Thursday, December 20, 2012

From CSP: Coalition for Security, Liberty and the Law



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Coalition for Security, Liberty and the Law
 
For Immediate Release
 
 
Contact: Ben Lerner                                                                                                                         20 December, 2012
(202) 835-9077; lerner@securefreedom.org
 
Coalition Calls for President Obama to Keep Gitmo Open -- and Keep Its Detainees Confined There
 
(Washington, D.C.): The Coalition for Security, Liberty and the Law – a group of military, intelligence, and security policy professionals with substantial national security experience – has sent a letter to President Obama urging him not to veto the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 (NDAA) over restrictions on the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States, and to instead let those restrictions stand. 
 
The letter highlights the risks to national security and public safety associated with transferring Gitmo detainees to the United States, including: turning prisons and nearby civilian populations into terrorist targets; exposing prison staff to unique threats; radicalizing the prison population; and enabling the detainees to receive criminal trials that would afford them constitutional protections – protections that would force prosecutors to choose between revealing classified information to obtain convictions, or dropping charges against terrorists.
 
The letter also notes that Guantanamo Bay is humane and uniquely secure, and that there is little evidence to suggest that the facility has played a significant role in the recruitment of terrorists to al Qaeda or affiliated organizations.
 
Signers of the letter (the full text of which can be found below) include:
 
·         Hon. Michael B. Mukasey, former Attorney General of the United States
 
·         Hon. R. James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence
 
·         Adm. Jerome L. Johnson, USN (Ret.)
 
·         Adm. James "Ace" Lyons, USN (Ret.)
 
·         Lt. Gen. E.G. "Buck" Shuler, Jr., USAF (Ret.)
 
·         Brig. Gen. William A. Bloomer, USMC (Ret.)
 
·         Brig. Gen. William Weise, USMC (Ret.)
 
·         Tidal McCoy, former Acting Secretary of the Air Force
 
·         Andrew C. McCarthy, former Chief Assistant United States Attorney
 
·         Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy
 
·         Debra Burlingame, 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America
 
·         Elaine Donnelly, 1992 Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Services
 
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy, stated: "As President Obama has yet to withdraw from his misguided pledge to close the detention/interrogation facility at Guantanamo Bay, it is imperative that he hear from military and security experts who understand the risks to national security associated with keeping this pledge.  The President should put national security before politics and allow the provisions of the FY 2013 National Defense Authorization Act prohibiting the transfer of Gitmo detainees into the United States to become law."
 
About the Center for Security Policy

The Center for Security Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan national security organization that specializes in identifying policies, actions, and resource needs that are vital to American security and then ensures that such issues are the subject of both focused, principled examination and effective action by recognized policy experts, appropriate officials, opinion leaders, and the general public. For more information visit www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org.
 
 
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Coalition for Security, Liberty and the Law
 
 
                                                                                    20 December, 2012
 
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, D.C. 20500
 
Dear Mr. President:
 
As you are aware, the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2013 – the final text of which was agreed upon recently by House of Representatives and Senate Conferees, and will soon come to a vote before both bodies – contains a provision prohibiting the use of federal funds to transfer terrorist detainees from Guantanamo Bay to facilities inside the United States.
 
Our past experience as military, intelligence, and security policy professionals leads us to believe that the transfer of Guantanamo detainees into the United States would threaten national security and public safety.  We therefore urge you not to veto the NDAA over this provision and instead allow it to stand.
 
Detainees transferred to U.S. prison facilities would turn those prisons – and nearby civilian populations – into terrorist targets.  Based on past experience in Guantanamo, they would expose prison staff to unique threats, physical risks and legal liabilities.  It is also likely that detainees, with help from counsel, would pressure prison officials to remove special security restrictions.  If successful in such efforts, the detainees could have opportunities to radicalize the prison population – a risk previously noted by FBI Director Robert Mueller.
 
To the extent that detainees would receive criminal trials if transferred to the United States, such trials would entail granting due process and other rights that may force the government to choose between revealing classified evidence to secure a conviction in a U.S. court or dropping charges against dangerous terrorists. 
 
Some have argued that Guantanamo remains a symbol of "torture", and therefore a recruitment tool for terrorists that must be shut down.  However, Guantanamo is not only a highly humane and – according to Attorney General Eric Holder – a "well-run, professional facility", it is also uniquely secure in ways that cannot be replicated at detention facilities within the United States.  Additionally, there is little evidence that Guantanamo has played a significant role in the recruitment of terrorists to al Qaeda or its affiliates.   
 
