A guy I went to law school lost his best friend in a somewhat similar incident. He was from Buffalo, was in the Buffalo Bison farm system and his best friend and teammate was on his motorcycle one night at dusk and some idiot parked his car and boat trailer in his driveway, the boat motor in raised position sticking out in the street. Never say it. Took his head clean off. _
Basically my view is that if congress believes that laws have been broken then they not only have the right but the obligation to try to compel testimony from executive branch staffers that they believe have broken the law. If congress does not believe a law was broken I don't believe they have the right to compel testimony from executive branch staffers who were brought in by the executive to advise the executive and do not hold positions requiring congressional confirmation. It's one thing to grill a person when you believe a law has been broken and quite another to try to hold their feet to the fire for giving what you believe was bad advice. If you try to hold the people advising the President to that standard, that anything they say to the President is fair game for congress to rake over then you no longer have separation of powers in play. It's not like the President is allowed to call congressional staffers to the White House for a news conference when he disagrees with something they've done, right? He's not allowed to sic the Justice Dept on them because they might have given a Senator or Representative bad advice.
You didn't say it was a Democratic stronghold, you said there was popularity with government. Please cite three examples where someone here has indicated they are happy with the government. Shit - show us one.
And remember the model who got off the small plane, walked around front and backed into the propellor? Disaster.
It is a bold move to carry on the previous administrations work to fight terrorism. Remember when it came out that the Bush admin received the brief "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US" in August of 2001? I wish Bush had been a little bit more bold. (Or brave or smart or forward thinking or ...)
Yeah Bill Clinton could have had Bin Laden in 96", refused. Could have killed him in 98" said was worried about collateral damage. Then of course there is this. Yeah, I kid, I know it's photoshopped.
I can't give credit to a man that sits back and watches the intelligence and military community do their jobs. He had zero input. Secondly, you guys talk as if Barack had a revolutionary new idea to kill this man. The policies and framework was set in place by junior. In reality we've endured (at least) 16 years of corruption from the executive branch that spans two political parties. There is no way he deserves any credit for allegedly killing Bin Laden.
And those policies and framework worked so well from the summer of 2001 to January of 2009? What were they?
You know the way we proached asymetrical warfare and terrorsim changed since 2001. You can not honestly think the executive branch does anything but take credit for the work of our men and women with real jobs. And please understand, I'm not hating on Barack because I'm some Sean Hannity listening republican. I say this about Bush Junior and his administration too. Having said that, your angle about the previous administration's shortcomings while valid, do not hit me close to home with me.
