Hoekstra Attacks Administration on Two Fronts
Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, is taking the Obama Administration to task in two areas:
- Trying Islamic terrorists in a civilian court in New York City
- For covering up information regarding the Ft. Hood massacre
Here is video of Hoekstra reacting to President Obama’s decision to bring the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to New York to stand trial before a civilian court. Hoekstra said he cannot understand why in the world Obama is doing this instead of taking the guilty plea of Mohammed and letting his punishment be decided by a Military Tribunal.
Regarding the Ft. Hood massacre:
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) said administration officials delayed briefing members of Congress about the alleged gunman, raising “red flags” about what the White House was hiding.
“When they withhold information, you always start asking questions,” Hoekstra told Fox News. “That’s what raises red flags. What do they know that they don’t want us to know?”
Hoekstra linked President Barack Obama’s handling of Fort Hood to a chain of other GOP criticisms of the president, including the administration’s treatment of detainees and an investigation into possible CIA abuse.
“It is a political correctness that is making it unable for us to identify the real threat of homegrown terrorism,” he alleged.
Hat tips: Freedom’s Lighthouse and The Hill
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Hey bc,
You gonna support Hoekstra or Mike Cox for Governor. I think Cox would have an easier time against Cherry but I know Hoekstra quite well. He is a real conservative and one of the few congressman that has been willing to go after Obama this year because of his intel position in Congress.
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I prefer Cox. I like Hoekstra where he is. In fact, I would love to see him in the Senate.
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EPH!!!!!! Where are you man?????
Don’t worry guys – we are going to stop being so insanely PC – the day after we are all dead.
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Every time I see Hussein on TV, I get nauseous. I am being serious.
As for Palin, I love the fact that she is using the new media to talk over the msm. I think 2012 is too soon for her but she would call her Mrs. President or Madam President in 2016?
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Did you enjoy the scraping bow to the Japanese emperor?
The middle finger for the day.
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IT WILL DRIVE ONE INSANE,
LISTENING TO BARACK HUSSEIN,
WITH HIS CANT AND GUILE,
IT RAISES ONE’S BILE,
I THINK I’LL GO OPEN A VEIN
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I prefer Cox.
……
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Obama loves the Russian anthem, not the American one
Obama places his hand over his heart for the Russian anthem, not for the “star spangled banner”.
From MFGs thread earlier….
He ought to be impeached. I hate Democrats.
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RWY, That’s a bad link.
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Fixed, Artist…
How are you not supposed to hate this man, when you see stuff like this? And how can you not be absolutely horrified by anyone who would vote for him?
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I t would be bad enough if Obama were just a left wing nut, but everyone he surrounds himswlf with is just as radical as he is.
Hw wants the civilian trials to make Bush look bad, but he and Holder have not thought through how they can backfies on the country and the Obama Administrtaion.
Last night BOP asked Karl Rove why the Bush Administration didn’t start military trials. Good question and Rove really didn’t have an answer.
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At a certain level Hoekstra got it all wrong. For him to imply that Obammy is hiding something is to suggest that Obammy knew first hand that this guy Hasan would attack. I would ascribe much to the sheer stupidity of Obammy as the fact he knows nothing — because he doesn’t. Otherwise you elevate O to be all knowing.
Nobody believes that do they?
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I don’t think he’s saying that; he’s suggesting that the administration has information about Hasant that they are not releasing. He’s not saying that they had this information before the attack. Nevertheless, they don’t want it released.
You have three guesses as to why, and the first two don’t count.
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If our media did its job, Obama’s approval would be 19%.
If that.
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There is probably a letter from the Hasan sitting on the floral table in the WH private residence upstairs right next to the one from Vince Foster?
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Man…
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575133,00.html
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Utah –
Utah Teas are vetting candidates for the various State races
If this catches on around the country, a guy like Crist is toast with a capital T.
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Sorry forgot the link.
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What do you think Obama’s initial private reaction was when he first heard of the 9-11 events?
I bet I could make a pretty good guess.
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More on Utah:
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/11/14/defeating-bennett/
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In this weeks, ‘Do as I say, not as I do.’ sweepstakes. NYT fires unionized personnel and moves the positions to nonunionized location in Florida. link.