For these reasons, we believe strongly that the detainees should not be transferred to any locale in the United States or its territories, and should instead be kept at Guantanamo Bay.  The potential national and local security risks associated with transferring detainees to the United States greatly outweigh any perceived benefits for American foreign policy or national security if such closure were to take place.
 
 
Sincerely,
 
 
Hon. Michael B. Mukasey, former Attorney General of the United States
 
R. James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence
 
Adm. Jerome L. Johnson, USN (Ret.)
 
Adm. James "Ace" Lyons, USN (Ret.)
 
Lt. Gen. E.G. "Buck" Shuler, Jr., USAF (Ret.)
 
Brig. Gen. William A. Bloomer, USMC (Ret.)
 
Brig. Gen. William Weise, USMC (Ret.)
 
Tidal McCoy, former Acting Secretary of the Air Force
 
Andrew C. McCarthy, former Chief Assistant United States Attorney
 
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy
 
Debra Burlingame, 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America
 
Elaine Donnelly, 1992 Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Services
 
 
 
 
 
 
cc:  Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee
       Members of the House Armed Services Committee
 


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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Music from our Israeli friends at Latma

From 2011, but as appropo as ever about the Gaza situation.

Parody of Beach Boys' "Fun Fun Fun."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5CsGViY5JQ
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Syrian chemical weapons = Iraqi WMDs??? (from story comments)

P.J.G.B.
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P.J.G.B. • 1 hr 26 mins agoReport Abuse
Let's roll things back a few years, shall we ? ANYONE care to speculate about where those chemical weapons came from ? The truth, after all, has been plain as day to everyone but U.S. since we gave the bad guys all that time to move them.
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  • Crystal
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    Crystal • 1 hr 18 mins agoReport Abuse
    LOL. Yes. There is no way a government that cannot even crush an uprising (albeit one financed by the US) could have the funding or the technology, to MASS produce this kind of chemical agent. Reports are that they have massive quantities of at least 3 different nerve agents. So, it's pretty easy to speculate that these weapons are a. financed by the Russians or b. smuggled from Iraq, who was also financed by the Russians. The Russians support these psychopathic dictators until the US comes knocking at the door with the military, then they step back and "distance" themselves from the problem....while trying to figure out what terrible dictator they will finance next. Wonderful. Russia is quite seriously the underlying problem here.
  • Michael
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    Michael • 1 hr 2 mins agoReport Abuse
    So if your saying - with no facts or information to back you up, that the syrians got the chemical weapons from Iraq, when we attacked them, wouldnt that make this bushs fault then?
  • GreatOzHasSpoken
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    GreatOzHasSpoken • 48 mins agoReport Abuse
    @Michael--- Your reasoning is very immature and childish as well as 'party' flawed. Go to the ER immediately for a brain transplant.
  • Mark
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    Mark • 43 mins agoReport Abuse
    Perhaps we have found Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
  • RickN
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    RickN • 37 mins agoReport Abuse
    Oz, you're the one needing a brain transplant. Michael followed a logical path of reasoning. Your post? Not so much.

    I recall speaking with someone whose son-in-law worked for the CIA. He was told of our satellites' ability to discern very small details from their very high orbit around the earth. Then he said Iraq's WMD were smuggled out of Iraq. But if we have such awesome spy satellites, how could this have happened without our noticing it? Seems to be an inconsistency there. It's quite a jump to presuppose that Syria's WMD are from Iraq. Until you or someone else comes up with the objective evidence to support this allegation, it's a bunch of baloney being spread by hysterical people with no other sense of self worth.
  • N.D.
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    N.D. • 36 mins agoReport Abuse
    Back in '03 I said Iraq's Saddam Hussein had successfully smuggled his WMDs out of Iraq into Syria. And I predicted that they'd keep them under wraps for about 10 years til they were all but forgotten. Then we'd have to deal with them. Looks like I was right.
  • Mark H
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    Mark H • 24 mins agoReport Abuse
    Clap clap clap Michael. What brilliant logic. Bush tells Iraq they will be invaded if they don't let the weapons inspectors back in and he refuses in the face of that invasion, we don't find the weapons because he moved them, and that makes it Bush's fault? There were in fact very credible reports that there were WMD moved from Iraq to Syria pre-invasion. All you libs who like to pretend you sit here fat and safe due to dumb luck and second guess every move (except by your own 'party') sicken me. You are the same idiot(s) who simultaneosly scream about the Patriot Act and blame Bush for 9/11. I wish we could go back in time and have Bush implement the type of airport and other securities we have now in a pre 9-11 world and watch you sneer and scream about your rights when he tried to explain it was to protect you against a handful of terrorists.

