http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/abledanger/ en-us Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:16:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048924/posts In his interview with CBS News, Obama says: Logan: Because you do have a situation seven years on into this war where Osama bin Laden and all his lieutenants and all the leaders of the Taliban, they’re still there. And they’re inside Pakistan. Obama: Right. It’s a huge problem. And first of all, if we hadn’t taken our eye off the ball, we might have caught them before they got into Pakistan and were able to reconstitute themselves. Several times in recent interviews, Obama has referred to "taken our eye off the ball" in terms of the invasion of Iraq,... The Campaign Spot at NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048924/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:16:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037156/posts Bookshelf: With access to routine data, the government could have identified and connected all 19 of the 9/11 terrorists. Law and the Long War By Benjamin Wittes (Penguin Press, 305 pages, $25.95) By granting the right of habeas corpus to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, the Supreme Court recently knocked down the handiwork of both the executive branch and Congress. Meanwhile, the House passed a new surveillance bill last week, after years of bitter debate and temporary fixes. And yet who knows what the Supreme Court will say after the bill becomes law? Clearly we are still grappling with the basic... WSJ / OpinionJournal.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037156/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:07:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031398/posts Janet Reno's No. 2 possible AG for ObamaJamie Gorelick accused of treating terror suspects as mere criminals Posted: June 13, 2008 10:45 pm Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi © 2008 WorldNetDaily NEW YORK – A panel of Democratic Party legal heavyweights speculated Jamie Gorelick, former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, could be appointed attorney general if Barack Obama were elected president. In a panel chaired by Elena Kagan, dean and professor of law at Harvard Law School, Gorelick charged on the opening plenary panel of the American Constitution's Society two-day meeting in Washington that the Bush administration had... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031398/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:43:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012711/posts U.S. officials are being advised in internal government documents to avoid referring publicly to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups as Islamic or Muslim, and not to use terms like jihad or mujahedeen, which "unintentionally legitimize" terrorism. "There' s a growing consensus [in the Bush administration] that we need to move away from that language," said a former senior administration official who was involved until recently in policy debates on the issue. Instead, in two documents circulated last month by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), the multiagency center charged with strategic coordination of the U.S. war on terror, officials are... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012711/posts#comment Wed, 7 May 2008 23:33:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011208/posts U.S. Frustrated By Elusive Justice Served to USS Cole Plotters May 04, 2008 It's been called "the forgotten attack" but it's one of the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history. Eight years after the USS Cole was attacked by a motorboat packed with explosives, all of the six men convicted of the strike have escaped from prison, or been freed by Yemeni officials. Seventeen sailors were killed and 40 more wounded in the strike, blamed on Usama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. Jamal al-Badawi, who helped organize the Cole plot, has reportedly escaped from Yemeni prisons twice. He is supposedly... FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011208/posts#comment Sun, 4 May 2008 23:20:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002024/posts WINSTON-SALEM -- U.S. District Court Judge James Beaty Jr. on Tuesday denied a motion for sanctions filed by Duke University and the City of Durham and ruled that the legal team for 38 members of the 2005-06 Duke lacrosse team had violated ethical rules by using a Web site, news conference and news release to publicize the filing of their case. The players have filed a civil rights lawsuit against Duke and the city, demanding reparations arising from the since dismissed Duke lacrosse sexual offense case. Beaty also ruled, however, that the content published on that Web site -- www.dukelawsuit.com... Durham Herald-Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002024/posts#comment Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:15:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997191/posts Not What They Supposed The terror connection missed by the Clintonistas. by Stephen F. Hayes Four months after the start of the Iraq war, two former senior Clinton administration national security officials took to the pages of the New York Times to demand accountability for the Bush administration's claims about Iraq and terrorism. Or, as they put it in their opening sentence, "Iraq's supposed links to terrorists." Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon wrote that the Bush administration's assertions about Iraqi support for terrorism were "suspect" and demanded scrutiny. One sure way to know the truth about Iraq and terrorism, they... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997191/posts#comment Sat, 5 Apr 2008 15:59:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983767/posts A new study commissioned by the Pentagon has reviewed over 600,000 documents captured in the invasion of Iraq, and the analysis shows no evidence of operational ties between Saddam Hussein’s regime and al-Qaeda. It did find operational ties and more between Saddam and other terrorist groups, however, which will likely be lost in an avalanche of I-told-you-sos: An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein’s regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terrorist network.The Pentagon-sponsored study, scheduled for release later this... