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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

H.Res. 306 (112th): Urging the Republic of Turkey to safeguard its Christian heritage and to return confiscated church properties.

112^th Congress, 2011–2013. Text as of Dec 13, 2011 (Passed the House (Engrossed)).

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HRES 306 EH
H. Res. 306
In the House of Representatives, U. S.,
December 13, 2011.

Resolved,

Attest:
Clerk.

Investigating the Benghazi Terrorist Attack

Over the last year, I have led congressional efforts to create a bipartisan House Select Committee to fully investigate the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate and annex in Benghazi, Libya. After a year of investigations in five separate House committees, it is clear that the only way the American people will ever learn the truth is through a single Select Committee that will hold public hearing and issue "friendly subpoenas" to the survivors so they may finally be able to tell their stories about the attack and the failure by the U.S. to send assistance that night without fear of reprisal from agencies. It is inexplicable that after a year of investigations none of the survivors or the administration officials responsible for the decision not to send assistance that night have been compelled to testify under oath before Congress.
My legislation, H. Res. 36, to create the Select Committee has more than 160 cosponsors - a majority of the majority in the House. It has been endorsed by family members of the victims of the attack, the Special Operations community, the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (which represents the DSS agents in Benghazi) and the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, among many others.
I have repeatedly written Speaker Boehner urging him to create the Select Committee given the overwhelming support for this effort. Additionally, this summer I went to the House floor nearly every day for three weeks to ask a question of the day about Benghazi (see box below).
More information about the Select Committee resolution and my efforts to raise awareness of the unanswered questions are available below.
CLICK HERE for a full list of cosponsors of H. Res. 36.

BENGHAZI QUESTION OF THE DAY

Question of the Day #12
Why are these heroes being told not talk? What is the administration afraid of?
What is it protecting?

Question of the Day #11
Who in the White House knew what was going on in the CIA annex in Benghazi?

Question of the Day #10
Why was there a facility operated by the CIA in Benghazi?

Question of the Day #9
Who are the anonymous senior administration officials who admitted "mistakes" in their handling of the attack to CBS News?

Question of the Day #8
What happened in Washington on the night of the attack and in the days to follow?

Question of the Day #7
Ambassador Stevens made several calls for help to nearby consulates. Which foreign consulates did he call? How did those consulates respond?

Question of the Day #6
Why did Gen. [Carter] Ham speak publicly about the military's response at a forum in Aspen, Colorado – where tickets start at $1,200 – yet his testimony before Congress was behind closed doors?

Question of the Day #5
Why was the CIA's security team repeatedly ordered to "stand down" after the attack began?

Question of the Day #4
Why haven't we applied pressure to countries refusing to allow the FBI to access the terrorists responsible for the attack?

Question of the Day #3
How many Benghazi survivors were forced to sign Non-Disclosure agreements?

Question of the Day #2
Which agency was responsible for vetting the Libyan security guards at the U.S. consulate?

Question of the Day #1
Where are the Benghazi survivors?

CLICK HERE for a full list of questions.

Important Documents
-Letter from respected national security leaders urging Speaker Boehner to create a Select Committee
(September 10, 2013)
-Reports on the failure of the Benghazi Investigation:
Judicial Watch
OPSEC
In the News
Let Benghazi's Chips Fall (The Wall Street Journal)
Boehner under new pressure for special committee on Benghazi (The Hill)
Our View: Jaw-Dropping, For Now (Winchester Star)
Our View: Missing Link (Winchester Star)
Our View: Benghazi (Winchester Star)
Benghazi: One Year Later (Op-ed by David Bossie)

Press Conference with Charles Woods, father of Benghazi victim Tyrone Woods.

