You keep saying "Pass a law or let the current law keep going" but I do not think that means what you think it means.
One of the fundamental problems is that the Obama administration (and previously the Bush administration) sets up their own interpretations of laws passed by Congress (and the Constitution and international treaties, etc). In the case of things like waterboarding, drone usage, wiretapping, and on and on, those interpretations are increasingly being held to be state secrets. So you now find yourself in a situation where person A (perhaps a US Senator) thinks that the law they passed says one thing but the Executive Branch feels that the law says another thing or doesn't even apply to them...and no one knows because it is a secret. And they hold that courts can't know or review either. And whatever the Bush administration said the law meant may not be what the Obama administration says the law means...and the law never changed and no one ever gets told and it is all done in secret. That's the problem. It's not so simple as "here's the current law, pass a new one if you don't like it". I wish it was. But we've moved beyond that to a state of secret laws and, as much as I really really dislike Rand Paul, that's why I'm glad he's doing this. Judah On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions < [email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There is something viscerally wrong with sending a drone after someone. > > Anywhere, in my opinion. However, if the administration's positon is that > > this is just fine even in the United States where most people say the > > Constitution precludes this, then I am even more agaist this notion of > > theirs. It is wrong. Plain wrong. > > > > I think my whole issue is that this has been going on for years and it's > just now that they care about this... why the big hupla now? > > This artical is over 2 years old... > > http://www.academia.edu/392756/Legality_of_Targeted_Killings_by_Drone_Attacks_in_Pakistan > > Congress should pass a law that bans the killing of someone anywhere in the > world. As we are the only country that has such a law in the first place.OR > just don't allow the CIA to carry out these drone attacks, leave it to the > Military. > > Unless they pass a law, the current ones on the books allow for such > an assault so they should deal with it by actually limiting the fracking > scope. Obviously they won't do this so they just blame Obama for using > drones as a means to not actually get anything accomplished. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:361801 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
