Obama Overrules Lawyers on Libya

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Conservative Byte
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President Obama decided he had the legal authority to continue the U.S. military campaign in Libya without congressional approval over the objections of Justice Department and Pentagon lawyers, according to The New York Times.

Instead, the president sided with other senior administration lawyers who said that continuing U.S. participation in the air operations against the regime of Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi did not constitute “hostilities,” triggering the need for Congressional permission under the War Powers Resolution, the New York Times reported in its online edition Friday night.

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  • Dalgast

    I just wonder if this DAN would consider someone participating in dropping bombs on the White House “Hostilities” When he says stuff I take into consideration that he is only about two runs up the ladder evolutionally then a chimp, but even a monkey would be as stupid as Obama.

    • OneCitizenOfTheRepublic

      IMPEACH!!!!!!IMPEACH!!!!!!IMPEACH!!!!!! (I Arab countries all you have to do to get a divorce is stand in a public place and yell three times…I divorce you. I divorce you. I divorce you…and its a done deal. Its way past time for America to divorce Obama. For treason (giving Russians full information about the cruise missles that we sold to our alli Great Britian)…for criminal fraud (the birth certificates) and for other high crimes and misdemeanors

      Article II Section 4. The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

      Its time to act. We must not allow this sorry excuse for an America to get away unpunished. I’d rather let some of the minor terrorists go from prision that think of paying for Obama to retire for the rest of his life on our dime…seeing how he already spent a big pile of our future times against our best interests.

      Begin impeachment today!!!!!!! If we wait until 2012, he will retire with full benefits. It is us to us to make the SENATE understand that we will not tolerate his actions…nor theirs until the end of this term.

      • George

        The maxist muslim scandal in the White House of the United States of America does ANYTHING he damn well pleases and gets away with it because he has built a moat around himself and filled it with alligators, the likes of which are the DOJ, CIA, and the rest of his corrupt thugs and minions. The self-appointed dictator of the United States and Israel needs to be shown the BACK DOOR and led directly to prison!!!

      • shannon853

        “time for congress to act”. well folks they have been “acting” for years infront of the news media, they act like congres spersons and when off camera they act like the traitors they are!

        • http://ConservativeByte.com Melvin Shofner

          So true. Maybe we should outfit the offices and floor wells of the Senate and House with cameras and microphones like those Big Brother-type reality shows, and show them 24/7 on C-SPAN and online; we can show a montage of the most outrageous clips on every network’s nightly news and all the ISPs’ homepages to make sure as many people as possible get a sense of just how out of touch-and out of control-these clowns are.

      • Steven

        I totally agree with you. However, the political types will never, ever impeach Mr. first black african president. They don’t want to offend the black race and the other idiots who snuck (that’s a word) him into the White House. We should never offend the entitlement race who mostly sit in the ghettos commiting crimes, in and out of prison, watching for their check, watching scumbag Jerry Springer, fornicating beyond repair, and making no contribution to the better of overall society. And where is our GOP leader? There is none. The GOP can not even find a charasmatic contender for president. I still and will support Donald Trump. He is the only one who can take on Obama. Maybe Herman Cain, but the media and Obama supporters will call him everything but a Black man. A Donald Trump and Herman Cain ticket may win.

    • http://facebook Que Dub

      CONGRESS & D. O. J. !!!! WHERE IN THE H3LL ARE YOU ????
      WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU ??? GO GET “”"him”" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      • TowTruck

        Where is the DOJ? That’s obama’s racist buddy, eric holder. Don’t hold your breath waiting for him to do the proper legal thing.

    • Randy131

      Where have you been? Liberals and Democrats do not have to obey our laws! Shut up and get with the program, people are going to think you’re stupid.

    • EddieW

      Obozo, our Liar in Chief wants to be Dictator and do it his way, to hell with the law!!
      He has already commited numerous FELONIES, including TREASON!!
      Harshy words, but if you donate money to a known terrorist organozation, you would be arrested for treason!! He gave 20.3 million to Hamas, registered in the US as a terrorist organization….but it’s OK cuz it’s Obozo….so breaking any other law is OK too!!! Time to put a leash on him!!!

