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The White House is delaying for one week the release of President Obama's budget for the 2013 fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, a decision that administration officials say was based on "the need to finalize decisions and technical details" but which Republicans say is a direct violation of law. "This will mark the third time in four years the president has missed his statutory requirement to present a budget on time, while trillion-dollar budget deficits continue to mount. As the president announces another missed deadline, tomorrow marks the 1,000th day Senate Democrats have gone without any budget at all,"...

After 16 days of denials by Laredo law enforcement and local officials regarding a Mexican drug cartel takeover of a Laredo area ranch, a Texas police blotter proves the alleged incident did in fact happen and that multiple agencies responded to the scene of a seized U.S. ranch. Think about it for a moment. One of the most brutal drug cartels operating in Mexico crossed the U.S. border and took a ranch from its lawful owner. Intimidation has arrived along the southern border. The police blotter tells the story of the events that unfolded on July 23rd; “On Friday 7-23-10...

They would never go to a red state.

WASHINGTON - Army superiors were warned about the radicalization of Major Nidal Malik Hasan years before he allegedly massacred 13 soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, but did not act in part because they valued the rare diversity of having a Muslim psychiatrist, military investigators wrote in previously undisclosed reports. An obvious “problem child’’ spouting extremist views, Hasan made numerous statements that were not protected by the First Amendment and were grounds for discharge by violating his military oath, investigators found. Examples of Hasan’s radical behavior have previously been disclosed in press accounts based on interviews with unnamed Army officials, including...

(CNN) -- Following the attempt to bomb a passenger jet on Christmas Day, President Obama said that "once the suspect attempted to take down Flight 253, it's clear Homeland Security and Aviation Security took all appropriate actions." I am a commercial airline pilot who was deep over the Atlantic flying from St. Kitts and Nevis for nearly six hours on Christmas Day following the attempted bombing on Flight 253. I only learned about the incident after landing when I looked at the CNN Web site on my iPhone. I'm justifiably furious that I was not notified while airborne. Our government...

Another U.S. soldier on active duty in Iraq is joining a challenge to President Obama's eligibility to be commander-in-chief, citing WND's report on 1st Lt. Scott Easterling, who has agreed to be a plaintiff in a lawsuit over the issue, as his inspiration. "I was inspired by 1LT Easterling's story and am writing you to inform you that I would like to be added as a plaintiff against Obama as well if you feel it would help your case," the soldier, identified for this report only as a reservist now on active duty in Iraq. He letter was directed to...

<p>FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON ON NOT CAPTURING BIN LADEN: 'At least I tried. That's the difference between me and some, including all the right wingers. They ridicule me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed'...</p>

I watched part 1 of the "controversial" 9/11 series on ABC and found it to pretty good. They may have edited some things but it still very clearly depicted what was going on in the Clinton White House. So while the extremist liberals try to rewrite history, let's no forget on 9/11 what occured: Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered America's Long-Term National Security Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror Reckless Disregard: How Liberal Democrats Undercut Our Military, Endanger Our Soldiers, and Jeopardize Our Security

On the matter of ABC’s “Path to 9/11” and the controversy it has produced, I have no inside knowledge of what ABC intends to do tomorrow night, but I am considering two things: 1. in all fairness I do not agree with the grouping of several real incidents into one fictitious incident and putting fake dialogue in the mouths of real people as this film is reported to do. I think former President Clinton, former Secretary Albright, former National Security Advisor (and convicted felon) Sandy Berger, along with others in the Clinton Administration, were completely incompetent

From 1997 -- For those that haven't seen it and that we never forget the treachery of the Left revising history as they have done with the Patriot Act/wiretaps and other assorted 'outrages' du jour...here's one to keep on hand to counter the loons. It also outlines Clinton intentions on other forms of searches, censorship, internet, etc., and we could expect the same from his co-prez at the time when she runs: [ snip ] Warrantless "National Security" Searches The Clinton administration claims that it can bypass the warrant clause for "national security" purposes. In July 1994 Deputy Attorney General...

The Democrats thought that they had finally had something they could sink their teeth into with the indictment of Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby. They were bitterly disappointed that the special prosecutor was unable to indict Karl Rove or Dick Cheney for illegally revealing the name of an undercover CIA agent. As it turned out, nobody was indicted for the crime under investigation, since it was known at the outset that Valerie Plame's CIA assignment wasn't "covert" under existing law so no crime was committed. But, since they had the grand jury all assembled and everything, they investigated...

