[ex-Texan]

Portland is the only major U.S. city to rebuke the FBI. One city out of 100. A blue city to boot. My prediction: In six months perhaps Portland will regret this decison when it becomes ground zero for a terrorist attack. 'Nuff said.

[cardinal4]

Jordan conceded he and Potter had failed to overcome their differences over giving higher security clearance to the mayor.

Good. I dont like the idea of a liberal, leftist mayor of a liberal, leftist city having a security clearance, anyway. It is amazing that he puts his own status above those of the city that elected him..

[kcvl]

Representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union sat in on at least one meeting.

Why of course, what would LIBERALS do without their ACLU?!

[Cicero]

Portland is certainly a possible target. There seems to be a continuing terrorist interest in Seattle, perhaps as an entry point from Canada, and Portland isn't that far away. Both cities are congenial to terrorists, I would say.

[mainepatsfan]

If they get hit this same mayor will turn around and blame the feds for not protecting his city.

[kimoajax]

Little surprise here.

Potter, or, for that matter, anyone, only holds public office in Multnomah County where Portland sits with the clearance of its strong, organized and pervasive gay activist community.

Like flees jumping off a dead rat, businesses and families are jumping out of Portland and moving across the Columbia river to Clark County, the fastest growing county in Washington State for several years running, because the libs running Portland and Multnomah county have gone stark raving berserk with their social and tax policies.

If someone could get an initiative measure on Oregon's
ballot to get the rest of the state to secede, it would overwhelmingly pass...except amongst another conclave of libs surrounding the U of O.

[k2blader]

Hm, I'll be in Portland this September. Wonder what that'll be like..

[doug from upland]

This is as stupid as an anti-gun person putting this sign in the front yard: We don't believe in guns in this house.

[Leatherneck_MT]

I find myself agreeing and disagreeing with the mayor at the same time.

The Police officers work for him and the city of Portland, he needs to have access to the same information his police officers do.

but at the same time I can't agree giving a lefty access to sensitive information. He's liable to have it posted on the 6:00 news for some obscure political purpose.

Then again, I also have to agree with him that the Police shouldn't be investigating people merely because they happen to be part of some particular religion.

then again...

etc.. etc.. etc..

[BobS]

The mayor of Portland is a national security risk with a top secret clearance background check. That is his stupid message to the world. No discipline in this message on any level. I guess it reflects on the people that elected him?

[GretchenM]

I agree, Portland's people will regret this.

Was the Portland mayor the one who pronounced legal sanction to same-sex "unions" and then the Oregon Supreme Court threw that out?

[RippleFire]

bump

[Randy Papadoo]

Portland has been "dropping out" of federal task forces on a regular basis for years...at least 10. This mayoral declaration is nothing new.....for Portland. The paranoid thinking in ultra-liberal Portland has sustained this attitude.

A city mayor is a political animal, with many duties to attend to, and many loyalties to maintain. A politician also always has enemies, and it would be impossible for the mayor to get a top secret clearance because of all the derogatory information that would surface. The mayor knew he'd never get or even be considered for such a clearance (he's not entitled, for one thing). He just used it for an excuse to keep the PD out of the federal loop, for the same old reasons as always.........They're just too liberal in Portland!

[AIC]

In this or any other post I see no reason why the ACLU should be in any meetings what so ever. They are not a Gov. agency, elected by anyone. Why would they be in any type of Gov. secrecy meetings? The ACLU in these meetings is just outrageous.

[shebacal]

Portland is the only major U.S. city to rebuke the FBI. One city out of 100. A blue city to boot. My prediction: In six months perhaps Portland will regret this decison when it becomes ground zero for a terrorist attack. 'Nuff said.

I am so ashamed of this mayor of the major city in my state. What is the mayor thinking? He seems not to realize that America is under attack by terrorists.

[Bernard Marx]

When visiting Oregon recently I saw a bumper sticker in Salem that covers this situation nicely:

Keep Portland Weird!

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[Nam Vet]

Living here in Portland I knew this would happen quite a while back. Potter and 65% of this area are total maroons. I wouldn't trust Potter if I was the FBI either.

Nam Vet

[Ramius]

He said that without more oversight, he couldn't guarantee that Portland officers would obey Oregon laws that bar police from investigating people strictly because of their political or religious ties.

So the police cannot investigate someone in Portland that has ties to Al-Queda. It's just a "political" tie.

Somehow it scares me that *anybody* in that city might have a secret or higher clearance.