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  • White House advisor briefed on 'underwear bomb' in October

    01/03/2010 10:30:08 AM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 11 replies · 310+ views
    American Thinker ^ | January 2, 2010 | Rick Moran
    Newsweek follows up its story on Obama being informed of a Christmas terror plot with the story that White House counterterrorism advisor John Brennan being briefed about the kind of bomb used during the holiday attack: White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan was briefed in October on an assassination attempt by Al Qaeda that investigators now believe used the same underwear bombing technique as the Nigerian suspect who tried to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day, U.S. intelligence and administration officials tell NEWSWEEK.The briefing to Brennan was delivered at the White House by Muhammad bin Nayef, Saudi...
  • New Obama Security Oversight: White House Received October Briefing About Underwear Bombings

    01/02/2010 7:31:44 PM PST · by Shellybenoit · 23 replies · 727+ views
    Newsweek/The Lid ^ | 1/2/10 | The Lid
    Yesterday Newsweek revealed that on December 22nd, three days before the attempted underwear bombing, the President was warned that an attack might be imminent. In a background briefing for reporters on December 29, also attributed in an official White House transcript to a "senior administration official", that official asserted that in the wake of the attempted underpants attack, it had become clear to the President and top advisers that before Christmas, the US government was in possession of "bits and pieces" of information, which, if they had been properly knitted together, "could have...allowed us to disrupt the attack or certainly...
  • US Official: Extremists Seek New Ways to Attack US

    01/02/2010 6:35:24 PM PST · by rdl6989 · 31 replies · 847+ views
    New York Times ^ | January 2, 2010
    <p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top counterterrorism official is warning that al-Qaida and other extremists are working to test U.S. defenses and launch an attack on American soil.</p> <p>National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter says the failed Christmas Day attempt to bring down a U.S. airliner is the starkest reminder of that threat.</p>
  • Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address January 2, 2010

    01/02/2010 12:17:21 PM PST · by onyx · 34 replies · 593+ views
    The White House ^ | January 2, 2010 | Office of the Press Secretary
    Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address January 2, 2010 It has now been more than a week since the attempted act of terrorism aboard that flight to Detroit on Christmas Day. On Thursday, I received the preliminary findings of the reviews that I ordered into our terrorist watchlist system and air travel screening. I've directed my counterterrorism and homeland security advisor at the White House, John Brennan, to lead these reviews going forward and to present the final results and recommendations to me in the days to come. As I said this week, I will do everything in my...
  • 'Snowbama' time in Hawaii (Obama shows terrorist how to eat shaved ice)

    01/02/2010 5:33:19 AM PST · by tobyhill · 93 replies · 1,789+ views
    AFP ^ | 1/2/2010 | AFP
    US President Barack Obama took a respite from the pile of grim news clouding his vacation, taking a group of friends and their kids for a chill Hawaii delicacy -- shave ice. At a shave-ice store near his vacation rental, Obama on Friday picked one of the concotions, made of ice and fruit syrup and known as the "Snowbama" in his honor -- flavored with lemon-lime, cherry, and passion guava. "That is the Snowbama," the president said, when reporters questioned his choice of treat, after he ordered the group 19 shave ice cones of various flavors. Onlookers cheered Obama, who...
  • The Joke's On Us (Mark Steyn On Obama's KeyStone Cops Approach To Islamic Terrorism Alert)

    01/02/2010 4:24:07 AM PST · by goldstategop · 42 replies · 1,877+ views
    National Review ^ | 1/02/2010 | Mark Steyn
    On Christmas Day, a gentleman from Nigeria succeeded (effortlessly) in boarding a flight to Detroit with a bomb in his underwear. Pretty funny, huh? But the Pantybomber wasn’t the big joke. The real laugh was the United States government. The global hyperpower spent the next week making itself a laughingstock to the entire planet. First, the bureaucrats at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) swung into action with a whole new range of restrictions. Against radical Yemen-trained Muslims wearing weaponized briefs? Of course not. That would be too obvious. So instead they imposed a slew of constraints against you. At Heathrow...
  • Obama briefed on prelim reports on airline attack

