December 16. 2020

Barack Obama and his self professed top advisor, Harvey Weinstein, who came to Obama with the idea of running for president, after reading a script (Joe Biden Is A Power Hungry Criminal From The Obama Administration Following A Movie Script).

After a hotly contested 2020 presidential election, where voter fraud was brazenly present, the Electoral College confirmed former vice president, Joe Biden, as the next president of the United States. Previously, Biden was vice president under former president, Barack Obama.

Obama, a Nobel Prize winner, murdered many civilians in the Middle East via an unprecedented number of bombs. Children were even killed in the many bombings. In one incident, Obama specifically ordered the murder via drone of a 16-year-old boy (see external article excerpt below). The man is an abomination and aberration.

Obama also engaged in a practice greatly frowned upon in America as it is unconstitutional - extrajudicial killings. Obama even had people killed who began spilling secrets detrimental to his political career.

Obama had U.S. citizens and foreigners killed by the C.I.A. and F.B.I in violation of the law. It is a crime under U.S. law to order or sanction the killing of an American citizen. However, Obama repeatedly did so anyway like a devil, in his repeated pattern of spitting on the law, despite the fact he is a lawyer.

So, to recap, that's bombing men, women, children and babies, while holding a Nobel Peace prize, and ordering the extrajudicial killings of American citizens in America and on international shores, all in violation of U.S. law. Obama is full of contradictions and hypocrisy, among other things, like crap.

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Biden distances himself from Obama amid 'third term' comparisons

Published November 25 - The president-elect said 'we face a totally different world.' Sen. Scott: How will Biden differ from Obama with identical Cabinets? Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., reacts to Joe Biden's Cabinet picks and Georgia Senate runoffs.

President-elect Joe Biden is seeking to distance his incoming administration from comparisons to the Obama years, as some critics speculate his presidency could be the equivalent of a third term for former President Barack Obama.

"This is not a third Obama term because we face a totally different world than we faced in the Obama-Biden administration," Biden told NBC News in an interview this week. “President Trump has changed the landscape, it’s become ‘America First,’ which meant America alone.”...

https://www.foxnews.com

ACLU & CCR Lawsuit: American Boy Killed By U.S. Drone Strike

The ACLU and CCR have filed a lawsuit challenging the government's targeted killing of three U.S. citizens in drone strikes far from any armed conflict zone. In Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta (Al-Awlaki v. Panetta) the groups charge that the U.S. government's killings of U.S. citizens Anwar Al-Aulaqi, Samir Khan, and 16-year-old Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi in Yemen last year violated the Constitution's fundamental guarantee against the deprivation of life without due process of law.

The killings were part of a broader program of "targeted killing" by the United States outside the context of armed conflict and based on vague legal standards, a closed executive process, and evidence never presented to the courts...

https://www.aclu.org

Obama’s covert drone war in numbers: ten times more strikes than Bush

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Published January 17 2017 - The Bureau co-publishes its stories with major media outlets around the world so they reach as many people as possible. There were ten times more air strikes in the covert war on terror during President Barack Obama’s presidency than under his predecessor, George W. Bush.

Obama embraced the US drone programme, overseeing more strikes in his first year than Bush carried out during his entire presidency. A total of 563 strikes, largely by drones, targeted Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen during Obama’s two terms, compared to 57 strikes under Bush. Between 384 and 807 civilians were killed in those countries, according to reports logged by the Bureau.

The use of drones aligned with Obama’s ambition to keep up the war against al Qaeda while extricating the US military from intractable, costly ground wars in the Middle East and Asia. But the targeted killing programme has drawn much criticism.

The Obama administration has insisted that drone strikes are so “exceptionally surgical and precise” that they pluck off terror suspects while not putting “innocent men, women and children in danger”. This claim has been contested by numerous human rights groups, however, and the Bureau’s figures on civilian casualties also demonstrate that this is often not the case.

The White House released long-awaited figures last July on the number of people killed in drone strikes between January 2009 and the end of 2015, an announcement which insiders said was a direct response to pressure from the Bureau and other organisations that collect data. However the US’s estimate of the number of civilians killed – between 64 and 116 – contrasted strongly with the number recorded by the Bureau, which at 380 to 801 was six times higher.

