U.S. Homeland Security

[Sean Osborne]

Making this thread distinct from the "Terrorism News and Updates" thread series.

This will be specifically for the discussion of terrorist threats to the Continental United States, Alaska and Hawaii. This has always been a high priority and a preeminent concern for myself and the rest of Northeast Intelligence Network. This is why we exist as a Network in the first place.

Now we rapidly approach a time that intelligence community chatter and other indicators highlight a more significant and considerable risk than has been acknowledged to date. This is apparent in different venues, from what has come to be known as "individual jihad" as well as the gravely significant threat posed by CONUS-based cells of Hezbollah and Al Qaeda - which also exist in Canada, Mexico, Central and South America.

This overview of the threat will become more clear to you as this thread is filled in with data.

[Sean Osborne]

Leading off with Bill Gertz.



BACKGROUNDER: Compiled by Bill Gertz


U.S. tracking 'threat of home-grown terrorists' inspired by radical Islamist web sites


The threat from domestic terrorists is growing with Islamic radicals posing the most danger, a senior U.S. intelligence official said last week. Charles Allen, chief intelligence officer for the Department of Homeland Security, told the Senate Homeland Security Committee that Islamists pose a “key threat.” The Al Qaida plot to destroy U.S. airliners, which was thwarted in Britain, highlights the danger that Islamists bring attacks to the , he said.

Charles Allen, chief intelligence officer for the Department of Homeland Security.

[American Patriot]

I heard Bill on the Bill Bennet show a few days ago, going to town on the China threat, citing everything we've been pointing out now for five years. I suspect that would be related to Home Land Security as well. I was trying to get the transcript for that show, or a podcast, but have to sign up for it

[Sean Osborne]

The following is currently timed to be released for the start of the next news cycle - which is Monday morning. This is an advanced copy, and possibly not the final edited copy, which I am providing to the TAA forum.


Saddam, Al Qaeda, the CIA and the Lies of the American Elite


By Sean Osborne, Associate Director, Military Affairs:p
:pThe Northeast Intelligence Network:p

25 MARCH 2007: This article has been a long time in coming. It will be a long overdue expose of truth-telling. In fact, at this point of ongoing composition this article may become the first of a multi-part series of articles under the same title. The amount of Open Source material evidence is that voluminous. The data I am reviewing dates to Saddam Hussein’s very real and highly advanced program to construct nuclear weapons from the inconclusive end of the Gulf War in 1991, throughout the rest of the 1990s and continuing until final year of his regime which ended in March 2003.

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This report will detail more than just the “lies of the Left” as they have come to be known. This report will detail the lies of the American power elite which emanate from the Left, the Right and the politically ambiguous pundits whose commentary we are constantly spoon-fed by the Main Stream Media. This report will also address the underlying reasons why any mention of Saddam Hussein’s , the Al-Mukhbarat (Iraqi Intelligence Service) and Al Qaeda with respect to acts of war on American soil during the same period of time is strictly verboten, suppressed wholesale by the American Elite. This report is no conspiracy theory; this report is based upon verifiable facts.
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Let’s begin with the mother of all politically expedient reporting – The New York Times. In a 3-page article dated November 3, 2006: :p>:p>

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/wo...&ex=1320210000

entitled "U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Primer" where we read the following towards the bottom of page 2:

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"Some intelligence officials feared that individual documents, translated and interpreted by amateurs, would be used out of context to second-guess the intelligence agencies’ view that Mr. Hussein did not have unconventional weapons or substantive ties to Al Qaeda. Reviewing the documents for release would add an unnecessary burden on busy intelligence analysts, they argued.”

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The first sentence is clearly directed as a preemptive strike at the very professionally trained military and civilian analysts not in the employ of the New York Times or other MSM. That is a slap-in-the-face to any number of analysts like my colleagues and myself at the Northeast Intelligence Network, or other websites across the internet. More importantly, it is also a totally unwarranted slap-in-the-face to subject matter experts like Dr. Laurie Mylroie. Dr. Mylroie is among the top of the class when it comes to Saddam, the Al-Mukhbarat and their acts of war on U.S. :psoil.
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An example of the blatant MSM suppression of Saddam’s support of international terrorists like Al Qaeda was highlighted by Dr. Mylroie just three weeks ago in an email that I received. Dr. Mylroie had forwarded a report from the English-language version of the Greek international newspaper “Kathimerini.”


http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w.../03/2007_80826


entitled "Embassy of Iraq “hid explosives”" and which broke the scoop news story detailing a joint Greek-US secret service operation which was tipped off by a former Iraqi government employee, and recovered a large cache of explosives, car bombs, detonators, guns and ammunition hidden in the basement of the Iraqi embassy in Athens. (Lord knows what the we found in the basement of the Iraqi embassy in DC or the Iraqi mission to the U.N. in :pUS New York City:p) The discovered weapons cache is a hard fact about the ‘diplomacy’ of Saddam’s Iraq and his Al-Mukhbarat. Did we read about this in the American MSM? I certainly don’t recall seeing it. Was it reported at all? If not, why not? For the answer see the title of this article and then read Dr. Mylroie’s books.

