Ollie North: Shocked

[unhappycamper]

Shocked
By convicted felon Oliver North | January 10, 2010

Last week National Security Advisor, General James Jones warned that we would feel "a certain shock" at revelations in a White House report on what the Obama administration is calling the "Failed Christmas Terrorist Attack." He was referring to the breakdowns that allowed a 23-year-old, Nigerian-born, al Qaeda-trained, suicide-terrorist to nearly bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 over Detroit. But the stunning information isn't learning "what did we know and when did we know it," leading up to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's attempt to detonate a bomb concealed in his underwear. The greatest cause for alarm is in what has happened since.

On Thursday evening -- after multiple delays -- the president stood before a Teleprompter in the State Dining Room of the White House to deliver brief "Remarks on Strengthening Intelligence and Aviation Security." He took no questions.

Then, in a news blitz that continued on and off the record for more than two hours, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism, and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs provided additional details on what went wrong and the "reforms and corrective steps" to prevent a recurrence. Though the so-called mainstream media showered the presentations with accolades, little of what was said on Thursday is reassuring. Some of it was downright disingenuous.

Mr. Obama began his remarks by citing "how our government failed to connect the dots in a way that would have prevented a known terrorist from boarding a plane for America." He subsequently castigated professional intelligence analysts for "a failure to connect the dots of intelligence" and for "a failure to connect and understand the intelligence that we already had."

This assessment ignores a very simple recognition of culpability. It is difficult -- if not impossible -- for any analyst to "connect the dots" when they are being warned not to "jump to conclusions" -- as Mr. Obama cautioned following Major Nidal Hasan's November 30 attack at Fort Hood that killed 13 soldiers. In a remarkably deceptive omission, the President never even mentioned this travesty.


Rest of article by this fuckwad at: http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,208860,00.html?wh=news

[ck4829]

1. Well, Ollie, he is too young to be one of yours, is that why you're so shocked?

[DavidDvorkin]

2. I'm shocked that Ollie is still running around free.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. 1000 words:

[Soylent Brice]

4. indeed.

[luckyleftyme2]

6. ISN'T HE

ISN'T HE CHENNY'S MISSING SON?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

10. Metaphorically, yes.

[Bitwit1234]

5. I guess those republicans have a gene that lets them be selectively

"""SHOCKED""". You know Richard Reid, the same things being done to the Undie Bomber, that were done to him. Given a civil hearing. Given civil rights. Being tried in a civil court. Gee just what Reid got.

Now, when the Undie Bomber is afforded those same rights the republicans are shocked, I tell you, shocked. Seems only republicans have the right to tell the courts who, what, where and when a suspect should be tried. That extends to having the say so over Democratic administration suspects also. After all the republicans are hard on TERROR.

They only let the worst terrorist attack on our soil happen. They only let the anthrax attacks happen. And if I felt like it I could numerous terror attacks, that happened on their watch. Now...this is so, because after all when they happened, the republicans TOLD US THEY WERE TERRORIST ATTACKS AND RAISED THE COLORS ON THEIR COLOR CHART. Now didn't' they.

[luckyleftyme2]

9. WHO BUT A REPUKE WOULD HONOR A TRAITOR

IF i REMEMBER RIGHT IT WAS AGAINST THE LAW OF THE LAND IN WAR TIME CRISIS TO PULL THE STUNT NORTH DID!
HE SHOULDA FACED THE FIRING SQUAD!

[Demeter]

7. Maybe Ollie Needs Shock Therapy

[carla]

8. "Shock and awe"

would be better, but is still way too good for such traitorous/treasonous filth. Won't someone help him out of our misery?

[wisteria]

11. North is a sleazy criminal and should have no credibility whatsoever. n/t

[enuegii]

12. Ollie North shocked?

Did he have his feet in a bucket of water and electrodes applied to his gnads at the time?

[yellowcanine]

13. I am shocked that Ollie North thinks we care what a constitution trashing traitor like him has

to say. STFU Ollie. Go to Russia or somewhere else where no one cares what is in the Constitution.

[bemildred]

14. Mr "Drug money and weapons for Iran" ought to do the decent thing and shutup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair