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Monday, June 6, 2011
"Courting DIsaster" CIA Book exposes Obama... more damage to National Security in 1st 100 days than any president in history!!!
For the historical record...
As President George W. Bush's top speechwriter, Marc Thiessen was provided unique access to the CIA program used in interrogating top Al Qaeda terrorists, including the mastermind of the 9/11 attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM).
Now, his riveting new book, "Courting Disaster", How the CIA Kept America Safe (Regnery), has been published.
Here is an excerpt from "Courting Disaster":
Just before dawn on March 1, 2003, two dozen heavily armed Pakistani tactical assault forces move in and surround a safe house in Rawalpindi . A few hours earlier they had received a text message from an informant inside the house. It read: "I am with KSM."
Bursting in, they find the disheveled mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in his bedroom. He is taken into custody. In the safe house, they find a treasure trove of computers, documents, cell phones and other valuable "pocket litter."
Once in custody, KSM is defiant. He refuses to answer questions, informing his captors that he will tell them everything when he gets to America and sees his lawyer. But KSM is not taken to America to see a lawyer Instead he is taken to a secret CIA "black site" in an undisclosed location.
Upon arrival, KSM finds himself in the complete control of Americans. He does not know where he is, how long he will be there, or what his fate will be.
Despite his circumstances, KSM still refuses to talk. He spews contempt at his interrogators, telling them Americans are weak, lack resilience, and are unable to do what is necessary to prevent the terrorists from succeeding in their goals. He has trained to resist interrogation. When he is asked for information about future attacks, he tells his questioners scornfully: "Soon, you will know."
It becomes clear he will not reveal the information using traditional interrogation techniques. So he undergoes a series of "enhanced interrogation techniques" approved for use only on the most high-value detainees. The techniques include waterboarding.
His resistance is described by one senior American official as "superhuman." Eventually, however, the techniques work, and KSM becomes cooperative-for reasons that will be described later in this book.
He begins telling his CIA de-briefers about active al Qaeda plots to launch attacks against the United States and other Western targets. He holds classes for CIA officials, using a chalkboard to draw a picture of al Qaeda's operating structure, financing, communications, and logistics. He identifies al Qaeda travel routes and safe havens, and helps intelligence officers make sense of documents and computer records seized in terrorist raids. He identifies voices in intercepted telephone calls, and helps officials understand the meaning of coded terrorist communications. He provides information that helps our intelligence community capture other high-ranking terrorists, KSM's questioning, and that of other captured terrorists, produces more than 6,000 intelligence reports, which are shared across the intelligence community, as well as with our allies across the world.
In one of these reports, KSM describes in detail the revisions he made to his failed 1994-1995 plan known as the "Bojinka plot" to blow up a dozen airplanes carrying some 4,000 passengers over the Pacific Ocean.
Years later, an observant CIA officer notices the activities of a cell being followed by British authorities appear to match KSM's description of his plans for a Bojinka-style attack.
In an operation that involves unprecedented intelligence cooperation between our countries, British officials proceed to unravel the plot.
On the night of Aug. 9, 2006 they launch a series of raids in a northeast London suburb that lead to the arrest of two dozen al Qaeda terrorist suspects. They find a USB thumb-drive in the pocket of one of the men with security details for Heathrow airport, and information on seven trans-Atlantic flights that were scheduled to take off within hours of each other:
* United Airlines Flight 931 to San Francisco departing at 2:15 p.m.;
* Air Canada Flight 849 to Toronto departing at 3:00 p.m.;
* Air Canada Flight 865 to Montreal departing at 3:15 p.m.;
* United Airlines Flight 959 to Chicago departing at 3:40 p.m.;
* United Airlines Flight 925 to Washington departing at 4:20 p.m.;
* American Airlines Flight 131 to New York departing at 4:35 p.m.;
* American Airlines Flight 91 to Chicago departing at 4:50 p.m.
They seize bomb-making equipment and hydrogen peroxide to make liquid explosives. And they find the chilling martyrdom videos the suicide bombers had prepared.
Today, if you asked an average person on the street what they know about the 2006 airlines plot, most would not be able to tell you much.
Few Americans are aware of the fact al Qaeda had planned to mark the fifth anniversary of 9/11 with an attack of similar scope and magnitude.
And still fewer realize the terrorists' true intentions in this plot were uncovered thanks to critical information obtained through the interrogation of the man who conceived it: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
This is only one of the many attacks stopped with the help of the CIA interrogation program established by the Bush Administration in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Editor's Note: For other foiled terrorist plots, see page 9 of "Courting Disaster."
In addition to helping break up these specific terrorist cells and plots, CIA questioning provided our intelligence community with an unparalleled body of information about al Qaeda Until the program was temporarily suspended in 2006, intelligence officials say, well over half of the information our government had about al Qaeda-how it operates, how it moves money, how it communicates, how it recruits operatives, how it picks targets, how it plans and carries out attacks-came from the interrogation of terrorists in CIA custody.
