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Old 01-07-2010, 21:32   #1
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All 3 Major Domestic Terror Attacks of 2009 Were Directly Enabled by Obama’s Reverse-

All 3 Major Domestic Terror Attacks of 2009 Were Directly Enabled by Obama’s Reverse-Profiling Orders, Exempting Muslims from Scrutiny

Posted by: Alec Rawls @ floppingaces.net

An anonymous State Department employee, talking to The American Spectator about Flight 253 and underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab:
This employee says that despite statements from the Obama Administration, such information [that Abdulmutallab had been banned from Britain] was flagged and given higher priority during the Bush Administration, but that since the changeover “we are encouraged to not create the appearance that we are profiling or targeting Muslims.”
If this statement is accurate, it makes Obama directly responsible for Abdulmutallab’s success in spiriting a bomb aboard Flight 253, and the statement is easily believable, given STRATFOR’s report last June about intelligence agencies being ordered to stop investigating Black Muslims:
Several weeks ago, STRATFOR heard from sources that the FBI and other law enforcement organizations had been ordered to “back off” of counterterrorism investigations into the activities of Black Muslim converts.
This was just before 23 year old Black Muslim convert Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad shot two soldiers at an Army recruiting station in Little Rock. The FBI had opened an investigation of Muhammad after he returned from Yemen with a phony Yemeni passport, yet he was apparently off the radar screen when he murdered one soldier and critically wounded another. Obama’s “back off” order may well have contributed to Muhammad having a free hand.

In the Fort Hood case, our intelligence agencies intercepted Major Nidal Hasan’s discussions with top al Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki about killing American soldiers, then they stopped investigating on the grounds that mere discussion is protected free speech:
U.S. officials now confirm Hasan sent as many as 20 e-mails to Awlaki. Authorities intercepted the e-mails but later deemed them innocent or protected by the first amendment.
Innocent OR protected. i.e. Not entirely innocent. Sorta like:
Dear Osama bin Laden:

What do you think of the merits of a bomb attack on Fort Hood vs. a small arms attack? Killing the infidels one at a time affords more opportunities to shout “Allahu akbar,” and did you know that since President Clinton, military bases in the United States are gun-free zones? Very useful information.

Don’t worry about them reading your reply. Obama promises not to pay attention.

Your biggest admirer,

Major Nidal Hasan
Fort Hood Texas
The Hasan case was dropped at roughly the same time as the order to back off of Black Muslims (sometime in mid-09) suggesting that the order not to investigate Muslims might have extended to Muslims in general. This fits with Obama’s promise that he would:
…stand with [Muslim Americans] should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.
Barack and his wife think America has ALWAYS been ugly, “downright mean,” etcetera, towards blacks, Muslims and other “minorities.” So on this promise at least Obama is being true to his word. He is siding with the Muslims. He’s not being neutral. He is not asking our intelligence agencies to follow the evidence wherever it leads. He is specifically asking them to exempt from scrutiny the only people who are attacking us.

Obama is enabling suicide-killers, but draws the line at political suicide

As the consequences of exempting Muslims from scrutiny break into the open, Obama is having to backtrack. Having opened the gates to jihad at one end, he now has no choice but to try to slam them shut at the other by actually singling out people from Muslim countries (and Cuba) for airline searches. Apparently it dawned on him that allowing waves of repatriated Yemeni terrorists to murder planeloads of Americans was political suicide.

Assuming that Obama is still ordering our intelligence agencies not to investigate Muslims, we are now operating under a bizarre combination of profiling and reverse-profiling. At the fundamental level, we are giving Muslims a pass, then trying to contain the disaster by profiling at the palliative Transportation Safety level.

President Bush did just the opposite. He was politically correct in his own way, letting Norman Mineta, an anti-profiling ideologue, set his transportation safety policies. But political reality will only tolerate so much failure in protecting the American people from Muslim terrorists. Thus Bush had to compensate for his failure to use the most efficient tools by being very diligent.

Obama has chosen to be the opposite of diligent, actually giving Muslims a pass even when they are implicated, with the ironic result that he is unable to eschew profiling at the street level the way Bush did.

