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Dick Cheney Delivers Blistering Speech On National Security
Dick Cheney gave an incredible speech today just moments after Barack Obama bloviated about America’s moral bearings, blah, blah, blah.
Cheney’s speech, delivered to the American Enterprise Institute, was his most complete and blistering critique of Obama’s national security policies to date.
He called out the charlatans in congress who backed the successful enhanced interrogation program in private, but now feign outrage in public and call for show trials.
Cheney reiterated the point he’s made so many times recently, that Obama’s flawed left-wing approach to fighting the war on terror is making the country less safe.
Here’s a little taste of what the former vice president had to say. I’ll post the complete speech as soon as it’s up.
Scheuer Shreds Obama On National Security
If there’s one man who probably knows more about national security and radical Islam than anyone it’s Michael Scheuer. He spent 22-years as an analyst at the CIA and spent a large amount of that time tracking radical Islamic groups and studying their words and actions.
In 1996, the CIA took the unprecedented step of creating an in house unit whose sole purpose was to to track one man — Osama Bin Laden. From 1996 – 1999 Mike Scheuer was head of the Bin Laden Unit (formally known as Alec Station, named after Mike’s son Alec).
Scheuer also designed the CIA’s Rendition program which was used to snatch terror suspects abroad and fly them back to the U.S. for prosecution or to another country for interrogation.
Beyond his unparalleled expertise, Michael Scheuer has no political ax to grind. He’s fond of ripping into both Bushes, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and now Barack Obama. His only interest is to see that America is protected and that we have a competent national security policy.
In short, If Scheuer says Obama’s national security policy is f*cked up — we should listen.
In a scathing Washington Post editorial, Scheuer doesn’t hold back. He says the way Obama is playing politics with interrogation and our national security in general is going to get people killed.
I’m actually surprised the WaPo even printed the Op-Ed it’s so brutal and frank. I’m guessing the couple of shots he took at Bush soothed liberal hearts on the editorial board.
Here’s a taste:
Now, in a single week, President Obama has eliminated two-thirds of that successful-but-not-sufficient national defense troika because his personal ideology — a fair gist of which is "If the world likes us more we are more secure" — cannot tolerate harsh interrogation techniques, torture or coercive interviews, call them what you will. Surprisingly, Obama now stands alongside Bush as a genuine American Jacobin, both of them seeing the world as they want it to be, not as it is. Whereas Bush saw a world of Muslims yearning to betray their God for Western secularism, Obama gazes upon a globe that he regards as largely carnivore-free and believes that remaining threats can be defused by semantic warfare; just stop saying "War on Terror" and give talks in Turkey and on al-Arabiyah television, for example.
Americans should be clear on what Obama has done. In a breathtaking display of self-righteousness and intellectual arrogance, the president told Americans that his personal beliefs are more important than protecting their country, their homes and their families. The interrogation techniques in question, the president asserted, are a sign that Americans have lost their "moral compass," a compliment similar to Attorney General Eric Holder’s identifying them as "moral cowards." Mulling Obama’s claim, one can wonder what could be more moral for a president than doing all that is needed to defend America and its citizens? Or, asked another way, is it moral for the president of the United States to abandon intelligence tools that have saved the lives and property of Americans and their allies in favor of his own ideological beliefs?
There is no question in my mind and in the mind of experts like Scheuer that president Obama’s reckless ACLU national security policy has put us all in danger.
-Chris Jones
Anti-War Crowd Encouraging Obama To Dump Gates
The anti-war loons are in a fit over president-elect Obama’s likely decision to keep Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Instead, they’re pushing for him to name a more anti-war voice.
Arms control advocates and anti-war activists are ratcheting up pressure on President-elect Barack ObamaDefense Secretary Robert Gates and replace him with a more strident anti-war voice. to dump
Nominating Gates to stay, “would be a violation of the mandate for change that Obama says he represents,” said Medea Benjamin, cofounder of the anti-war group CodePink.
How can you have a Secretary of Defense that’s anti-war? Isn’t that kind of an oxymoron? Secondly, the idea that anyone would take national security advice from the code pinkos is laughable at best. Bob Gates is about as moderate as they come. He’s not anti-war, but he’s certainly not pro-war either.
The least Obama can do to assure the country that he’s not a total peacenik pushover is to keep someone competent like Gates in the Sec Def spot. All Americans with the exception of the pinkos will sleep much better at night.
Video: Obama’s Foreign Policy Speech
Barack Obama gave a speech about foreign policy earlier today.
Nutroots Defeated: FISA Passes 69-28
After nearly two years of hysterical letter writing, protests, threats, and a whole lot of over-the-top rhetoric, the far-left has once again been delivered a crushing defeat.
Much to the chagrin of the shrill lefty blogs, the FISA reform legislation finally passed with a vote of 69-28. What really adds insult to injury in liberal land is that the messiah himself, Barack Obama, voted in favor of the legislation.
As with every other anti-terror issue that has been passed, the left is declaring this a very dark day. For liberals, the idea that no one will go to prison for listening to terrorists or suspected terrorists without a warrant is truly horrifying.
The Nutroots are already planning revenge against any Democrat who dared to allow the eavesdropping on terrorists.
It’s really pathetic that some people in America are willing to do almost anything to prevent the government from having all the tools it needs to protect us. I could care less if the feds intercept my email or listen to my cell phone conversations. Of course this bill doesn’t allow any of that, but even if it did I wouldn’t care.