Former CIA Director George Tenet has declared: "I know this program has saved lives. I know we've disrupted plots. I know this program alone is worth more than what the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency put together have been able to tell us."
Former CIA Director Mike Hayden has said: "The facts of the case are that the use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work."
Even Barack Obama's Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, has acknowledged: "High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country."
Leon Panetta, Obama's CIA Director, has said: "Important information
was gathered from these detainees. It provided information that was
acted upon."
And John Brennan, Obama's Homeland Security Advisor, when asked in an interview if enhanced-interrogation techniques were necessary to keep America safe, replied : "Would the U.S. be handicapped if the CIA was not, in fact, able to carry out these types of detention and debriefing activities? I would say yes."
On Jan. 22, 2009, President Obama issued Executive Order 13491, closing the CIA program and directing that, henceforth, all interrogations by U.S. personnel must follow the techniques contained in the Army Field Manual.
The morning of the announcement, Mike Hayden was still in his post as CIA Director, He called White House Counsel Greg Craig and told him bluntly: "You didn't ask, but this is the CIA officially nonconcurring". The president went ahead anyway, over ruling the objections of the agency.
A few months later, on April 16, 2009, President Obama ordered the release of four Justice Department memos that described in detail the techniques used to interrogate KSM and other high-value terrorists. This time, not just Hayden (who was now retired) but five CIA directors -including Obama's own director, Leon Panetta -- objected. George Tenet called to urge against the memos' release. So did Porter Goss. So did John Deutch. Hayden says: "You had CIA directors in a continuous unbroken stream to 1995 calling saying, 'Don't do this.'"
In addition to objections from the men who led the agency for a collective 14 years, the President also heard objections from the agency's covert field operatives. A few weeks earlier, Panetta had arranged for the eight top officials of the Clandestine Service to meet with the President. It was highly unusual for these clandestine officers to visit the Oval Office, and they used the opportunity to warn the President that releasing the memos would put agency operatives at risk. The President reportedly listened respectfully-and then ignored their advice.
With these actions, Barack Obama arguably did more damage to America's national security in his first 100 days of office than any President in American history.
But how many people know this???
Monday, May 2, 2011
Counterterrorism chief declares al-Qaida 'in the past' - World news - Death of bin Laden - msnbc.com
Counter Terrorism Chief Brennan Once Again shows his incompetence..... saying al Qaida a thing of the past...
Inspire Magazine is now their official communication vehicle in the west and lone wolf attacks are up...under the new leadership of American born Muslim Jihadist Awalaki.
Look for these "lone wolf" attacks inspired by Al Qaida to increase in the coming years...
AL Qaida is definitely not a thing of the past!!!!
Osama Bin Lauden's Death.... will it be the Catalyst to LOSING the "War on Terror"?
Will Osama Bin Lauden's death be the catalyst to losing the "War on Terror"?
It may be a strange question to ask... at a time when such an evil man has been brought to justice. But is it a legitimate question? I think it is when you consider the following few examples:
First I would like to salute all my fellow warriors in the fight for the very survival of the west, and my deepest gratitude for all those who made the ultimate sacrifices for our freedoms.
My biggest fear is these men are fighting and dying overseas, while our citizens, by their ignorance and apathy are giving those same freedoms away here at home....
Much of our leadership is also either IGNORANT, IN BED, or Incompetent in regard to understanding the nature of the threat and the Muslim Brotherhood.... and you only need to look to our own Human Rights Commissioner and former CAIR/HAMAS Leader Parvez Ahmed to see an example of the STEALTH or "CULTURAL JIHAD (Their word) being waged to subvert and destroy America from within... as their uncovered SECRET documents have layer out in their methodical plan.
While we should rightly celebrate this evil man’s death...... we are not as our government would have you believe.... at war with Al Qaeda. At least not only at war with Al Qaeda....
WE ARE AT WAR WITH POLITICAL ISLAM or aptly SHARIAH COMPLIANT ISLAM....... which has NO TOLERANCE for other Peoples, Religions, MAN MADE governments, or Speech against Islam or the Prophet.. To name a few.
These groups include, Al Qaeda, Taliban, Hamas, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Palestine.... the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) whose goals are simple and twofold:
1. Establish Shariah (Islamic) Law worldwide.
2. Re-establish the GLOBAL ISLAMIC STATE or CALIPHATE.
Other Islamist with these same Goals who are working in America include CAIR, ISNA, MSA (Muslim Student Association), ICNA, NAIT, and most other major Islamic groups in N. America as designated in the US vs. HLF Trial.. The largest terrorist trial in US history.
Our European friends have now embraced the reality they may fall to the FLAG OF ISLAM and the president of France has said they will we become an ISLAMIC NATION in the next 15-20 years.... due to Political Correctness, MULTICULTURALISM (CULTURAL JIHAD), immigration, emigration, and massive births and polygamy.