Wolf Renews Call For Select Committee On Benghazi In Letter To Boehner

Thursday May 09, 2013

Contact: Jill Shatzen
(202) 225-5136

WOLF RENEWS CALL FOR SELECT COMMITTEE
ON BENGHAZI IN LETTER TO BOEHNER

Washington, D.C. (May 9, 2013) – Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) today renewed his call for a select committee to investigate the terrorist attack in Benghazi and the Obama Administration’s response.
In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, Wolf said that while yesterday’s Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing was a “positive step forward” in the investigation, the only way to ensure that the complete truth comes out is to create a bipartisan Select Committee using “the best of the best” from each of the five committees of jurisdiction to fully focus on the attack.
Wolf’s measure, H. Res. 36, currently has 139 cosponsors. Click here for more of Wolf’s work on Benghazi.
The full text of the letter is below.
Dear Speaker Boehner:
“Let’s be clear, Benghazi happened a long time ago.” Those words were spoken just days ago by White House press secretary Jay Carney who was seemingly exasperated by continued questions from the White House press corps related to the tragic attack that claimed the lives of four Americans, including a sitting U.S. ambassador, and injured untold others – untold because the administration won’t tell Congress how many were seriously wounded in the attack.
In a sense, Carney is correct: Eight months is a long time for the families of those victims, the American people and the Congress to be denied a clear picture of what happened on that fateful night, what might have been done to prevent it and what presently is being done to ensure that it doesn’t happen again. I remain convinced, as do 139 of our Republican colleagues – nearly two-thirds of our majority – that a bipartisan Select Committee to investigate the terrorist attack in Benghazi is the only mechanism to ensure that the complete truth comes out.
In the last few days the public has learned stunning new revelations about the Benghazi terrorist attack and the Obama Administration’s troubling response in the hours and days that followed. Much of this new information has come as brave whistleblowers have sought to right the record and, in doing so, may have jeopardized their careers. Increasingly it is becoming clear that we have only scratched the tip of the iceberg.
We don’t yet know what we don’t know about Benghazi. And we may never know if we don’t pursue what Thomas Bossert, deputy assistant to the President for Homeland Security under President George W. Bush, in the enclosed op-ed described as a, “…coordinated, definitive investigation to look jointly into the entire matter, using one methodology, relying considerably on standing committee resources and expertise, that can publish its findings and conclusions in one place so that the public and their elected leaders can decide for themselves what to do with the results.”
Chairman Issa’s hearing yesterday was a positive step forward in the effort to investigate the administration for its apparent cover up of key information about the nature of the attack and its response. I appreciate your leadership and that of the committees to advance the investigation to this point.
However, the hearing also made clear that a thorough inquiry will require witnesses from across government – including the Defense Department, State Department, Intelligence Community, Justice Department and even the White House. Only a Select Committee would be able to bring the cross-jurisdictional expertise and subpoena authority to compel answers from these agencies.
Now is the opportune time to take the good work that has been done by the committees over the last eight months, culminating in yesterday’s hearing, and bring together the best of the best from each of the five committees to focus solely on this issue through the Select Committee.
With your leadership, we have the opportunity to bring all of the committees of jurisdiction together, building on what regular order has already accomplished, but cannot sustain or bring to fruition. The committees with primary jurisdiction have a multitude of issues before them ranging from gun control to immigration reform, from the ongoing crisis in Syria to the devastating terrorist attack in Boston. Among competing priorities, Benghazi could get lost in the shuffle.
There would be no cost to create a Select Committee: the staff is already on the House payroll and they would use House facilities and resources. There need be no delay – we could vote for the Select Committee one day, and bring the necessary staff and selected members together the next. There are good people on all of these committees who would be excellent members of the Select Committee. Similarly, any one of the five committee chairman that you, as the speaker, would designate would be a strong chair of the Select Committee. It would be a seamless transition that would yield significant results in the months ahead. Under the legislation, the committee would expire after 90 days, ensuring that the full investigation was completed prior to the anniversary of the Benghazi attacks. It’s worth restating that the committee would be bipartisan, thereby putting an end to misguided criticism from some that this investigation is only being done for political reasons.
