Underground stories 091514

OBAMA REJECTED “BEST MILITARY ADVICE” TO DEFEAT ISIS!

As he laid out his strategy to combat the Islamic State in both Iraq and Syria, President Obama rejected the “best military advice” of his top military commander in the Middle East.

Quoting two U.S. military officials, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday that Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), said “that his best military advice was to send a modest contingent of American troops, principally Special Operations forces, to advise and assist Iraqi army units in fighting the militants.”

Austin’s recommendation was taken to the White House by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey. The White House rejected CENTCOM’s “advise and assist” contingent due to concerns about placing U.S. ground forces in a frontline role.
In a press briefing Thursday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said that the president had rejected Austin’s recommendation because he believes “it is not in the best interest of American national security to send American combat troops in a combat operation to act on the ground in Iraq.”
Continue reading at Real Clear Defense

Trey Gowdy’s Public Benghazi Hearings Start in 72 Hours… Here’s His Statement

Americans have been largely kept in the dark by the Obama administration about the events that unfolded on September 11, 2012 when the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was attacked by radical Muslim terrorists and four Americans were killed.

President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have gone to great lengths to attempt pushing the blame for this horrible tragedy on anything and everything but their own egregious political motivations.

New information was recently revealed during a Fox News special which featured members of the security team in Benghazi. The individuals on the team stated that had they not had their deployment delayed by a stand down order from the government, they could’ve rescued the four individuals who were in the consulate during the attack.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, one of the few congressman in the government who seems to care about the truth, was selected to head up a committee investigation into Benghazi, and the South Carolina representative recently had a statement published on Fox News saying he will not stop until he’s uncovered the truth and those responsible for the tragedy are brought to justice.

“There are still facts to learn about Benghazi and information that needs to be explained in greater detail to the American people. And this committee will do just that.”

Clinton State Dept. Official Reveals Details of Alleged Document Review 

As the House Select Committee on Benghazi prepares for its first hearing this week, a former State Department diplomat is coming forward with a startling allegation: Hillary Clinton confidants were part of an operation to “separate” damaging documents before they were turned over to the Accountability Review Board investigating security lapses surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.

New Benghazi allegation puts spotlight on Hillary Clinton confidants, alleged after-hours document review.

According to former Deputy Assistant Secretary Raymond Maxwell, the after-hours session took place over a weekend in a basement operations-type center at State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. This is the first time Maxwell has publicly come forward with the story. 

Democratic State Senator Sentenced for Perjury, Voter Fraud

Democratic California state senator Roderick Wright was convicted Friday on eight felony counts including perjury and voter fraud and was sentenced to 90 days in jail.
Via Reuters:

Senator Roderick Wright of Los Angeles was convicted in January of lying about whether he lived in the district he sought to represent, the first in a string of criminal proceedings against three state senators this year that effectively cost Democrats their two-thirds majority in the California Senate.
“This is not what I call a victimless crime,” said Judge Kathleen Kennedy, who denied Wright’s request for a new trial in Los Angeles Superior Court.
She said Wright was no longer eligible to hold elective office in California.

Wright is one of several Democrats in the Golden State to face serious criminal charges. Senator Leland Yee was suspended after his indictment on racketeering, wire fraud, and conspiracy charges and Democrat Ron Calderon is fighting a litany of charges, including two dozen counts of bribery and fraud.

Obama Held Super-Secret Meeting With Top Journalists Prior To ISIS Speech

In a secret, closed-door meeting, President Obama met with influential reporters and columnists prior to his prime-time televised speech on his “strategy” to deal with ISIS.

The meeting was “off the record” and the reporters – who’s stock and trade is openness and transparency – apparently jumped at the chance to bask in the glow of the President, discussing his stragegy and trying to frame the media message.

After the meeting – which include top administration officials like Vice President Joe Biden and National Security Advisor Susan Rice – all the elitist reporters were mum (officially). But New York Times Reporter Peter Baker, who was not invited to the meeting, provided some details he gleaned from his sources.

