Posted on 01/09/2009 11:40:19 PM PST by T.L.Sink
Obama's appointments to Homeland Security, the Justice Department and now the CIA indicate a virtual abandonment of the War on Terror. As Homeland Security chief, he's named a governor whose only experience has been with the US-Mexican border. His attorney general pick, meanwhile, took the lead in pardoning FALN terrorists. Now he's rounded out his national-security and Justice Department teams by naming ultraliberals. Leon Panetta, his choice for CIA chief, is as liberal as they come. As Clinton's chief of staff (a tenure that coincided with my own work with Clinton) he was a dedicated liberal, opposing accomodation with Republicans and battling hard against a balanced budget deal. Panetta was a prime mover in the 1995 appointment of John Deutch to head CIA. Deutch eventually needed a presidential pardon after being caught committing a massive security breach by taking home his laptop, laden with secret files. Choosing Panetta to head CIA culminates liberals' 35 year crusade to take over the agency, humble its operatives and rein in its operations. Panetta will, presumably, curb such practices as as waterboarding, rendition and warrrentless wiretapping. So we won't gather much intelligence. Dawn Johnson of Indiana University Law School is to head the Office of Legal Counsel. She distinguished herself by writing a law-review article taking issue with Bush's efforts to keep us safe. It was titled, "What's a President to Do: Interpreting the Constitution in the Wake of the Bush Administration Abuses."
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very few members of our deployed active duty military voted for this guy . And then many of their votes weren’t even counted. Understandable that they are now pretty ticked off.
Did anyone expect anything other than surrender? We have become the French. Vive le Obama!
Appeasement 101. Liberals holding national security positions is an invitation of death.
confirm hearings=lovefest
The porn industry has another name for it, but lovefest will do here. Gotta show a little class.
FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com (NEW YORK POST): "INTELLIGENCE FAILURE" by Ralph Peters (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WOULD you ask your accountant to perform brain surgery on your child? That's the closest analogy I can find to the choice of Democratic Party hack Leon Panetta to head the CIA.") (January 8, 2009) (Read More...)
YNET NEWS.com (REUTERS): "BUSH AIDE: MUMBAI-LIKE ATTACK COULD HAPPEN IN U.S." (SNIPPET: "Ken Wainstein told a Washington think tank that the Mumbai attacks in November showed the effectiveness of a low-technology coordinated assault on an open city.") (Published January 8, 2009, 04:01) (Read More...)
THE AGE.com.au: "CIA TRACKING 4000 UK TERROR SUSPECTS" by Tim Shipman, Washington (SNIPPET: "THE CIA has begun an unprecedented intelligence-gathering operation in Britain to help MI5 monitor 4000 terrorist suspects. More than four out of 10 CIA operations to prevent attacks on US soil are now conducted against targets in Britain.") (January 5, 2009) (Read More...)
TELEGRAPH.co.uk: "TERRORISTS COULD USE 'INSECT-BASED' BIOLOGICAL WEAPON" by John Adams (SNIPPET: "Terrorists would find it "relatively easy" to launch a devastating attack using swarms of insects to spread a deadly disease, an academic has warned.") (Last updated January 5, 2009, 2:43 pm GMT) (Read More...)
MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch - No. 2165: "As Gaza Fighting Continues, Egyptian Clerics Intensify Antisemitic Statements; Columbus, Ohio Muslim Scholar/Leader Dr. Salah Sultan: Muhammad Said That Judgment Day Will Not Come Until Muslims Fight the Jews and Kill Them; America Will Suffer Destruction" (December 30, 2008) (Read More...)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "SOMALIS IN U.S. DRAW FBI ATTENTION War at home seen as lure" by Sara A. Carter (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Many members of the Somali community are concerned over disappearances, he said.") (December 29, 2008) (Read More...)
JPOST.com (AP): "SAUDI CLERIC CALLS FOR TARGETING ISRAELIS ALL OVER THE WORLD" (SNIPPET: "A Saudi Web site reported on Sunday that a popular cleric issued a fatwa urging Muslims to target Israeli interests "everywhere," to avenge the attacks on the Gaza strip. The site, Rasid, posts news about Saudi Arabia's Shiite community and said that Sheik Awadh al-Garni issued a religious edict..." (December 28, 2008, 23:07) (Read More...)