As you may recall, I first wrote you on November 13 – just two months after the attacks – to ask you to support a Select Committee approach to this investigation. A few weeks later, I shared an op-ed written by former Senator Fred Thompson, who served as counsel on the Watergate Select Committee, where he argued the merits of this approach. Since that time I have twice introduced a bill to create a Select Committee, have offered it to the House Rules package and have spoken with you and met with your staff in an effort to demonstrate the need. In the interim, another six months have passed.
The Select Committee process is an important tool that was designed precisely for addressing interagency issues like the Benghazi attack. It brings together the experts from across the committees of jurisdiction, ensures a single filter for incoming information from all agencies and breaks down the siloes that obstruct investigations.
Select Committees are not a new idea; in fact they have been used repeatedly over the last 50 years for cross-jurisdiction issues, both large and small. I have enclosed a list of past Select Committees that was prepared for me by the Congressional Research Service. Surely such a Select Committee on Benghazi is merited given that the House has created Select Committees to deal with less important issues, such as parking, the “House Beauty Shop,” sports and aging, as well as serious and complex issues, like government assassinations and the Iran-Contra affair.
To be clear: I have no interest in serving on a Select Committee. All I want is for the family members of the victims, the survivors and my constituents to know that the House did everything possible to uncover the truth about this attack and the administration’s response, develop recommendations to thwart future assaults and implement changes to protect our brave men and women serving in difficult posts.  Given the dangerous world in which we live, we can be virtually certain that this will not be an isolated incident (notably, if an attack were to occur on a U.S. facility in North Africa today, eight months after Benghazi, it appears that the American posture to respond has not improved). Such a review is good for the country—exposing systemic problems and failures. America’s greatest president, George Washington, once said, “We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience.” To be sure, the untimely death of four Americans, and the life-changing injuries sustained by others, constitutes dear bought experience. Do we not owe them a thorough, professional, exhaustive review of past errors?
I have spoken with numerous family members of the Benghazi victims who have endorsed the Select Committee approach, including the mother and uncle of Sean Smith, the father and siblings of Tyrone Woods, as well as another family member who does not want to speak publicly at this time. I have also received letters of support from the Special Operations community, including OPSEC and Special Operations Speaks, who believe the administration’s answers about the force posture to respond to Benghazi – and, quite frankly, the committees’ acceptance of those responses – unacceptable. Last month, I received a letter from 700 former Special Operations members urging the creation of a Select Committee. Closer to home, I have heard from many of my own constituents, which given my proximity to Washington includes scores of FBI, CIA, State Department and military officials—they overwhelmingly have echoed this same call.
For this reason, I am once again asking for your support for the creation of a Select Committee. The number of cosponsors has doubled over the last month, and 20 new cosponsors have signed on since the release of the “interim progress report” two weeks ago—prompted in part by the new revelations that have come to light following the release of the report. Momentum for the Select Committee continues to build. Chairman Issa’s hearing on Wednesday ought not satisfy us that the job is done—far from it. In fact, another 10 new cosponsors have signed on to H. Res. 36 since yesterday’s hearing was noticed last week.
Mr. Speaker, two-thirds of our conference believes that the threshold for action on a Select Committee has been reached. The families of the victims believe the threshold has been reached. After eight months, we can’t wait for more time to pass. Questions would remain unanswered, procedures unchanged and accountability unrealized. That is, until another attack occurs and another life is lost. And then, shame on us if we, who have been entrusted with public service, have done nothing to prevent it.
Last weekend, I had the opportunity to meet with Captain Eugene “Red” McDaniel, a POW from the Vietnam War who was held in captivity for six years. Captain McDaniel lamented the state of U.S. political leadership on national security matters and he profoundly said “I’m afraid the leadership of our nation is not deserving of the sacrifices our sons and daughters are willing to make.”
The revelations at yesterday’s hearing have raised serious questions about the administration’s efforts to respond to the Americans under fire at the annex in Benghazi. What remains to be seen is whether the House will be complicit in that failure, or if we will pursue the truth – wherever it may take us – to ensure that we continue to deserve the sacrifices made by the men and women who serve our country.
I urge you again to bring H. Res. 36 to the floor for a vote next week. It is the only way we will ever learn the truth. Thank you for your continued leadership on this important issue.
Best wishes.

