Last time we checked it was Obama, not Dick Cheney who authorized the drone assassination of American citizens on U.S. soil.

Via Politico:

President Barack Obama’s defense to Democratic senators complaining about how little his administration has told Congress about the legal justifications for his drone policy: Dick Cheney was worse.

That’s part of what two senators in the room recounted of Obama’s response when, near the outset of his closed-door session with the Senate Democratic conference on Tuesday, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) confronted the president over the administration’s refusal for two years to show congressional intelligence committees Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel memos justifying the use of lethal force against American terror suspects abroad.

Obama recently allowed members of those panels to see the memos, but only after senators in both parties threatened to hold up the confirmation of John Brennan as Central Intelligence Agency director. Brennan was confirmed last week, but lawmakers not on one of the intelligence panels are still being denied access to the memos and several are steamed over being frozen out.

In response to Rockefeller’s critique, Obama said he’s not involved in drafting such memos, the senators told POLITICO. He also tried to assure his former colleagues that his administration is more open to oversight than that of President George W. Bush, whom many Democratic senators attacked for secrecy and for expanding executive power in the national security realm.

“This is not Dick Cheney we’re talking about here,” he said, according to Democratic senators who asked not to be named discussing the private meeting.

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/03/14/obama...eney-on-drones/

What a sorry *%%&%#!

You're right, Obama.

Dick Cheney is sane. Dick Cheney loves America. Dick Cheney is competent.

And Dick Cheney would NEVER approve of killing Americans on American soil without due process.

You're not even close to the caliber of Dick Cheney.

Hilarious. Looks like there are cracks in the Rat united front foundation. We have Lib Senators running to the Regimes house organ, Polutico, to call out Zero on his blatant bullshit. Not even the Kool Aid drinkers are rolling over for it anymore.

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President Barack Obama’s defense: Dick Cheney was worse.

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I tried-out that kind of defense with my parents.................when I was 5 years old.

Their response was wholly unpleasant, relative to my ability to sit on hard surfaces immediately thereafter.

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Last time we checked it was Obama, not Dick Cheney who authorized the drone assassination of American citizens on U.S. soil.
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Quote: Eglman wrote in post #1

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Last time we checked it was Obama, not Dick Cheney who authorized the drone assassination of American citizens on U.S. soil.
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Now don't confuse Obama with reality and facts. He's been given his story and he's sticking to it.

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