Houthi Yemen coup moves Iran’s Middle East hegemonic ambitions forward - upheld by Washington

"Our military and intelligence sources report that Yemen is not the only Middle East platform of the joint US-Iranian military, intelligence and strategic performance. The second act is unfolding in Iraq."

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Official from Judicial Watch says U.S. government apparently doesn’t consider it a priority to keep undocumented nationals from terrorist-sponsoring nations from roaming freely throughout the country...

In what it termed a reprehensible move for an agency charged with protecting the nation, a non-partisan legal group is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security has released nearly 500 illegal aliens -- who remain fugitives -- from terrorist-sponsoring countries and others known to present a danger to the U.S.

A conservative news web site, CNS.com, had obtained government records under the Freedom of Information Act. The records show that, the Department of Homeland Security caught and released 481 illegal aliens from nations designated by the State Department as sponsors of terrorism or “countries of interest.”

According to legal eagles at Judicial Watch, these dangerous illegal aliens remain fugitives whose whereabouts are unknown, as proven by Immigration and Customs Enforcement's own database accessed by the news group. All came from four nations that sponsor terrorism -- Iran, Syria, Sudan and Cuba -- or countries determined by the U.S. government to present a threat. Those include Afghanistan, Algeria, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen.

Illegal aliens from terrorist nations released in U.S. by DHS

Senior Obama administration officials call for an escalation of U.S. operations in Yemen...

We are told that, when Barack Hussein Obama was running for President of the United States, Obama made more than 500 campaign promises during the campaign...

In "Barack Obama: The War We Need To Win" (Counterterrorism Fact Sheet: Obama'08), we were told that Obama, if elected, would be busy

3. DRYING UP SUPPORT FOR EXTREMISTS

“America must show – through deeds as well as words – that we stand with those who seek a better life. . . . As president, I will make it a focus of my foreign policy to contain and roll back the tide of hopelessness that gives rise to hate.”

Even the best military, intelligence, and police work in the world won’t beat al Qaeda if we cannot stop the organization from rebuilding every time we break their network and kill their leaders. From Africa to Central Asia to the Pacific Rim, nearly 60 countries stand on the brink of conflict or collapse. These failed states are the perfect incubators for extremism and terror. Barack Obama will work to combat hopelessness around the globe and dry out the rising well of support for extremism...

• Launch a Public Diplomacy Effort. World opinion of the United States has fallen significantly since September 11. According to the Pew Global Attitudes Survey, 80 percent of citizens of predominantly Muslim countries have solidly negative views of the United States. Barack Obama will launch a coordinated, multi-agency program of
public diplomacy...

But, alas: A new poll of Arab public opinion finds a significant drop in views of President Obama from a year ago!

On February 27, 2010 (a Saturday, by the way), we were told that Obama signs Patriot Act extension without reforms

President Obama signed a one-year extension of three sections of the USA Patriot Act on Saturday without any new limits on the measures that many liberal groups and Democrats said were necessary to safeguard American civil liberties.

Wasn't there some campaign promise about that?

Oh, yes: [No. 179: Revise the Patriot Act to increase oversight on government surveillance].

And then we were also told, in "Barack Obama: The War We Need To Win" (Counterterrorism Fact Sheet: Obama'08), that Obama would be very busy

4. RESTORING OUR VALUES

“We cannot win a war unless we maintain the high ground and keep the people on our side. But because the administration decided to take the low road, our troops have more enemies. Because the administration cast aside international norms that reflect American values, we are less able to advance our values. When I am president. . . . we will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers, and that justice is not arbitrary.”

Barack Obama would restore America’s standing, reputation and authority in the world.

As president, Obama will:

• End the Use of Torture and Extreme Rendition. [No. 175: End the use of torture] and [No. 176: End the use of extreme rendition]

But wait...oh no! Obama's a back door man? [Just like Bill Clinton, apparently!]

Who knew???

Obama's rendition shame?

In the wake of newly released CIA memos providing further disturbing details on the CIA's overseas secret prisons programme for "terror suspects", the Obama administration is sneaking some far-reaching and dubious changes to US treatment of terror suspects through the back door.

Remember when Obama told everyone that his very first act as our president would be to

• Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. [No. 177: Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center]

Sorry, folks: it's still open for business as usual!

And who could forget about these nasty little buggers:

• Eliminate Warrantless Wiretaps. [No. 180: Restrict warrantless wiretaps]

As recently as last April, Salon wails about

The criminal NSA eavesdropping program

...the Obama DOJ -- exactly like the Bush DOJ in the case before Judge Taylor -- refused to offer legal justifications to the court for this eavesdropping. Instead, the Obama DOJ took the imperial and hubristic position that the court had no right whatsoever to rule on the legality of the program..it's thus no surprise that media accounts tie the Obama administration to the cover-up of this program at least as much as the Bush administration.

So, here we are, now being told that the CIA sees increased threat from al-Qaeda in Yemen

For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, CIA analysts see one of al-Qaeda's offshoots - rather than the core group now based in Pakistan - as the most urgent threat to U.S. security, officials said.

The sober new assessment of al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen has helped prompt senior Obama administration officials to call for an escalation of U.S. operations there - including a proposal to add armed CIA drones to a clandestine campaign of U.S. military strikes, the officials said.

MY, HOW TIMES DON'T CHANGE...

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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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...

What is Obama hiding...and why?

As with the shooting at Ft. Hood in November, the White House has ordered federal agencies not to provide briefings or answer inquiries from members of Congress...

Al-Qaeda has a nuke!

In a recent interview posted to jihadi websites, al-Qaeda's leader in Yemen claims the organization possesses nuclear weapons and vows to attack U.S. and Western interests to compel them to withdraw their forces from the region (hanein.info, January 27).

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H/T: ATLAS SHRUGS