Sunday, December 1, 2013

Rockefeller attaches cybersecurity bill to NDAA 2014

Rockefeller attaches cybersecurity bill to NDAA 2014

Published time: November 22, 2013 20:19
Senator Jay Rockefeller (Reuters / Mike Segar)
Senator Jay Rockefeller (Reuters / Mike Segar)
The chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee submitted on Thursday an already-approved cybersecurity bill to be considered as an amendment to next year’s National Defense Authorization Act.
If the amendment manages to stay intact as Congress prepares to approve the 2014 NDAA, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia)’s Cybersecurity Act of 2013 may finally be codified into law.
Rockefeller’s proposal, S.1353, was unanimously approved by the Commerce Committee in July but has stayed relatively dormant ever since. On Thursday he submitted that bill as an amendment to be considered as part of an annual Pentagon spending plan that could fast track his attempts to land his proposal on President Barack Obama’s desk after attempts in Congress to adopt cybersecurity legislation have largely proven to be futile.

In a statement made by Rockefeller that circulated earlier this week, the 75-year-old senator suggested that the time is now upon Congress to finally enact a bill that would mandate precautions be taken to protect America’s cyber infrastructure and the private entities attached to it amid ongoing reports of high-powered attacks aimed at the likes of government computers and the networks of critical services.
“The Commerce Committee took action months ago and unanimously passed this bipartisan bill that will improve the nation’s cybersecurity. But it’s been sitting on the sidelines for too long and there’s too much at stake to not look for every opportunity to pass it in the Senate,” Rockefeller said in a statement first published on Wednesday by John Eggerton at Multichannel News. “So I’m introducing that legislation as an amendment to the Defense Authorization bill and imploring my colleagues to join me in supporting this effort.”
According to Rockefeller, his bill “creates an environment that will cultivate the public-private partnerships essential to strengthening our nation’s cybersecurity.” When it was first introduced in the Senate earlier this year, the Commerce Committee said passage of the bill would “Formalize cybersecurity as one of [National Institute of Standards and Technology]’s priority areas of focus” and “create a NIST-facilitated, industry-driven process for developing a set of voluntary cybersecurity standards for critical infrastructure.” At the time it received endorsements from the likes of AT&T, Verizon, Motorola Solutions, the Electric and Nuclear Power Coalition, IBM and the US Chamber of Congress.
I’ve always thought this was a great way to emphasize the critical need for a public-private approach when it comes to solving our most pressing cybersecurity issues,” Rockefeller said then.
Since Congress will need to approve a version of the NDAA in order to authorize the Pentagon’s funding for the next fiscal year, the addition of Rockefeller’s bill as an amendment ensures that it will at least be considered by his colleagues for passage in the coming weeks, setting the stage for lawmakers to finally let a cybersecurity bill of this capacity become codified.
In 2012, attempts in Congress to pass the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, ultimately failed due largely in part to a major public campaign that condemned the would-be law due to allegations that it would erode privacy on the web by encouraging the growth of a public-private partnership between internet companies and the federal government.
Proponents of CISPA, including then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, said at the time that America was at a “pre-9/11 moment” and warned that a “Cyber-Pearl Harbor that would cause physical destruction and the loss of life” could soon occur on American soil if the country’s critical infrastructure and top-tier businesses weren’t obligated to come together and share information about potential hacks waged at US networks.
The architects of CISPA have since reintroduced their bill, and Pres. Obama signed an executive order in February that mandated administration officials to come up with standards to reduce cybersecurity risks and encourage companies to adopt the new framework.
“We know hackers steal people’s identities and infiltrate private e-mail,”Obama said after signing the order in February.“We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets. Now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, and our air traffic control systems.”

PA Vows ‘Unending Violence’ At Memorial Event for Yasser Arafat

PA Vows ‘Unending Violence’ At Memorial Event for Yasser Arafat

Golda Meir: When The Arabs Love Their Children More Than They Hate Jews, There Will Be Peace
11-30-13 At an event marking nine years since former Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Yasser Arafat’s death, a PA supported foundation hosted a musical performance that was broadcast on PA TV. In it, performers sang a song glorifying martyrdom and vowing violence “no force can stop” on Israel. In addition to the song, PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah gave a speech at the event, and numerous PA and Fatah officials were in attendance. The Popular Arts and Military Music group performed “My weapon has emerged” at the event while dressed in military uniforms. The song features such lines as “there is no force in the world that can remove the weapon from my hand,” and “as the weapon of the revolution is in my hand, so my presence will be forced (upon Israel).”
The memorial event was organized by the Yasser Arafat Foundation, which according to its website was “established by Presidential decree” in 2007 and receives “governmental support,” even while it is run independently. The organization states is goal is to preserve “the heritage and legacy of the late President Yasser Arafat among the Palestinian, Arab and friendly peoples.” Regarding Arafat’s legacy, a Fatah official recently claimed on PA TV that Arafat taught “all liberation movements in the world” that Israel is the “prime enemy…of all nations in the world.” Arafat’s memorial comes amid conspiracy theories from the PA that Israel poisoned the late leader. Swiss scientists recently asserted that lab test results “moderately” support the theory that Arafat died of polonium poisoning in 2004. While PA officials jumped to accuse Israel, the US was also accused by the PA of being involved in the supposed “assassination.”President Shimon Peres rejected the theories, saying it would have been easier for an assassin to simply shoot Arafat.

