Famous But Incompetant

The FBI within minutes announced that Nidal Hasan was not a terrorist and recently announced that it did nothing wrong after ignoring Hasan's contact with an Al Queda leader, Anwar Awlaki. It also appears that Army Criminal Investigation Division also ignored Hasan's contact with Awlaki. http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091111/us_time/08599193757400

As they say, two wrongs don't make a right. But it exposes Army CID and the FBI as either grossly incompetant or that there is treason involved at their management levels. While no one is surprised that this is occuring under Barak Hussein Obama, infact, the problem began earlier and Jorge Bush is primarily responsible.

Take a look at what one of Jorge's Mexican friends rationalized about Hasan:


"Says Juan Carlos Zarate, who was President George W. Bush's Deputy National Security Adviser for combating terrorism: 'Given the cover [Hasan] used, as someone researching the effects on Muslim soldiers of operating in Muslim countries [his approaching al-Awlaki] was not wholly illegitimate. It doesn't raise the specter of dangerous or criminal activity.' In those circumstances, the officials monitoring the communications between the psychiatrist and the imam might reasonably assume that Hasan was doing 'legitimate research, on behalf of the U.S. military,' he adds."

Aside from the fact that Hasan was not conducting any legitimate research, but was overtly seditious and treasonous while at Walter Reed Hospital during his training, he never published any "legitimate research."

Obviously neither Army CID or the FBI made any effort to review his "research" that they claim justified his contact with a declared enemny of the United States. An enemy which we are at war with. It is not the job of investigators to "assume" things. An investigator obtains facts, not just assumes that someone's suspicous action was "legitimate."

Just like after 9/11, the FBI is cleaning up the bodies after the fact. Taken together, it shows that the FBI is grossly incompetant. It allowed the 9/11 hijackers to wander about the country even after several were identified to them, it ignored warnings from its own agents that there was a conspiracy afoot in the U.S. involving hijacked airliners, and it failed to follow basic investigative procedures in the Hasan case. In both cases Americans died for the FBI's incompetance. Thanks for nothing FBI. I hope you are enjoying your fat paychecks as they have been bought in blood by innocent Americans.

UPDATE:

Apperently the Army CID investigator did not forward his information about Hasan's contact with Awlaki. Interestingly enough, the CID Special Agent was on an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). The JTTF is a team of FBI Special Agents and other law enforcement agents from other federal, state and local agencies, that are managed, supervised, and directed by an FBI Supervisory Special Agent or Assistand Special Agent in Charge. The import of that is that the FBI directs and manages JTTF investigations and refuses to allow the participating agents from other agencies on the JTTF to provide information they come across as part of the JTTF investigations to their own agencies. The FBI holds all the information that JTTF uncovers as exclusive to the FBI and restricts outflow of information to the agencies that provide agents to the JTTF. Basically the FBI uses and abuses agents from other agencies on the JTTF, then does not share. It also is reported that the FBI is with-holding more information on Hasan's additional contacts with Al Queda. The coverup begins. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/official-nidal-hasan-unexplained-connections/story?id=9048590

Janet Reno Napolitano Doesn't Know Her Job

Janet Reno Napolitano stated that the Department of Homeland Security would lead efforts to prevent a backlash against Muslims who support terrorism after the Fort Hood terrorist attack. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j8GOiUlCCnhCsRp1Xvs94KDJh8owD9BR9GPG0

Interestingly enough, DHS has no legal authority to investigate any such backlash or any civil or criminal acts connected with any "backlash." The DHS cannot investigate violations of federal civil rights laws, except when the perpetrator is a DHS employee, and the DHS Office of Inspector General investigates such allegations against DHS employees. Just as Janet Reno Napolitano claims that DHS has authority over terrorist investigations, there is no basis in law for DHS to perform such investigations. The Famous But Incompetant, the FBI, has that authority. While not some time ago Janet Reno Napolitano claimed the terrorist threat to America was from white gun owners and veterans, in fact, the terrorist threat comes from Muslims, as the Fort Hood Massacre shows. Although technically Major Nidal Hasan is technically a gun owner, white and a veteran, Janet Reno Napolitano was not refering to that type of white guy when she warned us against those evil white gun owning veterans. And we know that Hasan was not motivated by the black Muslim in the White House, but by a hatred of white gunowning Americans.