Sources also provided the Huffington Post the list of magazine and newspaper repoters who were in attendance. They included:

New York Times columnists David Brooks, Tom Friedman and Frank Bruni and editorial writer Carol Giacomo; The Washington Post’s David Ignatius, Eugene Robinson and Ruth Marcus; The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins and George Packer; The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg and Peter Beinart; The New Republic’s Julia Ioffe; Columbia Journalism School Dean Steve Coll; The Wall Street Journal’s Jerry Seib; and The Daily Beast’s Michael Tomasky.

Despite protesting Obama’s lack of transparency to the public, all those in attendance promised to keep secret what was discussed. But of course – reporters leak information, even anonymously, and here’s Baker’s account of what happened:

The president they described was calm and confident, well versed on the complexities of the ISIS challenge and in no evident rush to end the discussions. A briefing book sat in front of him during the second of the sessions, but he never opened it. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Secretary of State John Kerry joined him for the dinner, and Denis McDonough, the White House chief of staff, and Susan Rice, the national security adviser, sat in on the meeting with the journalists, but none of them said very much.

Mr. Obama was relaxed enough, as he discussed the array of foreign policy crises facing him, that at one point he ridiculed President Vladimir V. Putin’s rationale for intervening in Ukraine to protect Russian speakers by saying the United States should intervene in Mexico to protect enclaves of Americans. When a writer jokingly asked if he was announcing plans to invade Mexico, he laughed and said no, Canada, because it has more oil.

Obama Admin Threatened Families of Beheaded Journalists for trying to get their Sons Back 

Earlier this year, the Obama administration released five Taliban commanders to Qatar in exchange for Bowe Bergdahl, an alleged deserter who may have collaborated with the Taliban and who also could have the blood of American soldiers on his hands. While the same was obviously not done for beheaded journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, the Obama administration took it a step further according to the families of both men.
As Shoebat.com reported via the Daily Beast, CIA Director John Brennan had allegedly been pushing hard for the release of those five Taliban commanders since at least 2011.
A major issue here is one of consistency. Another major issue is the degree to which the Bergdahl family is connected to Islam. Shoebat.com reported on Bergdahl's father extensively. While both Foley and Sotloff appeared to be sympathetic to the Syrian rebels and in the case of Sotloff, to the Muslim Brotherhood in some ways, there are strong indications that the Bergdahls were more than just sympathetic to Islam.
On one hand, we have the release of five high level Taliban commanders to a nation state that already openly supports terrorism (Qatar) in exchange for one soldier who may have defected to the enemy. On the other hand, the same administration who made that deal forbade the families of two captive journalists to privately raise ransom money to have those journalists released.
Here is Michael Foley, the brother of James, telling Megyn Kelly of Fox News how his family was treated by the administration. Note that Kelly expresses her understanding of a U.S. policy not to pay ransom to terrorists, but is clearly taken aback that it would prohibit private funds from being raised to do so:

