"Al Qaeda is on the run"... running towards our embassies with RPG's

Biden September 2012

"Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive."

Fast forward to today.

Remember this?

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And this?

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Bomber Barry during the 2012 campaign.

4 dead Americans in Benghazi did not fit what Barry was selling:  

"Al Qaeda is on the run"

"Al Qaeda is decimated"

So they came up with:

"It was the video"

A spontaneous protest/demonstration sparked by distraught Muslims, rightfully so (according to the WH), over a despicable video... who just happened to be armed with RPG's on 9-11-2012. 
Damn, talk about a coincidence!

From my point of view this story was put out for political reasons to serve 2 purposes. Either that or Barry was "mugged" by reality. 

1. Takes phony scandals to the next level.  Benghazi... that was the old Barry. He has seized this opportunity to reinvent himself. Instead of going to Vegas after getting 4 people killed this cast's him in a fresh light, the new POTUS... who actually cares about our embassies. That and the election is over.

2. This validates losing our 4th Amendment rights because news agencies have reported the NSA picked this up by listening to "chatter in the Muslim world". 

In my opinion we should just pull out of the Muslim world entirley. No more foreign aid, no military presence, no more American blood spilled, nothing.

Our politicians agonize over abandoning the Middle East arguing it opens the door for Russia or China to take over. I say have at it.

Think about it. 

What has Islam ever done for America?

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US issues global travel alert over Al Qaeda threat, prepares to close embassies

The State Department issued a worldwide travel alert on Friday to U.S. citizens over an Al Qaeda terror threat as Washington prepared to close its embassies and consulates throughout the Muslim world this Sunday over security concerns.


U.S. officials have not offered many details on the nature of the threat, but apparently are taking it seriously.


A White House official said Friday night President Obama was being updated on "a potential threat occurring in or emanating from the Arabian Peninsula."


"There is a significant threat stream and we're reacting to it," said Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He told ABC News in an interview to be aired Sunday that the threat was "more specific" than previous ones and the "intent is to attack Western, not just U.S. interests."


John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said the alert indicates the U.S. government must have some "pretty good information" about a possible threat.

Great Britain announced Friday night it would also close its embassy in Yemen "as a precautionary measure" on Sunday and Monday and urged its nationals to leave the country.


The travel alert issued Friday warned Americans of the "continued potential for terrorist attacks, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa, and possibly occurring in or emanating from the Arabian Peninsula."


It said: "Current information suggests that al-Qa'ida and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks both in the region and beyond, and that they may focus efforts to conduct attacks in the period between now and the end of August."


The alert reminded Americans about the potential for attacks on transit systems and other "tourist infrastructure."

Pentagon officials also said there is an increased alert among security personnel in the region in response to the Al Qaeda terror threats.

"Actions have been taken," one Pentagon official told Fox News.

Retired Gen. Jack Keane, a Fox News military analyst, said the threat is yet another sign that Al Qaeda and its affiliates are emboldened -- and stressed that the U.S. needs to do a better job securing its embassies.

"It has got to be one of our top priorities," he told Fox News.

Keane said it appears Al Qaeda is trying build off the Benghazi terror attack. "When they sense weakness, they attack," he said. "They believe that we're pulling back, and they were stunned ... that we did not come after them immediately after that attack."

State Department officials said Thursday, after announcing the temporary shutdown of embassies and consulates on Sunday, that they were acting out of an "abundance of caution."

Spokeswoman Marie Harf cited information indicating a threat to U.S. facilities overseas and said some diplomatic facilities may stay closed for more than a day.

Sunday is a normal workday in many Arab and Middle Eastern countries, meaning that is where the closures will have an impact. Embassies in Europe and Latin America would be shuttered that day anyway. The State Department on Friday released a list of 21 embassies and consulates affected.

"We have instructed all U.S. embassies and consulates that would have normally been open on Sunday to suspend operations, specifically on August 4," a senior State Department official said Thursday night. "It is possible we may have additional days of closing as well."

Other U.S. officials said the threat was specifically in the Muslim world.

The issue of security abroad has been prominent since the attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, and a string of demonstrations on other U.S. embassies in the Middle East and North Africa.

On Thursday, measures to beef up security at U.S. embassies were passed out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The bill is in response to the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, where Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.

The Senate bill creates a training center for diplomatic security personnel.

Separately, the House Foreign Affairs Committee authorized full security funding for diplomatic missions -- despite recommending a nine percent cut overall for State Department operations.

The House and Senate have already approved spending bills that cover embassy security. But their budgets differ markedly in other areas.

"Al Qaeda is on the run"... running towards our embassies with RPG's

Just sent Sharpton an email

info@nationalactionnetwork.net

Attention Al:

Remember this?