Obama’s first college now offers a whole class on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’

Obama’s first college now offers a whole class on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’

The mediocre private liberal arts college that President Barack Obama attended from 1979 to 1981 before wisely transferring to Columbia University as a junior will now offer real academic credit for students who want to study the reality show “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
The spring course at Occidental College in Los Angeles is entitled “Reading RuPaul: Camp Culture, Gender Insubordination, and the Politics of Performance,” reports Campus Reform.
The class will analyze “RuPaul’s Drag Race” from both gay and feminist gay viewpoints. Coursework will include watching a bunch of episodes of the Logo TV reality show and reading “Workin’ It,” a book RuPaul wrote in 2010.
In case you don’t watch a lot of Logo TV, “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” is basically a conventional reality show with cross-dressing. There are contestants who get eliminated based on their performances in challenges including fashion design, musical performance and getting doused with water while dressed in full drag.
Daniel Williford, the course professor, told Out.com that “the overarching premise” of the class is to examine the reality show “as an example of the creative techniques that marginalized people use to grapple with the violence, shame and social illegitimacy that are the stuff of daily life.”
Williford added that liking “RuPaul’s Drag Race” isn’t a prerequisite.
“Students will be encouraged to critique this premise of the class and the show itself,” he told Out.com. “But they will have to do so by immersing themselves in it.”
The course is offered through Occidental’s critical theory and social justice program.
Other courses in this vital and obviously grueling major include “Whiteness,” “Rasatafari” and a class called “Stupidity.”
The total cost for tuition, room and board and required fees this academic year at Occidental is $59,592.
Here is how the private college describes the RuPaul course:
This course introduces methods in Queer Theory and Feminist Theory by taking as the central object of study the reality competition show “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” As the show brings the art of drag performance and issues attendant to contemporary queer subcultures to a wide audience, the course will consider how it addresses histories of drag and U.S. gay culture, as well as a broad range of issues such as transgender identity, HIV/AIDS, bullying and violence, racial identity, gender identity, body size, and LGBT political activism. Students will consider claims about the transformative, recuperative, and empowering art of drag performance. The course will draw from readings on the history of sexuality, feminist critiques of gender identity, transgender affect and embodiment, the history of race and racial identity, and drag and the politics of camp.
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Obama to Netanyahu: Stop Criticizing Iranian Nuke Deal

Obama to Netanyahu: Stop Criticizing Iranian Nuke Deal

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U.S. President Barack Obama has reportedly asked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to stop being so vocal with his criticism of the deal reached between Iran and the West, reports The Washington Post.
The newspaper’s columnist David Ignatius wrote on Thursday, “Obama has asked Netanyahu to take a breather from his clamorous criticism and send to Washington a team that can explore with U.S. officials a sound end-state strategy.”
“Perhaps the United States and Israel need a back channel, outside the bombastic pressure campaign by Israeli advocates,” he added in the column, which dealt with Washington’s plans for the next six months, during which the Western powers and Iran are supposed to work out a permanent agreement.
Netanyahu has openly criticized the deal that was reached between Iran and Western powers in talks in Geneva, explaining that it allows Iran to continue its nuclear program while getting sanctions relief.
Netanyahu slammed the deal on Sunday, shortly after it was reached, saying, “As we learn more and more details about the agreement that was achieved last night in Geneva, it becomes increasingly clear how bad and dangerous this agreement is to the world, the region and Israel.”
Shortly after his remarks on Sunday evening,  Netanyahu received a phone call from Obama to discuss the deal.
During that conversation, the two reportedly agreed that Israeli and American teams would hold consultations on the permanent agreement.
On Wednesday, a high-ranking Israeli officer said that Israel and the United States plan to hold a joint military drill in six months, just as the interim agreement between Iran and the West is due to expire.
“The wind from the Americans into the Israeli sails is, ‘We will maintain our capability to strike in Iran, and one of the ways we show it is to train.’ It will send signals both to Israel and to the Iranians that we are maintaining our capabilities in the military option. The atmosphere is we have to do it big time, we have to do a big show of capabilities and connections,” the official told TIME magazine.
SOURCE: Israel National News

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Valerie “Jezebele” Jarrett Targets Hobby Lobby As A Corporate Entity Trying To Seize A Controlling Interest over Women’s Health

