No 852 “En mi
opinión”
Enero 19, 2015
“IN GOD WE TRUST” Lázaro R
González Miño EDITOR
Amenper:
Martin Luther King
No les voy a hacer como los demócratas, que durante su vida atacaban a
Ronald Reagan virulentamente y se burlaban de él y ahora hablan sus grandezas
como si hubieran sido sus colaboradores.
Yo nunca fui un admirador completo de Martin Luther King. Tuve
un pensamiento mixto en cuanto a su persona y a su gestión pública.
Creo que Martin Luther King, cómo lo dijo y probó con fotos y documentación
Edgar Hoover, fue un simpatizante comunista.
Puede haberse arrepentido y puede haber cambiado sus simpatías, pero donde
hubo fuego, cenizas quedan.
Y King enseño sus cenizas muchas veces, en cuanto a diferentes
declaraciones económicas y sobre dodo en cuanto a la guerra de Vietnam.
Dicho esto, considerando el contexto de la historia, le debemos a Martin
Luther King, que fue una bendición el tener alguien que con una filosofía
pacifista fuera el líder del movimiento para acabar la desgracia de la
segregación que era una situación embarazosa domésticamente y sobre todo ante
el mundo.
Si no hubiera sido por Matin Luther King, el cambio hubiera podido ser
violento y muy sangriento.
Sin en vez de haber tomado el control del núcleo del movimiento King, este
hubiera sido dirigido por las panteras negras y la nación islámica del Honorable
Ministro Louis Farachan, ¿Se
imaginan lo que hubiese sucedido?. Los primeros querían matar a todos los
blancos, los segundos dividir los Estados Unidos en dos naciones, una de negros
seguidores del Islam y otra de blancos infieles. Es triste pensar que todavía
están entre nosotros, apoyados y apoyando a elementos de la presente
administración.
Martin Luther King luchó contra estos grupos violentos, que lo amenazaron
de muerte muchas veces, y que quizás fueron un elemento en su muerte, aunque no
es políticamente correcto el pensarlo y mucho menos decirlo.
La lucha de King y su victoria, nos salvó de una guerra civil y con su
habilidad política, la transición fue sin mayores problemas.
King era republicano, pero hay que realmente ver lo que eso significaba en
el sur en aquellos tiempos.
El negro no tenía más disyuntiva que ser republicano, los demócratas era el
partido segregacionista.
Pero según los demócratas del norte, los "Yankicrats", comenzaron
a moverse hacia la izquierda empezando con la administración de FDR, comenzó
una lucha interna con los demócratas del sur, los "Dixiecrats", sobre
el problema de la segregación.
Cuando los líderes negros de ahora dicen que le deben el fin de la
segregación a los demócratas, no saben o no quieren saberlo, que los demócratas
eran los que tenían que terminar con la segregación porque era los que la
sostenían.
Cuando los Yankicrats tuvieron suficiente fuerza con Kennedy y Johnson, con
la anuencia tácita y la colaboración de los republicanos, pudieron derrotar a
los Dixiecrats y lograr la aprobación de la ley de los derechos civiles.
King hubiera podido ser el primer presidente negro.
Esto nos hace preguntarnos cuál hubiera sido la diferencia con el
primer presidente negro, mulato o musulmán, como quieran definir al actual
mandatario.
King no lucho por la integración por motivos políticos, no aspiraba a un
puesto político, nunca fue un candidato a un puesto público, su sincero
objetivo era lograr la igualdad racial y terminar con la vergonzosa
segregación. Eso hay que aceptarlo como una verdad evidente.
Obama usa el racismo como propaganda política, cada paso es para avanzar su
agenda personal y la raza es simplemente un instrumento.
King se opuso a la violencia de las Panteras negras y de la nación del
Islam, si hubiera sido presidente se hubiera opuesto a las manifestaciones
violentas. La prueba es que su hijo ha apoyado con declaraciones a la policía y
ha condenado la violencia en las últimas manifestaciones negras.
Obama usa las manifestaciones violentas para justificar sus políticas racistas
y sus leyes de bienestar social dirigidas a crear la dependencia de los negros
como bloque de votantes..
King no fue un pastor del tipo de Al Sharpton o Jesse Jackson, fue un
pastor de iglesia, un clérigo de segunda generación, su padre fue también
pastor, y King fue graduado de una universidad con un doctorado en
teología. Se opuso a la loca idea de Farrakhan de que los negros son
islámicos, dijo que aunque en algunas regiones negras existió la religión
islámicas, la mayoría no lo era, y que los descendientes tienen una formación
cristiana.
Que las iglesias cristianas son el origen cultural del negro americano.
Lo cual lo puede apreciar cualquiera que haya visitado el sur
rural, o que observe el origen de la música negra que viene de la música "gospel"
de las iglesias negras.
Nunca he visto música popular negra que se haya originado de un
cántico árabe.
Obama, bueno, para que tener que perder tiempo en explicarle sobre Obama y
el Islam, ya todos ustedes lo saben, no ha que elaborar.
Nunca hubiera votado por King para presidente, si hubiera salido, creo que
hubiera sido en primer presidente socialista, pero creo que hubiese sido mucho
más moderado y mucho mejor que Obama. creo que como presidente, si lo
comparamos con Obama hubiera sido como en su vida, el mejor de dos males.
En la comparación Obama sería la pantera negra islámica contra el moderado
King.
Amenper: 2 + 2 = 5
Que la Administración nos haya dicho que tomará todas las acciones
ejecutivas que considere necesarias durante estos dos años con la mayoría
republicana en ambas cámaras legislativas, y que ya lo está cumpliendo, nos
hace pensar sobre, la cuestión central que es ¿hasta dónde puede ir?
El Senador Ted Cruz invoca a Cícero y llamó al Presidente "un monarca
irresponsable que impone sus propias políticas desafiando al pueblo
americano"; El líder de la mayoría John Boehner, dijo que “Obama Está
actuando como... un dictador".
Pero los dos años pasarán y no tendremos más a Obama, igual que
posiblemente no tengamos más a Fidel Castro en Cuba. Pero realmente vamos a
extrañarlos.
Los dictadores ya sean de la variedad totalitaria como Fidel Castro, o
autoritaria como se está presentando la administración de Obama son una parte
muy importante de la vida de todos. Incondicionalmente distribuyen incautan las
riquezas de otras personas para administralas mejor, aun cuando nadie
realmente se lo pida, ni tengan una idea de donde se mete el dinero, y todo lo
que quieren a cambio es nuestra aprobación y obediencia total.
