Homeland Insecurity: The White House assures that tracking our every phone call and keystroke is to stop terrorists, and yet it won't snoop in mosques, where the terrorists are.
That's right, the government's sweeping surveillance of our most private communications excludes the jihad factories where homegrown terrorists are radicalized.
Since October 2011, mosques have been off-limits to FBI agents. No more surveillance or undercover string operations without high-level approval from a special oversight body at the Justice Department dubbed the Sensitive Operations Review Committee.
Who makes up this body, and how do they decide requests? Nobody knows; the names of the chairman, members and staff are kept secret.
We do know the panel was set up under pressure from Islamist groups who complained about FBI stings at mosques. Just months before the panel's formation, the Council on American-Islamic Relations teamed up with the ACLU to sue the FBI for allegedly violating the civil rights of Muslims in Los Angeles by hiring an undercover agent to infiltrate and monitor mosques there.
Before mosques were excluded from the otherwise wide domestic spy net the administration has cast, the FBI launched dozens of successful sting operations against homegrown jihadists — inside mosques — and disrupted dozens of plots against the homeland.
If only they were allowed to continue, perhaps the many victims of the Boston Marathon bombings would not have lost their lives and limbs. The FBI never canvassed Boston mosques until four days after the April 15 attacks, and it did not check out the radical Boston mosque where the Muslim bombers worshipped.
The bureau didn't even contact mosque leaders for help in identifying their images after those images were captured on closed-circuit TV cameras and cellphones.
One of the Muslim bombers made extremist outbursts during worship, yet because the mosque wasn't monitored, red flags didn't go off inside the FBI about his increasing radicalization before the attacks.
This is particularly disturbing in light of recent independent surveys of American mosques, which reveal some 80% of them preach violent jihad or distribute violent literature to worshippers.
What other five-alarm jihadists are counterterrorism officials missing right now, thanks to restrictions on monitoring the one area they should be monitoring?
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Recall that early during the Obama presidency, the Dept of Homeland Security identified conservatives as the REAL threat. Given what we've seen with the IRS et al targeting Tea Party and other conservative groups coupled with their ultra PC at ude toward the Islamist threat, it's not surprising that the Obama Administration missed the Tsarnaevs and the Underwear Bomber.
Don you really think O-Bomb-a wants to turn in his friends?
bubbafart lies: there was no targeting of fraudulent conservative 501(4)c political groups. There were less than half of the applicants "targeted" and none of them were denied tax-exempt status.
He's too busy listening to Hispanic grandmas instead of focusing on prac ioners of the ignorant and barbaric islamic "religion."
Keep towing the line socialist.
the ultra PC at ude toward religious freedom obviously irks you, but it's as American as apple pie.
Bombing folks is not apple pie.
that's your premiss. it's always been a dangerous goddam world, but I never seen so many people pissing their pants over it, and I include you in that count.
I guess 9/11 did not not get your attention.
you have faith the state keeps you safe?
why?
No I do not. I have faith in no party right now. We need a new party in DC to speak and take care of the people.
it's ten years later. no matter how great you think the line is, it does not gain by sheer repe ion.
everyone noticed 9/11, but not everyone had their spines and their stones surgically removed afterwards. you're fear addled and pathetic.
Winehole23 you matter what we think you have to watch the moo slems in every action they do.
that barely makes sense, dood.
a new party to speak for us and take care of us. who could possibly resist?
Winehole23 you should go for it. Be the new Purple party.
ha. pass.
here's your purple party in action:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3430371.htmlArizona will expand Medicaid to cover nearly 300,000 poor residents next year after a bipartisan coalition passed a measure backed by Gov. Jan Brewer (R) through the state legislature on Thursday.
Brewer, a conservative and avowed foe of President Barack Obama's health care reform law, announced her support for the Medicaid expansion in January, but faced stiff resistance from fellow Republicans in Arizona's House and Senate. During a marathon session that began Wednesday afternoon and stretched into the wee hours of Thursday morning before culminating in a final vote late Thursday afternoon, a handful of Republicans joined Democrats in the House and Senate to pass the Medicaid expansion.
Although Obama's health care law continues to divide elected officials and the public along starkly partisan lines, Brewer is one of nine Republican governors who have bucked their party and embraced the Medicaid expansion.
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