Video: Theissen rips Amanpour on false reporting

The liberals have moved the goal posts so far in defining “torture” that our ability to get important intel has become a running joke with the terrorist:

‘Bring my lawyer! — That’s what’s so beautiful about America.
 [Andy McCarthy]
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDVjYmJhYWU3OWQ2MWUxNzU3M2M1OTczZTIxYTE3Zjg=

Choosing America as an enemy was not, however, without its advantages.  Amir Abdelgani advised his confederates that, if arrested, “Nobody talk until seeing his lawyer.”

“You understand,” Siddig echoed.  “Tell them, ‘I don’t know.  I’m not talking to you.  Bring my lawyer.’  Never talk to them.  Not a word. ‘My lawyer’—that’s it!  That’s what’s so beautiful about America.”

But so many liberals like Christine allow ideology to trump reality.

Where we used to get very important intel from captured terrorist that would prevent further attacks,we now get lawyers and laughter from the terrorist:

What the Criminal-Justice Model Gets Us
Jennifer Rubin – 12.30.2009 – 10:08 AM

Buried deep in the Washington Post account of the Obama administration’s  intelligence failures regarding the Christmas Day terror attack is this nugget:

Abdulmutallab remains in a Detroit area prison and, after initial debriefings by the FBI, has restricted his cooperation since securing a defense attorney, according to federal officials.

Great…thanks liberals…….more 9/10 thinking please.

Now one of the chief Intelligence officials admits how stupid this is:

Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair told senators today that it was a mistake for authorities to give the accused bomber in the attempted Christmas Day attack on a U.S.-bound airliner a reading of his Miranda right to an attorney without consulting Blair’s office, the Homeland Security secretary and other officials.

“That unit was created exactly for this purpose,” Blair told the Senate Homeland Security Committee. “We did not invoke the HIG in this case. We should have. Frankly, we were thinking more of overseas people. And, duh  … the decision was made on the scene.”

But don’t worry because even when the “Greatest Administration Evaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!” does get intel….
…..they don’t do a dam# thing with it but “blame Bush”:

NYT: Obama administration missed more terror warning signs than acknowledged in report
posted at 12:55 pm on January 18, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/18/nyt-obama-administration-missed-more-terror-warning-signs-than-acknowledged-in-report/

In early November, American intelligence authorities say they learned from a communications intercept of Qaeda followers in Yemen that a man named “Umar Farouk” — the first two names of the jetliner suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab — had volunteered for a coming operation.

In late December, more intercepts of Qaeda operatives in Yemen, who had previously focused their attacks in the region, mentioned the date of Dec. 25, and suggested that they were “looking for ways to get somebody out” or “for ways to move people to the West,” one senior administration official said.

“We carry prayer beads, and with them we carry a bomb for the enemies of God,” a man describing himself as a Qaeda fighter from Yemen announced in a video released on Al Jazeera satellite television. “The issue is between us and America and its allies, and beware, those who stand in the ranks of America.”

Remember….UN officials had already notified intelligence officials that this “underwear” type of explosive was being used and Yemen has been a top Al-qeada training area for years.

Add to this the fact we had been bombing them recently and you would think somebody would be paying close attention to the activity there.

….So the same people who think the August PDB which contained “old and unspecific evidence” concerning Bin Laden striking America pretty much get a detailed road map of a terrorist attack and drop the ball.

…But this is the type of incompetence we get when the people who think that pouring water over the face of terrorist or putting caterpillars in their cells to gain important intel is “evil” and “barbaric”.

…..Maybe if Obama’s anger and focus on his enemies did not concentrate on Americans like Rush,Palin,and the Tea Party coalition this type of incompetence could have been avoided.

……But I guess we should give Obama a break….we know how important improving his golfing handicap is.

Baxter Greene on January 21, 2010 at 12:12 PM