Obama’s ship is sinking

The rising clamor over the beheading of two Americans, and rapidly sinking polls, forced President Obama to reassure the nation last week he had a plan to deal with the Islamic State. He did some of what he had to do, but only some, and so most military analysts believe the expanded airstrikes will not be a sufficient match for the size and weaponry of the terrorist army.
They miss the point. The disjointed speech wasn’t really about terrorism and launching a new war. It was about saving Obama’s presidency.
He is sinking fast and could soon pass the point of no return. In fact, it may already be too late to save the SS Obama.
The whole second term has been a string of disasters, with the toxic brew of his ObamaCare lies, middling economic growth and violent global breakdown casting doubt on the president’s stewardship. Six years into his tenure, nothing is going as promised.
Earlier on, he could have trotted out his teleprompters and turned public opinion his way, or at least stopped the damage. But the magic of his rhetoric is long gone, and not just because the public has tuned him out.
They’ve tuned him out because they’ve made up their minds about him. They no longer trust him and don’t think he’s a good leader.
Most ominously, they feel less safe now than they did when he took office. Americans know the war on terror isn’t over, no matter what their president claims.
Those findings turned up in a tsunami of recent polls that amount to a public vote of no confidence. They shook up the White House so much that the plan to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants was put on hold to try to protect Democratic candidates from voter wrath in November.
That was a necessary tactical retreat, but it doesn’t change the ­basic calculation. The president’s problem is that he has been wrong about virtually every major issue.
His worldview, his politics, his prejudices, his habits — they’ve been a mismatch for the country and its needs. He has been a dud even in the one area where he seemed a lock to make things better, racial relations. Only 10 percent believe race relations have improved under him, while 35 percent said they are worse, according to a New York Times survey. The remainder said there wasn’t much change either way.
That’s shocking — but not surprising. Barack Obama was not ready to be president, and still isn’t. It is a fantasy to believe he’ll master the art in his final two years.
The lasting image will be his yukking it up on the golf course minutes after giving a perfunctory speech on the beheading of James Foley. It revealed him as hollow, both to America and the world, and there is no way to un-see the emptiness.
That means, I fear, we are on the cusp of tragedy. It is reasonable to assume the worst-case scenarios about national security are growing increasingly likely to occur.
Obama’s fecklessness is so unique that our adversaries and enemies surely realize they will never face a weaker president. They must assume the next commander-in-chief will take a more muscular approach to America’s interests and be more determined to forge alliances than the estranged man who occupies the Oval Office now.
So Vladimir Putin, Iran, China, the Islamic State, al Qaeda and any number of other despots and terrorists know they have two years to make their moves and advance their interests, and that resistance will be token, if there is any at all.
Throw in the fact that Europe largely has scrapped its military might to pay for its welfare states, and the entire West is a diminished, confused opponent, ripe for the taking. Redrawn maps and expanded spheres of influence could last for generations.
Of course, there is a possibility that America could rally around the president in a crisis, and there would be many voices demanding just that. But a national consensus requires a president who is able to tap into a reservoir of good will and have his leadership trusted.
That’s not the president we have.

Injustice Department? Telephone call reveals Holder's lawless agency

A news story that should have -- or would have -- garnered more coverage by major news organizations failed to achieve its proper attention thanks to the frenzy over the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria's murderous rampage, the media's obsession with football star Ray Rice's domestic violence story, and the media's knee-jerk protection of a failed President Barack Obama. In fact, not one Sunday morning news show even mentioned how the Justice Department attempted to conspire with a Democrat lawmaker to allegedly sabotage the probe of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative nonprofit organizations.

According to a letter from the House Oversight Committee's leader, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, a top member of Attorney General Eric Holder's staff, Brian Fallon, is accused of accidentally telephoning House Oversight Committee chairman's office to ask for help leaking fabricated stories about the IRS’s scrutiny of conservative groups to news outlets. Fallon allegedly thought he had telephoned the office of Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, who is also on that same committee and who has been extremely vocal on behalf of the IRS and Justice Department claiming there is no scandal.
The details in Issa's letter are just more evidence that the Obama-Holder Justice Department’s investigation into IRS targeting is a political farse, and the Obama administration head honchos are more concerned with a political agenda and not performing their duties for the American people.

These Are the Confirmed Terror Training Camps on US Soil

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have vowed to one day conquer America, and to raise their black flag of radical Islam over the White House. They have plans to engage in mass shootings and bombings of large gatherings of people, and even to take down our power grid all across the country.

Perhaps as many as 100 Americans have traveled to the Middle East to join with the Islamic State, and there is a risk of them returning to wage jihad in America. A recruiting center and possible sleeper cell has been discovered in Minnesota, and there have been reports of terrorists on or near the southern border of our country.

In fact, there have been terrorists inside of America for some time now, who occasionally launch small, lone-wolf style attacks to spread their terror, as evidenced by the Boston Marathon bombers, the Ft. Hood shooter, and the shooting outside a military recruitment center in Arkansas back in 2009.

According to WND, there is a newly released documentary that exposes nearly three dozen radical Islamist training compounds scattered about the United States.

