Obama to Bring Accountability to Spending Plan

[SubVet571]

Oh boy, Here we go. What a crock of sh#t. This guy can spew more sh#t than a sick elephant.

We, as a country, are screwed for the next two years, with a lying socalists.

Obama on Accountability??? He doesn't know the definition of the word.

[huskie767]

this administration and 111th congress isn't even 100 days old and look how much damage they have done.

Stand-by the DOW will go to 5,000 by DEC 2009. Thanks Barry.

[poopstreek]

Can't spend our way out of a spending problem.

[SarphusUO]

we sure can't.

keynesian economics extended the great depression to last more than a decade.

keynesian economics created double digit inflation during carter's failed administration.

obama is applying the same failed policy now and destroying our economy. I don't see how he could possibly be implementing such a known failed policy accidentally. Especially when he says "most economists agree", cause most economists agree that the keynesian model fails.

[uniloop]

Barak your ideas seem to be in the interest of the Federal Reserve Bank... congratulation on change

[willquinteros]

President Obama could atone for his vote that supported the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 by appointing such a bipartisan commission composed of technology experts who are also familiar with the Constitution.

Bamford says that the insatiable NSA is "developing an artificial intelligence system designed to know what people are thinking." Here come the thought police!

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But there is so much still to find out about the NSA's "many highly secret programs" that a separate commission is sorely needed to probe exclusively into the past and ongoing actions of the Black Widow and other NSA lawless intrusions into our privacy and ideas.

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There are increasing calls, inside and outside of Congress, for President Obama to urge investigations by an independently bipartisan commission—akin to the 9/11 Commission—to get deeply into the many American and international laws so regally broken by Bush and his strutting team.

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When the Times executive editor, Bill Keller, first decided to hold the explosive story for a year, General Michael Hayden—the former head of the NSA who is currently running the CIA—was relieved because he didn't want the news to get out that "most international communications pass through [these telecommunications] 'switching,' " Bamford reports. It would blow the cover off those corporate communicators. Now, AT&T, Verizon, et al., don't have to worry, thanks to the new law.

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McConnell also said of the NSA's nonstop wiretapping: "This is the only aspect of those various activities whose existence has officially been acknowledged."

Come on, Mike. Bush acknowledged the NSA's flagrant contempt of the First and Fourth amendments only after The New York Times broke the story in December 2005.

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Voilá! Also, he notes: "Much of those communications passed through that secret AT&T room that Klein found on Folsom Street in downtown San Francisco."

There's a lot more to come that we don't know about. Yet. In The Shadow Factory, James Bamford quotes Bush's Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell as saying that this wiretapping program was and is "only one program of many highly secret programs approved by Bush following the attacks on 9/11" (emphasis added).

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"For decades, AT&T and much of the rest of the telecommunications industry have had a very secret, very cozy relationship with the NSA." In AT&T's case, he points out, "its international voice service carried more than 18 billion minutes per year, reaching 240 countries, linking 400 carriers, and offering remote access via 19,500 points of presence in 149 countries around the globe."

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Consider the enormous and bottomless databases that the government—and its NSA—can have a ball with. In James Bamford's The Shadow Factory (Doubleday)—a new book that leads you as far as anyone has gone into the bowels of the NSA—he notes:

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As in the past, but now with "legal" protection under the 2008 statute, your suspicious "patterns" can go to the FBI, Homeland Security, the CIA, and state and local police that are also involved in "fusion centers" with the FBI.

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What you should know is that these fruitful cables go through "a splitter" that, as Klein describes, "just copies the entire data without any selection going on. So it's a complete copy of the data stream."

Under the new FISA Amendments Act, there are no limits on where this stream of data can be disseminated.

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On National Public Radio on November 7, 2007, he disclosed: "It's not just AT&T's traffic going through these cables, because these cables connected AT&T's network with other networks like Sprint, Qwest [the one firm that refused to play ball with the government], Global Crossing, UUNet, etc."

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That's OK with the Obama administration? Please tell us, Mr. President.

Some of us began to see how deeply and intricately the telecoms were involved in the NSA's spying when—as part of an Electronic Frontier Foundation lawsuit—it was revealed by a former AT&T technician, Mark Klein, that he had found a secret AT&T room in which the NSA was tapping into the telecom giant's fiber-optic cables.

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What particularly outraged civil libertarians across the political divide was that the FISA Amendments Act gave immunity to the telecommunications corporations—which, for seven years, have been a vital part of the Bush administration's secret wiretapping program—thereby dismissing the many court cases brought by citizens suing those companies for violating their individual constitutional liberties. This gives AT&T, Verizon, and the rest a hearty signal to go on pimping for the government.

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The cool pragmatist wanted to indicate he wasn't radically unmindful of national security—and that his previous vow to filibuster such a bill may have been a lapse in judgment. It was.

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This gives the word "dragnet" an especially chilling new meaning.

The ACLU's Jameel Jaffer, director of its National Security Project, adds that the new statute, warming the cold hearts of the NSA, "implicates all kinds of communications that have nothing to do with terrorism or criminal activity of any kind."