The import of this though is that Janet Reno Napalitano is claiming authority and juridiction over crimes that DHS has no investigative authority. I am certain that Janet Reno Napolitano wants to assign ICE, Secret Service and Border Patrol Agents to guard mosques from retaliation, but she wants to do that because she wants ICE agents and Border Patrol Agents not doing their lawful assignment of arresting illegal aliens. That is her goal, transforming DHS' mission of securing the border to protecting terrorists and the sea in which they swim.

FOB

No, not fresh off the boat, but it might as well be. Alan Bersin, Friend of Bill, has been nominated for the position of Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection. http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Alan_D._Bersin

While he is an accomplished Washington insider, he, despite claims otherwise, has no real accomplishments except as a campaign fund raiser.

More importantly, as Clinton border czar and United States Attorney for the Southern District of California (San Diego), he spearheaded the no-prosecution rule for illegal aliens and previous deportees not only in San Diego, but elsewhere.

Under his watch in the Southern District of California, that office adopted a policy that basically stopped prosecution of illegal aliens for re-entry after deporation, even for aliens with criminal records caught re-entering the U.S. Aliens with 20 plus attempts to enter illegally were declined by his office for prosectution, including those with other felony convictions. This policy was soon adopted throughout the US Attorney's Offices located in California and most along the southern border. Basically, criminal aliens, previous deportees, and illegal aliens in general were not prosecuted, just deported again, only to return again and again until they succeeded in crossing the border without being caught.

The money quote: "Bersin’s focus was on smugglers of both people and contraband rather than 'economic migrants.'” And to Bersin, every illegal alien was an economic migrant, including most drug smugglers as his office had a requirement that for a drug smuggler to be prosecuted the amount of drugs seized must be a large amount. Small time smugglers skated, as well as alien smugglers. It got so bad under Bersin that teenaged Americans were frequently recruited to drive smuggling loads as there was no prosecution of small time alien smugglers.

Add to this, he has no experience in administering a small law enforcement agency, much less the largest law enforcement agency in the country. It is clear that Bersin's job will to be ending enforcement not increasing it. While in the linked article he is given credit for Operation Gatekeeper, he had nothing to do with it. Gatekeeper was an initative straight from the U.S. Border Patrol management. It came as a surprising success to the then Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner Doris Meissner, who was forced by its success to expand it from California to the rest of the Mexican border.

One success of Operation Gatekeeper was the triple border fence on a 12 mile strip of the border from the Pacific Ocean inland. The triple fence stopped cold aliens and drugs on those 12 miles. A lesson to the present, where Barak Hussein Obama, Janet Reno Napalitano and Bersin all oppose border fences.

What is also not mentioned in Bersin's profile is that he spearheaded Islamist indoctrination in the San Diego Unified School District as its Superintendent. http://www.10news.com/news/13767699/detail.html Only after he left, was the policy of prayer time for Muslims and segregated classes ended.

Soon the border will be wide open to economic migrants and more Palestinian killers. FOB. You heard it here first.

Back From The Dead

Well, my blog was identified as spam by Blogger and I was down for a month or so while trying to get Blogger to unblock it.

I am happy to report that I am back. Stop by soon for new posts.

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The Campaign Begins

The radical left, in conjunction with sympathizers in the Obama Regime have started their campaign to end the detention of illegal aliens. http://www.ilw.com/articles/2009,1021-kerwin.pdf

In a boring and tendentious report that actually provides little real information, it demands that fewer illegal aliens be detained before they are deported. Instead of referring to the illegal aliens as aliens, it repeatedly calls them "noncitizens," seeking to change the debate by controlling the language. One would think that in an allegedly scholarly report, they could get the most basic things correct. The correct way to refer to a person who is not a citizen or national of the United States is "alien." That is the law, but immigration attorneys and their allies obviously think they are above the law.

