Obama's Passport Scrubber John Brennan Sworn In As CIA Director With Draft Constitution Lacking Bill Of Rights (Congress, legal)

[Old Army Soldier]

This is alarming. John Brennan requested that he wanted to be sworn in using the original draft of the Constitution, dating from 1787, which has George Washington’s personal handwriting and annotations on it. That means, when Brennan vowed to protect and defend the Constitution, he was swearing on one that did not include the First, Second Fourth, Fifth, or Sixth Amendments — or any of the other Amendments now included in our Constitution. The Bill of Rights did not become part of our Constitution until 1791, 4 years after the Constitution that Brennan took his oath on. Another thing that is troubling is that Brennan was allowed to use his uncovered hands to handle the document


Vice President Joe Biden swears in CIA Director John Brennan at the White House, March 8, 2013.


Brennan takes oath on draft Constitution—without Bill of Rights
Brennan takes oath on draft Constitution

[wrecking ball]

Originally Posted by Old Army Soldier

Another thing that is troubling is that Brennan was allowed to use his uncovered hands to handle the document

look at your own photo there champ. brennan isn't touching the actual document.

[HistorianDude]

And in the bizarro hallucinatory world of right wing crankery, this means what? That the Bill of Rights has magically disappeared?

[mlassoff]

Ummm..

How would the original draft of the Constitution include the Bill of Rights?!?! They were part of a compromise that got the Constitution passed. They weren't in the draft document...

Good grief.

[Willsson]

He was sworn in according to form. He has the same obligation as any other Director of the CIA.

[DewDropInn]

Originally Posted by HistorianDude

That the Bill of Rights has magically disappeared?

Perhaps we should call Nicholas Cage.

[Smoke_Jaguar4]

... And, he didn't take the oath on a BIBLE. This must mean he's a Secular Humanist Agnostic Neo-Pagan Satanist National-Socialist Socialist.

To celebrate they probably sacrificed a goat and burned its blood.

[legalsea]

Originally Posted by Old Army Soldier

This is alarming. John Brennan requested that he wanted to be sworn in using the original draft of the Constitution, dating from 1787, which has George Washington’s personal handwriting and annotations on it. That means, when Brennan vowed to protect and defend the Constitution, he was swearing on one that did not include the First, Second Fourth, Fifth, or Sixth Amendments — or any of the other Amendments now included in our Constitution. The Bill of Rights did not become part of our Constitution until 1791, 4 years after the Constitution that Brennan took his oath on. Another thing that is troubling is that Brennan was allowed to use his uncovered hands to handle the document


Vice President Joe Biden swears in CIA Director John Brennan at the White House, March 8, 2013.


Brennan takes oath on draft Constitution—without Bill of Rights
Brennan takes oath on draft Constitution

I'm interested: is this YOUR interpretation of this event, or did you read it someone and repeat it?

[Smoke_Jaguar4]

Originally Posted by legalsea

I'm interested: is this YOUR interpretation of this event, or did you read it someone and repeat it?

Copy-pasta from WND:
No Bible for Brennan swearing in

Old Army Soldier doesn't think, he bounces straight from the RWNJ Echo Chamber.

[kidkaos2]

Originally Posted by Old Army Soldier

This is alarming. John Brennan requested that he wanted to be sworn in using the original draft of the Constitution, dating from 1787, which has George Washington’s personal handwriting and annotations on it. That means, when Brennan vowed to protect and defend the Constitution, he was swearing on one that did not include the First, Second Fourth, Fifth, or Sixth Amendments — or any of the other Amendments now included in our Constitution. The Bill of Rights did not become part of our Constitution until 1791, 4 years after the Constitution that Brennan took his oath on. Another thing that is troubling is that Brennan was allowed to use his uncovered hands to handle the document


Vice President Joe Biden swears in CIA Director John Brennan at the White House, March 8, 2013.


Brennan takes oath on draft Constitution—without Bill of Rights
Brennan takes oath on draft Constitution

Whatever he put his hand on when he took the oath, he still took the oath to uphold the constitution. It wasn't an oath to defend what I've got my hand on, it was an oath to defend the constitution. What he's swearing on isn't relevant to that.

Besides which, the oath means nothing anyway. It's just a ceremony. I mean if Congress makes a law that the Supreme Court finds unconstitutional then do we prosecute everyone who voted for it? They aren't held to the oath anyway. Obama took an oath to the constitution and has violated it over and over again with his executive orders and threats to act if Congress doesn't and spending money on things the constitution doesn't authorize and such.

I think you're concerned about nothing here. I have no doubt that Brennan is going to break his oath. There has never been a Democrat in recent memory who hasn't. But I don't think the document he had his hand on when he took the oath is anything to get upset about.