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- The Secret Memo That Explains Why Obama Can Kill Americans
- Professional tea party cashes in
- Herman Cain wins Tea Party straw poll in Illinois
| The Secret Memo That Explains Why Obama Can Kill Americans Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:12 PM PDT
Outside the U.S. government, President Obama’s order to kill American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki without due process has proved controversial, with experts in law and war reaching different conclusions. Inside the Obama Administration, however, disagreement was apparently absent, or so say anonymous sources quoted by the Washington Post. “The Justice Department wrote a secret memorandum authorizing the lethal targeting of Anwar al-Aulaqi, the American-born radical cleric who was killed by a U.S. drone strike Friday, according to administration officials,” the newspaper reported. “The document was produced following a review of the legal issues raised by striking a U.S. citizen and involved senior lawyers from across the administration. There was no dissent about the legality of killing Aulaqi, the officials said.” Isn’t that interesting? Months ago, the Obama Administration revealed that it would target al-Awlaki. It even managed to wriggle out of a lawsuit filed by his father to prevent the assassination. But the actual legal reasoning the Department of Justice used to authorize the strike? It’s secret. Classified. Information that the public isn’t permitted to read, mull over, or challenge. Why? What justification can there be for President Obama and his lawyers to keep secret what they’re asserting is a matter of sound law? This isn’t a military secret. It isn’t an instance of protecting CIA field assets, or shielding a domestic vulnerability to terrorism from public view. This is an analysis of the power that the Constitution and Congress’ post September 11 authorization of military force gives the executive branch. This is a president exploiting official secrecy so that he can claim legal justification for his actions without having to expose his specific reasoning to scrutiny. As the Post put it, “The administration officials refused to disclose the exact legal analysis used to authorize targeting Aulaqi, or how they considered any Fifth Amendment right to due process.” To read more, visit: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/10/the-secret-memo-that-explains-why-obama-can-kill-americans/246004/ |
| Professional tea party cashes in Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:10 PM PDT By KENNETH P. VOGEL | Politico If you've got fundraising muscle, it pays to be tea party. That's the takeaway from recently released financial reports for five of the biggest conservative groups that latched onto the small-government movement. The groups — Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks, Club for Growth, Leadership Institute and Tea Party Express – raised $79 million last year. That's a 61 percent increase from their haul in 2009, when the tea party first started gaining traction, and an 88 percent increase over their tally in 2008, according to a POLITICO review of campaign reports and newly released tax filings. And the two biggest groups — Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks — tell POLITICO they're planning to raise and spend a whopping $156 million combined this year and next, laying the groundwork for what could be a massive tea party organizing push against Democrats and the occasional moderate Republican in 2012. It's an entirely different story for the ragtag local groups that form the heart of the tea party, which struggle to raise cash. To read more, visit: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/64957.html |
| Herman Cain wins Tea Party straw poll in Illinois Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:08 PM PDT BY SAM HUDZIK | WBEZ91.5 Presidential candidate Herman Cain came to Illinois this weekend to woo Tea Party activists, and left with a straw poll victory. Cain attended the Midwest Tea Party Convention in northwest suburban Schaumburg. The Georgia businessman got the crowd at TeaCon 2011 riled up on Saturday afternoon by paraphrasing the Declaration of Independence. “It says when any form of government becomes destructive of those ideals, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it,” Cain said. “We’ve got some altering and some abolishing to do.” Cain’s speech to the activists had few Illinois references to it. Asked later by a reporter for his thoughts on local issues like Asian carp or the O'Hare Airport expansion, he laughed. "I’m sorry,” Cain said. “That one is way out of my league. I'm not even sure what you're talking about." Cain won 77 percent of the straw poll vote. He was the only presidential candidate to show up at the convention, though organizers said all the contenders were invited. To read more, visit: http://www.wbez.org/story/herman-cain-wins-tea-party-straw-poll-illinois-92729 |
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