Posted: March 29, 2005 11:44 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com The Florida state constitution declares unequivocally that in the state of Florida "the supreme executive power shall be vested in a governor … ." The word supreme means highest in authority. There can be no executive authority in the state of Florida higher than the governor. No state law can create an executive authority higher than highest in the Florida constitution. Therefore no court order based upon such a law can constitutionally create such an authority. If the governor tells the local police in Pinellas County to step aside, they...

DERELICTION OF DUTY Many Americans are blaming President Bush for the tragedy of 911 and Osama bin Laden. In reading the book, "Dereliction of Duty," by Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson USAF (Ret.) Carrier of the "Nuclear football," many parallels can be drawn comparing President Clinton’s past administration, and one Senator John Kerry promises to install if he is elected. As you read the circumstances and warnings, merely adjust the time-table forward and the possibilities become frighteningly obvious. Sandy Berger’s involvement, given his current situation, is also fascinating. The following is a review of some of the most hair-raising and...

Open Letter to Senator Kerry From a Veteran Sunday, October 24, 2004 Dear Senator Kerry, I never met my uncle Will. He was a lieutenant in the Navy during World War II. He was killed in action on his PT boat in the Pacific. For his fatal wounds, he received the Purple Heart posthumously. The first-captain of my West Point class took a bullet through the heart while leading a South Vietnamese airborne battalion into combat. For this fatal wound, he was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously. My senior-year roommate at West Point became a tunnel rat. A booby trap...

In “Clinton and 9/11” (FrontPageMagazine.com, Oct. 14, 2003), I wrote about the allegation by retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert “Buzz” Patterson that while he was a military aide to President Bill Clinton in 1996 (carrying the codes for nuclear attack) he saw a Presidential Daily Briefing after it was given to President Clinton that discussed a plot to use commercial airliners as weapons and another plot to put bombs on U.S. airliners. Patterson wrote this allegation on page 139 of his book “Dereliction of Duty”, published in March 2003. The allegation goes to the heart of the recent investigations...

Summary Al Qaeda is an international organization that constantly changes and adapts, seeking new ways to avoid detection and catch its opponents off guard. Rather than sending foreigners into other nations to carry out surveillance and strikes, the group has found it can achieve surprise and minimize exposure by recruiting native Western operatives. The examination of some Western al Qaeda operatives offers insights into the group's recruitment methods and plans for operations in the United States, Britain, Australia and other Western nations.AnalysisAl Qaeda remains a dynamic organization that leverages local expertise and resources in surveilling, planning and carrying out operations....

HOUSTON -- Immigration authorities held a town hall meeting Monday to stop a rumor about raids on undocumented immigrants. More than 300 people attended the meeting Monday night where the government said they are not doing anything out of the ordinary to enforce laws. The meeting was called after a rumor spread around that immigration officials were conducting raids on schools and construction sites. Immigration customs agents said they do not conduct raids on apartment buildings or schools, and that Houston-area agents have not conducted a workplace operation in six years.

During the summer of the 1996 attacks, I myself learned firsthand that the administration knew that terrorists were plotting to use commercial airliners as weapons. The president received a Presidential Daily Brief, or PDB, every morning. It was a document encased in a smart leather folder, and emblazoned with the presidential seal, that contained the president's daily intelligence update from the NSC. A senior NSC representative normally delivered it to the president. On weekends, at Camp David, and on vacations, the military aide was responsible for delivering and retrieving the brief. One late-summer Saturday morning, the president asked me to...

Illinois Air National Guard F-16 pilot Maj. Harry Schmidt has chosen to face a court-martial--and six months in prison if convicted of dereliction of duty--to clear his name in the wake of an Apr. 17, 2002, friendly fire incident in Afghanistan that killed four Canadian soldiers. Although military pilots have been disciplined in the past for such events, this is the first time a U.S. pilot has ever faced a court-martial for a wartime friendly fire incident. Schmidt would not speak for this article. His wife, Lisa, however, said her husband could not accept the non-judicial punishment the Air Force...

