Hey folks,
Happy Friday to you. Hey you know what? It's FRIDAY! You know what that means? Yes, we are going to go to the Emails. However, that also means I'm here. I've been here ALL Week! {Laughing} Made it the whole week. {Smile} First time in a while. Ah, feels like old times.OK. To the Emails. The Sender does have a point. According to CNS News - Obama Administration Did Not Consult Its Own Homeland Security Secretary Before Deciding to Try KSM in NYC Thursday, February 25, 2010 By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com) – At a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said she was not consulted before the decision was made to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other terror suspects in U.S. federal court in New York City.
She also said she has not taken part in discussions since that decision was made, including any that may have taken place to discuss whether the trials should be moved to another location.
“Were you consulted about homeland security risks or costs of providing security for the 9/11 terrorist in New York City before the attorney general made that decision?” Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), chairman of the committee, asked Napolitano.
“Mr. Chairman, we were not consulted before but we have been part of a process to give cost estimates of what the security costs would be after the decision,” said Napolitano, who heads the department that was created after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 to protect the United States from future harm.
“In recent weeks – at least the last couple of weeks – there have been some statements and some rumors that the administration is reconsidering the question of trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other 9/11 conspirators in New York City,” Lieberman said. He then asked if she had been involved in discussions about homeland security issues as they relate to trying terrorists on U.S. soil.
Napolitano made the remarks at a hearing to discuss the proposed $56.3 billion budget for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for fiscal year 2011. The budget includes $200 million for security for trying Sheikh Mohammed in New York City.
When asked by ranking minority leader Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) why the DHS budget spends money on securing the trials of terrorists in the U.S. while cutting funding for U.S. Coast Guard, Napolitano defended the Obama administration’s stance on the matter.
“Decommissioning part of the Coast Guard’s 13th elite maritime security safety teams that protect waterfront cities makes absolutely no sense given the threats to our ports,” said Collins, adding that she believed the Senate would not fund security for terror trials in the U.S.
“We are going to have terrorist trials in the United States,” Napolitano said. “There will be security costs that accompany those trials.”
After she met with King, CNSNews.com twice asked Napolitano if she had spoken with President Barack Obama on Christmas Day about the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 that day. She initially answered that she would not discuss her conversations with the presient. The second time she was asked the quesion, she answered that "we" were in contact with "the president's office."
“Yes, we were in contact with the president’s office,” Napolitano said.
A Feb. 3 report by CNSNews.com pointed out that FBI Director Robert Mueller, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair and Napolitano all told congressional committees following the Dec. 25 attack that they were not consulted about the decision to Mirandize bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
In her prepared remarks on the DHS budget, Napolitano said DHS has five main missions – to prevent terrorism and enhance security, secure and manage U.S. borders, “enforcing and administrating” immigration laws, “safeguarding and securing cyberspace,” and disaster preparedness and response.
Spying on Americans that disagree with Obama is another one. But you are right BTN, why do we need HS is Obama and Crew are not going to talk to them about one of the biggest threats to the US? Bringing terrorist here to try them as Criminals and open up whatever venue that be, as a HUGE Target for others who wish to attack US and make them a Martyr? Just another sign or the brilliance that is Obama. {Sigh}
Link - CNS News - Obama Administration Did Not Consult Its Own Homeland Security Secretary Before Deciding to Try KSM in NYC
Peter
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Bringing terrorist here to try them as Criminals and open up whatever venue that be, as a HUGE Target for others who wish to attack US and make them a Martyr? Just another sign or the brilliance that is Obama. {Sigh}
I've got a good idea. Let's just round up all dark skinned people (especially if they have beards or wear funny robes) and put them in a big oven. Then Christians would rule the world and God would be so happy.
Or... we could take people SUSPECTED (under suspicion from a military personnel, a cop, a neighbor, an ex-wife, you, etc.) of harming, plotting to harm, thinking about harming, dreaming about harming... America and put them in an oven.
What's the difference? A human being needs to be able to face his or her accuser. An accused human being must have someone who can explain to them what the process they are going thru is all about. A human being MUST be able to defend himself.
Your eyes have become full of hate, blurring what is right and what is wrong.
No Pete
If someone is on the Battlefield, there is no question their intent. They are NOT criminals.
If we catch someone here in this country, planning, or attempting to carry out? YES. By all means, arrest them, try them, and if guilty, let them pay the price.
BIG Difference.
Peter
Where EXACTLY is the battlefield? And how come you planted that evidence on me? And how come I can't show proof you planted that "evidence"? And how come I can't call witnesses PROVING I wasn't anywhere near the "battlefield"?
Slippery slope. Too slippery.
You pick and choose. It's a pattern. Inconsistent. Some government things, OK. Some government things, not OK. If it fits you, it's fine. If not, bad. Just like America. So divided, even within yourself. It's everything I always imagined and more. Peace. Out.
Gas went up today. Hahahahaha. No brackets.
The Battlefield is where they are trying to kill us. Pretty simple to understand.
I will give you this Pete. If we catch them HERE. Then YES, by all means, they should be tried and convicted if found guilty.
However, someone with a weapon pointing it or shooting it at our Soldiers, are not planting daisies. There is not need for, not to mention, not being a US Citizen, they have no US Constitutional Rights, a US Trial by Jury. They are Enemy Combatants. they should be treated as such.
Peter
Maybe they don't like a foreigner on their sovereign soil shooting at them. Better put them in a box and hold them indefinitely.
Have you read the Harper's article about the lying goin' on down at Gitmo? Yeah, I'm gonna trust THOSE people.
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