Si estamos en casa, en el trabajo, o relajándonos con los amigos, nuestro
querido dictador siempre está amablemente administrando nuestra vida, cada, en
cada paso que damos, protegiéndonos de nuestras propias malas decisiones-
Nos explica con números como su gobierno ha enriquecido al país, ha bajado
el desempleo. Si los números do dan, pues simplemente se cambian los
números.
Porque ¿Qué importancia tienen los números cuando pensamos en la salud
mental de la nación?
No nos podemos sentir mal con las decisiones del gobierno. No
podemos dejarnos engañar por los pocos medios de comunicación que traten de
decirnos lo contrario.
La frase "dos más dos es igual a cinco" ("2 + 2 = 5")
es un lema usado en muchas formas diferentes de los medios de comunicación,
pero más específicamente en el libro 1984 de Orwell, como un ejemplo
de un dogma que un gobierno puede emplear. Se contrasta con la frase
" dos más dos cuatro", que puede parecer obvia (por definición) —
pero políticamente inoportuna — así que ahora no es verdad.
El estado puede declarar "dos más dos es igual a cinco" como un
hecho; por ley en el gobierno totalitario o por acción ejecutiva en el caso de
Obama.
Reflexionen esto, si todo el mundo lo tiene que aceptar y los medios de
comunicación dicen que es verdad, ¿No se convierte en algo verdadero?
El control del dictador sobre la realidad física y matemática, es
importante; mientras uno controla sus propias percepciones hacia lo que quiere
el partido, entonces cualquier acto corpóreo es posible, con arreglo a los
principios de las disposiciones del gobierno.
Fidel Castro lo ha logrado por más de medio siglo, es posible y
conveniente.
Pero inevitablemente, llega un momento para decir "Adiós". La
pérdida de un tirano deja un hueco enorme en nuestras vidas y el dolor puede
ser abrumador.
¿Cómo vamos a sentirnos cuando las cosas sean cómo antes? ¿Cuando se
vuelva a las ideas arcaicas del pasado?
Por eso el partido demócrata no está muy conforme con Hillary Clinton,
quieren alguien todavía más radicalmente socialista para podernos sentir bien
con la continuación del poderoso gobierno federal.
¿Por qué vamos a aceptar de nuevo la noción cavernícola de que 2+2 son
4?
Hay que aceptar las cosas modernas que nos presentan nuestros líderes.
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Reverend Al Goes to Hollywood
I don’t know about you, but I think Al Sharpton
gets a bad rap.
The guy can’t do anything without conservatives
jumping all over him. Even when he does something clearly worthwhile, all he
gets is grief from Whitey.
Take Sharpton’s latest attempt to make America a
better place. He’s called for an “emergency meeting” to deal with the lack of
diversity in Hollywood. Everybody knows Hollywood liberals hate black people
but apparently, Al Sharpton is the only one who has the guts to say it out
loud.
The issue is the Academy Awards, where each year
beautiful white people get all dressed up and tell each other how wonderful
they are. Turns out that all the nominees for best actor this year are white;
all the nominees for best actress … white; all the nominees for best director –
white again. In the past two decades, this has only happened one other time.
As Sharpton – President Obama’s go-to man on
race — so elegantly put it: “”The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains,
the higher you get, the whiter it gets.” There are rumors that Sharpton soon
will hold another “emergency meeting,” this time in Aspen, to deal with another
issue involving diversity. The working title of the meeting is “Why the hell is
snow always white?”
Sharpton might have called
for an emergency meeting to deal with fatherlessness in Black America, where
the out-of-wedlock birth rate is north of 70 percent. He might have called for
an emergency meeting to deal with the disproportionately high number of black
kids who drop out of high school. He might have called an emergency meeting to
deal with black crime, whose victims are overwhelmingly black people.
But there are just so many hours in the day, so
Al had to prioritize. Memo to Whitey: Lay off the Rev, a man who
never lets an opportunity (to stoke racial tensions) go to waste.
Jorge Alberto
Villalón Y.
Amenper “La tuya”
Siempre en las disputas entre las personas, la respuesta a la
ofensa verbal de mentar la madre, usualmente es contestada con la
respuesta igualmente ofensiva de “la tuya”.
La respuesta con un golpe hoy en día no ocurre muy a menudo, ya que la
violencia siempre es condenada por la ley, al no ser que la persona haya sido
agredida físicamente primero.
Las discusiones de todo tipo que llevan a veces en momento acalorado, a
ofensas, son comunes sin que exista la violencia, esto es algo que el hombre ha
logrado durante su evolución como ser civilizado.
Digo esto por un caso curioso en estos tiempos, sobre el caso del asesinato
de unos caricaturistas satíricos, por unos musulmanes ofendidos por sus
caricaturas.
El atentado que causó la muerte a los periodistas en Francia, ha
sido reivindicado por Al Qaeda, algunos medios de comunicación y otros líderes
mundiales como algo que fue en protesta a una ofensa que no debiera de haber
ocurrido.
O sea que los asesinados son los culpables y los asesinos actuaron de una
manera normal y esperada en respuesta a las ofensivas caricaturas que había
difundido Charlie Hebdo sobre Mahoma y el Islam.
Pero lo que he leído hoy, colma el vaso del entendimiento.
Consultado por un periodista francés sobre el caso y su relación con la
libertad de expresión, el Papa Francisco señaló que “no puedes provocar. No
puedes insultar la fe de otros. No puedes burlarte de la fe” Tenemos la
obligación de libremente tener esta libertad, pero sin ofender”. Si la libertad
de expresión es usada para ofender, advirtió, uno puede esperar una reacción.
Francisco usó el ejemplo del Dr. Alberto Gasbarri, el organizador de los
viajes papales, que estaba junto a él durante la conferencia de prensa. ”Es
verdad que no puedes reaccionar violentamente. Pero, si el Dr. Gasbarri, mi
gran amigo, dice algo contra mi madre, puede esperar un golpe. Es normal”.
Aquellos que “giocatalizzano” o “hacen un juguete de la religión de otros… están
provocando”, prosiguió Francisco.