Now that you have the first real job you ever had maybe you should pay off her debt.

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 Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2384326/Tawana-Brawley-finally-starts-paying-431k-debt-man-wrongly-accused-gang-raping-26-years-ago.html 

Tawana Brawley finally starts paying $431,000 debt to man she wrongly accused of gang-raping and kidnapping her 26 years ago after court docks her nurses wages

• Brawley, 41, last week paid the first of many checks to Steven Pagones whom she owes hundreds of thousands of dollars 
• In 1987, the then-15-year-old dragged the ex-prosecutor's name through the mud when she called him a 'gang-raping, kidnapping racist'
• Brawley was ordered to pay $190,000 in 1998 but the figure has ballooned with interest
• A court ruled in January that her wages as a nurse be docked to settle her debt

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 09:14 EST, 4 August 2013 | UPDATED: 10:04 EST, 4 August 2013

Debts: Tawana Brawley, pictured, has paid the first of many checks to Steven Pagones whom she defamed in 1987

A woman who lied about being gang-raped 26 years ago has finally begun to pay back an innocent man whose reputation she left in tatters.

In January, former New York prosecutor Steven Pagones filed court papers seeking the $431,000 he is owed by Tawana Brawley, who, as a 15-year-old, falsely labeled him a 'gang-raping, kidnapping racist.'

Last week, Brawley sent him her first payment - 10 checks totaling $3,764.61 - after the Virginia court ordered the money garnisheed from the nurse's wages. It comes 15 years after a court ruled that she defamed him with her nasty hoax.
'It's a long time coming,' Pagones, 52, told The New York Post. 

The ex-prosecutor said he remains more interested in extracting a confession from Brawley than the money she owes.
'Every week, she'll think of me. And every week, she can think about how she has a way out — she can simply tell the truth.'

Brawley's advisers in the case — the Reverend Al Sharpton, and attorneys C. Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox — have already paid, or are paying their debt to Pagones. 

Until now, Brawley, 41, has refused to pay out but she is now forced to cough up $627 each month to the man who is one of three whose name she dragged through the mud in 1987, possibly for the rest of her life. 

'Finally, she's paying something,' Pagones' attorney, Gary Bolnick told The Post. 'Symbolically, I think it's very important — you can't just do this stuff without consequences.'

On November 28, 1987, the then-15-year-old was found in a trash bag, dazed, smeared with feces with the word 'n****r' scrawled on her body.

Here to collect: Pagones says he would consider dropping his demand for money if Brawley admits she made up her story against him

'For at least 25 years, she has been living a major lie,' Pagones said in January. 'To me, this has always been about responsibility and accountability.'

She told police she had been abducted by two white men and driven to the woods where they and four others ravaged her for four days - one of which had a badge.

The case was catapulted onto the national stage by her attorneys Alton H. Maddox and C. Vernon Mason, and the then-little-known Rev Al Sharpton, who claimed she was raped 33 times.

Brawley, who now goes by the name Tawana Gutierrez, is a single mom working as a nurse in Virginia.

She may now have as much as 25 percent of her wages garnished to repay Pagones, his lawyer, Garry Bolnick, told the New York Post.

'People criticize me for going after a hardworking single mother trying to support herself and child,' Pagones said. 'My argument has been she has not been held accountable.'

'If she is not going to tell the truth, then it is about the money. That is the only way to hold her accountable," said Pagones, who is now principal owner of a private investigations firm.

Sensational: The Brawley case was massive and the young girl graced the cover of numerous magazines and newspapers including People, pictured

Racial tensions: Rev Al Sharpton catapulted the case of Tawana Brawley, center, onto the main stage and made him a household name across the country

Historic case: Reverend Al Sharpton, pictured in 1988, picketed outside the hotel of New York governor Mario Cuomo

The Brawley case was a national scandal and had celebrities weighing in, with Bill Cosby posting a $25,000 reward for information on the case.

Don King promised $100,000 for Brawley's education and boxer Mike Tyson gave her a $30,000 watch to ease her pain.

Fishkill Police Officer Harry Crist Jr. was implicated after being found dead in his apartment a week after Brawley was discovered, and Pagones was also accused when he stepped in with an alibi for the 28-year-old.

But in 1988 a grand jury found the whole shocking story was a hoax, and Brawley was never raped.

Now 40 years old, The New York Post tracked her down working as a nurse in Virginia.

'I don't want to talk to anyone about that,' Brawley told the newspaper recently as she emerged from her apartment in Hopewell, Virginia, wearing scrubs.

She lives what appears to be a relatively normal life in a neatly kept brick apartment complex with signs warning of video surveillance cameras.