Valerie “Jezebele” Jarrett Targets Hobby Lobby As A Corporate Entity Trying To Seize A Controlling Interest over Women’s Health


White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett called out Hobby Lobby and insisted the Obamacare mandate case that will go before the Supreme Court is about whether big corporations can restrict women from having access to birth control.
Valerie Jarrett Slams Hobby Lobby After Supreme Court Accepts Obamacare Case
“No corporate entity should be in position to limit women’s legal access to care, or to seize a controlling interest over the health care choices of women,” Jarrett wrote on the White House blog. “To take that type of power away from individuals, and to let the personal beliefs of a woman’s boss dictate her health care choices would constitute a major step backward for women’s health and self-determination.”
The case is actually a religious freedom complaint against the administration for the Health and Human Services mandate requiring insurance to provide free coverage of abortion-inducing drugs, contraception and sterilization. If the plaintiffs win, it would not allow them to restrict employees from buying these products on their own, only that the employees would not get them for free.
The high court will hear the case from two family-owned companies, the Oklahoma-based chain Hobby Lobby and the Pennsylvania-based Conestoga Wood Specialties Store Corp., both of which argue that paying for employee-based coverage of these drug violates their religious freedom.
“Today, there are people trying to take this right away from women, by letting private, for-profit corporations and employers make medical decisions for their employees, based on their personal beliefs,” said Jarrett, whose blog was cross-posted on the Huffington Post.
“Among the first cases to reach the Supreme Court is one filed by Hobby Lobby, an arts and crafts chain whose owners want to be able to take the option for birth control benefits away from their employees,” Jarrett said.
Ed Note: Apparently anyone who doesn’t want to murder children with Ms Jarrett is a corporate entity trying to “Seize A Controlling Interest over Women’s Health.” That’s the euphemism they are using now for murdering babies.  They call it “women’s health”  That of course is an oxymoron because women who have abortions have many more health problems both physical and mental than women who don’t.  Women who have abortions also have a much higher substance abuse (both alcohol and drug) problem than women who don’t murder their children.  
The two litigants in the case are not trying to restrict anyone’s freedom, said Sarah Torre, policy analyst for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
“This is an interesting argument from the administration that pushed a health care law that severely restrictions the ability for Americans to choose health care that aligns with the value of their family and restricting companies that could be creating jobs,” Torre told TheBlaze. “Obamacare is about restricting choices.”
“No one is suggesting a ban on anything,” Torre continued. “This is about family businesses – the Green family and the Hahns family – about their freedom to continue to create jobs while respecting their values.”
The Green family is the owner of Hobby Lobby. The Hahns family owns Conestoga Wood. Lower courts split on the decision, ruling in favor of the Green family and against the Hahns family.

British National Archives show a son was born to Obama Sr. in 1961 in Kenya

the-national-archivesThe British National Archives (BNA) is an executive agency of the government of the United Kingdom. Based in Kew in southwest London, the BNA is the UK government’s official archive, containing 1,000 years of history from Domesday Book to the present, with records from parchment and paper scrolls to digital files and archived websites, including Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence and files. The collections held by the BNA can be searched using their online catalogue. Entrance to the Archives is free.
On April 18, 2012, the BNA released the first batch of thousands of “lost” colonial-era files believed to have been destroyed, including files on Britain’s former colony of Kenya. Reporters at the UK’s The Guardian were among the first who looked at some of the newly released colonial files. They found that the name of Barack Obama (henceforth, Obama Sr.), the father of the POS in the White House, is on the top of a list of names revealed in a hitherto secret British colonial file of Kenyans studying in the United States.
But it’s not just UK journalists who can access the British National Archives; anyone can. In May 2012, someone conducted a search of the Archives using the search term “Obama” and found that an unnamed son of Obama Sr. was born in Kenya in 1961. Since the POS in the White House is the only known son of Obama Sr. born after 1960 and before 1963 when Kenya became officially independent from the UK, it is reasonable for us to conclude that the POS is that unnamed son of Obama Sr. born in Kenya in 1961. And in fact, the claimed birth date of the POS is August 4, 1961.
Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (l); Stanley Ann Dunham (r).

BELOW ARE EXCERPTS FROM DAN CROSBY’S ON-SITE REPORT FROM KEW FOR THE DAILY PEN, “OBAMA’S KENYA BIRTH RECORDS DISCOVERED IN BRITISH NATIONAL ARCHIVES,” JULY 18, 2012:

