Today is Memorial Day

Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

Today, during our national recognition of Memorial Day, be sure to take time out to remember those men and women of the United States military (and those civilians, too) who have given their lives so that we may remain the last ember of true liberty in the world.

Today, I remember three specific groups of soldiers in particular:

First, those men who gave their lives on Takur Ghar in Afghanistan. A summary of the military action on Roberts Ridge is located here. http://www.defense.gov/news/May2002/d20020524takurghar.pdf
The sacrifices made that day in support of fallen comrades is moving. The dead of Roberts Ridge are:
Petty Officer 1st Class Neil C. Roberts, 32, Woodland, California
TSgt John A. Chapman, 36, Waco, Texas
Senior Airman Jason D. Cunningham, 26, Camarillo, California
Pfc. Matthew A. Commons, 21, Boulder City, Nevada
Sgt. Bradley S. Crose, 22, Orange Park, Florida
Spc. Marc A. Anderson, 30, Brandon, Florida
Sgt. Phillip Svitak, 31, Neosho, Missouri

Second, I remember Staff Sergeant Morgan and Spc. Hall of the Second Platoon, Bravo Company, First Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 193 Infantry Brigade (Separate). Sergeant Morgan and Specialist Hall lost their lives while on patrol near La Ensanada, Panama during Manuel Noriega's drug money financed regime. While making a river crossing, several sharks attacked Sergent Morgan, who was the last of the platoon to cross the river. Believing Sergent Morgan to be drowning, Specialist Hall ignored the danger to himself and jumped back into the river in an attempt to rescue Sergeant Morgan. Both Morgan and Hall succumbed to the shark attack.

The third group of soldiers I wish to remember today are those that lost their lives on United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. Because of their impromptu heroic action, they became soldiers committed to defending the United States as surely as if each enlisted. I believe each of these civilians are true soldiers, made so because of their induction through combat against the enemies of the United States. The United States should declare each of these men and woman veterans, award each of them the military medals and citations appropriate to their actions, pay survivors benefits to their families, and memorialize these men and women in a way appropriate to the military nature of their action. Their heroic story is here:
http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20011028flt93mainstoryp7.asp

Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends. May God bless their souls, and may God bless and protect our soldiers fighting still in the cause of the defense of the United States of America.

How to Try to Bury a Story

Release it past the deadlines on Friday before a three day national holiday, of course! From the self described most transparent and ethical administration in history.

White House asked Clinton to talk to Sestak about Senate run

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/05/exclusive_white_house_asked_cl_1.html

More On Obama's Destruction of Intelligence Sharing

A week ago, I posted that B. Hussein Obama was damaging the nation's security and ability to prevent terrorist attacks by withholding intelligence sharing between this nation's intelligence services.

http://redwarning.blogspot.com/2010/05/obama-is-destroying-us-intelligence.html

I the prior article, I stated that John Brennan was favored by the Obama regime over Jim Clapper for the appointment of the next DNI. I still believe this.

Today, Obama's operatives on the Senate Intelligence Committee have leaked that they do not want to have Jim Clapper sent to the committee as the next DNI.

Yesterday, it was revealed that Obama's real first choice, John Brennan, gave a speech saying that jihad was a legitimate tenant of Islam, and that the nation should not refer to attacks by Islamists as either terrorism or jihad.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/27/counterterror-adviser-defends-jihad-legitimate-tenet-islam/

These statements reveal that Brennan is so out of touch with political realities that he will never get past the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Which means that the nation will likely suffer the appointment of a career politician, Leon Panetta, currently the director of the CIA, as the next Director of National Intelligence. Leon Panetta was at the time of his appointment as the DCIA the least qualified person in the history of the position to be named to it. Of course, B. Hussein Obama was the least qualified person in history to obtain the office of the Presidency, so it really is a case of "next verse, same as the first" for the Obama regime.

We will see if Leon Panetta has the gut to take on Obama, Holder, and Napolitano over the issue of segregated intelligence streams. I doubt it.

Obama: Sending Troops to the Border?

I had been wondering what Obama would do to preempt Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's effective use of the Arizona National Guard to enforce the border between Arizona and Mexico. We now have the answer.

Obama plans to nationalize the Arizona National Guard and put them in an unarmed, away from the border, purely ineffective support role "supporting" U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This after John Morton, Assistant Secretary of State for Homeland Security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the Arizona law enforcing the federal laws is "not good government."

It was clear that the Obama regime was going to fight Arizona all the way on this. Obama just did what he could by removing the Arizona National Guard from Brewer's control, while spinning it like he is doing something to support border enforcement. Brewer would be wise to tell Obama, Reid, and Pelosi "thanks, but no thanks."