The documentary, called “Homegrown Jihad”, details a group called “Muslims of the Americas”, and their leader Sheikh Mubarak Gilani, a radical Pakistani Cleric. The documentary shows how the group uses their compounds to train their “Soldiers of Allah” in explosives, kidnapping, and murder, along with weapons and guerilla warfare tactics. They are also trained on how to act friendly and blend in with the normal population of peaceful and innocent people.

NYC: Gun-toting Muslim Thugs, Faked Hangings, Caged Girls, Cardboard Tanks at Muslim Day Parade

Today was the annual Muslim day parade, where Muslims take over Madison Avenue and convert it to an outdoor mosque. It is always scheduled near the anniversary day of September 11 — takbir! These marches are always controversial (more here).
The theme of the parade was advertised as Islam and America’s shared common values. But it was anything but. It was a political parade in support of terrorists in Egypt and Gaza. There was a lot of anti-Jewish propaganda — the flags of annihilation coupled with outrageous pro-terror Muslim Brotherhood propaganda.
Before the police confiscated the guns, the Muslim were posing and “shooting” people.

Muslim Preacher Uses Machine Gun During Sermon to Make His Point About How to Secure ‘Mohammed’s Caliphate’

A Muslim cleric in Gaza drove home his point recently by whipping out a machine gun and punctuating his militant sermon by repeatedly raising it to the sky, in case his message that only armed jihad can establish a caliphate wasn’t fully understood by his congregation.
The sheikh’s calls were answered by repeated shouts from the congregation of “Allahu Akbar! Allah be praised!”
“These weapons are our only means to instate the law of Allah. Therefore, they will take our souls before they can take our weapons!” the Muslim cleric declared.
The Middle East Media Research Institute posted a video along with translation of Sheik Iyad Abu Funun delivering his Friday sermon.

Germany Bans All ISIS Support After Sharia Police Were Found Patrolling German Streets

After supporters of ISIS were found patrolling the streets of West Germany enforcing Sharia Law earlier this month, Germany has made the decision to criminalize all forms of support for the terrorist organization.

Germany’s Interior Minister Thomas Maiziere stated that all forms of support for ISIS will be treated as a criminal act. Specifically he mentioned any fundraising, campaigning, online support, or public display of ISIS symbols.

Germany already has section 86a in it’s criminal code to deal with these types of groups, which is most popularly used to restrict the display of Nazi Symbolism and support.

Germany is not standing alone in it’s decision to ban all ISIS support as The Netherlands made a similar decision last month.

Isis terror group to be banned in Britain

Home Office says insurgency in Iraq underlines need to ban group in the UK along with four other Syrian terror organizations

Five Syrian terror organizations, including Isis, the al-Qaida affiliate behind the current insurgency in Iraq, are to be banned in Britain.
The move comes as the foreign secretary, William Hague, told MPs that as many as 400 British jihadists could be fighting with Isis in Iraq. There are fears that some could return to Britain as battle-hardened radicals.
A Home Office proscription order to be approved by parliament this week will make it illegal to be a member of or to provide support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known as Isis.
Home Office officials said that the move was triggered by the jihadist organization's actions in Syria but developments in Iraq had underlined the need to ban the group in Britain.
The four other groups linked with Syria that also face being banned in the UK are Türkiye Halk Kurtulus Partisi-Cephesi, also known as the Turkish People's Liberation Party or the Hasty Ones; Kateeba al-Kawthar; Abdallah Azzam Brigades, including the Ziyad al-Jarrah Battalions; and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command.
Security minister James Brokenshire said: "We condemn all acts of terrorism committed in Syria, where the conflict poses a growing threat to the UK, regional and international peace and security. Proscription is a useful weapon in the armoury at the disposal of the government, police and security service to disrupt terrorist activity and protect the UK."
He added: "We want to send a strong message that terrorist activity is not tolerated wherever it happens."
Downing Street said last week that the security services were monitoring very closely the possibility that British jihadists fighting in Syria could be among Isis fighters that have crossed the border into Iraq.
-

PLEASE JOIN THE CAUSE