      • G. Brown

        Okay, the Holy one and lier and chief has hacked at our Consistution and committed numerous offense’s that he should be impeached for. So, where is the heck is our congress. I hear a giant sucking sound too keep him in office by both parties.

    • Leithel1

      Would not be as stupid as…

  • http://smashauthority.blogspot.com/ DestroyCapitalism

    Just becasue my name is DestroyCapitalsim doesnt mean i support Soetorobama. He is just a continuation of the smae facist Bush policies. It seems soetorobama is still taking orders from bush. Also id go to Russia. I was going to Somalia but that country is muslim and they probably hate amerikans (for good reason) and might kill me if i showed up there. Also i like Russian women and everybody wants me out of this country, because they say its theirs

    • The Great Ricardo

      You ain’t gone yet?

    • OneCitizenOfTheRepublic

      Moderator, please squelch this jerk (DestroyCapitalism) He has no value to add to conservative discusions.

    • Gene

      careful bozo, your shorts are squeezing your brain—if you actually have one!

    • R Brown

      I really love ya man … why don’t you come over an visit. I have some cool aid for you

    • http://PATROITREPORT george k morrison

      you need to go alright ,however there are plenty of fools like you in russia,cuba,n.korea,iraq,iran& china so I don’t think they would really want you there, however I feel there is hope for you afterall its called the insane assylum, they should have a nice room with padded walls & even bars on the windows & doors now thats a good place for a traitor like you

  • Gwendolyn

    Destroy, you’re an idiot! Obviously an Obama voter. If you hate the USA so much, you are invited to leave, forthwith.

    • The Great Ricardo

      Like I asked above…….

    • Ahern

      Hey, lets start a fund to buy an airline ticket, one way, to Cuba.

    • R. Cook

      Ignore the Troll! If you reply you feed his childish ego.

  • JohnC72

    Destroy: After finally managing to decode your strange missive, I have no relative comment on it.

  • hijinx60

    Destroy….I read your blog. If you really believe all of that shiite, you should just go take a nap because this heat wave has gotten to you.

  • John

    So basically Obama does what he wants to regardless of what the people want or the courts say. Stalin and Hitler did exactly that-and millions died. Obama has no concerne for the elderly regardless of what he says, it’s all political rhetoric-a lie. Obama is so thick-skulled that he can’t figure out that we the people has his number already. He’s out in 2012!

  • Clifton Lee West

    It would appear that our illustrious President has just gone from court jester to out-and-out fool! One wonders what is next before the next golfing date or vacation, will he have the sun rise in the West and set in the East, or simply fire Congress and the Supreme Court and call it a day for his complete takeover? How dare anyone question his authority? As slowly as our legal system works, it will be 2016 before anyone will have the manhood to stop him. We won’t have to worry about terrorists any more, by the time Obama gets finished, there won’t be enough of our country left to even want. I sure hope that the Obama zombies are finally happy!

    Clifton Lee West

  • http://adrianvance.blogspot.com Adrian Vance

    Ladies and Gentlemen: We are dealing with a sick man in our White House. He must go. It is just that simple.

    For political analysis,physical science and humor see The Two Minute Conservative at: http://adrianvance.blogspot.com Now on Kindle.

    • Jo Ann

      Adrian, you are right, but it is so scary to say this dictator is sick, I mean really sick, he is on the list with Hitler, Stalin, Che, and many more. The Congress and Senate are sicker, how are they allowing this to happen, Huckabee said on his show today, that all of the congress and senate have to be replaced. I agree 100%, who do these radical people think they are, it goes for both parties. they do have to go, obummer must be IMPEACHED, IMPEACHED so what are we waiting for. forget the supreme court, we can also call for them to be replaced, they were put there by obummer, so anything this tyrannist does or did has to be undone by us the American people, we cannot wait till 2012, he is too dangerous Adrian, he is sick, or just drunk alot or just doing too much cocaine. but there is definitely something really wrong with this and all of the government. We need our military home and let them take over, I know I have been reading alot about how the military are not happy with this obummer, so why don’t we just keep yelling to bring them home, this is our country, and we need to take it back. we have to count on ourselves, not the government, this is not a government.