Evidence discovered shows British Protectorate of East Africa recorded Obama’s birth records before 1963 and sent returns of those events to Britain’s Public Records Office and the Kew branch of British National Archives. [...]
It now appears the worst fears of the U.S. Constitution’s framers were well founded as investigators working on behalf of the ongoing investigation into the Constitutional eligibility of Barack Obama have found yet another lead in a growing mountain of evidence within the public records section of the British National Archives indicating the occurrence of at least four vital events registered to the name of Barack Obama, taking place in the British Protectorate of East Africa (Kenya) between 1953 and 1963, including the birth of two sons before 1963.
Recall, investigative journalists working for Breitbart.com have already discovered biographical information published by Barack Obama’s literary agent in which he claimed he was born in Kenya.  Prior to Obama’s ensconcement to the White House, many international stories also stated that Obama was Kenyan-born as did members of Kenya’s legislative assembly.  Since then information on Obama’s ties has been curtailed by government officials asthe Obama administration has coincidentally paid nearly $4 billion dollars for capital projects in Kenya.
Also, the presence of Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, cannot be accounted for from February, 1961, the alleged month of her marriage to Obama, until three weeks after the birth of Obama II in August, 1961 when she allegedly applied for college courses at the University of Washington.  Theories about her whereabouts have included that she participated in the Air Lift America project as an exchange student and traveled to Nairobi as one of many recent high school graduates (see AASF Report 1959-1961).
The record of birth of a second son prior to Kenyan independence is significant because biographical information about Obama’s family indicates Obama Sr. fathered only one other son prior to Obama II’s birth.
The books containing hand written line records of vital events attributed to Obama [Sr.] are contained in Series RG36 of the Family Records section in the Kew branch of the BNA.  The hand written line records first discovered in 2009, indicate several events were registered to the name Barack Obama (appears to be handwritten and spelled “Burack” and “Biraq”) beginning in 1953 and include two births recorded in 1958 and 1960, a marriage license registration in 1954 and a birth in 1961.  Barack Obama [Sr.] is said to have died in 1982 and had married at least once more in Kenya and had at least one more child in 1968, but no record of these were found in the BNA because, according to the Archives’ desk reference, the events occurred after Kenya achieved independence from British colonial rule in 1963.
To date, Barack Obama II is the only known alleged son of Obama Sr. born after 1960 and before the independence of Kenya became official in 1963.
A request for information from the BNA on the specification of birth information contained in the series of thousands of logs indicates that only vital events registered in Kenya’s Ministry of Health offices were recorded in the registration returns and were placed in the National Archives care before they reached 30 years old (the law was amended to 20 years after creation in 2010).
The line records do not specify the identity or names of the children, only gender.  However, the line records are associated with index numbers of actual microfilm copies of certificates, licenses and registration applications filed in the archives.  According to researchers, Obama [Sr.]’s line records were discovered in Series RG36, reference books.  Not surprisingly, when researchers specifically requested access to the relevant microfilm for the Obama [Sr.] birth registrations, they were told that the records were currently held under an outdated “privileged access” status, meaning researchers were denied access under Chapter 52, Sections 3 and 5 of the British Public Records Act of 1958.
However, evidence shows these records were available for public access before August of 2009, the approximate date of arrival of Hillary Clinton in Great Britain during her trip to Africa that year.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/access-to-public-records.pdf
Several sources show that Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton made a sudden visit to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the British agency which oversees Public Records Archives from colonial protectorates, to speak with the Chief Executive of the Archives in early August of 2009.  African news agency expressed surprise at Clinton’s arrival since she did not announce her intentions of stopping in Great Britain before embarking on her two week trip to Africa.
For someone who wanted to remain in America, it’s difficult to imagine any reason why Barack Obama’s alleged father, Barack the elder, would omit the birth of an “anchor baby” son on an application to extend his visa, just days after the birth occurred, unless…
The American people were told by Barack Obama, unequivocally, that his father was a former goat herder from Kenya. However, INS documents filed in the very same month after Obama’s birth suggest the goat herding elder Obama didn’t “get the memo” that he was a daddy.
On August 31st, 1961, just weeks after Obama’s birth was allegedly registered in a regional office of the Hawaiian Health Department, Obama the elder neglected to name his newborn son on an application for extension of his temporary visa to stay in the U.S.
Obama’s omission of the birth is astonishing and illogical given the fact that the acknowledgement of the birth would have fortified Obama’s application for an extension. The INS has long been more willing to extend the visa of a foreign parent of children born in the U.S., especially when the other parent is an American citizen.
