Posted on 01/03/2010 12:17:09 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
The U.S. Government is offering the suspect charged with attempting to bomb an aircraft on Christmas Day, Omar Abdulmutallab, some kind of incentives to share what he knows about Al Qaeda, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said Sunday.
Asked why Abdulmutallab should cooperate given his right, as criminal defendant, to remain silent, Brennan replied: "He doesn't have to but he knows there are certain things that are on the table... if he wants to engage with us in a productive manner, there are ways he can do that."
Asked if Abdulmutallab's willingness to talk changed once he had an attorney, Brennan declined to answer. "I'm not going to address what he did before or after he talked with a lawyer," the adviser said.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Oh, great.
Making a deal with a terrorist? Oh great. What a great idea.
I see a future Law and Order episode in the works.
Can this be in breaking news?
Yeah, the one where he identifies the Russian mafia, or Christian militia, or Swiss Nuns as his real handlers.
He wanted to die and become a martyr. What possibly can we give him to change his mind? Ice cream cones in Bermuda?
Jealots can’t be persuaded to give up information by deals. A religious jealot is even more out there.
The Jihadis must all be laughing like crazy right now. This is the perfect time for them to attack America.
I am so not getting this.
Announce to the world that the panty terrorist is going to cooperate and spill the beans on his fellow jihadists.
The other terrorists will then change their plans- with a net result of nothing gained.
They are offering him a deal, when he should have been shot on sight. Wonder how many of us are going to die before we get rid of the fools and villains in the White House.
(and thought doesn't come easy when you have no brain)
“A deal”.....?
*shakeshead*
The pure audacity and ignorance of this administration speaks volumes to their lack of any credibility as it pertains to keeping Americans safe and combating terrorism.
Perhaps a little “art therapy”?
meanwhile- three brave Navy Seals are at risk for court martial for doing their job....
Well, Obama still decided to release and send back the yemenis in Guantanamo to Yemen - just few more of them will be on our planes now so...what do you expect of these traitors?
Rather than trying to obtain publicity from this, Obama should have him waterboarded in secret to obtain everything he knows.
Thomas McInerney, a retired Lt. Genera with the US Air Force, told Fox News television on Saturday that within the next 30 to 120 days, “there is a danger of high probability” awaiting US airliners.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115268§ionid=3510203
“if he wants to engage with us in a productive manner, there are ways he can do that”
So this democrat outburst warns every terrorist he’s ever been in contact with to GTF out of dodge.
Keep it up Obama! You're driving that stake deeper and deeper into your own heart!
I have a feeling that BO is gonna wish he hadn’t made such a big deal about how the US “tortures” in the months to come. These terrorists are not going to reveal anything and it will be on his shoulders alone.
Implementation of the inept policies outlined by Brennan spells danger for Americans, American interests, and American allies. The bitter consequences of these mistakes soon enough will become apparent.
1. Convict him. 2. Anoint his body liberally with lard (from pigs). 3. Execute him. They executed McVeigh didn’t they? 4. Bury him in a grave sealed with several yards of concrete. Publicize number 2.
Let the Imams and their followers know we condemned one of their would be martyrs to hell.
To hell with giving him a deal in exchange for info. Waterboard him already!
He goes on TV and says Cheney put him up to it, and they let him cop a plea to starting a campfire without a permit.
The list, ping
These folks seem to be motivated by the prospects of endless sex in the afterlife. Perhaps a troupe of patriotic prostitutes would give these guys a reason to continue living and spill their guts. It would also give Obama an excuse to nationalize the world’s oldest profession.
That'll teach those terrorists a lesson!
I was watching Fox when he said it. Then I started spewing expletives, and had to leave the room. Also, he referenced Bush more than the present admin. Oh, let’s keep blaming Bush.
Do they have any other Mantra in this WH?
“We will not negotiate with terrorists” sigh
My sense was that a plea deal of some sort could be worked out. I chose to ignore it (for now) or pretend I was reading too much into it.
I am having trouble wrapping my brain around so many things this past week. I don’t know how much more my brain can try to process.
They don’t need to make a deal with him to get information. Treat him like Bush/Cheney treated the Shoe Bomber, Richard Reid. Waterboard him till he gives us everything he knows, then try him before a Military Commission and place him before a firing squad. Thats the way Real American Men treat Terrorists.
...and that ladies and gentlemen is why Gitmo prisoners should not be brought to US spoil.
