http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nationalsecurity/ en-us Sun, 3 Jan 2010 19:00:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420097/posts By Michael P. Tremoglie Tremoglie's Tea Time Blog I have begun writing a book about political correctness in national security. My knowledge stems from my training, education and experience in law enforcement and journalism. What is occurring today in national security has been the bane of law enforcement for years. As I am writing this book, I hear the ironic, no ironic is not the word, more appropriate is hysterical; the hysterical news that two players for the Washington Wizards, Tremoglie's Tea Time Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420097/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 19:00:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419568/posts The Pantybomber wasn’t the big joke. We are. 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... NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419568/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:29:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419255/posts Political furor over the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 has thrust national security back to the center of American politics, with Republicans and the White House scrambling to blame each other for intelligence lapses and present themselves to voters as tougher on terrorism. Strategists in both parties believe that terrorism and, more broadly, foreign policy could emerge in the November midterm elections and in President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign as key issues for voters who have been focused primarily on the economy. GOP opinion leaders such as former Vice President Dick Cheney have seized on the attack to... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419255/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 00:52:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419205/posts From the time he launched his campaign for president three years ago, Barack Obama had to consider how he would react to the first serious act of terrorism during the campaign, or if he won, on his watch. His fellow Democrats had been thinking about the moment even longer - since the September day in 2001 when attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon defined George W. Bush’s presidency and gave Republicans a decisive advantage on a defining political issue. Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419205/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:54:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419064/posts Since President Obama has now come out and blamed the security breach that resulted in a near successful attack by underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on "systemic failures," the question becomes: How do we go about fixing that? For some answers, The Cable turned to Jim Locher, the president and CEO of the Project on National Security Reform, a nongovernmental organization with ties to National Security Advisor Jim Jones that has been sounding the alarm about America's dysfunctional national security infrastructure for years. "While President Obama said there were systemic failures, our problem has been that we haven't done systemic... The Cable http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419064/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 18:43:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418518/posts According to a news report out of Houston this morning, police there found an AT-4 shoulder-mounted rocket launcher like the one shown in the photo above, alleged to belong to a man by the name of Nabilaye I. Yansane, in a southwest Houston apartment complex. Though I have yet to see comments by members of the Obama Administration in response to the news about this weapon, I have some ideas about what they might say Bob McCarty Writes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418518/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:54:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417308/posts Security: Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the attempted destruction of Flight 253 were released from Guantanamo two years ago. The case for indefinite detention has been made once again, and not in Illinois. Sometimes America's chickens do come home to roost. In a statement released Monday, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which counts among its leadership two former Guantanamo detainees, claimed responsibility for the attempted destruction of Northwest Airlines Flight 253. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the crotch bomber, told FBI agents he was trained for his Christmas Day mission in Yemen by top leaders of the group who provided... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417308/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:44:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417473/posts Last May at the National Archives, President Barack Obama warned that “more mistakes would occur” if Congress continued to politicize terrorist detention policy and the closure of Guantanamo Bay. “[I]f we refuse to deal with those issues today,” he predicted, “then I guarantee you, they will be an albatross around our efforts to combat terrorism in the future.” On June 17, at the Administrative Maximum (ADX) penitentiary in Florence, Colo., one of those albatrosses, inmate number 24079-038, began his day with a whole new range of possibilities.(snip) Reid was arrested in 2001 for attempting to blow up American Airlines Flight... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417473/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:33:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417251/posts “Those crazy Baptists strike again!” Oh wait, that’s not right. In fact, I’m pretty sure no-one thought it was a crazy Baptist (or Catholic, or Jew, or Buddhist, or atheist.) Instead, I’m pretty sure it turned into a game of “Guess that Name.” Political Lore Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417251/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:25:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417224/posts Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-original-classification-authority Home • Briefing Room • Presidential Actions • Executive Orders The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 29, 2009 Executive Order - Original Classification Authority Pursuant to the provisions of section 1.3 of the Executive Order issued today, entitled "Classified National Security Information" (Executive Order), I hereby designate the following officials to classify information originally as "Top Secret" or "Secret": TOP SECRET Executive Office of the President: The Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security... WHITEHOUSE.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417224/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:35:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417182/posts Remember the fuss over Y2K as the world prepared to usher in the new millennium (depending on how you read the calendar)? Some folks spent big bucks gearing up for a computer crisis. Nothing happened. 10 years later, as we prepare to usher in a new decade, too much is happening and we have a lot more than computer viruses to fret over. This is the post-9/11 age. Forget about futuristic technology and the fact that computers and cell phones are now as common as pens and pencils. Everything is seemingly heightened these days, including our national security and vulnerability,... OK, WE'RE RIGHT! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417182/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:25:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416500/posts This is a purely unscientific poll designed strictly for fun and to allow readers to sound off on current news and political events. www.daveweinbaum.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416500/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:50:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416397/posts Today, while Christians around the world are celebrating Christmas, radical Muslims will be gathering in Atlanta, Georgia for the beginning of their annual hatefest. The irony of this cannot be overstated, as the group sponsoring the event, ICNA, and its followers openly denounce Christians and propagate material cursing and calling for violence against Christians. ICNA or the Islamic Circle of North America was created nearly 40 years ago as the American affiliate to the terror-related Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), the Muslim Brotherhood of Pakistan. But while JI has focused the majority of its faith-based ire on Hindus, the religious groups of choice... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416397/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:23:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416346/posts FBI: Man Flew Into NYC From BWI With Firecracker Passenger Taken Into Custody After Explosive Device Found Wedged Between Two Seats On Piedmont Airlines Flight Into LaGuardia NEW YORK (CBS) ― A passenger who flew into LaGuardia Airport on Sunday night was questioned by FBI agents after allegedly boarding the flight with an explosive device in his possession, CBS 2 has learned. Officials confirmed Monday that a crew member on board Piedmont Airlines flight 4126 was cleaning the plane after it landed in New York around 7:30 p.m. when he found a large firecracker-like device wedged between two seats. Port... WCBSTV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416346/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:07:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416314/posts Let's compare media reactions http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416314/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:24:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416279/posts FAILED plane bomber Umar Abdulmutallab has bragged to FBI agents that there are more young men plotting to launch attacks on the West. The 23-year-old Nigerian has told security chiefs of a sinister network in Yemen who are ready and waiting to strike. The reports come after The Sun revealed that cops fear that 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb Western airliners. The fanatics, in five groups, are now training at secret terror camps in Yemen. It was there London-educated Abdulmutallab prepared for his Christmas Day bid to blow up a US jet. The British extremists in Yemen are... The Sun UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416279/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:40:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416134/posts VS. WHO: Yeffet Isaac, Former Director of El-Al Airlines Security -VS.- Ibrahim Hooper Executive Director of C.A.I.R.WHAT: A Well Overdue DEBATEWHEN: As Soon As PossibleWHERE: LIVE NATIONWIDE on American TV, CNN, FOX, Major Networks, Radio Stations, NPR, etc., With Studio Audience Able to Ask QuestionsWHY: America dodged a major bullet on Christmas Day in Detroit. Reports are that additional terrorist acts involving US airliners are probably on the way. El-Al has a clean record of never being attacked by Islamist Extremists. C.A.I.R. has stated that the US should not, at all costs, racially and religiously profile passengers in the... AmericanInTokyo proposal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416134/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:30:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415310/posts The Democratic leadership in the Senate put off dealing with the growing threat of the Iranian nuclear program so lawmakers could devote their energy to the rush toward passage of a national health care bill. Now, with that work done, Senate leaders say they will take action on Iran -- but only, in the words of Majority Leader Harry Reid, "sometime after we return in January." Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415310/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:33:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414289/posts Butte-Silver Bow County will erect a permanent building in its TIFID for the testing of rocket engines. Kristen Rosa, administrator of the Tax Increment Finance Industrial District, said that the steel-sided structure could be in operation by next spring. "It will help them be able to test bigger and bigger rocket engines," Rosa said. (cut) Space Propulsion Group Inc., a Stanford University-affiliated company, visited Butte a number of times last year to test fuels used in hybrid rockets. The approximately eight-second tests were done on the smaller 11-inch models, but thanks to the new building companies will be able to... Montana Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414289/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:13:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413846/posts You may not have noticed because most of the plots were foiled, but 2009 saw an unprecedented surge in terror "events" on U.S. soil. When analysts tally these events, they refer to anything from a disrupted plot to U.S. citizens traveling abroad to seek terror training or a lone gunman running amok in the U.S. And by the calculations of Rand Corporation expert Brian Jenkins, more terrorist threats were uncovered in the U.S. during 2009 than in any year since 2001. Time http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413846/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:21:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413291/posts DO NOT click the link unless you are prepared for a grusome sight.   http://www.youtube.com/user/sahab928#p/u/6/lSjAcFGtC90   At 2:29 there is are assassinations of two people.  Point blank with a military rifle.  There is no doubt as to what you're seeing.  Yes this video has been flagged.  Yes it's still up.  At 2:57 there is a head that's been removed from it's body.  YouTube has been notified.  The video remains.  Yeah, sure, YouTube counts on the users to police the site.  What youTube fails to mention whenever the topic comes up is that they ignore the police.  This user, . Even... YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413291/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:40:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412881/posts The biggest national security news last week barely made the news at all. It is troubling to watch Congress continue to play politics with the reauthorization of key counterterrorism tools in the Patriot Act (like the ability to tract terrorists as they jump from cell phone to cell phone) and basically see the White House stand on the sidelines. By law, these tools would “sunset” at the end of the year unless reauthorized by Congress. Obviously, these authorities are needed, but Congress has dithered and the White House has done little to pressure the legislators to act. Family Security Matters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412881/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:59:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409611/posts WASHINGTON, December 16, 2009 – The U.S. is committed to an inter-agency process for combating piracy of American intellectual property, Vice President Joseph Biden said Tuesday during a press availability with top law enforcement officials. Appearing at the White House complex with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, the directors of the FBI, Customs and Border Protection, and the United States Secret Service, as well as the chief executives of the nation’s largest entertainment companies.The meeting was followed by a closed-door, roundtable discussion on international intellectual property theft.That second meeting... BroadbandandBreakfast http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409611/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:10:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409170/posts Politics: If the Democrats' stitched-together Frankenstein monster of health care reform gets the 60 votes to get through the Senate, it will have been done through an assortment of bribes and brass knuckles. (snip) Sen. Ben Nelson, a Nebraska Democrat, has also been critical of the buy-in and public option, but he has an additional issue about whatever comes out of the Senate not involving public funding of abortion in any way. Michael Goldfarb on the Weekly Standard blog quotes a Senate aide as saying the White House is now threatening to put Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base on the... Investor's Business daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409170/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:29:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403747/posts The FBI is searching for five "missing students" from the Washington, D.C., area who may have gone overseas, according to a source familiar with the situation. Families of the missing men "raised concerns" with the FBI, which has launched an investigation into the matter, the source said. The source said agents from the FBI's Washington field office have been interviewing family members, friends and others who may know where the five students went, and how they got there. "It's a concern," the source said of the missing men. It is believed the men are Muslim. Asked whether the men may... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403747/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 16:06:15 GMT