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Global War on Terror Watch: President Bush Declassifies and Makes Public the National Intelligence Estimate – NIE
President George W. Bush (C) speaks on the economy alongside U.S. Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH) (L) during a factory visit at Meyer Tool Inc. in Cincinnati, September 25, 2006.
Reuters: Bush orders Iraq intelligence report made public
President George W. Bush blasted political opponents on Tuesday for selectively leaking from a secret intelligence assessment on global terrorism and then made public the report’s main conclusion that the Iraq war had become a “cause celebre” for Islamic extremists.
Democrats had seized on leaked portions of the National Intelligence Estimate to criticize the administration’s handling of the Iraq war and members of the U.S. Congress had pressed the White House to declassify the entire document.
At a news conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Bush said it was “a bad habit for our government to declassify every time there’s a leak.”
But he said he decided to make it public so “you can read it for yourself” and stop the speculation that he said was aimed at confusing the American public.
“Somebody has taken it upon themselves to leak classified information for political purposes,” Bush said.
So, somebody “LEAKS” the NIE to the New York Times and the NYT true to form publishes snippets to embarass President Bush and the GOP. The intent – to influence the November mid-term elections negatively for the President.
First, the “LEAKER” should be vigorously pursued and prosecuted for disclosing a classified report.
Second, readers should punish the New York Times and other MSM outlets who published the blatantly biased snippets of the NIE, along with commentary.
Lastly, read Michelle Malkin’s SMACK DOWN of the NIE.
Here’s the link to the PDF document of the NIE’s key judgements at the DNI site. If the server is down, we’ve got it here.
Andy Cochran writes: “I wish they could declassify more or, as I wrote on Sunday night, turn the whole report over to an independent body like the 9/11 Commission and let them do it. “
The LEFT and the LEFT MSM attempted a PATHETIC media end-run around the President because they cannot or are afraid to confront his policies directly.
Come on Democrats. What say you about the entire report?
Technorati Tags: NIE, National_Intelligence_Estimate, George_Bush, Global_War_on_Terror
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Canada Watch: Travelers Entering the United States from Canada Win a Reprieve
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2nd R) and Public Safety Minster Stockwell Day (L) arrive at the Canadian and U.S. border crossing in Cloverdale, west of Vancouver, British Columbia August 31, 2006. Harper announced on Thursday that Canadian border guards will be armed like their U.S. counterparts beginning in September of 2007.
Reuters: U.S. Congress poised to delay border check program
Travelers entering the United States from Canada will win a reprieve from a post-September 11 border security program requiring passports or other high-tech IDs, under a bill set to pass Congress this week.
Congressional negotiators have embraced a delay of up to 17 months for the program, which was supposed to have been fully activated by December 31, 2007.
The language has been attached to a fiscal 2007 domestic security funding bill the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate plan to approve before going on a recess ahead of November mid-term elections.
Following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, Congress strengthened border security, including checks on some of the millions of people who travel by land into the country.
With only 15 months before the new program was to have started, Bush administration officials recently told Congress of difficulties readying identity cards and equipment to read those cards at border stations.
The Bush Administration yet again demonstrates its lack of resolve for border security.
And why couldn’t the United States government implement this program on time?
Americans are less SAFE……
Technorati Tags: Canada, BorderCheck, border_security
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Senator George Allen Watch: The N-Word FLAP – A Democrat Dirty Trick SET UP
Virginia Sen. George Allen, left, answers a question as Democratic challenger James Webb listens during a debate sponsored by the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce in McLean, Va., Monday, Sept 18, 2006
Virginia Papers Have Mixed Reaction to Sen. Allen’s ‘N-Word’ Problem
The current uproar over Sen. George Allen (news, bio, voting record)’s (R-VA) alleged racist comments, including several stories accusing him of using the N-word and engaging in other anti-black statements years ago, has drawn mixed reaction from his home state newspapers as they cover his re-election campaign.
While some papers, such as the Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, are stepping up coverage of the issue as the accusations spread, others, like The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, are purposely downplaying the story out of concern for other issues in the tight Senate race with Jim Webb, a Demcorat. All of those local journalists who spoke with E&P, however, deny missing the story in the past, claiming any indication that Allen may have made such comments were nothing more than rumors.
