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Countdown to an Iranian Bomb

This morning, we reported on a push by the White House to stop Members of Congress from increasing sanctions on Iran. John Podhoretz, writing in Commentary, notes (and links to) and article in USA Today that reports that Iran’s nuclear program is significantly larger and more advanced than previously reported:
The story has to be seen as part of the struggle in Washington between senators who want to stiffen sanctions against Iran and the Obama administration, which is so intent on its outreach to the mullah regime that it stands opposed to toughening the sanctions regime until after new negotiations begin next month. Remember that the president has said on numerous occasions that Iran cannot be allowed to get the bomb.

Cheney Goes After Hillary, Obama for Foreign Policy ‘Incompetence’ on Hugh Hewitt Show

Former vice president Dick Cheney joined conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday and took the opportunity to go after President Obama and Hillary Clinton for the foreign policy “incompetence” of the Obama administration.

Cheney called Benghazi an unquestionable tragedy, saying more should have been done to protect the four Americans who died. He slammed Clinton for “doing everything she can to avoid responsibility” for what happened under her leadership.
He also thought the “victory dance,” as Hewitt put it, after taking out Osama bin Laden was too much. He said, “Don’t go out and broadcast the fact that you’ve got the guy.”
Cheney also weighed in on the “huge threat” of Iran building nuclear weapons, and said the recent crisis over Syria displayed the “incompetence of the administration” on these issues.
Listen to the audio The Hugh Hewitt Show:

George Soros Enters Presidential Campaign Backing Hillary

George Soros, the funding mechanism behind such liberal sites as Moveon.org and The Huffington Post will take his first official foray into politics when he joins Hillary Clinton’s SuperPAC that is attempting to pave a presidential run for the former First Lady and Secretary of State.
Soros, a liberal billionaire whose “Open Society Foundation” donates billions of dollars to left-wing and humanitarian causes , has had a tremendous influence in national politics for many years, but this is his first official political position. The SuperPAC is called “Ready For Hillary.”
According to The Huffington Post – a site Soros is backing financially, mind you, Soros has pledged $25,000 to Hillary’s campaign.
During the 2004 election cycle, Soros donated an estimated $27.5 million to Democrats and liberal causes.

Benghazi witness: Terrorists told guards ‘We’re here to kill Americans’

For the first time, Americans will hear from a British man hired to train Libyan guards for the U.S. Mission in Benghazi who received a call from one of his men during the terrorist attack on Sept. 11.
CBS has released a segment of the upcoming interview from this Sunday’s “60 Minutes,” in which a man using the name “Morgan Jones, a pseudonym to protect his safety,” discussed his frustration that the U.S. State Department would not allow Libyan guards to carry weapons.
Jones’ account of the call he received from his guard during the attack that ultimately killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, is chilling: The terrorists told the guards “We’re here to kill Americans, not Libyans,” he said, so the Libyan guards were beaten, but then released.
According to the CBS report:

“I could hear gunshots, and I — and he said, ‘There’s — there’s men coming into the mission,’” Jones said. “His voice, he was — he was scared. You could tell he was really scared, and he was running. You could tell he was running.”
Morgan’s guards, unarmed and terrified, were surrounded by heavily armed gunmen, but they still sounded the alarm.
“They said, ‘We’re here to kill Americans, not Libyans,’ so they’d give them a good beating, pistol whip them, beat them with their rifles and let them go,” Jones said.

Contractor admits selling defective parts to Pentagon

A business owner who contracted with the Pentagon has pleaded guilty to charges he sold the military defective parts that grounded planes, and then sent sensitive information to India.
In a release Thursday, federal prosecutors said Robert Luba, 47, the owner of Allied Components LLC of New Jersey, sold the government defective Indian-made “wing-pins” that eventually grounded 47 Air Force F-15 fighters while military officials inspected and repaired the aircraft.
Then he sent information on a component of a nuclear-powered submarine to an associate in India, officials said.
“The conduct admitted by Luba shows a callous disregard for the safety of our armed forces,” said U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman. “By recklessly providing sub-standard parts for sophisticated weapons systems and sharing sensitive information with a foreign state, Luba not only jeopardized the lives of men and women on the front lines of our national defense, he put all Americans at risk, all in the name of making a buck.”
Luba was supposed to supply the Defense Department with American-made parts, but instead imported parts made in India, court documents show. At one point, he also submitted false documentation saying the parts were made in the U.S.

