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Props to the Associated Press for stepping outside its traditional role as Obama water-carriers and shedding light on the none-too-surprising politicization of border security funding under DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.
She’s in a state of denial.
The White House is desperately undermining transparency.
And maybe it’s finally dawning on the media stenographers that the Era of [...]

“I want him barred.”

“Hell to pay.”

Matthew Vadum reports that Obama’s left-wing allies are preparing plans to re-brand 9/11 as a national service/eco-zealot propaganda day.
Really:
The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist [...]

What a weasel.
Former Bush DHS head Tom Ridge is hyping his upcoming tell-all book, which claims that the Bush administration pressured him for political reasons to raise threat level assessments.
But not a single official will back him up…including himself!
The money paragraphs in the New York Times today on Ridge’s allegations:
Tom Ridge, the first secretary of [...]

Never take a CAIR condemnation at face value.
Never.

I noted yesterday and this morning that Holocaust Museum nutball was an equal-opportunity hater.
He railed against Fox News and Rupert Murdoch.
And now this:
FBI agents visited the offices of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine yesterday after a shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and told employees they’d found the magazine’s address
A senior Standard staffer confirmed the [...]

Vindication! Vindication! Apologize! Apologize!
This is the gleeful mantra on the Left side of the blogosphere and cable TV.
A father/security guard/hero is dead and all these political opportunists can do is gloat about “vindication” that isn’t there.
I linked Greyhawk’s post on this issue at Mudville Gazette yesterday, but I am linking it again today. Read the [...]

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Details just coming in.
Via FoxNews: “At least two people were shot at the national Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, an official told FOX News. Other media reports said a man walked into the museum and shot a security guard. Another guard returned fire, wounding the alleged shooter. ”
AP bulletin here.
Tom [...]

The journey of one homegrown jihadist has come to an end. You may remember the forgotten Muslim terrorist wanna-bes in Georgia (click for background). Well, Syed Ahmed is headed for the graybar hotel:
Ahmed, a 24-year-old former Georgia Tech student, was convicted of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. During his trial last week, prosecutors [...]

You will be fascinated — among other reactions — by the latest statement issued by the Obama DOJ, issued yesterday after the president’s Cairo speech.
No, it’s not a statement condemning the jihadist in Arkansas who targeted our troops or the Bronx jihadi plotters who targeted Jews, infidels, and our troops.
It’s a statement “to protect American [...]

While President Obama is busy bowing to the Muslim world, the Bronx jihadi plotters have been indicted:
Four men accused of plotting terrorist attacks on U.S. military planes and a Bronx synagogue were indicted on federal charges. Prosecutors say James Cromitie aka Abdul Rahman photographed “several synagogues and Jewish community centers” on April 10 as potential [...]

Photo source: NYPost
The jihadi virus in our jails
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
President Obama’s speech on homeland security was 6,072 words long. Curiously, he chose not to spare an “a,” “and,” or “uh” on the New York City terror bust that dominated headlines the morning of his Tuesday address. Did the teleprompter run out of [...]

Shorter Obama:
I am against preventive detention (Bush’s), except when I am for it (mine).
I am for transparency (”torture/”interrogation memos), except when I am against it (”torture/”interrogation photos).
I am against the power to order enhanced interrogation techniques, except when I assume that power myself.
I am against “extended re-litigation of the last eight years,” except when I [...]

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It’s the Obama-Cheney showdown this morning. I, for one, am gratified to see this White House forced to put national security on the front burner. If not for the forceful public defenses by Vice President Cheney of the aggressive, proactive measures the last administration took to keep us safe, the current commander-in-chief would [...]

The Right is up for a fight. Ready?
Today, some of the best conservative legal and national security thinkers/doers will discuss the battle over the Harold Koh nomination. Bloggers can join the call.
Go here for more info and make sure to bookmark the website of the Coalition to Preserve American Sovereignty.
A few things you should know [...]

Well, this should make you feel nice and comfortable when you fly:
News 8 has recently revealed serious flaws in the way the FAA licenses mechanics who fix planes.
There is evidence of years of problems in testing these mechanics. There is also evidence that hundreds of mechanics with questionable licenses are working on aircraft in [...]

White House Military Office director Louis Caldera tendered his resignation this afternoon. The NY Daily News has the story.
Here’s the official review of the incident. It does not cover DoD or FAA involvement. The report says “Initial planning” began in “March 2009 or earlier” without specifying who exactly initiated the planning and why. Caldera blames [...]

If you oppose drivers’ licenses for illegal aliens, you may be a “domestic extremist.”
Seriously.

Andy McCarthy declines the Attorney General’s invitation.

Shooting down “misleading” labels

(Photoshop credit: Nice Deb)
My syndicated column commemorates Barack Obama’s 100 days with the Scare Force One story as a take-off point. Imagine if this fiasco had happened under George Bush’s watch. It would have made the Left’s incessant carping over the “fake plastic turkey,” Mission Accomplished banner, and My Pet Goat incidents look like [...]

“Goose, it’s time to buzz Lady Liberty…”

Ed Morrissey has the scoop, and also reports that the American Legion “believes that Napolitano will withdraw that report in favor of a better, more specific, and narrower report on actual threats.”
Ja-No is scheduled to testify about DHS immigration enforcement policies (or rather, the lack thereof) on May 6.
The Foundry’s got questions.

DiplOmacy

Well, DHS isn’t going to be issuing alerts about it any time soon. But it’s here: the resurgence of left-wing extremism.
Data point – MoveOn.org wailing about torture and indulging in Cheney Derangement Syndrome:

Data point – Hillary cackles at serious questions about the effectiveness of enhanced interrogation.
Data point – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ups pressure for [...]

Gaffestastic Janet Napolitano is at it again — this time earning the partially justified derision of Canadians after suggesting that 9/11 terrorists entered the U.S. through the northern border:
The furor began when Napolitano was asked to clarify statements she had made about equal treatment for the Mexican and Canadian borders, despite the fact that a [...]

She said this on CNN over the weekend:
KING: A lot of Democrats in Congress want to you investigate [Joe Arpaio]. They think he is over the line. He says he is just enforcing the law and the problem is the federal government.
NAPOLITANO: Well, you know, Sheriff Joe, he is being very political in that statement, [...]

If even half of what’s in Jeff Stein’s CQ exclusive is true, this is a blockbuster scandal of historic proportions. It makes all of the pay-to-play scandals to date look like kindergarten games. Here’s the upshot:
Rep. Jane Harman , the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap [...]

Here’s a homeland security threat that doesn’t fit the rightwing extremist profile. Paging Janet Napolitano. Oh, never mind:
The Weld County sheriff’s office is looking for whoever sent it a letter threatening to put bombs around Greeley next week unless illegal immigrants are released from jail.
The sheriff’s office says the letter was handwritten in Spanish, and [...]