Brennan saying he is still lying about the cia you takes and on ye olde senate floor called for but the Obama Administration might cause a change in personnel. The president needs to purge the administration of high level officials instrumental to the running of this program. It needs to force a cultural change up the cia. It gives me no pleasure to say this, but as ive said before director brennan, that means resigning. Not the first time mark udall has called for that. Josh earnest called for a spirited defense. I had the opportunity to take a few trips with him when we were traveling with the president together. He is someone who i think adheres to the highest ethical standards that you would expect of a government official. The white house praises the Senate Report but lets them attack the report. Why is president obama straddling on all of this . Lets speak to the udall thing. When john brennan was confirmed in march 2013 he went up to the hill and to placate he basically said he
While theres 2,537 wells wit one mile of the proposed pipeline, including 39 public water supply wells, 20 private wells within a hundred feet of the pipeline rightofway. If the pipeline were to leak near the aquifer, the Tar Sands Oil would quickly seep into the millions of people. Minate water ive already shown you a spill in arkansas. These spills happen. Now, if a spill occurred near any of these aquifers, it would be tragic. Local residents know the harm the pipeline could cause. Ill show you some pictures of local objecting ts objecting toe pipeline. In april, a group of ranchers, farmers and tribal leaders gathered in washington, d. C. , for a rally. They wanted to send a strong signal to congress that they want their way of life protected. Their farms, their tribal lands and their ranches. Now, youre going to hear from tar sands proponents that the Keystone Pipeline will be safe, it will be a safe alternative to rail shipment of oil, but experience tells us otherwise. In 2010
Fear, fomenting fear stifles serious debate and constructive solutions. That the carefully drawn reforms in this bill, doing it at the last minute is all the more regrettable. This nation deserves more than that. This nation should not allow our liberties to be set aside by passing fears. America will always face the threat of terrorist attacks both outside our borders and inside. We didnt do away with all our Civil Liberties after the Oklahoma City bombing, even though that was an american who did that, someone who had served in our military, churchgoing, so forth. No more should we do it if the attacks come from outside our country. We talk about 9 11, we have all the evidence necessary to stop 9 11 before it happened. Everybody who has looked at that now agrees, that bothered to translate the material we had, if had bothered to listen to people in minnesota who tried to warn about it, we could have stopped that. But because mistakes were made then, lets not take away the liberties o
And it is a tone that will depend largely on the administrations willingness to respect the message sent. That is one of the things that we are discussing on friday. It was a productive meeting and there were a lot that both parties can accomplish over the next couple of years. I hope that happens and i hope im optimistic currid working together requires trust. I think president obama has the duty to help build the trust that we all need to move forward together. And to double down on old ways of doing business. That is why i think moving forward with unilateral action would be a big mistake. As it was last nights announcement to give china a free pass on a mission while herding middleclass families and struggling miners here in our country. Last friday the president said that the American People would like to see more cooperation in washington. He says he thinks all of us have the responsibility and himself in particular to try to make that happen. And that is the kind of tone that th
Captain, the faa and nobody here is even willing to give us a target date for when the we can say we have now made the transition and moved to nextgen. Isnt that the case . For most programs for most programs in our country we at least have a tarring date and if you dont have a target date, then it does seem to me your goal should be to keep the system we have because thats the system were going to have some some time. He didnt object to that characterization, and keep it as safe as you can with what whatever slowdown, telling the public, yes, there will be slowdowns, but you have to understand that these slowdowns are to keep you safe. It is better to have that kind of candor than to have people being angry at the airport when you tell them that they cant get someplace when we were supposed to get someplace. Im not chastising the private sector. I know who is to blame here. But i am saying now that we know what the atmosphere is like, be candid with the public so the public doesnt exp