The number of countries being simultaneously bombed by the US increased to seven last year as a new front opened up in the fight against Islamic State (IS). The US has been leading a coalition of countries in the fight against IS in Iraq and Syria since August 2014, conducting a total of 13,501 strikes across both countries, according to monitoring group Airwars.

In August US warplanes started hitting the group hard in Libya. The US declared 495 strikes in the country between August 1 and December 5 as part of efforts to stop IS gaining more ground, Airwars data shows...

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com

Obama’s ‘Kill List’ Compared to Trump’s Action [OPINION]

January 9, 2020 - Obama Administration White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs explained to a reporter why President Barack Obama was justified when he ordered an airstrike, targeting and killing a 16-year-old American citizen eating dinner at an outdoor restaurant in Yemen on October 11, 2011:
Reporter: Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was an American citizen, underage...he was a minor and was killed without due process, without a trial.

Gibbs: I would suggest that you would have a far more responsible father if they were truly concerned with the well-being of their children. By the time this boy was killed by President Obama's specific orders, his father had already been killed, also by an Obama-ordered drone attack.

Anwar al-Awlaki was a Muslim cleric, born in New Mexico, who went on to inspire "lone wolf" al Qa'eda sympathizers to kill Americans and was publicly speaking out against America and justifying the killing of as many as possible.

Anwar renounced his citizenship and moved him and his family to Yemen before making such dangerous public statements. He was an al Qa'eda supporter and recruiter for sure. With a phone call and a push of a button, a drone's missile took him out on a Yemen road on September 30, 2011. White House officials insisted that he was centrally planning lethal al Qa'eda operations there.

https://wbsm.com

From torture to drone strikes: the disturbing legal legacy Obama is leaving for Trump

Updated Jan 10, 2017, 10:07pm EST - In his farewell speech Tuesday night, President Obama warned that Americans “must guard against a weakening of the values that make us who we are.” “That’s why, for the past eight years, I’ve worked to put the fight against terrorism on a firmer legal footing,” Obama said. “That’s why we’ve ended torture, worked to close Gitmo, and reformed our laws governing surveillance to protect privacy and civil liberties.”

But while that makes for a nice sound bite, it’s not entirely accurate. Using drones to kill American citizens without trial, collecting the email and phone records of millions of Americans on a daily basis, and grabbing militants off of the streets of foreign cities and imprisoning them indefinitely — these are all powers that Obama has bequeathed to his successor.

Presidents George W. Bush and Obama both dramatically expanded the power and authority of the executive branch, particularly in the realm of national security. In addition to having nearly unlimited power to start wars without Congress’s approval, presidents now have the power to order drone strikes on US citizens abroad without charges or trial, gather millions of Americans’ emails and phone records with minimal judicial oversight, and radically redefine what does and does not constitute “torture” without fear of ever being prosecuted for war crimes...

https://www.vox.com

If Obama apologized for 1 civilian drone victim every day, it would take him 3 years

This week, President Obama expressed regret for two western hostages held by Al Qaeda and accidentally killed in an "anti-terrorist operation." The deaths of these two men — American consultant Warren Weinstein and Italian aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto, both of whom had been held by Al Qaeda for several years — were indeed tragic.

It would be bad enough if they were the only innocent victims killed by the US in the "War on Terror." But they aren’t. Over a thousand civilians — including dozens of Westerners — are among the thousands of people who have died in US drone strikes conducted outside its declared war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, according to independent estimates.

While US policy clearly states that attacks by unmanned aerial vehicles are only carried out when there is “near certainty” that “non-combatants” — i.e. innocent civilians — will not be killed or injured, this latest incident in western Pakistan shows the US often really doesn't have a clue who it's killing.

Figures tallied by groups such as The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) and Open Society Foundation also suggest as much. More from GlobalPost: Drone Wars: Is it legal? TBIJ data show the US has launched more than 500 drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia since 2002 as part of counter-terrorism operations launched in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.

Those covert operations, directed by the CIA and military, have resulted in the deaths of as many as 5,160 people, including 1,124 civilians, according to TBIJ...