Seattle Weekly: UPDATE: A spokesman from U.S. Customs and Border Protection says there are two sides to every story. Details after the jump. Airport security is a big deal these days. But since when has reporting your income been a matter of national security? Michael Yon is an ex-Green Beret turned war correspondent who’s spent [...]
FOX News: President Obama said Tuesday that U.S. intelligence had enough information to uncover the terrorist plot to bomb a Northwest Airlines flight but “failed” to piece it all together before the suspect boarded a plane for Detroit armed with explosives. The president, who spoke after meeting with top officials to discuss internal reviews of [...]
CNS News: The State Department has awarded 1,011 special “diversity visas†allowing Yemeni nationals to immigrate to the United States since 2000, the year 17 U.S. sailors were killed when the USS Cole was attacked by terrorists in the Yemeni port of Aden. The “diversity visas” are designed to encourage immigration from countries that do [...]
FOX News: The U.S. will not transfer any detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Yemen right now, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. Ninety detainees in Gitmo are from Yemen, which is combating a resurgent Al Qaeda. A delayed return could mean they will end up in a federal prison in Thomson, Illinois, [...]
Washington Examiner: The attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 was more than just al Qaeda’s latest attempt to bring death and destruction to American shores. It was also, in its still-unfolding political aftermath, a head-on collision between Barack Obama’s soaring rhetoric and the reality of terrorism. Obama’s first response to the incident, or nonresponse, [...]
The Wall Street Journal: When does a civilization become incompetent? I’ve been mulling the question in a number of contexts over the last year, including our inability to put a stop to Somali piracy, detain a terrorist who can neither be charged nor released, think rationally about climate change, or rebuild Ground Zero in an [...]
And as we all know, Bush dodges shoes quite well.
When will people see that Guantanamo Bay is not a correction center like an American prison is? These terrorists aren’t sent there to learn to behave, they aren’t sent there as punishment for breaking a law. They are sent there because they are too dangerous to have running free, be it in Afghanistan, Yemen, or [...]
The Washington Post: Five Northern Virginia men arrested in Pakistan indicated Monday that they plan to fight terrorism charges that Pakistani police are recommending by using a strategy seen in U.S. courtrooms: that they were preparing for jihad but not planning any terror attacks. The men told a Pakistani court that they had neither sought [...]
NY Daily News: Security for the federal trial of self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four accused cohorts will run $200 million a year, sources told the Daily News. The NYPD’s newly revised projection is almost triple the estimate of $75 million in November, after Attorney General Eric Holder announced he would move the [...]
Townhall: I thought I heard him wrong but after thirty seconds I went back and, sure enough, Mr. Leg Thrill used a strong “B” instead of a “P.” Editor’s note: For comparison listen to the second clip in the playlist. At the 3:10 mark Matthew’s correctly pronounces the name.