Esta es una respuesta que yo hubiera podido esperar de un atorrante gaucho
de las Pampas argentinas, que si le miento la madre, el gaucho me hubiera
respondido con un golpe con una de esas boleadoras que usan en sus corridas
para golpear al ganado o a sus enemigos en las peleas.
Pero en un país civilizado si alguien te mienta tu madre, tienes que
responderle verbalmente “La tuya” o lo que se te ocurra, porque dar un golpe
sería una agresión condenable por la ley.
Pero eso no es sólo algo de la ley de los hombres, en su estancia en este
mundo, según el evangelio de Lucas, dice que Jesús le dijo a sus
discípulos
Oísteis que fue dicho: Ojo por ojo, y
diente por diente. Pero yo os digo: No resistáis al que es malo;
antes, a cualquiera que te hiera en la mejilla derecha, vuélvele también la
otra
El papa Francisco es el Pastor y guía de
más de un billón de católicos romanos, la institución cristiana mayor del
mundo. Es considerado infalible en doctrina, y esto es un campo un
poco frágil, porque cualquier cosa que diga el Papa, aunque no sea una doctrina
tiene el valor de ser la persona que se supone que sea el representante de Dios
en la Tierra.
¿Cómo puede un Papa olvidar una enseñanza
cristiana y utilizar una costumbre gaucha para justificar un hecho criminal que
tiene que ser condenado por Dios y por los hombres, cuanto más por el sumo
pontífice?
Por otro lado, la respuesta a los asesinatos si puede
y debe de tener respuesta, porque en Génesis lo afirma: “El que derramare sangre
de hombre, por el hombre su sangre será derramada, porque a imagen de Dios es
hecho el hombre.” Esto es lo que hubiera esperado oír decir al Papa.
La libertad de expresión solo puede ser
limitada cuando se usa para crear un caos o una falsedad con una intención
que pueda producir la muerte de otros.
Algo como gritar fuego en un local lleno
de personas, o como la historia de Holanda en que se gritó que se rompió una
represa y murieron personas en la estampida huyendo de la figurada inundación
del pueblo.
En mi pueblo Sagua la Grande, también hubo
personas que corrieron la noticia falsa que se había roto el dique del río
Sagua, lo cual hubiera causado una inundación, pero gracias a Dios, no pasó
nada.
No sé si sería porque no eran tantos los
habitantes, o por la ecuanimidad y el entendimiento que guía la conducta de los
Sagüeros. Los Sagüeros no se excitan tan fácilmente, por ejemplo,
cuando alguien hizo un escrito satírico diciendo que Barack Hussein Obama tenía
raíces en Sagua la Grande, nadie amenazó al autor de esta sátira que hubiera
podido considerarse ofensiva. Porque, dada la calidad de la persona de Obama,
la sátira era una ofensa para la cuidad- Decir que Obama fuera Sagüero, era una
ofensa para los otros nativos de Sagua.
Entonces de acuerdo con el propio
Obama, la prensa complaciente y hasta el Papa, los sagüeros tenían motivos para
asesinar al autor de la sátira, que ya estuviera muerto.
Pero Dios le ha conservado la vida sin ser
asesinado, y espero que Dios le de mucha vida a ese difunto. Nada pasó
porque los nativos de Sagua son personas civilizadas y no son capaces de matar
a alguien por un escrito satírico que puediesen considerar ofensivo.
Cualquiera puede ser ofendido, pero la
respuesta a una ofensa verbal de cualquier tipo no puede responderse ni con un
golpe como dice el Papa o matando a una persona como hicieron los musulmanes en
Francia.
Al Igual, Jesús predicó que la verdad nos
hará libre, San Pablo dijo a los cristianos de Gálatas “Estad, pues, firmes en
la libertad con que Cristo nos hizo libres, y no estéis otra vez sujetos al
yugo de esclavitud.”
Los que sufrimos el yugo de la supresión
de los derechos de expresión en Cuba, no podemos ni por un momento en
considerar aceptable, ni siquiera discutible, la declaración Papal.
Pero lo que si esperamos es la respuesta
de que los que derramaron la sangre de los hombres, por los hombres su sangre
sea derramada en la misma abundancia con la que ellos derraman la sangre de
otros.
Quiros: 8 DE ENERO DE 1959. LA PALOMA PROFETICA
El 8 de Enero de
1959 marco en la historia el dolor que ha sufrido el pueblo de Cuba a partir de
ese momento. Fue en el Campamento Militar de Columbia, en La Habana, y allí
hicieron alianza la mentira, la envidia, la represión y el odio para imponer el
sistema que se nutre de toda esa gentuza: el marxismo.
Que lejos de
pensar estaban los cubanos que aquel fatídico
día, aplaudían delirantemente promesas que
jamás serian cumplidas. Castro prometía paz, justicia, libertad y respeto a las
decisiones del pueblo.
Castro prometió
respetar la Constitución de 1940 en su gobierno, promover elecciones libres en
un corto periodo de tiempo y que él no tenía ambiciones personales de ningún
tipo, a tal extremo, que en el ejército rebelde no había ningún grado superior
al de Comandante; que el mismo, habiendo sido el que dirigió la guerra, no era
general, sino que había sido nombrado por el Sr. Presidente, como Comandante en
Jefe. Aclaro que entre los presentes no se encontraba Raúl, porque este, se
encontraba en la Provincia de Oriente cumpliendo con su deber como jefe del
Cuartel Moncada.
Mientras hablaba
de la prometida paz, se le poso en el hombro una preciosa paloma blanca, todo
el que estaba presente aplaudía por la coincidencia, la paloma es signo de paz.
En este caso fue diferente, la paloma defeco sobre el uniforme del Comandante
en Jefe, tal parece que le auguraba al pueblo lo que sería aquella revolución.
Mientras Fidel
hablaba toda esta bazofia en La Habana, Raúl ya estaba asesinando sin juicios a
los que consideraba contra-revolucionarios, después con la misma crueldad lo
hizo sádicamente el Che Guevara y sucesivamente la matanza en el paredón de
fusilamientos fue nacional hasta convertir la Isla en un charco de
sangre.
La única promesa
que se ha cumplido en esa maldita revolución, ha sido la hecha por Fidel Castro
en su guerra imaginaria contra los Estados Unidos, al asegurar que el día que
los Estados Unidos invadieran la Isla, solamente iban a encontrar polvo. Esto
es cierto, no ha necesitado ninguna guerra para que aquellas bellas ciudades,
hoy se encuentren en ruinas y todo se ha convertido en polvo, basura y miseria.
