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		<title>National Intelligence Director: &#8220;Al Qaeda is Not on the Path to Defeat.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["It is morphing and franchising itself, not only here but in other areas of the world.”]]></description>
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<p>I&#8217;ll say this much for Clapper, when it comes to saying things in public that Obama doesn&#8217;t want to hear, <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/173158-dni-chief-james-clapper-contradicts-his-boss-al-qaeda-is-not-on-the-path-to-defeat/">he&#8217;s certainly on a roll</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Al-Qaida is not on the run, and after being hunted for two decades it is not on the path to defeat. That’s the sobering message from two top intelligence leaders, National Intelligence Director James Clapper and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Michael Flynn during a Senate Armed Services committee hearing Tuesday.</p>
<p>Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., hearkened back to past comments from the Obama administration about the impending defeat, or at least decline, of the terrorist network. “People keep talking about [how] al-Qaida is on the run, on the path to defeat…. To me it’s just the opposite of that,” the committee’s ranking member said. “Is al-Qaida on the run, and on the path to defeat?”</p>
<p>“No,” Clapper replied.”It is morphing and franchising itself, not only here but in other areas of the world.”</p>
<p>“They are not,” Flynn confirmed.</p>
<p>President Obama has indeed said that core al-Qaida leadership is on the run—and touted how the U.S., under his leadership, conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011.</p></blockquote>
<p>Obviously what Clapper is saying is both fact and common sense. The JayVee distinction that Obama tried to draw in order to defend his political claim doesn&#8217;t hold up too well. This state of affairs was exactly why Al Qaeda was set up.</p>
<p>If James Clapper had answered anything else but what he did, he would have been unqualified to hold his present post. But the intriguing question though is did Clapper even understand why he was being asked that question or has he fallen this far out of the political loop?</p>
<p>After this, his days in his current job just might be numbered.</p>
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		<title>Director Clapper Warns CIA Agents will Switch Sides Over Government Shutdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could Russia or Iran exploit the Washington budget impasse to recruit American spies?]]></description>
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<p>I believe it was Allen Dulles who said that James Bond had no loyalties. That if the liquor and women were better in Moscow, he would have been across the border in a shot.</p>
<p>Apparently Director of National Intelligence James Clapper <a href="http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/217004.php">thinks that American intelligence agents are no better </a>and will defect <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/02/intel-chief-us-spies-might-defect-over-budget-impasse/#">because of a delay getting their paychecks.</a> If that&#8217;s true, then maybe after Edward Snowden, currently enjoying Moscow hospitality, it&#8217;s time to seriously reevaluate who is working for us.</p>
<blockquote><p>Could Russia or Iran exploit the Washington budget impasse to recruit American spies? Director of National Intelligence James Clapper seems to think so.</p>
<p>Taking the warnings about the impact of the partial government shutdown to new levels, Clapper suggested Wednesday during a Senate hearing that cash-strapped spies might be tempted to switch national loyalties.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a dreamland for foreign intelligence services to recruit,&#8221; Clapper said, citing the &#8220;financial challenges&#8221; facing intelligence employees from both the current stand-off and furloughs driven by the sequester. He said roughly 70 percent of civilians doing intelligence work have been furloughed.</p>
<p>&#8220;The danger here of course (is) that this will accumulate over time. The damage will be insidious. So each day that goes by, the jeopardy increases,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Clapper, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he&#8217;s &#8220;never seen anything like this,&#8221; and that the damage from the partial suspension of government services, on top of the sequester, will &#8220;seriously&#8221; damage national security.</p></blockquote>