The report also repeatedly refers to deaths of aliens in detention, slyly insinuating that large numbers of aliens are dying in DHS custody. They ghoulishly refer to the fact that DHS updated its statistics of deaths in custody from their last report on detainee deaths. You would think from the body of the report this was a yearly, monthly, weekly or daily uptick in deaths, but what they don't report is that it is 10 deaths covering fiscal years 2004 through 2007. http://www.ilw.com/articles/2009,1021-kerwin.pdf Such Clintonian dishonesty is to be expected from leftwing groups, working on this report interestingly with assistance from Associated Press. So, ten additional deaths in custody over four years, not much at all.

As a matter of fact, deaths in ICE custody are below the average death in custody rates for all agencies that hold anyone in custody, such as the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the various State, local and territorial prison and jail systems.

What they also don't point out is that for every alien in custody for removal proceedings or aliens previously ordered removed, there are literally tens of thousands not in custody. The report appears angered that there are approximately 32,000 aliens in custody at any given point in time. The are also angry that the number has expanded since 1994. This is typical misdirection and dishonesty from the left, as they don't tell you that the population of aliens in the U.S. has greatly expanded since 1994. The illegal alien population alone is 12-20 million, the legal alien population of the U.S. as of 2007 was 37.9 million. http://www.cis.org/immigrants_profile_2007 This does not include admission of non-immigrant aliens, basically temporary visitors for business, employment, tourism or personal business, which as of 2008 was 175 million aliens. http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ois_ni_fr_2008.pdf And the leftists are shocked that there are 32,000 removable aliens in custody? Sounds like too few rather than too many.

Of course their solution to the "problem" of aliens in custody was to release more. They cheer that aliens in monitoring programs are showing up to their removal proceedings, but don't give statistics for those aliens then ordered removed but not held in custody. The rate of aliens not held in custody who actually are removed is about only about 2%. Not good statistics. Their statistics would only be good if aliens were taken into custody once they were ordered to be removed, but that does not occur. http://www.cis.org/DeportationSystem

The most glaring omission from the report though is the most obvious, expedited removal, the legal process that Congress created for illegal aliens, including aliens convicted of crimes. The report refers briefly to it, but does not acknowledge that expedited removal of other than arriving aliens is not being used and that for arriving aliens is little used. The best way to clear out the backlog of long term detention is aggressive use of expedited removal.

Use and expansion of expedited removal, coupled with forcing receiving nations to accept their deportees would be the first part of the solution. In their report, they cite two cases of aliens held for years who have yet to be removed. In the case of a Vietnamese national they don't admit that he is a criminal alien and then only hint at it in a second example, a Cuban national, who they admit last place of residence was the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute. Well, there is a good reason he is in custody for such a long time, he is a dangerous criminal and the Cuban government refuses to accept him back. They refused to hint at the case of the Vietnamese man in custody for 9 years, claiming he is not a criminal, but he is clearly either dangerous to the public or is refusing to cooperate with deportation. The Vietnamese government is also probably refusing to accept him back, just as Cuba, Somalia, China, Russia and other countries do. The best solution to this problem is not releasing the alien, but either forcibly returning the alien, or, more effectively, informing uncooperative governments that no immigrant or non-immigrant visas will be issued to citizens or nationals of governments that do not accept back their citizens. The Obama Regime has just recently cancelled non-immigrant visas of Honduran officials who have displeased the Obamessiah, so it is an acceptable option.

Another solution that the report ignores is what we do everyday with illegal aliens from Mexico caught by the Border Patrol. They are repatriated directly and without proceedings. This is called Voluntary Removal or VR. Just expand this program by making it mandatory for Mexican and Canadian citizens or residents.