Los hermanos
Castro llegaron al poder a través de una guerrilla en la que ellos no pueden
mostrar si quiera una cicatriz, no ya de un balazo, sino, ni un arañazo con un
bejuco en el monte.
Llegaron al
poder con el pretexto que derrocaban una dictadura de 7 años, una dictadura que
no voy a defenderla en estos momentos, pero no existían las brigadas de
respuesta rápida, ni los comités de barrio, ni ninguno de los cuerpos
represivos que mantiene al pueblo amordazado. Ellos en cambio ya
llevan 56 años y cada día en lugar de mejorar, empeoran la situación para ese
pueblo triste, silencioso y hambriento.
Como todos los
regímenes marxistas, mantienen a los pueblos engañados con estúpidas
consignas y falsos argumentos. Cuba está en la miseria, pero en los 56 años de
tiranía, LA FAMILIA CASTRO ha acumulado una fortuna,
robándose billones de dólares que le correspondían al pueblo,
invertidos en corporaciones por diferentes países, utilizando testaferros que
aun se arrastran como lame botas del amo opresor.
LA FAMILIA
CASTRO ha disfrutado lo que anhelaba: Poder y Fortuna fáciles, ambos conocen el
dolor y el luto que han causado sus antojos, ellos tienen la lista de los miles
de mártires que hay por su maldita revolución y seguramente no les gustaría
provocar la ira popular en un estallido de violencia civil por continuar la
dinastía en el poder. La lista de mártires alcanzaría altos niveles.
Cuba ya está
cansada, agobiada y humillada por el pisoteo sufrido a través de tantos años y
de pie ante una trayectoria que se desconoce el desenlace final.
Cada pueblo es
responsable de sus destinos, para exigir LIBERTAD, no hay que esperar la
compasión de alguien. Hay muchos pueblos que tendrán que reclamar sus derechos
porque cada día son más los gobernantes que humillan a sus naciones al
convertirse ellos en caciques. ¿Es que la mayoría no cuenta?
Para Cuba ya es
demasiado. En este momento crucial, cuando ya estén los diplomáticos
acreditados, sería muy conveniente para la LIBERTAD, una buena demostración de
descontento nacional con la obsoleta tiranía marxista rompiendo ordenadamente
los carnets del partido y depositando los trajes de la milicia en la puerta de
la Embajada, al mismo tiempo que portan banderas cubanas.
Ha llegado el
momento que la Patria espera, İİİ LIBERTAD!!! İİİ LIBERTAD!!! İİİ
LIBERTAD!!!
Diego Quiros,
Sr.
“La voz de
Galicia Espana: Un
grupo de congresistas estadounidenses llega por primera vez a Cuba.
La delegación oficial está
encabezada por el senador Patrick Leahy, uno de los legisladores más activos en
los temas de política exterior con la isla
EFE
Una delegación de congresistas demócratas de Estados Unidos ha
llegado hoy a Cuba, en la primera visita de legisladores de ese país a
la isla desde que el pasado 17 de diciembre se produjo el histórico anuncio del
restablecimiento de relaciones entre La Habana y Washington.
El grupo está encabezado por el senador Patrick Leahy, uno
de los legisladores más activos en los temas de política exterior con Cuba.
Leahy, al frente de otro grupo de congresistas, ya visitó la
isla en febrero del 2013 para, entre otros, pedir la liberación de Alan Gross,
el contratista norteamericano encarcelado allí y que fue liberado y devuelto a
EEUU el 17 de diciembre de 2014, en virtud de los acuerdos para el
restablecimiento de relaciones entre La Habana y Washington. En aquella visita
de hace casi un año, estos legisladores fueron recibidos por el presidente
cubano, Raúl Castro.
En esta ocasión, los congresistas tienen previsto pulsar
tanto las expectativas estadounidenses como las cubanas con respecto al nuevo
cambio de política y ayudar a desarrollar un mensaje concreto sobre lo que
ambos países están dispuestos a hacer para lograr una relación constructiva.
Estos legisladores estarán hasta el próximo lunes en Cuba
donde prevén reunirse con funcionarios del Gobierno cubano, con la Sección de
Intereses de EEUU en la isla, así como con otras legaciones internacionales en
suelo cubano, como las de España, México, Noruega y Colombia.
La delegación la completan los senadores Richard Durbin
(Illinois), Debbie Stabenow (Michigan) y Sheldon Whitehouse (Rhode Island);
junto a los representantes Chris Van Hollen (Maryland) y Peter Welch (Vermont).
Esta visita precede a la primera reunión que celebrarán la
próxima semana en La Habana representantes de los gobiernos de
Cuba y Estados Unidos para
tratar sobre el restablecimiento de relaciones diplomáticas.
La secretaria de Estado para Latinoamérica, Roberta
Jacobson, liderará la delegación diplomática estadounidense, que el día 21
celebrará con funcionarios de la isla una nueva ronda de diálogos migratorios.
Será el jueves 22 cuando ambas partes comenzarán a discutir sobre los pasos
para la normalización de relaciones diplomáticas entre dos países que han
estado enemistados desde 1961.
La delegación cubana en esas conversaciones estará
encabezada por la directora para EEUU del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
(Minrex), Josefina Vidal.
U.S.
Supreme Court Considers Presidential Eligibility Requirement Case
The petition wants to ensure the proper entity is tasked with verifying
a candidate's qualifications.
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On behalf of former presidential
candidates John Dummett and Ed Noonan, the U.S. Justice Foundation
recently submitted a petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme
Court to determine what safeguards are constitutionally mandated in ensuring a
candidate is qualified to run. The action is in response to two previous court
rulings suggesting California’s secretary of state does not have a
responsibility to verify a presidential candidate’s status as a natural born
citizen.
The USJF petition cites the U.S. Constitution,
specifically Article II, Section 2, which says state legislatures are
tasked with determining eligibility. Given the nation’s current electoral
process, the court document holds these lawmakers must provide voters with a
choice between candidates who meet constitutional requirements for the position
they seek.
The petition chronicles the court history of
the issue, including appeals court decisions the petitioners conclude were
based on faulty logic. The appeal provides three reasons that, through the role
of California’s chief elections officer, the secretary of state should be
tasked with verifying a presidential candidate’s eligibility.
