Why is the State Department getting an UndyBomber pass?
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As I mentioned yesterday, my syndicated column today spotlights the abysmally lax visa issuance policies at Hillary Clinton’s State Department — a problem that festered before 9/11 under GOP and Democrat administrations alike and continues now (hello, James Riady).
Take a look again at what the White House 6-page summary report says about Foggy Bottom’s foul-up:
The focus on visa revocation completely (and deliberately) misses the point about who bears responsibility for approving the visa in the first place. And that responsibility rests entirely with U.S. consular officials gambling on our national security. I asked the State Department for more information about the Crotch Bomber’s visa application and approval. The first thing I got back was chapter and verse citing federal law prohibiting disclosure of info on who, if anyone, interviewed Abdulmutallab; why he was approved for the full, two-year, multiple-entry visa instead of a limited, two-week visa to cover his trip to the shady Al Maghrib Institute in Houston, Texas; and how the State Department bureaucrats ignored the law, the red flags, and common sense to open the front door for Abdulmuttalab.
Why is Hillary’s State Department getting UndyBomber pass?
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010
Forget about no-fly lists, full-body scanners, and air marshals. All the loud recriminations about who should have done what to stop the UndyBomber from boarding a plane to Detroit on Christmas Day miss a more fundamental point: Young, single, rootless foreign Muslim Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab should never, ever have received a temporary visa into our country in the first place. No visa, no plane ticket. No ticket, no passage to airline jihad.
Even absent the intelligence we had on this al Qaeda-trained operative before his fateful trip, Hillary Clinton’s State Department (and Condi Rice’s before her) was required to know better than to issue a coveted entrance pass to a globe-trotting, Nigerian-born nomad. Under federal law (section 214[b] of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act to be precise), State Department consular officials must determine that foreigners applying for temporary visas (students, tourists, and businessmen) will in fact return to their home countries as required and will not abuse their visa privileges.
This means making sure that the temporary visa applicant has strong ties to his native land. It’s supposed to be a tough burden to overcome. Yet, Abdulmutallab showed no such propensities at the time he applied for his temporary visa at the U.S. Embassy in London in June 2008. He was a twenty-something student who had flitted from Nigeria to Yemen to Togo to England without a family or job. He was, in other words, a textbook itinerant waving more red flags than a bullfighter.
Question: How much due diligence did the State Department consular official on the front line who interviewed Abdulmutallab actually show? Reports say it took just four days for his visa to be approved. Barely two months later, Abdulmutallab turned up in Houston for a two-week seminar at Al Maghrib Institute, a Muslim Brotherhood-tied Islamic education center that has been dubbed “Jihad U” by veteran terrorism analysts.
Now, I’m presuming that a consular official did in fact interview Abdulmutallab before rubber-stamping his visa. Before the September 11 attacks, countless visa applicants – including 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers – skipped personal appearance requirements and bypassed the interview process as a convenience provided by Foggy Bottom panderers. This was supposed to change.
I asked the State Department Thursday for more information about the presumed consular office interview and hasty approval of Abdulmutallab’s visa. Spokeswoman Megan Mattson invoked confidentiality rules protecting his visa form. But there is an overriding public interest in what his application might reveal about our atrociously lax consulate practices. The General Accounting Office obtained and released the 9/11 hijackers’ temporary visa forms, which showed that basic information about where they were headed (two hijackers wrote “Wasantwn”) and what business they claimed to be doing (one wrote “teater” as his occupation) was suspiciously shoddy.
Like Abulmutallab, not a single one of the unmarried, rootless, Muslim male nomads who secured student and business visas to commit mass murder on American soil should have ever obtained a temporary visa in the first place.
But the reckless customer-service mentality prevails under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The department continues to operate the dangerous “Diversity Visa Lottery” program – handing out permanent residency visas (green cards) randomly to some 50,000 foreigners from “underrepresented” regions. The bipartisan visa lottery was championed by the late Democrat Sen. Ted Kennedy and signed into law by Republican President George H. W. Bush in 1990. Although originally intended to give a leg up to Irish immigrants, most of the winners are now from non-Western countries – including several terrorist-sponsoring and terrorist-friendly nations such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Nigeria, and Yemen.