  • voldemort

    Hasn’t anyone figured it out yet? Obama is ruling by fiat and feels no need to follow any of the laws of this country. The congress, both houses, and the judicial are “allowing” him to get away with this policy. Time for the people to wake!

    • Avenger

      A 50 caliber has a long arm…..nuf-said….

  • Gene

    Lets start this with F.B.O and then hang him from the nearist pole!

  • Red Rock Bob

    I agree.

  • Ann Wilson Kingsley

    Well, this does it! Congress needs to declare war on the president! If the presiden’t judgment is so impaired that he does not know when he has declared war or what a war is, then we have a real problem. Dictator Obama needs to be deposed. If congress does not act soon, this problem is going to necessitate a military coup, and we have the division of powers in order to avoid that. Congress needs to defund Obama’s czars and fire him. The American people do not intend a dictator who listens to no one and abides by no separation of powers.

  • Towncar07

    I have seen “Destroy CAP..” on other sites, and his mantra is always the same…tries to camo his absolutely insipid remarks with an aire of intelligence…so my advice is anytime you see this creep’s comments, just disregard as just another trashmouth denizen of dumb. He loves himself so much that he hates everyone else.

  • Towncar07

    As for OB overruling the Constitutional mandates he is sworn to uphold…well I think his actions are much bigger than his words…would not surprise me to think [he] is secretly fomenting grounds of war just as secretly he is planning the end of our Country. I can’t believe that it took someone like Glenn Beck to point out the arrows, that point only one way…and the remaining populace just goes on like nothing’s happenin’ . The awakening will be mighty frightful.

  • don mullendore

    Everybody is fully aware that obummer couldn’t find his butt with both hands and a bloodhound,
    If he did find it -then he would find his head–Our problem is not only with him but with the do-nothing congress we have in office. If they would do their jobs and get rid of this idiot (and his worthless amazonian female) we could eventually recover AMERICA

  • Merriel

    What you people don’t realize is that impeachment proceedings start in the Hous of Representatives (controlled by Republicans) but, also go to the Senate (controlled by the Democrats. Those Democrats are convinced that Obumma is the best thing since sliced bread and they are not going to go along with the Republican controlled House.

  • Paul Revere

    http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/big_war_274.html
    GLOBALISTS CALL FOR ’BIG WAR’
    By James P. Tucker Jr.
    ST. MORITZ, Switzerland—The secret globalist group “Bilderberg” called for a big war by expanding the turmoil in Libya into a full-scale conflict involving the entire Middle East except for Israel. This is a grim and bloody outlook, because, historically, every time Bilderberg orders war, the guns begin to shoot. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush followed orders and attacked Iraq in Persian Gulf War I. He lost to peace candidate Bill Clinton, who followed orders and invaded Yugoslavia.

    The list is endless: Every war dating back to and including World War II has been ordered by Bilderberg. Although they did not start calling themselves Bilderberg until 1954, Rockefeller and Rothschild cronies had the ear of President Franklin Roosevelt when the White House baited the Japanese into conducting a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941.

    Similarly, President Harry Truman was pressured into going to war in Korea, and then Lyndon Johnson involved the U.S. in Vietnam.

    Johnson seemed to enjoy cruelty. The same draft law used in World War II had been revived in 1946, making all able-bodied men aged 18-38 eligible for combat. A college student could finish his degree but must then report for duty. As a matter of policy, LBJ said students could finish their entire education, including postgraduate work, before reporting. And no one older than 27 would be drafted. The result: Dick Cheney and others avoided service by remaining in college until the age of 27. So the body bags were mostly filled by young boys with no more than a high school education.

    “It will have to be a big war involving several countries to advance our goals of a global economy,” said Keith Alexander, director of the U.S. National Security Agency. “But the pressure to end the war in Libya is non-stop, mostly because of that damn Kucinich.” He was referring to Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), whose bill to end the invasion of Libya was defeated just before Congress adjourned for a week on June 3.

