Posted on 12/18/2010 9:44:55 AM PST by darkwing104
On Dec 7, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released an unclassified a summary of a Congressional directed intelligence report assessing the recidivism of detainees formerly held at Guantanamo Bay (GITMO). The reports indicate that approximately 25% of released prisoners had returned to committing terrorist and insurgent activities against the United States and allies.
According to the DNI, as of 1 October 2010, of the 598 terrorists released from GITMO and sent to other countries; 81 were confirmed and 69 are suspected of returning to terrorist and insurgent Organizations. The summary estimates 13 were dead, 54 in custody and 81 where still on the loose. The Intelligence Community assesses that that the numbers will increase if more detainees are transferred out of U.S. custody.
The report attempts to defend the Presidents executive order calling for a comprehensive interagency review of the status of all individuals currently detained at Guantanamo Bay. Every decision to transfer a detainee to
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Yeah, and Holder had an excellent track record of using good judgement in his pardons at the end of BJ Clinton’s 2nd term of Marc Rich (millionaire tax evader) and the terrorists in Puerto Rico.
Airport Security?
The Obama administration would rather look under a nuns habit than detain a jihadist imam for questioning.
No country has better airport security than Israel and no country needs it more, since Israel is the most hated target of Islamic extremist terrorists. Yet, somehow, Israeli airport-security people dont have to strip passengers naked electronically or feel strangers private parts.
Does anyone seriously believe that we have better airport security than Israel? Is our security record better than theirs?
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Security may be the excuse being offered for the outrageous things being done to American air travelers, but the heavy-handed arrogance and contempt for ordinary people that are the hallmark of this administration in other areas are all too painfully apparent in these new and invasive airport procedures.
Can you remember a time when a cabinet member in a free America boasted of having his foot on the neck of some business or when the president of the United States threatened on television to put his foot on another part of some citizens anatomy?
Yet this and more has happened in the current administration, which is not yet two years old. One cabinet member warned that there would be zero tolerance for misinformation when an insurance company said the obvious: that the mandates of Obamacare would raise costs and therefore raise premiums. Zero tolerance for exercising the First Amendment right of free speech?
More than two centuries ago, Edmund Burke warned about the dangers of new people with new power. This administration, only halfway through its term, has demonstrated those dangers in many ways.
What other administration has had an attorney general call the American people cowards? And refuse to call terrorists Islamic? What other administration has had a secretary of Homeland Security warn law-enforcement officials across the country of security threats from people who oppose abortion, support federalism, or are returning military veterans?
If anything good comes out of the airport-security outrages, it may be in opening the eyes of more people to the utter contempt that this administration has for the American people.
Those who made excuses for Barack Obama for the candidates long years of alliances with, and for the presidents appointment of people with a record of antipathy to American interests and values may finally get it when they feel some strangers hand in their crotch.
As for the excuse of security, this is one of the least security-minded administrations in American history. When hundreds of illegal immigrants from terrorist-sponsoring countries are captured crossing the border from Mexico and then released on their own recognizance within the United States, that tells you all you need to know about this administrations concern for security.
When captured terrorists who are not covered by either the Geneva Convention or the Constitution of the United States are nevertheless put on trial in American civilian courts by Obamas Justice Department, that too tells you all you need to know about how concerned they are about national security.
The rules of criminal justice in American courts were not designed for trying terrorists. For one thing, revealing the evidence against them can reveal how our intelligence services got wind of them in the first place, and thereby endanger the lives of people who helped us nab them.
Not a lot of people in other countries, or perhaps even in this country, are going to help us stop terrorists if their role will be revealed and their families exposed to revenge by the terrorists bloodthirsty comrades.
What do the Israeli airport-security people do that American airport-security people do not do? They profile. They question some individuals for more than half an hour, open up all their luggage, and spread the contents on the counter and they let others go through with scarcely a word. And it works.
Meanwhile, this administration is so hung up on political correctness that they have turned profiling into a bugaboo. They would rather have electronic scanners look under the clothes of nuns than detain a jihadist imam for some questioning.
Will America be undermined from within by an administration obsessed with political correctness and intoxicated with the adolescent thrill of exercising its new-found powers? Stay tuned.
Don’t touch my junk
By Charles Krauthammer
A docile public can only tolerate only so much idiocy at airports.
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"Attorney General Holder's Advisers Have Conflicts on Detainee Cases"
"Eric Holder's Law Firm Has a history of representing Terrorists"
"Corruptocrat AG Eric Holder's conflicted DOJ"
"Army Major (Hasan) Played Role in Presidential (Obama) Transition"
The Oracle of Time reminds you of Holder's involvement previously.
They should have a swift and fair trail, then:
They should all be afforded choices:
Hanging
Firing squad
Lethal injection
Electric Chair
Their choice. After justice is served they should be buried in a desert with no name, no disclosed location or marker. All records of their existence shall be purged. Their grave shall be facing North, their casket made of pig hide, and their brain removed and used in medical schools. They should all be informed of their execution date well in advance and be afforded to see the execution of their peers before their turn arrives by requiring those not yet executed to dig the graves of those being executed in that month. Just a suggestion.
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