Note the friendly smile and lack of surprise from The Champ. Note the failure to remove the protestor. Note the Champ engaging the protestor in dialogue.
[BEFOREITSNEWS] Barack Hussein Obama had served 14-State Governors in the United States, National Security Letters (NSLs) warning that the Governor's actions in attempting to form "State Defense Forces" needs to be halted "immediately" or they will face arrest for the crime of treason. The employment of NSLs was authorized by the Patriot Act introduced by George W. Bush. Contained within the section related to these letters, it is forbidden for anyone receiving a NSL warning to even acknowledge the existence of said communication.
Obama is angered by the several State Governors who have reestablished "State Defense Forces." These forces are described as: "State Defense Forces (also known as State Guards, State Military Reserves, State Militias) in the United States are military units that operate under the sole authority of a state government; they are not regulated by the National Guard Bureau nor are they part of the Army National Guard of the United States. State Defense Forces are authorized by state and federal law and are under the command of the governor of each state. State Defense Forces are distinct from their state's National Guard in that they cannot become federal entities."
Mr. Obama is fearful of these State Defense Forces, in that he does not have control of said forces, and with the U.S. Military stretched to near breaking from multiple deployments and theatre actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, these State military forces would be under the direct command and authority of the Governors in which states have said forces. In essence, the Governors would have "de facto control" of the United States.
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Washington DC occupies a very tiny little plot of ground for someone to be threatening/intimidating the biggest states in the Union from. Just goes to show how ignorant the Junior Senator from bankrupt Illinois is.
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hmmmmm perhaps we now know why DHS is buying up all those hollowpoints?
Posted by: Frank G ||
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They've always been there. Some states have allow them to lapse. Some have been reduced to basically administrative offices.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The Constitution doesn't prohibit it. In fact for the Civil War, the national government relied upon the states to provide the bulk of the Union Army.
With the downsizing of the federal military in the Great Peace Dividend at the end of the Cold War, the gutting of the regulars meant that the following conflicts would involve the activation of a significant portion of the Reserves and, particularly, the National Guard. When NG units are federalized and deployed that leaves the states without the manpower and services to address natural disasters and civil unrest. Several states have personally experienced that in the last 10 years of active worldwide military commitments.
If this is real, it needs to be broadcasted to the fullest as a clear sign that there won't be a 2014 election.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
05/24/2013 9:09 Comments ||
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Mark Brandt Dayton (born January 26, 1947) is an American politician and the current and 40th Governor of Minnesota, serving since 2011. He was previously a United States Senator for Minnesota from 2001 to 2007, and the Minnesota State Auditor from 1991 to 1995. He is a member of the Minnesota DemocraticFarmerLabor Party (DFL), which affiliates with the national Democratic Party.
The other 13 are to the best of my research via wiki, Republican.
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If this is real,
Indeed, Procopius; something is peculiar about this story - we should have heard more in the past two weeks if it was as it seemed. Breitbart.com is usually pretty good but maybe this was from some low-level flunky in some casual context or such. It is clearly unconstitutional (but then a lot of stuff is clearly unconstitutional to me but not the Supreme Court) and against all historical precedent.
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The State Defense Forces have been a feature of the US since before 1776. During WWII practically every state had them, and they were used to replace the National Guard while the National Guard was off fighting the war.
Many, if not most of the people in these units have law enforcement backgrounds and back up the police during natural (or man made) disasters.
Posted by: Frozen Al ||
05/24/2013 10:36 Comments ||
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This has nothing to do with Breitbart. It is likely entirely bogus.
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NSL's normally are demand letters used to obtain information accompanied by a gag order and normally are not executive orders. Google however went public in a fight against NSL's that demand information on Google customers, email, sites visited, etc..
NSL can be issued from a low level FBI field office manager. It circumvents the Constitutional protection against unreasonable searches.
I would not put it past this POTUS to try to intimidate Governors as the Federal gag order associated with NSL's would intimidate Governors to keep quite about his attempts at disarming the States through incarcerating the states governors.
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We'll see if the proof is in the pudding. If these states stop any activity around the creation, maintenance or organizational control of SDFs then we can suspect that there is some fire to go with the smoke.
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Rambler: on the other hand do you see a case for espionage against James Rosen?
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From the next paragraph in the article ... "The two Governors leading this move are: Tim Pawlenty, Governor of Minnesota; and Rick Perry, Governor of Texas."
T-Paw is no longer the Governor here (here = Minnesota). As 7thDim pointed out, the current Gov. here is Mark Dayton.
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"Contained within the section related to these letters, it is forbidden for anyone receiving a NSL warning to even acknowledge the existence of said communication." How convenient.
I saw this same story several weeks ago, didn't buy it then and not buying it now. Aside from the references to governors no longer in office, does anyone really think that NONE of the governors that supposdly received the letter would hold a press conference about this?