Despite the recent release of a documentary film “Dreams From My Real Father” presenting evidence that Barack Hussein Obama is not the biological father of the younger Obama, the elder Obama is the man named as the father on the digital image of Obama’s alleged 1961 “Certificate of Live Birth” which was posted to the internet by the administration in April of 2011. The document image has since been forensically examined by law enforcement investigators and determined to be a digitally fabricated forgery using Adobe software.
[...], in 2011, it was reported by The Daily Pen after an investigation of the State of Hawaii’s birth statistics collection protocols and vital records history thatbirth certificates are often amended after the birth while the original paper document is sealed under strict confidentiality rules when the identity of the father is either determined after birth or when the father named on the new version of the certificate has adopted or assumed paternal responsibility for the child.
In the latter case, the original birth record may not contain the biological father’s name because the mother does not provide it, or it may list paternity as “unknown”, but this version is kept confidential under HRS 571. [...] Therefore, the paternity of the child at the actual time of the birth is not disclosed while the new amended certificate is upheld as the original version displaying the name of the newly identified or adoptive father as indistinguishable if different from the biological father. This law is meant to protect the child from stigmas resulting from illegitimacy, rape, incest or adultery. Under these circumstances it is not possible to know the paternal status of a child at birth unless the original birth record is made accessible by authorized persons under Hawaiian law.
[...] If Obama [Sr.] is not the biological father, or if paternal information is listed on the original certificate as “unknown”, the state of Hawaii keeps this information secret until a court orders the documents to be released for discovery purposes in determining Obama’s eligibility. Thus far, courts have lacked courage to uphold the Constitution thereby propagating the greatest political fraud in American history. Judges are simply washing their hands of the issue by refusing to even consider actual evidence against Obama, denying citizens of justice and their Constitutional right to a redress of grievances, because they simply do not have the courage to face the legal crisis such a revelation would cause.
[...] Despite evidence indicating that Obama was simultaneously married to a woman in Kenya, it is suspected that he claimed to be married to Dunham in order to use the marriage as leverage to remain in the U.S. There is no evidence or testimony that Obama [Sr.] ever loved Dunham or that the two had ever been engaged. The two did not live together before or after being married and there were no letters, no ring, no announcement or, most importantly, no legal marriage registration with the State of Hawaii.
Despite a complete void of documented proof of the marriage, it appears Dunham was granted a statutory divorce from Obama in 1964. However, images posted of the court documents from the decree contain no original documented proof of a marriage or legal documents showing that Obama was the father of Dunham’s child.  A review of the court documents shows that at least one document, perhaps an original birth certificate for baby Obama, was missing from the numbering sequence.
Being legitimately married to a U.S. citizen would be a benefit toward allowing a foreign spouse to remain the U.S. However, no marriage license application or public announcement has ever been found to indicate that Obama and Dunham were ever married or that Obama [Sr.] had even divorced his Kenyan wife prior to an alleged wedding with Dunham. This fact supports the contents of memos from college and INS officials who expressed doubts about the legitimacy of Obama’s relationship with Dunham, even questioning the motive of such a union between a teenage woman and a foreign student facing visa expiration just days after the birth of her child.
[...] Government officials in Hawaii, including Governor Neil Abercrombie, Lt. Governor Brian Schatz and former Hawaiian elections official, Tim Adams have all indicated that they could find no original record of Obama’s alleged birth in any hospital in Hawaiiin the course of their duties to verify his eligibility. The absence of verifiable birth documentation was so apparent that Schatz, serving as the chairman of the Democrat Party of Hawaii in 2008, refused to certify that Obama was indeed constitutionally eligible to hold the office of presidentwhen he submitted the Official Certification of Nomination of Obama. Schatz deferred the responsibility to Nancy Pelosi and DNC, and then Chair of the Hawaiian Elections Commission, Kevin Cronin. Cronin resigned suddenly after controversy surrounding his decision began to strain his relationship with the commission.
[...] Liars and abettors in media and government, drudging on behalf of the Obama administration, have anchored their Alinsky-style ridicule of those questioning Obama’s eligibility in a delusion that he must be legitimate because his birth was announced in two Hawaiian newspapers.
[...] Hawaii has a long history of allocating foreign births to the mother’s claimed Hawaiian residence regardless of the actual location of the birth, which was in compliance with guidelines established by the National Center for Health Statistics in order to accurately attribute data from births with decadal Census figures. [...] The impact of population figures on the Hawaii’s economy and agency resources was very significant in 1961.  The accuracy of the Census takes precedence over the accuracy and veracity of vital statistics in the U.S. [...]

