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Hillary On Pirate Hostage Crisis

UPDATES: (SEE the latest Fox Video below on “Navy security team” aboard the U.S. vessel.) Also: Megyn Kelly calls Capt. Richard Phillips the “Sully of the Oceans.” (“Sully” is the pilot who landed a US Airways jetliner in the Hudson River without loss of life. Kelly co-anchors Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom.”)

Today: “Pirates still hold ship captain, but running out of fuel (Roundup),” Africa News:

We are watching this very closely,’ US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in brief remarks in Washington. The lifeboat in which the captain was being held had apparently run out of fuel, she added.

Secretary Clinton was asked about the pirate takeover Wednesday during her meeting Moroccan Foreign Minister Dr. Taieb Fassi Fihri, during which she took the opportunity to mention that Morocco was the first nation to recognize the U.S.A. in the 18th century and helped our fledgling nation fight piracy long ago. (Special request to our Reader Historians: Please share those great stories!):


From the text of the press conference:

[...]

QUESTION: Madame Secretary, do you have any clarity on the Somali piracy situation?

SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, we’re deeply concerned and we’re following it very closely. Specifically, we are now focused on this particular act of piracy and the seizure of a ship that carries 21 American citizens. More generally, we think the world must come together to end the scourge of piracy.

I think Morocco was the very first country that recognized us, going back a long time. And we worked together to end piracy off of the coast of Morocco all those years ago, and we’re going to work together to end this kind of criminal activity anywhere on the high seas. Thank you.

UPDATE FROM FOX NEWS / TIME-SENSITIVE:

Earlier, here’s a short Reuters video report that sums up the crisis:

  • Hope Change and Unicorns

    Can Hillary please load something smart into Obama’s teleprompter so he can make a comment?

    http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSWBT01101720090409

  • Portia Elizabeth

    I was just thinking this morning, “What would Hillary do?” If her hands weren’t tied by the Pretender, I’d bet she’d have already rescued the captain and kicked ass with those pirates. In fact, Hillary would’ve already taken care of the whole pirate threat business before breakfast.

  • http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com Undercover Black Man

    In fact, Hillary would’ve already taken care of the whole pirate threat business before breakfast.

    Is that why she was laughing about it? I mean, wow… what’s funny? Why was she laughing about piracy on the high seas?

    If President Obama laughed while discussing such a serious subjects, you lot would be sputtering furious denunciations.

  • beebop

    Apparently Axelrod is thumbing through his March Madness Mad Money http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/04/president-oba-7.html to have penned a cogent sentence for 0dumma to read from his prompter. Can a microphone that looks like a bluetooth ear piece be far off?

  • Docelder

    If the life raft has no fuel, this will end as soon as the pirates get thirsty. It won’t be long. Just give them no water until the captain is released. If they harm the captain, then let them float and slowly perish themselves. Let them know this is the option they have. Let the pirates decide. They will cave.

  • beebop

    hahahahahahaha

    That is sooooooo observant.

    Consider this …. us laughing at you not showing up to comment about the deep knee bend to a foreign power. I guess you couldn’t figure out how to answer without using your left hand?

  • beebop

    UBM … when are you sending in your application as the new Austrian translator? ROFLMAO!!!!! hahahahahahaha

  • termo

    That 3:00 AM Phone Call came to Obama but he had his telephone on “Do Not Disturb.”

    He sent an FBI Hostage negotiator as if it was a domestic dispute. Get used to it because this is how he is going to treat the war against radical Islam.

  • Ray,Calif

    Lucky for the President..this happened after the President gave the IPOD full of video….Some of this video would of been interesting on the queens IPOD??
    This is the first for a president? This ship was the first in 200 yrs to be hijacked??

  • sandi78

    She probably found the irony amusing. There she is with the Moroccan Foreign Minister when a question about piracy comes up. At least she replied and clearly knows what’s going on, unlike Obama. He’s still focused on the economy.

    As I posted on another thread, because this one wasn’t up yet, why did we send in the FBI and not the SEALS? This is showing Obama’s lack of resolve, lack of ability, or desire, to protect Americans, and general lack of backbone.

    We don’t know where the “mother ship” is? With all the satellite capability we have? Sink the damn thing.