                                                                        Sincerely,

                                                                       Frank R. Wolf
                                                                       Member of Congress

Special Operations Speaks Releases Benghazi Select Committee Whip List; Targets Rep. Frank Wolf

Special Operations Speaks Releases Benghazi

Select Committee Whip List; Targets Rep. Frank Wolf

Calls for EVERY member of Congress that Signed House Res. 36

to Sign the Stockman Discharge Petition (House Res. 306)

WASHINGTON – It’s one thing to sign on as co-sponsor to House Res. 36 to establish a Watergate-style special committee to investigate Benghazi. It’s another to do what it takes to bring the measure to the floor.

That’s why Special Operations Speaks, an organization led by Special Operations Veterans, released a list today of those who signed on as co-sponsors to the legislation to create the committee and whether they have signed the Discharge Petition to force House leadership to bring the measure to the floor.

Of the 171 Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives who have signed on as co-sponsors, only four – Louie Gohmert and Steve Stockman of Texas and Paul Broun of Georgia and Dana Rohrabacher of California – have signed the discharge petition.

It’s been over a year since the attack on Benghazi, and it’s time we get answers that bear some resemblance to the truth from the Obama administration on what happened that night and why Americans, for the first time in history, abandoned our soldiers – and an ambassador – when they were in the line of enemy fire.

Special Operations Speaks urges Americans to contact their representatives and/or every representative on the Whip List and ask why they haven’t signed the discharge petition. House Res. 36 won’t move unless those of us who care about truth and justice for the Benghazi Massacre to push their representative to stand up to GOP Leadership and sign the Discharge Petition.

We know – or at least can guess – who the Obama administration is protecting by obstructing the investigations now ongoing. What we don’t know is why John Boehner, Frank Wolf and the rest of the Republican leadership in the House won’t demand the facts.

Boehner says they have five committees working on it – five with disparate jurisdictions, limited ability to coordinate, without full subpoena power to obtain classified information and without the requisite clearances to read the classified information or solicit classified testimony.

"The Benghazi Select Committee Whip List will help separate the real leaders in the House on Benghazi from the pretenders hiding behind the fig leaf that has become House Res. 36" said Larry Ward Political Director of SOS. "The Speaker of the House has made it clear he will not move to form a Select Committee. The only path to the Select Committee now is through House Res. 306 the Stockman Discharge Petition."

Frank Wolf, who authored the measure to establish the Select Committee in the first place, has refused to sign the discharge petition.

During a heated exchange at the AIM Citizen Commission on Benghazi (Transcript), Larry Ward, the Political Director of SOS challenged Rep. Wolf on why he refuses to sign the Discharge Petition for his own resolution. Ward said during the exchange "I’m starting to feel like H. Res 36 is being used as a fig leaf so that members can essentially say 'I’m supporting Benghazi,' but if they don’t back it up by signing the Discharge Petition, they are essentially saying 'I believe in fighting the Select Committee for Benghazi, but not enough to buck the leadership.'"

"Frank Wolf refusing to sign the Stockman Discharge Petition for his own resolution is disappointing and demonstrates the chokehold Speaker John Boehner has around some members of Congress" Dick Brauer, Colonel, USAF (Ret.), Co-Founder of SOS said. "We must remind these members of Congress that signed onto Wolf's Select Committee Resolution that they John Boehner is NOT their boss, that they work for us." said Col Brauer (Ret.)

Special Operations Speaks (SOS) is a nationwide organization led by highly decorated Special Operations (Special Forces, Air Commandos, SEALs, Rangers, Marine Recon) veterans. SOS has been a leading voice for justice for the victims of the massacre in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. More information about the groups' activities is available a

What happened inside Building 197?

What happened inside
Building 197?

Published: Sept. 17, 2013

A picture is beginning to emerge in the aftermath of Monday's mass shooting at the Navy Yard in Southeast Washington. Police said the dead were found in the lobby and on the third and fourth floors. Latest updates on the shooting.

Approximately 8:15 a.m.

1Aaron Alexis, wearing a backpack, enters Building 197 with a valid pass and key card.

2Law enforcement sources say he made his way to a fourth-floor bathroom and emerged with a shotgun.

Altered Remington 870 shotgun

34He begins firing his shotgun from the fourth floor, then goes down to the third floor and the lobby.

8:23 a.m.

Police receive report of gunshots at Navy Yard Building 197. A four-person active shooter team is assembled and reaches the Navy Yard in two minutes. Within six minutes, they are inside the complex.

8:28 a.m.

An e-mail goes out to Navy Yard workers telling them to "shelter in place."

8:30 a.m.

Seven minutes after the police received the call, the first units armed with AR-15 assault rifles hear shots and enter the building.

8:43 a.m.

Emergency responders are warned by officers in the building that there is an active shooter and several victims down.

At some point

Alexis kills a security guard in the lobby and takes the guard's 9mm handgun, according to law enforcement authorities. He drops the shotgun and begins firing with the handgun.