    And Rick N go read and learn about how politics work; we were told to stand down. We DID notice. We also noticed before the invasion that China, France, Russia were falling over themselves selling weapons to Saddam (many of our own planes were shot down by French made missiles), they were building missile jamming systems, moving his communications systems to underground fiber optics and helping to develop nuclear capability. It is WHY France kept blocking us in the UN. It is reported in fact that they miscalculated America's resolves and told Saddam to just hold tight and they'd block the invasion in the UN.

    You know what scares me more then Assad with chemical weapons (you know, the son of the man that kiled 20,000 'rebels' in a single day in Hama)? Saddam's Iraq (theone that gassed his own people, had trenched filled with are reported 1/2 million men/women/children, tried to take over the oil in the gulf, attacked Kuwait because he owed them billions they lent him for the war he waged against Iran) alive and well, with untouchable communication capabilities, armed to the teeth with French/Russian planes/rockets/missiles, Russian jamming systems and French nuclear reactors. You want to talk about an expensive war, try THAT one on for size. You want to talk about a terrorist threat, try that one on for size. And guess who our friends the frogs would be turning to when an almost untouchable Saddam relaunched his bid for Saudi/Kuwait.

    You second guessing blame-it-on-bush idiots make me sick.
  • Russianwolf
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    Russianwolf • 18 mins agoReport Abuse
    The Gas mixtures in in the bombs only last 60 days till they have to be removed and disposed of. So there is no way for these new bombs to be from 10 years ago.
  • Crystal
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    Crystal • 14 mins agoReport Abuse
    From what I am able to research Russianwolf, you are correct about that. Iraqi Sarin and tabun have a shelf life of approximately 5 years. VX lasts a bit longer, but not much. I am not a chemist, so I am unsure if there is a way to preserve these weapons or to prolong their shelf life. It does make it seem doubtful that these are THE wmd's from Iraq. I will not back off my comment about the Russians funding Assad though, because that is common knowledge.
  • David
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    David • 10 mins agoReport Abuse
    ND, you are right. Guess who sold Saddam the chemical weapons in the first place? The chemical artillery shells recovered in Iraq were of American Manufacture. Do you remember our honest media or government reporting anything obout that at the time?
  • Amy
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    Amy • 10 mins agoReport Abuse
    @ Russianwolf--Thank you! A quick wikipedia search helped me to understand how short a shelf-life sarin gas has last night. That's the difference between people that just talk to hear themselves and those that actually do research before they open their mouths. Educate yourselves people!
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    ltw03y • a second agoRemove
    The matter of shelflife in this discussion presumes it matters to the Syrian authorities. The mere semi-credible threat of chemical weapons has an intimidation factor on people like the rebels there. It might be the missing and expired Iraqi stuff, and the Syrians are running a fake. Plus, poison is poison, even if not as effective as it was ten years ago.
 
 
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Friday, November 30, 2012

From ACT! for America: Urgent Legislative Action Alert! No Guantanamo Detainees on U.S. Soil!!


 Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 9:20 AM
Subject: Urgent Legislative Action Alert! No Guantanamo Detainees on U.S. Soil!!
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IMPORTANT AND TIME-SENSITIVE
LEGISLATIVE ACTION ALERT! SAY "NO!" TO THE TRANSFER OF GUANTANAMO
DETAINEES TO U.S. SOIL!!!! http://www.capwiz.com/actforamerica/dbq/officials/


Dear Lee,

It has come to our attention that earlier this week Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, released a GAO report identifying federal prisons in the U.S. that the Obama Administration could use to house Guantanamo detainees.

Although the report notes the Defense Department's serious security concerns about housing Guantanamo detainees in the U.S., the report provides a roadmap for the President to fulfill his January 20, 2009, executive order to bring detainees to the U.S.

This would extend to these terrorists the same rights and privileges as American citizens.

We cannot allow this to happen and we need your help NOW. The U.S. Congress must hear a loud "NO GUANTANAMO DETAINEES ON U.S. SOIL" from the American public.