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More recently the publication of a report

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArti...58850988872993


entitled "Missing Link?” in Investors Business Daily regarding Al-Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s (a/k/a KSM) ‘confession’ to American authorities at Gitmo. As reported the ‘confession’ links KSM in his days prior to his joining Al-Qaeda directly to the Iraqi Al-Mukhabarat and several acts of war upon American soil.
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My emailed comments on the significance of this article led to yet another exchange of emails between Dr. Mylroie and myself. The topic was focused on a subsequent article by Michael Scheuer

http://www.jamestown.org/news_details.php?news_id=227

entitled "Khalid Sheikh Muhammad: Waging Jihad from Prison” and how he was partly responsible for the out-sized image the American public has of Usama bin Laden. KSM clearly acknowledged that was working with :pIraq:p before he was working with UBL. In the 1990s Iraq was cooperating with every Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimun (The Muslim Brotherhood) “secret apparatus” terrorist cell or operative they could to extract revenge on the United States for the Gulf War.
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Also noted were the discrepancies in Scheuer’s historical account of events. I concurred that Scheuer did make an out-sized image of bin Laden while he worked as the chief of Alec Station during the :pClinton:p era. Mylroie further defined his role, that “he was the head of Alec Station--and it (Scheuer’s job nor the stations function) wasn't analysis. It was operations. When it was set up, they couldn't get someone from the Operations side of the Agency to take the position, so Scheuer did. The Alec Station was an anomaly in many regards. It was the only such unit devoted to one person and it wasn't based abroad--but in a shopping mall in the DC suburbs. The average experience of those working in Alec Station was three years. So if the CIA frequently hires newly-minted BA's--that would make them twenty-somethings--without any substantial knowledge of or experience of the region. This is supposed to be the basis for our understanding of 9/11?”
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My own assessment has long held that Scheuer's analysis consistently appears be politically expedient, whereas in prior years he painted a completely different picture.


In 2004 while a guest on ‘Hardball’ with Chris Matthews, Michael Scheuer said he did the research on the links between :pIraq:p and Al Qaeda. When asked by Chris Matthews about what he discovered in that research Sheuer replied, "Nothing.”
However, just two years earlier, in 2002, Michael Scheuer is on record saying that in 1993-94 (Usama) bin Laden was "for certain" working with Sudan and :pIraq:p to acquire Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) weapons for AQ
(Reference: Through Our Enemies Eyes).

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Again, quoting Dr. Mylroie, “You're absolutely right that Scheuer's position shifts with the winds. So how come :pJamestown:p finds him credible? What struck me--and you too--about KSM's Gitmo statement was that it was not couched in Islamic terms. Scheuer ignored that, because it doesn't fit his thesis.”
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As a final note for this installment, Dr. Mylroie also noted the following: “Finally, you're also absolutely right. Mention of Iraqi involvement in terrorist activity against the :pUS:p is verboten. And that is after we have gone to war in :pIraq:p and are still fighting that war? Welcome to the incredibly self-serving nature of the American elite!”


Stay tuned...

[American Patriot]

I think you need to name names too.

[Sean Osborne]

I think I did name the proper name at this point.

See todays AmericanThinker.com report for corroboration.

[American Patriot]

hehehe. No, I meant when you said "Elites". I was just wondering what that means. I hear it used all the time, but each group has a different meaning.

[Sean Osborne]

Aw dude, LOL... that list of names is a literal Who's Who of people in DC, both Republican and and Democrat. Most are in high places, some are elected and some are appointed and confirmed by those elected persons.

As Mylroie said in absolutely affirming my statement about the verboten status naming of Iraq in any act of war against the US - "Welcome to the incredibly self-serving nature of the American elite"

As with Mylroie's work, and she is the Iraq-Al Qaeda expert of experts, I am focused on the verboten nature of the Saddam-Al Qaeda link. Dating back to before Operation Iraqi Freedom commenced a little over 4 years ago, a detailed presentation of the Saddam-Al Qaeda ties has not happened.

Why Not?

After all, from the mouths, keyboards and pens on paper beairng the letterheads and seals of some of America's most important officials, the Saddam-Al Qaeda direct connect was alluded to, then withheld, then diluted and then abandoned altogether.

This is historical fact.

What ugly reality is it that America's elite would take the course it has uniformly taken since Colin Powell's address to the UNSC in late 2002?

Remember, Iraqi involvement in Acts of War against the United States date to the February 26, 1993 attempt to topple one WTC tower into another, and two months later in April 1993 the foiled attempted assassination plot of President George H.W. Bush while he was in Kuwait.

(NOTE**Through interviews with the suspects and examinations of the bomb's circuitry and wiring, the FBI established that the plot had been directed by the Iraqi Intelligence Service (the Al-Mukhabarat.)

Then came OKC on April 19, 1995 and finally 9/11 and the subsequent anthrax attacks - all with direct links to the regime of Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.

