Al Qaeda kingpin Abu Anas al-Libi belongs at Guantanamo, not in New York

U.S. Commandos scored a tactical victory against Al Qaeda by swooping into Libya and capturing Abu Anas al-Libi earlier this month, a former Bin Laden confidant and terror kingpin. Now President Obama must follow through with a strategic win.
That means extracting valuable intelligence from al-Libi, whose name literally means “the Libyan,” about his two decades of terror insider experience as an Al Qaeda computer expert and co-conspirator of plots against U.S. interests. Al-Libi is believed to have been involved in plots across Africa and the Middle East, including against our Kenya and Tanzania Embassies in 1998 which killed 224 people.
But getting that treasure trove of information depends on our strategy to pry it from a hardened warrior.
And so far, the Obama administration is failing us.
Here’s why:
Instead of whisking al-Libi to Guantanamo where he could be interrogated by the military and CIA for as long as it takes to get actionable intelligence – and then try him by military commission as an enemy combatant, Mr. Obama first decided to hold him aboard the amphibious transport ship USS San Antonio, and later try him in a New York federal courtroom.

Mr. Obama’s resistance is entirely based on politics, which he is putting above national security. Again.

First, let's look at the move to put him on the Navy ship.
While holding key terror suspects captured overseas on a Navy ship makes sense temporarily, therein lies the long term problem -- everybody knows it’s just a temporary landing place, including the detainee. Al-Libi has likely been inclined to bide his time and wait till he arrived in the United States to speak with a civilian lawyer.
Second, about justice.
Obama’s counter-terrorism strategy often resembles a hybrid of police work and war. Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, a leader of Somalia’s Al Qaeda ally, Al Shabaab was captured in 2011 and held aboard a Navy ship for two months.  But then Obama ordered his transfer to federal court in New York where he would be afforded a full range of Constitutional Rights.
Ironically, Obama champions a concept that gives foreign enemy combatants trying to kill Americans, with generous legal protections designed by our Founding Fathers to protect Americans. 
What would George Washington would say?
Third, on the interrogations.
Let’s face it, al-Libi’s time on a ship likely didn't require much toughness. Mr. Obama banned coercive interrogation techniques within 48 hours of his January 2009 inauguration. -- Al-Libi could face rougher treatment from police departments across the country for robbing a liquor store.
Sure, he may decide to cooperate with investigators over a hamburger and fries. Some FBI agents have the knack of getting guys to reveal meaningful information via polite conversations, but that strategy can take considerable time as the interrogator-detainee form a tight bond. While that’s great to help prosecutors secure convictions in court, it could take years, and won't stop imminent attacks.
So what’s wrong with sending al-Libi to Guantanamo?
Actually, nothing. 
Mr. Obama’s resistance is entirely based on politics, which he is putting above national security.
Again.
Let’s understand that although Gitmo had a rocky start in 2002, it remains in the crosshairs of history’s largest propaganda campaign.
Left-leaning defense lawyers, so-called human rights activists, key media and politicians, both in the U.S. and overseas, worked tirelessly to convince the world that Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists at Gitmo were actually the victims. 
They conveniently ignore the fact that detainees collectively killed countless thousands of civilians worldwide, including on Sept. 11, 2001, in the mass-casualty bombings at our East African Embassies, at a Bali nightclub, and the Jakarta Marriott, and during Afghanistan’s civil war.
And with the exception of isolated incidents impacting a grand total of 1% of the total detainee population, the rest have been treated with kid gloves.
Gitmo and military commissions have played a vital role in defending America as we remain at war.
Just as we held Nazis as enemy combatants in 1943, we should continue holding Al Qaeda terrorists and affiliates in the same status.
Al-Libi should join them at Gitmo -- starting today.
J.D. Gordon is a retired Navy Commander who served as a Pentagon spokesman in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 2005-09. He serves as senior adviser to several Washingtonbased think tanks.

 

Will this administration ever lose?

