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GOP leaders rebut Brennan's claims about Christmas bomber
The Hill ^ | 2/7/10 | Silla Brush

Posted on 02/07/2010 12:46:20 PM PST by Nachum

Congressional Republicans lashed out at White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan, who said Sunday that the lawmakers were told the Christmas Day terrorist attacker was taken into FBI custody.

Brennan said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) and Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) were all briefed on Christmas Day and that they raised no objections.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abdulmutallab; brennan; gop; leaders; obama; rebut; terrorism

1 posted on 02/07/2010 12:46:20 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping


2 posted on 02/07/2010 12:46:37 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

this will be fun to watch ...


3 posted on 02/07/2010 12:49:04 PM PST by gibtx2 (keep up the good work I am out of work but post 20 a month to this out of WF Check)
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To: Nachum

I think the term “lashed out” in this context means “answered the phone when we called and asked for a comment.”


4 posted on 02/07/2010 12:49:19 PM PST by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: Nachum

This means White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan must resign!


5 posted on 02/07/2010 12:54:38 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Round 2 (insert Bikini Babe here) - DING!)
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To: Steely Tom

Brennan is a dem/lib/socialist/marxist/bolshevik. Of course he is lying.


6 posted on 02/07/2010 12:55:29 PM PST by Eleven Bravo 6 319thID
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To: Eleven Bravo 6 319thID

Can you imagine what it’s like to sit in a room in the white house and spend the entire agenda discussing how best to lie to America.

It’s breathtaking.


7 posted on 02/07/2010 1:02:12 PM PST by Eddie01 (All we every really knew was it was crazy to be doin' it any other way)
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To: Nachum

This bunch of gradeschool pansies in this administration from the very top have absolutely no capacity to take any kind of blame for 20/20 stupid decisions and always strive to take anyone they can down into the sewer with them. Granted, I could care less about the elites in both parties but expecting the other party leaders to make assumptions based on general unsecured infromation is the height of childish moronic behavior.

Brennen got to where he is by riding the wave of doers around him while constantly keeping his nose planted with super glue in the posterior orifice of those who were his superiors. The peter principle in full glowing view.

Those of us who were unfortunate enough to have worked with a slimeball like this know exactly the distain I have for such people.


8 posted on 02/07/2010 1:02:19 PM PST by mazda77 (Rubio for US Senate - West FL22nd - Dockery for Gov. - JD Hayworth - US Senate)
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To: Nachum
Yet another example of Obama's post partisan behavior. He's such a healer!!!;-)

He and his team can whine all they want but when anyone else emits a peep, it is partisan bickering and obstructionism.

What a bunch of incompetent children!

9 posted on 02/07/2010 1:06:08 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies (Luke 12:34 -- For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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To: Nachum

Mac Daddy and his merry men do nothing but utter one lie after another. I believe NOTHING that come from him or his willing slaves, NOTHING.


10 posted on 02/07/2010 1:06:46 PM PST by chiefqc
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To: Nachum

Saw a comment deleted on Politico


11 posted on 02/07/2010 1:08:12 PM PST by sgtyork (The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides)
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To: Nachum

Typical. Lies, lies and more lies from this incompetent administration.


12 posted on 02/07/2010 1:17:18 PM PST by mulligan
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To: Eleven Bravo 6 319thID

Brennan is a dem/lib/socialist/marxist/bolshevik. Of course he is lying.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

Exactly right. Thank you.


13 posted on 02/07/2010 1:20:18 PM PST by unkus
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To: Nachum
The straw man the other side keeps pulling up is that there's no doubt the guy will be convicted. That's not the question. The question is what did he know that day that could have been turned to our advantage in preventing the next attempt. He was in pain and knew he had failed at his task. Whatever he knew was ours for the taking. Instead he was told to shut up and hold his piece.

I said on Day One, he should have disappeared from that flight and never been heard from again. The question all over the Arab street the next few days should have been “what happened to good ol’ Abdul what's-his-name?”

He was going to be convicted regardless, the question was could a properly trained interrogation team get some very valuable intel from him.

We'll never know. And for that there is blood on the hands of those who handled this case from the git-go!

14 posted on 02/07/2010 1:29:12 PM PST by jwparkerjr
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To: Nachum
I'm tired of these liars getting on the TV spewing their BS to try and cover Obama’s ass.
15 posted on 02/07/2010 1:55:14 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: jwparkerjr

exactly -— it reveals yet again how liberals view this as nothing more than a criminal trial -— no grasp of how critical it is to gather all relevant intel to help to break up terror plots......

so long as we can proceed by standard domestic criminal protocols everything is just ducky


16 posted on 02/07/2010 2:19:59 PM PST by Enchante (Obamanation: are you really concerned about "foreign" campaign donations? Let's see all of yours!!)
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To: Nachum

Does anybody think that when Al Q sent the christmas over, that if he had failed in his suicide mission that he would be read his Miranda Rights and they would have time to disprerse and yet achieve their plans. Look O is so messed up in the head that Al Q is right there in the middle able to discern every move this Moronic Administration is going to do.. So The undies bomber failed and pretty so O will come out and tell every how the bomb failed, clearing the way for them to perfect what to do. Cut the guys scrotum open and put it inside with a small trigger, and sew it back up. or pack a woman’s breast with the same stuff and have some type of way to utilize a needle and blow herself up.


17 posted on 02/07/2010 2:40:44 PM PST by hondact200 (hondact200 No to Socialism - Michigan destroyed by Progressive Liberal Populism)
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To: Enchante

I really think it represents how unable liberals are to think ahead and plan beyond the next obvious step. It’s like they have an idea and once that’s been realized then the project is over. The same way they want to ‘do something’ and once they’ve kicked off the process they never check back to see if it worked or maybe made the situation worse. I’m not sure but what it’s not a matter of ‘doing something’ to salve their conscience, sorta like once they’ve done something then they’re off the hook.

Politicians though are much more deceitful, they use the fact liberals want to do something as an excuse to spend money, much of which finds itself into their pockets and into the pockets of their supporters.


18 posted on 02/07/2010 2:54:24 PM PST by jwparkerjr
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