{"id":13872,"date":"2010-11-11T22:33:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T22:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13872"},"modified":"2014-06-22T07:41:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T07:41:19","slug":"obama-conducting-reign-of-terror-against-suspected-leakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=13872","title":{"rendered":"Obama Conducting ‘Reign of Terror’ Against Suspected Leakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Wayne Madsen \u2013 Online Journal November 8, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Obama was urged by the few White House insiders from whom he still takes advice to leave the country on his 10-day Asian trip, his longest trip abroad since becoming president, in order to not inflict any more damage to the Democratic Party in the wake of one of the worst electoral defeats for the party of an incumbent president in recent history.<\/p>\n

According to sources close to the White House, who put themselves in great danger by even talking to members of the media, the plans to have Obama leave for a visit to India, Pakistan, Indonesia, South Korea, and Japan are an attempt to get Obama out of the country while top Democrats can sort through the political disaster created for the party by Obama\u2019s increasingly detached-from-reality presidency.<\/p>\n

Virtual political\u00a0guerrilla warfare has broken out\u00a0between Obama\u2019s inner circle on one hand\u00a0and senior Democratic officials, including outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Party strategist James Carville, former Demcratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, and, behind-the-scenes, Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton, on the other.<\/p>\n

Top Democrats are still reeling from Obama\u2019s bizarre behavior at a $7,500-a-plate fundraiser at a stately mansion at Brown University in Rhode Island on October 25. The fundraiser, organized by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, was supposed to highlight\u00a0Democratic Party\u00a0unity. However, while Obama endorsed Democratic House candidate David Cicilline for outgoing Representative Patrick Kennedy\u2019s seat, the president failed to endorse Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio over Republican-turned-independent former Senator Lincoln Chafee. Obama\u2019s lack of an endorsement for a Democrat over a former Republican prompted Caprio to tell a radio show host that Obama\u00a0\u201dcould take his endorsement and really shove it as far as I\u2019m concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later that day, Obama briefly appeared at the fundraiser at Brown University, where Democratic loyalists paid $7,500 to hear Obama speak, but departed after only 20 minutes, telling the assembled guests that he had to go back to the White House to\u00a0\u201dtuck in\u00a0my daughters, walk the dog, and \u2018scoop the poop.\u2019\u201c The Democratic faithful were appalled and shocked at Obama\u2019s quick departure and one of the three reasons he gave for it: to scoop up dog turds as if the president of the United States actually performs such tasks with a phalanx of White House staff and Secret Service agents at his disposal.<\/p>\n

Vice President Biden knows too well about Obama\u2019s lack of attention to his daily tasks of being president. The details of the\u00a0fiasco at Brown soon were conveyed to Biden by his two old Democratic Senate colleagues from Rhode Island: Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse. Biden was not amused about Obama\u2019s dissing of the Democrats in Rhode Island. A week later, Chafee defeated Caprio for the Rhode Island governorship, thanks largely to Obama\u2019s less-than-neutral stance in cutting a secret deal to support Chafee against Caprio.<\/p>\n

White House leaks about the ineffectiveness of Obama\u2019s presidency are expandng beyond the revelations attributed to a former high-level Obama administration insider and which have been reported by a blogger named \u201cUlsterman.\u201d Some White House staffers have described a \u201creign of terror\u201d in the White House over continued leaks and a troika of leadership that is making decisions without any input from the president. The troika reportedly consists of First Lady Michelle Obama, presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett, and the president\u2019s mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, who resides in the White House.<\/p>\n

Not to be deterred, some White House staffers have sought out journalists and have arranged to meet them\u00a0at nearby Starbuck\u2019s cafes to discretely convey to them inside information about the current disarray within the Obama administration. Some staffers have personally born the brunt of Obama\u2019s temper and witnessed his extreme narcissistic behavior. WMR has also learned from White House sources that Obama is taking presciption anxiety medication.<\/p>\n

Vice President Biden, under\u00a0intense pressure from some Democratic Party officials and Cabinet members to invoke Article 25, Section 4 of the Constitution and have Obama temporarily or permanently removed as president because of his mental incapacity to fulfill his constitutional oath as president is reluctant to take such drastic action. Biden feels that the country would \u201cbecome unglued\u201d after such action and he doesn\u2019t want to be the one who would be responsible for \u201cpicking up the pieces,\u201d according to a source who works within Biden\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Some staffers have said on deep background that\u00a0the revelations by the ex-White House official to \u201cUlsterman\u201d are not even half of the story about what is actually occurring in the White House.<\/p>\n