First, USJF argues that no sufficient pathway
to challenging a candidate’s qualification exists on the federal level. The
petition describes the arduous process needed to complete such a challenge
through the U.S. Congress, concluding that since the remedy is “so limited in
its scope, the question of whether a candidate for President is eligible for
the office cannot be effectively address, much less resolved, under current
constitutional or statutory law.”
That argument leads to the second point, namely
that both the Electoral College and U.S. Congress lack any authority to
determine a presidential candidate’s eligibility.
Finally, the petitioners contend that current
statutes compelling the California secretary of state to place major political
parties’ nominees on the state’s ballot is in direct conflict with the duty to
comply with existing election laws.
In its conclusion, the petition asserts that
the appellants represented “have demonstrated that questions of eligibility are
not properly before any entity other than the court or the chief elections
officer of the State of California” and “that the Secretary of State has a
ministerial duty to verify a candidates [sic] eligibility.”
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Up to 180 Sleeper Terrorists Prepping for Attacks
Up to 20 sleeper cells comprising 120 to 180 people
may be ready to strike targets in several European countries, intelligence
source say in the wake of the discovery of an "imminent threat" of an
attack in Belgium this week.
More than two dozen people with suspected ties to Islamic extremists were arrested in a sweep Friday, and an unnamed Western intelligence source told CNN that as many as 20 sleeper cells are ready to strike targets in France, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
"There is a tremendous amount of concern over sleeper cells in Europe," said the official, who CNN reports has direct knowledge of the evolving situation.
More than two dozen people with suspected ties to Islamic extremists were arrested in a sweep Friday, and an unnamed Western intelligence source told CNN that as many as 20 sleeper cells are ready to strike targets in France, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
"There is a tremendous amount of concern over sleeper cells in Europe," said the official, who CNN reports has direct knowledge of the evolving situation.
Authorities are concerned about copycat attacks
through Europe following the incidents that unfolded in Paris earlier this
month, said the official, comparing the terror threat to a "slow-motion
car accident happening right in front of us."
Intelligence officers have been monitoring men who have returned to Europe after fighting in Syria, as it is believed the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, has directed attacks to retaliate against airstrikes against its forces in Syria and Iraq, a senior European counterterrorism official said.
The United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France are all part of a U.S.-led coalition conducting airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq.
On Friday, 17 suspected terrorists were arrested, with 13 captured in Belgium and the other four in France.
Meanwhile, it's suspected that the accused Islamist terrorists involved in Thursday's shootout with police in Belgium have links to terror cells throughout Europe, according to a senior counterterrorism source in Belgium. Further, two of the suspects killed are believed to have part of the ISIS forces in Syria.
Intelligence officers have been monitoring men who have returned to Europe after fighting in Syria, as it is believed the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, has directed attacks to retaliate against airstrikes against its forces in Syria and Iraq, a senior European counterterrorism official said.
The United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France are all part of a U.S.-led coalition conducting airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq.
On Friday, 17 suspected terrorists were arrested, with 13 captured in Belgium and the other four in France.
Meanwhile, it's suspected that the accused Islamist terrorists involved in Thursday's shootout with police in Belgium have links to terror cells throughout Europe, according to a senior counterterrorism source in Belgium. Further, two of the suspects killed are believed to have part of the ISIS forces in Syria.
The attacks at the office of Charlie Hebdo and other
locations in Paris do not appear to have come from specific instructions beyond
"go forward and do something," the Western source told CNN.
It is also believed that Yemen's turmoil is helping boost al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula's (AQAP) recruitment, adding to the network the United States has described asthe most dangerous affiliate of the terrorists' network.
But despite the threat, the Netherlands said Friday it will not raise its terror threat level, which is at "substantial," the second-highest level.
"That means there is a realistic threat, but no concrete or specific information of an attack," said government spokesman Edmond Messchaert Friday.
In Belgium, the current security level will remain for at least one month and will be evaluated to see if it needs to be modified, Prime Minister Charles Michel told CNN affiliate RTL.
"From the time we are confronted with an increase in the threat, we went to level 3 on a scale of 4; we must mobilize the resources available," Michel told CNN.
Counterterrorism experts are still tracking people associated with brothers Said and Cherif
Kouachi and another man Amedy Coulibaly, who were killed after the Paris attacks.
Neetin Karasular, an accused Belgian weapons trafficker who reportedly met with Coulibaly's widow, Hayat Boumeddiene, has been arrested, but his attorney claims his client was not picked up as part of the raids in Belgium.
It is also believed that Yemen's turmoil is helping boost al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula's (AQAP) recruitment, adding to the network the United States has described asthe most dangerous affiliate of the terrorists' network.
But despite the threat, the Netherlands said Friday it will not raise its terror threat level, which is at "substantial," the second-highest level.
"That means there is a realistic threat, but no concrete or specific information of an attack," said government spokesman Edmond Messchaert Friday.
In Belgium, the current security level will remain for at least one month and will be evaluated to see if it needs to be modified, Prime Minister Charles Michel told CNN affiliate RTL.
"From the time we are confronted with an increase in the threat, we went to level 3 on a scale of 4; we must mobilize the resources available," Michel told CNN.
Counterterrorism experts are still tracking people associated with brothers Said and Cherif
Kouachi and another man Amedy Coulibaly, who were killed after the Paris attacks.
Neetin Karasular, an accused Belgian weapons trafficker who reportedly met with Coulibaly's widow, Hayat Boumeddiene, has been arrested, but his attorney claims his client was not picked up as part of the raids in Belgium.
Karasular was charged with association with wrongdoers
and firearm offenses, in Charleroi, Belgium. But his attorney said the arrest
was not connected to the other Belgian raids.
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For State of Union, Obama Faces GOP Congress for First Time
For the first time in his presidency, Barack Obama
will stand before a Republican-led Congress to deliver his State of the Union
address and try to convince lawmakers newly empowered to block his agenda that
they should instead join with him on education, cyberprotection and national
security proposals.
With Obama firmly in the legacy-building phase, his address is
expected to be as much about selling a story of U.S. economic revival as it is
about outlining initiatives. The approach reflects the White House's belief
that it has been too cautious in promoting economic gains out of fear of
looking tone deaf to the continued struggles of many Americans.
White House advisers have suggested that their restraint hindered
Democrats in the November elections and helped Republicans take full control of
Congress for the first time in eight years. But with hiring up and unemployment
down, the president has been more assertive about the improving state of the
economy in the new year and his prime-time address Tuesday will be his most
high-profile platform for making that case.