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It's probably not correct, but it does sound plausible when you consider the ongoing unconstitutional behavior of the Bambi people, and the approval of their leftist lapdogs. >:-(
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Texas has a large and active state defense force, including training, ops, comm, Air Force (transport), navy (coastal and riverine), and even a Marine force, in addition to the typical Army units. These are in addition to the Guard units.
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These sorts of organizations pre-date the Obama administration. In fact, many of them pre-date the formation of the National Guard.
The problem with "Before It's News" is that it tends to be "Before It's Real". I would put them in the same bucket as DEBKA. Fun to read, but probably made up by the person typing up the story.
[Breitbart] In his Thursday speech at the National Defense University in Washington D.C., Champ went out of his way to spin the terrorist attacks in Benghazi as a predictable result of loosely-affiliated terrorism. Predicable? Was it then preventable as well ?
First, Champ stated that "the core of al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan is on the path to defeat ... Hence their marked increase in activity.
They did not direct the attacks in Benghazi or Boston." This is a bizarre spin, considering that the Benghazi attackers were from Ansar al-Shariah, a terrorist group directly affiliated with al Qaeda, and that Ansar al-Shariah is a highly organized local terrorist group. In any case, al Qaeda is an umbrella organization working with dozens of terrorists groups around the world.
Obama continued trying to claim that Benghazi was an isolated incident, despite the fact that the terrorist attack there was merely the latest in a long line, and very similar to terrorism from Iraq to Afghanistan. He said, "We'll face more localized threats like what we saw in Benghazi ... in which local operatives -- perhaps in loose affiliation with regional networks -- launch periodic attacks against Western diplomats, companies and other soft targets, or resort to kidnapping and other criminal enterprises to fund their operations." But Benghazi is nothing new. That has been the pattern of terrorism for the last forty years. Obama's attempt to claim that he has effected a groundshift in the nature of terrorism is simply false.
Lois Lerner, the director of the tax-exempt organizations division at the Internal Revenue Service, has been placed on administrative leave, sources in Congress and the administration confirm.
Federal workers are given pay and benefits when put on administrative leave.
My understanding is the new acting IRS commissioner asked for Ms. Lerners resignation, and she refused to resign, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in a statement. The IRS owes it to taxpayers to resolve her situation quickly.
Acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel has selected Ken Corbin as the acting director, of the exempt organizations division. Corbin is currently the deputy director of the submission processing, wage and investment division.
Lerner was the official who revealed during a May 10 American Bar Association conference in Washington that employees in the IRSs tax-exempt unit in Cincinnati had improperly scrutinized applications from dozens of organizations. On Wednesday, she invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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Don't confuse this Lerner's admin leave measure with some sort of punishment. Admin leave allows Lerner to devote the maximum amount of time to coordinating her legal defense. Difficult to coordinate those....sensitive fone calls from the office.
Continuing with the White House strategy of denying any wrongdoing with regard to manipulation of talking points after the Benghazi terror attacks of September 11, 2012, President Obama nominated a central figure in that manipulation, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland, to assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs.
Nuland has been grilled repeatedly by members of the press over the State Departments inconsistent positions on what happened in Benghazi. Newly-released emails show that Nuland tried to minimize terrorist involvement in the Benghazi talking points, stating she had serious concerns that such information would be used for political gain by Congressional Republicans. Specifically, Nuland wanted to strike all references to al Qaeda and CIA warnings about the dangers to American diplomats in Libya.
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An obscure November 2012 Wikileaks email dump points to former White House counterterrorism adviser and now-CIA chief John Brennan as the person behind the witch hunt of journalists who reported unflattering Obama administration leaks.
A little over a week after President Barack Obamas reelection, Wikileaks released an email dump of global intelligence files from the private intelligence company Stratfor. One particular email, dated September 21, 2010 discussed President Obamas Leak Investigations.
The Massachusetts ACLU tweeted out a link that referenced the email and the presidents war on whistleblowers on November 15, 2012. The tweet only received two re-tweets after sitting online for seven months. Stratfor's VP for Intelligence, Fred Burton, declined to comment for this story.
The Obama administration has faced criticism not only for seizing phone records of 20 Associated Press reporters but also monitoring private emails and phone calls of Fox News Reporter James Rosen.
[NationalReview] 'The misconduct had stopped in May of 2012," White House press secretary Jay Carney told news hounds on Monday about the IRS's improper targeting of conservative groups. Not so, say two D.C. attorneys, each representing a number of conservative groups that -- after years of waiting and countless rounds of invasive questions -- have yet to receive recognition from the IRS.
The American Center for Law and Justice, headed by chief counsel Jay Sekulow, plans to file suit in federal court in the coming weeks on behalf of more than two dozen conservative groups that claim their harassment at the hands of the nation's tax authority continued long past the White House's purported end date -- and, for a number of them, continues still. Of the 27 organizations the ACLJ has represented to date, ten still have not received approval, two years after applying. Two others gave up.
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