obama or Rumsfeld for War Crimes and I bet you he would squeel like a stuck pig that they couldnt and it would be illegal, yet the same fool is more than happy to say that he can introduce a similar law into the US Congress to arrest anybody whom he believes has committed a crime anywhere in the world.
He then wonders why the World is laughing at the United States, the stupidiy and arrogance of their Politicians is a sight to behold, and a matter so sad, because they actually think they are correct and the rest of the world is wrong.
Peter King is participating in heated political debate! Ah oh! That makes him the T word now!
Ummmm…since when do our little Napoleon's concern themselves with things like rules? I thought they just rule and we are to obey. I am confused now.
They just haven't passed their unconstitutional retroactive law yet. No worries Mr. King, you'll likely get your wish.
Good for the Treasury Department. Mr. King will have to vent his demagogy on people who are willing to overthrow the rule of law to accomplish their tyranny. Unfortunately, there are tens of millions of boobi americani who are quite willing to that,
Everyday King gets up in the morning and says to himself…what can I do to make myself look like the Ass Hole I am today…A few days ago was the brilliant one thousand foot gun free zone for politicians only…he really meant him of course but he had to say politicians so he did not sound too scared…that was a winner…
A few weeks ago he called for the killing of Assange, a clear violation of the law for inciting murder…now comes this deal where he calls out the Treasury for not following his directive to make Assange into a terrorists without any evidence of Assange being a terrorists except for his opinion…
Maybe we will get lucky and he will piss of the people over at the treasury department and they will take a look at him and find out that as member in good standing of the US congress that he is in fact a terrorists…
IS there something in the water in New York state? Why do they elect people like King and Hilary? I guess you could point to the same sort of authoritarian politicians in any state though, but man, it would be hard to top those two at the moment.
It will be with consummate joy to watch Peter King's forehead vein explode on live television. You see Anderson Cooper wil put a question to King, King will grow enraged and apoplectic, his forehead vein will begin to throb, and then explode all over Anderson Cooper. Now that's some enlightening infotainment.
After congressional hours, Peter King puts on his finest Joe McCarthy suit and parades around his house proclaiming, "I'm the King of demagoguery!"
It is not hyperbole to call Peter King a fascist.
Not to worry, the Treasure Department will soon be receiving other directives in the matter. This was just a temporary glitch in the corporafascist matrix.
If a terrorist is a person who strikes terror into the hearts of civilians through violence, I guess Wikileaks is striking terror into the hearts of politicians and corporate leaders, so perhaps they are terrorists too. No violence, but that's a small detail.