http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/treason/ en-us Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:53:29 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049510/posts A friend of a friend produced this video, one of the best I’ve seen when it comes to documenting the anti-Americanism of the radical left. Complete with an upside down flag, spitting on an Iraq War veteran and calling him a rapist, it’s sure to make your blood boil. Good gosh, can we please rid our country of this kind of human garbage? You know, the Left would like to turn almost anything now into a hate crime. Do you think we could get the Dems in Congress to include US servicemen and women in their next piece of hate... wolkingsworld http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049510/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:53:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2048831/posts (Notice that the one on the left was wearing a red kaffiyeh around his neck.) Zombietime.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2048831/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:15:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2048164/posts I read and heard a lot in the news today about "Taliban regime resurgent"I wonder who would be trying to give aid and comfort to an enemy in a time of war? google http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2048164/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:39:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046012/posts In this morning's New York Times, Barack Obama published an op-ed on Iraq that presumably previews his "major speech" on the subject tomorrow. Even by Obama's standards, the piece is breathtakingly dishonest. Obama admits that he opposed the surge, and the attendant change in strategy and tactics, that have brought us close to victory. But he somehow manages to twist his being wrong about the surge--the major foreign policy issue that has arisen during his time in Congress--into vindication: But the same factors that led me to oppose the surge still hold true. The strain on our military has grown,... Power Line http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046012/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:38:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043971/posts 'WIRE' LAW FAILED LOST GI 10-HOUR DELAY AS FEDS SOUGHT TAP TO TRACK JIMENEZ CAPTORS IN IRAQ By CHARLES HURT, Bureau Chief October 15, 2007 WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials got mired for nearly 10 hours seeking approval to use wiretaps against al Qaeda terrorists suspected of kidnapping Queens soldier Alex Jimenez in Iraq earlier this year, The Post has learned. This week, Congress plans to vote on a bill that leaves in place the legal hurdles in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - problems that were highlighted during the May search for a group of kidnapped U.S. soldiers. A... New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043971/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:31:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041313/posts What's wrong with Pennsylvania?Have they no shame? How do they keep voting for this antiwar, anti-military detestable gasbag?(Here's some advice to wcbstv-- Murtha is not a "strong defense advocate." He is a selfish man who has made it a habit of slandering the US troops at war!) Democrat John Murtha does it again...Murtha admits the surge is working but only because the terrorists "are worn out" and American troops aren't just beating down doors and killing innocents!Un-freaking-believable! Here's the video: A WilleyBCoyote Video.Here is what Murtha says: Murtha: I think they have 17 or so guidelines and they've solved... Gateway Pundit c/o Instapundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041313/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jul 2008 02:52:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040069/posts The basic duty of every state is to guarantee its security and protect its citizens, and the loyalty of citizens to their state constitutes an essential pillar in maintaining a mechanism that would safeguard our home. Therefore, no country in the world allows its citizens to travel to enemy states without a permit; moreover, no country allows those who act in a way that raises reasonable suspicion of undermining national security to be elected to Parliament. Israel, a state that is still fighting for its existence and liberty and which has a unique and complex character because of hostility abroad... Ynetnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040069/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 02:27:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040042/posts Media: Four years ago this week, we noted how negative coverage of the Iraq War had become. But that was when things weren't going well. This is now, when things are going much better. So coverage must be much more positive, right? (with asterisks indicating page-toppers): • June 11: "Going to War Not Worth It, More Voters Say"* "NATO Not Expected to Send Force to Iraq" • June 13: "Retired Officials Say Bush Must Go"* "Insurgents and Islam Now Rulers of Fallujah" • June 14: "At Least 20 Killed in Baghdad (Car) Bombings" • June 15: "Iraq's Foreign Contractors in... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040042/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:08:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038654/posts I’ve been pretty amused by all the hand-wringing about the treatment of terrorist detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Those of us who have risked our lives in the covert service of our country have seen the enemy up close and know him well enough. We don’t worry if he’s not given the same treatment the LA cops would give a Rodeo Drive purse snatcher. We also know how those who come after us must have their identities protected, or their lives will likely be lost. On the occasions that I sat handcuffed to a chair having... humanevents.