"America's resurgence is real, and we're better positioned
than any country on Earth to succeed in the 21st century," Obama said
Wednesday in Iowa, one of several trips he has made this month to preview the
speech.
Tuesday is the second-to-last time Obama will take part in the
pageantry of the annual presidential address to Congress and a televised
audience of millions. By the time he stands before lawmakers next year,
Americans will have begun voting in the primary campaigns that will determine
his successor.
Mindful of Obama's fading share of the spotlight, the White House
has tried to build momentum for his address by rolling out, in advance, many of
the proposals he will outline. Among them: making community college free for
many students; ensuring paid sick leave for many workers; cutting the cost of
mortgage insurance premiums for some home buyers; pressing for cybersecurity
legislation in the wake of the hacking on Sony Pictures Entertainment, which
the U.S. has blamed on North Korea.
Some proposals are retreads. Most stand a slim chance of getting
congressional approval.
The real battle lines between Obama and the Republican-led
Congress will be on matters long fought over.
Buoyed by their new majority, Republicans are moving forward on
bills to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline, change Obama's health care law
and dismantle his executive orders on immigration. The White House has
threatened vetoes.
Republicans say that's a sign of a president who didn't get the
message from voters trying to relegate his party to minority status in the
November election. New Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the
president still has a chance to change his tone.
"Tuesday can be a new day," McConnell said. "This
can be the moment the president pivots to a positive posture, this can be a day
when he promotes serious realistic reforms that focus on economic growth and
don't just spend more money we don't have. We're eager for him to do so."
Obama isn't expected to make any major foreign policy
announcements. He is likely to urge lawmakers to stop the pursuit of new
penalties against Iran while the U.S. and others are in the midst of nuclear
negotiations with Tehran. In a news conference Friday, Obama said legislation
threatening additional penalties could upend the delicate diplomacy.
"Congress should be aware that if this diplomatic solution
fails, then the risks and likelihood that this ends up being at some point a
military confrontation is heightened — and Congress will have to own that as
well," he said.
The president also is expected to cite his recent decision to
normalize relations with Cuba, as well as defend the effectiveness of U.S.
efforts to stop Russia's provocations in Ukraine and conduct air strikes
against Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria.
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What
The Lead Searcher Just Said About Missing Jet MH370 Brings The Mystery Back Into
Focus
...despite the fact that there has been no sign of the jet and its
hundreds of lost souls...
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Questions about what caused the recent crash
of AirAsia Flight 8501 may soon be answered as divers locate and recover more
and more wreckage from the plane that crashed December 28th last year en route
from Indonesia to Singapore.
In addition to the flight data recorder, search
officials say they have located what appears to be the doomed plane’s
fuselage, as well as the cockpit and an engine, according to a post at AOL.
But while the “whys” of that tragedy could be
put to rest before long, the long-standing mystery continues for the other
major jetliner that was lost in that part of the world.
Malaysia Airlines MH370 is still missing
without a trace. And the effort to find the plane that disappeared on March 8,
2014 is still underway, with a fourth large vessel said to be joining the
search of a 23,000 mile underwater area in the Indian Ocean.
The Daily Mail reports that despite the fact that there has
been no sign of the jet and its hundreds of lost souls after an exhaustive air
and sea operation, the official in charge of the search remains optimistic.
Missing airliner MH370 is ‘very likely’ to be
found and is probably in good condition despite being submerged for ten months,
according to the Australian leading the search.
Martin Dolan said he is confident of finding
the aircraft – which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March
8 with 239 people on board – but admitted it would take a while.
Dolan explained that the deep-sea
conditions where the sunken aircraft is likely resting would help preserve the
wreckage.
The post by The Daily Mail added that the
search chief expects the scan area will have been completely covered no later
than May.
It’s interesting to note that the mapping of
the search area has provided details of previously unknown underwater features
and formations, including mountains, volcanoes, and deep ravines.
Western Journalism has carried a handful of
posts on the mystery surrounding the disappearance of MH370 — posts that
include a fair amount of speculation as people are still attempting to uncover
the truth.
Our most recent feature on the flight concerned the belief of a former
airline boss and current author who says the U.S. military shot down the plane
because it flew unexpectedly close to a secret base on the island of Diego
Garcia.
WND EXCLUSIVE
ADMIRALS, GENERALS, INTEL: BENGHAZI INQUEST
COMPROMISED
'I think
Gowdy has been warned away or threatened'
The independent Citizens’
Commission on Benghazi, or CCB, has been doing its own investigation and
working behind the scenes for the past year and a half to make sure Congress
does the job the executive branch has failed to do: namely, to get to the truth
of what happened and to hold people accountable.
A major step forward took place last May when Speaker of the House John
Boehner, R-Ohio, announced the creation of a House Select Committee to
investigate after about 190 House Republicans, under the leadership of
then-Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., co-sponsored legislation for just such action.
The CCB’s members include
former military commanders and Special Forces operatives; former CIA and
intelligence officers; well-known experts in international terrorism; and
experts in media and government affairs.
In exclusive interviews
conducted with 11 of the 17 members of the commission, it is clear that while
the CCB is still enthusiastic to work with Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chairman of
the House Select Committee on Benghazi, and hopeful that Boehner is serious
about the investigation, various members of the CCB, speaking on their own
behalf and not as spokesmen for the commission, are expressing concerns,
wanting to make sure the Gowdy investigation is not compromised by elements
within the GOP.
It was a lack of trust in the
congressional investigation of Benghazi that prompted the formation of the Citizens’
Commission on Benghazi in
2013. The founding members of the CCB were U.S Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely,
U.S. Navy four-star Adm. James Lyons, U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney
(all retired) and Accuracy in Media Editor Roger Aronoff.
Vallely told WND that he
believes Gowdy “has received much pressure not to get to the truth, and we are
now coming to the conclusion that there is no longer any intention in
Washington, by the leadership of both the Democratic and Republican Parties, to
get to the truth.”
“An honest investigation into
Benghazi would prove treasonous acts at the very top of the White House and the
State Department, and a continuing cover-up in Congress that now involves the
Republican leadership and especially House Speaker John Boehner,” Vallely said.