UPDATE (Aug. 25, 2012):

According to Dan Crosby, the specific sources of information pertaining to births of Kenyan nationals under British jurisdiction can be researched in the following BNA files (Courtesy: British National Archives):
General Register Office
SERIES RG36
Registers and Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Protectorates etc of Africa and Asia

Legal status:    Public Record(s)
Language:    English
Creator names:    General Register Office, 1836-1970
Covering Birth Registration dates:    1895-1965
Physical description:    15 volume(s)
Access conditions:    Available in microform only
Held by:    The National Archives, Kew
Scope and content:    Notifications forwarded by officials responsible for civil registration under administrative ordinances in Nyasaland, Kenya, Somaliland, Uganda, Sudan, Palestine, Sarawak, Malaya, including Johore and Selangor, and British North Borneo, commencing at varying dates.
Publication note:    Geoffrey Yeo ‘The British Overseas, A Guide to Records of Their Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths and Burials Available in the United Kingdom’, London, 2nd edn, 1988.
Related material:    Some earlier returns from the East African territories in the period during which they were under Foreign Office control are in the consular registers retained in the custody of the registrar general.
Place:    Kenya, Africa (Territory Thereof): 1920 – 1963

Subjects:    Birth: registration
H/t Obama Release Your Records
~Eowyn
Dr. Eowyn is a regular contributor to The D.C. Clothesline and the Editor of Fellowship of the Minds. This article originally appeared on FOTM in August of 2012 but I thought our readers may appreciate it. -Dean Garrison

Foreign Policy Indictment of Obama: Incompetence On Parade

Foreign Policy Indictment of Obama: Incompetence On Parade

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Foreign Policy Indictment of Obama: Incompetence On Parade

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by 05) Andrew Amedee on October 20, 2012
From apologizing to Kandahar for his policy leading to the green-on-blue murder of US troops, to the turmoil surrounding Benghazi, Barack Obama’s incompetence regarding foreign policy is deadly. This may sound like a hyperbolic indictment, but consider the facts:
Under the reign of President Obama, US casualties in Afghanistan are up to approximately 1350 in just 3 ½ years. From October 7, 2001 to January 20th 2009, the death toll of U.S. troop in Afghanistan was 630. In less than half the time, this supposed Commander in Chief has more than doubled the body count of Marines, Sailors, Soldiers, and Airmen. The same could be said about the debt, but that’s another article.
Why so many? Three words: Rules Of Engagement (ROE).
It is the policy of the Obama administration that if a combatant temporarily puts down his weapon, US troops may not engage & must cease fire. So, after unloading a 30 round magazine at our soldiers, the terrorist can put down his weapon, reload another magazine and if our military fires in the interim, our soldiers can go to Leavenworth for the rest of their lives. One might be left in awe at this shockingly incompetent Obama policy. Major General Robert Scales has been an outspoken critic of this inept administration & its policies for warfare, which has only led to more dead US troops.
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Furthermore, our soldiers cannot hold captured terrorist for interrogation past 96 hours and must turn them over to Afghanistan police. This is not a joke. Consider the ‘green on blue’ attacks to decide if this incompetent Obama policy is wise.
Finally, Barack Obama has tied the hands of the US military with his rule that no US soldier is allowed to kill the enemy without prior approval from an Afghan-national. Again, consider the ‘green on blue’ murders, and one can only conclude that this ROE is—not only incompetent—but also the way to lose a war. The rules for prosecuting and governing ‘Obama’s War’ are the rules of political correctness & appeasement.
This next part will absolutely infuriate you, especially if you are serving or have served in the United States Military.
Lance Corporal Greg Buckley Jr. was serving honorably in the Helmand Province.  The 21 year old Marine was training local security forces (“green soldiers”) as part of Obama’s planned 2014 draw-down. Routinely facing the threat of mortar shelling, gunfire, and IEDs by terrorist—LCpl Buckley did his job and did his job well in the face of enormous adversity.
One of the 7th Century barbarians who LCpl Buckley was valiantly attempting to train routinely told the Marine, “We don’t want you here. We don’t need you here.” Finally, after confronting the thinly veiled terrorist for his comments, LCpl Buckley was, of course, made to apologize. But the trainee refused to shake the Marine’s hand.
Much like Sean Smith, LCpl Buckley predicted his death, informing his family that he would be murdered by the trainee. Prophetically, the Marine was right. The barbarian crept into his room, and gunned down the Marine in his sleep—shooting LCpl Buckley multiple times in the chest with an AK-47, killing him.