YNET NEWS.com (AP): "INTEL REPORT: HIZBULLAH MAY STRIKE IN US" (SNIPPET: "Homeland Security Threat Assessment for the years 2008-2013 says Hizbullah may foment terror attack in US if there is some kind of 'triggering' event. 'The threat of terrorism and the threat of extremist ideologies have not abated," Chertoff says.") (Published December 25, 2008, 23:52) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org (TELEGRAPH.co.uk): "U.K.: MOSQUE 'COMMITTED TO PEACE, DIVERSITY AND INTERFAITH DIALOGUE' HOSTS CONFERENCE FEATURING 'SPIRITUAL ADVISOR' TO 9/11 JIHADISTS" (SNIPPET: "The publicity material for the all-day event appears to be a clear reference to the attacks on New York, and features meteors raining down on Manhattan, setting fire to the city and shattering the Statue of Liberty.") (December 27, 2008) (Read More...)
IBD EDITORIALS.com: "A TERROR WARNING" (SNIPPET: "But what about President-elect Barack Obama? He faces a different problem. Many of those who voted for him either dismiss the terrorist threat, or believe none exists. Still worse, some think we should placate our enemies, not vanquish them.") (Posted December 26, 2008, 4:20 pm PT) (Read More...)
DEFENSElink.mil (AMERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE): Washington - "CHENEY CALLS ABSENCE OF POST-9/11 ATTACKS 'REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT'" (SNIPPET: ""The threat's still out there, and still [is] very real," Cheney said.") (December 22, 2008) (Read More...)
PETROLEUM WORLD (AFP, December 21, 2008,13:28 GMT): Rome - "IRAN USING VENEZUELA TIES TO DUCK UN SANCTIONS: REPORT" (SNIPPET: "Citing US and other Western intelligence agencies, La Stampa said Iran is using aircraft from Venezuelan airline Conviasa to transport computers and engine components to Syria for use in missiles.") (December 22, 2008) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org (TIMES ONLINE.co.uk): "U.K.: COUNTERTERROR ADVISOR TO METROPOLITAN POLICE IS ON INTERPOL WANTED LIST" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Mohamed Ali Harrath has been the subject of the Interpol red notice since 1992 because of his alleged activities in Tunisia, where he co-founded the Tunisian Islamic Front (FIT). Tunisia has accused Mr Harrath, the chief executive officer of the Islam Channel in Britain and an adviser to the Scotland Yard Muslim Contact Unit, of seeking help from Osama bin Laden. It says that the FIT wants to establish "an Islamic state by means of armed revolutionary violence".") (December 15, 2008) (Read More...)
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org - blog (THE WEEKLY STANDARD): "AL QAEDA'S ANTHRAX SCIENTIST" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The government of Malaysia made a curious announcement this week: Yazid Sufaat, a known al Qaeda operative, and four other alleged terrorists have been released from jail.") (December 12, 2008, 1:16 pm) (Read More...)
JPOST.com: "INDIA WARNS THAT AL-QAIDA TARGETING GOA" by Yaakov Lappin (SNIPPET: ""Today, Goa faces serious threat from terrorists and there were specific inputs that al-Qaida would target certain [tourist] installations in Goa. Goa has a coastline of 105 km., major sea ports and beaches," the state's chief secretary, J.P. Singh, wrote in a memo, according to Indian media.") (Updated December 8, 2008, 5:21) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org: "EGYPTIAN CLERIC CALLS OBAMA TO CONVERT TO ISLAM" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Note the clear implication that if the one to whom this call is issued does not become a Muslim, his life and property will not be safe.") (December 4, 2008) (Read More...)
WHITEHOUSE.gov - News - Fact Sheet: "DEFENDING AGAINST WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION TERRORISM Commission Report Endorses Administration Initiatives and Calls for Continuation of Successful WMD Policies to Address Increasing Threat" (December 3, 2008) (Read More...)
LIFE IN ITALY.com (ANSA): Milan - "TERROR SUSPECTS 'TARGETING ITALY'" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The men are believed to have watched instructional films on terrorist attacks and researched methods on the Internet."ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Police also seized the Peace Cultural Centre in the Lombardy village of Macherio, where Ilhami worked as a preacher, during Tuesday's operation. According to investigators, small groups of fundamentalists met at the centre in the evenings after the day's official sermons were finished.") (December 2, 2008)
We will be French up until the point that a US city is nuked, at which point we will conclude the left’s drive to make us a Third World nation by having a military coup. Obama knows this, which is why he has announced plans for a “civilian defense force” aka brownshirts as well funded as the US military. It also explains his inevitable attack on the Second Amendment. Even if he succeeds, though, the professional military, along with about 50,000,000 US gun owners, will shred his brown shirts on the spot. Those two - a professional Constitution backing military and an armed Constitution loving citizenship - are completely beyond the ability of those with a leftist mindset to truly comprehend.