UPDATE: 24 hours later, my beliefs are confirmed. The State Department announced the US National Guard troops being sent to the Mexican border will NOT be used to stem the flow of illegal aliens across the frontier and will not enforce US immigration laws.

State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters, "It's not about immigration."

Your move, Arizona.

Plug the Damn Hole!

Word leaked that Obama was acting all tough with his aides behind closed doors and said "Plug the damn hole!"

At first, I thought he was talking about the leaky border between Mexico and the United States, but no, he was complaining about BP.

Obama's Redistribution Plan Is Working As Designed

Private pay is down, government handouts of taxpayer money is up. Just like Obama told Joe the Plumber in a rare moment of honesty. Of course, tax revenues are down and the taxable base of private workers is shrinking, just like Greece.

White House approved media story at the link "Private Pay Shrinks To Historic Lows" cannot hide the facts.

http://tinyurl.com/2wushl6

New Black Panther DoJ Trial Attorney Resigns

The Obama regime is OK with violent criminals intimidating voters, but wants desperately to find someone, ANYONE, with a Tea Party affiliation doing anything wrong.

The ethical attorneys remaining in the DoJ are jumping ship.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/31574180/J-Christian-Adams-resignation-letter-051910

Obama Is Destroying US Intelligence Sharing

B. Hussein Obama forced retired Admiral Dennis Blair to resign the office of Director of National Intelligence. The mainstream media spin will be that Blair never had the support of the White House, fought unnecessary and unpopular turf wars, appointed the wrong people, and had to take the fall for recent intelligence failures.

If I have learned anything in my years walking this earth, the mainstream media will have it wrong. This is assuredly NOT a case of Admiral Blair "walking the plank" for intelligence failures during his tenure.

Maybe this is a case of removing an unpopular DNI. And maybe this is a case of the President of the United States removing a watchdog from the warehouse so the criminals will have an easier time of it.

I believe it likely that Obama insider and White House operative John O. Brennan, not retired General and current Pentagon intel chief Jim Clapper, will be named the new Director of National Intelligence. Liberals opposed John Brennan for the top spot at the CIA early on in the Obama tenure. Watch as liberals wilt in the face of Obama/Brennan now.

The Director of National Intelligence, a position few people know about, is actually the new head of the US Central Intelligence operation - boss of the CIA. I have a long job description of the Director of National Intelligence at the bottom of this post. Suffice to say, his job is to act as the gathering point for all US intelligence, and provide the methods for effective sharing of intelligence between US intelligence agencies so these agencies are not “stove piped” and miss seeing the larger intelligence picture.

Now, it has happened since the ascension of the Obama regime, that the Department of Justice, including the FBI, is no longer sharing intelligence information of any sort with the United States Military intelligence apparatus. The Department of Justice is headed by the Attorney General, and the Attorney General (both by his own authority and upon the instruction of the President) has the ability to veto the intelligence sharing rules promulgated by the Director of National Intelligence.

The Attorney General is Eric Holder. Eric Holder and Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano, along with B. Hussein Obama, are not concerned with protecting the homeland from foreign invasion. This much is crystal clear. Janet Napolitano was the prior governor of Arizona who failed to stem the tide of illegal immigrants in Arizona, directly leading to recent Arizona laws designed to make the state safe again. The same Janet Napolitano that said she would never have signed the new Arizona law if she were still governor. The same Janet Napolitano that issued a Homeland Security warning upon taking office warning US law enforcement against the threat of “right wing extremists.” Not worried about al Qaeda, worried about the Tea Party.

This is the same Eric Holder that made a huge deal about arresting a “right-wing militia” group in Hutaree (later discovered to be composed of registered Democrats). Even the FBI case against the Hutaree group is falling apart. Even U.S. District Judge Victoria A. Roberts exclaimed in a pre-trial hearing “I share the frustration of the defense … with all of the responses that are coming from this witness [FBI Lead Agent Leslie Larsen] that she doesn’t know anything.” Judge Roberts release the group on bail, ruling that they “do not pose a threat to the community.”

If I were to speculate, I would suspect that Dennis Blair was pushing for complete sharing of the intelligence gathered by the Intelligence Community among the entire Intelligence Community. I would additionally speculate that Eric Holder, either of his own directive or under the direction of B. Hussein Obama, overruled Dennis Blair and determined to keep the Department of Justice intelligence information completely away from the U.S. military intelligence services. I would suspect that this caused friction between Blair and the White House, and lead directly to the sacking of Blair. And, I would suspect that the FBI does not want the military to see its intelligence gathering because it is focused on US citizens who oppose the policies of the Administration in an attempt to paint them as right-wing militia members, and that some of these folks are or are close to people in the military.

