Audacity of Nope: US prison tells inmate that Obama's books harmful to national security

Associated Press ^ | July, 9, 2009 | Matthew Barakat

[rickmichaels]

MCLEAN, Virginia - The federal government's most secure prison has determined that two books written by President Barack Obama contain material "potentially detrimental to national security" and rejected an inmate's request to read them.

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali is serving a 30-year sentence at the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, for joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate then-President George W. Bush. Last year, Abu Ali requested two books written by Obama: "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope."

[flash2368]

HE is a danger to our national security! The enemy in the seat of power! National suicide by the electorate.

[2ndDivisionVet]

You can’t make this sh!t up. If 5 years ago an author had written a fiction novel about the last two years of history he’d have been laughed at and scorned: America electing a Muslim president barely 8 years after 9/11? Electing a man that is friends with domestic terrorists, the Nation of Islam, Black Panthers, George Soros and a veritable zoo full of assorted crazies and communists? Never happen, we’d have shouted!

[Still Thinking]

Random thoughts as Thomas Sowell would say.

1) Why are supermax inmates allowed to request specific reading material?

2) I haven’t read any of O’s crap books, but I can’t see how anything in them would constitute a threat to national security unless someone actually believed what the books said. I’m sure there’s no classified material in there.

[Nachum]

Bump for later

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[Lawgvr1955]

but I can’t see how anything in them would constitute a threat to national security unless someone actually believed what the books said.

Probably has encoded in its writings instructions for jihad. Kinda like BBC's "John has a long mustache" before D-Day.

[Freedom2specul8]

I wondered if you caught this.. (As if al-qaida hasn’t already read them) wonder what they have asked for and did receive.

[HollyB]

Makes me wonder two things. One, there’s some information on those pages that shouldn’t be there. Or two, someone is trying to pump up O’s book sales again. The whole thing is kind of strange.

Does anyone know what specifically is in the book that could be considered a national security threat?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

[Jeff Head]

TELL BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA THAT HE IS FULL OF IT!