Among the CCB’s most
significant findings, released last April in an
interim report, was that “the U.S. facilitated the delivery of
weapons and military support to Al Qaeda-linked rebels in Libya” and that “on
the day of the attacks in Benghazi, whether or not there was an official order
to stand down, the result was the same.’
“There were military assets,
for example, at the U.S. base in Sigonella, in Sicily, Italy, that could have
been brought to bear, and perhaps could have saved the lives of the two men
killed at the CIA Annex, the scene of the second attack that night,” the report
said. “The failure to attempt to rescue these Americans amounts to a
dereliction of duty.”
The commission has found
evidence that there was a stand-down order given to the security guards at the
CIA annex after the attack began at the special mission compound, one mile
away, where Ambassador Christopher Stevens and information officer Sean Smith
were killed.
The purpose of the mission in
Benghazi appears to have involved a scheme managed by Stevens, first to supply
weapons to al-Qaida-related groups and others who sought to overthrow Moammar
Gadhafi and later to Syrian rebels.
Republican leaders are covering
up the White House’s offenses, some commission members believe, because the
White House made them aware of the gun-running and they gave assent to it.
Gowdy proceeding ‘at glacial speed’
Vallely explained that the
Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi was formed “after we saw all the stumbling and
deception that was going on” with the initial round of Benghazi hearings held
by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs
Committee in January 2013.
The commission, he said, meets
every couple of weeks, and “we’ve gone in and investigated on our own, conducting
interviews and uncovering facts.”
The other founding members of
the commission share Vallely’s concern.
“Trey Gowdy’s Select Committee
is proceeding at glacial speed,” said Lyons, former commander-in-chief of the
U.S. Pacific Fleet. “It is unclear where Gowdy is going, and the signs are not
good.”
Aronoff believes that Gowdy
might yet conduct a thorough investigation into Benghazi that would produce the
trut and was encouraged by closed-door
meetings that were
held last week between the Select Committee and both the State Department and
the Justice Department. But he also expressed some concerns.
“At the time Gowdy was picked,
all of us were ecstatic,” Aronoff said. “Gowdy was the one guy that, if we were
asked, the Citizens’ Commission would have said was the right guy.”
He said that after the first
meeting of the House Select Committee, Gowdy was saying the right things,
suggesting he would hold a public hearing within a month.
“Whether there was some sort of
a deal cut at the beginning of Gowdy heading the select committee we don’t
know,” he said.
“We’ve been publicly hesitant
to criticize Gowdy, because we’re still hopeful he’s going to be the right
guy,” Aronoff emphasized. “We’re trying now to pressure them from the
sidelines, and we don’t want to come out blasting Gowdy, saying that the ‘fix
is in.’ We still feel the select committee is there, and we want to give Gowdy
the benefit of the doubt to see what he does.”
Aronoff explained he was
disappointed that Gowdy chose to devote his first two public hearings to
examining the State Department Accountability Review Board process.
“Those hearings were pretty
bland, not really getting to the heart of the matter,” Aronoff said.
Citizens’ commission member
Pete Hoekstra, who served for 18 years as a congressman from Michigan, and who
was chairman of the House Intelligence Committee before retiring from Congress,
told WND he retains confidence Gowdy will produce a good investigation.
“I’m not anywhere close to
giving up on the work of Gowdy’s committee,” Hoekstra said. “The good thing is
that Gowdy and his select committee have jurisdiction across all the different
departments and agencies of government that are or might be involved in the
Benghazi attack.”
Hoekstra said he still believes
Gowdy’s committee “will be the first to give the entire Benghazi incident a
complete and thorough look.”
Next hearings classified, closed to public
Jamal Ware, communications
director for the Republican majority on the House Select Committee
investigation of Benghazi, explained to WND in an email the next hearing likely
will be closed and classified.
He said it’s possible that the
subsequent hearing will be open to the public, but he has no details to
release, because the decision-making is still in progress.
Retired U.S. Air Force Brig.
Gen. Charles Jones, another commission member, also expressed concerns about
Gowdy’s investigation.
“I think Gowdy is serious, and
I think he is a real patriot, but I think he has been warned away from the
final conclusion or he’s been threatened,” Jones told WND.
“I’ve been working very closely
with the Citizens’ Commission, and I think Gowdy, if he doesn’t go any further
than he has, has either been warned within the Republican Party or threatened
externally.”
Jones said he has concerns
whether Boehner is enthusiastic about supporting Gowdy’s investigation, despite
the instrumental role the House speaker played in constituting the select
committee and his public insistence that Gowdy will get to the truth of what
happened in Benghazi.
Jones said he called his local
congressman, Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., and said that if he was interested in the
Benghazi issue, he had some information for him. Heck responded with a couple
of handwritten notes indicating he was very interested, according to Jones.
Jones then set up a meeting
with Aronoff, Lyons and a couple of other people at Heck’s House office in
Washington.
“But at the meeting, Heck
became very arrogant and basically not interested, so he cut the meeting short
and left,” Jones said.
“That concerned me, because
Heck is on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Intelligence
Committee, and here was a chance for him to hear from Roger (Aronoff) and some
information not many people knew,” Jones said. “But he wasn’t willing to listen;
yet I have two notes here from Heck that said he was interested and to keep him
informed regarding what was going on.”
Heck’s turnabout caused Jones
to question how serious the Republicans in Congress were about an honest search
for the truth.
“The truth is Boehner only
agreed to appoint the Select Committee after a lot of pressure from a lot of
people and to put Gowdy in to head it, which is something we all recommended,”
Jones said. “But I think Boehner has either given Gowdy the word that enough is
enough, or it’s gone above Boehner, and Gowdy’s been threatened.”
Asked directly, Jones agreed
with Vallely that traitorous deeds at the highest level of government were
committed regarding Benghazi and that the Republicans in Congress have joined
the Democrats in a continuing cover-up.
“I’m concerned there is
something going on between the establishment Republicans in Congress and the
Obama administration of not wanting to get to the truth,” Vallely said. “If you
look at the first two public hearings that Gowdy held, they were primarily some
very low-level people that weren’t necessarily involved in what happened in
Benghazi. But, really, those first two hearings have been very ineffective in
getting to the truth of what really happened.”
Vallely said he and his
colleagues worked 10 months after their first press conference to get Boehner
to appoint a select committee.
