2. Out of Iraq by end of term of office;

3. Out of Afghanistan by end of term of office;

4. Guantanamo Bay military prison closed by end of term of office.

On my list, he's 0/3 -- and on items he expressly promised us in 2008, to boot.

parasites. A lot of bad cess followed from that.

And Holder? AG Holder? "I'm AG, you go free, Holder"

1. Refused to prosecute the bankers
2. Renegotiate NAFTA
3. Offered SS up for cuts.
4. Eric Holder was a disgrace to the office.

Does that sound criminal and senseless? MIC and Wall Street have been running the country.

Hey, currently 17F. Wintry mix of 1-3" tomorrow, then zoom to near 50, with rain? The drought is over!

pushing of that is what finally killed it for me with him. His cynical use of race to portray anyone against that piece of shit as racist finally pushed me over the edge into open contempt. His non-response to Standing Rock, his response to Occupy, the drones and his personal kill list, his outright betrayal on putting SS and Medicare up for the chopping block, and now this latest idiocy with Russia. The refusal to help home owners who lost their homes while bailing out the banks should have done it for me but I was still convinced he was just being stymied by racist, Tea Bag Repugnants. What a joke that is. I'll never be able to watch him speak again.

Just posted this within a comment in another thread here, lol, although it's been mentioned on-onsite previously, by whom I cannot recall.

Please note the year in which this was passed, and under which Dem President - and that the State Dept. (among others) seems still loaded with 'above the law' Clinton appointees/supporters publicly and purportedly 'legally' lying through their teeth.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5?op=1

The NDAA Legalizes The Use Of Propaganda On The US Public

Michael B Kelley

May 21, 2012

The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes an amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on the American public, reports Michael Hastings of BuzzFeed.

The amendment — proposed by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and passed in the House last Friday afternoon — would effectively nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which explicitly forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion.

Thornberry said that the current law “ties the hands of America’s diplomatic officials, military, and others by inhibiting our ability to effectively communicate in a credible way,” according to Buzzfeed.

The vote came two days after a federal judged ruled that an indefinite detention provision in the annual defense bill was unconstitutional.

Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, who released a highly critical report regarding the distortion of truth by senior military officials in Iraq and Afghanistan, dedicated a section of his report to Information Operations (IO) and states that after Desert Storm the military wanted to transform IO "into a core military competency on a par with air, ground, maritime and special operations." ...

... If the NDAA goes into effect in its current form, the State Department and Pentagon can go beyond manipulating mainstream media outlets and directly disseminate campaigns of misinformation to the U.S. public.

And for those who may be on devices making the following of links difficult:

https://www.occupycorporatism.com/how-the-ndaa-allows-us-gov-to-use-prop...

How the NDAA Allows US Gov to Use Propaganda Against Americans

22 Jul, 2013 by Susanne Posel

The US government has unbound the legal regulations against using propaganda against foreign audiences and American citizens. The intention is to sway public opinion by using television, radio, newspapers, and social media targeting the American and foreign people in controlled psy-ops.

The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has an amendment added that negates the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 (SMA) and the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987.

These laws made propaganda used to influence foreigners and US citizens illegal. Without these laws, disinformation could run rampant throughout our information junkets.

This amendment added to the NDAA has passed into implementation as of this month.

SMA defines the prohibition of domestic access to influence information through a variety of means, from broadcast to publishing of books, media, and online sources by restricting the State Department.

The Broadcasting Board of Governors was created from SMA. This agency claims to “inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy”. They omit that their specialty is making sure propaganda is added to the informational flow we all depend on.

The amendment sanctions the US government, without restriction, the use of any mode of message to control how we perceive our world. ...

... According to Michael Hastings : “The new law would give sweeping powers to the State Department and Pentagon to push television, radio, newspaper, and social media onto the U.S. public. “It removes the protection for Americans,” says a Pentagon official who is concerned about the law. “It removes oversight from the people who want to put out this information. There are no checks and balances. No one knows if the information is accurate, partially accurate, or entirely false.”

Representatives Mac Thornberry (R-TX) and Adam Smith (D-WA) in the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (2012) (H.R. 5736), advocate that it is time to liberate the authority of the US government to broadcast American produced foreign propaganda in the U.S.

The amendment, which was hidden within the NDAA, has remained relatively unnoticed. However, it empowers the State Department and Pentagon to utilize all forms of media against the American public for the sake of coercing US citizens to believe whatever version of the truth the US government wants them to believe.

All oversight is removed with Amendment 114 . Regardless of whether the information disseminated is truthful, partially truthful or completely false bears no weight. ...

... Four billion dollars per year is spent by the Pentagon on propaganda aimed at the American public; as well as $202 million spent by the Department of Defense on misinformation operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2011.

Currently, the Pentagon is using “ sock puppet ” (fake handles) on social media sites to purvey false information, harass users and enact psy-ops to influence Americans. ...

... US Army whistleblower, Lieutenant Col. Daniel Davis believes there is a definitive aspiration within the US government “to enable Public Affairs officers to influence American public opinion when they deem it necessary to “protect a key friendly center of gravity, to wit US national will.”

Edward Bernays would be proud.

Isn't all of this so far mentioned within this thread enough proof that the entire freaking government has forsworn oaths required to hold office involving upholding the Constitution, forms no legitimate democratic government and is increasingly treasonous?

Edited in case it's necessary to point out the obvious fact that that no government or public official in any democracy has any authority to con/deceive or otherwise abuse the public trust it exists specifically to serve. And that criminals abusing their public office to create or support 'law' intended to purportedly 'legalize' any such abuses have merely compounded their criminal acts...

... Representatives Mac Thornberry (R-TX) and Adam Smith (D-WA) in the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (2012) (H.R. 5736), advocate that it is time to liberate the authority of the US government to broadcast American produced foreign propaganda in the U.S. ...