This happened two days before he was scheduled to leave Afghanistan.
Greg Buckley Sr. and his wife Marina—the parents of the slain Marine—were sent a form-letter from the Commander in Chief. The families of the SeAL Team 6 members who died in a widely publicized helicopter crash got the same sort of shabby treatment. This is the same SeAL Team 6 that operated in secret for more than 30 years, until the buffoon Vice President, Joe Biden, admitted their existence. The same SeAL Team which Obama now uses to prop-up his political campaign, when declaring “I killed bin Laden. I ended the war in Iraq. I am ending the war in Afghanistan.”
For one who never served, Barack sure likes to take credit for US MILITARY accomplishment & achievement.  As a side note, Barack Obama did send the family of Heavy D a personalized, hand written letter when the rapper passed away. The sheer sacrifice it must have taken Obama to write that letter must leave so many in shock & awe.
It should be clear to all that Obama only likes to use the military as stage props, and certainly does not have their safety at heart. When Obama speaks at West Point or Annapolis, he often takes credit of operations he had little to do with. Other than that, he and his wife have very little use for the military, or the institutions they represent.
See: “All this for a damn flag?” (Article continues after the video)
There is no plan for victory under this President. In fact, Obama is trying to redefine “victory.” Under Obama, Afghanistan has degenerated into a losing exercise in humiliation. Like Obama’s plan to homosexualize the military, this 1960s-style-radical is trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, as the radical left did 40 years ago when protesting America in favor of Communist North Vietnam.
Benghazi is an equally troubling recent development. Or is it that recent?
We now know through the House Oversight Committee chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) that over 100 documents from Ambassador Chris Stevens expressing concern over the growing Al Qaeda presence in the area were submitted to the administration in the months leading up to the attack. Nothing was done. Why?
In fact, during the Vice Presidential debate, Joe Biden said, “the administration wasn’t even told.” The Consulate didn’t have even the standard Marine security detail, much less any reinforcements. Why?
For over two weeks the administration blamed a YouTube video made by an Egyptian born Coptic Christian, that no one ever saw. The Obama Administration kept saying it was a spontaneous protest that got out of hand. Why? Obama most likely blames youtube on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood, who used to be a on terrorist watch list and have now been welcomed into power by Obama.
In the recent Presidential debate, Obama tried to ham-handedly claim that he labeled it a terrorist attack from the beginning. Let’s accept that premise momentarily. Why then, did his Ambassador to the U.N. go on no less than 5 Sunday talk shows and blame the video? From Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton to Joe Biden to Susan Rice to Jay Carney, they all claimed the video was behind this attack. Why? Why was it that Barack Obama after hearing about the attack, went directly to….sleep? He then got on a plane the next morning for a Las Vegas fundraiser.
Parents reading this article, if your child was missing and under attack, would you consider it “not optimal,” shrug it off and  just go to sleep? Why are there so many provable lies about an obvious terrorist attack?
Could this have been a kidnapping gone wrong? Recently, Pat Smith appeared on Fox News & stated that her son was a target. Unlike the others, Sean Smith was “thrown into a pick-up truck and taken from the site.”
It might explain why Barack Obama didn’t feel it necessary to ask any questions before going nighty-night on 9/11—he may have already known the answers. There’s only one problem, two former Navy SeALs were there and they weren’t part of the plan. They fought back; they did their job. They were allowed to be armed, unlike our US guards at the Embassy in Benghazi.  And this would be when things went sideways and 4 Americans lost their lives.
If you believe the multitude of the reports out there, the Obama Administration is in secret talks with the Muslim Brotherhood to release The Blind Sheik (NY Times): Omar Abdel-Rahman, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Knowing he would go down in history with Ford for pardoning Richard Nixon, and Clinton for pardoning Marc Rich, Barack Obama might want political cover for pardoning a terrorist that we have in hand.
What better way selling the American people on the release of a World Trade Center terrorist, than a trade for our Ambassador? Of course, all of this is conjecture, but how many things has this lawless-administration done against the will of the people? At some point, conjecture and speculation have to give way to common sense and reason. Only the disinfectant of daylight and investigation will tell the tale.
by 05) Andrew Amedee on October 20, 2012
From apologizing to Kandahar for his policy leading to the green-on-blue murder of US troops, to the turmoil surrounding Benghazi, Barack Obama’s incompetence regarding foreign policy is deadly. This may sound like a hyperbolic indictment, but consider the facts:
Under the reign of President Obama, US casualties in Afghanistan are up to approximately 1350 in just 3 ½ years. From October 7, 2001 to January 20th 2009, the death toll of U.S. troop in Afghanistan was 630. In less than half the time, this supposed Commander in Chief has more than doubled the body count of Marines, Sailors, Soldiers, and Airmen. The same could be said about the debt, but that’s another article.
Why so many? Three words: Rules Of Engagement (ROE).
It is the policy of the Obama administration that if a combatant temporarily puts down his weapon, US troops may not engage & must cease fire. So, after unloading a 30 round magazine at our soldiers, the terrorist can put down his weapon, reload another magazine and if our military fires in the interim, our soldiers can go to Leavenworth for the rest of their lives. One might be left in awe at this shockingly incompetent Obama policy. Major General Robert Scales has been an outspoken critic of this inept administration & its policies for warfare, which has only led to more dead US troops.
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Furthermore, our soldiers cannot hold captured terrorist for interrogation past 96 hours and must turn them over to Afghanistan police. This is not a joke. Consider the ‘green on blue’ attacks to decide if this incompetent Obama policy is wise.
Finally, Barack Obama has tied the hands of the US military with his rule that no US soldier is allowed to kill the enemy without prior approval from an Afghan-national. Again, consider the ‘green on blue’ murders, and one can only conclude that this ROE is—not only incompetent—but also the way to lose a war. The rules for prosecuting and governing ‘Obama’s War’ are the rules of political correctness & appeasement.
This next part will absolutely infuriate you, especially if you are serving or have served in the United States Military.
Lance Corporal Greg Buckley Jr. was serving honorably in the Helmand Province.  The 21 year old Marine was training local security forces (“green soldiers”) as part of Obama’s planned 2014 draw-down. Routinely facing the threat of mortar shelling, gunfire, and IEDs by terrorist—LCpl Buckley did his job and did his job well in the face of enormous adversity.
One of the 7th Century barbarians who LCpl Buckley was valiantly attempting to train routinely told the Marine, “We don’t want you here. We don’t need you here.” Finally, after confronting the thinly veiled terrorist for his comments, LCpl Buckley was, of course, made to apologize. But the trainee refused to shake the Marine’s hand.
Much like Sean Smith, LCpl Buckley predicted his death, informing his family that he would be murdered by the trainee. Prophetically, the Marine was right. The barbarian crept into his room, and gunned down the Marine in his sleep—shooting LCpl Buckley multiple times in the chest with an AK-47, killing him.