Will this administration ever lose?
History has several examples of political success that has occurred in different political environment, we know are fact.
The destruction of Russia by the advancement of the Society in the Red, White war—where the communist with abject brutality succeeded in killing more people at a greater rate than ever known in mankind’s history to dominate a nation. Then followed by the Communist destruction of China, where once again the barrel of a gun advanced the domination of a nation with abject destructive force.
Yet these are nothing to the success of the communist intrusion occurring in this nation—using guile and fraud—to advance this demented agenda to dominate this nation.
As an American observer, just one of the millions of citizens in this nation who are stunned what is occurring there is only one question that can be asked; why? Why is this nation surrendering to the dementia of communist, under the assault of the most incompetent individual ever elected to political office?
I’m not sure how many are sick and tired of watching ‘Boner aka Boehner’ hold a press conference, turn around, expose his backside, drop his draws, spread his cheeks and show us the latest dildo the Democrats have shoved up the cavity of the anatomy we identify as where the sun never shines. Is there ever a time he could possibly, just once, say we are standing on principle, and we are going to do whatever it takes—even if it means we shut this government down until this nation can have another election and replace this nihilist, even if it means three more years!
All we have to review is the latest catastrophe of the communist intrusion destroying American health care. Think of the reality. This absolute absurdity, advancing a concept that has never worked, can never work, and has no objective of providing health serving—only to give the government control of yet another segment of our economy…advancing the central planning agenda of communist domination…to government dictation. Often I can’t help but wonder if the government would have spent 1/10^th the effort on improving medical servicing, instead of advancing government communist central planning dictates, what we possibly could have today.
Why are those who should be in abject opposition to government domination, the Republican Party, acquiescent in accepting that communist medical servicing is inevitable? What irrational logic can possibly lead to such a conclusion? How demented in acknowledging reality that this concept has never worked, will never work, and is the most destructive ideology ever from the dementia of mental distortion ever known to man yet requires not modification, not application, not more time in application of this destruction; but the elimination of government having anything to do with being a player, or participant in the medical servicing of this nation’s health servicing!
How many examples are needed to realize that government intrusion into anything in society results in the only possible conclusion it can—abject failure. Using just this nation’s failures should be example enough. Look at the failures, we can list them: social security, never designed for anything security, and the farthest thing from social possible…but designed for one purpose and one purpose only…to reduce the communist infusion of money under Keynesian communist monetary policy—that did not work under Franklin Roosevelt any better than it is working under our current elected communist—to remove the same money being injected into the business environment, by a new tax—the tax of social security. Once again confirming that government intrusion into any segment of society, in any activity of that society, is doomed to the only result possible; abject failure.
Let’s take the next advancement of communist doctrine; the destruction of all wealth in the nation—replacing it with the dictates of government discretion of determining what the currency of the money in this nation is worth. Think of that little reality—the epitome of communism—done with absolute stealth, a nation so damn ignorant, they did not know it happened, understand what it meant, and are now subjects to economic domination of government that makes every communist nation on the face of this planet envious. This is the apex; the absolute domination of society, for government has usurped the power, to by their whim dictate the value of your life, your life’s effort and the accumulation of that effort over a lifetime. With this one action, the first three points of Marx’s ten point plan of communist domination was accomplished. So stealthy, without rejection, because of our nation’s citizen’s ignorance, they don’t even know it occurred.
Why is it that we as a nation, as the citizens don’t remember the communist actions that led to the beginning of the medical servicing insanity this nation is now experiencing? Who doesn’t remember the little beginning; the wage and price controls of communist intrusion in the Second World War. Where to circumvent the government dictates of wages, the concept of business provided health insurance was born. When the war was over, did the government then abstain from intrusion into health servicing, and allow the market system to work? No they did not. It is the curse of government that once its cancerous advancement occurs in any venue they choose—the society is condemned. Never, never in the history of man is there an example of government once intruding in anything ever backing off, unless forced to. And don’t use the prohibition as an example, for that was insanity at an unprecedented example.           
The result, not only did we continue the intrusion into medical servicing, they put it under the most devious form of government intervention ever conceived by man; the tax code. For if we use the tax code, by allowing the people, to reduce the tax burden by the expenses the people have—is that not the epitome of communist central planning? Of course it is. Sadly it occurs with the absolute stealth of society’s ignorance. Led like the sheep to the slaughter, never once stopping to think, to engage their collective mental processing to even acknowledge the domination of government over society.
The list goes on and on, finally reaching the absolute domination of the medical servicing itself. The goal the objective and the path our nation is currently on.
The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that there are two things one must know in order to survive. Simple really, know yourself, and know your enemy. IN this nation today we know neither of these. The citizens of this nation know not what type of government we have. Know nothing of the form of government, the concept we are a republic of laws, not the democracy of mob rule. Know nothing of the reality of man, that equal by definition can ever result in equality. That our nation, this wonder of the States united in America is so exceptional in concept there is no known comparative in the history of mankind. That the philosophical ideals of this nation are ‘the protection of the unalienable rights, those rights endowed by the laws of nature and nature’s God, to be protected and preserved by the actions—the dictates—of government. Not the domination of society as is presently occurring by the advancement of the dementia of the current communist intrusion.
We must know the enemy. Currently that enemy is the very government that is dictating to the people the domination of society, while destroying the very vestige of the wonder of this miracle of a nation.
Montesquieu the French philosopher identified long ago that society must have ‘mores, morals, and the religion of the people’ before civilization will flourish.
Today all of these foundations are under attack—some actually removed from our society—and we wonder why our society is more of a jungle than the society of man.
Our enemy is those who will destroy and dismantle this nation; they are communist. The longer this nation ignores that simple reality; the faster our acceleration to the darkness of the domination of government and the end of our society—this absolute wonder of a nation—based on such simplicity; liberty and the preservation of man’s freedom.         

