February 14, 2009 – 8:09 am
So, let’s see: Obama is trying to play pattycake with Iran, making nice-nice, and ticking off Afghan President Hamid Karzai. And Karzai, playing the experienced executive, takes an oh-so-nice shot back Here’s one unsettling exchange with the Afghan chief of state sounding a tad displeased with his newbie presidential counterpart: Zakaria: “Mr. President, how will […]
February 13, 2009 – 12:38 pm
Glad we have the Credentialed Media to tell us these things: U.S. now sees Iran as pursuing nuclear bomb Little more than a year after U.S. spy agencies concluded that Iran had halted work on a nuclear weapon, the Obama administration has made it clear that it believes there is no question that Tehran is […]
February 12, 2009 – 8:39 am
…And is claiming, per the Telegraph headline, that he was tortured with sex by a female FBI agent. Interestingly, the only mentions of the woman being an FBI agent comes in the headline and sub-headline. Rather missing from the actual story Fahim Ansari is accused of helping to plan the attacks in which 173 people […]
February 11, 2009 – 7:39 am
This begs the question, how soon will sites like The Jawa Report, Little Green Footballs, and the Counterterrorism Blog be banned in Britain? Dutch protest Britain’s ban of right-wing lawmaker The British government has banned Dutch right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders from visiting the country to show his anti-Islam film “Fitna” at the Houses of Parliament. Wilders […]
February 9, 2009 – 10:06 pm
Bush 1 – HopeNchange 0 The Obama Administration today announced that it would keep the same position as the Bush Administration in the lawsuit Mohamed et al v Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. Um, oops? And what does Excitable Andy have to say? The Obama administration will continue the cover-up of the alleged torture of the British […]
February 9, 2009 – 8:17 am
All is not unicorns and care bears down at Club Gitmo. I wonder why But first, Lieutenant-Colonel Yvonne Bradley, a US military attorney for 20 years, will reveal that Mohamed, 31, is dying in his Guantánamo cell and that conditions inside the Cuban prison camp have deteriorated badly since Barack Obama took office. Fifty of […]
February 6, 2009 – 9:25 am
Yes, the Surrender Monkey is thrilled, because it looks like the Barry administration is going back to the September 10th way of dealing with terrorism The U.S. government has dropped charges against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the suspect in the bombing of the destroyer USS Cole, according to a Pentagon spokesman. The charges were dropped “without […]
February 3, 2009 – 5:36 pm
A big story in the Washington Times today, in which Powerline and Jammie Wearing Fool catch something disturbing According to GeostrategyDirect.com, a newsletter published by The Washington Times’ ace national security reporter Bill Gertz, “Diplomatic sources said Barack Obama has engaged several Arab intermediaries to relay messages to and from al Qaeda in the months […]
February 3, 2009 – 8:56 am
Wait, wasn’t Biden picked as V.P. for his foreign policy experience, his ability to get ‘er done in that arena? Even after all the (possible Logan Act violation) talks with Iran, and overtures, they still say “I blow my nose in your general direction. Now go away, or I will taunt you a second time” […]
January 27, 2009 – 10:04 am
Aren’t you just thrilled that the ACLU assigns American rights to non-US citizens captured on the battlefields around the world fighting and wearing no uniforms? Politicians in Colorado are split over the chance detainees from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, could be imprisoned at the Supermaxfederal detention facility in Florence. Some say Supermax can handle Gitmo suspects […]