    01/01/2010 4:04:03 PM PST · by SeattleBruce · 45 replies · 829+ views
    Associated Press ^ | PHILIP ELLIOTT
    HONOLULU (AP) - President Barack Obama was briefed Thursday on how a 23-year-old Nigerian with suspected terrorist ties almost succeeded in a Christmas Day airline bombing and how to prevent it from happening again. Obama received the preliminary assessment ahead of meetings in Washington next week on fixing the shortcomings and failures of the nation's anti-terrorism policy. Administration officials said the system to protect the nation's skies from terrorists was deeply flawed and, even then, the government failed to follow its own directives. Vacationing in Hawaii, Obama talked with the his national security team about progress they were making on...
  • AG Eric Holder's Law Firm Represented 18 Gitmo Detainees Volunteering Free Legal Assistance

    01/01/2010 10:09:05 AM PST · by opentalk · 15 replies · 494+ views
    Weasel Zippers/nro ^ | November 18, 2009 | Weasel Zippers
    AG Eric Holder's Law Firm Represented 18 Gitmo Detainees After Volunteering to Give Them Free Legal Assistance, Filed Endless Lawsuits in US Courts... These lawsuits filed against the American people led to the delay of Bush's military-trials, accounting for the "eight years of delay" the Obama administration has used as justification for the 9/11 plotters being tried in civilian court....... (NRO)- Of all the infuriating aspects of the decision to transfer five 9/11 war criminals to civilian federal court, the one that grates most is the contention that the Obama administration is finally moving forward after “eight years of delay”...
  • The Undies Bomber NOT a Security Issue But a White House Embarrassment Issue?

    01/01/2010 9:28:16 AM PST · by opentalk · 20 replies · 613+ views
    WordPress ^ | Jan 1, 2010 | Romanticpoet's Weblog
    What was the 9-11 Commission for anyway? Recommendations put forth just “shelved.” Red flags ignored: Father warned that son had become radical; information given to U.S. Consulate in Nigeria. Undies bomber bought ticket with cash. Undies bomber had NO LUGGAGE. Undies bomber had no passport. BUT had US VISA. HOW did he get a VISA without a passsport? Has anyone even looked into the “well dressed man” that accompanied the undies bomber and assisted him getting on the plane in Amsterdam? ================= Now the White House is in FULL damage control mode trying to cover up their political incompetence on...
  • White House Rushes to Fix Security, Intelligence Flaws

    01/01/2010 4:29:16 AM PST · by reaganaut1 · 34 replies · 812+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | December 31, 2009 | Elizabeth Williamson and Siobhan Gorman
    The Obama administration is scurrying to implement new procedures to find and keep potential terrorists off U.S.-bound planes, as results of a preliminary intelligence review flow into the White House. Emerging as a central focus are deficiencies in the U.S.'s network of watch lists, a system designed after the Sept. 11 attacks to keep tabs on potential terrorists and prevent them from boarding planes, according to a senior U.S. counterterrorism official. The official noted that government audits turned up problems in recent years, including gaps that kept suspected terrorists from being added to the U.S.'s no-fly list. President Barack Obama...
  • The Politics of Incompetence (Flight 253 a "political issue", not a security problem)

    12/31/2009 5:49:19 AM PST · by reaganaut1 · 93 replies · 3,145+ views
    American Spectator ^ | December 31, 2009 | The Prowler
    <p>On December 26, two days after Nigerian Omar Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to use underwear packed with plastic explosives to blow up the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight he was on, and as it became clear internally that the Administration had suffered perhaps its most embarrassing failure in the area of national security, senior Obama White House aides, including chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod and new White House counsel Robert Bauer, ordered staff to begin researching similar breakdowns -- if any -- from the Bush Administration.</p>
  • Spy agencies failed to collate clues before flight (They had the threat but failed to act)

    12/31/2009 3:52:59 AM PST · by tobyhill · 12 replies · 298+ views
    MSNBC ^ | 12/31/2009 | MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC LIPTON/ny times
    The National Security Agency four months ago intercepted conversations among leaders of Al Qaeda in Yemen discussing a plot to use a Nigerian man for a coming terrorist attack, but American spy agencies later failed to combine the intercepts with other information that might have disrupted last week’s attempted airline bombing. The electronic intercepts were translated and disseminated across classified computer networks, government officials said on Wednesday, but analysts at the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington did not synthesize the eavesdropping intelligence with information gathered in November when the father of the would-be bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, visited the United...
  • Eric Holder’s Firm May Have Represented Undie Bomber Mastermind Before His Release