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038654/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:21:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038434/posts Here is the exchange between Rep. William Delahunt (D, Mass.) and Cheney chief of staff David Addington at the House committee hearing broadcast live on C-SPAN on Thursday as accurately recounted by CNN: Delahunt asked repeatedly whether the topic of waterboarding, a controversial interrogation technique that simulates drowning, ever came up. Addington replied that he could not discuss that because "al Qaeda may watch C-SPAN." "Right," Delahunt responded. "Well, I'm sure they are watching, and I'm glad they finally have the chance to see you, Mr. Addington." "Yeah, I'm sure you're pleased," Addington shot back. "Given your penchant for being... Powerline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038434/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:47:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038440/posts SOURCES: BUSH ANGER AT COMING NEW YORK TIMES STORY DETAILING HUNT FOR BIN LADEN... The newspaper planning to expose internal debate surrounding 'highly classified Pentagon order'; Special Operations forces hunt al-Qaida leader in mountains of Pakistan... DEVELOPING.... Thats the Story from drudge, OMG if the Times is gonna report this... Good GOD.... This is Huge. ( yea and Series) This is NOT a good thing for national Security and I am just a housewife. Even I can see and call a Traitor, a Traitor, but the Editor and the signing off authority that Prints this, to bee seen by the... http://www.drudgereport.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038440/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:09:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038289/posts The Bush administration has launched a "significant escalation" of covert operations in Iran, sending U.S. commandos to spy on the country's nuclear facilities and undermine the Islamic republic's government, journalist Seymour Hersh said Sunday. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038289/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:11:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038344/posts SOURCES: BUSH ANGER AT COMING NEW YORK TIMES STORY DETAILING HUNT FOR BIN LADEN... The newspaper is planning to expose a 'highly classified Pentagon order' authorizing Special Operations forces to hunt al-Qaida leader in mountains of Pakistan... DEVELOPING.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038344/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:39:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038402/posts WASHINGTON: Late last year, top Bush administration officials decided to take a step they had long resisted. They drafted a secret plan to authorize the Pentagon's Special Operations forces to launch missions into the snow-capped mountains of Pakistan to capture or kill top leaders of Al Qaeda. Intelligence reports for more than a year had been streaming in about Osama bin Laden's terror network rebuilding in the Pakistani tribal areas, a problem that had been exacerbated by years of missteps in Washington and the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, sharp policy disagreements, and turf battles between American counterterrorism agencies. The new plan,... IHT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038402/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:42:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013283/posts (Rochester, N.Y.) - A 911 dispatcher, Nadire Zelenaj, has been arrested for using computers at work to access secure government Web sites containing information about suspected terrorists. Now, the FBI wants to know what she did with that sensitive information. Agents would not comment other than to say it's part of a larger investigation. Zenelaj was hired in 2002 after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Her job enables her to access a secured police data site with criminal information. However, police allege Zelenaj accessed a terrorist watch list for personal reasons. A co-worker saw her using the site and became... 13 Wham http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013283/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2008 22:35:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036273/posts SOUTH PADRE ISLAND - Border congressmen and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus are looking into ways of de-funding the Department of Homeland Security so it cannot continue constructing a border wall. Opponents of the border wall in Congress are not sure if they can succeed with this strategy but they have not given up hope of putting sufficient congressional hurdles in place so that the project is delayed until after the November presidential election. Border congressmen say that because Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff waived more than 30 laws and regulations in order to speed up construction of the border wall,... Rio Grande Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036273/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:52:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034733/posts In an astonishing stroke of irony, the New York Times has outed the name of the CIA operative who interrogated 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, over the objections of CIA Director Michael V. Hayden and a lawyer representing the operative. Agency officials and legal counsel told the Times that publishing the agent's name would "invade his privacy and put him at risk of retaliation from terrorists or harassment from critics of the agency." In an Editor's Note linked from the story on KSM's interrogation, the Times defended its decision by stating that "other