“There were rumors that never rose to a news story,” said Warren Fiske, a Virginian-Pilot political reporter and 20-year veteran of state coverage. “In the past, we dealt with what we knew and could prove. We wrote stories about the Confederate flag in his house, his opposition to the Martin Luther King holiday and black legislators’ concerns of his sensitivity. But I don’t recall a teammate ever coming out and putting a name behind it.”
Well, it appears the original Salon story and the resulting follow-ups have not been substantiated than to be more than rumors or a partisan Democrat set-up to “GET” George Allen.
Read Captain Ed Morrissey’s account here and read it well.
One thing is certain: the only first-hand sources that have gone on the record have political axes to grind against Allen and their stories have fallen apart under close scrutiny. It’s a smear campaign, a character assassination in slow motion, and one that should shame James Webb and his campaign. They have yet to distance themselves from these attacks, and one has to conclude that they have no desire to do so.
It appears the local Viriginia press has miscounted the entire N-Word FLAP or lack thereof. This smells of a DIRTY TRICK and the SMELL emanates from the James Webb campaign.
Might this KERRFUFFIL backfire on the Webb candidacy?
Possible but more likely it will die a lingering death…..
Stay tuned ….
Blogosphere:
Allah: Pushback: NRO questions Sabato’s racism charges against Allen
Powerline: The macaca offensive
Powerline: The macaca offensive, take 2
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Senator George Allen Watch: The N-Word FLAP
James Webb Watch: Nancy Reagan Demands Webb PULL Fraudulent Campaign Ad Featuring Ronald Reagan
Senator George Allen Watch: Webb NOW leads Allen in Latest Poll
Senator George Allen Watch: Allen Apologizes for Offensive Remarks – FLAP Part II
Senator George Allen Watch: Allen Apologizes for Offensive Remarks – FLAP
Technorati Tags: GeorgeAllen, JimWebb
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Michael Ramirez on Bill Clinton’s Legacy in the Global War on Terror
Reuters: Bush dismisses Clinton critique as “finger-pointing”
President Bush on Tuesday dismissed as “finger-pointing” criticism from his predecessor Bill Clinton of his counter-terrorism efforts in the months leading up to the September 11 attacks.
Clinton, angrily defending his own administration’s attempts to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, had accused the Bush administration of doing far less to stop the al Qaeda leader before the 2001 hijack plane attacks.
Bush, who is trying to stave off a Democratic takeover of Congress in November, seemed to bristle when asked about Clinton, only to sidestep his assertions.
“We’ll let history judge all the different finger-pointing and all that business. I don’t have enough time to finger-point,” he said at a news conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
“I’ve got to do my job,” he added, “and that is to protect the American people from further attacks.”
Indeed Clinton is a HAS BEEN who wants to play politics for his own aggrandizement and Bush is the REAL DEAL and is charged with protecting Americans which Clinton failed to do.
And admits he FAILED….
Technorati Tags: MichaelRamirez, BillClinton, GeorgeBush
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Bill Clinton Watch: Condi vs. Slick Willie
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice participates in an interview conducted by MTV host Gideon Yago, (not shown), at MTV studios, Monday, Sept. 25, 2006 in New York. The interview will air on MTVnews.com and MTV overdrive.
AP: Rice challenges Clinton on terror fight
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice challenged former President Clinton’s claim that he did more than many of his conservative critics to pursue al-Qaida, saying in an interview published Tuesday that the Bush administration aggressively pursued the group even before the 9/11 attacks.
“What we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years,” Rice said during a meeting with editors and reporters at the New York Post.
If Bill Clinton wants a “WAR” with the current administration he will get one. Clinton LIED under oath and was disbarred. He was IMPEACHED for crimes of moral turpitude.
And Americans are to believe his histrionic gyrations on Fox News Sunday about his role in the global war on terror?
NOPE
The newspaper published her comments after Clinton appeared on “Fox News Sunday” in a combative interview in which he defended his handling of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden and said he “worked hard” to have the al-Qaida leader killed.
“That’s the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now,” Clinton said in the interview. “They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try.”
Rice disputed his assessment.
“The notion somehow for eight months the Bush administration sat there and didn’t do that is just flatly false — and I think the 9/11 commission understood that,” she said.
Rice also took exception to Clinton’s statement that he “left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy” for incoming officials when he left office. “We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al-Qaida,” she told the newspaper.
The New York Post interview of Condi is here.
Flap wonders when Hillary will BITCH SLAP Bubba because he is hurting his/her legacy, the presidency and the Democrat Party.
