On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:24:31 -0700 (PDT), "zzbunker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<zzbunker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Apr 24, 6:59 am, Clay <ClaysRi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> by Clifford D. May
>> National Review
>>
>> April 24, 2008
>>
>> The next time Islamist terrorists attack us it could be with a nuclear
>> weapon... Graham Allison is a Harvard professor who served with
>> distinction in the Defense Department under Presidents Reagan and
>> Clinton. He wrote a book in 2004 arguing that “on the current course,
>> nuclear terrorism is inevitable.”
>>
>> There has been no change of course since — quite the contrary. Ashton
>> B. Carter, co-director of the Preventive Defense Project at Harvard,
>> said recently that the threat of nuclear terrorism has been increasing
>> due to Iranian and North Korean proliferation and the failure to
>> secure Russia’s nuclear arsenal following the Cold War. The
>> probability of a nuclear attack on an American city, he believes, is
>> now “almost surely larger than it was five years ago.”
>>
>> Gary Anthony Ackerman, research director of the National Consortium
>> for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, also recently
>> told Congress that “the prospect of terrorists detonating a nuclear
>> device on American soil sometime within the next quarter-century is
>> real and growing.”
>>
>> And Cham D. Dallas, who directs the Institute for Health Management
>> and Mass Destruction Defense at the University of Georgia, says
>> flatly: “It’s inevitable.” Testifying before a Senate hearing this
>> month, he added: “I think it’s wistful to think that it won’t happen
>> by 20 years.”
>>
>> Should a ten-kiloton nuclear bomb explode near the White House, Dallas
>> estimates that 100,000 people would be killed. A radioactive plume
>> would lethally contaminate thousands more. In a densely populated city
>> such as New York or Chicago, a similar blast would result in a death
>> toll perhaps eight times that high.
>>
>> Charles Allen, undersecretary for intelligence and analysis for the
>> Department of Homeland Security, has said there is no question that
>> Islamist terrorist groups are seeking nuclear materials. But the
>> intelligence community, he added, is “less certain about terrorists’
>> capability to acquire or develop a nuclear device.”
>>
>> Could the intelligence community be more certain? Yes, our spies could
>> do more to increase our chances of detecting — and preventing —
>> terrorist attacks of all varieties. But they are being denied the
>> tools. The most notable example: The law that gave America’s
>> intelligence agencies the authority to freely monitor the
>> communications of foreign terrorists abroad expired in February.
>>
>> A bill to restore that authority passed the Senate by a solidly
>> bipartisan 68-to-29 majority. A bipartisan majority in the House would
>> almost certainly vote in favor of the same measure but Speaker Nancy
>> Pelosi — for more than two months — has used the power of her office
>> to stop members from casting their votes yea or nay.
>>
>> Why would she do something so irresponsible?
>
> Because the Democrats are MORONS.
> They believe that freedom of speech = freedom to own cell phones.
> They believe that freedom of the press = freedom to own nuclear
>reactors.
> They believe that freedom of religion is unproven by evolution, so
>is to
> be absorbed into the Big Bang machine.
> That believe that guns, computers, satellites, GPS, robots, RPGs,
> tasers, and lasers really care what morons from
> The War of Roses think.
Gotta stop smoking that stuff, buddy. It's not good for you?
>
>
>
> Groups on the Left,
>> im****tant to the Democrats in this election season, demand that
>> foreign terrorists abroad be given the same privacy protections
>> enjoyed by American citizens here at home.
>>
>> This policy may already have cost American lives. In at least one
>> instance, U.S. officials labored for nearly ten hours to get legal
>> approval necessary to conduct wiretaps to help them locate three
>> American soldiers kidnapped by al-Qaeda combatants in Iraq. The
>> soldiers were not successfully rescued.
>>
>> “We are extending Fourth Amendment (constitutional) rights to a
>> terrorist foreigner . . . who’s captured a U.S. soldier,” Director of
>> National Intelligence Michael McConnell complained to a congressional
>> committee during a legislative battle over this same issue last year.
>>
>> Also in the mix: Trial lawyers are suing telecommunications companies
>> that cooperated with intelligence officials immediately after 9/11,
>> allowing them to “mine” data for patterns of terrorist activity. If
>> the trial lawyers — the biggest donors to Democrats — succeed, they
>> will reap billions of dollars. They also will teach the private sector
>> never again to assist government efforts to identify terrorists. The
>> Senate bill would protect the telecoms from these laws suits.
>>
>> Almost two dozen moderate Democratic House members sent Pelosi a
>> letter saying that until this measure is passed, America’s national
>> security will be “at undue risk.” But that was months ago. Since then,
>> with few exceptions, Democrats have been keeping their mouths shut.
>>
>> Is worrying about nuclear terrorism fear mongering? After the
>> suicide-bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, and
>> again after the truck-bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, most
>> politicians exhibited not fear but complacency. They did nothing
>> serious to anticipate or avert the next terrorist attacks. The
>> consequence was the atrocity of 9/11.
>>
>> Nancy Pelosi and those following her lead appear to have learned
>> nothing in the years since.
>>
>> -------
>>
>> -C-
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