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Obama’s National-Security Fraud
NRO ^ | 4/27/2013 | Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on 04/29/2013 7:27:07 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

Strange, isn’t it? We are governed by leftists given to finger-wagging about their commitment to due process and the rule of law — they’re not like those bad old warmongering Bushies. Still, here we are in the post-arrest phase of the civilian prosecution the administration was hell-bent on commencing — the phase when due process obliges government officials to remain mum about non-public investigative information that could taint the jury pool and undermine the defendant’s right to a fair trial — and we’re being inundated with stunning confession evidence.

Remember, this is the same crowd that labels the Fort Hood massacre “workplace violence” and won’t honor its victims with Purple Heart medals. To do so, they sniff, might prejudice the objectivity of the trial of a jihadist mass murderer who has publicly announced he’d like to plead guilty. Now, though, in Tsarnaev’s case, government agencies are leaking like sieves.

Why?

Because you are being softened up. Steered by its Gitmo Bar veterans and Lawyer Left compass, the Obama administration is executing a massive national-security fraud: the farce that the jihad against America can be judicialized, that civilian-court processes are a better answer to enemy warfare than are combat protocols.

That is why Eric Holder’s Justice Department, together with the FBI, darted into federal court in Boston last Sunday evening to file the complaint against Tsarnaev. Obama was determined to end the public debate over whether the jihadist is a wartime enemy combatant or a mere criminal defendant.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: andymccarthy; jihadinamerica; nationalsecurity

1 posted on 04/29/2013 7:27:07 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Why doesn’t obama just do an EO and release him now? THat’s wha he wants.


2 posted on 04/29/2013 7:28:38 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: TigersEye; penelopesire; ConservativeMan55

I love Andy, money quote

Sure it may look like the investigation was a tragicomedy of errors in which our $100 billion national-security edifice, despite investigating Tamerlan Tsarnaev for a year and a half before the bombing, had to ask the public’s help in identifying a picture of him. But look: We stopped a spectacular bombing at Times Square! And sure, there’s a lot of innuendo about Islam and overseas “extremists,” but after 16 hours of penetrating scrutiny we’ve figured out that this was just wanton “homegrown” violence committed by a couple of confused kids — the sort of thing that is bound to happen if we don’t crack down on gun ownership and Islamophobia.

The fraud is on. Will we keep falling for it


3 posted on 04/29/2013 7:33:53 AM PDT by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: crosslink

That would be a good poster.... Big photo of Hussein’s face with written below, “GET YOUR FRAUD ON”.


4 posted on 04/29/2013 7:37:14 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: crosslink

This is because so far it’s a blue city problem.

They don’t have any red people worrying about security for them.


5 posted on 04/29/2013 7:39:51 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: RoosterRedux

when Obama came out and said ,” will be held accountable “ , his standard blah blah ,that tells you Obama could care less


6 posted on 04/29/2013 7:42:07 AM PDT by molson209
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To: crosslink

“The fraud is on. Will we keep falling for it”

Yes, absolutely. In general, Americans are stupid and apathetic.


7 posted on 04/29/2013 7:44:43 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: crosslink

We don’t fall for it. It’s like the garbage that piles up when the union goes on strike. They don’t care how high it goes or how much it stinks. They’ll keep at it until they get what they want.


8 posted on 04/29/2013 7:49:36 AM PDT by MestaMachine
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To: MestaMachine

“It’s like the garbage that piles up when the union goes on strike”

Or until the Union wins!!!


9 posted on 04/29/2013 7:51:17 AM PDT by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: RoosterRedux; OwenKellogg; bunster; thouworm; maggief; onyx; nutmeg; AllAmericanGirl44; ...

Bombing Bombing Ping!

thanks crosslink! Love Andrew!


10 posted on 04/29/2013 7:53:07 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: RoosterRedux
We already know that prisons are a breeding ground for Islamic conversion of American citizens. Keeping Muslim terrorists at Gitmo has these terrorists preaching to the choir but imprisoning Muslim terrorists in American prisons is a Win/Win for the Jihadis........introducing Islam to America's criminal element.
11 posted on 04/29/2013 7:59:24 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: RoosterRedux
But in their [Obama and Holder's] twisted conceit that the threat to our nation results not from the enemy’s ideology but from American aggression, they have convinced themselves that American aggression (what the rest of us call national defense) must be hamstrung by civilian due process — that war can be reduced to crime, even if the enemy declines to play by the rules.

Sums it up perfectly. How long is this going to go on? Isn't there any way to stop these two evil creatures, Obama and his troll Holder, before they destroy us?

12 posted on 04/29/2013 8:05:14 AM PDT by livius
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To: penelopesire

Andrew McCarthy is great!


13 posted on 04/29/2013 8:22:18 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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14 posted on 04/29/2013 8:23:31 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: penelopesire; All

h/t @th3j35t3r

TAMERLAN TSARNAEV: What We Think We Know About Who Knew What and When (VERY good chart):

http://i.imgur.com/LhbHrqf.jpg


15 posted on 04/29/2013 8:35:04 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Thanks! Good chart.


16 posted on 04/29/2013 8:38:32 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: freeangel
>"Why doesn’t obama just do an EO and release him now?"

Been there done that. Royal Saudi rat bastard caught and released.


17 posted on 04/29/2013 8:42:34 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up" Jeremiah 50:32)
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To: rawcatslyentist

I fear it’s too late to hit the restart button.


18 posted on 04/29/2013 8:52:39 AM PDT by bgill (The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
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