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   omQ R said, 11 months ago

   Not so far-fetched; there’s Bradley Manning as a precedent.
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   win said, 11 months ago

   Don’t ask, don’t tell
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   zoidknight said, 11 months ago

   What do you expect from a the democrats who lock up Border Patrol agents for doing their jobs.
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   skipcarlsen said, 11 months ago

   Is Rall suggesting that it is somehow immoral/illegal to kill Islamic terrorists using drones or use a computer virus to hamper the Islamic fanatics in Iran from developing nuclear weapons? If so then he needs to have his head examined.
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   jrmerm said, 11 months ago

   Zapping people from drones is illegal and immoral, using a computer virus to interfere with Iran’s development of nukes is common sense.
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   babka said, 11 months ago

   snap. nutshell. tell it! amen.
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   mikefive said, 11 months ago

   I think this ‘toon is about the Obama administration’s persecution and prosecution of whistleblowers. It’s my understanding he now not only holds the record for prosecution of whistleblowers but has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other presidents combined.
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   Ted Rall said, 11 months ago

   @skipcarlsen

   How do you know?

   How do you know who the Administration is killing with drones? You don’t.

   I assume you’re conservative. I remember the old days when conservatives distrusted government. You know, they were right about that. Politicians are liars. So are their political appointees in the military.

   Also, there is no evidence—none—that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. And there is even less than zero evidence that Iran would use them if they had them. Only one country has used them—us.
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   Ted Rall said, 11 months ago

   @jrmerm

   It’s all good fun until the other side starts infecting OUR computers with viruses.
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    Ted Rall said, 11 months ago

    @et2008

    Amazing how widely reported news stories can be dismissed online. Even more amazing that I have to point out the truth:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=all
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    MortyForTyrant said, 11 months ago

    “Innocent people”??? Ted, how do you know that? Not even Faux News ever claimed these people were innocent! I call Bullpucky…
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    Ted Rall said, 11 months ago

    @MortyForTyrant

    Morty: Did you take civics? Here in the United States, everyone—including foreign nationals—is considered innocent until they are proven guilty in a court of law. Drone victims are, by definition, innocent.
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    Donald Williams said, 11 months ago

    ^
    I agree.

    The destruction of the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution is reprehensible.

    The link you provided [ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=all ] has some notable quotes:

    1) "The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel prepared a lengthy memo justifying that extraordinary step, asserting that while the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee of due process applied, it could be satisfied by internal deliberations in the executive branch.

    “Mr. Obama gave his approval, and Mr. Awlaki was killed in September 2011, along with a fellow propagandist, Samir Khan, an American citizen who was not on the target list but was traveling with him.”

    [The program reminds me of John Yoo’s advice to GWB that would have led to Martial Law with in the U.S. with a mere stroke of the pen.]

    2) “Mr. Hayden said. ‘I have lived the life of someone taking action on the basis of secret O.L.C. memos, and it ain’t a good life. Democracies do not make war on the basis of legal memos locked in a D.O.J. safe.’”
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    Tigger said, 11 months ago

    Fred Thompson saved Nixon from a life sentence in Federal Prison when Fred told Nixon the prosecution knew about the tapes, and it was best if Nixon turned over the tapes. With this tip, it gave Nixon time to erase incriminating evidence of his voice implicating him as the mastermind behind the break-in of Democrat Headquarters inside The Watergate Hotel. This is what saved him from a Life Sentence in Federal Prison, where he should have gone.
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    dtroutma said, 11 months ago

    EVERYTHING is “good”, until it’s used against US! The purpose of “secret” courts to authorize covert actions is only a smokescreen, and interesting that when Bush ignored the process, it was “good”, now Obama seems to be using it, but still it’s a farce.

    
    That said, if a grand jury, which operates in secret here at home, finds reason to take a case to trial, there is typically a “suspicion” of guilt, to take to a jury of peers, and the “innocent until proven guilty” thing really isn’t the operative. Then it’s a battle between attorneys, rather than a real fight for justice, before a jury of “peers”, which any more, means unemployed morons.
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