Vets march on Washington, roll into WWII memorial, protest outside White House

Veterans marched on Sunday in Washington in protest of the partial government shutdown that has kept them and other Americans from visiting war memorials across the country, with support from several star conservatives.
“This is the people's memorial,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz told a crowd of several hundred gathered near the WWII Memorial on the closed National Mall, which has become a national symbol of the shutdown and the country’s response. “Simple question: Why is the federal government spending money to keep veterans out of the memorial? Why did they spend money to keep people out of Mount Vernon, Mount Rushmore? Our veterans should be above political games.”
Veterans, including many in wheelchairs, took down police barricades and entered the memorial at about midday as others took the protest to the edge of the White House South Lawn.
“Today somebody’s wife [or] husband is dead in Afghanistan. Is somebody going to pay her husband [or] his wife or their children?” one protester shouted at the White House, referring to the partial shutdown cutting off benefits for the survivors of military personnel.
Some of the metal barricades were carried the roughly half-mile walk from the memorial to the White House, where they were left near the fence in front of Pennsylvania Avenue.
A man was arrested at the event in connection with bringing at least one gun in a bag.
A witness named Jacob Reed told Fox News the man was standing in line to talk to Washington Republican Rep. David G. Reichert.
Reed said a police officer asked the man what he was doing, then asked him to take his bag off his back. The man complied and said the bag contained a bunch of firearms, at which point he was handcuffed and taken into custody.
Cruz was joined by 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, on a gray, rainy day in the nation’s capital.
“Veterans have proven they are not timid. And we will not be timid in calling out anybody that uses the military as pawns,” Palin told the crowd assembled at the Million Vet March on Memorials. “We can only be America, home of the free, if we are America, home of the brave.”
Protesters shouting “U.S.A.” and “Tear down these walls” put the blame squarely on President Obama and Democratic congressional leaders.

“In a mean-spirited fit of selfish anger, Barack Obama has shut down our nation’s war memorials,” march organizers said in a press release. “And he has declared open war on our honored veterans. The World War II memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, Obama has shut them all down to force his will on the House of Representatives and, frankly, to get revenge on the American people who oppose ObamaCare and his other naked power grabs.”

Just how much does HealthCare.gov cost?

Government officials deny the price tag on the troubled ObamaCare website is as big as $634 million, as widely reported on Thursday. Nonetheless, a close look at the cost of HealthCare.gov and the overall architecture of this giant federal program reveals no real bargain for the American taxpayer.
"What a train wreck. How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website that doesn't work?" Speaker of the House John Boehner demanded on Wednesday, as report after report indicated that the software problems experienced by the online portal were nowhere near being resolved. Computer experts who spoke with FoxNews.com this week said bad code and a lack of testing could be the culprit, though more complicated problems could mean issues for months to come.

Allen West: Obama is a Spoiled Brat, Don't Reward Bad Behavior

In simply Southern terms, Allen West defined President Obama as a “spoiled brat child.”
The former Florida Representative said America has given Obama everything he wanted, during an interview on the "The Steve Malzberg Show” show Thursday:

“We gave him a state senator position in Chicago, we gave him a U.S. Senate position out of the state of Illinois, unproven, untested, no resume, we gave him the presidency — twice. So if you continue to reward bad behavior, you're going to get more of that bad behavior."

The majority of Americans continue to accuse Republicans for the nearly-two-week-long government shutdown. However, it is the President who seems to be immalleable. So much for Hope, Change and Progress.