Beretta 9mm

8:55 a.m.

5As police units engage him, Alexis makes his way back upstairs to the third floor. Emergency responders report a D.C. police officer down on the third floor.

Approximately 9:20 a.m.

6Alexis is fatally shot in the head on the third floor by a D.C. police officer after "multiple engagements" with officers between 30 minutes and an hour after the first units arrived.

Building 197 was built in 1939 as a factory that made guns for battleships during World War II. It has housed the Naval Sea Systems Command since 2001.

Shooter enters building

Visitor entrance

Employee entrance
Requires badge

Rick MasonProgram management analyst

Mason told the Associated Press that a gunman was shooting from a fourth-floor overlook in the hallway outside his office. He said the shooter aimed at people in the first-floor cafeteria.

Atrium

Assembles gun in fourth-floor bathroom

Shoots on Floors 4 and 3

Christopher MercerNavy captain

Mercer said he and colleagues slammed the door of his third-floor office shut as Alexis fired into Michael Arnold's office across the hall. Soon after, a bullet ripped through his door at shoulder height. “He set up camp right in front of my office,” Mercer said.

“He kept reloading and firing at cubicles. Later, when he came back, I could see his shadow through the glass pane in my door.” Alexis was killed in a firefight with police in the office next to Mercer's.

Shooter engages with responders

Shooter is killed

Gregory DadeHewlett-Packard employee

Dade and a colleague were in their second-floor office when they heard gunfire. They ran into the hall, inadvertently getting closer to the shooting. “We could smell the sulfur type of smell. You could just see it and smell it,” he said. They ran back to the office and locked the door.

Patricia Ward

At 8:15 a.m., Ward was standing at an ATM in first-floor atrium of Building 197 when she heard gunshots. She was on her way to breakfast in the cafeteria nearby.

Shooter in lobby

Cafeteria

SOURCE: Staff reports. GRAPHIC: The Washington Post.

BREAKING: Illinois Supreme Court Rules Right to Keep and Bear Arms Extends Outside the Home

September 12, 2013 at 09:40

Written by Robert Farago

Illinois Supreme Court Justices (courtesy smartgunlaws.org)

The Illinois Supreme Court has just ruled in the case of Alberto Aguilar v. The People of the State of Illinois. Click here for the brief. Click here to read the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence’s brief arguing that “the carrying of firearms in public places creates serious public safety risks.” Click here for the Illinois Supreme Court’s ruling. As follows: “The principal issue in this case is whether section 24-1.6(a)(1), (a)(3)(A) of the Illinois aggravated unlawful use of weapons (AUUW) statute (720 ILCS 5/24-1.6(a)(1), (a)(3)(A) (West 2008)) violates the right to keep and bear arms, as guaranteed by the second amendment to the United States Constitution (U.S.Const., amend. II). We hold that it does.” In other words, they’ve turfed the law against bearing weapons outside the home. As you’d expect, the court’s decision cites Heller and McDonald Supreme Court rulings and tips its proverbial hat at Moore . . .

As the Seventh Circuit correctly noted, neither Heller nor McDonald expressly limits the second amendment’s protections to the home. On the contrary both decisions contain language strongly suggesting if not outright confirming that the second amendment right to keep and bear arms extends beyond the home. Moreover, if Heller means what it says, and “individual self-defense” is indeed “the central component” of the second amendment right to keep and bear arms (Heller, 554 U.S. at 599), then it would make little sense to restrict that right to the home, as “[c]onfrontations are not limited to the home.” Moore, 702 F.3d at 935-36. Indeed, Heller itself recognizes as much when it states that “the right to have arms *** was by the time of the founding understood to be an individual right protecting against both public and private violence.” (Emphasis added.) Heller, 554 U.S. at 593-94

The only fly in the ointment: the Illinois justices did NOT quash Mr. Aguilar’s conviction for underage possession. Once again, that Heller bit about “reasonable restrictions” has come home to roost.

“Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.” Heller, 554 U.S. at 626.
From there, the Court went on to emphasize that “nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.” Id. at 626-27. The Court then immediately added, by way of footnote, that “[w]e identify these presumptively lawful regulatory measures only as examples; our list does not purport to be exhaustive.” Id. at 627 n.26.