To avoid detection, Brawley goes by the aliases of Thompson and Gutierrez and has a young daughter, a neighbor told the Post.

False claims: Brawley, pictured in 1988, claimed she was gang raped by a group of white men, one of whom had a badge

Rally: Tawana Brawley, left in 1988, of Wappinger Falls, N.Y., was the center of the legal controversy over her rape charges

She reportedly works as a licensed practical nurse at The Laurels of Bon Air in Richmond. But her co-workers have been in the dark about the incredible story of brutality, which turned out to be false.

'Are you serious? We don't know her by that name. Isn't that a trip?' one staffer said, adding that the woman who they call Tawana Gutierrez was 'a good worker.' 

According to a neighbor, Brawley has lived in Hopewell - Virginia's most crime-laden town - for at least a year. 

'Tawana V. Gutierrez' and 'Tawana V. Thompson' have held the same nursing license since 2006, state records show. The Virginia Board of Nursing confirmed issuing it to a 'Tawana Vacenia Thompson Gutierrez.'

Brawley maintains a PO box in Claremont, Va., under the name Gutierrez, according to The Post's sources. 

The grand jury panel, which heard from 180 witnesses over its seven-month investigation, found that Brawley made up the story to avoid being punished for staying out late and missing school.

They found evidence she had ran away from home and was hiding out in her parents' former apartment after they got evicted.

We believe you: The case polarized New York City in the late 1980s

Lawsuit: Brawley, pictured in 1997, spoke at a rally in support of Alton Maddox who lost a lawsuit for defamation of character by Steven Pagones

Many believed that Brawley feared her stepdad Ralph King's and needed an alibi for her absence. King spent seven years in prison in the 1970s for killing his first wife.

Traces of the charcoal-like material used to scrawl the hateful word on her body were found under her fingernails, and she showed no signs of genital trauma or exposure, the jury found. One witness said Brawley was spotted climbing into the bin bag.

'It is probable that in the history of this state, never has a teenager turned the prosecutorial and judicial systems literally upside down with such false claims,' state Supreme Court Justice S. Barrett Hickman wrote at the time.

Pagones has tried to forget the sorry affair but says he can't.

'It'll come up randomly. It'll come up when something happens with Sharpton,' he told The Post.

  

Pagones won a defamation lawsuit against Sharpton, Brawley and her lawyers in 1998.

Maddox was found liable for $97,000, Mason for $188,000, and Sharpton was ordered to pay $66,000. Brawley was ordered to pay $190,000 at 9 per cent annual interest but hasn't paid any of that bill.

'Through her silence, she's as guilty of libel as Maddox, Mason and Sharpton,' he told the newspaper. 'The only way to hold her accountable — at least at this stage — is financially.'

Just sent Sharpton an email

Two guys who know what they're talking about

Senior National Correspondent
Ed Kilbane

 and George Will

First up is Ed

Do you think the libbers and their cronies will learn anything from this? 

I was listening to Rush Limbaugh for a bit today and he replayed an interview with his father from back in 1991 on his dad's 100th birthday. His dad was also celebrating his 75th yr. of practicing law. His dad told some wonderful stories of his growing up on a farm, going to school in a one room schoolhouse and plowing the fields in his early teens with a team (two horses and two mules constituted a team). 

Back then there was no government assistance, no unions, and he didn't stop plowing to take lunch or coffee breaks. He was ashamed if he didn't finish what he started plowing that day.

 It was an awesome replay and 180 degrees off from todays entitlement crowd who are being taught in schools and convinced by Democrat politicians and the MSM that they can't get ahead by themselves because the system is rigged against them. They're told the only way they can get ahead is with government assistance and intervention and they believe it. They now think they have a constitutional right to everything they'll ever need, from cradle to grave: 

Food, healthcare, transportation, cell phones, houses, on and on and on, it doesn't stop. Rush's dad thought that this was stuff people were supposed to try and do for themselves and it was pretty much that way in the country until the Democrats got control and started their social engineering. They promised all kinds of goodies in exchange for a vote and still do. 

For at least a couple reasons, this campaign practice is far more insidious than having precinct men hand out cash to buy votes at the polling station. 

First, they are aren't using the oppositions cash. 

And second, there is no guarantee the the voter, so bribed, will actually vote for their candidate. 

On the other hand, the "promise them the moon" campaign tactic of Democrat candidates uses the opposition's cash and guarantees that they will get the vote. In the days when his dad grew up, no one thought the country owed them a living. They were self-reliant and ashamed to take handouts. Now we've reached the tipping point where a majority of the people think they are entitled to the other guys money. This kind of "democracy" will kill our country, just like it killed Detroit. 