    12/30/2009 4:44:21 PM PST · by American Dream 246 · 27 replies · 854+ views
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 12/30/09 | Jim Hoft
    The leaders of the Detroit undie bomber’s Al-Qaeda group are Gitmo Grads and may have been represented by Eric Holder’s firm before their release. Two Gitmo grads rehabilitated in Saudi Arabia rejoined the jihad and made a movie earlier this year. Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Sufyan al-Azdi al-Shahri (right) and former Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi appeared in a threatening Al-Qaeda movie earlier this year. Said Ali al-Shihri (or al-Shahri) passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen. (AFP) The two set up their base in Yemen. This week...
  • U.S. Knew of Airline Terror Plot Before Christmas

    12/30/2009 7:44:29 AM PST · by Blood of Tyrants · 84 replies · 2,321+ views
    Fox News ^ | 12/30/09 | Unknown
    The U.S. government had intelligence from Yemen before Christmas that leaders of a branch of Al Qaeda there were talking about "a Nigerian" being prepared for a terrorist attack, the New York Times reported Tuesday. A senior official told the Times that President Obama was told in a private meeting Tuesday while vacationing in Hawaii that the government had a variety of information in its possession before the failed bombing on a Detroit-bound flight last week that would have been a clear warning sign had it been shared among intelligence agencies. The newspaper said the information did not include the...
  • Obama admits failures, goes snorkeling (No kidding...)

    12/29/2009 8:57:23 PM PST · by truthandlife · 62 replies · 2,046+ views
    Chicago Tribune ^ | 12-29-09 | Mark Silva
    Today, after a vacationing President Barack Obama conceded that both human and systemic failures of U.S. Intelligence had failed to bar a Nigerian man posing a reported security risk from boarding that Detroit-bound jetliner - a near-''catastrophic" breakdown in security - Obama left the reporters taking his words in Hawaii and went snorkeling. The president was wearing a navy blue suit and white striped shirt with no tie, and spoke only to reporters - unlike a televised appearance sans-tie that he had made the day before. Today, his words seemed sterner. Today, he was acknowledging a troubling breakdown in Intelligence...
  • Obama Is Told of Signs That Should Have Grounded Plot (NY Times: Obama admin blew it big time)

    12/29/2009 7:28:18 PM PST · by kristinn · 93 replies · 2,740+ views
    The New York Times ^ | Tuesday, December 29, 2009 | Peter Baker and Carl Huse
    HONOLULU — President Obama declared Tuesday that there had been a “systemic failure” of the nation’s security apparatus after being told about more missed signals and uncorrelated intelligence that should have prevented a would-be bomber from boarding a flight for the United States. The president was told during a private briefing on Tuesday morning while vacationing here in Hawaii that the government had a variety of information in its possession before the thwarted bombing that would have been a clear warning sign had it been shared among agencies, a senior official said. Two officials said the government had intelligence from...
  • U.S. Intel Lapses Helped Abdulmutallab (CIA as early as August of 2009 Tracking Underwear Bomber)

    12/29/2009 11:53:52 PM PST · by DaveTesla · 10 replies · 571+ views
    CBS News ^ | Dec. 29, 2009 | Armen Keteyian
    (CBS) CBS News has learned that as early as August of 2009 the Central Intelligence Agency was picking up information on a person of interest dubbed "The Nigerian," suspected of meeting with "terrorist elements" in Yemen. Sources tell CBS News "The Nigerian" has now turned out to be Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. But that connection was not made when Abudulmutallab's father went to the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria three months later, on November 19, 2009. It was then he expressed deep concerns to a CIA officer about his son's ties to extremists in Yemen, a hotbed of al Qaeda activity. In...
  • Napolitano Must Go — Now