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983767/posts#comment Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:56:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983632/posts Since murdering nearly 3,000 Americans on a single day six-and-a-half years ago, al-Qaeda has not ceased plotting new mass-murder attacks against the United States. The terror network’s rigorous training regimen puts a premium on schooling its operatives in counter-interrogation tactics. Defeating those tactics requires keeping jihadists in the dark about the treatment to which they may be subjected if captured. Al-Qaeda’s operational ignorance of our techniques makes our interrogations more effective, leading to intelligence that prevents new atrocities. These uncontroversial facts make it difficult to understand why congressional Democrats want to hand our enemies the playbook — literally, an actual... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983632/posts#comment Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:35:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982620/posts After his release from 35 years in a Pakistani prison on espionage charges, Kashmir Singh stood at the Indian border and hugged the Pakistani Cabinet minister responsible for freeing him. The official thought he was embracing an Indian electronics salesman who entered Pakistan without a passport on a business trip and got swept up in the suspicions and enmity that have characterized the rivals' relations for 60 years. But three days after walking across the border to a hero's welcome, Singh told Indian reporters Friday: "I did the duty assigned to me as a spy ... I was a regular... AP via Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982620/posts#comment Sat, 8 Mar 2008 22:07:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976236/posts House Inaction Left America Open To Attack By SENATOR MITCH McCONNELL Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 4:30 PM PT In the wake of 9/11, Americans were stunned to learn that our own intelligence officials had information on some of the hijackers even before the attacks. Three years later, Congress created the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to prevent similar gaps in intelligence gathering. Its nonpartisan director oversees 16 agencies and advises the president and Congress on how best to detect terrorist plots. But now, when it comes to intercepting the communications of terrorists overseas, the Democrats' leadership in... Investors Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976236/posts#comment Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:42:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976238/posts In the wake of 9/11, Americans were stunned to learn that our own intelligence officials had information on some of the hijackers even before the attacks. Three years later, Congress created the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to prevent similar gaps in intelligence gathering. Its nonpartisan director oversees 16 agencies and advises the president and Congress on how best to detect terrorist plots. But now, when it comes to intercepting the communications of terrorists overseas, the Democrats' leadership in the House of Representatives has decided that his advice is optional. The consequences of inaction are real: Last Saturday,... IBD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976238/posts#comment Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:43:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971407/posts Khalid Sheikh Mohammed planned and helped execute the 9/11 attacks that killed 3,000 Americans. He also planned the 1993 World Trade Center Attack, the attacks in Bali and Kenya that killed hundreds more, and attacks that never had the chance to take place thanks to his capture and interrogation by American intelligence agents. We know this because KSM himself openly brags about his atrocities as a point of pride. Now some have decided to help him commit his final atrocity -- by painting himself as a victim: On Monday, some six years after 9/11, military prosecutors filed charges against Khalid... Captain's Quarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971407/posts#comment Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:25:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970464/posts See link for video -- John Boehner leads Republicans out of the House, protesting the Democrats not addressing FISA extension. National Review Online -- the Corner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970464/posts#comment Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:03:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970469/posts The House will allow the current FISA legislation to lapse rather than address the differences between the their version of the extension and the one passed by the Senate on Tuesday. Democrats wanted yet another three-week extension to kick the can down the road again, and petulantly dropped consideration when both opponents and advocates of the Senate plan refused to agree. Now they're saying the lapse in the FISA legislation will have no effect -- as long as no new terrorist groups arise: Democrats insisted that a lapse would have no real effect. The expiration of the powers “doesn’t mean... Captain's Quarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970469/posts#comment Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:13:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968654/posts Hesham Islam's 'resume didn't add up,' official says In a stunning turn of events, a high-level Muslim military aide blamed for costing an intelligence contractor his job will step down from his own Pentagon post, WND has learned. Meanwhile, his rival, Maj. Stephen Coughlin, a leading authority on Islamic war doctrine, may stay in the Pentagon, moving from the office of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the office of the secretary of defense. However, sources say a former U.S. ambassador to Turkey is trying to block his new contract. The top Pentagon aide, Egyptian-born Hesham H.... