Obama may not like wiretapping terrorists to protect his country (he was a vocal opponent to the NSA terrorist surveillance program) but he has no problem nominating someone who secretly taped a conversation between his wife and their priest to use against her in divorce proceedings.
President Obama’s nominee for secretary of the Navy was involved in a divorce that drew national attention for his secret taping of a conversation between his wife and his family priest that he used against her in court proceedings.
The nominee, Ray Mabus, is a former governor of Mississippi and a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and he served in the Navy during the Vietnam War. Mr. Mabus, a Democrat, was a strong supporter of Mr. Obama in the campaign last year.
In 1998, as Mr. Mabus and his wife, Julie (now Julie Hines), sought to work out their marital problems, he surreptitiously recorded a meeting the couple had with the Rev. Jerry McBride, a mutual friend.
So, is Obama surrounded by incompetant people who didn’t know about this, or is Obama just not concerned with someone who violated the privacy another American citizen? According to the White House, they knew.
A White House official, who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations on a personnel matter, said that officials who reviewed Mr. Mabus’s background knew about the messy divorce and did not view it as material to his potential duties as Navy secretary.
In response to questions, the White House released a statement Sunday that said, “The president nominated Governor Mabus to be secretary of the Navy because he has the proven leadership and experience our nation needs to serve in this important position.”
So I guess Obama condones secreting tapings of conversations of Americans?
I guess since Mabus’s wife isn’t a terrorist and wasn’t plotting a terrorist attack it was okay.
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