There is no question that the WTC-I investigation was under the direct control of the Clinton White House/Justice Department. It was abominally mishandled. The NY Office of the FBI was convinced of Iraqi involvement. But the DC Bureau under the Clinton Justice Department did nothing. And Sandy Burglar was stuffing related classified documents sought by investigators in his pants, socks, leaving them in a dead-drop at a construction site and then, ultimately destroying those classifed National Archive documents. He gets a wrist slap as punishment.

Now here's some bold contrast to add to this saga.

See the bold date above. February 26, 1993. The Clinton Justice Department under Janet Reno was likely preoccupied with authorizing the imminent B-ATF raid/operation at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas on February 28, 1993 - just two days later. That action resulted in the Federal Government barbequing of 58 adults and 21 children in the main compound building - their church sanctuary.

Sandy Burglar got a writst slap.

Branch Davidians got shot and barbequed.

And Saddam and Al Qaeda got away scot-free, and are still not held accountable for their actions. They are not even so much as mentioned.

This is why 'verboten' is such an overwhlemingly accurate descriptive term for me to use.

[American Patriot]

Homeland Security To Protect Us From Martians

Posted on July 30, 2013 by stevengoddard

Just two weeks after Janet Napolitano announced her resignation as Secretary of Homeland Security, the Congressional Black Caucus has suggested Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Houston fill her spot.
A letter dated July 25 and signed by Rep. Marcia Fudge, Ohio Democrat and caucus chairwoman, urges President Obama to consider Miss Jackson Lee for the position, calling the Democrat a “voice of reason” that the agency could stand to gain, the Houston Chronicle reported.
CBC recommends Sheila Jackson Lee for Homeland Security post – Washington Times

In 2008, Representative Lee publicly mused about Neil Armstrong’s 1969 Mars landing

The Congressional bonehead award goes to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) who, on a visit to JPL, asked if Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong!
SpaceViews Update 97 September 15: Space Capsules

Is Guam tipping over also a Homeland Security issue?

[vector7]

Can you imagine where she would take the DHS coupled with Holder?

[American Patriot]

"coupled with Holder".... I just shuddered at the image that burned in my brain.

LOL

[American Patriot]

Good, SHUT IT DOWN.

Washington Braces for a Homeland Security Shutdown


A day after Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate last November, Mitch McConnell promised that things would be different with the GOP in control of both chambers of Congress. "The American people have changed the Senate. So I think we have an obligation to change the behavior of the Senate and to begin to function again." When a reporter followed up asking McConnell how the American people could believe him (after what happened in the last Congress and the Congress before that), he replied, "Well, we have to demonstrate it." But not even two months into this new GOP-controlled Congress, it appears we're headed for yet another shutdown -- this time over the Department of Homeland Security. Republicans claim that Senate Democrats are the ones obstructing things, because they are filibustering a DHS funding bill that contains riders rolling back President Obama's executive actions on immigration. Yet as we learned during the last government shutdown, the side that's using government spending to demand changes to existing law or directives is going to be side that gets blamed if the government (or just part of it) shuts down. But don't take our word for it. Take the word of GOP Sen. (and likely presidential candidate) Lindsey Graham. "If we don't fund the Department of Homeland Security, we'll get blamed as a party," he said on Sunday.




Remembering what happened to the GOP during the last shutdown
While the shutdown of 2013 ultimately didn't hurt the Republican Party in the midterms the following year, it is worth pointing out what happened just days after the shutdown began, according to our Oct. 2013 NBC/WSJ poll. The GOP's fav/unfav rating DECLINED from 28% positive/44% negative in Sept. 2013 to 24% positive/53% negative right after the shutdown began; the Democrats' advantage on the generic ballot INCREASED from three to eight points; and President Obama's approval rating went UP from 45% to 47%. Now there are two ways to look this one. One, you can say that the GOP took a short-term hit but ultimately didn't get punished. Or two, you can say that the problems associated with HealthCare.Gov and the federal health-care law -- which became a two-month story -- bailed out Republicans.

McConnell's possible way out
After Democrats -- for the fourth time -- filibustered the GOP attempt to tie DHS funding to the rolling back of Obama's immigration actions, Senate Majority Leader McConnell offered a POTENTIAL way out of the shutdown standoff. Per NBC's Kelly O'Donnell, McConnell has proposed a stand-alone bill that denies funding for the implementation of Obama's 2014 executive action. This bill, O'Donnell adds, is not attached to DHS spending. The glass-half-full take here is that Republicans, for the first time, are now legislatively separating the immigration rollbacks from the DHS funding, which offers a potential way out of the impasse. (Indeed, NBC's Frank Thorp reports that Dem Sen. Joe Manchin could likely support this McConnell bill if it comes AFTER a clean bill to fund DHS.) The glass-half-empty take is that we have NO IDEA if House Republicans will buy this gambit. There's another potential way out: McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner could propose language promising to prohibit any funds implementing Obama's executive actions on immigration as long as they're tied up in the courts. (And from those reading the tea leaves, that looks to be a while.) Such a proposal could give Republicans higher ground than they enjoy now. Saying, "Hey, we shouldn't have the government spend any funds on actions that the courts are currently considering" could be more popular than essentially saying, "The only way we're funding the Department of Homeland Security is by ripping up Obama's executive actions." The shutdown countdown clock is ticking…