Good Tuesday Morning. Attorney General Holder Warns of the Threat Within & Speaker Pelosi's New Mission (522 hits)
-Pierre Thomas, on a Holder interview aired on "Good Morning America": '"What was uppermost on his mind ... is the alarming rise in the number of Americans who are more than willing to attack and kill their fellow citizens. 'It is one of the things that keeps me up at night,' Holder said. 'You didn't worry about this even two years ago -- about individuals, about Americans, to the extent that we now do. And that is of great concern.
... The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens -- raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born' ...
In the last 24 months, Holder said, 126 people have been indicted on terrorist-related charges, fifty of those people are American citizens." http://abcn.ws/dUR7fY
SPEAKER PELOSI SITS DOWN WITH DAVID ROGERS: "'Every minute is a new minute to me,' says Nancy Pelosi, and, with boxes packed in the hall outside, the soon-to-be-former speaker has already jumped ahead to her vision of the 'humming, whirling entity' House Democrats can still be in the coming Congress. 'I'm obviously devastated by the loss we had,' she will admit, but expect no tears, no retreat on health care reform.
Pelosi mourns the Democratic talent lost but not her gavel. And on this particular Friday afternoon, she skipped President Obama's signing ceremony for his tax deal with the new Republican powers and instead drew her energy from a morning meeting with the fresh crop of ranking Democrats on House committees. ... 'I'm a professional' was a recurring theme in her half-hour interview with POLITICO. 'You don't say, "I'm the speaker, so I should be the speaker forever."
I had this opportunity. What did we accomplish with it in the time we had? Now, as leader, how do we protect what we have done? It's not about an office or gavel.' ... There's some denial, to be sure. ... Pelosi repeatedly spoke of her ranking Democrats as committee 'chairmen' when they won't be in the new Congress. ... And by her reckoning, little or nothing about November's losses can be attributed to the enactment of health care reform." http://bit.ly/hU4VMt
Saint what's up with your (((???))) ?
Tuesday, December 21st 2010 at 3:25PM
Jen Fad
Holder said the United States has made great strides in improving its ability to detect and block attacks, which is shown by the number of would-be terrorists who have been stopped before they could kill Americans. The intelligence community is working around the clock, he said, with little time off.
"We are doing everything that we possibly can to keep the American people safe," Holder said. "We are vigilant, we are doing everything we can to keep our homeland secure,"
Turning to how terror suspects are tried, Holder said he still believes the "decision as to how people get prosecuted, where they get prosecuted, is an executive branch function. Even if those suspects are being held now at Guantanamo Bay. Holder said Congress should not be interfering with that.
"It's -- from my perspective -- a constitutional issue," he said.
As for Julian Assange and Wikileaks, Holder said "it's an ongoing investigation."
"What Wikileaks did, at the end of the day, was harmful to American security, put American agents and properties ... at risk ... and I think for arrogant and misguided reasons," he said.
Tuesday, December 21st 2010 at 6:10PM
DAVID JOHNSON
You said it Clark. And don't forget global warming, even though it doesn't have an "ism". But it is always about a State of Fear. God bless Michael Crichton.
Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 at 1:03PM
Steve Williams
They put CAstro in power and until our president we were the money bank for north Korea...N.K. all it had to do was act up andd get paid and go be quite until they needed more money...We put up all of those dictators in Africa, south America and you name it...it is just when they learn they are to become second class citizens to be used and abused by our racist priority that they turn against us...
but the U.S. knows we don't care because we are not interested in anything that thakes longer than a news media frenzy as it should matter that we don't have the country we have been lead to believe...
we ae not respected nor wanted as an allie any more...check out what the Brittish has done against us lately...so who do we really have as a friend, ???????????????????? (smile)
WAKE UP...
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
They put CAstro in power and until our president we were the money bank for north Korea...N.K. all it had to do was act up andd get paid and go be quite until they needed more money...We put up all of those dictators in Africa, south America and you name it...it is just when they learn they are to become second class citizens to be used and abused by our racist priority that they turn against us...
but the U.S. knows we don't care because we are not interested in anything that thakes longer than a news media frenzy as it should matter that we don't have the country we have been lead to believe...
we ae not respected nor wanted as an allie any more...check out what the Brittish has done against us lately...so who do we really have as a friend, ???????????????????? (smile)
WAKE UP...
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