If my speculation is correct, it means the FBI is stove piping their intelligence information, whether it pertains to US citizens or foreign nationals with ties to overseas terrorists, because they wish to mask their politically motivated investigations from the larger intelligence community.

The stove piping of intelligence information is the pre-9/11 mindset, and directly lead to the intelligence gaps that made the 9/11 attacks successful. This stove piping runs directly against the purpose of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Protection Act of 2004. Recall the report of the post-9/11 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States:

"A "smart" government would integrate all sources of information to see the enemy as a whole. Integrated all-source analysis should also inform and shape strategies to collect more intelligence."

When the Department of Justice, which includes the FBI, withholds its intelligence from other members of the Intelligence Community, it is the opposite of “smart” government. Of course, that has been the hallmark of the Obama regime.


What follows is the job description of the Director of National Intelligence. You can see how the Attorney General has the Director in a political headlock:

Subject to the authority, direction, and control of the President, the Director of National Intelligence (Director) shall serve as the head of the Intelligence Community, act as the principal adviser to the President, to the NSC, and to the Homeland Security Council for intelligence matters related to national security, and shall oversee and direct the implementation of the National Intelligence Program. The Director will lead a unified, coordinated, and effective intelligence effort. Except as otherwise directed by the President or prohibited by law, the Director shall:
A. have access to all information and intelligence. For the purpose of access to and sharing of information and intelligence, the Director: (1) will determine that intelligence, regardless of the source from which derived and including information gathered within or outside the United States, pertains to more than one United States Government agency; and (2) Shall develop guidelines for how information or intelligence is provided to or accessed by the Intelligence Community. All guidelines developed in accordance with this section shall be approved by the Attorney General and, where applicable, shall be consistent with guidelines issued pursuant to section 1016 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Protection Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-458) (IRTPA).
B. Shall ensure, through appropriate policies and procedures, the deconfliction, coordination, and integration of all intelligence activities conducted by an Intelligence Community element or funded by the National Intelligence Program. In accordance with these policies and procedures:
(A) The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall coordinate the clandestine collection of foreign intelligence collected through human sources or through human-enabled means and counterintelligence activities inside the United States;
(B) The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency shall coordinate the clandestine collection of foreign intelligence collected through human sources or through human-enabled means and counterintelligence activities outside the United States;
(C) All policies and procedures for the coordination of counterintelligence activities and the clandestine collection of foreign intelligence inside the United States shall be subject to the approval of the Attorney General; and
(D) All policies and procedures developed under this section shall be coordinated with the heads of affected departments and Intelligence Community elements.

1.5 Duties and Responsibilities of the Heads of Executive Branch Departments and Agencies. The heads of all departments and agencies shall:
(a) Provide the Director access to all information and intelligence relevant to the national security or that otherwise is required for the performance of the Director's duties, to include administrative and other appropriate management information, except such information excluded by law, by the President, or by the Attorney General acting under this order at the direction of the President.

It is Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

Here is my original sketch, Mohammed At a Conference.

Thought for the Morning

If the Miss USA organization thought the open borders crowd was going to cause trouble if Miss Oklahoma was named the winner, wait until they see what the Islamists are going to do about a Muslim girl parading around on television dressed like a whore in front of infidels living in the Great Satan USA.

Mullah Omar Captured in Pakistan!

Osama bin Laden and 9/11 attack enabler Mullah Omar has been captured. Hopefully, no one will read him his Miranda warnings.

This could be a game-changer in Afghanistan.

http://tinyurl.com/28djgmx

2010: A Long, Hot Summer of Bombs and Misery?

While Barak Hussein Obama and his radical leftist fellow traveller Eric Holder want to treat war-making terrorists as criminals, the Islamic terrorists are plotting to attack the United States and its people directly with any means available to them. This weekend's car bomb in New York City and the earlier efforts of the panty bomber was just the first salvos in what I expect will be a series of Islamic attacks that will be conducted inside the United States this year.

Pakistan-based Taleban leader Hakimullah Mehsud appears to have survived a missile attack against him, and has vowed to attack US cities in communications since the attack. His group claimed credit for the attempted car bombing this weekend, although it remains to be seen if there is evidence that ties the Taleban this car bomb.

"The time is very near when our fedayeen will attack the American states in the major cities," said Mehsud in a recent Internet posting.

All of this comes on the heels of the statements by Noman Benotman, who was the head of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in 2000 and a former associate of Osama bin Laden. Benotman reported in a recent interview that “What happened after the [9/11 attacks] was beyond [al Qaeda's] imagination.” He said that al Qaeda was convinced that the United States had no appetite for military actions overseas based on the US response to the terror group’s attacks on embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.

