The Department of Justice offered a defense Thursday for President Obama’s controversial decision to make several recess appointments while Congress was holding pro forma sessions.
In a memo, Justice argued the pro forma sessions held every third day in the Senate do not constitute a functioning body that can render advice and consent on the president’s nominees. It said the president acted consistently under the law by making the appointments.
by Adam Clark Estes
It’s unclear exactly why, but the Department of Homeland has been operating a “Social Networking/Media Capability” program to monitor the top blogs, forums and social networks online for at least the past 18 months. Based on a privacy compliance review from last November recently obtained by Reuters, the purpose of the project is to “collect information used in providing situational awareness and establishing a common operating picture.” Whatever that means. Either way, the list of sites reported by Reuters reveals in a Wednesday afternoon exclusive is pretty intriguing:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/homeland-security-watches-twitter-social-media-183721483.html
The purpose of the monitoring, says the government document, is to “collect information used in providing situational awareness and establishing a common operating picture.”
The President is taking on dictatorial powers and has seized “emergency” powers through the various super agencies and illegally appointed regulators in a shadow government. Congress is inept, the Courts are packed with Fifth Columnists, and the Press is quietly looking the other way.
The Constitution is violated with impunity. The tenth and ninth amendments are meaningless. The second is in a death rattle, and the first amendment is teetering like a Saddam Hussein statue in central Baghdad.
Its high time to start documenting the final days of Free America.
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