Keep talking SLICK.
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Bill Clinton Watch: Excuses are Clinton’s REAL Legacy in the Global War on Terror
Bill Clinton Watch: Clinton Vs. Wallace on Fox News Sunday
Bill Clinton Watch: Unhinged Clinton Says He Tried
Technorati Tags: BillClinton, CondoleezzaRice, OsamabinLaden, MonicaLewinsky, ThePathto9/11
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Day By Day by Chris Muir September 26, 2006
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Senator George Allen Watch: The N-Word FLAP
Sen. George Allen, R-Va., answers questions about his Jewish heritage during an interview at the offices of the Associated Press Monday, Sept. 25, 2006, in Richmond, Va. Allen also denied the allegations of racism made against him which appeared in a recent magazine article.
AP: Allen denies using racial slur in school
Sen. George Allen (news, bio, voting record) on Monday denounced as “ludicrously false” allegations from a former college football teammate that he frequently used a racial slur to refer to blacks in the early 1970s and that he once stuffed a severed deer head into a black household’s mailbox.
Allen’s campaign also released statements from four other ex-teammates defending the senator and rejecting Dr. Ken Shelton’s claims. Shelton leveled the allegations against the former University of Virginia quarterback in an article published Sunday in the online magazine Salon.com and during an Associated Press interview Sunday night.
“The story and his comments and assertions in there are completely false,” Allen said during an interview with AP reporters and editors. “I don’t remember ever using that word and it is absolutely false that that was ever part of my vocabulary.”
Larry J. Sabato, one of Virginia’s most-quoted political science professors and a classmate of Allen’s in the early 1970s, said in a televised interview Monday that Allen used the epithet.
“I’m simply going to stay with what I know is the case and the fact is he did use the n-word, whether he’s denying it or not,” Sabato, now director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told Chris Matthews on MSNBC. Sabato would not say whether he had heard Allen say the word, and did not know whether it was true that Allen used the word frequently in college.
Flap has used the N-Word. And he is NOT proud of it. Alot of folks have said this epithet/slur either out of frustration, anger or stupidity. However, Flap has NEVER cut off the head of an animal and stuffed it into a mailbox of some black folks – nor has he been falsely accused of such a stunt.
Flap warned that during the Macaca FLAP, Senator Allen appeared unbalanced and angry.
On the other hand, James Webb has FRAUDULENTLY used President Reagan’s likeness in political ads. He, in fact, has LIED – implying the dead President has endorsed his candidacy.
Whether this N-Word story is true or not, Senator Allen and candidate Webb should re-examine their campaigns and abandon the politics of personal destruction.
If it were up to Flap, he would disqualify both of these MORONS and select two new candidates who could BETTER address the issues upon which Virginians demand of a United States Senator.
Virginia Sen. George Allen, left, and Democratic challenger James Webb, greet each other after a debate sponsored by the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce in McLean, Va., Monday, Sept 18, 2006.
Blogosphere:
Captain Ed has ‘A Rather Hyperactive Imagination’
Allah has Allen campaign responds to “N-word†allegations Update: Black teammate vouches for Allen
Dean Barnett has Allen – Webb: Still Depths to Plumb
Mary K has Surprise! Many George Allen Teammates Remember Him Not Being a RacistÂ
Prevous:
James Webb Watch: Nancy Reagan Demands Webb PULL Fraudulent Campaign Ad Featuring Ronald Reagan
Senator George Allen Watch: Webb NOW leads Allen in Latest Poll
Senator George Allen Watch: Allen Apologizes for Offensive Remarks – FLAP Part II
Senator George Allen Watch: Allen Apologizes for Offensive Remarks – FLAP
Technorati Tags: GeorgeAllen, JimWebb
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Bill Clinton Watch: Excuses are Clinton’s REAL Legacy in the Global War on Terror
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (R) speaks during an interview with Chris Wallace during the ‘FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace show’ in New York in this video grab taken on September 22, 2006.
National Review: Bill Clinton’s Excuses
No matter what he says, the record shows he failed to act against terrorism.