State Department flacks are busy pointing fingers at other homeland security bureaucracies, namely the National Counterrerrorism Center, for failing to revoke the UndyBomber’s visa. Foggy Bottom held a press conference earlier this week to boast that it had finally taken responsibility and stripped Abdulmutallab of his golden entrance ticket. But where does the buck stop for granting the visa in the first place?
Ominously, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley revealed that other suspected jihadi visas have been revoked. “It’s more than one,” he said. “But I don’t think it’s fruitful to get into a scoreboard.” Of course not. Keeping score would mean accountability for negligent consular officials and their bosses. This administration would rather let sleeping bureaucrats lie.
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You are up early this morning!! – and asking the same questions I’ve been asking!
I will also note that you’re getting the expected response. The system actually did work – because it was designed to prevent anyone from getting any real answers.
We can’t have those nasty Irish polluting our shores, now can we? No telling what “they” might be up to? However Radical Muslims shouldn’t be a problem.
Slainte
Foggy Bottom indeed.
Thank you for going after The Harlot of Babylon, Michelle. I will never understand why Hillary became a “good guy” somewhere in the process of Obama winning the presidency. Even V.D. Hanson and Krauthammer played to the Hillary being “experienced” while Obama was green, blather. She and Bambi are both equally a dangerous joke.
Hillary’s experience in foreign policy started and ended with her taking “sniper fire” at the Bosnian picnic she went to with Chelsea, as a prop.
She still has more dead ex-business partners than the Gotti family; she still had her slimy fingers all over Whitewater, Travelgate, and her bimbo extermination squad. When did this vile hag get a pass from the right?
Hillary Clinton belongs in prison for extortion, money laundering, and high treason, and probably murder or conspiracy to commit murder.
Whatever dirt she has on Bambi to get a plum appointment after her hideous campaign of fake accents and amateurish blunders, while draining hundreds of millions of dollars from her filthy war chest (stuffed with Chinese and Saudi money), must have been serious enough to scare Bams into giving her State or demonstrative of his jelly-filled spine.
Pennsylvania Ave. is lined with trash!
The system “worked”; those working it failed to act.
The physical system is not broke and sharing was not a problem. All means all and the State Department had all these things: a specific warning about Abdulmuttalab; full access to the intelligence databases; analysts who could have accessed the data; the responsibility to review the data against the warning; and a duty to act within their lane based upon what was in the database. Someone or more than one at State failed to do their job, to revoke Abdulmuttalab’s visa; that is what the review is hiding.
The smoking gun is the word “initially.” Only “initially” did a misspelling of Abdulmuttalab mislead State into believing there was no visa to revoke. One or more at State learned sufficiently in advance of his showing up at Schiphol Airport, had all the tools and data needed, and knew a two-year visa had been issued to him that would not expire until well into 2010.
@revolution
The Won also paid off Hilly’s campaign debt.
Maybe he just knows what happens if you cross el Cleetones.
Yes, toxic trash that may destroy us in the end.
I see # 7 got pulled.
Did someone at State throw a foul-mouthed, digitized lamp at the author?
It is just a matter of time unfortunately before we are hit again… I’m sure it’s already in the works.
Michelle,
The answer is so simple. Think about the U.S. and the old Soviet Union.
Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)
You have to know what the CLinton’s have on Obama. And you have to know what Obama has on the Clinton’s. BOTH CAN DESTROY THE OTHER politically at the drop of a fist full of documents.
Thus, there is an agreement that neither side will do anything to damage the other.
If anyone has Obama’s real birth certificates and academic transcripts look no farther than Bubba.
It is just a matter of time before they try another attack again. Right now, I suspect they are putting these attacks on hold, waiting for the certain complacency that will come.
Yep, issuing visas should require greater vigor.
I have questions, too -
Is everyone on the visa list cross checked against everyone on the no-fly list, and the terrorist watch list?
Is there follow-up to ensure that the visas are being used as intended?
How many visas have expired and are those individuals still in the US? Are they being sought after and deported?
We can begin to better protect the country by following and enforcing existing laws, rules and regulations.
This just in from MSNBC:
There are no details as to his ethnicity, of course. According to the article, he was 56 years old, made threatening remarks, and didn’t want to store his carry on luggage. Two F-15s were scrambled to escort the plane back to Portland. He left the plane w/a companion, who was also questioned and released.
