Thurs PM ~ 2016 The Front Page Cover

[Rudy Tirre]

The Front Page Cover

 2016             The turth is the gold of today 

Featuring:

Why former Pentagon chief 

Chuck Hagel's coming out against

the White House matters

Dan Lamothe

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nObama White House Turns To Islamists

Who Demonize Terror Investigations

John Rossomando

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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Jihadist attacks in San Bernardino and Paris have Americans on edge. Yet part of the nObama White House's response to the attacks has been to invite Islamist groups that routinely demonize the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies to the White House to discuss a religious discrimination... "If we're to succeed in defeating terrorism we must enlist Muslim communities as some of our strongest allies, rather than push them away," President nObama said in his speech following the San Bernardino attack. But partnering with such organizations sends the wrong message to the American people, said Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AFID). "I think it says a lot when the president uses those organizations that have an ACLU-type mentality. They should have a seat at the table. That's fine," Jasser said.  "But not to include groups, which have completely different focuses about counter-radicalization, counter-Islamism creates this monolithic megaphone for demonization of our government and demonization of America that ends up radicalizing our community."

http://www.investigativeproject.org/5107/obama-white-house-turns-to-islamists-who-demonize

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Former DIA Chief Flynn Says nObama's

Terrorism Strategy 'Is Not Working'

 Rick Moran

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{pjmedia.com} ~ The former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency blasted President nObama for downplaying the threat from Islamists and overstating our readiness due to an "allegiance to ideology"... that skews decisions and policies that are at odds with what's happening on the ground. Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn decried the Democrats and media elites who focus on gun control and "Islamophobia" instead of religion. “It’s a cancerous form of radical Islamism and we cannot allow it to exist on this planet anymore,” he said. Flynn made his remarks in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation:   

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2015/12/27/former-dia-chief-flynn-says-obamas-terrorism-strategy-is-not-working

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'The only country ISIS fears in the

 Middle East is Israel'

jpost.com staff

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{jpost.com} ~ A German journalist who spent 10 days with Islamic State says that the radical jihadist group that has captured wide swaths of Syria and Iraq is deterred by only one Middle Eastern country – Israel... In an interview with the British Jewish News, Jurgen Todenhofer recalls his brief time behind enemy lines during which he spoke with ISIS fighters. “The only country ISIS fears is Israel,” Todenhofer, a former member of the German parliament, told Jewish News. “They told me they know the Israeli army is too strong for them.”        http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-Threat/The-only-country-ISIS-fears-in-the-Middle-East-is-Israel-438576

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Democrats Don't Know ISIS

 A.J. Caschetta

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{meforum.org} ~ With each new speech they make, the nation's two top Democrats continue to reveal their profound ignorance of what motivates the enemy both promise to defeat... The White House trope that the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay must be closed because it inspires, recruits and ultimately creates terrorists is a stark illustration of the nObama administration's failure to understand the threat posed by Islamism. Without offering any evidence, the president tells audiences that "Guantanamo has been an enormous recruitment tool for organizations like ISIL." He argues that GITMO "is part of how they rationalize and justify their demented, sick perpetration of violence on innocent people." In reality the prison in Guantanamo Bay is not even a catalyst to the growth of the Islamic State. And until there are credible reports of jihadists, mid-attack, shouting "This is for Gitmo!" and "Release KSM!" rather than "This is for Syria!" and "Allahu Akbar," no thinking person will believe otherwise.

http://www.meforum.org/5736/democrats-dont-know-isis

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A path to a more unified, 

conservative party

REP. DENNIS ROSS

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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ With new leadership in the House of Representatives, an important return to regular order and a more inclusive process... the first Republican-controlled Congress in nine years ended 2015 by passing a number of substantial legislative achievements and conservative reforms that will benefit the American economy and the American people. More importantly, these legislative achievements were signed into law by a president who threatened to block much of this important progress. By breaking the gridlock, the Republican Congress passed a long-term highway funding bill for the first time in a decade that will strengthen our economy and provide states long-term certainty and flexibility for much-needed infrastructure projects. By advancing Republican principles and ideas, the government's 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports will be lifted, creating jobs here at home and shifting the energy dependence of emerging democracies away from bad actors like Russia and Iran. This year, the Republican Congress passed the first significant reform to Medicare that will strengthen and save this important program for current and future recipients, all without raising taxes. This legislation, signed into law by the president, repeals the flawed Sustainable Growth Rate physician reimbursement formula and replaces it with a system that brings stability to doctors who treat Medicare recipients.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2579130

