Category: National Security
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Aug 31, 2009 in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Bush/Cheney, Civil Liberties, Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs, Energy Policy Act of 2005, FISA, Flip Flopping, Homeland Security, National Security, TOTUS, U.S. Constitution | 32 Comments
After seeing this article the other day, Bush’s Search Policy For Travelers Is Kept; Obama Officials Say Oversight Will Grow, I felt compelled to share some helpful suggestions when you are traveling into the USA: carry some change to make phone calls, bring some paper and a pen to be able to write a letters/documents, [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Aug 30, 2009 in Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress (House & Senate), Crime, Current Affairs, Cyber Attacks, Flip Flopping, Freedom of Speech, Homeland Security, National Security, President Barack Obama | 47 Comments
When I saw this at The Onion, I thought this was mighty plausible. Make sure you read the crawl at the bottom - even as a die-hard Yankees fan, I thought the first one was funny:
White House Reveals Obama Is Bipolar, Has Entered Depressive Phase
See?? Doesn’t that make everything make more sense? [...]
By Pat Racimora on Aug 4, 2009 in Joe Biden, National Security, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President | 39 Comments
It’s time to slap an official seal on our Vice President’s yapper. This otherwise likeable guy is also a one-man blooper extravaganza.
Now he’s done it again. But this time it isn’t as laughoffable as asking a man in the wheelchair to stand up and take a bow. Or as whacky as telling [...]
By John Batchelor on Jun 2, 2009 in Kim Jong Il, National Defense, National Security, North Korea | 9 Comments
From my blog for the John Batchelor Show.
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SecDef Robert Gates spoke unusually at Singapore this news cycle when he declared that the Kim regime was not acceptable as a nuclear power.
By John Batchelor on Apr 22, 2009 in House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Intelligence, Jane Harman, National Security, Obama Administration | 13 Comments
Jane Harman hits back with a sweeping, supple victim’s style in a star-turn appearance with Andrea Mitchell re the surprise smear of the California potentate as a Zionist tool.
Shrewdly, Jane Harman’s counter strike on TV is not about the dull facts of the Bush administration case against AIPAC ops, which is likely to be dropped [...]
By Patrick L. Lang on Apr 21, 2009 in AIPAC, Intelligence, Israel, National Security, Rod Blagojevich | 16 Comments
(Editor’s Note: Stay tuned for Part II later this evening.)
CQ Politics:
"Rep. Jane Harman, the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 13, 2009 in Commander in Chief, Larry Johnson, National Security, Piracy, President Barack Obama, Somalia | 60 Comments
(bumped up from afternoon)
For today’s A.P. story, “Obama draws praise, but piracy escalation feared,” Larry Johnson was telephoned and interviewed extensively by London-based A.P. reporter Gregory Katz:
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Some military strategists believe it may ultimately be necessary to attack the pirates’ base in Somalia, much as the British used to do two centuries ago. But few have [...]
By Philip Giraldi on Apr 13, 2009 in 9/11, Al Qaeda, Bill of Rights, CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, National Security, Obama's Broken Promises, Patriotism, President Barack Obama, Terrorism, Torture, U.S. Constitution, Unitary Executive Powers/Signing Statements | 102 Comments
(Susan’s April 13th Note: I AM PISSED OFF. This essay is bumped up because, dammit, I need to restore my FOCUS on the ELEPHANTS in the room! While it’s fascinating to debate the pirate crisis, it is foremost VITAL to focus on the dangerous stories such as Obama’s power-hungry expansion of executive authority, known in [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 8, 2009 in Bill of Rights, Current Affairs, National Security, U.S. Constitution | 76 Comments
You’ve read Philip Giraldi’s and my piece, “Goodbye, Bill of Rights,” with a very unhappy Keith Olbermann interviewing a shocked Howard Fineman. Now, constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley puts it even more bluntly:
Honestly, I’m getting tired of saying, “We told you so.” There are people who can be so easily deluded by a [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 8, 2009 in China, Current Affairs, Infrastructure, Iran, Joe "Bro" Biden, Joe Biden, National Security, Nuclear weapons, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Terrorism | 41 Comments
Uh oh. Someone let go of the leash. God bless you if you can make it through all 23 minutes of Wolf Blitzer’s and Gloria Borger’s interview of Vice President Joe Biden on CNN. I couldn’t stomach it. But the take-away sound bite left my jaw on the floor. You NEVER [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 6, 2009 in Iraq, NATO, Obama's Broken Promises, President Barack Obama, Turkey | 34 Comments
Thousands of protestors (Press TV) are filling the streets across Turkey to protest President Obama’s visit to the NATO ally. Irag is a primary reason — as you’ll see in the video below — as is NATO:
[T]he streets were littered with anti-NATO and anti-Obama fliers. “Leave NATO — get rid of the gladiators,” [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 4, 2009 in Current Affairs, NATO, President Barack Obama, Qualifications | 42 Comments
Someone’s lack of qualifications and substantive experience is showing — SEE Ambassador Joseph Wilson in Update #2 — and someone is depicting us United States citizens as beggars grateful for insultingly thin gruel while someone (that’d be President Barack Obama [PBO]) is being “played” by leaders of fellow NATO nations who know they can [...]