But one must understand the motive behind this report. It goes hand in hand with the upcoming amnesty, with the radical left desirous of having as many illegal aliens in the U.S. when it arrives. The custody system discourages aliens from fighting removal, generally the longer they are in custody, the more likely they are to acquiesce to removal. The last amnesty proposal under the Bush Administration included amnesty for absconders and those in removal proceedings at the time, so more released from custody meant more aliens available for amnesty. That is their ultimate goal with this tendentious report.

It Is Official, A Lawless Regime

In an effort to obain campaign donations from marijuana dealers, the Department of Justice and Attorney General Eric Holder have made it official. United States Attorneys (USA) have been instructed not to enforce laws against the importation, distribution, and sale of marijuana. http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/192 Something I warned about. http://federaleagent86.blogspot.com/2009/03/unfaithfully-not-execute-laws-of-united.html

Besides the play for campaign donations, the Obama Regime policy on ignoring drug dealing by their supporters and voters, inlcuding illegal alien Mexican cartel members, is also part of their assault on the impartiality of the law. While filled with weasel words about exceptions to this new policy, the direction is clear. USAs have been told to leave the marijuana smugglers alone. The import of this is another set of weasel words in the DOJ announcement.

Here is the money quote: "Rather, this memorandum is intended solely as a guide to the exercise of investigative and prosecutorial discretion." Discretion is a great word, intending to conceal more than it reveals, but for those in the know, it reveals much. It reveals that the Obama Regime does not consider itself bound by the law, but as above the law, bound by nothing other than self-interest. Discretion means nothing but not enforcing those laws that are inconvinient for the Regime or not in its interest. Just think this as the extension of the non-prosecution of the Black Panthers in Philidelphia or the refusal of the DOJ to investigate and prosecute ACORN.

The import of this is that the Obama Regime is announcing that they have adopted the Bolshevik view of the law. The law serves the Regime and the Regime is not subservient to the law. Communist regimes always made use of the law, but it was a pretense and a fraud, and is typified by the practice of show trials and extra legal murder of opponents. The communists always said they acted lawfully, but that some did not deserve the protection of the law; the bourgoisie, landlords, capitalists, kulaks, land owning peasants, property owners, Christians, etc.

And there were those protected by the law and above the law, like Party members, the inevitable political police, and terrorists, and the like who served the Party's interests. And similarly, marijuana dealers are now above the law. These millionaire drug dealers now have immunity while those in legal and respectable business like physicians and those who want to purchase a sports team have the full force of the Regime come down on it. In the Obama Regime, the cocaine dealer Al Sharpton is an acceptable part of the Regime, but Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are now the target of the Regime.

The Obama Regime, truely a Regime, based on a culture of corruption and abuse of the law. The Department of Justice's employees, including political appointees, take an oath of office to faithfully execute the laws of the United States in a fair and impartial manner. Eric Holder just announced that there will be no fairness in prosecutions in the United States. How can it be that in one State you will be prosecuted for violation of a federal law, but in another State you will get a pass.

The worst part is that Holder starts out completely dishonestly establishing a strawman arguement for non-prosection of marijuana offenses claiming that users of marijuana are prosecuted, including those falsely claiming it is for medical use. That is just an outright lie. The federal government does not prosecute mere possession of marijuana, much less other drugs, unless you are found on federal property with the drug in question, such as in a National Park. The DEA and FBI certainly do not go searching the streets for drug users. Any intimation by Holder that that happens is an outright lie. A lie that is symptomatic of this Regime. And part of their dishonest, unethical, and dangerous misuse of the law and the power of the state. They certainly do have plans for state power, but it will not fall on drug dealers, but on someone else, like those who have the temerity to oppose this Regime.

Immigration Is.............

...........Upton Sinclairian tofu and imported genetic diseases. http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/09/22/85765.html (h/t No Pasaran http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/) and http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/16/BATL1A6L1F.DTL