http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/gorelickwall/ en-us Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:02:54 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1604035/posts ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified Monday that he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House. Moussaoui's testimony on his own behalf stunned the courtroom as he disclosed details he had never revealed before. It was in stark contrast to Moussaoui's previous statements in which he said the White House attack was to come later if the United States refused to release a radical Egyptian sheik imprisoned on earlier terrorist convictions. Moussaoui testified Monday he lied to investigators when arrested... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1604035/posts#comment Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:02:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277190/posts 9/11, Info Sharing, and “The Wall” The rise of “the wall” between intelligence and law enforcement personnel that impeded the sharing of information within the U.S. government prior to September 11, 2001 was critically examined in a detailed monograph (pdf) that was prepared in 2004 for the 9/11 Commission. It is the only one of four staff monographs that had not previously been released. It was finally declassified and disclosed earlier this month [http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/wall.pdf --searchable HTML transcript at http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:KyzY5fDka0AJ:www.fas.org/irp/eprint/wall.pdf+%22legal+barriers+to+information+sharing:+the+erection+of+a+wall+between+intelligence+and+law+enforcement+investigations%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us]. In April 2004, Attorney General John Ashcroft testified (pdf) that the failure to properly share threat information in the summer of... Federation of American Scientists http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277190/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2188930/posts Indonesia shows Islam, modernity coexist: Clinton 17 Feb 2009 By Arshad Mohammed and Ed Davies JAKARTA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held up Indonesia on Wednesday as proof that modernity and Islam can coexist as she visited the country where U.S. President Barack Obama spent four years as a boy. Clinton's 24-hour stay in the world's most populous Muslim nation underlined Obama's desire to forge a better relationship with the Islamic world, where his predecessor George W. Bush's policies were deeply unpopular, notably the invasion of Iraq. Clinton, on her first trip as secretary of state, said... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2188930/posts#comment Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:45:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172475/posts NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- President Barack Obama said in an interview with Al-Arabiya television news that the U.S. isn't an enemy of the Muslim world. Obama told the Dubai-based network that he had Muslim relatives and that he lived in the Muslim-majority nation of Indonesia for several years. MarketWatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172475/posts#comment Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:50:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2172478/posts In Indonesia alone, 19 million Muslims support violent jihad but Barack Obama believes the problem is only with a few rogue Al-Qaeda terrorists.In a 2006 Pew international survey a majority of Muslims believe that Arabs are not behind the 9-11 and millions believe that violent attacks against civilians are acceptable. The Politico reported on Obama's interview with Al-Arabiya tonight.The post-partisan president once again bashes President Bush: The interview with the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya Network was a dramatic piece of public diplomacy aimed at capitalizing on the new American president's international popularity, though it balanced America's traditional commitment to Israel, whose security... gatewaypundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2172478/posts#comment Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:58:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150062/posts December 16, 2008, 0:00 a.m. Telling NominationBig plans for the American justice system. By Ken Blackwell President-Elect Barack Obama’s nomination of Eric Holder to be attorney general surprised many. There are reasons that Holder ought not to be confirmed, but regardless of that, his nomination tells us quite a bit about Obama and the Supreme Court he will likely give this country. Most of the president-elect’s Cabinet appointments have been praised, from Timothy Geithner as treasury secretary to Bill Richardson as commerce secretary. Others have been seen as reasonable but with reservations — such as Hillary Clinton as secretary... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150062/posts#comment Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:04:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140450/posts The son of a 9/11 victim has sent a scathing letter to Bill Clinton, blasting the former president for failing to help him and other 9/11 kids get college aid from a charity that raised money in his name. "It's not about me, it's not about you, it's about the hundreds of kids who lost a Mom or Dad on 9/11 and giving them a chance," wrote Thomas Heidenberger, 21, in an angry letter shared with The Post. Heidenberger - who was 14 when his flight-attendant mother, Michele, died on the jet terrorists crashed into the Pentagon - blasted Clinton... New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140450/posts#comment Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:40:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136606/posts On the eve of a Republican National Convention invoking 9/11 symbols, sound bytes and imagery, half (49.3%) of New York City residents and 41% of New York citizens overall say that some of our leaders "knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act," according to the poll conducted by Zogby International. The poll of New York residents was conducted from Tuesday August 24 through Thursday August 26, 2004. Overall results have a margin of sampling error of +/-3.5. Zogby News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136606/posts#comment Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:01:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130657/posts People manage to survive in Washington, DC while adding nothing to the commonweal, and sometimes doing substantial damage. They have the dirt on their rivals, they know who’s butt to kiss or they just have a canny instinct that enables them to artfully duck at the right moment. I’m not sure which describes Jamie Gorelick, but like Arnold Schwarzenegger at the end of a Terminator Movie, it seems you can predict that she’ll be back. This time, perhaps, as President Barack Obama’s new Attorney General. In revolutionary France, Minister Talleyrand had a similar career to Jamie Gorelick. He worked for... THE MINORITY REPORT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130657/posts#comment Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:43:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086797/posts "...One Jamie Gorelick is this American. And without pretending that she caused the loss of countless thousands of lives and countless billions of dollars of wealth by herself, she certainly did push some of the early domino's in catastrophic chain events that are a major factors in life in America today...Gorelick, an appointee of Bill Clinton, is the one who constructed the wall of separation that kept the CIA and the FBI from comparing notes and therefore invading the privacy of nice young men like, say, Muhammed Atta and Zacarius Moussaoui. While countless problems were uncovered in our intelligence operations... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086797/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:08:14 GMT 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/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/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/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/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/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/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/1946189/posts NOTE: Although Hillary Clinton touts her foreign policy experience, being right there with her husband, the New York Times' Patrick Healy reports that she did not have a security clearance and did not sit in on NSC briefings. Now recall this from the late David Hackworth. Monica Lewinsky did have TOP SECRET clearance. Perhaps she should be the one in the Dem primaries touting her experience. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DEFENDING AMERICA David H. Hackworth 17 March 98 LOOSE LIPS, SINK SHIPS.. While at the Pentagon, Monica Lewinsky traveled with Defense Secretary William Cohen, sat in on briefings where the highest secrets... David Hackworth website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946189/posts#comment Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:01:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945844/posts WASHINGTON – It's no longer just a charge of copyright violation in the case of Michael Savage v. Council on American-Islamic Relations. Now the radio talk star is going for the legal jugular in his battle with the group that bills itself as a Muslim civil rights organization. The San Francisco-based talker has amended his lawsuit against CAIR for misusing audio clips of his show as part of a boycott campaign against his three-hour daily program to include charges the group "has consistently sought to silence opponents of violent terror through economic blackmail, frivolous but costly lawsuits, threats of lawsuits... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945844/posts#comment Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:42:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1933896/posts Seven days prior to events which would set the world on-edge, newly-hired Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria "Torie" Clarke offered an equally startling admission to Agency France Presse wire service, but which received scant attention within U.S. media. On September 5, Ms. Clarke--lured back into government service by pal Mary Matalin on Vice President Dick Cheney's staff, from a high-paying post as Manhattan office director for the venerable public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton--the former PR chief to Senator John McCain and one-time George Bush (the elder) staffer would divulge to foreign media that the United States, via the Pentagon and... LibertyThink.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1933896/posts#comment Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:59:07 GMT