If this breaks the taboo on profiling, it may ironically turn out to be a silver lining. By taking political correctness to its the most perverse extreme, Obama may have inadvertently shattered its facade of reasonableness.
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Old 02-07-2010, 15:40   #2
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...844183082.html

Counterterror Chief Takes Critics to Task

FEBRUARY 7, 2010, 3:48 P.M. ET
By SUDEEP REDDY
WASHINGTON -- White House Counterterrorism Chief John Brennan on Sunday ripped into lawmakers for criticizing the administration's handling of Christmas Day bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

Republican lawmakers in recent weeks have attacked the Obama administration for prosecuting Mr. Abdulmutallab in a civilian court, rather than before a military commission, and for reading him his Miranda rights. Mr. Brennan said he had called senior Republican lawmakers on Christmas night to brief them on the investigation and suggested that they were fully informed about how the suspect would be treated.

"I explained to them that he was in FBI custody, that Mr. Abdulmatallab was in fact talking, that he was cooperating at that point," Mr. Brennan said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday. "They knew that 'in FBI custody' means that there's a process then you follow as far as Mirandizing and presenting him in front of a magistrate."

"None of those individuals raised any concerns with me at that point," Mr. Brennan said. "They didn't say, 'Is he going into military custody? Is he going to be Mirandized?' They were very appreciative of the information. We told them we'd keep them informed, and that's what we did."

Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Kit Bond (R., Mo.), one of those briefed by Mr. Brennan, on Sunday disputed the idea that the lawmakers were aware that the suspect was read his Miranda rights.

"Brennan never told me any of plans to Mirandize the Christmas Day bomber -- if he had I would told him the Administration was making a mistake," Sen. Bond said in a statement. "The truth is that the administration did not even consult our intelligence chiefs, as DNI Blair [Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair] testified, so it's absurd to try to blame Congressional leaders for this dangerous decision that gave terrorists a five week head start to cover their tracks."

Mr. Brennan said Mr. Abdulmutallab "was treated as a terrorist" and "put into a process that has been the same process that we have used for every other terrorist who has been captured on our soil whether they be U.S. citizens or non-U.S. citizens." He said the guidelines used with Mr. Abdulmutallab were finalized in December 2008 during the Bush administration under former Attorney General Michael Mukasey.

Mr. Brennan, who had also worked in the Bush administration after a career as a Central Intelligence Agency officer, said "I'm tiring of politicians using national security issues such as terrorism as a political football. They're going out there, they're unknowing of the facts, and they're making charges and allegations that are not anchored in reality."

He added that rather than "second-guessing what they're doing on the ground with a 500-mile screwdriver from Washington to Detroit, I think they have to have confidence in the knowledge and the experience of these counterterrorism professionals."

Besides Mr. Bond, Mr. Brennan said he had briefed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), House Minority Leader John Boehner (R., Ohio), and the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R., Mich.).

The other lawmakers said through aides on Sunday that they had received brief, non-secure courtesy calls from Mr. Brennan that imparted little substantive information. They also said Mr. Brennan was trying to deflect blame away from the administration.

Mr. Hoekstra's statement said Mr. Brennan "only informed him that Abdulmutallab had severe burns and was being treated. Contrary to what he attempts to imply, he at no time informed Hoekstra that Abdulmutallab had been Mirandized nor did he seek Hoekstra's consultation or provide any sort of meaningful briefing. The faulty decision to Mirandize Abdulmuttalab was the Obama administration's, and its decision alone."

Sen. McConnell's spokesman, Don Stewart, said Mr. Brennan "is clearly trying to shift the focus away from the fact that their bad decisions gave terrorists in Yemen a weeks-long head start."

"The bottom line is this: on Christmas day, a known terrorist, with the help of al Qaeda in Yemen , attempted to kill Americans by blowing up an airplane," Mr. Stewart said. "Rather than having highly trained terror investigators spend time with this terrorist, the administration decided to treat him as a common criminal who had a right to a government-funded lawyer and advised of his right to remain silent."

Kevin Smith, a spokesman for Mr. Boehner, echoed that sentiment, adding: "Instead of attempting to dodge responsibility, John Brennan and this administration should focus on fixing the near-catastrophic intelligence breakdown that failed to prevent this attack."

Write to Sudeep Reddy at sudeep.reddy@wsj.com
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Old 02-07-2010, 16:59   #3
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Shouldn't Hasan been booted out of the Army a LONG time before Obama was even president?
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