Barack Obama

It is mind-boggling to me how Fox News would have responded.

Yeah.

I mean, there were times where, I remember, there was a moment, I don't remember what year this was, where the military just had regular exercises in Texas, out of one of the bases, Fort Hood.

Right.

Ted Cruz and a number of other folks were out there lending credence to the fact that I was preparing for the whole black helicopter, one world government.

I was about to take over Texas.

This is like a sitting US senator.

Retweeting about what's going on with these exercises.

Secret ops.

I didn't even have any... I didn't monitor anything.

military exercises, because you know what?

That was the Pentagon's job.

That was the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the COCOMs.

That was their job to prepare and focus on military readiness, and then they'd report to me.

The point is that we have blown through, just in the last six months, a whole range of

not simply assumptions, but rules and laws and practices that were put in place to ensure that nobody's above the law and that we don't use the federal government to

simply reward our friends and punish our enemies.

And the same thing's obviously happening in the Justice Department.

So people are right to be concerned.

The interesting thing, and what I've been trying to do when I've been speaking about this publicly is just to remind folks, you know, justice was true during the McCarthy era and has been true throughout our history.