Feinstein, Democrats Putting Petty Politics above National Security

 

Michael Rubin  "During the Bush administration and in the wake of 9/11, CIA interrogation policy and extraordinary rendition became a lightning rod for controversy (never mind that the Clinton administration had also embraced rendition). In short, terror suspects were often snatched and transferred for interrogation to other countries, some of which allegedly engage in torture. Senate Democrats launched an investigation, and Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, planned to release the report this week." ...
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"Don’t like CIA methods and extraordinary rendition? By all means, use all legislative and oversight power to put an end to it. But don’t drag allies into a political debate or air dirty laundry publicly. Don’t damage relations. Trust is at the heart of alliances, and once destroyed, it will never be rebuilt. Let us never punish allies and their leaders for standing by America when the request comes, no matter what politicians may, in hindsight, think of that request."

Americans Working Overseas Brace For Release of Democrats' CIA Enhanced Interrogation Report  "Americans and CIA operatives working on counter terrorism operations around the world are bracing this morning ahead of the release of a report produced by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques to gather intelligence after 9/11/2001. " ...
..."Meanwhile President George W. Bush, who has made it a point to stay out of the current public debate on a number of issues, is standing by the men and women working in the CIA to keep Americans safe from terror."
 

Releasing the Feinstein report on the CIA in the middle of a war would be an act of exceptional recklessness  ... " At the CIA, these concerns are not hypothetical. “I know the Predator program intimately,” a former senior intelligence officer told me. “There have been hundreds and hundreds of Predator shots, the most carefully targeted in the history of warfare, but not 100 percent right. What if the next president, [say] Rand Paul or Elizabeth Warren, comes after people involved in this program?' ”...

...“If you have to worry about a new administration coming along 10 years down the road,” the intelligence officer told me, “making villains out of agency officials following the exact letter of the law, it is sobering. We think about that all the time.'”

Mr. Holder, here is some of that "conversation" on racism you said you wanted

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 

Who Is to Blame for How Black Males Are Viewed by Others?  "The meme that Mr. Smiley and other prominent black Americans keep repeating is that police officers have such a negative view of black males (which Smiley and others attribute to racism) that they place less value on their (black males’) lives.  That in turn causes the police officers to set out from the get-go to shoot to kill.

 

"Now, there is no evidence that supports that claim.  However if that is the case, how did the police officers come to view black males so negatively in the first place?" ...

 

Rowdy white protesters in Portland instruct articulate and polite black man on oppression  ..."Last week, I highlighted a video (embedded below) of a female UCLA student instructing an older black cop from the Deep South that he failed to understand racism.  Today, courtesy of Laughing at Liberals and Gateway Pundit, we have the following video, in which a highly civil and articulate black male in Portland, Oregon attempts to get a group of rowdy, seemingly drunk white protesters to stop chanting “f**k the police!” and is rewarded with similar condescension."...
 

Victor Davis Hanson: Lying for the Cause ; If myths do more for social progress than facts — then why worry?

 

... "From the details of Rigoberta Menchú’s memoir, to Tawana Brawley’s supposed rape, to the O. J. “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit” myth, to the open-and-shut case of the hate-crime crucifixion of Matthew Shepard by savage homophobes, to Dan Rather’s fake but accurate National Guard memo, to the Duke lacrosse team’s supposed racist raping, to Barack Obama’s autobiographic interludes with his girlfriend, to Scott Beauchamp’s “true” stories of American military atrocities in Iraq, to Lena Dunham’s purported right-wing sexual assaulter at Oberlin College (home of the 2013 epidemic of pseudo-racist graffiti), to the pack of University of Virginia fraternity rapists on the loose, to “Hands up, don’t shoot,” we have come to appreciate that facts and truth are not that important, if myths can better serve social progress or the careers of those on the correct side of history." ...

 

Andrew C. McCarthy: What’s Really Going on with Holder’s Civil-Rights Crusade against Police Departments  ... "Here is how the game works. Holder streams in behind a tragedy that Sharpton and Obama have demagogued. He announces a civil-rights investigation. Eventually, he backs down from the threat of an indictment in the individual case, never conceding that the supporting evidence was not there, usually citing some strawman injustice that has nothing to do with the matter at hand — in Florida, for example, it was “stand your ground” gun laws that purportedly needed reforming. But, the attorney general is pleased to add, the original civil-rights probe of the non-crime has metastasized into a thoroughgoing civil-rights probe of the state or local police department’s training, practices, and . . . drumroll . . . institutional racism." ...

 

Can't this nation find better people to govern us than these?

