Jed Babbin has the top story at Human Events today on the Lockerbie Bomber.
If only there were a conspiracy to blame, but there isn’t. It would be comforting, in a perverse way, to discover a home video showing Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill, CIA Director Leon Panetta and the bosses of Yale University Press smoking cigars and playing cards with Muammar Gaddafi.
But there is no conspiracy, only a rampant loss of will to defend freedom in the West. Today’s release of the long-awaited CIA Inspector General’s report on terrorist interrogations rides close upon the heels of Scotland’s “compassionate” release of a terrorist mass-murderer and an act of self-censorship by Yale Press that are, each in its turn, acts of surrender to the terrorist nations that war against us.
Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi — an agent of Libyan intelligence — was found guilty of putting a bomb on board Pan Am flight 103 in December 1988, resulting in an explosion that killed 270 people, including 189 Americans on board and 11 Scots on the ground below. Last week’s decision by MacAskill to free Megrahi was an act of phony compassion.
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if we sent the USAF to address this situation, would we have to fly around France this time?
nessa (Diary) Monday, August 24th at 9:59AM EST (link)“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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One lingering question, what potential deal did Obama's guys discuss?
Marcus_Traianus (Diary) Monday, August 24th at 10:15AM EST (link)So here is one of my issues; what did the administrations representatives discuss or convey with Libya or the Scot’s when they knew this may happen?
The Scot’s had to give DoS a forewarning, the same forewarning the Brit’s received. Why has no one inquired about when the Obama Administration knew and how? What about potential deals with Libya with strings such as “no public celebrations, etc.” and accompanying plausible deniability if the deal was not upheld.
This was also an issue when Obama shook hands with al-qaddafi’s during the G8 Summit.
Something stinks- big time. The reaction from Pennsylvania Avenue was way over the top and inconsistent with their reaction on virtually ever other issue.
“Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object—the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers; the other, by a different one. One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other, the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove.”.Thomas Jefferson
Hasn't it already been explained?
anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Monday, August 24th at 2:01PM EST (link)Somewhere in the bunch es of articles about the release over the weekend there were quotes from the Colonel’s son (in charge of oil contract negotiations) who said he started off every meeting with the Brit’s by saying they had to release that guy from prison before they could move forward?
Santorum? Well, at least he’s not Romney…
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According to the Sun, Gordon Brown discussed this deal
Old_Crow (Diary) Monday, August 24th at 2:19PM EST (link)at last month’s G-8 summit. So either State or the WH (or both) knew about this deal in advance and signed off on it.
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” — James Madison