Most American Presidents have used their position to "abuse" the power of the Office of the Presidency. I think this practice of abusing power is as old as mankind; I would say civilization, but there is nothing civil about abuse.
John Adams wanted to stop the news media from printing anything against the government. An abuse of the 1st Amendment.
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
In 1798 the United States stood on the brink of war with France... The Sedition Act made it a crime for American citizens to "print, utter, or publish . . . any false, scandalous, and malicious writing" about the Government.
The laws were directed against Democratic-Republicans, the party typically favored by new citizens, and the only journalists prosecuted under the Sedition Act were editors of Democratic-Republican newspapers
..Sedition Act trials, along with the Senate’s use of its contempt powers to suppress dissent, set off a firestorm of criticism against the Federalists and contributed to their defeat in the election of 1800, after which the acts were repealed or allowed to expire....
Twenty-five American citizens were arrested under the Sedition Act. Among them was a Congressman who was convicted and imprisoned for calling President Adams a man who had "a continual grasp for power."
Executive Privilege
"Obama invokes executive privilege to protect Eric Holder: Can he do that?"
.."Executive privilege is usually reserved for matters of national security, ..also is used for White House matters and correspondence.
The White House says it applied the same standards as the Bush and Clinton White Houses did in claiming the executive privilege (Bush claimed it six times; Clinton. 14). ..
... critics claim the administration is trying to protect its political appointees, including Holder, while possibly covering up not just a matter of national and international concern but a program that may have involved US officials breaking the law.. ..But the confrontation has now moved to a new, somewhat unprecedented level, says Mr. Munger, for a presidency that has previously pushed the bounds of presidential power. “It is absolutely a constitutional showdown: an assertion of privilege to be able to ignore a constitutional order by the Congress…”
Unfortunately, this "executive privilege" order also keeps the Terry family from knowing the truth about the death of their son. They will not have closure.
Benghazi
Now we come to the coverup of Benghazi ..."stonewalling and the complicity of the Big Media in ignoring or downplaying the Benghazi story during the last weeks of the campaign, the Obamaites.."Got Passed"..the post on Nov. 6 without being called to account…"
A President can willfully keep "Justice at bay" and the ones who re-elect any President, knowingly, has blood on their hands too.
"...The president says he is keeping Americans informed as we learn the truth. But is that still credible?
When did Obama learn that State was following the Benghazi attack in real time, that camera-carrying drones were over the city that night, that a seven-hour battle was fought,
that desperate cries for help were being turned down...
Five days after Benghazi, Susan Rice went on five national TV
shows to say the attack was a spontaneous protest over an anti-Muslim video.
Did the president not know she was talking nonsense? …."
The Questions Should Be
If Obama can "lay claim" for his quick action military assault on bin Laden; why is it, he "does not lay claim" to the "lack of quick action" in Benghazi's security and attack?
He keeps telling us that "I will get the people who did this."
Mr. President, you don't have to look far..
for the same reason, you brag about killing bin Laden on your command…
...upon your command...
your inactive military response by " standing down," resulted in 4 dead
American patriots!
Will this be another "Executive Privilege" order to bury the truth along with the 4 dead Americans? They will be lining up behind the first dead US agent.
How much power should a President have?
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