  • beebop

    He’s looking more and more like Jimmy Carter every minute except he’s got mememememechelle wearing the sweaters in the family …. lol

  • I’mFedUp

    Well, hell hath frozen over. Grrrr…I’m choking…but for the first time in my adult life I have to agree with UBM. Sorry, but I saw the laughing video early this morning and I found it just about as bizarre as the Fraud on 60 Minutes giggling away about the economy. Come on, guys, fair IS fair.

  • Peggy Sue

    Another good one, beebop!

    And yes, I’m afraid 0bama is morphing into Carter, an updated version. One time on the Carter train was enough for me [and I voted for Jimmy].

  • Portia Elizabeth

    From your comment I see that you have a great deal of trouble accepting a woman with power. That must be a real problem for you, living in the 21st century as you must do. Fortunately for you, we women, in addition to our strengths, also possess a fair amount of tolerance.

    So carry on with your petty little rants. Amuse yourself.

  • beebop

    If 0bama is just HALF as bad as Jimmah, there won’t be another Dem in the WH during our lifetime. He is living up to everything this nation fears most in its leaders …. pandering to foreign interests and not standing up for America’s best and brightest. WTF were those young soldiers thinking in that photo op? Surely they knew that he couldn’t be bothered giving their wounded brothers and sisters the time of day in Germany …..

  • beebop

    Did it occur to you that her chuckle was in FRUSTRATION that her hands are tied and her statements are being parsed in the Nitwit House?

    From Reuters:

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama declined to answer reporters’ questions on Thursday on a hostage crisis off the coast of Somalia, where a U.S. ship captain is being held captive by pirates.

    Obama was asked to comment on the situation several times by reporters at a White House event on refinancing for homeowners. Obama, however, stuck closely to the script and replied that he wanted to remain focused on housing.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5383TQ20090409

  • I’mFedUp

    Portia…I hope you weren’t directing that comment at me. I’m a woman, and one who did way more than you did to help Hillary during the primary. Way more. I love women in power and support them all. But I don’t have blinders and I don’t subscribe to hero worship or monarchy. Hillary looked strange to me in that video laughing. Good God, we can’t even make honest assessments of situations without getting called woman haters? By the way, that video went viral and most people I know found is disconcerting, to say the least. Sorry I gave my honest thoughts, but it’s America (sort of).

  • Portia Elizabeth

    Totally agree. She was laughing at the absurdity of piracy being an issue in this century. And I hope they do find that “mother ship”.

  • WMCB

    No, she was laughing at the irony of being there with the Moroccan guy when this broke, since Morocco was the first country to recognize the USA and we and Morocco were the ones who first battled pirates way back when.

    See, laughter is appropriate when there is a logical reason for it other than your own discomfort at being asked a question, as in 0bama’s case.

  • I’mFedUp

    I understand the excuse for it…it just kind of made me feel creepy. Sorry, I’m allowed to not kiss Hillary’s feet all day. I love her, and I’m sad for what happened to her regarding her Presidency, but I can’t just STFU because of worship.

  • I’mFedUp

    By the way, we all WOULD have eviscerated the Fraud had he done the same thing. I know we would. So, like I said, let’s all call ‘em as we see ‘em.

  • Docelder

    It would be interesting to talk to that group of soldiers and find out what consternation went with the careful staging of them as backdrop scenery.

  • Portia Elizabeth

    No. Sorry, that was a response to UBM. He seems to work from a theme out of an antiquated playbook.
    I thought her chuckle at the end of the video was in response to the absurdity of piracy as even being an issue in 2009 since the Barbary pirates were 200 years ago.
    As far as doing way more for Hillary than me, I don’t understand why that is up for discussion since you don’t know me or how much or how little I did for her during her campaign. FYI: I donated the maximum allowed as well as making phone calls to other states on her behalf, writing letters to newpapers, calling into syndicated talk radio shows. An email I wrote to Greta von Susteren was published and received over 1000 replies. So please don’t get so huffy about your contributions because I’d bet the rent there are lots of people here who made contributions for Hillary Clinton.
    I’m not sure why you’re so quick to jump to the defensive, Fed Up. I have no quarrel with you or anyone else here, including people who disagree with me.

  • beebop

    Well, in Turkey a “newsreader” put on blackface ….

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5130328/Turkish-newsreader-blacked-up-face-during-Barack-Obama-visit.html

    Wonder what would have happened to that guy here? Oh. And the Huffypoop assures everyone that it was done in adulation ….