<p>The sequester was Obama&#8217;s doing. So Clapper can talk to his boss about that. And why would any worker deemed non-essential have access to enough intelligence to be a security risk. For that matter, why are 70 percent of civilian intelligence workers deemed non-essential?</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe that 70 percent of the intelligence community is being furloughed and we&#8217;re still being able to meet our national security responsibilities,&#8221; Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Me either. In more ways than one.</p>
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		<title>Are You Better Off Today Than You Were Four Years Ago? Yes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abraham Katsman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many, Obama’s term has brought tremendous success. Here's the horrifying list of suspects.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Ahmadinejad.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-138406" title="Ahmadinejad" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Ahmadinejad.jpg" alt="" width="368" height="239" /></a>Ever since Ronald Reagan<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loBe0WXtts8" target="_blank"> posed the simple but clarifying query</a> to voters — &#8220;Are you better off than you were four years ago?&#8221; — Presidential challengers have dusted off the question, hoping to use it as successfully as Reagan did.  With President Barack Obama presiding over a stagnant economy, high unemployment and accelerating deficits, Gov. Mitt Romney doubtless expects this question to resonate with voters.</p>
<p>Yet, the answer is<strong> </strong>not uniformly negative.  For many, Obama’s term has brought tremendous success.  Following are just some of the big winners who would answer the are-you-better-off-today question with a resounding “Yes!”</p>
<p><strong>The Iranian Regime</strong>: Within months of his inauguration, Obama was presented with a gift&#8211;a popular uprising against America’s nuclearizing nemesis, Iran.  Given an assortment of options for helping topple the axis-of-evil’s charter member, he chose to do…nothing.  Instead, he reiterated his support for “engagement,” throwing a lifeline to the most dangerous regime on the planet even as they butchered their own people, prompting public protests chanting, “Obama, are you with us or against us?”</p>
<p>Iranian nukes?  Since April, 2009, this administration has boasted of “crippling sanctions” against Iran.  Three years later, Iran is still no cripple: CIA Director James Clapper gave Senate testimony that, &#8220;The sanctions as imposed so far have not caused [Iran] to change their behavior or their policy.&#8221;  Perhaps that is the result of Obama neutering the sanctions by liberally issuing waivers and delaying implementation.  Meanwhile, Iran crosses one red line after another in its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.</p>
<p>During Obama’s term, the Iranian regime has gone from wobbly to secure.  The administration remains preoccupied with ensuring no <em>Israeli</em> attack, though Iran has stockpiled enriched uranium sufficient for several bombs and proceeds methodically towards weaponization.</p>
<p>The mullahs understand who deserves credit for their improved standing.<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Hezbollah.</strong>  Iran’s wholly owned terror subsidiary was severely weakened by its 2006 war with Israel. Today, however, it is stronger and better armed than ever, and may soon gain access to Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile.  Meanwhile, while the Obama Middle East team obsesses about where Jews are building homes in Jerusalem, Hezbollah not only has gained de facto control of Lebanon, but has set up shop in 24 countries, including much of Central and South America.</p>
<p><strong>The Muslim Brotherhood</strong>.  What a run they’ve had.  This Islamist Nazi-influenced group has advanced from troublesome subversives vaguely known to most Americans to become the dominant political force in the Middle East—all in Obama’s short tenure.</p>
<p>In Egypt, the Obama administration boosted the Brotherhood by abandoning longtime President Hosni Mubarak, naively hoping Jeffersonian democracy might follow.  Mubarak was no saint, but he was a credible counterbalance to Islamist forces, and he upheld the Camp David peace with Israel.</p>
<p>Now the Brotherhood runs the most populous Arab nation, having collected 50% of the votes in last month’s election.  (Their <em>Seriously</em>-Muslim Brotherhood Salafist allies won another 25%.)   Brotherhood factions now control Egypt, Tunisia and Gaza, and are deeply involved in Jordan, the Syrian uprising and Arab uprisings throughout the region.</p>
<p>The Egyptians have imprisoned American pro-democracy workers, and, with their affiliate Salafists, have killed dozens of Christians, wounded hundreds of others, and caused 150,000 to flee.  They’ve burned churches, and abducted Christian girls to be forced into domestic and sexual servitude.</p>
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