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Obama’s NSA was eavesdropping on the Conclave!

Color me red as a cardinal’s cassock with indignation!

The UK Telegraph reports:

The National Security Agency monitored telephone calls and emails of many bishops and cardinals at the Vatican in the lead-up to the secret conclave at which Pope Francis was elected.

The information gleaned was then reportedly divided into four categories — “leadership intentions”, “threats to financial system”, “foreign policy objectives” and “human rights”.

Pope is Catholic

Wasn’t NSA spying supposed to be about preventing terrorist attacks before they happened? What’s next … tiny microphones inside Catholic confessionals?

I’m so angry I can barely speak.

Source:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10415228/US-spied-on-future-Pope-Francis-during-Vatican-conclave.html

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Obama caught eavesdropping on his peers

Obama’s NSA has been caught monitoring the phone calls of 35 world leaders, which is not helping the already strained relations between the Obama administration and America’s used-to-be-besties.

Merkel Obama

On Wednesday, German chancellor Angela Merkel accused the US of tapping her mobile phone. White House press secretary Jay Carney swore the US “is not monitoring and will not monitor” the German chancellor’s communications. Berlin replied this in no way denied that Obama had not monitored Merkel’s phone in the past.

Well, yeah … cuz he so did. Add “When I’m president, everyone will LOVE us” to the long list of Obama’s broken promises.

Source:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/24/nsa-surveillance-world-leaders-calls

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So maybe BHO had a nervous breakdown

September 20, 2013: According to the National Report, two reliable confidential informants inside the White House have reported that Obama suffered a mental breakdown and is presently resting and under a doctors care. From the report:

  • This afternoon the National Report received three calls on our nationwide hot tip line (206) 222-1975. Two of the three callers are insiders known to the National Report to be reliable confidential informants. Both confirmed this week has been a political disaster for the president and this has taken a tremendous toll on him.
  • Earlier this week Russian President Vladimir Putin derailed the president’s plan to bomb Syria and bury the U.S. in another war, causing Obama a great deal of shame and public embarrassment.
  • Before Putin resolved the Syrian crisis, he granted political asylum to Edward Snowden, the man who exposed that the NSA is secretly spying on all US citizens with Obama’s approval.

I can believe Obama’s had a nervous breakdown. His thin skin, bad temper and atrocious leadership virtually guaranteed he would at some point or other.

But I am skeptical of this particular source for two reasons:

One, the author got something totally wrong that is very easy to check: “Today’s Gallup poll results have Obama’s approval rating dropped to the lowest in presidential history.”

Obama’s lowest approval at GALLUP was 40% in August 2011. His lowest this month was 44%. The four lowest presidential lows since GALLUP has been tracking this statistic have been GWH Bush 32%, GW Bush 31%, Nixon 25%, Truman 22%.

Two, the ads on the sidebar are of the “I was kidnapped by aliens and gave birth to Satan’s spawn” variety.

Not that absurd grocery store check out tabloids don’t get some stuff right. I think it was The Globe that reported, correctly, that John Edwards had a baby with his mistress while his wife was dying of cancer.

But it puts such a bad taste in my mouth to trust any blog that posts what’s in the sidebar next to the Obama breakdown story: “Twins separated at birth marry and give birth to grotesque incest child.”

Um, hate to break it to ya, but conjoined twins are always IDENTICAL twins. As in two boys or two girls. As in they can’t have a baby together. Sheesh. And the photo looks like something Picasso dreamed up while on LSD, which is worse than getting the Oompa Loompa song stuck in my head.

I need eye bleach.

Source:

September 20, 2013: Meltdown in Washington By Nigel J. Covington III, Editor-in-Chief, National Report

http://nationalreport.net/meltdown-washington-president-obama-reported-sedated-following-emotional-breakdown/

GALLUP’s presidential approval history is at

http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/Presidential-Job-Approval-Center.aspx

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Obama has PROSECUTED, not PROTECTED whistle blowers

 

One of the most egregious examples has been the administration’s aggressive pursuit of Thomas A. Drake, a former employee of the National Security Agency, who attempted to blow the whistle on a flaw in an outrageously expensive software program the government was buying. The Obama administration charged him with 10 felony counts for a possible 35 years in prison. The government was ultimately able to only make one charge stick … a single misdemeanor count of misusing a government computer. And it turned out he was right about the software.

It is also worth pointing out that the administration’s emphasis on secrecy comes and goes depending on Barack Obama’s political agenda. Reporters were briefed so quickly and thoroughly on the allegedly secret operation to capture or kill Osama bin Laden that SEAL team operations and intelligence information gathered during the raid were compromised. And every time there is a successful secret drone mission, reporters are briefed by the White House in a very organized and systematic way.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/opinion/why-is-that-a-secret.html?_r=3  

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/business/media/white-house-uses-espionage-act-to-pursue-leak-cases-media-equation.html

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