Posted on 01/03/2010 12:17:09 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
The U.S. Government is offering the suspect charged with attempting to bomb an aircraft on Christmas Day, Omar Abdulmutallab, some kind of incentives to share what he knows about Al Qaeda, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said Sunday.
Asked why Abdulmutallab should cooperate given his right, as criminal defendant, to remain silent, Brennan replied: "He doesn't have to but he knows there are certain things that are on the table... if he wants to engage with us in a productive manner, there are ways he can do that."
Asked if Abdulmutallab's willingness to talk changed once he had an attorney, Brennan declined to answer. "I'm not going to address what he did before or after he talked with a lawyer," the adviser said.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Podesta had pegged Brennan for Panetta’s position ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/us/politics/08council.html
Obama Is Reported Set to Revise Counterterrorism Efforts
New York Times, The (NY) - Thursday, January 8, 2009
Author: PETER BAKER
Abstract: Pres-elect Obama reportedly is preparing to scrap Bush administration’s approach to overseeing domestic security and name former CIA official John O Brennan to coordinate counterterrorism; plan would eliminate independent homeland security adviser’s office and assign those duties to National Security Council;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/08/AR2009010804108.html
Obama Taps CIA Veteran As Adviser On Terror - Brennan Has Drawn Fire on Interrogations
Washington Post, The (DC) - Friday, January 9, 2009
Author: R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post Staff Writer
Barack Obama has picked John O. Brennan as his top adviser on counterterrorism, a role that will give the CIA veteran a powerful voice on the government’s use of security contractors and on other sensitive issues in which he recently has played a private-sector role.
By appointing Brennan to a senior White House position not subject to Senate approval, Obama is also making him an influential adviser on the Middle East and on Iran, a topic on which Brennan has called for a sharp break with past U.S. policy.
The president-elect’s decision comes only six weeks after Brennan was forced to pull out of contention for the directorship of the CIA because of fears that his statements supporting some controversial interrogation techniques would have complicated his confirmation.
The firm Brennan heads, the Analysis Corp., and its corporate parent have earned millions of dollars over the past decade assisting several federal agencies and private firms on counterterrorism. Those oil and telecommunications firms have worked in countries beset by violence, including Mozambique, Liberia, Colombia and Pakistan — all of which have been topics of intense policy debate in Washington.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/08/roundup080709.html
National Security
Sustainable Security 101
The Center continued its work on “sustainable security” by publishing an introduction to the subject after Senior Counterterrorism Advisor John O. Brennan said that the United States must redefine its strategy to include all facets of national power.
CAP’s CEO and President John D. Podesta accompanied former President Bill Clinton to North Korea on a mission to secure the freedom of journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. And Colin Thomas-Jensen offered an analysis on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo in an Ask the Expert video.
More on Lieutenant Quarles Harris Jr:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2232588/posts?page=105
Key witness in (presidential) passport fraud case fatally shot [old article]
Washington Times ^ | 4/18/2008 |
Where did these guys go to school?
They certainly didn’t get beat up for their lunch money like the rest of us.
He’s likely in for the most terrible torture of all - Monty Python’s Comfy Chair!
We just so happen were in the last row of the plane, 44, and the Muslim gal was 3 seats ahead of us, the Sikh guy was 2 seats ahead of us on the other side. I'm wondering, did they both get a crotch search? A total cavity search? I knew they hadn't, so it was tension city all the way to Seattle. Did anyone talk with them, interview them, like the Israelis do? I'm sweating bullets when she went to the bathroom. I honest to God almost didn't get on the plane. . .
Anyway, we made it, but unless things change, it's just a matter of time until 300 men, women and children get killed. There were a lot of kids on the plane. . .
Even worse, NCIS to get punk’d with a whole series of apologizing and making excuses for the filth of Islam and blaming the war on terrorism as the West’s problem with Multiculturalism, Diversity, open society…bla bla bla. And that any problems with Islam are to be blamed on nutty Christian ideals, for if it was not for the so-called separation clause, all Marines would be followers of Mohammad (Fort Hood massacre would not have taken place). NCIS has now compromised Marines in their duty and protect the Constitution and citizenry or is it just that Marines now represent Islam as the current Presidential armed forces.
A job as an FBI agent? CIA agent? Army psychologist? DHS Arabic translator? Obama National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism in charge of "deals" Czar? State Department ambassador to Nigeria? Special adviser to the President in charge of closing Gitmo?
With all the traitors filling the government, the possibilities are endless.
Catch ‘n release.
McInerney knows his stuff.
Obozo will say that if the pantybomber says he is sorry and promises to never do it again, he can go free. Inside the US, of course.
Obama is gonna take Uma some shave ice. The act of kindness will make him see the error of his ways.
Then put him in the U.S. Army and promote him to Major.
Reminds me of a Big Bass Tournament.
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Abdulmutallab should demand a cabinet position.
I'll offer the little bastard a deal...Tell me everything I want to know and you get to live one more day.
If you don't, you will live 100 more days.
Long before the 100 days was up the worthless SOB would opt for the first deal or spill his guts on everything, and everyone, that he ever knew!
“Treat him like Bush/Cheney treated the Shoe Bomber, Richard Reid. Waterboard him till he gives us everything he knows, then try him before a Military Commission and place him before a firing squad. Thats the way Real American Men treat Terrorists.”
Except for the little FACT that Reid was tried and convicted in a US Federal Court, and is serving a life sentence.
waterboard him...oh wait- that would be torturing someone who attempted to blow up a plane full of people...
funny thing about the left’s priorities...
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