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At the urging of Valerie Jarrett, President Barack Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden on three separate occasions before finally approving the May 2, 2011 Navy SEAL mission, according to an explosive new book scheduled for release August 21. The Daily Caller has seen a portion of the chapter in which the stunning revelation appears. In ”Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him,“ Richard Miniter writes that Obama canceled the “kill” mission in January 2011, again in February, and a third time in March. Obama’s close adviser Valerie Jarrett persuaded him...

When the Stuxnet computer worm severely damaged Iran’s nuclear program, many Americans cheered. We should also fear cyberattacks coming at us. The International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., was hacked this past week. The top suspect? China. The week before, the White House. More than 100 senior Obama administration officials found that their private gmail accounts were targeted by China-based hackers, an administration spokesman told The Wall Street Journal. The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are investigating. The attacks have been traced to Jinan, home to China’s army cyberunit. The various recent hacking attacks are not isolated events....

Slaughtering his own people and mocking the world's pleas, for peace, Libya's Moammar Gadhafi can only be stopped by force. Since President Barack Obama seems comfortable killing terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan with Predator drone strikes, why not in Libya? So far, establishing a no-fly zone is the only air power option on the table... The Turkish prime minister has said he would oppose such a move. A no-fly zone also creates political problems for Obama. He came to power promising to end two wars, not to start a new one. "Let's just call a spade a spade," Defense Secretary...

Five authors have sued the parent company of Regnery Publishing, a Washington imprint of conservative books, charging that the company deprives its writers of royalties by selling their books at a steep discount to book clubs and other organizations owned by the same parent company. In a suit filed in United States District Court in Washington yesterday, the authors Jerome R. Corsi, Bill Gertz, Lt. Col. Robert (Buzz) Patterson, Joel Mowbray and Richard Miniter state that Eagle Publishing, which owns Regnery, “orchestrates and participates in a fraudulent, deceptively concealed and self-dealing scheme to divert book sales away from retail outlets...

According to exclusive information obtained by Pajamas Media’s Washington editor Richard Miniter, the movement of key CIA station personnel in Baghdad has been all but shut down. Are we witnessing Iran’s counter-strike to the surge? Movements of key CIA station personnel in Baghdad—along with most State department diplomats and teams building police stations and schools—have been frozen for the second day in a row, according to a State department source who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Essentially, the CIA, State department and government contractors are stuck inside the International Zone, also known as “the Green Zone,” in Central Baghdad....

International man of mystery and Hudson Institute fellow Richard Miniter visits the island of Akhtamar in Lake Van, Turkey, to see the newly restored Church of the Holy Cross - one of the holiest sites for Armenian Christians - for himself at the opening ceremonies: Our story starts with a small sandstone 10th-century Armenian church, on an uninhabited rock less than 500 yards wide, in a remote Turkish lake that changes colors like moods and sometimes bubbles like soda. If you had seen the ruins of it, as I did in 2000, you might cry. Its roof was gone. Its...

Spotted by Predator drone aircraft and sprayed with high-calibre bullets by an U.S. Air Force AC-130 gunship, the U.S. military is hunting al Qaeda operatives in the southern toe of Somalia, according to CBS News. Special Forces Command (or SOCOM) has yet to confirm that the terrorists responsible for the August 7, 1998 embassy bombings—which killed 12 American diplomats and some 211 Africans—were slain in today’s strike. If the gunship’s rounds were on target, it is a major setback for al Qaeda in Africa. Following last year’s sweep by the Kenyans and activities in the Coromos Islands (off the coast...

PJM is making public on this website for the first time the report by the Inspector General’s office regarding Sandy Berger and his theft and destruction of classified national security documents — named in the report as, “The ‘W’ Intelligence Files.” This document was obtained for review by Pajamas Media. Berger, as the former National Security Adviser for the Clinton Administration, was granted sole access to these documents in order to vet them prior to their being turned over to the 9/11 Commission and congress. As this file shows, he used this position of trust to take a number of...

Like many of President Bush’s supporters, I have agreed with and continue to accept the idea that most Muslims are peaceful and do not support violent jihad. I know that a very high proportion of America’s Muslims are professional people – lawyers, teachers and doctors, and that if the 1.6 billion Muslims around the world were terrorists, things would be an order of magnitude worse than they are. In this blog, I have many times referred to this in my support of the President’s attempts to keep the war on terrorists from morphing into a religious war. Why is it...

VIRTUAL KILLTHE CHRIS WALLACE-BILL CLINTON INTERVIEW DECONSTRUCTED HEAR: the only idea clinton was promoting during the interview the devastating case made against bill clinton by: Michael Scheuer, former 'hunting bin Laden' CIA Division Chief, and Richard Miniter, author of Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror DECONSTRUCTED INTERVIEW (play now) by Mia T, 9.27.06   "Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in '91 and he went to the Sudan. We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him [bin Laden]....

YESTERDAY I asked Chris Wallace if he was surprised. Wallace is the Fox News host who has become the talk of Washington for simply asking Bill Clinton if he thought he did enough to stop Osama bin Laden before the September 11 attacks. The former president had exploded in a rage at Wallace's question, alleging a conspiracy by America's most watched cable news outfit. He leaned deep into Wallace's personal space, jabbing his finger in his face. And it lasted minute after embarrassing minute. Yes, Wallace was surprised by both the intensity and the answer. Clinton's performance, his defenders say,...

