Random Political comments...

Trump better get his head screwed on straight because he and his administration are circling the drain ten-days on the job, which is terrible for the American people. Fuck around and we're gonna end up a question on Chinese Jeopardy!

 

They say chump is on his way to palm beach this weekend.

*Waits for Bliss to defend*

 

Damn.......this guy about to pick a supreme court judge. Smh

 

February 05, 2016 - 12:00 PM EST
DHS ordered me to scrub records of Muslims with terror ties..

BY PHILIP HANEY

Amid the chaos of the 2009 holiday travel season, jihadists planned to slaughter 290 innocent travelers on a Christmas Day flight from the Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan.

Twenty-three-year old Nigerian Muslim Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab intended to detonate Northwest Airlines Flight 253, but the explosives in his underwear malfunctioned and brave ve passengers subdued him until he could be arrested.

The graphic and traumatic defeat they planned for the United States failed, that time.

Following the attempted attack, President Obama threw the intelligence community under the bus for its failure to “connect the dots.” He said, “this was not a failure to collect intelligence, it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had.”

Most Americans were unaware of the enormous damage to morale at the Department of Homeland Security, where I worked, his condemnation caused. His words infuriated many of us because we knew his administration had been engaged in a bureaucratic effort to destroy the raw material—the actual intelligence we had collected for years, and erase those dots. The dots constitute the intelligence needed to keep Americans safe, and the Obama administration was ordering they be wiped away.

After leaving my 15 year career at DHS, I can no longer be silent about the dangerous state of America’s counter-terror strategy, our leaders’ willingness to compromise the security of citizens for the ideological rigidity of political correctness—and, consequently, our vulnerability to devastating, mass-casualty attack.

Just before that Christmas Day attack, in early November 2009, I was ordered by my superiors at the Department of Homeland Security to delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the important federal database, the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS). These types of records are the basis for any ability to “connect dots.” Every day, DHS Customs and Border Protection officers watch entering and exiting many individuals associated with known terrorist affiliations, then look for patterns. Enforcing a political scrubbing of records of Muslims greatly affected our ability to do that. Even worse, going forward, my colleagues and I were prohibited from entering pertinent information into the database.

A few weeks later, in my office at the Port of Atlanta, the television hummed with the inevitable Congressional hearings that follow any terrorist attack. While members of Congress grilled Obama administration officials, demanding why their subordinates were still failing to understand the intelligence they had gathered, I was being forced to delete and scrub the records. And I was well aware that, as a result, it was going to be vastly more difficult to “connect the dots” in the future—especially beforean attack occurs.

As the number of successful and attempted Islamic terrorist attacks on America increased, the type of information that the Obama administration ordered removed from travel and national security databases was the kind of information that, if properly assessed, could have prevented subsequent domestic Islamist attacks like the ones committed by Faisal Shahzad (May 2010), Detroit “honor killing” perpetrator Rahim A. Alfetlawi (2011); Amine El Khalifi, who plotted to blow up the U.S. Capitol (2012); Dzhokhar or Tamerlan Tsarnaev who conducted the Boston Marathon bombing (2013); Oklahoma beheading suspect Alton Nolen (2014); or Muhammed Yusuf Abdulazeez, who opened fire on two military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee (2015).

It is very plausible that one or more of the subsequent terror attacks on the homeland could have been prevented if more subject matter experts in the Department of Homeland Security had been allowed to do our jobs back in late 2009. It is demoralizing—and infuriating—that today, those elusive dots are even harder to find, and harder to connect, than they were during the winter of 2009.

Haney worked at the Department of Homeland Security for 15 years.

 

What's the source for your propaganda

 

Someone white and con-seravtive said it. That's all that matters.

 

The Department of Homeland Security’s awareness of Haney’s claims also is demonstrated by statements to Fox News. When “The Kelly File” interview aired Dec. 10, for example, Fox News said a DHS official responded, “There are many holes in Mr. Haney’s story,” but did not elaborate.

On June 28, Haney testified of the DHS “purging” before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee chaired by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. Two days later, Cruz confronted Johnson with Haney’s testimony, asking him if it was accurate.

“Senator, I find this whole debate to be interesting, but I have to tell you,” Johnson replied, “when I was at the Department of Defense giving the legal sign-off on a lot of drone strikes, I didn’t particularly care whether the baseball card said Islamic extremist or violent extremist. I think this is very interesting, but it makes no difference to me in terms of who we need to go after, who is determined to attack our homeland.

“I think this is all very interesting, makes for good political debate,” he continued, “but in practical terms, if we, in our efforts, here in the homeland, start giving the Islamic State the credence that they want, to be referred to as part of Islam, or some form of Islam, we get nowhere in our efforts to build bridges with Muslim communities.”

 

I guess fake whiskey and fake news go together....lol

 

SMH. It's getting to the point you have to fact check most of Bliss' posts in the Politics section.

For some reason she seems highly suggestible to anyone posting right wing propaganda against the Dems or progressives.

As for this Haney dude, I remember hearing him once on coast2coast. Interesting character. Wonder if he's being paid to spin the stories he tells???

According to politifact's own investigation, http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...es-say-hillary-clintons-state-department-blo/


The FBI has jurisdiction over domestic terrorism investigations, not Homeland Security, for which Haney worked, said Timothy Edgar, a senior fellow in international and public affairs at the Watson Institute.

While Homeland Security does have a "relatively small" intelligence organization known as the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, Edgar said, the office has no jurisdiction to collect information or investigate cases. Point being, Haney likely wouldn’t be in a position at Homeland Security to investigate a terrorism case in the first place.

