Barack Obama -- June 13, 2009

June 13, 2009

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Barack Hussein Obama

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Obama May Release Terrorists Into The U. S.	Obama hasn't decided whether or not to release Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States. Spokesman Robert Gibbels said President Barack Obama has made clear "we're not going to make any decision about transfer or release that threatens the security of this country." Asked if that meant he was ruling out releasing any detainees in the United States, Gibbs said: "I'm not ruling it in or ruling it out." A tentative plan to release some Guantanamo detainees in the United States drew fierce opposition from Republicans and many Democrats in Congress, forcing the Obama administration to shelve the plan to bring some Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs to Virginia. The Uighur detainees at Guantanamo were found not to be enemy combatants by the Pentagon, but few nations have been willing to accept them, out of fear of angering China. This past week, four of the 17 Uighurs being held at Guantanamo were sent to Bermuda, and the Pacific islands nation of Palau said it would accept others. Gibbs told reporters progress has been made this week in the administration's goal of closing the detention center in Cuba by early next year. Seven detainees have been shipped out of Guantanamo so far this week.
Obama Sends Terrorists Home	U.S. officials say three Guantanamo Bay detainees have been sent home to Saudi Arabia. The Justice Department say the trio will be subject to judicial review in Saudi Arabia before they participate in a rehabilitation program administered by the Saudi government. With the latest transfer, the Obama has freed 10 detainees from Guantanamo in the past week, sending four to Bermuda, one to Chad, one to Iraq, and one to face trial in New York City. That leaves 229 detainees still at the U.S. military detention center in Cuba. The three men sent to Saudi Arabia are Khalid Saad Mohammed, Abdalaziz Kareem Salim Al Noofayaee and Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair. During a hearing in Guantanamo in October 2004, Zuhair was accused of involvement in the 1995 killing in Bosnia-Herzegovina of William Jefferson, a U.S. official with the United Nations. At the tribunal, U.S. officials said Jefferson's watch was found on Zuhair. Zuhair also was convicted in absentia by a Bosnian court in a 1997 car bombing in the town of Mostar. He also allegedly told another detainee he was involved in the bombing of the U.S. destroyer Cole in 2000, according to evidence presented at a Guantanamo proceeding. Obama made a dumb campaign promise. Now, in order to placate his leftist supporters, he's emptying Gitmo. He doesn't care how he does it, and he doesn't care what the results of his political action will be. There will be dead Americans, either on the battlefield or in the U. S. mainland as a result of Obama's actions.
Obama Flies Terrorists To Paradise	Senior aides to Obama accompanied four Chinese Muslims and their lawyers on a flight from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to Bermuda. The four Chinese Muslims, called Uighurs (WEE-gurs), were resettled in Bermuda yesterday. The Obama administration insists they were not enemy combatants and should be released. All four of them are members or associates of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM/TIP), otherwise known as the Turkistan Islamic Party. The ETIM/TIP is a U.S. and UN designated terrorist organization affiliated with al Qaeda and has attacked civilians in China, as well as reportedly plotted against other targets elsewhere, including the U.S. embassy in Kyrgyzstan. According to the State Department, ETIM/TIP members have also fought alongside the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan. And last year the organization threatened to attack the Olympic Games in China. Three of the four Uighurs transferred to Bermuda also admitted that they had firsthand ties to senior terrorists such as Hassan Mahsum and Abdul Haq -- the leaders of the ETIM/TIP. Haq was recently designated an al Qaeda terrorist by the Obama administration’s Treasury Department, which noted that he is also a member of al Qaeda’s elite Shura council. Mahsum was killed in a Taliban and al Qaeda stronghold in northern Pakistan in 2003. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor says that White House counsel Greg Craig and the special envoy charged with overseeing the closure of the prison at Guantanamo, Daniel Fried, were aboard the plane. The two were on the plane to carry the bribe money and to ensure that the process went smoothly. These terrorists eventually would be eligible for citizenship, which would allow them to travel elsewhere. The Uighurs hailed their new freedom, but Britain chided its overseas territory saying it should have been consulted on the move. Britain's Bermuda Governor Sir Richard Gozney told the territory's Royal Gazette newspaper that the Uighur transfer was done without permission. "The government of Bermuda should have consulted with us because it carries with it foreign policy ground areas and security issues," Gozney was quoted as saying, adding he was only informed about the move earlier Thursday. In Washington, a State Department official acknowledged on condition of anonymity that the British were livid. He said the United States consulted Britain about the case, although possibly