REPUBLICANS AND NEO-FASCIST TALK SHOW HOSTS BLAME OBAMA FOR BOSTON BOMING.
Republicans and radical conservatives are behaving differently than Democrats did after 9/11. The Democrats would not have dreamed of attacking President George W. Bush for the twin towers attack. But, of course Republican conservatives live by a different standard: Say just anything to stir up the neanderthal base. There was plenty of intelligence under Bush to have stopped the 9/11 attacks if the Democrats wanted to use them. Shame on Lindsay Graham and other Republicans and the neo-fascist radio talk hosts. Read the 2 following articles......read them and weep for our country.
From Fox31 Denver:
Lindsey Graham: Obama administration to blame for Boston bombings
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday the administration is to blame for not preventing last week's terror attack at the Boston Marathon finish line. (credit: CNN)
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday the administration is to blame for not preventing last week’s terror attack at the Boston Marathon finish line.
This marks the first time the attacks have been so politicized in the search for answers for how the two brothers suspected of the bombings slipped past government anti-terror detection measures.
Graham put it in the same category as the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed. Graham and other lawmakers, mostly Republicans, argue the Benghazi attack was a major security failure on the part of the Obama administration.
Asked if Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano bears responsibility for allowing Tamerlan Tsarnaev to fall through the cracks of federal agencies, Graham said the fault falls on a broader scale.
“I have no idea who bears the blame. I just know the system is broken. The ultimate blame I think is with the administration,” he told CNN on Capitol Hill. “The FBI and the CIA are, they have great people but you know we’re going backwards in national security. Benghazi and Boston to me are examples of us going backward.”
Graham has been one of the most vocal lawmakers in Congress who’s been critical of the government’s handling of Tsarnaev, who was investigated by the FBI in 2011 at the request of Russian authorities over concerns of radicalization.
Tsarnaev, who died last week after a shootout, and his brother, Dzokhar, are accused of plotting and carrying out last week’s bombings, as well as killing an MIT police officer. The marathon blasts killed three people and wounded more than 260 others.
In addition to interviews with Tsarnaev and his family members, the FBI says it checked databases, phone conversations, travel history and plans, and associations with persons of interest.
At the time, however, they “did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign,” the agency has said in a statement.
Tsarnaev later traveled to Russia in 2012, where he spent six months.
Members of Congress have been calling for hearings to learn more about the investigation of Tsarnaev and communication between the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the CIA.
Napolitano told legislators on Tuesday that Tsarnaev’s departure for Russia in January 2012 pinged “the system,” but Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said, told CNN Wednesday that the information apparently never made it to the FBI.
“They were not apparently sharing that information,” he said. “So the FBI, according to what we now understand, did not know that he was in Russia for six months and and did not follow up on his return. So all of these things lead to more questions about what needs to be done to make sure that these types of things don’t happen in the future.”
Officials have been looking into what he may have done there during that time. The young man is believed to have posted videos online tied to militant jihadists in the region.
Sources told CNN that Russia had separately asked the FBI and the CIA to look into Tsarnaev in 2011.
But a ranking Democrat on a House intelligence subcommittee said Thursday he does not see an intelligence-sharing failure.
This information was put in a database, it was shared among different agencies, it was shared with a joint terrorism task force, and that’s exactly what should happen,” U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, told CNN.
“Some are racing to say that the FBI dropped the ball or the agencies weren’t talking to each other, and that just doesn’t seem to be the case,” he added. Schiff is a ranking member of the Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence.
From Huff Post Politics
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I'm old enough to remember when country singer Natalie Maines said, "We're ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas." She wasn't broadcasting a political demand for impeachment or a half-baked conspiracy theory, and it wasn't delivered to anyone outside of the auditorium -- no audiences of millions on AM radio or cable news. Just a few thousand people in a closed setting. But based on the bug-eyed, flag-molesting outrage that followed you'd think she had colluded with bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and the ghost of Khrushchev to shank George W. Bush with a prison shiv. The nation exploded in a collective hissy fit that included a conga-line of scolding conservatives and more than a few witch-hunt style protests in which Dixie Chicks CDs were smashed by heavy machinery or burned, all to the tune of the familiar warning: don't undermine the commander-in-chief or else.
