Statement by Liz Cheney in Response to President Obama’s National Security Remarks
Pausing the transfer of al-Qaeda terrorists from Guantanamo Bay to Yemen is insufficient to ensure the security of the United States. If President Obama is serious about keeping the American people safe, he should reverse his irresponsible and ill-advised decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
He should reverse his decision to usher terrorists from Guantanamo onto U.S. soil. He should reverse his decision to bring the mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to New York. He should reverse his decision to give KSM and other terrorists the rights of Americans and the benefit of a criminal trial in an American civilian court.
He should immediately classify Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day bomber, as an illegal enemy combatant, not a criminal defendant. He should inform Attorney General Holder that he will no longer allow the Justice Department to treat terrorism as a crime instead of an act of war, nor will he allow them to investigate or prosecute CIA officials who kept us safe after 9/11, or disbar or otherwise punish the lawyers who provided the legal framework for programs that saved American lives.
President Obama has weakened American security by treating terror as a law enforcement matter, refusing to use every tool at his disposal to prevent attacks, and taking his eye off the ball. America’s homeland security and counterterrorism systems will continue to erode in the absence of strong, consistent, unwavering presidential stewardship. It’s time for the President to make defending this nation his top priority.”
Liz Cheney
Chair
Keep America Safe
January 6, 2010
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Contact is Aaron Harison, Executive Director, Keep America Safe, Cell: (202) 365-3102, Email: aharison@KeepAmericaSafe.com
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If you can’t even name it, you will never defeat it. President Obama began by calling the Nigerian bomber an isolated extremist, just like he did with major hassan, the fort hood murdering jihadist. In subsequent speeches and television appearances, he still has not identified what it is we are fighting. He cannot bring himself to utter the words Islamic terrorism. We are waging a war (or should be anyway) against the Muslim jihad, the Muslim desire to establish, through violent struggle, a worldwide caliphate that will institute sharia law globally. The United States of America is not to blame as Obama et al would have us believe. Making nice and apologizing for America will not endear us with the Muslim world. It only makes us look foolish and weak. It’s mind boggling that there seems to be no one in this administration that grasps that simple fact.
I’m afraid that until Obama and Holder are no longer in charge we are in for much more trouble. Their castration of the CIA has led not only to the flight 253 bombing attempt but also to the deaths of the 7 Americans at the hands of the suicide bomber in afghanistan. Can you imagine that high level CIA agents did not even take the simple precaution of a basic search of the so called informant? We can’t search him and hurt his feelings because he is a muslim. give me a break. We offer terrorists lawyers and constitutional rights while we prosecute Navy Seals for allegedly giving a terrorist a fat lip. Ideology gone haywire? I think so. Ideology uber alles. Obama and Holder a lethal combination. America and Americans watch out!