A DEADLY KINDNESS AT GITMO, PC RULES LET QAEDAS PLOT ON By RICHARD MINITER September 15, 2006 -- GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA ON the military plane back from America's most fa mous terrorist holding pen, the in-flight film was "V for Vendetta," a screed that tries to justify terrorism. It was a fitting end to a surreal, military-sponsored trip. The Pentagon seemed to be hoping to disarm its critics by showing them how well it cares for captured terrorists. The trip was more alarming than disarming. I spent several hours with Rear Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., who heads the joint...

On Saturday April 29th "America's Truth Forum" will be holding a symposium on; The Underlying Roots Of Terrorism: Terrorism's Threat to World Peace & National Security Prior to that on Friday at 10am est they will hold a debate at the National Press Club between Richard Miniter and Paul Williams. The debate topic is; "Does Osama Have Suitcase Nukes?" Rightalk.com will be LIVE webcasting the debate. Immediately following the debate will be a press conference at which a BOMBSHELL announcement concerning these topics will be announced! That's all that can be said right now but make sure to TUNE IN!...

'MAKE IT A RULE' TO PLACE YOUR ORDER FOR OSAMA WITH CLINTON and CO.(HEAR HILLARY + BILL MAKE THEIR PITCH) by Mia t, 2.13.06 THE (oops!) INADVERTENT ADMISSIONS OF BILL + HILLARY CLINTON (HEAR HILLARY IN SF) ~PART ONE~ THE FAILED, DYSFUNCTIONAL CLINTON PRESIDENCY(DECONSTRUCTING CLINTON'S HOFSTRA SPEECH) -- part1: clinton's "Brinkley" Lie AFTERWORD: ON CLINTON SMALLNESS(BRINKLEY MISSES THE POINT) WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security? IT TAKES A CLINTON TO RAZE A COUNTRY BIN LADEN FINGERS CLINTON FOR TERROR SUCCESS (SEE...

  THE (oops!) INADVERTENT ADMISSIONS OF BILL + HILLARY CLINTON part one FROM WHENCE COMES THEIR REPUTATION FOR BRILLIANCE, ANYWAY? AND WAS THEIR FAILURE TO TAKE OUT BIN LADEN WILLFUL?   by Mia T, 02.08.06 "You know... the job which we should have done 1... which should have been our primary focus, to find [you know] bin Laden and eliminate al Qaeda." hillary clintonSaturday, Jan. 28, 2006 Chitchat with Jane Pauley San Francisco, CA "Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in '91 and he went to the Sudan. We'd been hearing...

CBN.com – WASHINGTON - In November, three Algerian men were arrested in Italy and charged with planning major attacks on U.S. targets. The arrests were front page news in Europe, but not in the U.S. America may just have dodged a major bullet. The three Algerian men planned to carry out attacks on ships, stadiums, and railway stations in the U.S. according to Italian authorities; their goal was to exceed the devastation caused by 9/11. The three men described July terror attacks in London and Egypt, which killed over 140 people and injured hundreds more, as "highdays and holidays." They...

“Iraq was not a breeding ground for terrorism. Our invasion has made it one.” --Sen. Ted Kennedy "Iraq was not a terrorist haven before the invasion." --Sen. John Kerry Ever since the start of “Operation Iraqi Freedom”, opponents of President Bush in general and of the invasion of Iraq in particular have bombarded us with these messages: We created the terrorists by going to Afghanistan and Iraq to fight them. There was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Muslim terrorism. The war was started to give fat contracts to Halliburton, Cheney’s former company. To say that we created the terrorists...

Americans Jumping to Their Deaths on 9/11 Although leftist treachery led to an obscene withdrawal from Vietnam at a time when our troops in the field had won every battle, there were no lasting effects from our defeat due to the efforts of Ronald Reagan. With the installation of the Peacemakers and the development of Star Wars, the “wall” came tumbling down. Through the ages Americans have gotten complaisant about the protection from harm our two great oceans and our brave and brilliant military have afforded us. Unfortunately, I don’t think the same good fortune is in our future if...

An interview with Richard Miniter on the War on Terror, the media's role in promoting terrorism, and the role of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. According to Richard Miniter, an American investigative journalist who is an expert on Islamic terrorism, the West is capable of winning the war on terror. In fact, he thinks it is winning. Miniter, who is a weekly guest on Fox News, has traveled extensively all over the globe and was in Brussels last month on his way to Afghanistan. The Brussels Journal interviewed him. Paul Belien: Rich, you have written two bestselling books about terrorism so...

BIN LADEN FINGERS CLINTON FOR TERROR SUCCESS (SEE FOOTAGE)THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE by Mia T, 7.15.05 BIN LADEN CREDITSCLINTON COWARDICE, DISLOYALITY + BLACK HAWK DOWN DEBACLE,FOR TERROR SUCCESSSEE FOOTAGE OF BIN LADEN INTERVIEW, BLACK HAWK DOWN DEBACLEhillary talks: ON MILITARY TACTICS (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) hillary talks:ON TERROR (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)   INTERVIEW Osama bin Laden (may 1998)   In the first part of this interview which occurred in May 1998, a little over two months before the U.S. embassy...