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9/11: George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and the duties of a president

Posted by: Phineas on September 11, 2012 at 1:40 pm » 5 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Today is the eleventh anniversary of al Qaeda’s attacks on New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, in which Muslims waging jihad fi sabil Allah –war for the sake of Allah– killed nearly 3,000 Americans and foreign guests. On that day, the federal government failed in its primary duty: protecting the United [...]

 

#NeverForget 9-11: Remembering 9-11, and victim Peter Edward Mardikian

Posted by: ST on September 11, 2012 at 8:43 am » 2 Comments

**Reposting.  God bless, and never forget.  -ST** ———————————————————- Longtime readers of this blog will recognize this post, as I have published it here every 9-11 since 2006 in honor of Mr. Mardikian, and all victims of the 9-11 terror attacks, as part of DC Roe’s 9-11 remembrance project. I thought this year about doing another post for another [...]

 

(Video) SEALs don’t fight so American presidents can bow to kings

Posted by: Phineas on August 28, 2012 at 1:33 pm » 5 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Another hard-hitting ad by special operations veterans, this time from Special Operations For America (SOFA), headed by former Navy SEAL Ryan Zinke, a Montana state senator. Did I say “hard hitting?” Make that a gut-punch. Ben Shapiro at Breitbart spoke with Senator Zinke about why these former special operators have chosen to [...]

 

Special Ops and Intelligence professionals to Obama: “Shut up!”

Posted by: Phineas on August 16, 2012 at 1:01 pm » 4 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Several times in the past, I’ve gone off on the Obama administration for seeking domestic political advantage by revealing military and intelligence secrets: when it comes to our struggles with al Qaeda and Iran, national security takes a back seat to the president’s reelection efforts. Spiking the ball after bin Laden’s assassination [...]

 

Feinstein: Some intel leaks came from the White House

Posted by: ST on July 24, 2012 at 11:05 am » 5 Comments

The GOP has long asserted similarly but now the top Democrat Senator on the Senate Intelligence Committee appears to be in agreement: A prominent Democrat is giving the White House heartburn over national security leaks. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, told a World Affairs Council forum yesterday, “I think the [...]

 

Secrets? We don’t need no steeenking secrets!

Posted by: Phineas on June 14, 2012 at 1:01 pm » 2 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Oh, what the heck? Why not tell al-Qaeda just what we’re doing in North Africa, where we’re doing it from, and what kinds of planes we’re flying? And while we’re at it, let’s give them the nuclear launch codes, too: U.S. expands secret intelligence operations in Africa Note that word “secret” Shh! [...]

 

Israeli Intelligence to Obama: Quit stealing the credit!

Posted by: Phineas on June 11, 2012 at 1:11 pm » 2 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Remember when I blew my stack over “someone” (*cough* White House *cough*) leaking classified information about the development of the Stuxnet virus, aimed at Iran’s nuclear weapons program, to the New York Times? It was evident that these and other leaks were being made to boost Obama’s reputation in a difficult reelection [...]

 

President “Look at Me!” blows our national secrets — again

Posted by: Phineas on June 1, 2012 at 2:01 pm » 13 Comments

**Posted by Phineas This time about Stuxnet, the super-virus that’s been wreaking havoc with the Iranians’ “peaceful” nuclear program. The New York Times Obama Marketing Department has the story: Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems [...]

 

Yemen underwear-bomb plot: I was right

Posted by: Phineas on May 13, 2012 at 5:06 pm » 5 Comments

**Posted by Phineas A few days ago, when writing about the revelation of a Al Qaeda plot to blow up a commercial flight with a new and improved underwear bomb and our penetration of said plot, I speculated as to why we were hearing about what should have been a top-secret operation: With the economy [...]

 

The foiled bomb plot: great news, but…

Posted by: Phineas on May 9, 2012 at 1:11 pm » 4 Comments

**Posted by Phineas On the one hand, this is great news: We infiltrated Al Qaeda’s Arabian subsidiary [AQAP] and kept a lot of people from being killed, while at the same time delivering flaming justice to one of the masterminds of the attack on the USS Cole: The CIA takedown of an Al Qaeda plot [...]