Pendleton Could Become Home to Guantanamo Detainees

Pendleton Could Become Home to Guantanamo Detainees
orange county register ^ | January 15th, 2009 | Dena Bunis

Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:00:03 AM by kellynla

Camp Pendleton is apparently on the list of potential new homes for Guantanamo Bay detainees if and when President-elect Barack Obama makes good on his campaign promise to close the terrorist detention center.

The Associated Press is reporting that Obama will issue an executive order during his first week in office. As soon as he signs it the new administration will have to figure out what to do with the 250 al Qaeda and Taliban combatants.

And three House members from San Diego put Defense Secretary Bob Gates on notice this week that they don’t want to see Pendleton as the new home for these folks.

“”This decision could seriously endanger the mission,” at Pendleton, wrote Reps. Darrell Issa, Duncan Hunter, and Brian Bilbray.

Who said it? Bill Moyers or David Duke?

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January 15, 2009

By Edward Olshaker

“The irony of it all is the Jews who believe they are ‘chosen’…better than anyone else, and entitled by God to kill and steal homes and land…are shooting themselves in the foot. Madoff, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, all Jewish American companies and investors, lied to the American people about their true financial status, and have sunk us all…”

Gunny G: “Barack Not Unlike Hillary….”

Barack Obama Wanted To Join US Military

Barack Obama has said he considered joining the United States military when he left school but decided not to because the Vietnam war was over and “we weren’t engaged in an active military conflict at that point”.

What Does Leon Panetta Know About TWA 800

What Does Leon Panetta Know About TWA 800
cashill.com ^ | 1/8/2008 | Jack Cashill

Posted on Thursday, January 08, 2009 11:18:40 PM by Sioux-san

Last week, I received an email from a former 747 pilot named Thomas Young.

In early August 1996, Young explained, he was laid up in a Hong Kong hospital with a back injury. His employer, Polar Air Cargo, flew his wife Barbara out to join him. They had little else to do but watch TV. Here is what they saw.

“Retired Marine Gen. James L. Jones, President-elect Barack Obama’s incoming national security adviser, will be given sweeping new powers if ….”

Washington Times
January 15, 2009
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NSC Could Face Sweeping Changes

By Eli Lake, The Washington Times

Retired Marine Gen. James L. Jones, President-elect Barack Obama’s incoming national security adviser, will be given sweeping new powers if Mr. Obama takes the advice of a little-noticed task force charged with recommending reforms to the nation’s security apparatus.

The Project on National Security Reform’s executive board last month issued a report recommending updates to the National Security Act, the 1947 law that established the National Security Council. Among other things, it recommended giving the national security adviser more budget authority over the State Department, the Pentagon and military and intelligence agencies.

Life Grim At Remote Outpost

Washington Times
January 15, 2009
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Life Grim At Remote Outpost

Insurgents relentless, conditions stark in borderlands

By Jason Motlagh, The Washington Times

COMBAT OUTPOST KEATING, Afghanistan — Entombed by steep faces of jagged rock, this coalition outpost deep in the Afghan borderlands plays a role as grim as it looks: drawing the attention of insurgents flocking from tribal areas in nearby Pakistan.

Marine Sentenced For Adultery

Los Angeles Times
January 15, 2009
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Marine Sentenced For Adultery

A married Marine gunnery sergeant was sentenced to 90 days in the brig after pleading guilty to committing adultery with the widow of a Marine killed three weeks earlier in Afghanistan.

Gunnery Sgt. Stephen Kuehler, 30, a recruiter in St. Louis, admitted having sex with the widow of Pvt. Michael Patton, 19. Kuehler had recruited Patton into the Marine Corps. Patton, a member of the Twentynine Palms, Calif.-based 2nd Battalion, 7th Regiment, was killed in June by a roadside bomb. Kuehler attended his funeral in Fenton, Mo., and befriended his widow.

Rangel To Reintroduce Military Draft Measure

The Hill
January 15, 2009

Rangel To Reintroduce Military Draft Measure

By Susan Crabtree

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) likely will introduce his controversial legislation to reinstate the draft again this year, but he will wait until after the economic stimulus package is passed.

Asked if he plans to introduce the legislation again in 2009, Rangel last week said, “Probably … yes. I don’t want to do anything this early to distract from the issue of the economic stimulus.”

Military Challenge Coins Explained

NBC
January 14, 2009

Military Challenge Coins Explained

NBC Nightly News, 7:00 PM

BRIAN WILLIAMS: Finally tonight, we are prepared to let civilians in on a military tradition and closely held secret. It’s a kind of currency not unlike what you see advertised on TV, but it’s different. It’s a coin with its own value and a deep meaning to those who trade them, carry them, or collect them.

We get the story tonight from NBC’s Roger O’Neil .

OFFSHORE PLANNING: YES, TAX EVASION: NO by Alan Stang

“It is important to remember where this totalitarian superstructure came from. The Conspiracy for World Government wanted to destroy financial privacy. Their goal is a Socialist/Communist/Nazi dictatorship, and you can’t have a dictatorship if people enjoy financial privacy. In their place, what would you do? Obviously, you couldn’t just come out against privacy. Yes, the people are naïve, dumb, easily swindled. But there is a limit to their stupidity. If you stick a finger in their eye, after a while they may suspect something is wrong.”

“So they assigned Socialist front man Richard Nixon to launch the War on Drugs. The beneficiaries of the War on Drugs were THE CHILDREN. And WE MUST DO WHATEVER IS NECESSARY TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN, EVEN DESTROY THE CONSTITUTION AND CREATE THE WORLD’S LARGEST PRISON POPULATION. Remember? Few dared to protest, because doing so would expose the protestor as someone who hates children. Do you really want your government school kids to look at you sideways?”

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CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS MEETS OBAMA IN PRIVATE By: Devvy

“To say I was floored when I read the news item is an understatement. A ‘ceremonial’ meeting between a president elect and justices of the Supreme Court is somewhat traditional. HOWEVER, in this instance, it’s flat out wrong. Chief Justice Roberts has cases on the docket where Obama is the defendant or is the subject of the litigation. Roberts and the other eight justices have already held two ‘Distribution for Conferences’ on the Donofrio and Wrotnoski cases on Obama’s citizenship ineligibility. They just turned away one of Phil Berg’s cases a few days ago; that one is still in the Third Circuit. Tomorrow is the fourth case; another from Phil Berg.”

“On Wednesday, Roberts meets with the man at the heart of that case in private. Two days later, he sits down to discuss the case with the other justices after having a closed door meeting with the defendant! There is still the Lightfoot v Bowen case to be heard in conference, January 23, 2009. Again, Chief Justice Roberts will sit in that private meeting to discuss whether the case should go to oral arguments.”

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