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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Incompetence At The White House

Oliver North: Obama Administration Is 'Jimmy Carter on Steroids'

Tuesday, 25 Jun 2013 06:22 PM
By Greg Richter and Kathleen Walter
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The failure of President Barack Obama's administration to convince China and Russia to turn over state-secrets leaker Edward Snowden shows an America losing influence in the world, Lt. Col. Oliver North tells Newsmax TV.

"We always thought that Jimmy Carter was the worst administration you could possibly have," North said. "This is Jimmy Carter on steroids."



Despite National Security Adviser Tom Donilon's assurances that Hong Kong would turn Snowden over to the United States, Snowden was aboard a plane the same day, and is now in a Moscow airport.



"Now we've got Putin who basically says, 'Stick it in your ear, Obama; I'm going to send the guy wherever he wants to go,'" North said. "This is a total breakdown of American credibility because everybody knows that Barack Obama doesn't mean anything he says."

The IRS targeting of conservatives, the Benghazi probe, the NSA scandal, and spying on the media all contribute to a lack of credibility for the administration, North said.

There are plenty of ways to put pressure on foreign governments to convince them to help us, North added. "Some of them are economic, some of them . . . make life difficult for the diplomats."

Though he is critical of the White House's ability to catch Snowden, North believes the PRISM program exposed by the former NSA contract worker goes further than the Patriot Act intended.

"There is no doubt we need to be able to figure out who's talking to bad people overseas," North said, but "the idea of intercepting every single American communication to do that shows first of all a broader, deeper reach than was ever intended."

Only calls to someone outside the United States were supposed to be picked up by surveillance, North said. Any calls between two phones inside the United States would be kicked out of the system.

But in the final year of the George W. Bush administration, the program was modified to pick up broader data.

"Clearly the Obama administration is now overwhelmed itself with data so that we don't even know that there's a United States Army major making phone calls to places like Yemen and sending emails to places like Yemen," North said. "We don't know that there's two Chechen youngsters in Boston who are communicating with people in Chechnya and other terrorists in other parts of the world because they've overwhelmed themselves with data."

North doesn't hold out much hope for Obama's promised cut in nuclear weapons. Obama has said that if he can get Russia on board he can bypass treaties and Congress to reduce American warheads to 1,000.

"First of all, the guy who's supposedly going to cooperate with this is Vladimir Putin," North said. "Czar Putin isn't about to do this."

Putin can see the proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world, North said, and while the Russians have modernized their weapons programs, the United States has done nothing for more than 20 years.

There is no historical record that unilateral disarmament has ever made the world safer, North said, particularly for the country that is disarming. "Even Switzerland, which has been neutral in all the wars in the last four centuries in Europe … doesn't disarm."



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4 comments:

  1. Is this the same Oliver North who was fired by Reagan, lied to Congress, destroyed evidence in a criminal investigation, and convicted on three felonies?

    Anyhow, my question for him is the same as I asked you. What does he/you want us to do? Declare war on Russia? The only reasonable response is to refuse to extradite any more criminals to Russia, if they refuse to extradite Snowden. "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander."

    --David

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  2. North was indicted in March 1988 on 16 Iran/contra charges, along with Poindexter, retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord and Albert Hakim in a 23-count indictment. After the cases were severed and the central conspiracy charges were dropped due to classified-information problems, North stood trial beginning in February 1989 on 12 counts. On May 4, 1989, he was found guilty of three counts, including aiding and abetting obstruction of Congress, shredding and altering official documents, and accepting an illegal gratuity from Secord. North's convictions were vacated on July 20, 1990, after the appeals court found that witnesses in his trial might have been impermissibly affected by his immunized congressional testimony.

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  3. I know all that. How about answering my question?

    --David

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  4. Your question assumes that Snowden is a criminal, a fact that has not been established. Remember, the founders of this country also would have been tried and hung, had they been caught.

    Just because he let the world know that we have been spying on friends and enemies alike as well as Americans. This government believes that everyone who is not in their camp (and maybe some of them) are their enemy. It believes that Tea Party, conservatives, gun lovers, second amendment believers all are enemies of the state. This also includes ALL returning servicemen. It is a paranoia that is very dangerous.

    Additionally, North's convictions were overturned on appeal, so your condemnation of him is inaccurate.

    I refuse to call Snowden a criminal until such time that the facts are out. However, that will never occur since the government is going to cover up all the facts on the basis of "national security." How could he get a fair trial?

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