Chris Floyd: The Liberals' Clumsy Dance Across Obama's Killing Floor

The turbulent ramifications of last week's New York Times story detailing the operations of Barack Obama's White House death squad continue to reverberate across the country today, sending shock waves through Washington and bringing crowds of outraged protesters. Just kidding! As we all know, there have been no "ramifications" at all from this shocking story, no scandal whatsoever surrounding the fact that the President of the United States and his aides meet every week to draw up lists of people to be killed all over the world, even people who are completely unknown, who might simply be "behaving" in unspecified ways that some desk jockey somewhere has decided might possibly be indicative of malign intent. No scandal, no consequences, no imbroglio, no brouhaha. The caravan moved on, and the dogs didn't even bark. But wait, that's not quite true. There was one minor scandal issuing, in part, from the story. Republicans seized the opportunity to accuse Obama, again, of leaking classified matters for his own political gain. Obama was forced to deny authorizing the leaks from his closest advisers and friends happened to leak this top-secret information without his knowledge. This was followed by bipartisan Congressional calls to cloak the government's atrocities in even thicker clouds of murk. Thus the only consequence from the revelation that the US government not only asserts the arbitrary right to kill anyone on earth, but actually has a formal process to carry out this serial murder, is that it will now be harder than ever to expose any of the crimes and corruption and sinister follies of the vast national security "apparat". But as for the moral content of the murder program, there has been no scandal at all.