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  • Obama Nixes Safe Drilling

    02/28/2011 2:56:19 PM PST · by radioone · 16 replies
    American Thinker ^ | February 28, 2011 | Jeffrey Folks
    Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was in Houston this weekend talking with oil executives who are eager to start drilling again in the Gulf of Mexico. That may sound like progress, but after the meeting Salazar said that nothing had changed. He was not ready to approve any new drilling. Despite everything that energy companies have done to devise advanced containment systems, Salazar is unwilling to issue a single new permit. Systems constructed by the nonprofit Marine Well Containment Company and other entities are now able to handle a flow equal or greater than that experienced during the Deepwater Horizon accident...
  • Obama briefed on prelim reports on airline attack

    01/01/2010 4:04:03 PM PST · by SeattleBruce · 45 replies · 1,329+ views
    Associated Press ^ | PHILIP ELLIOTT
    HONOLULU (AP) - President Barack Obama was briefed Thursday on how a 23-year-old Nigerian with suspected terrorist ties almost succeeded in a Christmas Day airline bombing and how to prevent it from happening again. Obama received the preliminary assessment ahead of meetings in Washington next week on fixing the shortcomings and failures of the nation's anti-terrorism policy. Administration officials said the system to protect the nation's skies from terrorists was deeply flawed and, even then, the government failed to follow its own directives. Vacationing in Hawaii, Obama talked with the his national security team about progress they were making on...
  • Obama Describes Nigerian As ‘Isolated Extremist,’ Despite Ties to Yemen

    12/30/2009 5:12:37 AM PST · by IbJensen · 28 replies · 810+ views
    CNS News ^ | December 29, 2009 | Susan Jones
    CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama, in his first public comments on the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit, described the suspect as “an isolated extremist,” despite reports that the 23-year-old Nigerian had been trained in Yemen, a country he visited twice. The Associated Press, quoting a Yemeni government official, said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab lived in Yemen for two extended periods of time -- a year, from 2004-2005 and again from August-December this year. He apparently was in Yemen a few weeks before the attempt to blow Flight 253 out of the sky over Michigan. (See...