  • WMCB

    I am not going to kiss her feet, either. But I am going to give the benefit of the doubt to

    a) someone whose track record of deeds shows that she takes the problems of the American people very seriously, indeed

    b) someone who may have had a logical reason for laughing

  • I’mFedUp

    Sorry Portia, I took your response as being directed towards me. Sometimes if you make a moderately unflattering comment about Hillary here, even if it’s just honest, you get beat up. I didn’t mean to go on the defense. We all know that UBM stirs the pot. But, honestly, I did wake up this morning to a ton of emails about WTF that giggling was about? Perhaps it’s been misinterpreted. I just don’t find any humor these days in the situation we are in. I didn’t just make donations to Hillary, although I did that. I did something I thought was more meaningful and would expose the caucus fraud. Imagine my surprise when no one cared about it. We all did what we could, now it’s over and I hate what happened. The reason I mentioned it was that your post said something about not liking women in power. So I answered it.

  • I’mFedUp

    Well, maybe I’ve lost my golden sense of humor these days. I just didn’t think the situation was really that funny, and the lack of response from the Stoner in Chief is deplorable on top of it all.

  • http://thenewagenda.net/ Woman Voter

    If you note the comment before, it clearly shows that ‘Piracy’ was not given top priority, therefore, she is making the point, that here we are once again (irony and if you remember piracy was going on during the Bush Administration), at the starting point to address the now out of control problem of so many years ago.

    She also, pointed out that Morocco was one of the first countries to address it, and so she is now once again reaching out to those countries that are willing to address the terrorism that piracy is.

  • sandi78

    But the Fraud refused to comment at all. At least Hillary made a good comment, illustrating that she knows exactly what’s going on. I would have preferred that she hadn’t giggled, but as she was talking knowedgeably at the time, I’m more than willing to let it go. Obama wouldn’t even have known about history involved.

  • WMCB

    That’s okay. You’re entitled to feel that way. Unlike the purists on both sides of the aisle, I think it’s fine if you disagree.

  • Polly

    I am a Hillary supporter but I have to say that I found the laughter highly inappropriate. She made a mistake.

  • Portia Elizabeth

    I’m glad we cleared the air, Fed Up. You’re right about there not being much to laugh at these days with all the bad news. Working to expose caucus fraud was and IS a big deal! My godmother in Texas was intimidated and prevented from even entering the local caucus. She complained to anyone who’d listen, but Texas just seemed to let it go. I still burn when I think about it. Thank you for your efforts to reveal the lies. It might feel like they weren’t acknowledged, but people DO remember!

  • I’mFedUp

    I would have preferred that she hadn’t giggled,

    Exactly! No one is blaspheming Queen Hillary. Just pointing out that it sucked and was inappropriate in some of our eyes.

  • I’mFedUp

    Portia…My heart is still broken. We had NO idea that the people we were exposing the caucus fraud to, the DNC, were the ones perpetrating it. My country will never look the same to me. Never. I’ve been sad in my heart ever since. Yeah, yeah, now everyone get on the Bush bandwagon and say he cheated too. I didn’t work to get Bush elected, didn’t vote for him, and in my opinion this situation was soooo much worse. Like your godmother, Portia, I’m sure you know there were over 2,000 complaints in Texas alone of the same thuggery. And no one did a damned thing about it. Sigh. Even discussing it gets me really upset, to this day.

  • Hope Change and Unicorns

    Yes, watching the video again she is not Laughing because she is not taking it seriously. There is something we are not she knows that we don’t. Most likely about Obama being so paralyzed over what is after all a minor international incident that she could of handled.

  • Hope Change and Unicorns

    Sorry: “something she know that we don’t”

  • beebop

    Queen Hillary?

    You start to sound a little shrill imho. If you are lucky enough to share your home with a dog, take him or her for a walk, okay? It’s going to be a really inartful, awful four years with the boy king in DC. If you are looking for reasons to be angry, you’re blood pressure is never going to see you through it …. seriously.

  • Hope Change and Unicorns

    Hillary warned there’d be days like this

    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97EJ4S00&show_article=1

  • http://www.bestnewspolitics.com Jamie Holts

    I’ve been reading along for a while now. I just wanted to drop you a comment to say keep up the good work.