WTF?
Plea bargaining with a terrorist.
Naive doesn’t begin to describe this administration. They’re going to have to come up with a whole slew of new adjectives before this one goes away.
In China, a plea deal includes letting the condemned live 3 extra months from tomorrow.
Wish we had that.
Yep. Heard it with my own ears.
Podesta had pegged Brennan for Panetta’s position ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/us/politics/08council.html
Obama Is Reported Set to Revise Counterterrorism Efforts
New York Times, The (NY) - Thursday, January 8, 2009
Author: PETER BAKER
Abstract: Pres-elect Obama reportedly is preparing to scrap Bush administration’s approach to overseeing domestic security and name former CIA official John O Brennan to coordinate counterterrorism; plan would eliminate independent homeland security adviser’s office and assign those duties to National Security Council;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/08/AR2009010804108.html
Obama Taps CIA Veteran As Adviser On Terror - Brennan Has Drawn Fire on Interrogations
Washington Post, The (DC) - Friday, January 9, 2009
Author: R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post Staff Writer
Barack Obama has picked John O. Brennan as his top adviser on counterterrorism, a role that will give the CIA veteran a powerful voice on the government’s use of security contractors and on other sensitive issues in which he recently has played a private-sector role.
By appointing Brennan to a senior White House position not subject to Senate approval, Obama is also making him an influential adviser on the Middle East and on Iran, a topic on which Brennan has called for a sharp break with past U.S. policy.
The president-elect’s decision comes only six weeks after Brennan was forced to pull out of contention for the directorship of the CIA because of fears that his statements supporting some controversial interrogation techniques would have complicated his confirmation.
The firm Brennan heads, the Analysis Corp., and its corporate parent have earned millions of dollars over the past decade assisting several federal agencies and private firms on counterterrorism. Those oil and telecommunications firms have worked in countries beset by violence, including Mozambique, Liberia, Colombia and Pakistan — all of which have been topics of intense policy debate in Washington.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/08/roundup080709.html
National Security
Sustainable Security 101
The Center continued its work on “sustainable security” by publishing an introduction to the subject after Senior Counterterrorism Advisor John O. Brennan said that the United States must redefine its strategy to include all facets of national power.
CAP’s CEO and President John D. Podesta accompanied former President Bill Clinton to North Korea on a mission to secure the freedom of journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. And Colin Thomas-Jensen offered an analysis on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo in an Ask the Expert video.
More on Lieutenant Quarles Harris Jr:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2232588/posts?page=105
Key witness in (presidential) passport fraud case fatally shot [old article]
Washington Times ^ | 4/18/2008 |
Where did these guys go to school?
They certainly didn’t get beat up for their lunch money like the rest of us.
He’s likely in for the most terrible torture of all - Monty Python’s Comfy Chair!
We just so happen were in the last row of the plane, 44, and the Muslim gal was 3 seats ahead of us, the Sikh guy was 2 seats ahead of us on the other side. I'm wondering, did they both get a crotch search? A total cavity search? I knew they hadn't, so it was tension city all the way to Seattle. Did anyone talk with them, interview them, like the Israelis do? I'm sweating bullets when she went to the bathroom. I honest to God almost didn't get on the plane. . .
Anyway, we made it, but unless things change, it's just a matter of time until 300 men, women and children get killed. There were a lot of kids on the plane. . .
Even worse, NCIS to get punk’d with a whole series of apologizing and making excuses for the filth of Islam and blaming the war on terrorism as the West’s problem with Multiculturalism, Diversity, open society…bla bla bla. And that any problems with Islam are to be blamed on nutty Christian ideals, for if it was not for the so-called separation clause, all Marines would be followers of Mohammad (Fort Hood massacre would not have taken place). NCIS has now compromised Marines in their duty and protect the Constitution and citizenry or is it just that Marines now represent Islam as the current Presidential armed forces.
A job as an FBI agent? CIA agent? Army psychologist? DHS Arabic translator? Obama National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism in charge of "deals" Czar? State Department ambassador to Nigeria? Special adviser to the President in charge of closing Gitmo?
With all the traitors filling the government, the possibilities are endless.
Catch ‘n release.
McInerney knows his stuff.
Obozo will say that if the pantybomber says he is sorry and promises to never do it again, he can go free. Inside the US, of course.
Obama is gonna take Uma some shave ice. The act of kindness will make him see the error of his ways.
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