"President Trump will sign the border security compromise package on Capitol Hill to avert another government shutdown and will take the extraordinary step of declaring a national emergency to obtain funding for the border wall, the White House announced Thursday."
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @06:18AM (3 children)
You can find it right next to Obama's promise to stop illegal mass surveillence.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @09:01AM (2 children)
But at least he fulfilled his promise to close gitmo, right? Right? Thanks Obama!
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @10:16AM (1 child)
https://theintercept.com/2015/11/10/congress-overwhelmingly-votes-to-block-guantanamo-closure/ [theintercept.com]
Obama's fault? Might as well say that not building a wall is thanks to Trump. Some bizarro world you people live in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court [wikipedia.org]
So, you may want to look in the Request Denied and Modified columns. You'll see that under Obama these numbers sent up from 0 to something more than 0.
My suggestion is to wake the fuck up about realities of your country and get involved instead of spouting these idiotic things like Trump does. This may require you getting educated instead of spouting one liners based on a summary of some website clickbait you saw but never even bothered to read.
(Score: 3, Informative) by urza9814 on Friday February 15 2019, @03:55PM
I see you've fallen for his propaganda. In reality, he never needed their permission, he just used that as an excuse so he could pass the blame along to someone else. He was pretty good at doing that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-president-doesnt-need-congresss-permission-to-close-guantanamo/2015/11/06/4cc9d2ac-83f5-11e5-a7ca-6ab6ec20f839_story.html?utm_term=.b99229f4a5ae [washingtonpost.com]
So you think Obama was elected in 2003 or...?
Obama approved 12,162, modified 541, and rejected 41
Bush approved 14,353, modified 399, and rejected 6
Clinton approved 6,057, modified 1, and rejected 0
Obama looks a hell of a lot closer to Bush than anyone else in that chart. What does it matter that he rejected three dozen when he approve *thousands* more?