Bottom line: it’s legal to prohibit minors from possessing firearms, but not to ban adult Americans from carrying a firearm outside the home—subject to certain provisions. A Pyrrhic victory then? Probably, generally, no. Time will tell.

Colorado Citizens Recall 2 Senators’ Positions…to Protect 2nd Amendment

By Admin on September 17, 2013

by Ali Papademetriou
Last week, Colorado residents were being bombarded with advertisements regarding both sides of the spectrum when it comes to being in favor of or against gun control.
Two democratic senators were facing potentially losing their positions because of their fervent support for two gun control measures that were passed into law earlier this year. Last Tuesday, a recall election was held on behalf of Colorado Senators John Morse and Angela Giron, and to the surprise of many, the senators lost their seats.
Regardless of many Coloradoans being in favor of their recall, considering the citizens are who demanded the recall in the first place, it comes as a shock that the pro-gun control side of the isle lost the battle considering the astronomical amounts of money that it invested.
Big money even came from out of state in order to support the financial battle against the National Rifle Association’s efforts to protect Coloradoans from having their Second Amendment continue to be violated. As the New York Times reported, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad each individually contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend their “team player” in the vote recall war.
Together, the two out-of-state donators totaled more than $600,000, leaving the NRA to chip in only about $300,000 to try and recall the senators’ positions. Nonetheless, the recall was successful – making it the first in Colorado’s state history.
Former State House Candidate for Colorado House District 53, Jon Fye, told TSW that he’s satisfied with the results of the recall election. “It sends a strong message to Bloomberg and gun control advocates that their politics are not welcome in Colorado. State Senators and Representatives are supposed to listen to their constituents. Morse and Giron refused to listen to their constituents.”
The gun control bills are still laws, but citizens took a brazen stand against their government officials and requested that they get lost since they weren’t upholding the people’s requirements, much less the Constitution.
Reflecting on the results, Fye explained, “Hopefully this sends a strong message to other elected representatives that we’ve had enough of their anti-gun agenda,” alluding that the recall could be the start of elected officials realizing they’re going to be held accountable.
“I look forward to Colorado turning Red again in 2014,” he said. Anticipating what’s yet to come, Fye detailed, “The next step is for Republicans to gain control of the House, Senate, and Governorship so we can get to work repealing these anti-gun bills that passed last session.”

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Daoud Rammal – As-Safir

Aggression was over the Moment those Two Missiles were Fired

A well informed diplomatic source told As-Safir newspaper that “the US war on Syria had started and ended the moment those two ballistic missiles were fired, leaving inconsistent information, as Israel denied and Russia confirmed, until an Israeli statement was issued indicating they were fired in the context of an Israeli-US joint drill and fell in the sea, and that they were not related to the Syrian crisis.”

The source further told the Lebanese daily that “the US forces fired these two rockets from a NATO base in Spain, and were instantly detected by the Russian radars and confronted by the Russian defense systems, so one of them exploded in the airspace and the second one diverted towards the sea.”

In this context, the source pointed out that “the statement issued by the Russian Defense Ministry, which stated the detection of two ballistic missiles fired towards the Middle East, intended to neglect two points: the first was the location from which the two rockets were fired, and the second was their downing. Why? Because the moment the full military operation was launched, Head of the Russian Intelligence Service contacted the US intelligence and informed it that “hitting Damascus means hitting Moscow, and we have removed the term “downed the two missiles” from the statement to preserve the bilateral relations and to avoid escalation. Therefore, you must immediately reconsider your policies, approaches and intentions on the Syrian crisis, as you must be certain that you cannot eliminate our presence in the Mediterranean.”

“This unannounced direct confrontation between Moscow and Washington increased the Obama Administration’s confusion and certainty that the Russian side was ready to move until the end with the Syrian cause, and that the US did not have a way out of its impasse except through a Russian initiative which would save America’s face…” he added.

From this point, the diplomatic source clarified that “in order to avoid further US confusion, and after Israel denied knowing anything about the rocket firing in its first statement, which is the truth, Washington demanded Tel Aviv to adopt the rocket firing to save its face in front of the International Community, especially since these two rockets were the beginning of the US aggression on Syria and the announcement of the beginning of military operations, after which US President Barack Obama was supposed to go to the G20 Summit in Russia to negotiate the destiny of Syrian President Bashr Al-Assad. However, he went to find a way out of the impasse he’s in.”