Nothing to see here, just move along.
Just ask Obama’s auntie, you know the one who attended his inauguration.
Hillary still has something to hold over Obama. We knew that during the race and I wonder if we will ever find out what it is?
Also, I have one question. When was the panty bomber recruited? I would love to find out that he was recruited after BHO annouced Gitmo was closing. That would blow a major whole in the Gitmo is a recruiting tool arguement.
The answer is simple, in case Zero is so unpopular he can’t run next election — Hillary is the substitute.
It was rather odd that Hillary didn’t join the others explaining what went wrong yesterday. But then, the announcement was only for show. Bho has just his speeches to combat anything. His administration is headed for an implosion.
Not entirely accurate, IMHO. He has a rich father. That personal issue of shunning his own family would never have been known to the adjudicating officer at the time of his visa interview. Panty bomber would have shown incredible banking reciepts as proof of his ties that wold compel him to return back to his home.
But here’s the rub: his father (and the money, ie the tie) actually went to the embassy and requested an audience to clear the record and obviously no one listened or passed the information down the line.
The adjuticating officer. The guy’s whose name that we will never know. He is the one that last spoke to this demon and is directly resposible for handing him the visa.
I respectfully request that you corroborate this statement. How long did his visa process take? When did he submit his application?
All of this discourse about how he obtainded his visa is assinine in view of the fact that we have over 12 million indiviuals that merely walked into this country without a visa. My Filipina wife, Christian, virgin, no drugs, no violence, no history of being involved with any questionable activity, was grilled for 45 minutes during her visa interview (i was present, we were both intimidated) after a 9 month processing time. If we allow foreigners of any nationality to just walk across our boarders, then close down the interview process and just open the friggin’ door.
Because a Conservative is not the Secretary of State right now.
Notice the lack of swarm reporting on such liberal themes like: “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas,” or “What Did Obama Know and When Did He Know It?” or “Where’s Obama?” or “Are We Better Off Today Then We Were a Year Ago?” or “Why Won’t Obama Fire His Incompetent, Crony Friends?” or “Is Obama an Idiot?” or “Is Obama Really a Leader, or Just a Treasonous Golfer?”
Question: What was on Hillary’s resume that would give anyone the impression that she would make a competent cabinet administrator?
That was easy. Do I get a cyber-cookie?
Lucky Luciano too I bet. Foggy Bottom at it’s best.
Of course there were more suspected terrorist visas
Keeping score, no, it is easier to count the dead
If he had any balls at all, he’d find another way to blow up a US inbound flight.
Here is my take on the Undy-bomber getting a Visa easy.
First, He comes from a welathy father and may have even played the do you kow who my father is card. To some at State, just knowning the child of someone who is well to do in the world can give you prestige.
Second, He is a Muslim and we all know that you better think twice before denying a Muslim anything in this day and age or else there will be cries of profiling and racicsm in the drop of a dime.
Bill and Billary just collect money now. That’s their soul job…don’t ask either one of them to do more than that.
No problem PJ, we can freely speculate then if you don’t want us to know the score.
Considering the ineptness of the ENTIRE State Dept, I would say you revoked 350 visas minimum.
A) Be accused of racism
B) Die
Is this multiple choice?
But then Miss Hillary does not fly commercial does she?
If any of you receive and invitation from Miss Hillary to discuss the issue at Fort Marcy Park DO NOT GO.
Probably to use as ammo to discredit her when she runs against Obama in the 2012 primaries.
Hillary. Is that you?
Good column Michelle. The answer to the question you asked is that the State Department gets a pass because the corrupt media has decided to do so. This is why a corrupt media is also a threat to our national security. There is a saying that “a fool and his money are soon parted”. I would change that a little and say that a fool and the ability to use common sense to protect our Country are soon parted. We are asking for more attacks because we are deliberately doing everything we can NOT to protect ourselves. From this insane VISA lottery, to lax procedures on granting VISA’s, to failure to use profiling etc etc etc., the list goes on. Terrorists must laugh at how stupid we are. Blind adhereence to ideology is what will get us killed one massacre at a time.
Is it bigger than a breadbox?
Exactly! I heard Dennis Miller complimenting her on O’Reilly the other night.