Why did Obama vote for this eye-that-never-blinks? He's a bright, informed guy, but he wasn't yet the President-Elect.

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"The government [is now permitted] to conduct intrusive surveillance without ever telling a court who it intends to spy on, what phone lines and e-mail addresses it intends to monitor, where its surveillance targets are located, why it's conducting the surveillance or whether it suspects any party to the communication of wrongdoing."

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n July, George W. Bush signed into law the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which gives the NSA even more power to look for patterns that suggest terrorism links in Americans' telephone and Internet communications.

The ACLU immediately filed a lawsuit on free speech and privacy grounds. The new Bush law provides farcical judicial supervision over the NSA and other government trackers and databasers. Although Senator Barack Obama voted for this law, dig this from the ACLU

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"The NSA's colossal Cray supercomputer, code-named the 'Black Widow,' scans millions of domestic and international phone calls and e-mails every hour. . . . The Black Widow, performing hundreds of trillions of calculations per second, searches through and reassembles key words and patterns, across many languages."

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Obama To Increase Spying On YOU

Barack Obama will be in charge of the biggest domestic and international spying operation in history. Its prime engine is the National Security Agency (NSA)—located and guarded at Fort Meade, Maryland, about 10 miles northeast of Washington, D.C. A brief glimpse of its ever-expanding capacity was provided on October 26 by The Baltimore Sun's national security correspondent, David Wood:

[jrubin22]

Military spending is pork for conservatives. They get socialized healthcare and get paid even when not at war. War is just the Conservative way of getting value for $.

[OldSchoolAmerican]

Obama is not a natural born US citizen and can never be POTUS. His presidency will be an illegal one that is not recognized by millions of American Patriots.

[Ithallis]

Wtf you people still on about Obama, the republicans had their 8years of Bush. The most hated president worldwide ever and presumably one of the least intelligent. Please move to Alaska where ignorance still reigns supreme, and give Obama at least 4 years in office. THEN use your power to prolong or kick his presidency.

[abarzilai664]

Obama talks the talk on getting tough on pork but will he walk the walk? I think no. Pork is a way for a Senate or rep. to gain loyalty back in his home state, besides there are no pure examples of outright pork so they can use sematics to get their pet projects passed. Many dems and BO himself will think that as evil pork is, the supermajority must be maintained so they will treat it as a neccesary evil.

[blueninja1213]

Obama is a fraud. He is controlled by the same people that controlled the puppet Bush and presidents before him. This country was hijacked by criminals in 1913. Research and understand the illuminati, the federal reserve, government sponsored terror, zionism, freemasons. 911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB. DEMAMD THE TRUTH BEFORE THE CRIMINALS DO IT AGAIN.

[averageworkinggal]

Obama's 'stimulus' plan is going to give every politician their own 'bridge to nowhere'.

It's a 'bridges to everywhere' plan.

[averageworkinggal]

Ban earmarks?

Obama's 'stimulus' plan is hundreds of billions of dollars in earmarks not the usual $20B yearly.

[ZoomBFX]

Obama:

My welfare checks "cough" tax cuts will help everybody!

[4U2TakeBackAmerica]

Most American's don't know this but out Constitution provides the Congress members are allowed to say anything they want to without impunity. That means they can lie and never be charged with slander or for lying.

And as I hear Obama give his speeches and addresses, all I can say is "hes lying", and the media swoons over the guy? It is sick.

Obama is an empty suit and has to be proped up because he really does not know what he is doing. This dangerous because there is too much at stake

[Hardwaykru]

relax and give the man a chance

[4U2TakeBackAmerica]

Accountability? Like Where?

He can not even be accountable for his birth certificate.

He can not even be accountable for who contributed to his campaign.

He is accountable for nothing and America expects his administration to accountable

I have found out one thing. America has come to love liars. That is why they hate President George W. Bush.

Obama found out something early also. He found the he counld lie and get away with it. Like just about all Democrat Congressmen an women.

[CRAPCANNONS]

Why the hell doesn't he put David Walker in charge (The Comptroller General of the United States)?

/watch?v=OS2fI2p9iVs

No that would be too easy.

[fatmoleman]

Because that would be actual change crapcannon!!

Out of all his appointments, I see NO change.

[slLLyhumans]

Obama is the man .

[Gina2NYC]

Really? How?

[slLLyhumans]

#1 He isnt muslim

#2 He just put an Italian in charge of the CIA .

Need I say more ? haha

[Gina2NYC]

Thats it? LOL

[slLLyhumans]

If you were proud to be Italian then that would be enough .

[Gina2NYC]

#1 I don't like Obams and #2 I am proud to be Italian but Obama made a bad choice for CIA director. Panetta is just another Washington insider with no experience.

[Gina2NYC]

BTW Mussolini was Italian too. He didn't make proud.

[slLLyhumans]

You know he is my only exception as well . Im still not clear why he attacked Ethiopia .

[mail062000]

if obama had been muslim he wouldnt have been elected