The source further indicated that “after the US-Russia rocket confrontation, Moscow intended to increase its number of military experts in Russia, and added to its military units and destroyers to enhance its military presence in the Mediterranean. It also set a time for announcing about its initiative on stopping the aggression on Syria after the G20 Summit, after drawing a side scene on the sidelines of the summit which was followed by two successive visits for Iranian Foreign Minister, Hussein Amir Abdul Lahyan, and Syrian Foreign Minister, Walid Al-Moallem, in which a way out was agreed on with the Russian side, and it included a Syrian announcement on approving the Russian initiative regarding putting Syrian chemical weapons under international supervision and preparing Syria for joining the non-proliferation treaty.

Finally, the source pointed out that “One of the first results of the US-Russian military confrontation was the British House of Commons’ rejection to participate in a war on Syria. This was followed by European stances, most significantly, the German stance announced by Chancellor Angela Merkel."

Translated by Sara Taha Moughnieh

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The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission), an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation and the signature of President George W. Bush in late 2002, is chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The Commission is also mandated to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.
On July 22, 2004 the Commission released its public report, which is available for download from this site. The report is also available in bookstores nationwide and from the Government Printing Office.
On August 21, 2004 the Commission released two staff monographs, available for download along with other staff statements on this site.
The ten members of the 9-11 Commission announce the creation of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project.
The Commission closed on August 21, 2004.

Judicial Watch: 12 Years after 9/11 Weak Oversight of DHS Keeps U.S. Vulnerable

Weak congressional oversight over the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) keeps the United States vulnerable to terrorist threats posed by small aircraft and boats, cyber attacks and biological weapons, according to a diverse panel of lawmakers and security officials.

This may be difficult to swallow twelve years after the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history but it’s the conclusion of a task force of Homeland Security officials and experts as well as current and former members of Congress from both political parties. The task force found that one of the key recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission, the special panel that Congress created to investigate the terrorist attacks and prevent them in the future, has not been fulfilled.

After all these years one of the commission’s most significant recommendations to guard against future attacks has not been implemented. It’s the call for consolidated Congressional oversight of DHS, the monstrous agency created after 9/11. Jurisdiction over DHS is fragmented and that impedes the agency’s ability to deal with the three major vulnerabilities mentioned above, the experts found.

DHS has no oversight structure like other crucial agencies such as the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), the panel of intelligence experts and lawmakers reveal. Instead, more than 100 Congressional committees and subcommittees claim jurisdiction over it creating a seriously disintegrated oversight system and massive bureaucracy. More P

ublished on Jun 27, 2013

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In this video tutorial I will show you how to remove the FBI virus through the Repair My Computer Selection, This video is for those of you that could not get rid of it through Safe Mode. Through this method that always works, you will be able to get into System Restore no problem.

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FBI ransomware Analysis:
Computer is totally locked by an alert from FBI that requires payment of $100 to regain access to the system? Please be noted that this fake alert is generated by scams to defraud money from naïve and innocent computer users. You should learn more about its black essence behind the neat looking with title of The FBI Federal Bureau Investigation. The content of the alert is about your computer is blocked because of several reasons. For example, violating Copyright and Related Rights Law (Video, Music, Software) and illegally using or distributing copyrighted content, viewing or distributing prohibited Pornographic content and so on. Besides, you are informed that your computer is infected with malware as a consequence of violating the law on neglectful use of personal computer. You are required to pay the fine through MoneyPak of 100$ in order to unblock your computer, which will be unblocked in 1 to 48 hours after the money is put into the State's account.

Published on Jun 8, 2013

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WordPress Website Security Protection. Website security protection against: XSS, RFI, CRLF, CSRF, Base64, Code Injection and SQL Injection hacking...