If Her Thighness would have won the election I’m not sure what would be different. She’s as radical a socialist as Duh Won and easily is as big a liar as he is.
And Jangar, I think you may be right about her running in 2012. We haven’t seen the last of the Clintons.
The photoshop picture is hilarious.
It would normally fun to watch Obambi and Billary fight it out. The problem is that it means to many people are hurt unnecessarily.
Has it occured to anyone that perhaps the Clintons are selling visas?
That effort is abysmally understaffed and is nary a second thought in the overall process. Far too little is done to ensure visas are actually used as intended.
I used to know that approximate number but it seems to escape me at the moment. But… consider that of the total official number of illegal aliens in the US – about 12 (realistically, probably more like 18 or 20) million, of those, about 40%-45% are visa overstays and other abusers. Accordingly, a good basic entry estimate would something like 3 million. ….Scary, eh?
This is a big problem with follow up and enforcement side of things. Just as I mentioned above, the Federal government just does not do enough to stop the chronic abuses for those once they get here. At that point, basically, ‘anything goes’. Really, the only way any these abusers ever find themselves into the deportation pipeline is to commit a fairly serious crime and show themselves onto the ‘radar’ of law enforcement and then receive an ICE hold. But, this is woefully too little too late – if you ask me.
Yep, early and often please.
Overall, I won’t parrot the old line ‘the system is broken and needs [fixing/reform/overhaul/etc]‘ but I will say that enforcement has to be built into every aspect of the system. Without it, there is no way to ensure real security for the US and her citizens — and — such thing would put the rest of the world on notice that we will not voluntarily submit ourselves as the laughingstock that we have traditionally played with regard to immigration and border security.
of course no one in our gubmint is ever responsible for anything. the atf and fbi weren’t responsible for the waco debacle, but timothy mcveigh was absolutely responsible for the ok city bombing and summarily executed. reid and this jerk were both stopped by faulty bombs and citizen intervention, but no one is responsible. the arab public continually says not all muslims are terrorists, but my response is that yes that is true, but all terrorist acts committed upon the u.s. in the last ten years have been committed by young men of the islamic faith, so excuse me if i don’t frisk blond middle aged women from denmark, but do frisk young men from muslim nations. stfu and police your people, then we won’t have to. but if your peace loving muslims hide and assist the terrorist muslims in your midst, YOU ARE A TERRORIST.
I agree 100% about the state department not doing their job. Of course I’ve been saying for months that if we just stopped handing visas out to people who have traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan, we could leave the Af/Pak region militarily and still be safe from the AQ training camps that will inevitably always be there.
Isn’t it interesting that throughout the entire “studying what went wrong” of the Obama administration, they don’t say. . . we got attacked.
We got attacked by people who were trying to evade the system. THAT’s what went wrong. The system didn’t work. . . but it’s not designed to work anyway. Whatever system they create, AQ will try to get around it.
This administration is hellbent on talking about how bad America is. We got hit because America made mistakes. We got hit because our intelligence failed. NO . . . we got hit because we are at war.
It’s like a boxer fighting for the first time against an opponent. He gets knocked out and afterward says. . . I didn’t know that he was trying to hit me. I failed to block all of his punches. If he wouldn’t have punched me, I would have won.
America is a great country. People want to hurt us. No matter how great our intelligence is, they will find a way to attack us. Blame whomever you like. I blame AQ.
Hasan was an AQ attack at Fort Hood too. We can’t call that an attack yet. It’s still an issue where America did something wrong again and America is bad according to the administration. The problem is we can’t say Hasan was an AQ attack. I bet he’s not paralyzed anymore. I bet he’s living it up in the hospital.
“Reports say it took just four days for his visa to be approved.”
Wow. I had to jump through more hoops than a trained monkey to get my CCW. But this guy…four days for a visa?
The State Department has for years been full of left wing bureaucrats that lean toward the destruction of this country. They fit into Obama’s plans like a bug in the rug.No blame will ever come their way.
I think what this shows is frightening and we can second guess it all we want. What it shows is that those who want to destroy us are closer than they appear. The bomb continues to tick. Oh yeah..and they are everywhere.
Good article Michelle. Watch a few others in the media get the guts to mention this now that you’ve opened the door.