  • athena

    I love Hillary – I thought is was creepy too. But working for THAT ONE must be taking its’ toll. She must think – geez , so many idiots, so lil time. I can’t even imagine the amount of frustration as SEC OF STATE she must feel. His actions have been polar opposites to what she said she would have done during the campaign.

  • Hope Change and Unicorns

    Meanwhile in another part of Somalia

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025592.php

  • James Guglielmino

    No…No,you are talking about he LAST administration. You know, shrub Bush. Man, you could SEE the fake in the pictures we saw of HIM with the troops..No, I’m afraid those troops with Mr. Obama were doing it for real. Sorry.

  • Anon

    Nothing like a little gallows humor. Just stop with the Hillary love. She was so out of place chuckling while our country is under seige. I am so sick of the Hillary worship on this blog. She is as bad as the rest!

  • beebop

    According to an article which Google is reluctant to find for me, but which I read this morning, each soldier was asked if he voted for primma 0bamma. If he/she did, they made it to the stage and the area immediately in front of him. Also, if you take a look at those pictures, you might notice that all of the cameras being held by the human back drop look remarkably similar … hmmmmmmm. Shrub was the worst president ever until the incumbent. George is sitting there in Dallas counting on 0bama to work his magic on George’s history …. hahahahahaha

    Are you lost?

    Shouldn’t you be dispensing koolaid some where?

  • wodiej

    maybe someone farted or was picking their nose when they asked Hillary about this…well, you never know. At least she had something to say unlike fart in the wind Obama.

    So a troll shows up for this but not for Obama’s bow. Figures.

  • James Guglielmino

    Pardon me, may I cut in and make some attempt to drag you poor dears away from your pity party over Obama actually BEING the President for the next four and more likely, *eight* years, drag you away to discuss the issue of piracy????? (fucking morons)
    Had you noticed, for example, that Suppression of pirates is a duty imposed by the Constitution? Article I, Section 8, Clause 10. But, look at this: (from Suburban Guerrilla) http://susiemadrak.com/
    Rerun
    Apr 9th, 2009 at 11:23 am by Susie

    I linked to this back in January, but it seems like a good time for a rerun:

    Via Avedon, something I didn’t know:
    Now, if it IS the case that “civilized” nations have been dumping radioactive waste in Somalian waters, someone should be tied down and have *small* horses (so that they don’t pull too hard) tied to each appendage with food just a foot or soooo too far away. In short, if this is real, I am, once again, appalled and dismayed.

  • beebop

    Is your resume with UBM’s for the open position of Austrian interpreter?

    I can’t imagine how embarrassed you must be. Fortunately those of us with no expectations for his residency understand the not-so-subtle North Korean signal and the “christening” today by Iran of a new new nuclear site? I was just thinking this morning that he might be the first (and hopefully last) American (P)resident to become a lame duck within his first 12 months. As soon as we all realize how irrelevant he truly is, things will turn around in our economy.

  • beebop

    Interesting the way you parsed this …

    One thought that I had was maybe 0bama needed to pass wind and was trying to get his buttocks as far away from the King’s sensitive nostrils as possible? :) Just a thought.

  • Ani

    After watching the video, no worship involved, I can see how you might have taken it that she was laughing at the situation. But truly, I think this was a frustrated and ironic reaction to the fact that we are still dealing with piracy — which is why she mentioned that we were working with Morocco to end piracy “all those years ago.”

    I have never seen Hillary take anything as a laughing matter so I have to give her the benefit of the doubt.

  • maddie

    Many are still working within the system in Texas to try to get rid of the so called Texas Two-Step.

  • Boxer Mum 06

    This is a bit OT – but as the Obama reign continues, it’s one of the many things bugging me lately.

    What is with the obession with Michelle Obama’s wardrobe? I don’t remember anyone drooling over Hillary or Laura Bush’s clothes. What brands did Hillary wear as First Lady? Did Chelsea wear J. Crew, maybe The Limited?

    I want to know .. does Michelle own stock in J. Crew – is she paid to wear their clothes? Why put so much focus on naming the brand?

    Today, I received an e-mail from Talbots .. nope, it wasn’t to advertise a sale .. it was to promote that Michelle has changed labels! She is sporting a Talbots dress in her photo shoot that will be included in the Essence magazine story about her and her mom that is coming out soon.

    Is her platform as First Lady to pimp clothes? Is she making $$ off of this?