government employees" had been "named publicly in... NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034733/posts#comment Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:49:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034567/posts Too bad, because an otherwise fascinating story about the scramble to build a counterterror apparatus after 9/11, the merits of coercive vs. non-coercive interrogation, and the stings that nailed Abu Zubaydah and KSM is going to be submerged in a debate over their decision to publish the lead interrogator’s name against his wishes and those of CIA chief Michael Hayden. Here’s the obligatory editor’s note justifying the decision. Quote: "After discussion with agency officials and a lawyer for [the interrogrator], the newspaper declined the request, noting that [the interrogator] had never worked under cover and that others involved in the... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034567/posts#comment Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:59:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032760/posts Obama advisers say bin Laden can appeal to U.S. civilian courts Barack Obama has expressed support for the Supreme Court’s decision in favor of civilian prosecution of terrorism suspects, and his advisers said Tuesday that if Osama bin Laden were captured, he too should face civilian prosecution. – AP Bill Sammon, The Examiner 2008-06-18 07:00:00.0 Current rank: # 13 of 6,452 WASHINGTON - Barack Obama’s foreign policy advisers said Tuesday that Osama bin Laden, if captured, should be allowed to appeal his case to U.S. civilian courts, a privilege opposed by John McCain. Responding to questions from The Examiner, Sen.... Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032760/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:21:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031930/posts GOP presidential candidate John McCain is inviting his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, to participate in a joint town hall at an open-borders advocacy group’s upcoming meeting in California. “There is a meeting in California of La Raza,” McCain told reporters at an Arlington press conference Monday. “Both of us have accepted invitations. I say that we have a town hall meeting together in front of La Raza. I think that the people will be far more informed and in some ways, entertained if we had that format.” TOWNHALL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031930/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:33:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031369/posts Now a senator who is the all-but-certain Republican presidential nominee, Mr. McCain often points to his nine months at the War College as the time that crystallized his views toward foreign conflicts like the war in Iraq. He has talked about his studies as a tutorial in the hows-and-whys of America’s involvement in Southeast Asia. But the 40-page final paper he produced was limited to an evaluation of the military code of conduct through the prism of his “narrow, but personal, viewpoint.” ... Mr. McCain’s paper sheds new light on the experience that first brought him national attention and remains... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031369/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:59:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031752/posts Have you seen this delicious little quote from Pennsylvania Democrat Congressman Paul Jankorski? Why it would seem that Mr. Jankorski is admitting that the Democrats lied about what was going on in Iraq during the 2006 mid-term elections? Here's his quote: "I'll tell you my impression. We really in this last election, when I say we ... the Democrats ... that if we won the Congressional elections we could stop the war. Now anybody who was a good student of government would know that wasn't true. "But you know ... the temptation to want to win back the Congress ...... nEALZ NUZE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031752/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:04:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030774/posts A jury on Friday convicted three men of Middle Eastern descent of plotting to recruit and train terrorists to kill American soldiers in Iraq. The men — Mohammad Amawi, 28, Marwan El-Hindi, 45, and Wassim Mazloum, 27 — face a maximum sentence of life in prison. Prosecutors said the men were learning to shoot guns and make explosives while raising money to fund their plans to wage a holy war against U.S. troops. Defense attorneys charged that the three defendants, who all lived in the Toledo area, were manipulated by a government informant. The jury returned its verdict after three... MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030774/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:02:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030616/posts Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy arrives for a roundtable discussion titled 'Making Law Work for Everyone', Friday, June 13, 2008, at the Organization of American (OAS) in Washington. In writing for the court majority on the Supreme Court's decision on Guantanamo Bay on Thursday, Kennedy acknowledged the terrorism threat the country faces and the administration's justification for the detentions, but he declared, 'The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.' (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrive for a roundtable discussion titled 'Making... AP Via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030616/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:40:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030374/posts Do you agree with the Supreme Court's ruling on Guantanamo detainees? Yes 57% 27693 No 43% 21130 Total Votes: 48823 CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030374/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:31:22 GMT