It appears that al Qaeda now understands that there are differences between George W Bush and Barak Hussein Obama, and that the United States is free to attack again without fear of a devastating military response from the United States in their own homeland. After all, the innocent must not suffer for the actions of accused criminals with legitimate gripes.

The weakness of Barak Hussein Obama and Eric Holder invites attack, and I believe attacks will come. The United States is a wide-open society full of soft targets, undocumented foreigners, and mosques. We are demonized for looking at anyone with suspicion, not matter what their behavior might be. We punish law enforcement for taking initiative to defend the nation.

The most likely response from the Obama Regime will be to further curtail the civil liberties of the American public by having the Department of Justice bring profiling cases against law enforcement, signing Executive Orders curtailing the possession and transfers of weapons and ammunition, making construction and agricultural materials harder to come by, and slapping travel bans on private citizens.

I truly believe that the Islamic enemies of the United States will not be content with bombings and shootings this year, and will attempt biological or chemical attacks within the United States. I am frankly surprised that such attacks have not yet occurred. And, frankly, the posture of the United States government invites attack.

I do not mean to suggest that Obama or Holder wish attacks upon the United States. I do suggest that they are so ignorant and inexperienced in matters of national security that they have no earthly idea how to protect a country beyond what their radical leftist professors taught them. The actions of the Obama Regime back up my beliefs. From changes in communications (no more "global war on terror" its an "overseas contingency operation" and from "terrorism" to "man-made disasters"), reading terrorists their rights before intelligence agencies can interrogate them, deciding to prosecute foreign terrorists in U.S. civilian courts, destruction of the CIA's interrogation facilities, the hiring of al Qaeda lawyers at the Department of Justice, and the attempt to shut down Guantanamo Bay all within B. Hussein Obama's first year in the Oval Office demonstrate that the Obama Regime operates in a mindset of a leftist fantasyland.

The United States economy is fragile right now, along with much of the world's economies. Even if no material terrorism occurs in the next twelve months, I believe that we will see a default of sovereign debt somewhere in the world this year.

Add to the current economic instability a series of effective terrorist attacks within the United States, and we will see an economic meltdown in the United States that will spread to Europe and Asia. This economic posture cannot be overlooked by Islamic terrorists bent on the destruction of the "Great Satan" United States. This is their moment if they truly wish to do the United States harm. We can only pray that our military, fighting with one hand tied behind its back and the Department of Justice out to prosecute anyone who fights effectively, can stave off attacks against us through the use of timely intelligence gathering and immediate, violent action based on that intelligence.

But if the intelligence leads the military to believe the actionable targets are already within the United States, all bets are off because the military has to had the intel over to the Department of Justice and look the other way.

Under the Obama/Holder regime, Justice Department intel sharing is starting to become a one way street as the DoJ has taken some or all their intelligence work completely in-house and off the government intelligence sharing processes. This action runs completely contrary to the underlying reason the Untied States reformed the intelligence services following the Trade Center Attacks by Islamic terrorists. Intelligence sharing between government agencies was at the core of the justifications for the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. Under this law, the Department of Justice is a member of the United States' Intelligence Community under the direction of the Director of National Intelligence. The goal of the law was to force more effective sharing of national security related intelligence. A member of our intelligence community keeping their intelligence away from the other members only hinders our ability to defend the nation.

Responsible, forward-thinking individual action should be taken now to protect yourself, your family, and your community. http://www.ready.gov/ may be a good place to start.

Fort Knox Trains To Engage Tea Party Members

Patriotpost.us, a right-thinking Internet publication I enjoy reading and recommend to all, got wind of a U S Army exercise that set out the scenario where the Army was deployed against Tea Party protesters.

I encourage you to read the whole background story at http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2010/04/29/army-preps-for-tea-party-terrorists/

The guys at Patriotpost are predisposed to give the military the benefit of the doubt, even those officers that would remain in the United Stated Army under Commander in Chief B. Hussein Obama. As a result of the Patriotpost's desire to be good guys, they withdrew the unclassified Army documents

I do not share the Patriotpost's benefit of the doubt in favor of the Fort Knox officers' corps. This is not a critique of Mark Alexander or the Patriotpost; I simply see things differently than they do.

So, here are the documents Patriotpost removed from its website.

http://static.infowars.com/2010/04/i/article-images/exercise3.png

I want these documents to be seen by as many folks as possible so we can understand the lengths to which the Obama Regime will plan to destroy its political enemies, the People of the United States of America.