    Here’s the link to their site.. they are using this to sell this ugly blue flowery dress.

    http://www1.talbots.com/callouts/Michelle_Obama_dress/index.asp?BID=S2009097102655F96D2D764ABD425BB6FD6E&h=M&sk=M

  • Peggy Sue

    Queen Hillary??

    Oh no, we aren’t doing a condescending sidewalk here. Just being honest. Just throwing little bunny shots whenever we can. Please!

    Was the laugh appropriate? Probably not, particularly for the family. And I bet Hillary regretted that laugh immediately.

    But I’ll take HRC over any of these lame politicians. No one here worships Hillary Clinton. We respect and admire her.

    There’s a difference, a huge difference.

  • Boxer Mum 06

    I haven’t watched the video but could her laughter be b/c she is the one fielding and answering the questions that Obama should be?

    Is she laughing b/c she realizes this is the 3am call she warned us about?

    Is she laughing b/c she lost the Presidency but is handling the situation the President should be?

    Agreed, it’s in poor taste for the laughter but who knows the motive.

  • candymarl

    I hate to say it but I agree. In a hostage situation laughing is not appropriate no matter the irony.

    Has Hillary drunk the koolaide? Lie down with dogs and you get up with fleas.

  • I’mFedUp

    Good Lord lighten up people. Like I said, one comment about Hillary and the place goes up in flames. It was one comment that a lot of people found the giggling odd and inappropriate. Period. I too would take Hillary over the Fraud. Duh. At this point I would take my frigging dog over the Fraud. Just because I didn’t go along with excusing the giggling, how does that translate to I don’t respect her? Wow, so we can’t be objective about our politicians, regardless of who they are?

  • Peggy Sue

    There could be a variety of explanations or no explanation, Boxer Mum. I don’t think the laugh was appropriate for the situation, but I also don’t want to list excuses for it–too 0bamatron-like.

    I guess the difference here is that I trust Hillary Clinton [over 0bama and many others] and have always sensed her heart and mind are in the right place.

  • I’mFedUp

    Thank you. It was “creepy.” Period. I don’t care why she did it, it gave me the chills. Let’s don’t make one observation become an alleged Hillary bashing festivity. Christ.

  • Karma

    To be fair, I haven’t seen it since a glimpse this morning.

    But it looked to me that she laughed at them running out of gas. And how ridiculous that is while in sight of the US Navy.

    Not that she laughed at the hijacking or his kidnapping….but the gas part while attempting a crime that requires a get-away. These clowns would be featured on a stupid criminals segment in the US if they tried to rob a bank and ran out of gas with a hostage. The gang that couldn’t escape….instead of the gang that couldn’t shoot straight.

    In my opinion, Obama uses his laugh entirely differently than Hillary does. That 60 Minutes thing was weird, fake, and shortly after people, including Pres Clinton, suggested that Obama stop the doom-and-gloom talk on the economy.

    Then Obama comes out like a giggling fool while millions of people are losing their jobs, 401ks, and houses…victims of the economy.

    Compared to laughing at the bungling pirates who have a hero captain that gave himself up for a hostage exchange after the crew took back the ship.

    Apples and oranges……apples and oranges….on where those laughs fell.

  • decentAmerican

    Another day, another disgusting episode with the Usurper. At a press conference, the Usurper refuses to comment on the Somalia piracy. How stupid is this? what an outrage! How can he not comment on such an important issue? Hillary and Kerry have commented on it, why won’t he?

    It goes without saying, he probably does not want to offend Africans. He is African, he was born there, these are his people. Much like how he bows before the Saudi king, like only Saudi subjects do.

    This is an outrage. American lives and safety are at stake. This man hates America, hates Americans, goes around Europe apologizing, calling us “arrogant”, saying that we are not Christian. How much more of this do we have to take? How many American lives does he have to put at risk?????

  • beebop

    Here is the statement today from Reuters that explains the 0bama silence on the piracy issue:

    From Reuters:

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama declined to answer reporters’ questions on Thursday on a hostage crisis off the coast of Somalia, where a U.S. ship captain is being held captive by pirates.

    Obama was asked to comment on the situation several times by reporters at a White House event on refinancing for homeowners. Obama, however, stuck closely to the script and replied that he wanted to remain focused on housing.(emphasis mine)

    http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5383TQ20090409

    Does anyone here need a reminder of the rude comments made by the current press secretary when John McCain flew back to DC and suspended his campaign to deal with the crisis of the economy — threatening not to attend the last debate?