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Report: Pentagon Thwarts nObama's 

Effort to Close Guantanamo

newsmax.com staff

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{newsmax.com} ~ In September, U.S. State Department officials invited a foreign delegation to the Guantanamo Bay detention center to persuade the group to take detainee Tariq Ba Odah to their country... If they succeeded, the transfer would mark a small step toward realizing President Barack nObama's goal of closing the prison before he leaves office. The foreign officials told the administration they would first need to review Ba Odah's medical records, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of the episode. The Yemeni has been on a hunger strike for seven years, dropping to 74 pounds from 148, and the foreign officials wanted to make sure they could care for him. To slow prisoner transfers, Pentagon officials have refused to provide photographs, complete medical records and other basic documentation to foreign governments willing to take detainees, administration officials said. They have made it increasingly difficult for foreign delegations to visit Guantanamo, limited the time foreign officials can interview detainees and barred delegations from spending the night at Guantanamo.

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Pentagon-Obama-Guantanamo-Bay-prisoners/2015/12/28/id/707312/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1647715_12282015&s=al&dkt_nbr=pf2l8kyi

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Study proves nObamacare is sucking

up 10% of Americans' incomes

thedailysheeple.com staff

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{thedailysheeple.com} ~ The latest dilemma facing economists is why “unequivocally good” low oil prices haven’t sparked excuberant consumer spending across America... We have discussed the simple (though awkward for the establishment) answer many times – soaring costs for ‘shelter’ and healthcare have hoovered up every penny saved (and more); and now, a new study proves it – exposing the reality that many nObamacare customers pay more than 10 percent of their incomes toward coverage (and some paying considerably more). The shocking findings show that, as CNBC summarizes, One in 10 nObamacare customers who earn between just two and five times the federal poverty level will have coverage costs that exceed 21 percent of their incomes, an analysis by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute found.        http://www.thedailysheeple.com/study-proves-obamacare-is-sucking-up-10-of-americans-incomes_122015

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ISIS Captive Reveals Turkey’s Partnership

With ISIS More Than Just Smuggling Oil

Rick Wells

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{constitutionrising.com} ~ In a video by Russian-owned RT, what is presented as a captured ISIS fighter in an interrogation style interview provides some new insight into the activities and behind the scenes interactions between supposed enemies, ISIS and Turkey... The two were recently accused of being engaged in a black market oil trafficking operation following the shooting down of a Russian aircraft. Those accusations have been denied by Turkish President Erdogan. The revelations are quite damning if they are true, including the use of Turkish territory for training by ISIS in the interest of safety, a means for ISIS to avoid being targeted in airstrikes. Turkey, according to the report, isn’t denying that the training is taking place but claim the trainees, those that this ISIS fighter somehow had knowledge of, were actually Syrian “rebels” who were being prepared to fight ISIS. It’s the standard line of nObama, hanoi-Kerry, McCain and all of those who want to dump arms into the overthrow of Assad, portraying any insurgent willing to pull a trigger pointed towards Damascus as a freedom fighter.        http://constitutionrising.com/archives/24195

Video at the site

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Veterans can expect more bad 

health care from nObama’s VA

Betsy McCaughey

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{aim.org} ~ Don’t be fooled by last week’s headlines about more money and greater accountability at the Veterans Affairs Department. It’s the usual malarkey coming out of Washington... The prognosis for veterans who need health care remains poor, with vets likely to get the run-around and face delays again in 2016. On Friday, Congress passed an omnibus spending bill for the coming year that allocates a whopping $163 billion to the Veterans Administration – even more than the department requested. But as long as the VA is riddled with corruption and saddled with job-protection rules that favor employees instead of vets, that’s throwing good money after bad. As for the latest highly touted whistleblower-protection law signed by President nObama last Friday, there were whistleblower protections already on the books. What’s lacking is the will to enforce them. Adding more pages of laws won’t fix that.

http://www.aim.org/guest-column/veterans-can-expect-more-bad-health-care-from-obamas-va/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email122915&utm_medium=email

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In From The Cold And Out Again… 