The Senate will return to work Sunday and attempt to find another way to end the partial shutdown of government services and reach an agreement on the nation's borrowing limit before an October 17 deadline after Democrats rejected a proposal by Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins that had bipartisan support.
Leaders of the Democratic-led Senate rejected the proposal to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling Saturday before heading down Pennsylvania Avenue to meet with President Obama at the White House.
Whether Senate Democrats will try to revive the proposal was unclear. They left the 75-minute meeting without talking to reporters. Sen. Collins appeared hopeful that Democrats may be open to reviving the plan.
"Despite [Senate Majority Leader] Senator Harry Reid's unfortunate dismissal of the 6-point plan, …. it continues to attract bipartisan support,” Collins said. “Six Senate Republicans and six Senate Democrats met twice today to discuss how we could move forward with the plan or some version of it. These meetings were constructive and give me hope that a bipartisan solution … is within our reach."
Reid rejected the plan  -- which calls for funding the government for six months and increasing the federal debt limit through January -- purportedly, in part, because the spending level of $967 billion next year was too low, despite it providing more flexibility in administering the federal budget cuts under sequester.
Collins’ plan also calls for a two-year delay on ObamaCare's medical device tax and requires income verification for Americans seeking subsidies for ObamaCare.
“Susan Collins  is one of my favorite senators, Democrat or Republican,” Reid said. “I appreciate her effort, as always, to find a consensus. But the plan that she suggested … is not going to any place at this stage.”
The upper chamber also failed the get the necessary 60 votes on a bill to increase the debt limit through 2014 that was “clean” of Republican demands for spending cuts or changes to ObamaCare.
In the Republican-controlled House, negotiations ended abruptly when Republicans refused to let Democrats vote on a bill to reopen the government, which resulted in an exchange between a staffer from each party.
“They amended the rules so only Majority Leader Eric Cantor can put something on the floor to open the government,” said Maryland Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer, the House minority whip.
Earlier in the day, House Speaker John Boehner told his caucus in a closed-door meeting that he and the president still have no deal.
"The Senate needs to hold tough," Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., said Boehner told House GOP lawmakers. "The president now isn't negotiating with us."
The White House rejected a House plan to open the government for just six weeks.
The partial government shutdown kicked in Oct. 1, after lawmakers failed to reach a temporary spending bill. And the federal government is projected to miss the debt ceiling deadline on Thursday unless Congress increases the federal government’s borrowing limit.
Still, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are keeping an open dialogue, which appears to show the best opportunity to resolve the fiscal crisis is now in the upper chamber.
"The only thing that's happening right now is Sen. Reid and Sen. McConnell are talking,” said Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn. “And I view that as progress.”
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said early Saturday: “Congress must do its job and raise the debt limit to pay the bills we have incurred and avoid default. It is unfortunate that the common sense, clean debt limit increase proposed by Senate Democrats was refused. … This bill would have taken the threat of default off the table.”

Conservative website vows to 'unmask leftists in the media'

leftists in the media'

Published October 12, 2013

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FILE: Oct. 10, 2013: The Rev. Al Sharpton receiving a citation from the Philadelphia City Council, at City Hall in Philadelphia, Pa.AP

A California conservative group is launching a bare-knuckle campaign to expose the so-called liberal media and its advertisers -- vowing to knock down the highest-profile players and “unmask leftists in the media.”
“The media must be destroyed where they stand,” Truth Revolt, a new project by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, said Sunday before launching a website. “That is our mission.”
To be sure, its first target was MSNBC talk-show host Al Sharpton and major advertiser Ritz Crackers -- an opening flurry followed by at least 15 Sharpton-related stories over roughly the past week.
However, the attack on Ritz, sold in the United States under the Nabisco label and owned by parent company Mondelēz International, has resulted in some criticism among conservatives about a potential job-killing strategy in a slow-growing economy.
Horowitz has hired Breitbart News editor at large Ben Shapiro -- author, Harvard Law School graduate and a well-known voice of the young conservative movement.
The project has been branded as the conservative response to the George Soros-back Media Matters of America, which has used similar tactics to attack members of the so-called “right wing media.”
Horowitz, Shapiro and others also appear eager to take the fight beyond network TV.
“TruthRevolt understands that all politics is local, and therefore looks to fight leftist propaganda at the local level, monitoring local newspapers, television and radio,” according to the website. “TruthRevolt also seeks to stop the left dead in its tracks when it comes to training the next generation, our college campuses.
Exactly who is backing the entire Los Angeles-based Horowitz operation is unclear since the foundation is a 501 (c) 3 charity, which does not require it to disclose contributors on IRS filings.
However, the foundation reported a total of $5.5 million in contributions in 2011, the most recent available year.
The foundation -- whose operations include the project Jihad Watch and which puts out publications and hosts a variety of salons with high-profile conservatives -- also reported $6.4 million in total revenue in 2011, including $914,293 from programming.
Horowitz started the group in 1988 under the name the Center for the Study of Popular Culture to “establish a conservative presence in Hollywood and show how popular culture had become a political battleground.” The name was change in 2006 to the foundation.
Horowitz could not be reached for comment despite several attempts.
However, Shapiro recently told The Daily Beast that boycotts like the ones aimed at Sharpton and Ritz are just the beginning.
“Politics is a hard-nosed game, and the right has been playing Marquess of Queensbury rules for a long time on this,” he told the news website.