UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Governor Palin, there has been quite a bit of discussion about your perceived lack of foreign policy experience. And I want to give you your chance. If you could please respond to that criticism and give us specific skills that you think you have to bring to the White House to rebut that or mitigate that concern.
PALIN: Well, I think because Im a Washington outsider that opponents are going to be looking for a whole lot of things that they can criticize and they can kind of try to beat the candidates here, who chose me as his partner, to kind of tear down the ticket. But as for foreign policy, you know, I think that I am prepared and I know that on January 20th, if we are so blessed as to be sworn into office as your president and vice president, certainly well be ready. Ill be ready. I have that confidence. I have that readiness.
And if you want specifics with specific policy or countries, go ahead and you can ask me. You can even play stump the candidate if you want to. But we are ready to serve.
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Dr. Phares (Foundation for Defense of Democracies) is an author of several books, including Future Jihad. Here he lectures on the Jihadi involvement in Yemen at the Center for Security Policy’s National Security Group Lunch on Capitol Hill.
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MSNBC
06/13/08
While all Americans are proud of Senator McCain’s service in the Vietnam War, does his service necessarily presuppose that he has strong national security credentials?
“I know he’s trying to get traction by seeking to play to what he thinks is his strong suit of national security….The truth is that, in national security terms, he’s largely untested and untried. He’s never been responsible for policy formulation. He’s never had leadership in a crisis, or in anything larger than his own element on an aircraft carrier or [in managing] his own congressional staff. It’s not clear that this is going to be the strong suit that he thinks it is.”
-General Wesley Clark
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Frank Gaffney is the President of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC. His Washington Times column is available online at http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18016.xml
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Fox news presents more on the Center’s ‘Team B’ concept. “We seem to be blind [to the threat],” Gaffney said. Scandalously, the enemy’s doctrines are readily available– in English– in authoritative texts like “The Reliance of the Traveler,” what is regarded as a comprehensive manual of Shariah (Islamic law). Our enemies take these doctrines very seriously, which should be enough for us to realize their importance. This Administration cannot be trusted in its analysis of the terror threat because they close their eyes, willingly, to the doctrine that animates– commands– its adherents to engage in Jihad against the infidel.
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee discusses the Obama administration’s failures in dealing with the Christmas Day bomber.
Sen. Collins expresses her incredulity that the bomber was interrogated for only 50 minutes before getting his Miranda rights.
Sen. Collins says, “The Obama administration appears to have a blind spot when it comes to the War on Terrorism. . . . Theres no other way to explain the irresponsible, indeed dangerous, decision on Abdulmutallab’s interrogation. There’s no other way to explain the inconceivable treatment of him as if he were a common criminal. This charade must stop. Foreign terrorists are enemy combatants and they must be treated as such. The safety of the American people depends on it.”
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Those nine words define the Obama Doctrine with respect to American security policy. All three elements were much in evidence in the President’s benighted decision last week to cancel the “Third Site” for intercontinental-range missile defenses in Eastern Europe. They will be on display as well during this week’s several conclaves with foreign leaders. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18184.xml
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United States appears to be slowly moving to corral Major General Sarath Fonseka, an aspiring US citizen, and Gotabhaya Rajapakse, a US citizen with property and family living in the U.S., into the US Justice system to investigate the two Sri Lanka officials for criminal culpability for allegedly issuing commands to the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) to fire heavy weapons towards the SLA demarcated No Fire Zone (NFZ) in the final stages of war killing more than 20,000 Tamil civilians. Colombo dailies report that Gen. Fonseka, currently on a private visit to the US, has been asked by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to have a “voluntary meeting” to discuss matters related to the recently released war-crimes report, and if he would be willing to testify against Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary.
General Fonseka had indicated to Colombo that DHS official named Michael Tarantino had asked if Fonseka was prepared to be a source against Gotabaya Rajapakse on war crimes, according to media reports in Colombo
“The DHS officials are likely to explain to Mr Fonseka possible incriminating evidence on war-crimes DHS has against Fonseka to encourage him to turn as a witness against Gotabhaya,” legal sources in Washington speculated. While this commonly used technique produces an efficient prosecutory framework, the US prosecutors still will retain the option to prosecute both, if a co-defendant is unwilling to co-operate.
U.S. Government currently possesses,
US State Department Report
an almost day-by-day record of the alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by officials of the Sri Lanka Govnerment, and the Liberation Tigers during the five months, January to May, of the final war.
an interim report by a US forensic firm confirming the authenticity of the Channel-4 broadcast video of SLA soldiers summarily executing Tamil captives stripped naked and hands tied behind their backs, submitted recently by the US pressure-group, Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), to the State Department, and separately to the Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia and Central Asia, Robert Blake. Full text of the Model Indictment (6Mb)
IMF Law Suit Court Document
TAG’s court filing against IMF loan which contains, in addition to the February to May list of crimes committed by Sri Lanka military against Tamil civilians, references to videos where Gotabaya Rajapakse makes self-incriminating statements on Colombo’s right to shell hospitals outside NFZ.
“While the call for a meeting, inspite of the legal drama unfolding in the premises of Sri Lanka’s embassy in the US, is very likely be a simple procedural matter following a decision taken to commense investigation by the DHS, the two high level officials face uncertain legal future in the US,” legal sources in Washington said.
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a Cabinet department of the United States federal government with the primary responsibilities of protecting the territory of the U.S. from terrorist attacks and responding to natural disasters. Homeland security policy is coordinated at the White House by the Homeland Security Council (HSC).
Obama merges HSC, NSC
Under the Obama administration the HSC has been integrated into the National Security Council (NSC) to ensure more seamless coordination of interconnected and transnational domestic and foreign policy issues. The National Security Council structure has been expanded to include new offices for cybersecurity, preventing weapons of mass destruction terrorism, transborder security, information sharing, national resilience and global engagement.
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Mark Groombridge, former special assistant to John Bolton at the State Department and the UN, addresses the Center for Security Policy’s National Security Group Lunch on Capitol Hill. The topic of the discussion is the status and future of the US-Japan alliance, especially in light of the “naivete” of the recently-victorious he Democratic Party of Japan (DJP).
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While John McCain is focused on stealing oil in Iraq & Iran, Al Qaeda grows stronger in Afghanistan & Pakistan.
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