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968654/posts#comment Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:48:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968525/posts AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling,... The EIB Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968525/posts#comment Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:43:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968196/posts S.Amdt. 3913 to S.Amdt. 3911 to S. 2248 (FISA Amendments Act of 2007) Statement of Purpose: To prohibit reverse targeting and protect the rights of Americans who are communicating with people abroad. Not Voting - 5 Clinton (D-NY) Dorgan (D-ND) McCain (R-AZ) Nelson (D-NE) Obama (D-IL) senate.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968196/posts#comment Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:04:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963616/posts Federal authorities say a high-level Muslim Pentagon aide, who led a campaign to silence a Pentagon intelligence analyst for taking a hard line against Islam, is running an "influence operation" on behalf of U.S. Muslim groups fronting for the radical Muslim Brotherhood. Hesham H. Islam (left), Muslim aide to the deputy secretary of defense, with Muslim military chaplain Abuhena M. Saifulislam (right) Hesham H. Islam, a special assistant to deputy Defense secretary Gordon England, recently criticized Maj. Stephen Coughlin, one of the military's leading authorities on Islamic war doctrine, for making the connection between the religion of Islam and terrorism.... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963616/posts#comment Sat, 2 Feb 2008 03:19:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963521/posts February 1, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - If we are to believe the Hillary Clinton campaign line, the main attribute which qualifies her above all others is that, "She is ready to lead on day one." She derives this alleged standing from what can only be called political osmosis, having been the wife of Bill Clinton, serving as his "co-president." This echoes a theme which Bill stated often during the 1992 presidential campaign, suggesting that a vote for him was a bargain because the lucky voter would get "two for the price of one," thus providing a... PipeLineNews.org LLC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963521/posts#comment Fri, 1 Feb 2008 23:51:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962902/posts Bill Clinton takes on heckler January 31, 2008 Posted: 02:00 PM ET Watch Bill Clinton take on a heckler Thursday. (CNN) – Bill Clinton engaged with a heckler head on Thursday at a Denver campaign stop. The former president had just begun his speech when a man began to shout about 9/11 conspiracies. As security attempted to escort him out, Clinton stopped his speech, saying, "What are you screaming about? Let him talk." "Are you one of those it-was-an-inside-job guys? Let me tell you something… I let you be rude and interrupt me, scream at the top of your lungs.... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962902/posts#comment Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:27:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960749/posts Antoin "Tony" Rezko was arrested early Monday at his Wilmette home by federal agents on an alleged bond violation, the Tribune has learned. Investigators had in recent weeks become concerned about the movement of some of his finances, a source said. Rezko, who is scheduled to stand trial on corruption charges in less than a month at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, was taken into custody due to an alleged bond violation, a source confirmed. Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960749/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:54:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960300/posts The man crowned as America's first black president for his unprecedented personal connection to the African-American community has abdicated the throne. By injecting himself into the Democratic primary campaign with a series of inflammatory and negative statements, Bill Clinton may have helped his wife's presidential hopes in the long term but at the cost of his reputation with a group of voters that have long been one of his strongest bases of political support. Illinois Senator Barack Obama won an overwhelming victory in South Carolina with the support of African American voters who made up 53 percent of the vote,... CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960300/posts#comment Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:30:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956840/posts Why Bush really demoted Richard Clarke by Jack Cashill This is the fourth in a six-part series detailing the risks to American national security if Barack Obama (or Hillary Clinton) should ever choose to let Richard Clarke back into government. Clarke is currently one of Obama’s top national security advisors. “When George Bush came into office, though he kept Clarke on at the White House, he stripped him of his cabinet level rank.” So lamented Leslie Stahl during the March 2004 60 Minutes profile that would make Richard Clarke ace crowd surfer in the intellectual mosh pit of the anti-war... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956840/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:37:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956251/posts The first secretary of the Homeland Security Department says waterboarding is torture. "There's just no doubt in my mind — under any set of rules — waterboarding is torture," Tom Ridge said Friday in an interview. Ridge had offered the same opinion earlier in the day to members of the American Bar Association at a homeland security conference. "One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we don't torture," Ridge said in the interview. Ridge was secretary of the Homeland Security Department between 2003 and 2005. "And... MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956251/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:58:43 GMT