The parents of murdered journalist Steven Sotloff were told by a White House counterterrorism official at a meeting last May that they could face criminal prosecution if they paid ransom to try to free their son, a spokesman for the family said. The family felt completely and utterly helpless when they heard this,” said Barak Barfi, […]
The Obama administration, the CIA, and even some congressional committees—they all said there “was no ‘stand down’ order.” But now five men who helped ward off the terrorists that attacked U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya two years ago say it’s only because they defied such an order that as many as 25 Americans are […]
According to a new Sunday Times report by Toby Harden, “Pentagon sources said Foley and the others might well have been rescued but Obama, concerned about the ramifications of US troops being killed or captured in Syria, took too long to authorise the mission.” It’s claimed that Obama was concerned about his administration being Carterized had the mission failed. […]
There has been little notice of the president’s insistent use of the acronym “ISIL” to describe the Sunni forces currently rampaging across Iraq, executing Iraqi military and creating a new massive refugee population in an already unstable area. With the exception of Reuters and now the Associated Press, most news organizations have not referred to […]
What a difference a year makes. Around this time last year, the West was gearing up for military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. That intervention never came to pass as Russia President Putin negotiated a more peaceful resolution. Now under pressure Obama is contemplating airstrikes on Islamic State militants operating in […]
By Joel Gehrke: President Obama violated a “clear and unambiguous” law when he released five Guantanamo Bay detainees in exchange for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the Government Accountability Office reported Thursday. “[The Department of Defense] violated section 8111 because it did not notify the relevant congressional committees at least 30 days in advance of the transfer,” […]
The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams (ISIS,) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was formerly held by the U.S. military at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq from 2005, he was released the Obama administration in 2009. Why did Obama allow the release of such a dangerous man in 2009? The Telegraph offers the explanation is that […]
James O’Keefe, known for guerrilla documentaries targeting liberals, says US Border Patrol was nowhere to be seen when he crossed border twice as Osama bin Laden. The conservative firebrand wore a bin Laden mask to show the national security implications of unmonitored borders. A Border Patrol official said agents who ought to be on the […]
The Ukrainian protests began on Nov. 21, 2013, back then Russia blamed the U.S. and the EU for the violence and called for peace, somehow Putin is now to blame for this whole mess. It was Obama and the European leaders who were supporting the riots and called for “Democracy” while Molotov cocktails were being thrown at […]
President Barack Obama drew the diplomatic line somewhere at the first ever U.S-Africa summit at the White House this week by not inviting Zimbabwe’s brutal dictator Robert Mugabe. But the guest list still included several other African leaders with only slightly better human rights records. The White House promoted the summit as the largest-ever gathering […]