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The BulletProof Security WordPress Security plugin is designed to be a fast, simple and one click security plugin to add .htaccess website security protection for your WordPress website. Activate .htaccess website security and .htaccess website under maintenance modes from within your WordPress Dashboard - no FTP required. The BulletProof Security WordPress plugin is a one click security solution that creates, copies, renames, moves or writes to the provided BulletProof Security .htaccess master files. BulletProof Security protects both your Root website folder and wp-admin folder with .htaccess website security protection, as well as providing additional website security protection.
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Easy Steps that Protect Your Website From Hackers

Written by Taylor Hawes

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

As a webmaster, is there anything scarier than the thought of seeing all of your web developed work being altered or wiped out entirely by a nefarious hacker? You’ve worked hard on your website – so take the time to protect it by implementing basic hacking protections!
In addition to regularly backing up your files (which you should already be doing, for various reasons), taking the following three easy steps will help to keep your website safe:

Step #1 – Keep platforms and scripts up-to-date

One of the best things you can do to protect your website is to make sure any platforms or scripts you’ve installed are up-to-date. Because many of these tools are created as open-source software programs, their code is easily available – both to good-intentioned developers and malicious hackers. Hackers can pour over this code, looking for security loopholes that allow them to take control of your website by exploiting known platform and script weaknesses.
As an example, if you’re running a website built on WordPress, both your base WordPress installation and any third-party plugins you’ve installed may be vulnerable to these types of attacks. Making sure you always have the newest versions of your platform and scripts installed minimizes the risk that you’ll be hacked in this way – though this isn’t a “fail safe” way to protect your website.

Step #2 – Install security plugins, when possible

To enhance the security of your website once your platform and scripts are up-to-date, look into security plugins that actively prevent against hacking attempts.
Again, if you’re running a WordPress website, you’ll want to look into free plugins like Better WP Security and Bulletproof Security (or similar tools that are available for websites built on other content management systems). These products address the weaknesses that are inherent in each platform, foiling additional types of hacking attempts that could threaten your website.
Alternatively – whether you’re running a CMS-managed site or HTML pages – take a look at SiteLock. SiteLock goes above and beyond simply closing site security loopholes by providing daily monitoring for everything from malware detection to vulnerability identification to active virus scanning and more. If your business relies on its website, SiteLock is definitely an investment worth considering.

Step #3 – Lock down your directory and file permissions

Now, for this final technique, we’re going to get a little technical – but stick with me for a moment…
All websites can be boiled down to a series of files and folders that are stored on your web hosting account. Besides containing all of the scripts and data needed to make your website work, each of these files and folders is assigned a set of permissions that controls who can read, write and execute any given file or folder, relative to the user they are or the group to whom they belong.
On the Linux operating system, permissions are viewable as a three digit code where each digit is an integer between 0-7. The first digit represents permissions for the owner of the file, the second digit represents permissions for anyone assigned to the group that owns the file, and the third digit represents permissions for everyone else. The assignations work as follows:
4 equals Read
2 equals Write
1 equals Execute
0 equals no permissions for that user
As an example, take the permission code “644.” In this case, a “6” (or “4+2″) in the first position gives the file’s owner the ability to read and write the file. The “4” in the second and third positions means that both group users and internet users at large can read the file only – protecting the file from unexpected manipulations.
So, a file with “777″ (or 4+2+1 / 4+2+1 / 4+2+1 )permissions would then readable, write-able, and executable by the user, the group and everyone else in the world.
As you might expect, a file that is assigned a permission code that gives anyone on the web the ability to write and execute it is much less secure than one that’s been locked down in order to reserve all rights for the owner alone. Of course, there are valid reasons to open up access to other groups of users, but these instances must be carefully thought out in order to avoid creating a security risk to your website.
For this reason, a good rule of thumb is to set your permissions as follows:

Folders and directories = 755
Individual files = 644

To set your file permissions, log in to your cPanel’s File Manager or connect to your server via FTP. Once inside, you’ll see a list of your existing file permissions (as in the following example generated using the Filezilla FTP program):

The final column in this example displays the folder and file permissions currently assigned to the website’s content. To change these permissions in Filezilla, simply right click the folder or file in question and select the “File permissions” option. Doing so will launch a screen that allows you to assign different permissions using a series of checkboxes:

Although your web host’s or FTP program’s backend might look slightly different, the basic process for changing permissions remains the same. If you have any questions about modifying your folder and file permissions, please see this helpful link. Don’t put off taking this important step – securing your site using all of these different strategies is a big part of keeping your site healthy and safe in the long run!

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