I hope you are right. I am worried about the 100 million or so retards, and I mean that as a reference to their intelligence and emotional maturity, who think Obama, Democrats and socialism are the perfect solution to their own incompetence. We have a lot of dead weight in this country. If we don’t get rid of them or force them to grow up, they will be the death of us all. I have guns, and I’m ready.
The fifth column runs the country.
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=52615
Obama Announces Intelligence Director, CIA Chief Picks
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 2009 President-elect Barack Obama announced his choices for the nations new top intelligence official and CIA chief at a news conference held here today.
Retired Navy Adm. Dennis C. Blair, Obama told reporters, is his pick to become the new director of national intelligence, while Leon E. Panetta, former White House chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, is his nominee for CIA director.
I am confident that Dennis Blair and Leon Panetta are the right leaders to advance the work of our intelligence community, Obama said. They are public servants with unquestioned integrity, broad experience, strong management skills, and the core pragmatism we need in dangerous times.
The intelligence director oversees 16 intelligence agencies, including the CIA and intelligence components of the military services, and reports directly to the president. The position was established in December 2004 in response to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The CIA director heads Americas best-known clandestine intelligence-gathering organization. The CIA was established in 1947, essentially replacing the Office of Strategic Services that was created during World War II.
Blairs impressive qualifications and wide experience suit him well to become the next intelligence director, Obama said. The former U.S. Pacific Command chief has seen the diverse uses of intelligence from many different perspectives, he said. Blair retired from the Navy in 2002.
Obama cited Blair as someone who has handled intelligence as a sailor at sea, and as a strategic thinker in Washington. As the intelligence director, the former four-star admiral will have the expertise and authority to ensure that our 16 intelligence agencies act with unity of effort and purpose, Obama said.
Turning to his pick for CIA director, Obama praised Panetta as one of the finest public servants of our time. Obama observed that Panetta, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, has committed himself to his country since he put on the uniform of the U.S. Army. Panetta served as an Army officer from 1964 to 1966.
With Panetta at its helm, the CIA will have a director who has my complete trust and substantial clout, Obama said.
Panetta, who also served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration, knows how to focus resources where they are needed, and he has a proven track record of building consensus and working on a bipartisan basis with Congress, he said.
Obama also announced that CIA veteran John O. Brennan will be his homeland security advisor and deputy national security advisor for counterterrorism.
The demands on the intelligence community are huge and growing, Obama observed. To have a successful national security strategy, I have made it clear that we will need to deploy and balance all elements of American power — our military, diplomacy, homeland security, economic might and moral persuasion.
Good intelligence work is necessary to support each of these endeavors, Obama said.
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go ahead and say it... *sigh* mcconnell got a creampie
lol. wrong thread
> We will be French up until the point that a US city is nuked, at which point we will conclude the lefts drive to make us a Third World nation by having a military coup.
I have Good News, and Bad News. Which would you like first? OK, Good News it is.
The Good News is that you aren’t going to be French.
The Bad News is that you are going to be Kenyan, and therefore Third World as of January 20 2009.
have you seen this lawsuit which demands the courts to settle “natural born” so the Armed Forces will KNOW if they are to lawfully disobey orders from a foreign national OR to lawfully obey orders from our Commander in Chief? http://alanpetersnewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2009/01/lawsuit-by-officer.html
Two or three years from now...as they all stand in front of congress trying to explain why they didn’t have a clear policy on terrorism and allowed some act to occur....then it’ll become a campaign issue. You need a brief period like this...to show just bad things can normally be.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162104/posts
“Remarks by National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley...”
WHITEHOUSE.GOV NEWS ^ | January 7, 2009 | n/a
Posted on January 10, 2009 2:59:08 AM PST by Cindy
Kia Ora, my FRiend in South Carolina. Thanks for the Bill Whittle article: it was one of the best essays I have read ever, on any subject. Well-written — for this article alone it is worth bookmarking this thread.
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