Obama has chosen Jeh Johnson to head up the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), an advocate of drone murder who has authorized the killing of American citizens. Johnson is also a Pentagon lawyer who has a long history with the Department of Defense who according to Obama, has “sound judgement and counsel.” Murder then must now be a qualifying prerequisite in order to secure a position of power to pass good judgement and to deliver advisory services to the president.
Johnson worked for the Clinton administration, was one of the top fundraisers for Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and was on Obama’s transition team before he became a lawyer for the Department of Defense. No one gets picked to run DHS that doesn’t already have connections or skeletons, and that is certainly true in the case of Johnson.
Johnson is a fascist murderer as Paul Craig Roberts accurately describes him. He was the primary person who authorized the extrajudicial assassination of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki. Several others were killed in that unlawful and murderous raid. And because of Johnson, at least three American citizens have been assassinated by drones, and of course many others in foreign countries were killed along the way. More collateral damage I suppose?
Johnson and his ilk are what now qualify for the head positions in a government bureaucracy that is fully fascist and tyrannical. This man concluded when he was the top lawyer for the Pentagon, that the president alone has the “right” to murder American citizens without charge or trial, and now he is about to become the head of the security state of the USSA.
The U.S. is already a full blown police state, but with a totalitarian like Johnson in control of Homeland Security, what will the future hold? How much worse can it get? It can get a lot worse, and if Johnson’s past is any indication of his future, many more Americans will be murdered by this evil government monster, all with the seal of approval by Jeh Johnson!