Question: When will we see some leaks out of the State Dept.? I guess that most in the SD Clintonian democrats(?).
Errah; She probably has his original Hawaiian birth certificate before the election and now his Kenyan/Indonesian passports! No bus for you Hillary!
So, let me get this straight…
Junior Terrorist is on a watch list.
Junior Terrorits gets a visa in 4 days.
Junior Terrorist buys ticket to America.
Junior Terrorist has no packed bags.
Junior Terrorist needs help from sharp-dressed man to get him thru security and onto the plane.
Nope, nothing wrong here. Back to screening grandma for items that are identified as potential weapons. Head-meet-sand.
Could it be that there are many on the terrorist watch list that some folks in certain circles wish to have fly to America?
Exactly jangar – what kind of “proof” are we looking for? We truly can sit back and crack jokes (like I do when I feel hopeless about a problem), or we can complain on a blog (though I’m glad we can). Our enemies are closer than we think and they are people we would never believe could be our enemies.
As with seemingly everything that dangerous socialist fools dream up; laws, regulations, waiting periods, permits, background checks, etc, etc, etc,…essentially do nothing more than inconvenience the already law-abiding; while doing nothing to deter the criminal(s) and the enemy(ies).
There should be some regulation, documentation, and checking, of course; but not the clumsy, disorganized, ineffective, suffocating weight of governement and bureaucracy that we now have throttling us.
And when the inevitable problems and breakdown of the system occur, what is the obligatory, predictable answer that the dangerous socialist fools have?
Why, more regulation and laws, of course.
They have an opposite world view.
They feel that a perfect, foolproof system should; and, even more stupidly, can be designed, that will prevent all – all – problems.
They do not believe in the responsibility that individuals should have, or that actions should have consequences.
There are far too many of these dangerous socialist fools, especially in positions of authority and power.
They are trying to kill us, and they seem to be getting closer to their goal.
I’ve been amazed watching Hillary skirt her responsibility for this mess. Thanks for placing the blame where it belongs.
They are those who populate politics, making laws to rule over us, in conjunction with an enabling court system.
This is absolutely the case. That’s likely what happened to the CIA in Afghanistan. The guy who was supposed to do the initial pat down was likely paid off to not do it. Who would know? Find a time when a guy who might be sympathetic to AQ is doing the main checking at the CIA headquarters there and bribe him.
Our problem is we want to fight a war by enlisting people from other nationalities. We aren’t the french foreign legion. We should only use AMERICAN soldiers to fight AMERICAN wars.
We should be more unilateral, we should be more imperialistic. If we are going to spend our money and our men, we should be getting something out of it like a colony or resources. How much of Iraq’s oil are we going to get for free now that we ‘won’ the war?
We are the dumbest superpower in history. Our enemies don’t respect political correctness. Our enemies respect strength. They might not like it, but if we showed a willingness to detonate a nuclear bomb somewhere, we’d have less terrorism to worry about. The bomb doesn’t even have to kill anyone. Just one nuke in Iran’s desert televised around the world that kills nobody would do more to stop Iran’s nuke program than any amount of sanctions/negotiations.
Which should mean that when we go to war, we knock the snot out of them, leave a smoking hole, and come home. Period.
Oh…and send them the bill.
The president can launch a nuke at any time he wants. Here’s how I’d make America safe. I’d go on TV just before the nuke exploded in Iran. I’d say, ‘We hear Iran wants a nuclear weapon. Well we are going to give it to them’.
Then after it went off on TV, I would say and we are going to bring up the location on a map where it was detonated. It would show it in the middle of the unpopulated desert. Then I would say, ‘dang we missed’.
And I’d say, ‘well I suppose that should count as an Iranian nuclear test explosion. Would anyone like to negotiate?’
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HI CICEROKID–#19. Good post–my ex-Mexican (now American Citizen) wife and I had similar experiences when she LEGALLY IMMIGRATED to the U.S.A. after we were married 40 years ago. Months waiting after we were married–yearly residence reporting, special tax rules, etc.
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And later–when she had learned English well and we had studied and she had memorized the 100 citizenship questions and answers she would be tested on. She was asked 10 of them–in English–and only English answers were accepted. The irate examining official passed her and one other person–another 25 failed the exam. Most Americans now couldn’t correctly answer more than a few of these questions in our society.