Perhaps the bigger problem with the claim made in the article is the way it characterizes the State Department’s role in investigations.

First, the FBI doesn’t investigate entire communities like a mosque, Edgar said. It investigates specific people suspected of terrorist activity. More importantly, the State Department "has no authority or involvement in decisions by the FBI to conduct or close investigations," Edgar said.

"It is simply not credible to describe a mosque as being under ‘FBI and DHS’ investigation, or that this activity was halted by the State Department or by the DHS Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties," Edgar said.

The State Department’s focus is on operations overseas, said Martin Reardon, who is the senior vice president of the Soufan Group and a 21-year veteran of the FBI. The secretary of state would have no say in domestic FBI cases, or even have an interest in activities inside the United States.

Furthermore, FBI agents have to go through a number of channels before a case is closed. It’s not just shut down. And even then, agents are sometimes told to do more work to assure the investigation was done properly, Reardon said.

Our ruling

Articles claimed that Clinton as secretary of state enabled radical Islamists by shutting down an investigation of Mateen’s Florida mosque.

The claim relies heavily on one account of a retired Department of Homeland Security agent that has not been corroborated by any additional source.

Experts we talked to say the claims of the investigation and the purported link to Clinton and the State Department is unlikely. The FBI, not Haney’s Homeland Security department, would handle a terrorism investigation. The State Department, meanwhile, would play little to no role in whether a case is opened, closed or anything else.

We rate this claim False.

 

Again why is she even here?

 

Umm...the Source is the actual AGENT. He wrote the article.

Do you not see his name?

Furthermore, he reiterated his credentials at the end of it.

He also gave an interview today on TV. Good enough for you?

 

So one guy said it and no proof. Got it

FAKE NEWS

 

Really AB, Don't talk to me about fact checking when you post a left wing website that is owned and run by a known Leftist Newspaper.

Just because you lap up Politifact here like it's a bible, they are transparent to many who don't blindly accept their spins.



PolitiFact

?@PolitiFact
FROM LAST NIGHT: Hillary Clinton oversimplifies arguements in landmark 2008 gun control case: http://bit.ly/2euoVrj

9:01 AM - 20 Oct 2016

Hillary Clinton oversimplifies arguements in landmark 2008 gun control case
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton claimed that her opposition to the 2008 Supreme Court case of District of Columbia vs. Heller was due to a desire to protect toddlers from firearms....

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Jay Caruso

?@JayCaruso
Leave it to @politifact to take a blatant lie by @hilllaryclinton and rate it “half-true.” http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/19/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-says-supreme-court-gun-decision-de/ …

Stephen Gutowski

?@StephenGutowski
This is one of the most untrue things ever said by a politician in a debate & @PolitiFact gave it a "half true." http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/19/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-says-supreme-court-gun-decision-de/ …

9:03 AM - 20 Oct 2016

Hillary Clinton oversimplifies arguements in landmark 2008 gun control case
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton claimed that her opposition to the 2008 Supreme Court case of District of Columbia vs. Heller was due to a desire to protect toddlers from firearms....

politifact.com

Joe Perticone

?@JoePerticone
.@PolitiFact covers up blatant lie. "Toddlers" were never mentioned in the Heller case anywhere. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/19/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-says-supreme-court-gun-decision-de/ …

9:05 AM - 20 Oct 2016

David Rutz

?@DavidRutz
Note the @NRA citing Clinton's on-tape statement about Australian-style gun confiscation was rated "mostly false" https://twitter.com/StephenGutowski/status/789089620650823680 …

9:04 AM - 20 Oct 2016

Rschrim @Rschrim
Helps explain why people don't believe fact-checkers anymore


Restore America @lolli_logan
@StephenGutowski@Coondawg68 @PolitiFact Politifact also said she was not for open borders when she clearly is as stated in #PodestaEmails13

10:27 AM - 20 Oct 2016

 

Yet you and AB continue to believe (in this thread) a FAKE DOSSIER that contained information about peeing hookers on Trump in Obama's sacred hotel bed, even though, and even after, bloggers on 4Chan came clean that they put it out as fake news as a joke, incredulous people took the bait.

Spare me, lol.

 

"PolitiFact took a statement by Casey Mattox that is 100 percent true and rated it “half true.” His statement was “Zero Planned Parenthood facilities are licensed to do mammograms. Planned Parenthood, women don’t need you!” PolitiFact, after many, many, many paragraphs of throat clearing, admitted that the fact claim was true — zero Planned Parenthood facilities are licensed to do mammograms.

But aha! They said “numbers don’t tell the whole story” on mammograms because people at Planned Parenthood could talk to women about mammograms and stuff.

When Democrat Martin O’Malley said that “97 percent of the work that Planned Parenthood does is about mammograms and preventative health,” which we know is not true since zero percent of the work that Planned Parenthood does is mammograms, PolitiFact rated that “half true” as well. Whatever the hell this is, it’s not fact-checking.

To reiterate, a guy saying a completely true thing about the zero mammograms Planned Parenthood does is rated the same as a guy saying it’s 97 percent of what they do. These are the people who will decide what’s fake or not?"

 

Wait what? When did I cosign that?
Alternative facts?

 

The DHS source...."But did not elaborate"
Why don't you question that, Loki?

Further on... Johnson deflects on Haney...and as Haney stated..the deletion of files orders gave the Administration plausable deniability.

You know dang well that ME terrorists are up to their necks in Islam. They may have skewered perceptions of it, but it's their primary allegiance and justification to slaughter infidels en mass.

 

Negative. That's your whiskey koolaid, not mine.
Wine drinka, myself..

Cheers mate

 

You did. You responded to him.