    http://www.infowars.com/libya-bombshell-obama-overruled-two-top-lawyers-who-told-him-war-must-be-terminated/
    Joe Weisenthal
    Business Insider
    June 18, 2011
    This week several members of Congress challenged Obama on the legality of the Libya war, given that actions have exceeded the 90 day period during which The White House doesn’t need Congressional authority for military action under the War Powers Act.
    The White House response: We don’t need Congressional approval because this is not technically a hostile action (because we don’t have ground troops in Libya).
    Tonight the NYT has a major bombshell: Two top lawyers — Jeh C. Johnson, the Pentagon general counsel, and Caroline D. Krass, acting head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel — told The White House otherwise.
    Even Attorney General Eric Holder sided with Krass.
    But Rather than heed their advice, he instead went with two lawyers with views more favorable to him: Bob Bauer (who is internal at The White House), and State Department advisor Harold Koh.
    This is striking: http://www.infowars.com/libya-bombshell-obama-overruled-two-top-lawyers-who-told-him-war-must-be-terminated/

    Switzerland Swiss Politician Dominique Baettig Tells Bilderberg Don’t Come Back!
    In a higher quality upload, Swiss Politician Dominique Baettig tells Infowars.com why he has used his position to officially question the secrecy of the Bilderberg group and the shadowy group’s right to meet within the sovereign and neutral country in the heart of Europe.
    http://www.infowars.com/interview-with-swiss-politician-dominique-baettig-high-quality/

  • Paul Revere

    The Globalists’ plan to exterminate 80% x 6.5 Billion People = 5.2 Billion people around the world, so that they are able to control 1.3 Billion people through their Technocratic Prison system!

    Read John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar, David Rockefeller, Maurice Strong, George Soros, Henry Kissinger – books, comments speeches from their own words, check out youtune.com, http://www.infowars.com, http://www.prisonplanet.com Check it out on the Search engines on these websites, Check out Search Engine on http://www.startpage.com, http://www.google.com, http://www.youtube.com

  • Paul Revere

    PS: This the Globalists’ plan to do once they have their Global grid set up!
    Listen to Alex Jones Broadcast at:http://www.infowars.com/stream.pls

  • TRT

    The Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi was killed by friendly fire , bullets made of candy kisses packed with “TLC” and not “HOSTILITY !! Give me a break…not a hostile action!! If a bullet between the eyes isn’t hostile, what is?? Water boarding should be treated the same way (done with”TLC”) !!

  • David USAF

    Let me see if I have this right, dropping bombs on another country is not considered “engaging in hostilities.” Exactly what is considered hostile?

    • http://ConservativeByte.com Melvin Shofner

      Why, daring to secure one’s borders against a steady stream of illegal immigrants that includes terrorists, drug smugglers and other criminals, of course! Now that would be unacceptably hostile!

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  • http://PATROITREPORT george k morrison

    If they are not hostile then why the hell are we bombing them! I really do not understand are they hostile or not , if they are not then why are we wasting all this money & time trying to liberate this bunch of sadsacks this obumbler idiot just has to have it his own way in everything HE IS JUST A GENUINE NARCISIST,HE WOULD PROBABLY KILL A KID FOR A CANDY BAR& really does not want to follow the rule of law on anything & as such should be IMPEACHED-PROMPTLY & QUICKLY I REALLY DON’T CARE WHAT HIS ILLEGEAL BUNCH OF LAWYERS SAY!!!! WE REALLY DO NOT NEED ANOTHER 4 YEARS OF THIS He needs to go asap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Ernest

    I remember Truman and no one else since Truman even be gan to think they had the power bozo has .Just who the hell does this minut partical of cow dung think he is?? He’s proven time and time again he has not a clue on how to run this great country and now he’s dropping the constituion in the shredder. He deserves to be shot , after all he really isn’t worth a shit to anyone.The problems the country faces are bozo’s and he isn’t man enough to admit it .You used to be able to take what you paid into social security and denounce your citizenship and move out of the country.The government outlawed that now they call social security an intitlement ,BS I have paid into it sincebozo was born and by God if I’d seen him comin I wouldn’t of paid a cent.He hasn’t done not one damn thing that I support.Congress better get rid of him or someone will martyrize the S>O>B

  • WeeBleats

    Everyone, political office holders and conservative talk show hosts, are scared to death of Obama. I sent as many talk show hosts as I could, the information about Penetta taking out bin Laden, not Obama. http://patdollard.com/2011/05/obama-hesitated-%E2%80%93-panetta-issued-order-to-kill-osama-bin-laden/
    Not a single one of them has the guts to mention it.