    UPDATE: An adviser Barack Obama says he expects John McCain to attend:

    “I actually think he’s going to come to the debate,” the adviser, Robert Gibbs, told reporters in Washington on Thursday.
    And echoing a talking point that Senator Obama used in his press conference on Thursday, Mr. Gibbs added: “I think he will decide that a president is capable of doing more than one thing at a time.” (emphasis mine)

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/25/obama-will-make-debate-a_n_129250.html

    Anyone else here see the irony?

  • Karma

    Reading some of the comments and finally viewing the upbove….it might be best to clarify what video.

    The Fox video I saw was with her seated at a table asking the Admiral if the US ship was there.

  • Docelder

    You know what else, had McCain stuck to his guns the talk the day after the non-existent debate would have shifted away from there not being a debate and on to McCain trying to fix things and Obama wanting to continue to campaign. I also see irony in that, because, to this day Obama is still out there campaigning.

  • Tuppence411

    “To the shores of Tripoli” Hello? Barbary Wars. We kicked pirate ass two friggin’ centuries ago! It is rather ludacris and ironic to be talking about it with Morocco again in 2009.

    Trivia- Marines are nickednamed Leathernecks because their uniforms had high leather collars to protect them from slashing pirate swords!!

  • beebop

    goes around Europe apologizing, calling us “arrogant”, saying that we are not Christian.

    If you want any greater indication that he isn’t familiar enough with American, those two points couldn’t be clearer. He knows nothing about the history and tradition of this nation. He wasn’t interested in visiting the cemetery at Normandy to pay his respects to those who lost their lives in the struggle to free Europe. He is an embarrassment to America. A complete and total embarrassment. No one has ever lived in the White House who has benefitted more from the “American Dream” and honors it less than this fool.

  • Ellen D

    That’s “ludicrous”. Ludacris is an entertainer.

  • Ferd Berfle

    No one has ever lived in the White House who has benefitted more from the “American Dream” and honors it less than this fool.

    That’s because he has grown up with an expectation that because of the his outward appearance, he would be handed everything rather than actually work for it and learn along the way. Unfortunately, he isn’t alone.

    To those who have been handed much, little is expected.

  • Elizabeth

    I am a huge fan as well, and this hasn’t altered my fundamental opinion of her performance. But some people apparently do enjoy selective memory here. Hillary DID indeed use a full throated laugh, giggle, cackle (per the sexists…) as a strategy during some of the campaign’s toughest questions or comments. Whether to soften her image or out of pure exhaustion and strife at the toll it was all taking…She’s human after all. :)

    The episode which comes to mind immediately was this rather odd encounter on Face the Nation:

    Bob Schieffer on the CBS News program “Face the Nation” said to Mrs. Clinton, “You rolled out your new health care plan, something Republicans immediately said is going to lead to socialized medicine.” For whatever reason, that set it off. She giggled and giggled until she couldn’t stop “Sorry, Bob,” she said, bursting into another round of uncontrolled chuckles.

  • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

    Some specially trained FBI agents are actually VERY skilled in dealing with terrorists. Look up “Dan Coleman” — Jane Mayer has written a lot about him in the New Yorker and in her book, as did Lawrence Wright in his Pulitzer-winning “The Looming Tower.” Special Agent Coleman developed a rapport with the terrorists who engineered the embassy bombings — including assuring them of their right to counsel at any time — and got them to open up simply by being decent (and clever) with them. Life sentences were secured against all of the cooperating terrorists. Coleman’s method won the day.

    In Wright’s book, there’s also a remarkable chapter about the agents who sent to investigate the Kobar Towers bombing. A great young agent, fluent in Arabic, saves the day in a dramatic tense scene on a tarmac, I think in Yemen (would have to look it up).

  • Ferd Berfle

    Wow, you are one assimilated jib-flapper. Was stupidity thrust upon you by mere chance, were you born to it, or did you actually work at it? I think the latter. You are certainly on overdrive with your crock of unmitigated manure.

  • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

    We don’t know who all are on board the Navy vessel. There very well could be some SEALs. And I doubt they’d broadcast that fact.

  • Ferd Berfle

    The military is not always the best choice, termo, irrespective of your opinion. Not everything is a nail which needs a hammer.