Sebelius says she does not work for those calling for her resignation

PHOENIX - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Thursday that officials are working "24-7" to improve the government's health insurance website after its clunky rollout.

Sebelius, the Obama administration's public point person on implementation of the new health care law, was in Phoenix amid calls for her resignation over the technical issues that have prevented people from signing up for coverage online.
"The majority of people calling for me to resign I would say are people who I don't work for and do not want this program to work in the first place," Sebelius said during a visit to the Wesley Health Center. "I have had frequent conversations with the president and I've admitted to him that my role is to get the program up and running and we will do just that."

DNC chief: Democrats can run and win on ObamaCare in 2014

Democrats will be able to run on ObamaCare and win in 2014, the party chairwoman's insisted Friday. 
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said the troubled rollout of ObamaCare's enrollment website, which has frustrated thousands trying to enter the site and bruised the administration, won't hurt Democrats in next year's midterm elections. 

"Democrats will run on the Affordable Care Act and win," Wasserman Schultz said.Speaking to reporters after an address to the DNC's Women Leadership Forum on Friday, Wasserman Schultz said the law will help the party with female voters because of the benefits women will receive under the healthcare law. 

CBS News: Explosion in Medicaid Enrollments May ‘Threaten Entire Structure’ of Obamacare

Given the widely-reported problems associated with HeathCare.Gov, White House officials have taken to touting the successes the states are experiencing running their own health insurance exchanges. According to a CBS investigation, however, those exchanges are primarily funneling uninsured applicants into Medicaid. Experts tell CBS that this could “threaten the entire structure of Obamacare.”

“According to a CBS investigation, in many of the 15 states that have their own health insurance exchanges, more people are enrolling in Medicaid than are actually buying private health insurance,” CBS News reporter Jan Crawford revealed.
“There is concern that if that trend continues, there will not be as many healthy people buying insurance for this system to work,” she continued.
RELATED: CBS’ John Dickerson: Obama Headed Toward ‘Credibility Death Spiral’ Over Obamacare
Crawford said that the majority of the enrollees at this stage in the process are “overwhelmingly low-income people” who qualify for Medicaid at no cost.
Of the 35,528 enrollees in the state of Washington, 87 percent signed up for Medicaid. In Kentucky, 82 percent of the state’s 26,000 enrollees were funneled into Medicaid. 64 percent of New York, 37,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees are now Medicaid beneficiaries.
“Supporters say this shows there’s demand but industry sources say if we don’t see real turnaround soon, there could be big problems for the entire system,” Crawford concluded.

Obamacare Disaster Cover-Up Now Underway – W.H. To Insurance Companies: SAY NOTHING

Interesting insight into just how panicked the Obama administration is over Americans learning the truth regarding the president’s signature healthcare law that  bears his own name.  An insurance sales manager told a forum that operatives within the Obama administration requested their company not share the actual sign up numbers with the public/media.  When this same manager did share those numbers, it became apparent why the administration is now engaged in a full on effort to hide the truth.

Obama Administration Pressured Insurance Companies Not to Release Signup Numbers
The Obama administration is not just refusing to release Obamacare’s signup numbers, a report from North Dakota suggests, they’re pressuring insurance companies not to release them.

The Obama administration asked North Dakota’s largest health insurer not to publicize how many people have signed up for health insurance through a new online exchange, a company official says.

Carol Browner: Keystone XL Will Be Rejected By Obama Administration

President Barack Obama will reject the contentious Keystone XL pipeline, a former White House climate and energy czar says.
Carol Browner said “there will be some twists and turns” in the political debate over the pipeline, but “at the end of the day [Obama] is going to say no,” according to The Hill.
Browner served as head of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton administration and headed the Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy for two years under Obama.
She made the comments at a Washington, D.C., meeting of the Center for American Progress, where she was joined on a panel by Van Jones, an environmental advocate with links to Obama, and Tom Steyer, a billionaire who has been on an anti-Keystone XL crusade.
Her comments come as Washington finds itself in the crossfire of the Keystone debate.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said last month that he would not “take no for an answer” on the pipeline.
Posters calling Canada “the dirty old man” of environmental issues have been popping up around Washington, part of artist Franke James’ campaign to stop oil sands shipments.