From: Examiner
Here’s a partial history of Obama’s dealings – listed (roughly) chronologically, most recent first:
- Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents. In roughly a dozen countries — from deserts of North Africa, to mountains of Pakistan, to former Soviet republics — the United States has significantly increased military and intelligence operations (read).
- New ACLU report: the Obama administration is permanently enshrining into law many of President Bush’s most controversial policies (read).
- White House proposal would grant FBI access to Internet activity records without court order (read).
- The Obama administration is deporting record numbers of illegal immigrants and auditing hundreds of businesses that hire undocumented workers (read).
- Obama lifts ban on Indonesian Special Forces Kopassus, despite their brutal human rights record (read).
- Obama sends 46 Navy warships, 7,000 marines to Costa Rica (read).
- White House Enacts Rules Inhibiting Media From Covering Oil Spill (read).
- Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya accused the United States of being behind the 2009 coup that ousted him (read).
- US Ignores Calls for End to Gaza Seige. The Obama administration is refusing to join international calls for a complete end to the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip (read).
- The Pentagon’s spy unit has begun rebuilding a controversial database that was shut down three years ago after it was found to have been used to monitor US peace activists (read).
- Obama Administration Keeping Blackwater Armed and Dangerous in Afghanistan – another $120M contract awarded (read).
- With Rumored Manhunt for Wikileaks Founder and Arrest of Alleged Leaker of Video Showing Iraq Killings, Obama Admin Escalates Crackdown on Whistleblowers of Classified Information (read).
- With a strong push from the Obama administration, the United Nations Security Council voted to impose a fourth round of sanctions on Iran (read).
- Obama Administration Might Hold Non-Afghan Detainees at Bagram Indefinitely — Administration Should Not Re-Create Gitmo, Says ACLU (read).
- Obama secretly deploys US special forces to 75 countries across world (read). The dramatic expansion in the use of special forces go far beyond the covert missions authorized by George W. Bush. Countries include Iran, Georgia, Ukraine, Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador, Peru, Yemen, Pakistan and the Philippines.
- In the days since President Obama announced a moratorium on permits for drilling new offshore oil wells, at least seven new permits for various types of drilling and five environmental waivers have been granted (read).
- James Carville on Obama’s response to the Gulf oil spill: He is risking everything with ‘go along with BP strategy’ (read).
- U.S. troops executing prisoners in Afghanistan: Seymour Hersh (read).
- Obama gives CIA authority to expand strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles in Pakistan (read).
- Government Exempted BP from Environmental Review (read).
- An amendment to increase Congressional oversight of the Federal Reserve failed following pressure from the White House (read).
- Obama approves targeted assassination of an American citizen (read).
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