<p>The Air Force has opened a second investigation into a deadly "friendly fire" bombing in June in Djibouti after an initial probe found that three navigators on a B-52 bomber allowed its cross hairs to mistakenly fix on U.S. Marines below.</p>

Note that in the Newsweek story here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4208768/, Newsweek reports that the 9/11 Commission is trying to obtain complete access to presidential daily briefs, or PDFs “dating back to 1998”. However, as established in my article here http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10324, Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson, who carried the “nuclear football” for President Clinton, wrote in his book last year that he saw a PDF to Clinton in 1996 discussing the Islamic terrorists’ plot to use commercial airliners as weapons. Assuming the Newsweek article is accurate, why isn’t the 9/11 Commission following up on this? Why isn’t the 9/11 Commission requesting access to the...

THIS IS A REPOST SINCE 9/11, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has repeatedly declared that the United States is in a new kind of war, one requiring new military forces to hunt down and capture or kill terrorists. In fact, for some years, the Department of Defense has gone to the trouble of selecting and training an array of Special Operations Forces, whose forte is precisely this. One president after another has invested resources to hone lethal "special mission units" for offensive--that is, preemptive--counterterrorism strikes, with the result that these units are the best of their kind in the world....

CATANIA, Sicily, Nov 12 (AFP) - Two senior US navy officers aboard a nuclear submarine damaged when it hit the sea bottom off Italy have been relieved of their command and six other crew charged with "dereliction of duty, " the US Navy's Sixth Fleet said Wednesday. The incident alarmed Italy's Environment Minister Altero Matteoli, who described it as "serious" and said he had alerted Italy's environmental protection agency immediately on being informed of the incident, which happened October 25. "Luckily, the first reports reaching us are that there has been no environmental consequences," Matteoli told reporters on the sidelines...

Two must read books on the "legacy" of Bill Clinton: Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered America's Long-Term National SecurityLosing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror

Dick Morris Lands on Best-Seller List; Coulter Crushes Hillary Dick Morris tells us that his book "Off with Their Heads: Traitors, Crooks & Obstructionists in American Politics, Media & Business," has opened at No. 11 on the New York Times' best-seller list. Considering that the book lambastes the Times for its bias and corruption, the Old Gray Lady must be turning purple with rage. By the way, several readers wanted us to alert people about some interesting changes in Amazon's best-seller list. As of this writing: Ann Coulter's "Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism"...

AMONG THE MILITARY WHO SERVED in the White House and the professional white House staff, the Clinton administration was renowned for its lack of professionalism and courtesy, though few ever spoke publicly about it. This aspect of the Clinton administration became apparent to me from my earliest golf outings with the president It was telling to me how often he played golf with certain types of people - people like Terry McAuliffe, his campaign and fundraising guru, and the Rodham brothers, Hugh and Tony. They, like many of Clinton's cronies, were remarkably pompous and inconsiderate individuals. The Rodham brothers are...

A Book Review Dereliction of Duty, by Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson, USAF [Ret.] Normally there's little to be gained from living in the past, but if you live in rattlesnake country you'd best never forget their dangerous habits. Snakes don't love or hate; they are indifferent to the hurt they can inflict on us. We study them, and learn to recognize their hiding places and the noises they make just before they strike. If we're bitten we know there are antidotes to lessen the damage, but they can kill. The very old, the very young, and the weak are...

I just read the book "Dereliction of Duty" by Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson, who served as President Clinton's military aide. In his book, Col. Patterson tells the story of the CIA having Osama bin Laden in its crosshairs and how this opportunity to get rid of him got away because Clinton did not want to be bothered during a golf game. This missed opportunity later gave us the tragedy of 9/11. The book shows in detail just how both Bill and Hillary Clinton hated the military. During the Clinton administration, the military suffered from lack of funding, personnel, and equipment....

Speaking at the Yorba Linda, California site of the Richard Nixon Library, ( www.nixonlibrary.org) Robert Patterson gave an outline of his new book, "Derliction of Duty". Patterson's book outlines the how he and the other members of the Military had to interact with the Clintons. He was in charge of the "football" that carried the nukular codes. In this event, taped at the Nixon Library on May 20, 2003, Patterson told some stories from his book and took questions and comments from the audience. One such story...Flying back to DC in AF1 after a LONG trip, they arrive home late...

The author of "Dereliction of Duty" is coming up in a few minutes on the Bill Handel Show --- KFI 640 in Los Angeles. If the guest takes calls, the number is 800.520.1KFI. Let's hope this finally destroys the myth that Clinton had any concern for the security of this nation.