    12/29/2009 10:10:12 AM PST · by AJKauf · 26 replies · 685+ views
    PAjamas Media ^ | Dec. 29 | Dan Riehl
    If Barack Obama wants to convince America he takes the “protect and defend” portion of his oath of office seriously, it’s well past time for Janet Napolitano to go. Given the lowlights of Janet Napolitano’s brief — though perhaps too long — career at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), she appears to be a woman-caused disaster in the making for Obama. Recent statements by Napolitano on the Sunday news talk shows are at least the third strike for the secretary. One has to wonder how many strikes she’ll be given before her politics and focus, if not her actual...
  • Trading Bombs for Crayons: Terrorists Get 'Art Therapy'

    12/29/2009 10:25:15 AM PST · by Reaganesque · 8 replies · 300+ views
    ABC News ^ | January 23, 2009 | Brian Ross
    In what is being touted as 'jihadi rehab,' al Qaeda terrorists newly released from Guantanamo prison or caught on the streets of Iraq before their suicide bombs could explode are putting finger paints and crayons to paper in order to secure their freedom. The Saudi government, which is running the rehabilitation program on a former royal family retreat outside Riyadh, claims that some 700 former al Qaeda terrorists have been reprogrammed. The coloring, said program founder Dr. Awad Alyami to his terrorists-turned-art-students, gets "negative energy out on paper." "It's safe here," Alyami said. "It's on the paper, it's not outside."...
  • Homeland Security Touts 2009 Accomplishments, Including ‘Secure Flight’ Program

    12/29/2009 4:55:35 AM PST · by Sub-Driver · 7 replies · 170+ views
    Homeland Security Touts 2009 Accomplishments, Including ‘Secure Flight’ Program Tuesday, December 29, 2009 By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer (CNSNews.com) – Just days before a Nigerian man tried to blow up a U.S. airliner as it descended into Detroit, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released its “2009 Accomplishments & Reforms” fact sheet, touting its “Secure Flight” passenger vetting program. The Obama administration has confirmed that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was on the U.S. government terrorist watch list, but the 23-year-old man was still able to board a Northwest plane in Amsterdam bound for Michigan. On the DHS fact sheet, issued...
  • WRAPUP 9-Obama says US will pursue plane attackers

    12/28/2009 7:38:02 PM PST · by myknowledge · 23 replies · 717+ views
    Reuters ^ | December 28, 2009 | Jeff Mason
    KAILUA, Hawaii, Dec 28 (Reuters) - A wing of al Qaeda claimed responsibility on Monday for a failed Christmas Day attack on a U.S.-bound passenger plane, and President Barack Obama vowed to bring "every element" of U.S. power against those who threaten Americans' safety. In a statement posted on Islamist websites, the group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said the attempt was to avenge U.S. attacks on its members in Yemen. The group said it had provided the Nigerian suspect in the failed airliner bombing with a "technically advanced device" but that it did not detonate because of a...
  • Welcome To Obamaworld: No Passport? No Problem!

    12/29/2009 12:16:12 AM PST · by parkerj · 21 replies · 1,046+ views
    theFinancialSkinny ^ | December 29, 2009 | theFinancialSkinny
    That Janet Napolitano is Secretary of Homeland Security is a joke. That Barack Hussein Obama is President of the United States is a clear and present danger.
  • Memphis Man Arrested: Accused of Making Bomb Threats & Threatening to Start "Holy War"

    12/28/2009 12:01:01 AM PST · by Cindy · 74 replies · 1,623+ views
    MyEyeWitnessNews.com - Local News ^ | Last Update: 12/25 9:52 pm | n/a
    Note: The following news brief is a quote: Last Update: 12/25 9:52 pm Memphis Man Arrested: Accused of Making Bomb Threats & Threatening to Start "Holy War" MEMPHIS, TN – Tonight, Mohamed Ibrahim is out after posting $100 bond. Earlier in the day, he was arrested after police say he walked into several Memphis businesses and threatened to blow them up. Court records show Ibrahim was also telling people he was Muslim, and wanted to start a jihad, or holy war, in Memphis. Police say when they arrested him, he had a butcher knife hidden in one of his jacket...
  • U.S. placed under international police-state

