No worries!
Everyone go back to your ice cream.......
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Posted on 01/01/2010 6:44:00 PM PST by Saije
President Barack Obama received a high-level briefing only three days before Christmas about possible holiday-period terrorist threats against the US, Newsweek has learned. The briefing was centered on a written report, produced by US intelligence agencies, entitled "Key Homeland Threats", a senior US official said.
The senior Administration official, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive information, said that nowhere in this document was there any mention of Yemen, whose Al-Qaeda affiliate is now believed to have been behind the unsuccessful Christmas Day attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to bring down a transatlantic airliner with a bomb hidden in his underpants. However, the official declined to disclose any other information about the substance of the briefing, including what kind of specific warnings, if any, the President was given about possibly holiday attacks and whether Yemen came up during oral discussions.
According to the senior official, the holiday threat briefing, one in a series of regularly-scheduled sessions with top counter-terrorism officials, was held in the White House Situation Room on December 22. Present were representatives of agencies involved in counter-terrorism policy and operations, including Attorney General Eric Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and FBI Director Robert Mueller. The CIA and National Intelligence Directors Office were represented by deputy agency heads: CIA deputy director Steven Kappes, and David Gompert, the principal deputy to National Intelligence Czar Dennis Blair. Also present was Michael Leiter, director of the National Counter-terrorism Center, a unit of the Intelligence Czar's office which was created after 9/11 to ensure that intelligence reporting about possible terrorist plots was shared quickly among all US agencies who might have some capability to do something about it.
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From post #4
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/10/obama-signs-executive-order.php
Friday, October 30, 2009
“Obama signs executive order strenghthening intelligence oversight panel”
Andrew Morgan at 12:11 PM ET
SNIPPET: “[JURIST] US President Barack Obama signed an executive order [text] Wednesday giving the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) [official website] the authority to report suspected violations of federal law related to intelligence gathering to the US attorney general.”
what about the pollsters and shucksters - I’m sure they were in the briefing as well.
As they say in politics, timing is everything.
REFERENCE Obama's dangerous denial
By Charles Krauthammer
FR Posted Jan. 1, 2010 by rhema
EXCERPT The reason the country is uneasy about the Obama administration's response to the attack is a distinct sense of not just incompetence but incomprehension. From the very beginning, Pres Obama has relentlessly tried to play down and deny the nature of the terrorist threat we continue to face.
Napolitano renames terrorism "man-caused disasters." Obama goes abroad and pledges to cleanse America of its post-9/11 counterterrorist sins. Hence, Guantanamo will close, CIA interrogators will face a special prosecutor, and Khalid Sheik Mohammed will bask in a civilian trial in New York — a trifecta of political correctness and image management.
And just to make sure even the dimmest understand, Obama banishes the term "war on terror." It's over — that is, if it ever existed. Obama may have declared the war over. Unfortunately, al-Qaeda has not. Which gives new meaning to the term "asymmetric warfare." And produces linguistic — and logical — oddities that littered Obama's public pronouncements following the Christmas Day attack.
In his first statement, Obama referred to Abdulmutallab as "an isolated extremist." This is the same president who, after the Fort Hood shooting, warned us "against jumping to conclusions" — code for daring to associate the mass murder there with Nidal Hasan.........Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
When the report surfaced that Langley, VA dropped the proverbial ball, I figured it wouldn't take long for Leon to take an action of his own.
“The System Worked!”
Yes : But it wasn’t really terror / terror , so move along.
Right. This would have occurred Dec. 22, four days after the U.S. airstrike on Yemen. Maybe the White House doesn't watch CBS News...
U.S. Airstrikes on Al Qaeda in Yemen
CBS News Confirms Strikes Make At Request of Yemen Gov't; At least 34 Militants KilledCBS News has confirmed that U.S. warplanes made airstrikes yesterday on suspected al Qaeda positions in Yemen. Officials say the strikes were requested by the government of Yemen and were intended to head off terrorist attacks in that country. The targets might have included the U.S. Embassy. Yemeni officials say at least 34 militants were killed.
There are no golf courses in Yemen. Poor
surfing conditions. Few movie theatre. No condos suitable for The One.
Actually, not so fast. This front page story on Bush was in the ultra-conservative NY Post. I would not be surprised to see a similar Obama expose in it.
Uh, Yemen has been a terrorism problem since at least the USS Cole bombing.
Somebody REAL close .. I hate
all this damn intrigue at the
highest agencies in our land
squealing and playing tit for
tat with each other, as if it’s
NOT our very lives on the line.
It’s a game to them .. dear God,
help us.
And remember .. Axelrod and Emanuel
shockingly sit in on Nat’l Security
Council meetings .. a first for
political aides, supposedly.
THAT report is from American Spectator was the most shocking to me. I want to know how those two Chicago thugs managed to get top security clearances, and why their presence is needed in " nation security war room" council meetings? Unless of course, the "war room" council meetings are of the Clinton style: political plotting.
Note that nowhere in the report is there a denial that there was intelligence about a Nigerian.
And how about this for a confidence builder:
“The senior Administration official, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive information, said that nowhere in this document was there any mention of Yemen, whose Al-Qaeda affiliate is now believed to have been behind the unsuccessful Christmas Day attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to bring down a transatlantic airliner with a bomb hidden in his underpants.”
Half the world knows about Yemen’s terrorists and it’s not even in the report ??
I’m convinced . . keep praying. Only God can help us, ‘cause these idiots are either clumsily or purposely enabling the the next attack. In either event, we’re getting so hurt. Lord, please protect and save us.
No worries!
Everyone go back to your ice cream.......
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I suspect it’s either Axelrod or Rahm who are actually pulling the strings of the puppet....More than likely Axelrod since his first job was with a neighborhood communist newspaper in Chicago.....and rumors have Rahm stepping down or being fired soon. Soros has visited the WH numerous times this year, but not always to see BO IIRC.
It’s just too much information and misinformation and hidden information and it’s all meant to confuse and distort from the truth: Obama is a complete failure and he and his entire admin. must go.
You’re right, “ Only God can help us, ‘cause these idiots are either clumsily or purposely enabling the the next attack. In either event, we’re getting so hurt. Lord, please protect and save us.”
I am waiting for God to act and praying that He does soon.
I have never seen anyone hold an ice cream cone the way he does.. there is something unmanly about him.
Ice cream cones were not a common item in Kenya in the 1960s. So you should probably cut him some slack for that.
Bret Baier’s prediction tonight was that
Emanuel would step down to run for senator
in IL, and Daschle would become chief of
staff.
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