Obama National Intelligence Director Declares Terrorist Threat Over


"A Bright, Sunny, Safe Day" - Just Like That Morning in September 2001

Amazing:

What was more interesting was the accompanying statement by the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, trying to justify Obama’s decision–or at least put it “into perspective.” The perspective, the context, is that in the months after 9/11, “we did not have a clear understanding of the enemy we were dealing with, and our every effort was focused on preventing further attacks that would kill more Americans. It was during these months that the CIA was struggling to obtain critical information from captured al Qaida leaders, and requested permission to use harsher interrogation methods. The OLC memos make clear that senior legal officials judged the harsher methods to be legal.”

Blair continues: “Those methods, read on a bright, sunny, safe day in April 2009, appear graphic and disturbing. As the President has made clear, and as both CIA Director Panetta and I have stated, we will not use those techniques in the future. But we will absolutely defend those who relied on these memos and those guidelines.”

So: We were once in danger. Now we live in “a bright, sunny, safe day in April 2009.” Now, in April 2009, Obama’s Director of National Intelligence seems to be saying, we’re safe.

Yes, September 11 was a bright, sunny day too – and too many of us thought we were safe then as well.

Now, it’s true that in the rapid, multifaceted mobilization against terrorism that took place in late 2001 and early 2002, there were a vast number of decisions made quickly on the basis of incomplete information; it’s only natural that as the anti-terror effort has become part of the permanent institutions of government, there would be some rethinking of which of those emergency measures to make permanent and which to put back on the shelf. Maybe exposing detainees to caterpillars or pushing them against a “fake, flexible wall” or “Grasping the individual with both hands, one hand on each side of the collar opening, in a controlled and quick motion” are horrors beyond our imagining these days – as opposed to things most of us would associate with grammar school – but it’s far more frightening to me to hear the DNI telling us that we’re too safe these days to worry anymore about the need to get intelligence quickly out of captured terrorists.


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The sky was so blue.

Moe Lane (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 11:31AM EST (link)

Just a day. A warm, pleasant, September day.

 

Inviting Another Attack

mas1916 Friday, April 17th at 11:35AM EST (link)

And now Team Obama is telling the enemy what to expect should any of them be caught or captured.

Obama is a fabulous recruiter for muslim extremists. Nothing motivates one to fight better than a naive and timid adversary.

Our President has displayed for the world that he is not interested in winning the war on terror – he has even ordered staff to stop using the term. Our President has displayed for the enemy his unwillingness to fight to protect his homeland. What a great invitation to those that would kill us.

 

We are officially living in Bizarro-world...

speciallist (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 11:37AM EST (link)

double down and FIGHT…

I’m taking orders for an ALL pictorial 911 speciall diary….

Coming this weekend….

 

The world is not stopping to bow to Obama

izoneguy (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 11:43AM EST (link)

and the terrorists are alive and well and planning more attacks.
Unless Obama has something up his sleeves like a look maw no hands kind of thing then he is as naive as I thought he was.

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

 

This sums up this assessment...

DONTREADONME (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 11:43AM EST (link)

Considering how I feel about our new president,

Steph C (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 11:58AM EST (link)

I wouldn’t put it past him to be inviting another attack just so people will be too scared to keep opposing his agenda. You know, as Rahmmie boy says, “Never waste a good crisis.”

Yeah, yeah, I know I’m paranoid, but I’d rather be paranoid than following the clueless dimwits.

When you have radical Muslims still castigating the West for the Crusades, is the war ever really over?

“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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I'm sure it wouldn't bother him or his string pullers.

Achance (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 12:07PM EST (link)

An attack on our soil would give them the opening for all sorts of nice “emergency” powers, which the D-controlled Congress would give him without even blinking, see, e.g., The Reichstag Fire.

In Vino Veritas

Glad to see I'm not the only paranoid right winger. nt

Steph C (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 12:33PM EST (link)

“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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This Is One Paranoid Right-Winger Who Thinks an Attack Against The U.S. Now...

IJB Friday, April 17th at 9:14PM EST (link)

…Will turn out to be Slobama’s Waterloo.

Obama has so little respect for the sanctity of life

Steph C (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 9:46PM EST (link)

he would probably count the loss of several thousand lives worth it if he can use them to amass unequaled power to a president. You know he’s down in Venzueala picking Chavez’s brain about how to make himself president for life.

Thankfully, I don’t think Chavez’s tactics will work here. The people here are waking up to the fact that unlimited terms in Washington, D.C. has a way of screwing them over. The Tea Parties were as much about that as the tax and spend and tax some more.

“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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"In the next six months..."

Aaron Gardner (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 12:00PM EST (link)

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat


Loins status: Girded!

Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 12:03PM EST (link)

nt

“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill

But are they girded with Tin Foil...

Aaron Gardner (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 12:07PM EST (link)

you *know* that is the only way to truly be secure…;^)

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat


 
 

The crew taking back the hijacked ship, avoided his first major crisis.

Common_Cents (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 12:43PM EST (link)

I’m sure 20 American hostages on land in Somalia would have been passed on to Al Qaeda.

Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from, behind, the Back Nine.
Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.

 
 

While the remarks about the naivete are absolutely on the money

The_Gadfly (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 12:29PM EST (link)

the other aspect about this which strikes me, is this: Isn’t Blair’s remark a variation on the defense offered by many Nazi prison camp guards? How far different is, “I was following orders I believed to be legal but which you regard as a human rights abuse” from “I was just following orders.” Because to me, even with the extra words worked in, the problem is still that it either was or wasn’t a human rights abuse. And if it wasn’t a human rights abuse (my position) then the appropriate defense is that it was a human rights abuse. You can’t really make the argument “It was a human rights abuse, but we’re going to defend the people who committed that offense because they had bad information.” And that seems to be the position Blair and Obama are taking.

 

Erick Erickson will have to forgive me if I got this wrong...

Cheetah772 (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 12:40PM EST (link)

I recall one of his posts dealing with Obama’s candidacy for president just months before he won the race. In that post, he wrote that one of reasons he was afraid that once Obama would win, his administration would return to the old way before 9/11. That type of old thinking would in effect lead to more innocent lives lost. Thousands will die on Obama’s watch due to the lack of attention to practicing anti-terrorist measures.

So, it’s amazing that how Erick’s post turned out to be correct. If Obama pursues this type of thinking, then may God help us all. I think it’s not just Erick’s post that struck my mind, but a few other notable posters saying the same thing as Erick did in months before Obama won the race.

It’s a tragic day for all Americans. A very tragic day, indeed!

Daniel 2:20 And he [God] changeth the times and seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding.

 

Our terrriost threat isn't over

bobojake (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 1:01PM EST (link)

he’s runnig around to other countries making up lies and apoligizing for them.

(O)

 

We can't gird enough.

itrytobenice (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 1:38PM EST (link)

We just have to hope we’re lucky enough to be gone on the day of the attack.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.


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What's remarkable is the indiscretion

red_oakster (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 2:00PM EST (link)

Now Obama, Panetta, (and apparently Blair (he of Chas Freeman fame) are ideologues. But to be on record as denying that there’s a threat-and that’s what they’ve done-opens them to serious political repercussions should anything bad happen during the next three years or so. The Carter and Clinton eras were marked by shabby and dishonest policy that weakened American intellegence and counter-terrorism capabilities. But those were duplicities, undertaken in the shadows because at least some of the time, slimeballs like Vance and Christopher, and Albright knew they would need to temporize.

In contrast, the Obama crowd seems to be completely unaware that this sort of smug self-congratulation can be immensely destructive if anything bad goes wrong on the terrorism front. It’s one thing to acknowledge a threat and, if something bad happens, explain why every effort had been made to avoid it. It’s quite another to deny a potential problem and find oneself confronting a painful and bloody denial or your denial. That’s unnecessary, and that’s where the Obamaist conceit has brought them.

 

This sounds awfully familiar.

davo119 Friday, April 17th at 4:41PM EST (link)

The following statement was made by British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, in front of #10 Downing Street, London, after his arrival home from the notorious Munich Conference of 1938

We, the German Fuhrer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister, have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for our two countries and for Europe.

We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.

We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe.

My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is “peace for our time.” Go home and get a nice quiet sleep

Never give in! Never! Never! Never!

Yes, still deep into

redneck_hippie (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 9:31PM EST (link)

Churchill’s History of the 2nd WW, and the parallels with Baldwin/Chamberlin and Carter/Clinton/Obama are spooky. What I find so incredible is that a grown man could be so willfully ignorant of the lessons of history.


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I've read all of it twice

davo119 Friday, April 17th at 9:46PM EST (link)

and The Gathering Storm about 6 times. Sir Winston is one of the great men of the 20th century. But the most incredible aspect of his personality was how he handled rejection. He retired to Charthouse and painted until he was called again, very much like Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus.

Never give in! Never! Never! Never!

Twice here as well and some parts many more

Achance (Diary) Saturday, April 18th at 4:40PM EST (link)

times. The WWII memoir and “History of the English Speaking People” have the place of honor on my office bookshelf. My daughter gave me a nice leatherbound set of History of the English Speaking People, but I’ve never been willing to spring for a leather set of the memoirs. I do have it in hardback; the red and black binding that I think might have been the Book of the Month Club binding way back when it first came out.

In Vino Veritas

I'm reading library copies first.

redneck_hippie (Diary) Saturday, April 18th at 4:51PM EST (link)

Gathering Storm right now and I thought of you when Churchill says the French had exhausted their revanchism in WW I.

At some point I’ll find a used hardcover set to put next to my Lincoln volumes by Sandburg.


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I forgot to add-

davo119 Friday, April 17th at 9:50PM EST (link)

Colossal arrogance would explain his ignorance.

Never give in! Never! Never! Never!

I'm inclined to see it that way. It's not that they don't know the history,

Achance (Diary) Saturday, April 18th at 4:54PM EST (link)

they’re just so arrogant or so contemptuous of their forebears, similar but not matching, that they think they can get a different result.

In Vino Veritas