Not now. Not ever.

We need your help, immediately!

*** Important Action Item ***

Please take a moment to call your Members of Congress (House and Senate) TODAY. Politely, but firmly, let them know that you are VERY MUCH opposed to the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to any facilities on U.S. soil!

Further, please pass this request on to every person you know.

NOTE: If you need help locating your elected official, visit our Contact Congress page by clicking HERE. Type in your zip code where indicated to locate your U.S. legislators. Click on your Representative and you can then see his/her contact information, including the phone number of the Washington, DC office.

If you know the name of your U.S. Representative, you also can call the Congressional Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask for that particular office.

Again, please make your call NOW! Politely let your Representative know that you are VERY MUCH opposed to the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to facilities on U.S. soil!!! (Be clear that you are a constituent!)

Thank you for all that you do.


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Monday, November 26, 2012

From ACT! for America: Prosecutors ask permission to say "jihad"

 
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November 26, 2012

Prosecutors ask permission to say "jihad"


Dear Lee,

Just when you think you've seen everything when it comes to the absurdities of political correctness, check out the article below that was posted on Jihad Watch.



Portland, Oregon: Prosecutors of would-be jihad mass murderer ask permission to use the word "jihad"

It is astounding, and indicative of just how much the public discourse has degenerated, that this is even an issue. Mohamud used the word "jihad," but prosecutors have to ask if they can please characterize his motives and goals accurately, at his trial.

"'Terrorist,' 'violent jihad' among words prosecutors want to use in Portland terrorism trial," by Nigel Duara for the Associated Press, November 7:

PORTLAND, Ore. — Prosecutors want to call an Oregon man a terrorist while referring to violent jihad and martyrdom, words his defense attorneys have asked a federal judge to forbid.

Federal prosecutors preparing for the January trial of Mohamed Mohamud said in a motion filed Tuesday that the court should let them use the terms because they accurately characterize Mohamud's "conduct and the nature of his case."

Assistant U.S. Attorney Ethan Knight notes in the motion that Mohamud himself allegedly used the terms "terrorism" and "jihad" when speaking with undercover agents, though records of such conversations have not yet been made public.

Knight also seeks to refer to Mohamud's occasional dispatches for the jihadist magazine "Jihad Recollections," reports that Mohamud's attorneys say are protected speech done while Mohamud, 21, was a minor.

Mohamud is accused of conspiring with men he believed were Islamic radicals to detonate a car bomb near a 2010 Portland Christmas tree-lighting ceremony. The bomb was a fake provided by the government and the men were undercover agents.

Defense attorneys Steve Sady and Steve Wax argued in a motion that such words will "blur and dilute the specific elements of the offense and distort the facts of the case."...

Distort the facts? That's what Sady and Wax are trying to do, not anyone else. But their obfuscation is accepted practice and prescribed wisdom, so they will probably win the day.


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"On Respecting Muslim Culture" / More loss for Grover Norquist


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Subject: "On Respecting Muslim Culture" / More loss for Grover Norquist

"It's time and past to operate under the same rules of engagement as the Islamic fanatics that we are coping with, and responding to their aggression with overwhelming force, and without the illogical and asymmetrical rules of engagement forced on our troops by the White House and the Pentagon. It is possible that America might earn the respect of the Muslim world, if not our own domestic critics."
 
http://actforamericahouston.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/on-respecting-muslim-culture/
On Respecting Muslim Culture
actforamericahouston.wordpress.com
By Jim Yardley For at least the past decade, and perhaps longer, the nations of the West have treated jihadists and radical Islamists (which groups count for many more Muslims than most Americans c...
 
 
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More defectors from Grover "Closet Jihadi" Norquist. Say what you will about the tax policies, reducing his power is a good thing.

http://news.yahoo.com/gop-starting-rebel-against-no-tax-hikes-pledge-012623817.html
GOP Starting to Rebel Against No-Tax-Hikes Pledge
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With Fiscal Cliff Looming, Republicans Signal They're Ready to Compromise


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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

From Center for Security Policy: Obamawar (Plus: The Egyptian Bomb)


 Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 1:08 PM
Subject: Obamawar (Plus: The Egyptian Bomb)
 
 
 
National Security Brief: Monday, November 19, 2012

Obamawar

by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

While debating Mitt Romney this fall, Barack Obama declared that he had decided to embrace the term "Obamacare" - a name originally coined and to that point only used by its detractors to tie the president firmly to the health care fiasco he had spawned.  Perhaps he will, therefore, not object if we dub the escalating conflict in the Middle East by a similarly apt name: Obamawar.
 