Krauthammer’s Take: Senate ‘Torture Report’ Will Alienate Much-Needed Allies

NRO Staff
 

 

"The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the enhanced interrogation techniques used against terrorists following the September 11 attacks in 2001 — the so-called “torture report” — is expected to be released on Tuesday, and it will have serious effects on American security, says Charles Krauthammer.

“ 'What intelligence service abroad is going to help us when they are going to be exposed and pilloried around the world?” Krauthammer asked. “We’re going to lose all [of our human intelligence]. We’re not going to have any allies around the world. And because we have so little human intelligence, as a result of a drone program that kills our enemy and never captures him — nobody’s gone to Guantanamo in the six years of the Obama administration — we rely on the eyes or ears of other allies.”

“ 'Who are going to help us after this? Nobody.”

Well, now we will have the national security the left has always longed for.  TD

Obama And Global Warmists Strategize On Ways To Inject “Climate Change” Propaganda Views Into Public Schools…

Weasel Zippers

 

"Including one of the people responsible for Common Core."

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new presidential initiative will target students and teachers in an effort to sell global warming to the next generation.
President Barack Obama is gathering educators, government officials, nonprofit leaders and others at the White House on Wednesday to strategize about the best ways to spread the administration’s views on climate change to public school students specifically, and the public in general, according to U.S. News and World Report.
The initiative coincides with the implementation of new “Next Generation Science Standards,” which “place an increased emphasis” on climate change and evolution. Those new standards “were developed by a group of national science and education organizations – including one also involved in developing the Common Core …,” the news site reports.
“Under President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, important steps have already been taken to cut carbon pollution, prepare for the impacts of climate change and lead international efforts to fight this global challenge,” according to a White House fact sheet.

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"Forgive Me (Founding) Fathers, For I Have Signed". Hope n' Change blogger signs up for Obamacare

Stilton Jarlsberg

"Although the road to Hell is sometimes paved with good intentions, it's even more frequently paved with unavoidable government regulations. And that's the road the Jarlsberg family just reluctantly traveled down (and down and down) to get our shiny new Obamacare policy.

"As a point of principle, I didn't want to change my existing health insurance policy - but the Obamacare demons didn't give me much of a choice. Not only was the price raised another $4000 for next year (raising my premiums to around $21k), but to "provide affordable services for everyone" per ACA requirements, my insurer declared that my policy would no longer cover my rectal regions owing to some benign polyps found a decade ago.

 " ... So I had no choice but to get a new Obamacare policy. Gulp..." 
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"Do I really have insurance now, or are the errors just out of my sight (and control) now? How much other damage is being done by this bureaucracy and bungled computer programming? And if I'm ever in a strange emergency room, will I bleed out while doctors try to make sense of a blank PDF ostensibly containing my critical government medical records?"
 Full article here.

 

Ripples of Ferguson

Victor Davis Hanson

"... "So another unspoken lesson from Ferguson may be that unarmed assailants such as Brown — or Trayvon Martin — can, just as armed suspects, pose as great challenges to those who confront them, in the sense that being assaulted by them might now be seen as preferable to using a firearm in self-defense, with the subsequent ruin that follows.
 

"Note further that the community of Ferguson dissenters was not much worried that strong-armed robbery occurred, or that a town cannot long exist with youths walking in the middle of the street under the influence or assaulting police officers, or disobeying orders to cease and desist, or postfacto rioting and looting as much as the fact that in the shoot-out, a white policeman shot a black unarmed assailant.  That fact, too, will be silently noted."
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"Note well that last week a Bosnian immigrant was beaten to death by young African-American and Latino teens. Other such black-on-white cases are said to have preceded and followed the murder.  The usual official bureaucratese followed the shooting: that such targeted violence had nothing to do with race, that it could not be a hate crime, and that it was not associated with Ferguson, etc. Was there rioting or a Justice investigation over the unwillingness of authorities to cite this as a hate crime? Certainly, two messages were implicit about the killing of Zemir Begic: had he been African-American and his assailants white, Ferguson-like violence may well have followed; and had he had a gun and shot his hammer-welding attackers, he might well have found as bleak a future as did George Zimmerman or Darren Wilson for shooting and killing an attacker who did not wield a firearm."  Emphasis mine, TD

http://rabidrepublicanblog.com/

BREAKING: Muslim Navy Engineer Busted Red-Handed in Major Act of Treason

I smell a profiling suit coming down the pike.

Fox News headline: Saudi-born US naval engineer allegedly gave undercover agent info on how to sink carrier

Breitbart: FBI Arrest Saudi-Born Navyman for Sharing Tips on Blowing Up Aircraft Carrier

Stars and Stripes: Feds: Navy engineer tried to steal schematics for new carrier class
... "In August, Awwad was issued a security clearance that gave him access to classified information, which includes naval nuclear propulsion information.

