Abuse of Power

The Spying on US Citizens is looking more and more like Business as Usual, and less like a one-time thing for Obama's administration.

There are many ways to deal with this besides prosecuting it as a crime. There is administrative - investigate, and if there is a finding that Rice abused her powers, yank her pension, right to use her former position as a reference, and allow those persons injured to sue and collect damages from her.

Put her under subpoena, and order her to testify - under oath - who knew about this abuse, besides her.

How can we determine whether this was an abuse?

...how do we know whether unmasking is a massive abuse of power or a perfectly appropriate exercise of discretion? We apply common sense.

Was the questionable unmasking a single, isolated instance, or was it part of a pattern?

Obama's time in office was FULL of patterns of behavior, almost all unacceptable in a republic of citizens.

There is much evidence of a pattern:

• In Mideast negotiations, the spying was real, and, at least in part, directed at Americans supporting Israel.
• OTHER administration officials - besides Susan Rice - are not cooperating with the investigation.
• 11 Things the Media won't tell you - the OFFICIAL MEDIA, that is.
• The Adolescent Excuse from Obama's People - "Yes, we did it, but EVERYONE ELSE did so, too."

And, yes, I do believe that it's time for use to start asking:

What did he know, and when did he know it?

On a POSITIVE note, Dr. Ben Carson's appointment to Head of HUD seems to have been a GOOD thing - at least for the taxpayers. $500 BILLION in errors - some of them unauditable (That's accountant-speak for - the people spending the money, or committing us to spending the money - have little to no paper trail. That means that they spent money that wasn't theirs without receipts/contracts/proof that the recipient did what they said they would do for the money)

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