“The deal will, however, make it nearly impossible to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program short of military action…Israel will have to seriously consider its military options. Such a confrontation is far more likely thanks to the diplomatic double-cross of Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazil’s Lula, and especially to a U.S. President whose diplomacy has succeeded mainly in persuading the world’s rogues that he lacks the determination to stop their destructive ambitions.”
“Iran is either going to become a nuclear power, or it will be stopped from doing so by military action. Either a war will be upon us, or a cycle of Mideast nuclear proliferation.”
“It is the president’s efforts to crow about how effective he is in fighting terrorism that are helping al-Qaeda. What kind of policy is it to announce to the world that Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the Nigerian terrorist who attempted to blow up a plane as it approached Detroit this past Christmas, is talking to investigators and giving them much valuable information?…While releasing this information may help Obama politically and certainly pushes back those of us who criticized him for handling the Mutallab case civilly, it provides al-Qaeda with a timely warning that we are on to their plans and that Mutallab has explained to us what they have up their sleeves. In counter-terrorism, knowing your enemy’s plans is key to thwarting them. And, if al-Qaeda knows that we are prepared, they will, obviously, change their plans.”
“Hillary’s comment about avoiding sanctions which “contribute to the suffering” of the people of Iran can only be interpreted as a push-back against the sanctions that have passed the House.”
If Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were tried in a military tribunal instead of a civilian court, then American taxpayers would not have to spend 200 million dollars per year on trial security.
John Brennan is President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser. John Brennan gave permission to the head of the National Counterterrorism Center to go on vacation after the Underwear Bomber attempted to blow up an airplane.
“Mike Leiter raised with me that he was in fact scheduled to go on leave to meet his son, and he asked me whether or not he should cancel that trip. And I said, ‘Mike, no, you deserve this vacation. You need to be with your son.’”
The National Counterterrorism Center was setup after 9/11 to “connect the dots.” The director of the National Counterterrorism Center is Michael Leiter. Michael Leiter chose to go on vacation after the Underwear Bomber tried to blow up an airplane.
“Counterterror watchdog Michael Leiter wasn’t AWOL. He got the okay from his White House bosses to take a six-day ski vacation right after the Christmas Day bomber nearly blew up an airliner.”
“The lesson of these cases, like that of Ramzi Yousef, is not that the criminal justice system can sometimes convict terrorists. It is that criminal prosecution is far less vital to U.S. security than is conducting the interrogations that can yield information that saves innocent lives.”
“This new onset of terrorism is not the product of any change in the international environment or some new “systemic” flaw in our intelligence operations. It is due to the policy of President Obama in letting down our guard and inhibiting those charged with our protection.”