America is a mere 20-25 years behind Europe... and folks may scoff, because we have less than a 1% Muslim population.... but Kaddafi CORRECTLY PREDICTED we (Muslims) would take Europe without firing a shot in the next 50 years... (that was ONLY 20 years ago).
While we have killed OBL... I have already heard on the news in the last 20 minutes that
1. maybe we can now wrap things up ...meaning the war.
2. That though we are celebrating...we don't want to rub the death of Bin Lauden in their faces, to minimize any backlash or attacks from the Muslim world.
Both show we do not understand who the enemy is, the threat doctrine of the enemy, and we have already become Sharia compliant and dhimmi’s to Islam.
General Petraus, I commend for his efforts in the fight, but when this top general in the war goes on T.V. to condemn the burning of the Quran by Terry Jones as Bigoted, Intolerant, Hateful while the US Government recently burnt the BIBLE as trash for fear of Muslim Backlash on the "BATTLEFIELD" and have military directives at GITMO on how to handle the Quran with Reverence and respect... As an ACT of US POLICY, then is not America becoming SHARIA COMPLIANT?
In addition don't these ACTS....
1. Violate the establishment clause by giving the Quran a special place above other religious books/religions... regardless if out of fear of Muslim Backlash.
2. He spoke against our most basic 1st Amendment rights as did Lindsay Graham, who went as far as saying he wanted to enact laws to ensure this would not happen.
3. He referred to the Quran as the "HOLY" Quran... which show ignorance of its contents. The Quran is anything but "HOLY" and it content is only 14% religious in nature.... 86% of its text is political, Social, or military in nature, with over 60% dealing with other religions and peoples, how they should be dealt with... with all final and authoritative verses lacking any tolerance of ANY Other Religion or peoples... stating to kill ALL UNBELIEVERS and to FORCEFULLY CONVERT them when the POPULATION allows it...as Egypt recently experienced and is transforming to enforce the religion as we speak.
Europe is in the beginning stages of this agitation by ISLAMIST... America will follow... in fact Choudry and other Muslims called for the replacement of our Constitution with Sharia Law just months ago and CAIR leaders have openly said the Koran and Sharia law should rule America!
While these Islamist groups are peaceful now... when they have sufficient numbers to agitate forcefully coupled with political infiltration....unless the current trends change..... make no mistake they will defeat America.......this is due to their long term and patient plans which have been implemented over the past 30+ years and America's short term memory and failure to recognize the CULTURAL JIHAD being waged in our Political offices, schools, faith community via interfaith dialogue, and a compliant media.....under the guise of multiculturalism and tolerance.
I pray America will unite against this force of darkness in the world before it is too late to recover. Please get educated, involved, and ACT! For America!!!!!
God Bless!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Pajamas Media » (PJM Exclusive) Did Obama and Holder Scuttle Terror Finance Prosecutions?
Friday, April 1, 2011
A Community Organizer Goes to War - Pat Buchanan - Townhall Conservative
Sunday, February 6, 2011
American Thinker: Professors Push Israel to Negotiate with Hamas
What is most interesting is that two of these professors offering Ill Advise are none other than Rashid Khalidi - who is the controversial professor who was urged by representatives of the King of Saudi Arabia to write the letter on behalf of Obama to get him into Columbia and which was all over the news. This man endorsed HAMAS a Muslim Brotherhood Entity as does this Administration.
The Second is John Esposito of Georgetown University - which is a Muslim Apologist who sits on the board of a radical Muslim Brotherhood group "Institute of Islamic Political Thought" which calls for the overthrow of all man made political systems with Sharia or Islamic Law and works in Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal - Center for Christian and Muslim Understanding at Georgetown (The prince donated over $22 Million in the past to found the center which is a Islamic Apologist apparatus and Bin Talal is also responsible for funding much of America's MES studies and Mosques).
HAMAS follows the Muslim Brotherhood Creed and Goals and is only peaceful when it is weak or does not have the numbers necessary to agitate violence to overthrow the secular or non-Islamic Governments.
Foreign monies and influence operations are paying off well as you can see several NON-MUSLIM professors espousing the M.B. doctrine and talking points.
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!
Saturday, January 15, 2011
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Friday, November 26, 2010
Investigation: Obama likely not eligible
Investigation: Obama likely not eligible
UK-based Taliban spend months fighting Nato forces in Afghanistan | World news | guardian.co.uk
Now with Al Qeada's recruitment tool of "INSPIRE MAGAZINE" and the popularity of American Born Cleric Anwar Al Walaki on the US capture/Kill list... we will see more LONE WOLF attacks on our soil. HEY KERRY, CLINTON, OBAMA, keep em coming, keep giving HAMAS (oops Palestinian Authority)money, and dont secure the borders... GREAT NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY!!!!! You Guys ROCK!!!!!!!!
UK-based Taliban spend months fighting Nato forces in Afghanistan | World news | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
This is ground zero...Pelosi
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/18/pelosi-calls-mosque-debate-zoning-issue-says-new-yorkers-decide/