not long before the men boarded the plane. China wanted the Uighurs back but the United States refused to send them, fearing they would face torture or even execution. US Attorney General Eric Holder voiced gratitude to Bermuda, a hub of tourism and international finance that is home to some 70,000 people, saying, "By helping accomplish the president's objective of closing Guantanamo, the transfer of these detainees will make America safer." Something that most people don't know is that The World Uighur Congress is headed by Rebiya Kadeer who was jailed for more than five years before being sent into exile in the United States in 2005, where her championing of her people's rights has led supporters to dub her the "mother of the Uighur people." Obama continues to take care of the "Brothers." The fallout -- The United Bermuda Party today moved for a motion of no confidence against the Government led by Premier Ewart Brown. Opposition leader Kim Swan proposed the motion in the House of Assembly this morning. He said it was necessary as the Island is "increasingly subject to the politics of one man rule." Said Mr. Swan: "Why have we moved a motion of no confidence? The public affairs of Bermuda are increasingly subject to the politics of one man rule under the Premier, Dr. Ewart Brown. We consider this unhealthy and not in Bermuda’s best interest. "This is not just about Uighurs in Bermuda, though that issue typifies a style of leadership that is reckless, autocratic and conducted with no sense of accountability to the people or, indeed, to Bermuda’s Constitution." "...reckless, autocratic and conducted with no sense of accountability to the people or, indeed, to Bermuda’s Constitution." -- remind you of anyone?
Obama Pressures Intelligence Agencies	Military intelligence officials have quietly told Congress they advised against transferring 25 of the 60 Guantanamo Bay terror detainees deemed eligible for relocation by the Obama administration, including five who are considered to be highly dangerous and likely to return to the battlefield. But the Defense Intelligence Agency officials did not raise any formal objections with the administration because they concluded the decision to move prisoners already had been made, according to a letter Sen. Tom Coburn, a member of the intelligence committee, sent Tuesday to Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair. In the letter, obtained by The Washington Times, the Oklahoma Republican senator questions whether Obama put political considerations ahead of national security. "The DIA told the committee that DIA has not objected to the release of many rank-and-file members of terrorist organizations 'due to an explicit understanding that many detainees were destined to be transferred out of Gitmo regardless of intelligence-based objections,'" Mr. Coburn wrote. "DIA's admission that it is not objecting to the release of some members of terrorist organizations due to a belief that policy considerations will outweigh intelligence concerns is highly troubling and highlights the need for the committee to hear from your office about the judgments of all agencies on this matter," Mr. Coburn wrote. Continue reading here . . .
Obama’s War On The Truth	Victor Davis Hanson, in his essay, "Just Make Stuff Up," says that in the first six months of the Obama administration, we have witnessed an assault on the truth of a magnitude not seen since the Nixon Watergate years. The prevarication is ironic given the Obama campaign’s accusations that the Bush years were not transparent and that Hillary Clinton, like her husband, was a chronic fabricator. Remember Obama’s own assertions that he was a "student of history" and that "words mean something. You can’t just make stuff up." Yet Obama’s war against veracity is multifaceted. Trotskyization. Sometimes the past is simply airbrushed away. Barack Obama has a disturbing habit of contradicting his past declarations as if spoken words did not mean much at all. The problem is not just that once-memorable statements about everything from NAFTA to public campaign financing were contradicted by his subsequent actions. Rather, these pronouncements simply were ignored to the point of making it seem they were never really uttered at all. What is stunning about Obama’s hostile demagoguery about Bush’s War on Terror is not that he has now contradicted himself on one or two particulars. Instead, he has reversed himself on every major issue -- renditions, military tribunals, intercepts, wiretaps, Predator drone attacks, the release of interrogation photos, Iraq (and, I think, soon Guantanamo Bay) -- and yet never acknowledged these reversals. Are we supposed to think that Obama was never against these protocols at all? Or that he still remains opposed to them even as he keeps them in place? Meanwhile, his attorney general, Eric Holder, is as voluble on the excesses of the Bush War on Terror as he is silent about his own earlier declarations that detainees in this war were not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Convention. Politicians often go back on earlier promises, and they often exaggerate (remember Obama’s "10,000" who died in a Kansas tornado [12 perished], or his belief that properly inflating tires saves as much energy as offshore drilling can produce?). But the extent of Obama’s distortions suggests that he has complete confidence that observers in the media do not care -- or at least do not care enough to inform the public. Continue reading here . . .