President Barack Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts
Notice that MOST of the "firsts" are criminal acts.
[Updated through May 2013]
NOTE: What follows is only about 1/5 of what appears on the above website. You MUST have a look at this amazing catalog of "firsts." It is appalling.
• First President to Violate the War Powers Act
(Unilaterally Executing American Military Operations in Libya Without
Informing Congress In the Required Time Period - Source: Huffington Post)
• First President to Triple the Number of Warrantless Wiretaps of U.S. Citizens (Source: ACLU)
• First President to Sign into Law a Bill That Permits the
Government to "Hold Anyone Suspected of Being Associated With Terrorism
Indefinitely, Without Any Form of Due Process. No Indictment. No Judge
or Jury. No Evidence. No Trial. Just an Indefinite Jail Sentence" (NDAA Bill - Source: Business Insider)
•
First President to Refuse to Tell the Public What He Did For Eight (8)
Hours After Being Informed That a U.S. Ambassador Was Facing Imminent
Death During a Terror Attack (Source: Mediate)
•
First President to Lie About the Reason For an Ambassador's Death,
Blaming it on an Internet Video Rather Than What He Knew to be the Case:
the Al Qaeda-linked Terror Group Ansar al-Sharia (Source: House Oversight Committee, et. al.)
•
First President to Have an Innocent Filmmaker Thrown in Jail After
Lying About the Cause for a Deadly Attack on U.S. Diplomats, Using the
Filmmaker as a Scapegoat (Source: CNN)
• First President to Use the IRS to "Unfairly Target Political Enemies" as Well as Jewish Groups (Source: Sen. Ted Cruz)
• First President to Unlawfully Seize Telephone Records of More than 100 Reporters to Intimidate and/or Bully Them (Source: Associated Press)
•
First President to Witness a Single Cabinet Secretary Commit Multiple
Hatch Act Violations Without Acting, Speaking Out, Disciplining or
Firing That Person (Source: New York Times)
• First President to Have His Attorney General Held in Criminal Contempt of Congress For His Efforts to Cover Up Operation Fast and Furious, That Killed Over 300 Individuals (Source: Politico)
• First President to claim
Executive Privilege to shield a sitting Attorney General from a
Contempt of Congress finding for perjury and withholding evidence from
lawful subpoenas (Source: Business Insider)
• First President to Issue Unlawful "Recess-Appointments" Over a Long Weekend -- While the U.S. Senate Remained in Session (against the advice of his own Justice Department - Source: United States Court of Appeals)
• First President to Fire an Inspector General of Americorps for Catching One of His Friends in a Corruption Case (Source: Gawker)
• First President to "Order
a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped the Deportations of Illegal
Immigrants Across the U.S., Including Those With Criminal Convictions" (Source: DHS documents uncovered by Judicial Watch)
• First President to Sue States for Enforcing Voter ID Requirements, Which Were Previously Ruled Legal by the U.S. Supreme Court (Source: CNN)
• First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places (the New Black Panthers voter intimidation case, Source: Investors Business Daily)
• First President to Refuse to Comply With a House Oversight Committee Subpoena (Source: Heritage Foundation)
• First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law Unconstitutional and Refuse to Enforce It (Defense of Marriage Act - Source: ABC News)
• First President to Increase Surveillance of American Citizen Under the Patriot Act by 1,000 Percent in Four Years (Source: NBC News)
• First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One of His Political Appointees (BP Oil Spill Relief Fund - Source: Fox News)
• First President to Have a Law Signed By an 'Auto-pen' Without Being "Present" (Source: The New York Times)
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