    12/27/2009 5:00:08 PM PST · by Sprite518 · 84 replies · 5,346+ views
    Examiner.com ^ | 12/26/2009 | Anthony G. Martin
    In the dead of night on December 17, 2009, President Barack Hussein Obama placed the United States of America under the authority of the international police organization known as INTERPOL, granting the organization full immunity to operate within the United States. Last Thursday, December 17, 2009, The White House released an Executive Order "Amending Executive Order 12425." It grants INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organization) a new level of full diplomatic immunity afforded to foreign embassies and select other "International Organizations" as set forth in the United States International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945. By removing language from President Reagan's 1983...
  • Video clip warned of terror attack

    12/27/2009 10:40:09 AM PST · by Velveeta · 25 replies · 736+ views
    UK Press ^ | 12/27/2009 | UKPA
    (snippet) In the December 21 video posted on extremist websites affiliated with al Qaida, a bearded man in head-dress, identified as Mohammed al-Kalwi, says: "We are carrying a bomb to hit the enemies of God. O soldiers, you should learn that we do not want to fight you, nor do we have an issue with you. We only have an issue with America and its agents, and beware of standing in the ranks of America."
  • Bomber was on U.S. watch list

    12/27/2009 6:15:32 AM PST · by RobinMasters · 28 replies · 681+ views
    NY Post ^ | December 26, 2009 | ANGELA MONTEFINISE
    US authorities have known for months that the al Qaeda-linked Nigerian who tried to blow up a passenger jet before it landed in Detroit had terrorist ties -- and his own father even alerted them to his extremist behavior, it was revealed yesterday. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, who was charged in federal court with attempting to destroy Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day, remained hospitalized with burns suffered in the failed attempt. He was read the charges at a hearing, where he appeared smiling in a medical gown and a wheelchair. Several key details came to light yesterday: * Al...
  • Penetration Even At The Pentagon: Muslim Spies Setting Muslim Policy

    12/19/2009 5:57:01 PM PST · by starczar66 · 24 replies · 787+ views
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | 12/18/09 | PAUL SPERRY
    The internal threat from Muslim extremists in the military extends to high-level Defense Department aides who have undermined military policy. In fact, one top Muslim adviser pushed out an intelligence analyst who warned of the sudden jihad syndrome that led to the Fort Hood terrorist attack. An honored guest of the Ramadan dinner at the Pentagon this September was Hesham Islam, who infiltrated the highest echelons of the Ring despite proven ties to U.S. terror front groups and a shady past in his native Egypt. As senior adviser for international affairs to former deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, Islam ran...
  • Taitz demands Holder commence Quo Warranto against Obama

    12/16/2009 6:19:54 PM PST · by USALiberty · 77 replies · 2,440+ views
    The Post & Email ^ | Dec. 14, 2009 | John Charlton
    Without a doubt, the most important and significant legal action in the United States this wee, is Dr. Orly Taitz’s Letter to Eric Holder, sent today, demanding that he institute Quo Warranto proceedings against Barack Hussein Obama in the District Court of Washington, D.C.. The importance of this letter is the fact that the quo warranto provisions of the District of Columbia Code provide that a 3rd party may institute a quo warranto action if the U.S. Attorney General fails to respond within 3 months to a request. Dr. Orly Taitz wrote Holder on March 1st. In her letter, published...
  • Free the Navy SEALs Now

    12/10/2009 6:15:13 PM PST · by raptor22 · 56 replies · 1,672+ views
    Investors Business daily ^ | December 10, 2009 | IBD editorial staff
    Law: American heroes are arraigned for allegedly punching a terrorist in wartime. What happens to Tiger Woods isn't vital to our country's future. What happens to Matthew McCabe, Julio Huertas and Jonathan Keefe is. People are more likely to recognize the names of Tiger's alleged bimbo eruptions than the names of these three Navy SEALs we sent into battle. They are not household names in a nation consumed with Climate Gate, the public option and the antics of billionaire athletes. An administration consumed with apologies has said the architect of 9/11's massacre, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, must be given all the...
  • Black Gangs Vented Hatred For Whites In Downtown Attacks