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#14 If the media did their job, Obama would never have been elected.
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Primarying Bennett and McCain should be a top priority in 2010.
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The link showing Obama and the Russsian Anthem is the final straw. I no longer consider him the President of the United States.
Now I see what the Cuban people are going through under the Castros or the Venezuelans are going through under Chavez or the North Koreans under Kim II Sung or. . . .
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TLS -
The media thought its job was to get Obama elected. Now it thinks its job is to protect him.
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‘Now I see what the Cuban people are going through under the Castros or the Venezuelans are going through under Chavez or the North Koreans under Kim II Sung or. . . .’
Please be realistic. We are several light years from that. Although it is a warning of what could eventually happen.
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Palin on Obama/Holder decision on civilian trials:
http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/obama-administrations-atrocious-decision/173486643434
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Soon, very soon, there will be a reporter who steps forward out of the mist. He or she will be a left-wing radical, ardent Obamatist for no right-winger or moderate reporter will be believed and tell the American people about who Obama is and what he is doing.
Either that or somebody from his cabinet or some other high ranking official will step out and spill the beans.
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you have to wonder about the American people:
Today Ras -9 (50/49 overall).
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Please be realistic. We are several light years from that. Although it is a warning of what could eventually happen.–PG
I wasn’t comparing us to them, I was referring to their hopes and dreams that they will be free and not under the iron fist of a dictator. I feel the same way.
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Obama tripled the national deficit his first year in office Wizbang link
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#19 The fact that the trial will be blocks from the towers tells me plenty. He is loving this. His contempt for America is just amazing.
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#28 and risk “accidentally” falling down a flight of stairs? They would have to have the heaviest burden of conscience to risk literal life and limb.
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Anyone who still thinks RAS is a good pollster needs to go over to RP and look at today’s results. Hussein went from 46% to 50% in ONE DAY!!!
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“you have to wonder about the American people:”
NO, you have to wonder about RAS !!!!
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…and if RAS knows his data for data are outliers then why publish the garabge results?
He needs to go to a once a week poll.
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JM,
I would not ascribe much to the location situation. American legal system dictates that the accused is tried at the legal venue where the crime was committed. Its so ingrained that if the defense believes that an impartial jury cannot be impaneled they have to file a motion and convince the judge that a change of venue is required. Only a small percentage are ever successful.
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shout out to brother EPH !
stand up Chuck…
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Eph,
Do you like Jan’s gravitar ?
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All evidence and confessions will be thrown out. KSM will be acquitted because of the waterboarding.
Huge reparations will be ordered. Bush, Cheney, Yoo, will all be forced to pay enormous sums to KSM.Needless to say the Justice Department won’t help them (and sovereign immunity does not seem to be at play here, see Yoo).
Obama will apologize to the Muslim world and proclaim America’s guilt.
…..? what happens next?
I am so angry at the fools who support this person. I cannot believe what has happened to America.
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aureliusx,
ditto.
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That makes me mad, aureliusx because it is probably true. Like getting sued by and losing to the dude who breaks into your house and stubs his toe.
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While I’m not sure what will happen to KSM, one thing for sure is that any and all dirty laundry (warranted or not) will be brought out on the U.S. America will become the defendant, while KSM will become nothing but a victimized side show.
Every day, upon waking up there is more stuff out there to be either angry or embarrassed by Obama —> not honoring our flag, the now infamous bow to Kings abroad, his Ft Hood remarks, his delay on war decisions…. There is absolutely nothing positive about this man!
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Slightly off topic, but I want to vent.
General Casey went off the PC deep end when he addressed the terrorist attack against the Fort Hood soldiers by making the main point that he hoped diversity should not become a casualty of the incident. Jeez Louise, General, these are your soldiers, and your first thought is not to have friggin diversity become a casualty. You are more concerned with muslim soldiers in the military than you are with the ones laying on the floor bleeding out.
This PC POS needs to be fired, retired, or hidden away. He does not deserve his stars, or bars, or stripes. What a piece of garbage leading our troops.
link
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From Michelle Malkin:
Anonymous testimony and intelligence based on hearsay are often inadmissible in civilian courts. And while the lives of those immediately involved in say, a mob trial, might be endangered, the entire nation may be at risk when we allow suspected members of a terrorist network to partake in the discovery process.
