Does anyone seriously believe that the Pakistani government did not know Osama bin Laden was living – and living large – in their country? Please. Pakistan’s intelligence service is corrupt, but they are far from incompetent. At best they turned a blind eye to the U.S.’s most-wanted terrorist. But it’s far more likely parts of…
Category: National Security
Ron Paul Kills on WikiLeaks
@RonJeffries “Ron Paul’s questions listed here are as good a defense of WikiLeaks as I’ve seen.” http://bit.ly/f8HrmT These are great questions that deserve answers, answers we almost certainly never get. Why? Because no one in power wants to pay the high price of setting the principle bar high enough to require the transparency we both…
TSA Scanner Risks
Review of TSA X-ray backscatter scanner safety issues: http://bit.ly/fkIWES. Bottom line is that real risks exist.
TSA Humor: First Body Cavity Search
Found as the background image on a TSA computer at the Indianapolis airport: Yeah, that’s REAL funny, jerks.
Football as a Metaphor Starring the N.Y. Jets
The irony of this week’s AFC championship game is not lost on any football fan: Had the Indianapolis Colts had the moral fiber to give a decent effort in week 15 of the NFL season, the New York Jets would be watching this week’s big game at home instead of playing in it against the…
Responding to Terrorism Requires a Tough Attitude, Long-Term Perspective
In the aftermath of the failed Christmas-day attempt to bring a Northwest Airlines flight down, David Broder says that 9/11 was a call to duty to President Bush and 12/25 could trigger the same response in President Obama and help him change his approach to dealing with terrorism. For the sake of Americans everywhere, let’s…
Is America Addressing Terrorism Correctly?
Barack Obama has admitted that the homeland security apparatus failed in the case of Nigerian terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He had no choice, really – nearly 300 people are still alive only because passengers aboard the flight took matters into their own hands. He went on to say that he wasn’t going to tolerate any…
Surprised that Americans Want Answers from Terrorist? Don’t be.
Rasmussen reports that 58% of Americans polled want answers in a bad way from Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the terrorist who tried to kill over 250 people on a Christmas Day Northwest Airlines flight by detonating plastic explosive he’d secreted in his underwear. By bad way I mean bad enough to waterboard the radical Muslim. Fifty-eight…
Obama Still Doesn’t Get Iran
President Obama has been in office for nearly a year now and one of the most pressing issues in the realm of national security still seems to escape him, namely what to do with Iran. The Washington Post, no right-wing, war-mongering rag, says that Iran may very well be at the tipping point. That means…
Unanswered Questions About Fort Hood Madness
The story of the day is one of madness. Major Nidal Malik Hasan killed at least 12 of his fellow soldiers today at Fort Hood and no one really knows why. Perhaps he was resentful about an upcoming deployment to Iraq. Frankly that explanation doesn’t pass muster. What then could Hasan’s motive been in attacking his fellow soldiers?