    12/08/2009 8:43:16 PM PST · by B-Chan · 468 replies · 11,695+ views
    TheDenverChannel.com ^ | 2009.12.5 | Alan Gathright
    Black Gangs Vented Hatred For Whites In Downtown Attacks'I Hate You F---ing White People,' Woman Shouts At Victim Black gangs roaming downtown Denver often vented their hatred for white victims before assaulting and robbing them during a four-month crime wave, according to interviews and court records obtained by 7NEWS. "I hate you f---ing white people," said a black woman in a large group of black men, according to the victim who was beaten up as he and three buddies left a LoDo bar after midnight on Aug. 30. "F---- you, white boys," the woman added, according to the 25-year-old Westminster...
  • Is the Holder DoJ imploding?

    12/08/2009 3:46:18 AM PST · by Scanian · 22 replies · 1,431+ views
    The American Thinker ^ | December 08, 2009 | Clarice Feldman
    The Washington Times suggests in an editorial that the fallout from the Department's refusal to proceed with the New Black Panther party's criminal prosecution for voter intimidation is causing an implosion in the Holder Department of Justice. DOJ has already lost three top officials ; Gregory Craig,Cassandra Butts, and now David Ogden: "[T]he Justice Department has, for now, ordered two key career attorneys not to comply with a subpoena about the case issued by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The commission, by law, has explicit power to issue subpoenas, and the law mandates that 'all federal agencies shall cooperate...
  • Clubbing Our Seals

    11/27/2009 5:09:19 PM PST · by raptor22 · 17 replies · 1,253+ views
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | November 27, 2009 | IBD edirorial staff
    War On Terror: As Khalid Sheikh Mohammed receives the benefits of U.S. justice, three Navy SEALs face court-martial for allegedly punching a captured terrorist who hanged Americans from a bridge in Fallujah. Apparently our efforts to impress the world about the marvels of our criminal justice system require us to give foreign terrorists such as Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the man who invented the manned cruise missiles that flew into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and plowed into a Pennsylvania field on its way to the Capitol Building, the full rights and protections of the American citizens he conspired...
  • Breaking: Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Is Promoting Porn in the Classroom

    12/04/2009 5:08:47 AM PST · by radioone · 22 replies · 1,180+ views
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 11-4-09 | Jim Hoft
    Are we exaggerating, or misconstruing quotes that could be interpreted a different way? No: Read the passages below and judge for yourself. There’s no wiggle room. The language is explicit, the intent clear.
  • Larry Summers’ Corporate Tax Confusion

    12/04/2009 2:57:01 AM PST · by anglian · 1 replies · 265+ views
    Cato Institute ^ | December 1, 2009 | Chris Edwards
    At a conference yesterday, White House National Economic Council Director Larry Summers repeated a superficial critique of the U.S. corporate income tax that we’ve heard often from the Obama administration. Politico notes that Summers suggested “that U.S. corporate tax rates are relatively low, despite complaints from U.S. corporations.” And they quote him: “If you look at taxes paid by corporations as a fraction of profits, they’re actually very low” because the U.S. tax code is replete with “evasion and avoidance.” The Obama team’s solution to the supposed problem is to pile more complex IRS rules and regulations on U.S. corporations...
  • SEIU Funneling Cash from Illegals Into US Elections

    12/02/2009 5:23:39 PM PST · by Pacothecat · 69 replies · 2,947+ views
    SEIU Funneling Cash from Illegals Into US Elections http://www.breitbart.tv/is-seiu-funneling-cash-from-illegals-into-us-elections/
  • ACORN Dispersing Resources to SEIU, other Liberal Groups, House Probe Finds

    12/02/2009 3:46:39 AM PST · by Man50D · 11 replies · 620+ views
    CNSNews.com ^ | December 02, 2009 | Fred Lucas
    ACORN, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, is in the process of changing its name and has already transferred many of its resources to several other left-wing advocacy and political groups, according to a report released Tuesday by Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. While the Justice Department has said that federal housing funds should continue to flow to ACORN, several congressmen, in a joint hearing of the House Oversight Committee and the Judiciary Committee, said they want a special prosecutor to investigate the use of taxpayer dollars to the group. Several weeks back, Congress...
  • Why the gov't could lose this case

    11/25/2009 3:10:28 AM PST · by Scanian · 20 replies · 779+ views
    NY Post ^ | November 25, 2009 | MICHAEL W. SCHWARTZ
    BY the real-world standard of how lawyers act, Attorney General Eric Holder's professed certainty about his decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his co-defendants in federal court is strictly (pardon the expression) "bush." It's an old adage among litigators that you're not a real trial lawyer until you've won an unwinnable case and lost an unloseable one. Lawyers in private practice know -- and make sure their clients know -- that litigation is a chancy business. That, of course, is a major reason why private disputes are overwhelmingly settled before (or during) trial and why most criminal cases are...
  • Andrew McCarthy on federal 9/11 trials: ’struggle we’re in is a war, not a crime wave’

    11/25/2009 2:43:40 AM PST · by Sergeant Tim · 6 replies · 462+ views
    911FamiliesForAmerica.org ^ | Nov 24, 2009 | Tim Sumner
    Syndicated talk-radio host Mark Levin spoke with former Assistant United States Attorney Andrew McCarthy this evening about AG Eric Holder's decision to prosecute 9/11’s conspirators, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four lieutenants, in federal court a mere 6 blocks from Ground Zero. "The Cole bombing did not prompt a military war against al-Qaeda. It eventually resulted in a civilian indictment that is still pending. The Pentagon is the ultimate military target, and the attack against it spurred both the war we are now fighting and the implementation of military commissions to try jihadist war criminals. Yet, Holder has decided to give...
  • Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist

    11/24/2009 11:45:09 AM PST · by Terrence DoGood · 638 replies · 20,031+ views
    Fox News ^ | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 | By Rowan Scarborough
    Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And for their trouble, three of the SEALs, members of the Navy's elite commando unit, are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com. The three have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral's mast — and requested a trial by court-martial. Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber," told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it....
  • Obama retreat on war: The return to pre-2001 criminal law mind-set

    11/22/2009 4:09:24 AM PST · by markomalley · 5 replies · 411+ views
    Washington Times ^ | 11/22/2009 | Jeffrey T. Kuhner
    The war on terror is over. The decision to prosecute the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, along with his al Qaeda cohorts, in federal court marks a political watershed. President Obama seeks to return America to a pre-Sept. 11, 2001, mind-set. Terrorism is to be treated - as in the 1990s - as a criminal law enforcement matter. The administration's decision to hold Mohammed's trial in a New York City civilian court, just a few blocks away from ground zero, is irresponsible and grotesque. Foreign terrorists who commit atrocities against American civilians will be given...
  • EDITORIAL EXCLUSIVE: On terrorists, Justice recused

    11/21/2009 9:51:56 PM PST · by ricks_place · 5 replies · 772+ views
    THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | THE WASHINGTON TIMES
    Attorney general's advisers have conflicts on detainee casesThe Obama Justice Department is having problems prosecuting terrorist cases because top department attorneys have conflicts of interest. According to documents obtained exclusively by The Washington Times, Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli, No. 3 official in the Justice Department, had to recuse himself on at least 13 active detainee cases and at least 26 cases listed as either closed or mooted. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, made waves Nov. 18 when he demanded that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. provide a list of all the suspected-terrorist detainee cases from which...
  • LIVE THREAD: Eric Holder Testimony (Judiciary Oversight Committee)

    11/18/2009 6:59:02 AM PST · by truthkeeper · 15 replies · 587+ views
    C-Span 3 | 11/18/09 | truthkeeper
    Jeff Sessions just gave a solid speech. Attorney General Eric Holder just started speaking, desperately trying to justify the latest fiasco.
  • Obama urges Congress to put off Ft. Hood probe

    11/15/2009 3:19:02 AM PST · by Scanian · 48 replies · 1,698+ views
    NY Post ^ | November 14, 2009 | AP
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead. On an eight-day Asia trip, Obama turned his attention home and pleaded for lawmakers to “resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater.” He said those who died on the nation’s largest Army post deserve justice, not political stagecraft. “The stakes are far too high,” Obama said in a video and Internet...
  • Read Unclassified Government Files on the Terrorists White House Plans to Import into America

