Obama Broken Promise of the Day: Whistleblowers Protection, Video of Broken Signing Statement Promise Added

Add it to the pile, the fact that he did it with a signing statement is a nice touch.

WASHINGTON — A leading Republican senator maintains that President Obama is violating a campaign promise with his claim that he can bypass whistle-blower protections for executive branch officials who give certain information to Congress.The lawmaker, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, sent a letter to Mr. Obama on Friday that condemned a signing statement the president attached to the $410 billion catchall spending bill he signed into law last week. ......

During the presidential campaign, Mr. Obama criticized Mr. Bush’s frequent use of signing statements as an abuse of power and promised to exercise greater restraint when using them. His campaign said he would not issue “signing statements that undermine the legislative intent.”

In the letter Friday, Mr. Grassley told Mr. Obama he had violated that pledge, because “you have gutted the legislative intent of this provision.”

Here is Obama on the Campaign Trail saying he won't sign any:




We are not going to use signing statements as an end run around around congress! Ha!