  • hangmen

    IMPEACH,AND HANG FOR TRESON !!!!

  • Edward

    I though we fought a long terrible war in the late 1700 to free ourselves of a King…………..but wait; King Obama has stated what ever he does is the law………………………sounds like a King to me. Screw the law, screw the constitution and especially screw the congress………..why in the hell did we elect 435 reps and 100 senators if they don’t mean anything…………why are we spending billions a year to support congress when OBAMA IS KING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Gambler#7

    Der Fuhrer Obomba says you must obey. His Gestapo has congress whining like little girly men. We don’t need congress OR the courts because we have der Fuhrer Obomba. (sarc)

  • Anna Salerno

    OMG, this muslim is out of control!! It is way past due to have barry hussein odumbo impeached for crimes and treason. This thumbing his nose at congress and continuing this war in Lybia that he is NOT commited to winning, is far past an IMPEACHABLE offence for this impostor of a muslim. Enough is enough. barry hussein odumo is without a doubt the worst president in the history of the United States of America!!! If congress doesn’t get him out of office then they are as much at fault as barry is and that is a crime in its self!!

  • Silence Dogood II

    Strange we would except the word of a Man who stated he did not know the actions of a Boston College Professor, without consulting a police officer to get the fact and our Chief Law Enforcement Officer (The President) said “the police acted stupidly” and don’t forget the End of Life panel discussion groups Our Beloved President wants. So Why Would We Believe Him about the War Powers Act of 1973?

  • Pat Sinclair

    Obama is wrong. Go after him with the impeachment for the prople of our country. His lawyer friends are all wet. We are not at war with Libya and should not be doing what we are going. We are only at war with people that have done things to our country. They did not do anything to the United States of America. Get this man impeached today. Sent it to the Supreme Court in the form of an impeachment by and for the people. We do not have the money to continue any of his stupid legal authority dictorial actions.

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  • http://AOL.Com Robert Davis

    Our congress and senate leaders are commiting treason when they support a ursurpin president when they won’t get off there back side and do the job they were sent to do. Obama has committed so many crimes against to the people of america and our government does not have have the guts to impeach him. Just who do they support? Obama or the constition?

    • Rick

      Themselves.

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  • Pnp

    Bombing the crap out of someone isn’t a hostile act?  While I agree with his actions, I still think he should have gotten approval under the war powers act that I think was passed during the Carter times with a  Dem. controlled congress.

    • http://twitter.com/paoligarcy Paolina Garcia

      How can you agree with his actions?  The whole GOP/Democratic party supports the Libyan rebels? Why? The majority of the Libyan rebels are Al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood members! It’s just like Iraq, where a pro-western, anti-sharia law dictator (Saddam) is overthrown and replaced with radical pro-sharia terrorists! (the current govt in Iraq WILL betray us I guarantee you!). The Libyan govt will be our enemy in the near future! Buyer beware!

      Hillary Clinton said herself that the State Dept. was giving support to members of the Syrian/Libyan rebels regardless of the fact that some of them were enemies on a different battlefield!! It’s treason!

      STOP supporting these phony “wars” overseas! They are not wars! They are muslim army training programs! That’s why when Obama got in office he changed his tune! He found out the goal wasn’t *stopping* radical islam (because all islam is radical), but strengthening islamic armies (and pissing them off at the same time) while weakening the US financially!

  • http://www.facebook.com/jereese1 John E Reese

    Other OKing ruling, like his rulings on Catholic Church.  This Devil in WH will be one day judge by his fellow peer and found guilty and sentence to jail.  But this is all but pipe dream, for if we did but Obummer on trial.  We would have one BIG riot on our hands.  The trial would become a racist and media would go crazy.

  • Bhudda

    Obama has overuled alot of laws but if found binilligable he has a lot of crimes to answer for and if ere- elected he’ll last 6 mos top .

  • R Stone

    yes, Obama has legal right to continue murdering Libyans.. the banksters gave it to him.
    Then they told him… send our little Al Quaeda helpers to Syria and Iran and do them next like you did in Libya. Isn’t this fun.. the stupid world thinks we are doing this for their securtiy.. ha ha ha ha ha