How The CIA Was Duped And 

Their Double Agent Failure

Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

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{trevorloudon.com} ~ Bill Gertz at the Washington Free Beacon has written a fascinating piece on the CIA being fooled by scores of double agents who pledged their loyalty to the agency, but instead reported back to the communists during the Cold War right on up into the present day... As I have said for years… the Cold War never ended, it shifted. Now Benjamin B. Fischer, the CIA’s former chief historian, analyst and operations officer, is verifying what I have long said. That is cold comfort, I assure you. The duping of the CIA included at least 100 fake recruits in East Germany, Cuba and Russia. For decades, these double agents supplied false intelligence to senior U.S. policymakers that ranged all the way to the presidency. And it’s still happening. Fischer writes, “During the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency bucked the law of averages by recruiting double agents on an industrial scale; it was hoodwinked not a few but many times.” Is anyone surprised by this? Trevor Loudon and I have both said for years that the agencies and our governmental leaders couldn’t pass a background check to clean a toilet. It was true then and it is true today. These double agents weren’t thoroughly vetted. They were hurriedly turned and because of sloppiness, we invited the enemy into the midst of our intelligence agencies. It’s mind boggling. In an article last week, Fischer stated, “The result was a massive but largely ignored intelligence failure.” How’s that for national security? Feeling warm and fuzzy yet?        http://www.trevorloudon.com/2015/12/in-from-the-cold-and-out-again-how-the-cia-was-duped-and-their-double-agent-failure/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29

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Why former Pentagon chief 

Chuck Hagel's coming out against

the White House matters

Dan Lamothe

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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ When Chuck Hagel resigned as defense secretary last year, the narrative was clear: President Barack nObama and he did not see eye-to-eye on how to prosecute the war against the Islamic State, so Hagel needed to go. White House officials, speaking anonymously, said at the time that the president had lost faith in Hagel's ability to lead - a charge that Hagel's advisers brushed aside.

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Now, a little over a year later, Hagel is swinging back. In an interview with Foreign Policy magazine published on Friday, he said he remains puzzled why White House officials tried to "destroy" him personally in his last days in office, adding that he was convinced the United States had no viable strategy in Syria and was particularly frustrated with National Security Adviser Susan Rice, who he said would hold meetings and focus on "nit-picky" details.

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"I eventually got to the point where I told Susan Rice that I wasn't going to spend more than two hours in these meetings," Hagel told Foreign Policy. "Some of them would go four hours."

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Hagel said the administration struggled with how to handle Syria - hardly a surprise, given the way nObama said in August 2012 that it would be a "red line" for the United States if Syria moved or used its chemical weapons stockpiles, but did not intervene militarily the following year when Syria did so. Hagel said that hurt nObama's credibility, even if declared stockpiles eventually were removed through an agreement reached with Damascus.

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"Whether it was the right decision or not, history will determine that," Hagel told Foreign Policy. "There's no question in my mind that it hurt the credibility of the president's word when this occurred."

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The White House declined to comment on the article. However, an administration official disagreed anonymously with many assertions in Hagel's interview. Waiting before launching cruise missiles provided a window for the chemical weapons agreement reached, the official said.

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Hagel is far from the first former Pentagon chief in nObama's administration to later criticize the president and his staff. But he just might be the most unlikely. A former Republican senator from Nebraska, he saw eye-to-eye with nObama on many national security issues before he was nominated. Like nObama, he also was a strong critic of President George W. Bush's war in Iraq - one of the first in the Republican Party.

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The two men also still have a friendly relationship, Hagel told Foreign Policy. Nonetheless, he just took several large steps down the same road as Robert Gates and Leon Panetta, who preceded Hagel at the Pentagon and later laid out their grievances in memoirs written after they left office.

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Gates, who served for both President George W. Bush and nObama, wrote in a book released early last year that he was "seething" and "running out of patience with on multiple fronts" with the administration. All too often, he wrote, "suspicion and distrust of senior military officers by senior White House officials - including the president and vice president - became a big problem for me as I tried to manage the relationship between the commander in chief and his military leaders."

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Panetta followed last fall with his own book, saying nObama had a "frustrating reticence to engage his opponents and rally support for his cause" and too frequently "relies on the logic of a law professor rather than the passion of a leader." In an interview promoting the book, he added that the president had "kind of lost his way" and was partly to blame for the collapse of the Iraqi government last year because he didn't press harder to keep American troops in the country in 2011, ahead of a complete military withdrawal.

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Hagel, for his part, told Foreign Policy that he got "the hell beat out of him" figuratively at the White House for delaying in signing transfer orders to release detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, when he had concerns about the individuals involved. He also said he felt micro-managed - something that Gates, Panetta and other defense officials have all expressed.

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"There is a danger in all of this," Hagel told Foreign Policy, referring to White House micromanagement and the administration's expanding national security staff. "This is about governance; this isn't about political optics. It's about making the country run and function, and trying to stay ahead of the dangers and the threats you see coming."

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http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1215/hagel_destroyed.php3