By SusanUnPC on Feb 17, 2009 in Andrea Mitchell, China, Japan, Media, Television, National Security, North Korea, Rachel Maddow, Russia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, State Department, World News | 53 Comments
You emote. You rant. You scream. You inhale. You reflect? No … you rant.
And now, CLASS: Please compare, and contrast, these two examples of television journalism:
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By SusanUnPC on Jan 13, 2009 in Admiral Denis Blair, CIA, Intelligence, National Security, Obama Administration | 20 Comments
i found this discussion on Charlie Rose, on Friday night, especially helpful in understanding the dynamics of the imposition of a “parent” national intelligence director over the CIA and other intelligence agencies, as well as the reasoning behind Obama’s selections of former Clinton chief of staff Leon Panetta to head the CIA and retired Admiral [...]
By Larry Johnson on Nov 14, 2008 in Barack Obama, CIA, Commander in Chief, Counterterrorism, Current Affairs, George Bush, India, Iraq, Jihadists, John Brennan, National Defense, National Security, Pakistan, State Department | 207 Comments
(Bumped up from yesterday by Bronwyn’s Harbor. Hey, Josh Marshall, since you’re not content being a leading liberal blog owner so now you’re hangin’ with all of Barack Obama’s friends like Bernardine Dohrn — and we dig it because, well, you were never the cool kid in class, but now you see a chance, and [...]
By RobWarrior on Nov 7, 2008 in 1st Amendment, Backtrack Obama, Barack Obama, Crime, Cultist Thugs, Current Affairs, Cyber Attacks, Lobbyists, National Defense, National Security, NoQuarter Radio | 96 Comments
[Ed.: If you missed it, you must listen to Nocturnal Warrior's Post-Election Special on November 5th -- the opening skit is a HOWLER! You can also catch all of Nocturnal Warrior's great archives at BlogTalkRadio.com.]
Don’t think for a moment that just because the election is over, that President-elect Obama’s Kool-Aid drunk hordes of internet [...]
By Larry Johnson on Nov 5, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Chicago politics, Colin Powell, Current Affairs, Dick Cheney, George Bush, John Kerry, National Security, Obama Administration, State Department | 90 Comments
(bumped up by NoQuarter)
Barack Obama’s mantra of change sounds eloquent on the campaign trail, but as we have pointed out repeatedly there is an enormous gulf between what he says and what he does. It is one thing, for example, to tout womens’ rights. But those exhortations ring hollow when we learn that [...]
By LisaB on Nov 5, 2008 in Barack Obama, Campaign promises, Chicago politics, Civil Rights, Current Affairs, Cyber Attacks, Democratic Party, Emil Jones, Equal Pay, Gender Bias, General Election, Iraq, Jesse Jackson Jr., Media Bias, Misogyny, NATO, National Security, Qualifications, Race, Race Card, Russia, Sexism, Soldiers/Veterans | 121 Comments
Well, the election is over and we all need to figure out next steps. However, while we indulge in mulling, there’s stuff going on. Do you know where one of the “front lines” is in international war / finance / fraud? Computers. At least Obama now knows this first hand. [...]
By Bronwyn's Harbor on Nov 1, 2008 in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Foreign Policy, John McCain, National Defense, National Security, Qualifications | 99 Comments
We are facing the prospect of a naive and relatively uninformed young president whose world view has been largely formed by the far-left anti-American radicals he’s chosen as some of his closest friends for decades.
We are facing the risk of a president so little traveled that he had to make a whirlwind tour of Europe [...]
By Steve Diamond on Oct 31, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Chicago politics, Colombia, Foreign Policy, Hugo Chavez, Joe Biden, National Security, Racism, Rashid Khalidi, Weather Underground, William Ayers, Woods Fund | 143 Comments
Update note by editor: Steve Diamond is a professor of law and expert in global economics. His blog is “Global Labor and Politics.”
Just when you had wished you had indeed heard the last of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, it turns out they are publishing a new manifesto described in brief on Amazon.com.
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By Sarah Palin (Release date: November 17. 2009)