"The nuclear power systems onboard aircraft carriers are considered among the most closely guarded sections of the ship. Awwad had access to information concerning the design, development, maintenance and repair of propulsion plants onboard nuclear-powered ships, the affidavit says." ...

Conservative Tribune  "A foreign-born man was just caught in a blatant act of treason.

"To make the incident even more alarming, the crime involves one of America’s most powerful nuclear vessels.

"Mostafa Ahmed Awwad is from Saudi Arabia.

"I'll call you later. I'm knda tied up right now."

 

"However, he was able to gain U.S. citizenship after he married an American woman in Egypt.

"According to the Navy Times, Awwad was arrested on Friday during an undercover FBI operation.

"His alleged crime is severe.

"Awwad has been accused of attempting to sell technical details of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the Egyptian government.

"Mostafa Awwad was able to access those technical plans through his job as a civilian engineer working on the USS Gerald R. Ford.

"That ship is currently under construction and is slated to be one of the lead “supercarriers” using new technology in the U.S. Navy’s modern fleet." ..   More...
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 Muslim Naval Engineer Caught Trying To Give Egypt Schematics Of Advanced Aircraft Carrier  "Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, a 35 year-old Naval civilian engineer from Yorktown, Va., was apprehended after he gave computer drawings of the USS Gerald R. Ford to an FBI agent posing as an Egyptian intelligence officer, and even discussed where to shoot the vessel in order to sink it."

Diversity and multi-culti today - even down under

‘Diversity’, the New Age Religion  "Leftoids obsessed with cultural relativism are deliberately obscuring the Mohammedan invasion with euphemistic blather about ‘diversity’,  ‘ethnicity’ and culture’.  Their morally bankrupt  shrieks of ‘racism’, which blames irritated Aussies for not being nice enough to unassimilable, belligerent Muselmaniacs, are beginning to sound like a broken record."

"Victoria, Australia: Study on “Cultural Diversity” Fudges Difference Between Race and Ideology, Tut-Tuts Because Some People Are Leery of Muslims " 

 

 

Whose Country?  ... " His account is a reminder that although Cultural Enrichment is most pernicious when the enrichers are Muslims, mass immigration to Western countries from any part of the Third World is not something to be desired. Replacing native Europeans with Sikhs, Hindus, Taoists, or animists from Uganda may bring on cultural death more slowly, but it is cultural death nonetheless" ...  From Gates of Vienna*

At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe.
We are in a new phase of a very old war.

 

 Why the name Gates of Vienna?

Evolution of the American Left

Hat tip to Randall Busbea

 

SNL does remarkable imitation of Al Sharpton

Hot Air  "It’s good to see that the ongoing protests and riots are at least helping somebody. Saturday Night Live apparently reached the point where even they couldn’t take any more of Al Sharpton’s endless appearances at rallies around the nation this weekend and set their own version of him up for an interview."

 

"This was interesting timing, since Sharpton has been coming under increasing scrutiny lately. His appearances in both Ferguson and Staten Island have had some conservative commenters wondering if he’s not actually adding to or inciting the violence we’re seeing. For at least some, this is reminiscent of another tragic story which took place in the early 90s during the Crown Heights riots. The fact that Sharpton played a role in that tragedy is not a matter of debate, and one which Sharpton admits without ever actually offering an apology, as described in this 2011 account."...  More here

Profiling guidelines to be unveiled by the Obama administration

Politico  "The Obama administration will Monday unveil its long-anticipated updates to its guidelines on racial profiling, tightening limits on the practice but still allowing federal law enforcement agencies to employ it at airports and along the border.

"The new rules replace guidelines created by the Bush administration in 2003, which banned racial profiling for federal law enforcement, but included broad exemptions for national security and border security. The Bush rules applied only to race, but the new policy also bans profiling on the basis of religion, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identification." ... Read more:

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Replacing the ACA: What Women Want

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 

By Grace-Marie Turner at The Galen Institute  "Americans are angry about the manifest failure of Obamacare. Many have felt the impact directly, from the millions who lost their health plans after being promised they could keep them, to those facing sky-high deductibles and premiums, to those — including some in the midst of cancer treatments — who are losing access to their family doctors.

"But at the same time, Americans want insurance that is secure and covers treatments they need. They want the uninsured and those with preexisting conditions to have access to coverage, and they know costs are rising dramatically. They know a safety net is needed for those who lose coverage, particularly those undergoing treatments for serious diseases."...