“Boehner really did not want a
select committee. He delayed. He was pressured, and he didn’t think it was
necessary,” Vallely said. “For some reason, we believe, Boehner understood from
the Obama administration that they did not want to press it, because what we
feel now is that Boehner and the Republican leadership in Congress really don’t
want to get to the truth.”
‘Protecting his wife’
Fueling the suspicions of
various citizens’ commission members was the severely criticized unanimous
report on Benghazi issued in November by Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., as chairman
of the Republican-led House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The report “found
no evidence” to support allegations the Obama administration blocked attempts
to send rescue operations to Benghazi during the assault or sought to mislead
the public afterwards.
Citizens commission member John
Shaw – a senior partner in the Cambridge Consulting Group, formerly with the
Department of Defense from 2001 to 2005, where he served as deputy
undersecretary of defense for international technology security – explained why
he agrees with others on the committee that Boehner and Republicans in Congress
are stonewalling the Benghazi investigation.
On June 23, 2014, Micah
Morrison, the lead investigative reporter at Washington-based Judicial Watch, wrote
an article suggesting Rogers had been compromised in the intelligence
committee’s Benghazi investigation because of his wife’s business interests.
“A seven-term Republican from
Michigan, Mike Rogers climbed the political ladder to become chairman of the
Intelligence Committee in January 2011,” Morrison wrote. “Kristi Rogers, after
years of government service in mid-level administrative positions, moved to the
private sector, joining the British-based security contractor Aegis Defense
Services to help open its U.S. subsidiary. The newsletter Intelligence Online
noted that thanks to Ms. Rogers’ efforts, ‘Aegis won several major contracts
with the U.S. administration.’”
Shaw pointed out that Aegis in
the U.K. had a connection with the February 17 Martyrs Brigade, the Islamic
militia given the contract in Libya to provide security at the U.S. Embassy in
Tripoli and the diplomatic compound in Benghazi.
“There’s no question in my mind
that Rogers compromised the intelligence committee report on Benghazi in order
to protect his wife,” Shaw said.
“Once the connections come out
between Aegis and the February 17 Martyrs Brigade, the information will fry
Rogers and his wife publicly in the process,” he said. “I had followed Aegis
both in the United States and in England for two years, because I thought the
leadership of the group was a problem. The fact is that soon after it became
clear there was a connection between Aegis and Benghazi, a notice came on the
Aegis wire claiming Aegis in Washington had nothing to do with any security
contract in Libya.”
Shaw explained the connections.
“There was a three-way switch,”
he said. “First, Aegis in the U.K. gave the contract to provide the U.S.
security services in Libya to another security company called Blue Mountain,
based in Wales. Blue Mountain in turn subcontracted the State Department
contract to provide security at the U.S. consulate in Libya to the bad guys,
the February 17 Martyrs Brigade, the same group that ended up abandoning their
posts and joining the bad guys who attacked the CIA compound at Benghazi where
Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed.”
Ansar al Sharia, the
al-Qaida-linked militia group that led the Benghazi assault on the CIA
compound, is believed to include former members of the February 17 Martyrs
Brigade.
“Ms. Rogers’ rise at Aegis was
swift,” Judicial Watch’s Morrison wrote.
“A former press aide to
Ambassador Paul Bremer in Iraq and an assistant commissioner for public affairs
at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, she was named executive vice president
when the U.S. branch opened in 2006,” Morrison continued. “She was promoted to
president in 2008 and added the position of CEO in 2009. In 2011, Ms. Rogers
was named vice chairman of the company’s board of directors. In December 2012,
she left Aegis and joined the law firm Manatt as a managing director for federal
government affairs.”
Morrison wrote: “On March 28,
Mr. Rogers announced he was stepping down from his safe Congressional seat and
committee chairmanship to become a talk radio host. Two weeks earlier, on March
14, Ms. Rogers quietly left Manatt, after a tenure of only thirteen months. Her
departure was not announced and her association with the firm has been scrubbed
from its website.”
Gang of 8 ‘compromised’
Shaw said he shares the
concerns of others on the commission about “the slowness of the Gowdy
investigation.”
“Several of us have raised the
question of whether the Republican ‘Gang of Eight’ in Congress somehow think
that if the truth about Benghazi ever comes out, they will be found to be
somehow liable, if it ever comes out that they knew in advance about Obama
administration secrets over what really happened in Benghazi and did nothing to
reveal this information to the public,” he said.
The “Gang of Eight” is a
reference to eight leaders in the House and Senate who are regularly briefed by
the White House on intelligence matters: the speaker of the House and the House
minority leader; the Senate majority and minority leaders; and the chairmen and
ranking members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and of
the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
In the recently completed 113th
Congress, the following Republicans were in the “Gang of Eight”: House Speaker
Boehner; then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell; Rogers, as chairman of
the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; and Sen. Saxby Chambliss,
R-Ga., as ranking member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
“Why would Gowdy have only one
public hearing a month?” Shaw asked. “Once he started, the select committee
public hearings should have been relentless, day-after-day, the way the
Watergate hearings were, so we would have a buildup.”
Shaw said Gowdy “has all the
information we assembled in the citizens’ committee, and we have no sense what
he is really about.”
“I thought Gowdy, given his
demeanor, was going to go full for the jugular investigating Benghazi, but it’s
clear he’s been held back.”
Members
of the CCB (alphabetical):
·
Roger Aronoff, editor, Accuracy in Media
·
Capt. Larry Bailey, (SEAL) USN (Ret.)
·
Lt. Col. Kenneth Benway, U.S. Army Special Forces
(Ret.)
·
Col. Dick Brauer Jr., USAF (Ret.)
·
Steve Emerson, executive director, Investigative
Project on Terrorism
·
Lt. Col. Dennis B. Haney, USAF (Ret.)
·
Pete Hoekstra, former congressman and senior fellow,
Investigative Project on Terrorism
·
Brig.
Gen. Charles Jones, USAF (Ret.)
·
Clare
Lopez, former CIA officer
·
Adm.l James Lyons, USN (Ret.)
·
Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, USAF (Ret.)
·
Col. Wayne Morris, USMC (Ret.)
·
John A. Shaw, former official of Department of Defense
·
Kevin
Shipp, former CIA officer
·
Wayne
Simmons, former CIA officer
·
Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, U.S. Army (Ret.)
·
Former congressman and retired Army Lt. Col. Allen
West
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“En mi opinión”
No 852 Enero 19, 2015
“IN GOD WE TRUST”
Lázaro R González Miño EDITOR
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