Fresh off of a brand new series of document releases, including several that flat out admit to the NSA violating the US Constitution with its surveillance schemes and collecting broad swathes of data about ordinary Americans’ communications, the White House is quick with another statement.
Caught red-handed in repeated lies about the NSA not doing any surveillance of the American people, White House spokesman Josh Earnest issued a new statement that was materially identical to the old one, insisting that “there is no spying on Americans.”
Which would be good news, except for all that spying on Americans that’s clearly been going on. Instead of copping to it, the administration seems to be hoping that no one will notice if they reiterate the lies.
It’s not working. Recent polls show that President Obama’s approval rating continues to decline significantly, and is falling fastest among young voters. That’s only natural when the truth about NSA surveillance is as ugly as it is.
But the big question is how long this can be sustained. More revelations of NSA violations keep coming, and even the schemes’ supporters see the Obama Administration’s position as totally untenable.
We still don’t know the full extent of the NSA’s abuse, and the more we learn the worse its going to get. The administration obviously won’t come clean on what’s still going on behind closed doors, but it is their refusal to come clean on what they already caught doing that is the most troubling aspect, one that dramatically underestimates the American public’s ability to get information that wasn’t in an official White House press release.
It's certainly true that the history we are being taught is nearly all lies and 99% propaganda……… Maybe the governance corollary becomes: Everything the government says are lies………… The "O" team werkin hard to win that title……. What a Team ……. !!!!!!!!!!
Impeach …. well, at least if we were still a democracy and a nation of laws.
It's becoming obvious that given what we've been allowed to see recently, courtesy of Manning and Snowden that, well, we aren't.
We definitely should impeach. Obama has consistently broken the law, way back when he invaded Libya without seeking Congressional approval. He's been committing unconstitutional crimes every day since then. Impeachment sends a message to the next person holding the office that they will no longer get away with committing these crimes. Besides, it's the right thing to do.
Some pro-Obama types respond: "We'll just get Biden." I always tell them that's not the point. I'm pretty sure the grounds for impeachment doesn't have an asterisk at the end, stating: "Unless Biden is V.P." We impeach because the president broke the law. He has. Ergo he should be impeached. If there was any justice left in America, he would also be indicted and imprisoned,.
Lies, lies and more lies, what will they think of next?
It’s the famous “Big Lie” technique, which used to work more reliably. It isn’t working quite so well this time probably because after persecution of WikiLeaks, tapping reporter’s phones and attempted intimidation of the Guardian the press is more ambivalent than usual in its willingness to play along. Of course, the Internet and sites like Antiwar.com have also done much to prevent the lies and distortions from succeeding, but to be quite honest, the abuse of great power is failing mainly though its usual pitfall — overreach.
Josh is not being earnest.
They figure that the sheeple will be distracted by another "crisis of the hour" or a TV show about something incredibly DUMB.
Impeach Obama and vote the entire scheming Congress out next opportunity. And BTW, prosecute Clapper. And Dick Cheney. But I digress…
The US government can no longer be supported as a legitimate government. The crimes and the lying are just too many.