  • Ferd Berfle

    You haven’t grown any in your absence, troll, and the dreck you post is still as banal.

    There are a couple of favors you can do for all us, though:

    1. Go away and
    2. Stay away.

    Your presence is not needed and your comments, officious.

    Don’t let the door hit you in your considerable can on the way out, chump.

  • Ferd Berfle

    If President Obama laughed while discussing such a serious subjects, you lot would be sputtering furious denunciations.

    He already did, dimbulb. But you, in your self-induced, mesmerized state, didn’t catch it and even if you did you would never admit it because you, like him, are in love with yourself and the look and sound of your own twaddle posing as sophisticated banter. Your work is to the arts as KFC is to chicken and MTV and rap are to music.

    That being the case, get yourself an f-ing hotel room and be alone with yourself. We could use a lifetime without your manure.

  • Ferd Berfle

    This is the only time I will defend Carter–I served in the Army under both Ford and Carter. Carter had a better Secretary of Defense as compared to that blithering idiot Rumsfeld under Ford. An empty chair would have been better than Rummy. He sucked then, sucked under Shrub and continues to suck to this day even as a private citizen.

  • I’mFedUp

    Isn’t MeChelle that a bitch…the people who got handed the White House, having never achieved anything particularly remarkable, are the two scumbags who piss on, and shame, America the most.

  • beebop

    I don’t know whether Ford ever aspired to the job, but Carter did. The frustration of watching someone so inept during the hostage crisis is the only reason that so many rooted for Ross Perot. And for RR. Weak, ineffective leaders have rendered this nation powerless at some of the most critical junctures. Say what you will about Jerry, at least we didn’t see it all fall apart when Tricky walked into history ….

  • Ferd Berfle

    I liked Ford and voted for him–don’t get me wrong. He was a good man. He just had no ability to pick people. Cheney was his Chief of Staff and Rummy was Defense Secretary.

    Harold Brown was much better at Defense.

  • beebop

    I confess to being a “democrat” first, last and always at the time. If it didn’t have a D behind its name, I couldn’t have cared less. I guess 0bama has done some good … albeit unintentionally!

  • Ferd Berfle

    I agree. They’re barely qualified to be considered living organisms.

  • Ferd Berfle

    I confess to being a “democrat” first, last and always at the time.

    I was, too, after 1976. But, as with you, the wordy gaseous off-gassing one put me off the Democratic Party for good.

  • b mathews

    anyone notice that every time 0bama and his minions are asked a question they dont want to answer they call it a “distraction”? 0 used this phrase during the primaries and the election, whenever someone brought up anything disparaging (like the truth) about him. so pirates attacking american ships is a distraction? he says he needs to focus on the ecomomy? then stop flying around the world with 500 lackeys (and not one of them had the intelligence to tell him that the POS does NOT bow down to anyone) and stay home and do some real work for a “change”

  • http://noquarter foxyladi14

    AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Prem

    Hillary’s laughter in that video is a reflection of the irony taking place. The fact that Morocco and the US came together to get rid of piracy 200 years ago and did successfully get rid of it, and here she is again, in Morocco, asking for help to end the piracy. The irony is not lost on her or the Moroccan Foreign Minister.

    It is ridiculous with all of our modern military equipment, technology, etc. that we are still dealing with and plagued with piracy in this so-called modern era.

    Her laughter was not inappropriate and she completely recognizes the seriousness of the situation and the continuing piracy problem.

  • Bogart

    Why is she giggling? It’s obvious that Hillary has just finished smoking some excellent kif—courtesy of the Foreign Minister. Check it out–that fat bastard is grinning like a stoned pasha entering a harem.

  • elise

    I thought he said he could “multi-task”, but he wants to focus on housing? How does he get by with this stuff?

  • elise

    The Hillary love will never stop, Anon, because she’s not like the rest. She works her ass off just like she has all her life, for us.

  • elise

    I couldn’t get this video to play, but I saw one earlier and I suppose it’s in the eye of the beholder because it appeared to me she was laughing at the irony and every thing she said was thoughtful and clear. I know every time some criticism of Hillary comes up, while I’m not doubting your sincerity in your support of her, you are pretty consistently negative, I’mFedUp. You’ll see it your way and I’ll see it mine. I read she began to contact people as soon as she got the news which is what I would expect her to do.

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