After all, frantic efforts underway at the moment by assorted diplomats aimed at  containing hostilities between Israel and the terrorist enclave known as the Gaza Strip (primarily by blocking Israel's decisive retaliation) cannot obscure a dismal reality:  The crescendo of rockets and missiles unleashed by the Palestinians on Israeli civilians are a predictable repercussion of President Obama's reckless defense and foreign policies.
 
 

Professor Raymond Stock: 'The Egyptian Bomb'

 
Professor Raymond Stock is former Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies at Drew University (2010-11), Guggenheim Fellow (2007), and lived in Cairo for 20 years (1990-2010).  Professor Stock discussed the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the development of an Egyptian bomb, and Egypt's relationship with Iran at a Capitol Hill luncheon co-sponsored by the Center the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET).
 
 

Dr. Andrew Bostom: Sharia vs. Freedom

 
Dr. Andrew Bostom, the author of The Legacy of Jihad and The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism has just published his latest work: Sharia Versus Freedom—The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism.  The Center and the Zionist Organization of America co-sponsored a conversation with Dr. Bostom on Capitol Hill on the theme of "Sharia Without Camouflage: Implications for America."
 
Click here to watch video of the presentation...
 

2012 Mightier Pen Award: Monica Crowley

On December 11, 2012 the Center for Security Policy will honor radio host and bestselling author Monica Crowley with the Mightier Pen Award. The Award recognizes journalists who promote the need for robust US national security policies through the indispensability of American strength to preserving international peace.
 
As a political and foreign affairs analyst, Ms Crowley has been a long-standing supporter of the Center's belief that America's national power must be preserved and properly used; for it holds a unique global role in maintaining peace and stability.
 
Ms Crowley's new book, What the (Bleep) Just Happened?, asks the questions that are on the minds of Americans today and makes the case for a "great American comeback," including a return to the security posture that made America great.
 
 
November 16, 2012: 

With Frank Gaffney, Michael Mukasey, Herb London, and Bill Gertz
 
Fred Grandy hosts todays show which examines former CIA direct Petraeus's testimony today on Capitol Hill in which he seems to have a different viewpoint than the Obama Administration on the attack in Benghazi. Former judge Michael Mukasey also explains how the Obama Administration was debating about releasing the architect of the first World Trade Center attack. If this story did not come to light, would the president have released this master terrorist?
 
 
November 15, 2012:
 

With Adam Kredo, Mark Groombridge, Monica Crowley and Walid Phares
 
Fred Grandy sits-in for Frank today and speaks with the guests about Benghazigate and the upcoming hearings on Capitol Hill. The focal point is what the president knew, when he knew it and what he decided to do about it. Each of our guests give their own take on the presidents role in the aftermath of the attack on the US consulate.
 
 
November 14, 2012:
 

With Andy Bostom, Diana West, Paul Kengor, and Claudia Rosett
 
Today's show focuses on the attack in Benghazi that left an American ambassador dead and many questions unanswered as to how the attack unfolded. Each guest tries to explain what happened that faithful night, both in Libya and Washington DC. What did the president know and when? Did he refuse to send aid to the consulate while it was under attack?
 
 
November 13, 2012:
 

With Barry Rubin, Avi Jorisch, Gordon Chang, and Andy McCarthy
Barry Rubin of the GLORIA Center sifts through the lies and cover-ups behind the Benghazi attack to try and explain what really happened and how the Obama Administration froze when it meant the most. He also looks at Israeli security in light of a recent Syrian mortar attack and an impending Yemen civil war.
 
Avi Jorisch of the Red Cell Intelligence Group analyzes America's "frienemy", the United Arab Emirates. The UAE financially supports Iran and other rogue entities, while claiming to be an ally of the United States. Avi analyzes the implications of not responding to the UAE's financial indiscretions.
 
Asian analyst Gordon Chang looks at the upcoming transition inside the Chinese Politburo and how the Conservatives on trying to hold on to a Soviet model, while the people call for political and economic reform. Gordon explores the impending collapse of the Chinese government if drastic changes don't occur and soon.
 
Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy explains how the liberal media either downplays or ignores important national security issues such as the Benghazi attack and the intelligence leaks that came our of the Petraeus scandal.
 
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