However, Biden and other Democratic and administration officials\u00a0do believe that if Obama were to\u00a0display some of the same reckless behavior publicly as many White House personnel have witnessed privately, there may be wide support for enactment of the provisions of the 25th Amendment.<\/p>\n

Such a public display by Obama that could trigger succession action might involve a public outburst, including the use of foul language or a statement that Obama believes there is a conspiracy against him.<\/p>\n

On October 5, Obama was addressing\u00a0Fortune <\/em>magazine\u2019s \u201cMost Powerful Women\u201d summit in Washington, DC. During the middle of Obama\u2019s speech, the presidential seal fell off the podium. Publicly, Obama took the incident as a joke, but WMR has learned from White House insiders that Obama went on a tirade after the incident, accusing White House staffers of purposely not anchoring the seal to the podium. The White House supplies all the podiums and seals at all presidential addresses and the seal is usually well-anchored with four screws affixed\u00a0to the podium. Obama reportedly \u201cfreaked out\u201d and accused White House staffers of engaging in a conspiracy against him. The presidential tirade over such a trivial matter was not lost on senior administration officials who have witnessed Obama\u2019s\u00a0lackadaisical behavior during the consideration of much weightier issues, for example, the war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Although some observers believe African-Americans would react negatively to the invocation of the 25th Amendment, WMR has learned that members of the Congressional Black Caucus would reluctantly go along with such a move. Many in their ranks, including outgoing House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-MI), were outraged over Obama\u2019s lack of interest in Haiti after that nation\u2019s devastating earthquake. For many black caucus members, it was their first indication that there was something very wrong with Obama and his grasp of reality.<\/p>\n

With Obama intent on running for re-election and seriously considering sending White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to the Democratic National Committee (DNC)\u00a0to replace former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, the potential Democratic challengers to Obama in 2012 are beginning to stir. WMR has learned that former DNC chairman Howard Dean is seriously considering a challenge to Obama as is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who will reportedly depart Foggy Bottom after Defense Secretary Robert Gates leaves his position, possibly in January.<\/p>\n

Several top Democrats consider Obama\u2019s chances to keep the White House in 2012 as slim and they find it fanciful that White House policy adviser David Axelrod is moving back to Chicago to work on Obama\u2019s 2012 re-election campaign, an effort many Democratic officials find a \u201cfool\u2019s errand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obama also is disengaged from the plight of his former Senate Democratic colleagues in the wake of their near loss of the Senate\u00a0with a much-reduced majority. There is pressure on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to step down as majority leader. However, Charles Schumer (D-NY), who has been mentioned as a replacement, reportedly has let it be known that he will not carry Obama\u2019s water as majority leader and may not want the job after all. The majority whip is Dick Durbin (D-IL) but he is seen as part of the Obama Chicago Mafia and almost every Democratic senator agrees on one thing: they do not want Durbin as their majority leader. Obama, the titular head of the Democratic Party, has refused to weigh in with any effective leadership as\u00a0congressional Democrats pick up the pieces and lick their wounds.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a team of ex-CIA officers are traveling the globe assembling a dossier of documents on Obama\u2019s past, including his education, passport, travel, and residency records. The team has scoured Kenya, Indonesia, Pakistan, and other countries collecting documents that are not already maintained in the CIA\u2019s own files on Obama\u2019s past. There is a possibility, according to WMR\u2019s sources, that any \u201csmoking gun\u201d documents may be released while Obama is in Asia in order to elicit a public and, perhaps, irrational enough response from the president to prompt the public to begin raising questions about Obama\u2019s suitability for office. Such an incident would make it easier for Biden to begin the succession\u00a0process that was previously considered when President Richard Nixon was drinking heavily and taking prescription medication during the final days of his administration, twice during the Ronald Reagan administration — after his attempted assassination and in 1987 when he demonstrated early stages of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease — and during the Bill Clinton administration, when Clinton\u2019s self-destructive sexual antics had Vice President Al Gore considering taking similar steps.<\/p>\n

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