The one part of the FISA bill that really got left-wingers fired up was the “retroactive immunity” provision which protected the telecom companies from the ACLU. Those companies agreed to help the NSA after 9/11 and were told they weren’t breaking the law. It’s only right that the government live up to that promise, and not let far-left thugs sue them into financial ruin.
-Chris Jones
Nuclear Plant Lockdown: Worker With Explosives Detained
Security officials at the nation’s largest nuclear power plant detained a contract worker with a small explosive device in the back of his pickup truck.
The worker was stopped and detained at the entrance of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station. Officials then put the entire plant on lock-down barring anyone from entering or exiting the facility.
Authorities described the device as a small capped pipe that contained suspicious residue. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office rendered the device safe and investigators began interviewing the worker.
Pakistan New Safe Haven for Militants
A large conflict may be looming as terrorists expand their control in Pakistan. Militants who once primarily controlled the lawless tribal belt on the Afghan/Pakistan border region are now in control of vast portions of Northern Pakistan.
The increased influence of the Islamic radicals was highlighted this week by intense fighting between local gunmen and government troops. The government said about 180 people have been killed, mostly militants, in violence including bombings, abductions and shootouts.
Taliban and al-Qaida were pushed back after the U.S. and its Afghan allies toppled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in late 2001. Today, residents say Arabs, Uzbeks and Tajiks have rejoined the ranks of the local radicals, mostly Pashtuns, the same ethnic group as the Taliban across the border in Afghanistan.
Terrorists now control Swat, which is a 4,000 square mile province in Northern Pakistan. Pro-Taliban cleric Maulana Fazlullah has set up a virtual mini-state in Swat, a province of 4,000 square miles. He uses an FM radio station to help spread fundamentalist Islam in an area once known to tourists as the “Switzerland of Asia” for its stunning, snow-covered mountains.
Fazlullah and his followers have imposed strict Sharia law in Swat just as the Taliban did in Afghanistan. They have bombed girls schools and blown up video and CD shops. They drilled holes into the face of a 20-foot- tall stone Buddha, obliterating the features of the 1,300-year-old sculpture.
One of the biggest problems the Pakistani government faces is corruption within the military, Police, and intelligence service. Many within these organizations are at the very least sympathetic or at the worst actively assisting the terrorists.
Sooner or later the U.S. military is going to have to go into Northern Pakistan and clean out the terrorists. They now have a base of operations there just as they did in Afghanistan. If President Bush is serious about denying a safe haven for terrorists to plan attacks from then something must be done.
I believe President Musharraf is trying to help us as much as he can. The extremists are as much a threat to him and his government as they are to the West. I think it speaks volumes that Musharraf doesn’t have a single Pakistani in his personal security detail. He uses third country mercenaries with no personal or political ties to Pakistan.
At this moment there is no greater threat to the U.S. and its interests than extremist elements within Pakistan. If President Bush chooses to ignore this gathering danger or allows politics to get in the way, he is doing so at our peril.
-Chris Jones
The Hot Joints
Israel Struck a Nuclear Project in Syria, Analysts Say
Israel’s air attack on Syria last month was directed against a site that Israeli and American intelligence analysts judged was a partly constructed nuclear reactor, apparently modeled on one North Korea has used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel, according to American and foreign officials with access to the intelligence reports.
Sandy “Document Thief” Berger Becomes Hillary Campaign Advisor
Sandy Berger, who stole highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, destroyed them and lied to investigators, is now an adviser to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Berger, who was fired from John Kerry’s presidential campaign when the scandal broke in 2004, has assumed a similar role in Clinton’s campaign, even though his security clearance has been suspended until September 2008.
“It shows poor judgment and a lack of regard for Berger’s serious misdeeds,” said law professor Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve University, who nonetheless called Clinton “by far the most impressive candidate in the Democratic field.”
He added: “If Senator Clinton becomes the Democratic nominee, at some point she will begin to receive national security briefings that will include sensitive information. At such a point, continuing to keep Berger on board as a key advisor, where he might have access to sensitive material, would be beyond incomprehensible.”
Democrats seem to have a fuzzy memory when it comes to Berger. His actions were so outrageous that it defies belief that he is not sitting in a prison cell for about 15 years.
Berger has admitted stealing documents from the National Archives in advance of the 9/11 Commission hearings in 2003. The documents, written by White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke.
Berger stuffed highly classified documents into his pants and socks before spiriting them out of the Archives building in Washington, according to investigators. On one occasion, upon reaching the street, he hid documents under a construction trailer after checking the windows of the Archives and Justice Department buildings to make sure he was not being watched.
He came back later and retrieved the documents, taking them home and cutting them up with scissors.
Berger also lied to the public, telling reporters he made an “honest mistake” by “inadvertently” taking the documents, which he blamed on his own “sloppiness.” Bill Clinton vouched for the explanation for Berger, who served as his national security adviser.
If you remember there was a certain public outrage on the part of liberals when President Bush commuted the prison sentence for Scooter Libby, but an eerie silence when Berger only received probation. Democrats love to expose alleged “cover-ups” on the part of Republicans, but they had one in there own backyard that dwarfs anything the Bush Administration has been accused of.
The Democrats are so steeped in hypocrisy it makes it difficult to keep a straight face when Nancy Pelosi talks about a “culture of corruption.”
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