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Our State Department seems like a rogue agency. Quite often they work against our Presidents, and often leak classified and sensitive information to foreign and hostile governments–and to the press to damage presidents and administrations they don’t like.
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The ethically challenged but brilliant (my A**!) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fits right in with most of this crowd. Maybe she will RETURN THE WHITE HOUSE SILVER SERVICE she and Bubba stole when the left in 2001. Our AMERICAN PRAVDA (not MSM) is already grooming her to step in and replace Comrade Obama (PBUH) if he becomes so “crippled” that he can’t win in 2012. Or as his “democRAT” / liberal / socialist / statist / marxist / communist replacement in 2016 if he squeaks through the re-election.
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Because, liberals refuse to identify anyone as “bad” unless they are on the right, and right.
Even when certain people are proven to be guilty, liberals still claim they were justified in their actions.
Salient example, the Rosenbergs.
Now that’s the smoking hole I’m talking about!
They are absolutely a rogue agency. They work against the sovereignty of America and FOR the infiltrators and jihadists that want to kill us. And they will stone wall you if you question what they do, as you can read above.
As long as we continue to look for potential weapons instead of potential murderers/terrorists/shady air travelers, we will continue to make one foolish move after another that will result in the death of innocent people, and political fodder for idiots.
I have personal knowledge of this, including one case where a person from an Indian Ocean island was invited to visit my family on a tourist visa. The person is a relative of my wife. No problem getting the visa…took only a few days. When the visa expiration date approached, the visitor decide not to leave. I was stressed out about this because I thought I would be harassed by ICE when their computers indicated that the person hadn’t departed before the visa expiration date. My home address was listed on the visa application, and I had signed a paper indicating that I invited the person to stay in my home for the duration of the visit and accepted financial responsibility, etc. Now, two years later, I am still waiting for the hammer to fall….there hasn’t been a single inquiry from ICE. The visitor is doing odd jobs, paid under the table. Visits my wife, but stays the hell away from me and my home. I know of several other similar cases in my area, and have learned from inquires about this that every community is filled with visa jumpers who have no intention of leaving….ever. We are in serious trouble folks.
Looking for the smoking gun, but only smoking BVDs are found.
OT but funny. Ceiling fan attacks Shi’a Zakir .
A CIA plot no doubt.
That Hill pic always cracks me up, must be some truth to it.
Why is Hill getting pass, anybody even see her on TV lately?
The “diversity visa” law passed thanks to Ted Kennedy was responsible for the deaths of three people at the El Al terminal in LA on July 4, 2002. An Egyptian man had previously been told to get out of the US by various immigration judges. He refused to leave and blithly ignored immigration judges knowing that he could stay in the US pending review by the leftist US Court of Appeals for the 9th circuit. When he was finally out of options, the Egyptian jihadist was the lucky spouse of an Egypian woman who won the diversity lottery. That meant that not only could she live the rest of her life in the US, her jihadist husband was also free to remain in the US for the rest of his life AND he was also allowed to buy firearms like any American citizen. And the guy never hid his wild antiSemitic views or his hate for America. On July 4, 2002, he merrily went to LAX with the firearms he had purchased as an American and started killing people at the El Al terminal, including a ticket agent who was a week from her wedding.
No challenges can be made to the visa diversity lottery because CAIR and the ACLU insist that it is racist to do or say anything. Sadly, I think I am the only person who ever raises what happened on July 4, 2002.
You’re right. Too many layers of government, laws established that are anti-constitutional, coupled with a pc mentality, will be the death of us all.
To be fair – Hillary has spent most of her adult life dealing with other people’s undies….
Ag – only you!
Thank you. And what a piece Kennedy was.
Hillary won’t wake up until there’s a Snuke in the snizz!
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum.
But, in the case of some individuals, it takes superhuman effort, with divine help, to observe the behavior recommended by that proverb.
Has it ever struck anyone that, with some individuals, one can justifiably wonder whether they (referring to the “some individuals”) had ever done anything good for their country – even if it was just one good thing?
Let’s quit playing around. Hasan absolutely was an AQ attack in my mind since both he and the panty bomber had contact with the same Imam.
They sure as he!! weren’t just sharing recipes, and Hasan got a bad one to cause him to shoot up Ft. Hood.
