Comments on: Apparently J. Brennan & E. Holder Turned Down The Sensitivity Of Our National Security Network

By: The Strata-Sphere » Liberal Zealots Took Control Of America’s National Security Before Obama’s Inauguration

Sun, 23 May 2010 16:18:08 +0000

[...] determination actually lines up well with pre-election comments by Holder, and especially byÂ Obama’s terrorism advisor John Brennan: I would argue the government needs to have access to only those nuggets of information that have [...]

By: The Strata-Sphere » Obama Administration Confuses National Defense & Criminal

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:25:49 +0000

[...] vocal about his intention to dial back our sensitivity to potential threats during the campaign. He infamously spouted nonsense about our threshold for even the minimum act of investigating detected warning signs: I would argue [...]

By: Team Obama’s Terror Policy: Why The System Isn’t working « Nice Deb

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:15:49 +0000

[...] knew these failures had to do with policies pushed by Holder, Brennan and Obama. All are on record opposing the hair trigger concerns of the Bush administration when alarms went off in the NSA. [...]

By: The Strata-Sphere » Liberals Whine About Political Heat On National Security, Then Claim Christmas Day Bombing Attempt A US Success

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:11:02 +0000

[...] can find my previous posts on this liberal zealot here, here and here – but this is the money quote from this man who planned to experiment with our lives [...]

By: The Strata-Sphere » How Far Did Obama-Holder Relax Our Defenses?

The Strata-Sphere » How Far Did Obama-Holder Relax Our Defenses? — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:00:34 +0000

[...] changes to FISA after 9-11. Neither did Obama’s advisor on national security John Brennan. As I noted here, from an interview he gave during the campaign, Brennan was all for relaxing our defenses so we did [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » DoD review of Hasan shows superiors ignored their own warnings

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:39:37 +0000

[...] Read it all; he concludes: As I noted many times, John Brennan openly said during the campaign he wanted to dial back our hair trigger responses to possible threats. I think he and the President did just that, and 13 Americans were murdered as a [...]

By: The Strata-Sphere » Obama’s National Security Team Still Doesn’t Quite Get It

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:42:20 +0000

[...] definitely deserves the brunt of the blame. I still say his risky approach to national security (captured in an on-the-record interview) – Â specifically his plan to dial back our sensitivity to threats and requiring more [...]

By: The Strata-Sphere » Administration May Have To Let Bomber Arrive In US Before Acting

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:36:40 +0000

[...] He should have known that the people he put in place to watch over this country and its people had some fuzzy and risky concepts. For example, this is advisor John Brennan during the Presidential campaign: To me, I think the [...]

By: Cold Fury » Democrat Slashers For Smaller Government!

Cold Fury » Democrat Slashers For Smaller Government! — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:05:45 +0000

[...] this campaign interview with John Brennan, in which Brennan’s main concern seems to be on not getting too much information…Mission Accomplished, John! “You donâ€™t want to just troll and with a large net just [...]

By: The Strata-Sphere » The Airline Bomber “Dots” Keep Coming

The Strata-Sphere » The Airline Bomber “Dots” Keep Coming — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:44:41 +0000

[...] paths lead back to the NCTC and the White House – as I have claimed here. I need to go back to a huge 9 page CYA article in the NY Times yesterday which is clearly part of [...]

By: AJStrata

AJStrata — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:08:39 +0000

Thanks Trent – was just about to post on that!

By: Trent_Telenko

Trent_Telenko — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:54:08 +0000

AJ,

Powerline just found a UK Telegraph piece that confirmed your supposition.

It also seems to have happened exactly at the same time as Major Hasan started his Death to America Yemani e-mails.

See:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/01/025312.php

and

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6933707/MI5-told-US-about-Detroit-bombers-terror-links-a-year-ago.html

By: Did Obama Politicize the Terror Database? « Socialism is not the Answer

Did Obama Politicize the Terror Database? « Socialism is not the Answer — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:11:03 +0000

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By: aerawls

aerawls — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:01:17 +0000

Hasan did the same thing. He was in a position to carry out a devastating attack and he put it all at risk by lecturing his colleagues on how god wanted to pour boiling oil down their severed necks.

These people just are what they are. The problem is that we keep overlooking the obvious.

Maybe Balawi was as brassy as Hasan. Maybe he was marginally more subtle, figuring he could laugh up his sleeve about the blogging: “Aren’t I a good agent, blogging the part of the rabid jihadist so al Qaeda won’t suspect me of betraying them?”

At the least, Balawi was a flashing red light. As for how that light could be missed, the possibility that the CIA blinded itself as a matter of policy jumps out, when we know this happened with Hasan.

By: AJStrata

AJStrata — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:13:29 +0000

Aerawls,

Interesting. I will keep an eye on this. At a minimum they got someone through – which will happen. It seems someone let their guard down in the hopes of bagging the big fish. That sadly also happens.

The only problem I have with theory is that blogging on al Qaeda site is huge risk to a double agent. He did a lot damage (image and personnel) in the bombing, so why risk the NSA backtracking posts?