This happened two days before he was scheduled to leave Afghanistan.
Greg Buckley Sr. and his wife Marina—the parents of the slain Marine—were sent a form-letter from the Commander in Chief. The families of the SeAL Team 6 members who died in a widely publicized helicopter crash got the same sort of shabby treatment. This is the same SeAL Team 6 that operated in secret for more than 30 years, until the buffoon Vice President, Joe Biden, admitted their existence. The same SeAL Team which Obama now uses to prop-up his political campaign, when declaring “I killed bin Laden. I ended the war in Iraq. I am ending the war in Afghanistan.”
For one who never served, Barack sure likes to take credit for US MILITARY accomplishment & achievement.  As a side note, Barack Obama did send the family of Heavy D a personalized, hand written letter when the rapper passed away. The sheer sacrifice it must have taken Obama to write that letter must leave so many in shock & awe.
It should be clear to all that Obama only likes to use the military as stage props, and certainly does not have their safety at heart. When Obama speaks at West Point or Annapolis, he often takes credit of operations he had little to do with. Other than that, he and his wife have very little use for the military, or the institutions they represent.
See: “All this for a damn flag?” (Article continues after the video)
There is no plan for victory under this President. In fact, Obama is trying to redefine “victory.” Under Obama, Afghanistan has degenerated into a losing exercise in humiliation. Like Obama’s plan to homosexualize the military, this 1960s-style-radical is trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, as the radical left did 40 years ago when protesting America in favor of Communist North Vietnam.
Benghazi is an equally troubling recent development. Or is it that recent?
We now know through the House Oversight Committee chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) that over 100 documents from Ambassador Chris Stevens expressing concern over the growing Al Qaeda presence in the area were submitted to the administration in the months leading up to the attack. Nothing was done. Why?
In fact, during the Vice Presidential debate, Joe Biden said, “the administration wasn’t even told.” The Consulate didn’t have even the standard Marine security detail, much less any reinforcements. Why?
For over two weeks the administration blamed a YouTube video made by an Egyptian born Coptic Christian, that no one ever saw. The Obama Administration kept saying it was a spontaneous protest that got out of hand. Why? Obama most likely blames youtube on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood, who used to be a on terrorist watch list and have now been welcomed into power by Obama.
In the recent Presidential debate, Obama tried to ham-handedly claim that he labeled it a terrorist attack from the beginning. Let’s accept that premise momentarily. Why then, did his Ambassador to the U.N. go on no less than 5 Sunday talk shows and blame the video? From Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton to Joe Biden to Susan Rice to Jay Carney, they all claimed the video was behind this attack. Why? Why was it that Barack Obama after hearing about the attack, went directly to….sleep? He then got on a plane the next morning for a Las Vegas fundraiser.
Parents reading this article, if your child was missing and under attack, would you consider it “not optimal,” shrug it off and  just go to sleep? Why are there so many provable lies about an obvious terrorist attack?
Could this have been a kidnapping gone wrong? Recently, Pat Smith appeared on Fox News & stated that her son was a target. Unlike the others, Sean Smith was “thrown into a pick-up truck and taken from the site.”
It might explain why Barack Obama didn’t feel it necessary to ask any questions before going nighty-night on 9/11—he may have already known the answers. There’s only one problem, two former Navy SeALs were there and they weren’t part of the plan. They fought back; they did their job. They were allowed to be armed, unlike our US guards at the Embassy in Benghazi.  And this would be when things went sideways and 4 Americans lost their lives.
If you believe the multitude of the reports out there, the Obama Administration is in secret talks with the Muslim Brotherhood to release The Blind Sheik (NY Times): Omar Abdel-Rahman, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Knowing he would go down in history with Ford for pardoning Richard Nixon, and Clinton for pardoning Marc Rich, Barack Obama might want political cover for pardoning a terrorist that we have in hand.
What better way selling the American people on the release of a World Trade Center terrorist, than a trade for our Ambassador? Of course, all of this is conjecture, but how many things has this lawless-administration done against the will of the people? At some point, conjecture and speculation have to give way to common sense and reason. Only the disinfectant of daylight and investigation will tell the tale.