As for Janack Obamitano keeping us safe….this moron cannot even keep his WH secure given the fact that there were THREE gate crashers there.
President Obama said,”We are at war, at war against al Quada.” Here is the rub, moderate muslims will not condem al Quada because al Quada is following exactly the dictates of the Koran. To dispute al Quada is to dispute the Koran. Does this mean that we are at war with Islam. The friend of my enemy is my enemy.
Yes.
Suggesting that all religions are equal is certain death for us all.
I would suggest it would be equally true to state “This administration would rather let sleeping terrorists lie.”
We could resolve this mess pretty quickly.
We should simply require all Muslims to enter the US via Air Force One. I mean with Obama’s non-stop “Apology Tour” he is guaranteed to offer pretty convenient service for all potential Jidadis!
Of course, the Jihadis might object to traveling with Michelle Obama…
Folks, you are being too harsh to Hillary. At least she is not stuffing dynamite into your airport lugage. Check out the story below.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/01/06/ireland.explosives/index.html
I suspect Hillary would LOVE to stuff something down Bill’s shorts and stick him on the next flight of Air Force One.
That would solve a couple of issues for her…
Umar Farouk “Boom Boom” Abdulmutallab entered a plea of “not guilty” earlier today.
I guess it was just all a cultural misunderstanding as he maintains it is common for young men in Nigeria to walk around with their BVDs loaded with “PETN.”
The Obama Administration announced plans to send Joe Wilson to Nigeria to investigage…
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I worked with a technician who worked in Saudi Arabia for 5 years. One day he and his wife walked to the local Suq–outdoor market–to buy vegetables. A soldier ordered them to go to the square near the Mosque to witness the King’s punishment of lawbreakers.
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They protested that since they were Americans they should be exempt. The soldier said all must go. In the square a bus driver who had carelessly run over and killed someone was being executed. The King was an “eye for an eye” guy–he had previously warned all drivers about not injuring anyone–and that they would be held responsible if they did so.
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The “perp” was chained down to the pavement. The same bus he was driving when he killed the pedestrian was driven over him to execute him.
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Sometimes the old ways of justice and punishment make a lot of sense. If the BVD bomber is found guilty the King’s approach should be used. A stick of dynamite up the rear end, tie him to a pole in the square, and light ‘em up. No need to worry about him being freed and returning to his Jihadi ways.
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Life in a Supermax looks pretty nice by comparison.
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John Bibb
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Ironically, I always felt safe in the suqs.
Nothing clears your sinuses like a walk through the spice suqs.
I have a question too. Which side is the CFR filled State Department on?
The Obama Administration could resolve the whole question about terrorist attacks pretty easily.
The A380 is the largest passenger aircraft in the world and can carry approximately 850 passengers.
All Obama needs to do is declare that terrorist incidents must cause more than 850 fatalities or it is a “man-caused disaster” and not a “terrorist incident.” Bingo, problem solved. No more terrorism…
I am sure they have people working on this right now. In the meantime, prepare to check your BVDs at the boarding gate.
Of course, another option is to require all passengers on airliners to be stripped and anesthetized for the duration of the the flight. I guess you would need a doctor or two aboard each flight but that would solve the problem of crotch bombers. Sometimes you have to think outside the box…
Errah the problem is the doc would be a government employee and probably need a H1B Visa to work for what they’ll pay.
But then you could get reimbursements from your medical flex spending plan for flights!
This is a win/win scenario!
Hillary is simply lying low, desperately trying to minimize her real and perceived connections to this one-term presidency, so that in 2012 she can challenge Hope-a-Dope as the only person who can save the donkey party from the thrashing it deserves.
You watch: she’s going to make another run for the Big Chair, and she’s not going to wait around until 2016.
Regulus,
Do you really think Hillary will try again in 2012? I think she hurt herself with several gaffes already and her negatives are still high even though Obama’s negatives are likely to be higher in 2012.
I think she is done in national elected politics…
1. There’s no other plausible explanation for why Hillary is hiding the way that she is. If she thought that being part of this disaster of an administration was really a springboard to 2016, she wouldn’t be hiding.