Now George

DETROIT'S DEATH BY DEMOCRACY

DETROIT — In 1860, an uneasy Charles Darwin confided in a letter to a friend: "I had no intention to write atheistically" but "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars." What appalled him had fascinated entomologist William Kirby (1759-1850): The ichneumon insect inserts an egg in a caterpillar, and the larva hatched from the egg, he said, "gnaws the inside of the caterpillar, and though at last it has devoured almost every part of it except the skin and intestines, carefully all this time avoids injuring the vital organs, as if aware that its own existence depends on that of the insect on which it preys!"

Government employees' unions living parasitically on Detroit have been less aware than ichneumon larvae. About them, and their collaborators in the political class, the question is: What. Were. They. Thinking? Well, how did Bernie Madoff or the Enron executives convince themselves their houses of cards would never collapse?

Here, where cattle could graze in vast swaths of this depopulated city, democracy ratified a double delusion: Magic would rescue the city (consult the Bible, the bit about the multiplication of the loaves and fishes), or Washington would deem Detroit, as it recently did some banks and two of the three Detroit-based automobile companies, "too big to fail." But Detroit failed long ago. And not even Washington, whose recklessness is almostlimitless, is oblivious to the minefield of moral hazard it would stride into if it rescued this city and, then inevitably, others that are buckling beneath the weight of their cumulative follies. It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.

This bedraggled city's decay poses no theological conundrum of the sort that troubled Darwin, but it does pose worrisome questions about the viability of democracy in jurisdictions where big government and its unionized employees collaborate in pillaging taxpayers. Self-government has failed in what once was America's fourth-largest city and now is smaller than Charlotte, N.C.

Detroit, which boomed during World War II when industrial America was "the arsenal of democracy," died of democracy. Today, among the exculpatory alibis invoked to deflect blame from the political class and the docile voters who empowered it, is the myth that Detroit is simply a victim of "de-industrialization." In 1950, however, Detroit and Chicago were comparable — except Detroit was probably wealthier, as measured by per capita income. Chicago, too, lost manufacturing jobs, to the American South, to south of the border, to South Korea and elsewhere. But Chicago discerned the future and diversified. It is grimly ironic that Chicago's iconic street is Michigan Avenue.

Detroit's population, which is 62 percent smaller than in 1950, has contracted less than the United Auto Workers membership, which was more than 1 million in 1950, and now is around 390,000. Auto industry executives, who often were invertebrate mediocrities, continually bought labor peace by mortgaging their companies' futures in surrenders to union demands. Then city officials gave their employees — who have 47 unions, including one for crossing guards — pay scales comparable to those of autoworkers. Thus did private-sector decadence drive public-sector dysfunction — government negotiating with government-employees' unions that are government organized as an interest group to lobby itself to do what it wants to do: Grow.

Steven Rattner, who administered the bailout of part of the Detroit-based portion of America's automobile industry, says "apart from voting in elections, the 700,000 remaining residents of the Motor City are no more responsible for Detroit's problems than were the victims of Hurricane Sandy for theirs." Congress, he says, should bail out Detroit because "America is just as much about aiding those less fortunate as it is about personal responsibility."

There you have today's liberalism: Human agency, hence responsibility, is denied. Apart from the pesky matter of "voting in elections" — apart from decades of voting to empower incompetents, scoundrels and criminals, and to mandate unionized rapacity — no one is responsible for anything. Popular sovereignty is a chimera because impersonal forces akin to hurricanes are sovereign.

The restoration of America's vitality depends on, among many other things, avoiding the bottomless sinkhole that would be created by the federal government rescuing one-party cities, and one-party states such as Illinois, from the consequences of unchecked power. Those consequences of such power — incompetence, magical thinking, cynicism, and sometimes criminality — are written in Detroit's ruins.

George Will's email address is georgewill@washpost.com.

Two guys who know what they're talking about

"Tracking down killers and bringing them to justice"... Sure he is

It sounded good when Barry spoke these words calling out the Benghazi terrorists. Standing at his side in steadfast determination was his confidant Hillary,  just as eager to... "get to the bottom of this."
As usual...  all words and no action.

He's looking into this like Helen Keller with cataracts.

Despite the fact Libyan authorities have apprehended a few of the terrorists, so far, the only one in jail is the "murderous thug" who shot the video. Ever wonder why TV reporters have no problem conducting interviews with the perpetrators  but the FBI can't seem to find them? Because if they're apprehended and brought back to America to stand trial the truth will come out.

(Check out Hillary rubbing her head. A penny for her thoughts)

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"Tracking down killers and bringing them to justice"... Sure he is

This blonde just shattered the stereotype!

On a tip from Ed Kilbane

This blonde just shattered the stereotype!