Obama's got whose back?

Not the American people's for sure...and that leads to only one crazy, conspiracy-theory type of conclusion, sorry to say. Perhaps it also explains why Obama insisted on keeping his off-the-record, specially-encrypted Blackberry (whereas President Bush even stopped emailing his own daughters). Obama admnistration takes several wrong paths in dealing with terrorism

Keep America Safe?

From GatewayPundit:

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The smoking gun is the November 20 State Department cable that wasn’t acted upon...

...No one shared it with the Embassy visa section, other U.S. agencies or the UN. How could a top secret cable be written but not acted upon by the same Embassy that wrote it? Questions remain as to who approved the cable, where was it sent and why wasn’t a visa revoked because of the cable?

U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Robin Sanders and Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Johnnie Carson need to answer some questions about what they did with the November 20, 2009 top secret cable containing crucial national security information. Did they ignore the fact that their Embassy identified an al-qaeda operative? Did they not check to see if a visa was already granted to this al-qaeda operative? Who all approved the visa? Who read the cable? At the very minimum, Ambassador Robin Sanders needs to tell the American people why she didn’t revoke the visa of Abdulmutallab after her team originally approved it.

What we’ve learned since Janet Napolitano and Hillary Clinton thought everything went as bureaucratically expected on Christmas Day is that President Obama takes surf board accidents on his vacation very seriously but is willing to delegate the safety of the American public to subordinates.

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...foreign terrorists have somehow now been granted Fourth Amendment reasonableness rights that courts intended to protect Americans being searched by the local police. Thus was Abdulmutallab allowed on the airplane with his explosives.

Intelligence Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Jaw dropper

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said it was a "very serious mistake" to send Abdulmutallab to federal court.

"He was trained, equipped and directed by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula," Lieberman said on ABC. "That was an act of war. He should be treated as a prisoner of war, held in a military brig, questioned now, and should have been ever since apprehended for intelligence that could help us stop the next attack or get people in Yemen."

Read the whole thing... But now: Al-Qaeda Terrorist May Be Offered Plea Agreement: Administration Defends Decision

Yes there was a smoking gun!

Market Watch reports that Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan, who made the rounds on TV talk shows this morning, told ABC's "This Week" that there was no "smoking gun" or single piece of intelligence that indicated Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was going to try to mount an attack.

Actually, the CIA had very specific information that pointed directly to an imminent terrorist attack...

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The Obama administration is stalwart in its refusal to articulate the rationale supporting the treatment of particular perpetrators as criminal defendants rather than enemy combatants...

...the United States has never tried enemy leaders responsible for acts of war in civilian courts. Never before in American history has the United States brought its martial enemies to trial in a civilian court and cloaked them with the protections of the United States Constitution. Someone in a position to do so really ought to question responsible administration officials such as Holder and Brennan in a forum designed to secure a full statement of reasons accounting for the administration's actions.

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Airline terrorist's VISA had expired!

SAN'A, Yemen (AP) - The Nigerian suspected in the attempted attack on a U.S. airliner had stayed on in Yemen illegally after his visa expired three months ago and should have been stopped by authorities from leaving the country, Yemeni security officials said Thursday...

"Today is the second worst day of my life after 12-25-09. Today is the day that I realized that my own country is lying to me and all of my fellow Americans."

Flight 253 passenger Kurt Haskell: 'I was visited by the FBI'

Barack Obama gets an 'F' for protecting Americans

From the U.S. Editor of Britain's Daily Telegraph

Homeland Insecurity

Had the device not malfunctioned, everyone on Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit would have perished...what went wrong?

• Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's father raised concerns about his son's increasing radicalism with Nigerian security agencies and US embassy staff but his warning was not acted upon.


• US embassy officials granted Abdulmutallab a visa to enter the US despite his father's warnings.


• Abdulmutallab was allowed to fly even though he was on a UK Home Office "watch list" and had been barred from entering Britain.


• Security officials at two airports failed to detect the explosives Abdulmutallab had strapped to his body.


• Security services in the UK, US and Africa failed to swap information on Abdulmutallab in the months and weeks leading up to the attack.

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And the device that almost exploded is "easily detected"!!!

WASHINGTON - The explosive device used by the would-be Detroit bomber contained a widely available — and easily detected — chemical explosive that has a long history of terrorist use, according to government officials and explosive experts.

Mystery on Flight 253

About an hour after landing, Haskell said he saw another man being taken into custody. But a spokeswoman from the FBI in Detroit said Mutallab was the only person taken into custody...