    11/14/2009 8:49:32 PM PST · by smokingfrog · 11 replies · 402+ views
    republicanleader.house.gov/blog ^ | Nov. 13, 2009 | Posted by Kevin Boland
    Actual Title: The New York Five: Read the Unclassified Government Files on the Terrorists the White House Plans to Import into America ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The Obama Administration has announced it will bring Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four of his 9/11 co-conspirators – all terrorists currently imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay — to trial in civilian courts in New York City. To read the unclassified files on these terrorists from the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and Department of Defense (DOD), click HERE. Also see this from Bill Kristol this morning, relaying the reaction of the sister of 9/11 victim Charles Burlingame, the...
  • What Happens If a 9/11 Terrorist Defendant is Found Not Guilty?

    11/15/2009 2:12:40 AM PST · by Mount Athos · 101 replies · 2,237+ views
    ABC News blog "political punch" ^ | November 15, 2009 | Jake Tapper
    "I am absolutely convinced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice," President Obama said in Tokyo. "The American people will insist on it and my administration will insist on it." But what happens if KSM or any of the other 9/11 defendants the Obama administration is bringing to New York for criminal prosecutions -- including Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, Walid bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi -- are somehow found not guilty? Attorney General Eric Holder brushed off the question, saying, "I would not have authorized the bringing of these...
  • Obama asks Congress To Wait On Fort Hood [Warns Against Training Tragedy Into "Political Theater"]

    11/14/2009 9:40:24 AM PST · by Steelfish · 20 replies · 549+ views
    AP Report ^ | November 14th, 2009
    Obama asks Congress To Wait On Fort Hood Let investigators wrap up, he urges as some lawmakers seek hearings Nov. 14: In his weekly video and Internet address, President Obama talks about the Fort Hood investigation, telling lawmakers to "resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater." WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead. On an eight-day Asia trip,...
  • Obama Stabs America in her back—again

    11/13/2009 10:47:39 PM PST · by bogusname · 34 replies · 1,236+ views
    CFP ^ | November 13, 2009 | Sher Zieve
    Showing once again that there is no depth to which he will not sink to further destroy the United States of America and her people, Dictator and American Stalin Barack Hussein Obama has decided to inflict the mastermind of the 9/11 NYC attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, back into and upon the same city where eight years ago the slaughter of Americans occurred. Obama has directed that his fellow Muslim Mohammed be tried in a civilian court with all US Constitutional rights that are afforded to American citizens. Instead of having the military conduct this beast’s trial, Obama is rubbing the...
  • Obama Urges Congress To Put Off Fort Hood Probe [!!!]

    11/14/2009 3:35:45 AM PST · by BunnySlippers · 81 replies · 2,354+ views
    Google News ^ | 11/14/09 | PHILIP ELLIOTT
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead. On an eight-day Asia trip, Obama turned his attention home and pleaded for lawmakers to "resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater." He said those who died on the nation's largest Army post deserve justice, not political stagecraft. "The stakes are far too high," Obama said in a video and Internet...
  • 9/11 Terrorists to be Tried in New York: No Evidence Obtained Through Coercion Admissable

    11/13/2009 10:38:32 PM PST · by GVnana · 76 replies · 2,327+ views
    The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks will be tried in a civilian court blocks from where Al-Qaeda hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center, the US government announced. Attorney General Eric Holder said prosecutors would seek the death penalty against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four suspected co-plotters, who are held at Guantanamo Bay but will be moved to a New York prison ahead of their trial. "After eight years of delay, those allegedly responsible for the attacks of September 11 will finally face justice," Holder said, without giving a date. "They will be brought to New York...
  • Source: 9/11 Terror Detainees Face Trial in N.Y.

    11/13/2009 3:48:30 AM PST · by Cindy · 90 replies · 2,505+ views
    (AP) via FOXNEWS.com ^ | Friday, November 13, 2009 | n/a
    Source: 9/11 Terror Detainees Face Trial in N.Y. Friday, November 13, 2009 WASHINGTON — Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, an Obama administration official said Friday. The official said Attorney General Eric Holder plans to announce the decision later in the morning. The official is not authorized to discuss the decision before the announcement, so spoke on condition of anonymity.