“I worked hard to try and kill him,†former president Bill Clinton told Fox News Sunday. “I tried. I tried and failed.â€
“Him†is Osama bin Laden. And in his interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, the former president based nearly his entire defense on one source: Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror, the book by former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke. “All I’m asking is if anybody wants to say I didn’t do enough, you read Richard Clarke’s book,†Clinton said at one point in the interview. “All you have to do is read Richard Clarke’s book to look at what we did in a comprehensive systematic way to try to protect the country against terror,†he said at another. “All you have to do is read Richard Clarke’s findings and you know it’s not true,†he said at yet another point. In all, Clinton mentioned Clarke’s name 11 times during the Fox interview.
But Clarke’s book does not, in fact, support Clinton’s claim. Judging by Clarke’s sympathetic account — as well as by the sympathetic accounts of other former Clinton aides like Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon — it’s not quite accurate to say that Clinton tried to kill bin Laden. Rather, he tried to convince — as opposed to, say, order — U.S. military and intelligence agencies to kill bin Laden. And when, on a number of occasions, those agencies refused to act, Clinton, the commander-in-chief, gave up.
Read the rest here.
Flap agrees with Hugh Hewitt that Byron York has completely destroyed Clinton’s tantrum of yesterday. Even Billy Boy poking his finger at Chris Wallace and yelling at his staff after the interview did nothing to endear him with the American public he failed to protect from Osama bin Laden.Clinton did LITTLE to fight Al Qaeda, bin Laden et. al. despite his protestations that he TRIED.
Why else did Bubba wish to intimidate ABC to prevent the network from airing The Path to 9/11?
In the Global War on Terror results matter not pathetic excuses from former HAS BEEN President’s who could have prevented 9/11 but FAILED.
Again Flap has to agree with Hugh and George Will:
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Bill Clinton Watch: Unhinged Clinton Says He Tried
Technorati Tags: BillClinton, OsamabinLaden, MonicaLewinsky, ThePathto9/11
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Cox & Forkum: Fleecers
Cox & Forkum: Fleecers
AP: Abbas says unity effort ‘back to zero’. (via LGF)
Accusing the Islamic militant group Hamas of backtracking, moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned on Saturday that his efforts to set up a national unity government that is acceptable to the West are “back to zero.”
Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said Friday he would not lead a coalition that recognizes Israel, dealing a blow Abbas’ attempts to form a power-sharing government between his ousted Fatah group and Hamas.
On Saturday, Hamas officials suggested that Abbas had oversold the emerging coalition to the international community, portraying it as more conciliatory toward Israel than it was meant to be. Despite Abbas’ pessimism, Hamas insisted a deal could still be struck.
Abbas is to meet with Hamas leaders in Gaza on Monday.
The latest setback comes at a time of growing tensions between Hamas and Fatah, particularly in the Gaza Strip, where some Fatah members have accused Hamas of involvement in the assassination of a Fatah-allied security chief last week. If the rival factions fail to reach agreement, more violent confrontations appear inevitable. …
Hamas fears it will lose popular support if it softens its hardline positions too much and becomes indistinguishable from Fatah. Recent polls indicate that a majority of Palestinians don’t want Hamas to recognize Israel, perhaps as a matter of pride, even though two-thirds also want Abbas to negotiate a peace deal with the Jewish state.
Technorati Tags: Fatah, Hamas, Palestine, Israel, MahmoudAbbas, IsmailHaniyeh
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Bill Clinton Watch: Clinton Vs. Wallace on Fox News Sunday
Real Clear Politics: Bill Clinton: Play It as It Lies
Former President Bill Clinton, never one to let truth stand in the way of a good line, has decided to reincarnate himself as our tough, anti-terror President. The man who ran away from military service and displayed striking contempt for our armed forces has now announced that he did more – and would do more – to combat Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda than anyone else. In his view, he should be recognized as the best man to fight that enemy.
Speaking to Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Clinton made a bevy of startlingly anti-factual remarks. He announced, for instance, that conservatives had criticized him for obsessing about bin Laden during his presidency – rather than the truth that he was roundly condemned for doing next to nothing about this serious threat to American security. Clinton blamed the Bush Administration for failing to stop the al-Qaeda terrorists before 9/11, saying that the Administration had eight months to get bin Laden and didn’t. That conveniently overlooks that Clinton’s Administration had eight years to do that job, with al-Qaeda using the last two of those years to plan 9/11.
Read the rest of the Clinton half-truths here.
Allah has the video of Fox News Sunday here.
Does Bill Clinton STILL think he is President? His performance was a pathetic attempt to cover his ASS.
The truth is out there.
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