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I realize Obama and Holder are doing this to get Bush and the country, but they don’t realize the hole they have dug for themselves.
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Even before Obama we were well on the way toward losing our country between political correctness and the propagandists in the media. The liberal Democrats push change and RINOs like Graham, Bennett and Luger willingly go along. Wee need to elect conservatives, not Democrats, not RINOs.
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JM,
I would not be surprised if the first move by the defense is that KSM cannot get a fair trial in the US because of 9/11 and would ask for a change of venue to the Hague/ICC.
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Connect the dots —
Military personnel dead/wounded –> Purple Heart or Not? –> Terrorist attack on US soil?
Link.
If the latter is to be avoided politically then the second item won’t happen.
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This is O/T too, and may be a good thread to post sometime in the future…
Here in California we are not only struggling with high unemployment, state deficits, but also drought conditions. Where we live we get robo-calls reminding us to save water “or else.”
What the public at large isn’t aware of is that much of our so-called drought conditions is government-made. Via law suits and the Federal Government, pumps in the important bread-basket of our state, the Central Valley, have been ordered shut off so that the Delta Smelt aren’t inadvertantly “ground up.” Because this ordinary 2-3 inch fish is only found in the CA Delta, it is on the endangered species list, and thus something that crazy environmentalists can push and prevail on in the Federal Courts.
In the meantime farms of all sizes are in jeopardy of going under. Over 40,000 workers have been let go. Hundreds of thousands acreas lie fallow and literally left to blow away, like during the depression dust bowl times. And reservoirs, like San Luis, are being lowered by the day. And, water rates, here in Los Angeles, are going up…..
The water captured in the delta is from melting ice caps, rivers etc. If it is not pumped back for irrigation and water use 75% goes into the ocean. So, that is where much of California’s water is currently being “wasted.”.
Obama, in the meantime, is having a symbolic “jobs summit” soon. All he has to do is override the environmentalists, mandate the pumps be turned on until better solutions can be found to “save” this minor fish — basically putting people and jobs before tiny fish. This kind of common sense decision would be a job creator requiring no 2nd stimulas, rather just a stimulation of brain matter relating to reality.
Delta Smelt info article
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That’s exactly what Obama and Holder have in mind.
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BC,
Then Holder will be complicit in being the sideshow ringleader. Keep in mind that how the charges are brought define how the defense mounts a response. So if it turns into a sideshow then Holder is culpable and by extension the WH.
Sometimes the consequences of ones desires backfire. I can only hope.
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Something floating around the ‘Net for a while from Scotland.
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I don’t know much, but I have felt
the problem isn’t water, or the Delta Smelt
When the liberals get into the act
under the careful eye of their messiah Barack
It’s a bad deal, for sure, we’ve been dealt.
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Sometimes the consequences of ones desires backfire. I can only hope.—> drdog
I’ve been hoping for consequences, on a lot of things Obama has been doing, for over a year now!
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Mullet
The reason I am bringing up the Delta Smelt is that Hugh Hewitt did an entire three-hour show, broadcast from the Central Valley, highlighting the issues there. He interviewed farmers who had 2-3 years left before they figured they would lose their farm. Supposedly they are having to irrigate with only 10% of the water needed, so are cutting out any and all crops that are water-users, like tomatoes.
Some farmers are only doing grapes and walnuts.
The bigger issue, that surfaced, though, was that the Central Valley supplies the entire US and places abroad with food. We are literally going to have to import food from other countries should this area be sacrificed in trying to save the Delta Smelt. So, the question here is why are Feinstein/Boxer/Obama etc. willing to put party politics (lucrative donations from environmental groups) above food production in this country???
Also, supposedly many of the Mexican/Americans who make up a majority of the population in this region are changing parties in what was described “in droves,” as they are fed up with their Democratic representation. We’ll see how correst this observation is, though, in the next election involving Boxer and a new governor!
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mullet vs smelt
euphonius fish battle!
who will win?
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The mullet, for the time being, is safe in his tidal pool.
And we don’t mind a little muck.
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Aaaah, the mullet. A much smarter fish than the smelt. Tastier too when properly salted and smoked in the smoker. Makes me hungry.
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Yikes!