2. Yes, Hillary has her own negatives, but:
(a) she’ll look good by comparison to Hope-a-Dope, running on a “We should’ve nominated her in 2008 to begin with” platform; and
(b) 2012 will still be recent enough from 2008 for her to still dredge up the bogeyman of “The Return of George Bush.” It won’t fly in the general election, but it will be very effective on donks panicked by the prospect of losing the White House to the only enemy they recognize.
I think the Dems are tired/scared of the Clintons and I expect her fund raising will be even more difficult in 2012. Of course, that doesn’t mean she won’t run.
Well, nothing to do but wait and see…
Agreed. But by 2012 the donks are going to be so scared, and so desperate, that they’ll be casting about for another “Messiah” — and Hillary is really the best they have to offer, dangling the fantasy for some way to return to the 1990s.
They’d resurrect Bill Clinton again if they could, but there’s that pesky 22nd Amendment. Too bad.
He was singing like a bird….before Obama and Holder got him lawyered up, afterwhich his America hating shyster told him to shut up…which he did.
Meanwhile, he had already said there were about 25 others in the pipeline waiting to carry out their attacks. This was reported by the Brits, and BO’s Buffoons admitted a day or two later the same thing.
So now, we have intel agencies scrambling to gather dots to connect while at the same time the Moron in Chief is taking steps to choke off one avenue of intelligence.
Remember the libwits dreaming about 911 happening on a dems watch so they could show their compassion? It’s almost like someone is still dreaming it will happen.
An unfortunate choice of words perhaps.
We do always try and prevent the last attack. Shoe bomber – shoes in the X-Ray machine. Crotch-bomber – undies in the MRI machine. Muslim men – search nuns. Ok, 2 out of 3.
Libs are far too stupid or psychotic to care what she has done. If they sense she has a better chance to win they will switch in a heartbeat.
Libs would get behind Chavez if they were told he could win.
You think the Chinese will give up on funding her?
I wonder if Hillary’s getting a pass because Barack doesn’t want to be President next term.
They will pull the usual stand-by operation: taint our candidate selection in the primary…then they could get away with running Elmer Fudd.
Republicanvet said:
US defense lawyers? I believe it.
*Great article as usual Michelle; Why, why, why is the operative word; Why do they refuse to do what the constitution demands, and that is to protect us from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
*In a nutshell, it is one Kingdom vs another kingdom; Please get off the sidelines people and pick a side!
Definition of systemic: Relating to or affecting the entire system.
So, according to Napolitano, we simply had a failure of the entire system. There’s nothing to be concerned about. Move along.
It’s not a war. It’s just an “argument”. If we simply live our values, which apparently means not fighting wars like wars, these terrorists will acknowledge our superiority and say, “You win the argument, now I behead you!” I guess that’s a win-win situation to a democrat.
On January 9th, 2010 at 2:55 am, Papa Louie said:
So, having 2,732+ deaths on 11 Sep. 2001 was the result of an ‘argument’?
The beheadings of Nick Berg, Eugene Armstrong and Daniel Pearl were part of an ‘argument’? Over 4,000 US service men and women dead is the result of an ‘argument’. I’m not certain what Ms. Harman’s idea of laws and values are, but down here in Texas we call the first an act of war. We call the beheadings an act of barbarism, an atrocity and a war crime. In the third case we call this the result of war.
Lady, there’s a war out there whether you want to recognize it or not. It doesn’t matter what you think but Jihadists have declared war upon the United States of America. Given that, you can either choose to fight back or die because those are the only two choices that the Jihadis will acknowledge.
I was listening to NPR on way into work today and of course the “pundits” were talking about the panty bomber. In their dialog when it came to the intelligence agency the terms used were concrete/definite. According to the NPR pundits intelligence community messed up. No doubt about it.
Then came the State Department. The terms used were, “it appears that maybe…”, “perhaps…”, “it isn’t as clear as with the intelligence community…”, etc.
The contrast in words and phraases was stark!
Well, at least one part of the government, DoD, is still fighting this war, despite the efforts of so many to the contrary (e.g. DoS, DoT, DHS, CIA, NSC, POTUS…) I saw a bumper sticker today that sums it up for me: “We Volunteer to Fight That Which You Fear”. What is a political football, a fun little game for pundits and politicians alike, is real life for many others. I wish the American people would help make its leaders and politicians understand this, but then again, when have any political body in history understood this?