<p>Thwack! Another nail drives into the coffin of Bill Clinton’s legacy.</p> <p>No other president in recent memory has pursued a “legacy” with such reckless abandon only to have it repeatedly exposed as a smoke and mirrors extravaganza based on arrogance, ignorance and selfishness.</p> <p>Dereliction of Duty is the personal account of Lt. Col. “Buzz” Patterson while he served the nation during the Clinton administration as one of the carriers of the “nuclear football.”</p>

Tonight, March 27, 2003 - The Shrew Interviews Lt. Col "Buzz" Patterson, USAF. Lt. Colonel Patterson was the Air Force Military Aide to President Bill Clinton from 1996 - 1998. He has recently published a book through Regnery Publishing titled "Dereliction of Duty". The interview will be live and last one half hour from 830PM EST - 9PM EST. Lt. Colonel Patterson is the first former Presidential Military Aide to publish a book concerning his time in the White House. He was also one of the holders of the "nuclear" football and has detailed first hand experience of the...

Ex-President Bill Clinton "sexually molested" a female steward aboard Air Force One and was later forced to apologize to the woman, a bombshell new book by White House whistleblower, Lt. Col. Robert Patterson reveals. The identity of the woman, an enlisted member of the Air Force, is being protected by Lt. Col. Patterson. But the searing new account of a commander-in-chief preying upon a military subordinate could spell trouble for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, who, as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, would have jurisdiction to investigate the incident. In "Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of...

Normally, FReepers are forced to sit on the sidelines as the idiocies of liberals, government employees and foreign affairs unfold. All too often we are frustrated when the mainstream media ignores major anti-Clinton stories. This time, we can be in the thick of things and get the truth out from the very beginning. We can force the media to pay attention to a scandal that will make Monica look miniscule. Why? Because this story is tied directly to current events and war in SWA. We know from reliable sources that (new book from former Clinton military aide) that during the...

Book Bombshell: Iraq Attack Scrubbed for Clinton Golf Game Ex-President Bill Clinton kept a squadron of F-117 stealth fighter-bombers and B-52s waiting to launch a critical 1996 airstrike on Iraq while he finished watching a golf tournament - dithering so long that U.S. pilots lost the cover of darkness and the mission had to be scrubbed. That's the explosive charge leveled in a brand new book by Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, a key Clinton military aide from 1996 through 1998 whose primary mission was to carry the president's copy of America's nuclear launch codes. "We dispatched eight F-117 stealth fighter-bombers...

Bill Clinton spent the better part of last week criticizing President Bush's prosecution of the war on terror. But the ex-president himself was accused on Saturday of losing U.S. nuclear launch codes necessary to defend America from a potential weapons of mass destruction attack - and even blowing an opportunity to kill Osama bin Laden. Citing a bombshell new book by White House whistleblower Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, who served as the president's military aide from 1996 to 1998, U.S. News & World Report reveals: "The day the Lewinsky scandal broke, Clinton was to trade in his 'biscuit' with the...

Former President Clinton lost the codes to nuclear war the day the Monica Lewinsky affair broke, was MIA in the fall of 1998 when a decision was needed on the killing of Osama bin Laden, and was "too busy watching a golf match" to OK a 1996 bombing mission in Iraq, says a blockbuster new book by Clinton's former military aide. Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, who carried the nuclear "football" from May 1996 to May 1998, crosses a line no other "mil aide" has before in condemning his commander in chief in Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How...

Former Clinton Aide: Bill Told Outrageous Lies to Win Reelection and Lost the Nuclear Codes ! This is shocking news this morning as revealed by a "Washington Whispers" report by U. S. News reporter Paul Bedard. The news comes from former military aide Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, who carried the nuclear "football" for President Clinton from May 1996 to May 1998. It is in Patterson's new book: Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security. The book crosses a line that no other military aide ever crossed before in condemning his former commander in...

<p>From the officer entrusted with our nation's nuclear codes: proof that Bill Clinton cared little for national security and put every American in mortal danger.</p> <p>When he was tapped to accompany President Clinton and carry the nuclear "football" that contains the top-secret codes the President needs in case of nuclear war, Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson was proud and grateful. He had already put his life on the line for his country many times as he flew combat missions over the Persian Gulf and Bosnia, and he was honored to take on this new and awesome responsibility.</p>

<p>It’s the kind of pride that comes wrapped in hard heartache, watching a boy go off to become a man. Matthew Draughon left his parents’ house that summer of 1998, following a Navy path already worn by his father and again by his older brother. This younger son wanted to catch the ocean, too. He wanted the best underwater training the world offers. He wanted to be a Navy diver.</p>