And that was in March of 2003, years after the 9/11 attacks and long after the high-water mark of unwavering, luxuriant god-worship of George W. Bush.
In the days and months after 9/11, even hinting that Bush had acted poorly in the wake of the attacks or had perhaps not done enough to prevent them (he was warned -- a lot) was immediately beaten down as unpatriotic or "with the terrorists." The sentiment was universal. Democrats and Republicans alike agreed to lay off the president for a while, an attitude that definitely lasted for way too long and enabled a slate of hard-right laws that passed with unanimous bipartisan support -- laws that we're still trying to unravel today. It's not a stretch to attribute this reaction to both Republican partisanship and jingoism and the strange Democratic psychosis involuntarily forcing them to be easily suckered into coitus with political enemies.
Conversely, none of the same courtesy has been extended to our current president following the Boston Marathon bombing. Not so shocking, considering how it likewise didn't happen in the aftermath of the Great Recession, or after the killing of Bin Laden, or after the end of the Iraq War. It certainly didn't happen following each of the various gun massacres -- terrorist attacks at gunpoint. And, as we're all aware, an outright conservative inquest was launched following the consulate attack in Benghazi, in spite of the fact that 11 similar attacks took place during the Bush years with considerably greater body counts.
Suffice to say, if another attack were to occur at or even below the level of September 11, this president would likely be impeached within a week.
Worse, the conspiracy theories first marketed by Alex Jones last week are being mainstreamed throughout the conservative entertainment complex. In the Bush post-9/11 context, imagine not only broad liberal and Democratic attacks against President Bush within a week of the attacks, but also the mainstreaming of the various 9/11 Truther conspiracies.
Both Alex Jones (naturally) and Sean Hannity launched a conspiracy theory by anti-Islam crackpot Steve Emerson involving the Obama administration's alleged cover-up of the connection between the bombing and Saudi Arabia via the Saudi student who was questioned and released immediately following the marathon bombing.
On Friday, Glenn Beck said America should "demand impeachment" over the Saudi conspiracy theory.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) accused the president of "leading from behind."
The Tea Party Nation not only suggested that the president was to blame for this attack, but he's also to blame for the next attack which will happen "sooner than later."
Fox & Friends co-host and miraculous talking monkey Brian Kilmeade said on his radio show, "So like it or not, this president has left [the Middle East] alone. And guess what happens? Now the IEDs are blowing up in our streets." Yep, the Boston bombing was the president's fault. 100 percent. Why? Because of the Middle East, even though the suspects, the Tsarnaevs, are from, you know, Chechnya.
Rush Limbaugh attacked the president's handling of the bombing by invoking Benghazi, the New Black Panthers (all two of them at that polling place in Philadelphia) and Rev. Wright of all people -- all in the context of the Obama government's refusal to tell the truth.
Former Bush attorney general Michael Mukasey attacked the president for apparently downplaying the motives of the Tsarnaev brothers, "There is also cause for concern in the president's reluctance, soon after the Boston bombing, even to use the 't' word -- terrorism -- and in his vague musing on Friday about some unspecified agenda of the perpetrators, when by then there was no mystery: the agenda was jihad."
I think you get the idea. It's been just over a week and all of the usual suspects are engaged in nonsense far worse than anything Natalie Maines ever said. In fact, I'm waiting for Dinesh D'Souza to release another movie about how the president's "anti-colonialism" caused the bombing. Just wait another few days and it'll be in wide release. Actually, I wouldn't be shocked if the Republicans elevated the Saudi conspiracy theory into another Benghazi-style coverup plot.
It's all yet another case study in how the Republicans too often comport themselves in the wake of a disaster -- these self-proclaimed "patriots" are merely selective, fair-weather patriots, only willing to lend their unified support when the president is from their own party and prepared to bomb the hell out of brown people somewhere. They will not give an inch on anything. They will contradict themselves, ignore their own records, jump to paranoid conclusions, risk embarrassment and generally do whatever it takes to disrupt and sabotage the Obama presidency. And they're willing to brazenly and unapologetically exploit these tragedies as a means of doing so.
Cross-posted at The Daily Banter.
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