A senior Saudi government official told Daily Mail
that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sent a written warning to the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security in 2012. According to the source, the
letter was pertaining to Tsarnaev and potential terror threats.
This information was allegedly separate from warnings that Russia
sounded and was apparently predicated upon intelligence that was
collected in Yemen, Daily Mail reports.
In addition to sending the warning to America, the Saudi government
also denied an entry visa to Tsarnaev in Dec. 2011 when he purportedly
sought to take the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, the individual claimed.
This is the first time that alleged plans to visit Islam’s most holy
city have been divulged.
The source went on to say that, although the letter, which purportedly came from the Saudi Ministry of Interior,
did not name Boston specifically, it did cite Tsarnaev and it was “very
specific.” The Saudi official also told the outlet that the notice
warned the U.S. government that “something was going to happen in a major U.S. city.”
But the Obama administration's Department of Homeland Security denies receiving any such warning.
DHS has no knowledge of any communication from the Saudi
government regarding information on the suspects in the Boston Marathon
Bombing prior to the attack,’ MailOnline learned from one Homeland
Security official who declined to be named in this report.
The White House took a similar view. ‘We and other relevant
U.S. government agencies have no record of such a letter being
received,’ said Caitlin Hayden, a spokesperson for the president’s
National Security Council.
Whom are you going to believe? Our friends the Saudis or Obama and Crapolitano? Seems obvious to me.
By the way, when I arrived at Heathrow, there were signs all over the place asking if you were coming from Boston and have any pictures or information.
Beck tells O'Reilly he's been warned 'not to do anything illegal'
Shavua tov, a good week to everyone.
Bill O'Reilly interviewed Glenn Beck on Thursday night regarding Beck's investigation into the Boston Marathon terror attack. Beck told O'Reilly he's been warned 'not to do anything illegal.' According to Beck, the result is a coverup of the Saudi connection to the Boston Marathon terror bombing.
Glenn Beck: Napolitano lied, Alharbi is a terrorist
Glenn Beck updated his story about Saudi national Abdul Rahman Ali Issa Al-Salimi Alharbi on Wednesday, and says that Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano lied to Congress.
Let's go to the videotape.
Much much more here (Hat Tip: Memeorandum). Here are some of the questions the piece raises.
Was Alharbi considered “armed and dangerous” before the Boston bombing, or at
it? Was it related to something they found at his apartment? Was his
prior “event” from the days prior, at the bombing, or was it from an
earlier period in his life?
Moreover, how was he admitted into the
country under a “special advisory option?” How many students receive
that privilege, particularly without proper security clearance?
In Beck’s estimation, the entire
situation at the least amounts to an alarming lack of transparency, and
at the worst, an abuse of power and cover-up.
“This is not about this one guy,” Beck
noted, “but by the way — where is this extraordinarily dangerous man?
Ask that question, you’re not going to like the answer.”
“That’s what TheBlaze is releasing
today,” he continued. “Once they explain away all of this, if you want
to continue to discredit me, you will discredit yourself but more
importantly, you will put the citizens of this country at stake.”
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano caught hiring and giving security clearance to Muslim Brotherhood terrorist
Here's Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano getting caught by Representative Louie Gohmert (R-Tx) for hiring and giving security clearance to a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist.
Channel 7 news in New York reports that TSA employees have been stealing. No, not from your checked bags, at least according to this report. Rather, they are stealing things from people going through the checkpoints who remove jewelry, watches, laptop computers and other valuable items in order to go through the checkpoints.
Let's go to the videotape.
I don't think I've traveled out of LaGuardia since I moved to Israel, but I do occasionally travel out of Kennedy (most recently last November). Still this is very disconcerting and may be happening in other airports as well.
But Israeli style security won't fly in the US says Janet Incompetanto. Aren't you glad?
Janet Incompetanto: 'Profiling won't fly in the US'
In Israel on a visit that included a behind-the-scenes tour of Ben Gurion Airport, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano rejected the idea of adopting an Israeli style 'profiling' system for airport security.
Speaking between a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a tour of Ben-Gurion Airport, Napolitano said "a quarter to a third" of her visit was focusing on aviation, and the rest on other security concerns.
She said the allies "share a common goal" but was circumspect on whether Ben-Gurion's methods for vetting outgoing passengers and cargo might be adapted for U.S. airports.
"There are real differences, for example, in size and scale between Israel and the United States," she said, noting the latter's 450 international airports, many of which dwarf the mid-sized Ben-Gurion with its elaborate state-funded safeguards.
...
While avoiding direct comment on Israeli policy, Napolitano made clear profiling would not fly in the United States.
"There are some differences in the laws and the legal constraints that we abide by," she said. "There may be some things that can be shared (with Israel) and some things that would not ... The practices and techniques that we use will differ and do differ."
I have a real fear that it's going to take another 9/11-type event for America to wake up and smell the coffee on Islamic terrorism. What could go wrong?
Incredible: These people are in charge of security?
Here's an ABC News interview with Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Incompetanto, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and the special adviser on terrorism John "al-Quds" Brennan. Watch this interview and see what kind of incompetent morons are responsible for America's airline security. You should watch especially around the 3:50 mark (and on) to see how the Director of National Intelligence is 'with it' regarding current events.
Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: The Israel Project).
Democrats may finally be realizing that they will be blamed for TSA's invasive security screenings and not former President Bush. The underwear bomber happened on their watch, and 'enhanced patdowns' is a new piece of bureaucracy speak that has just gained currency in the last couple of months. The Democrats have now asked the TSA to reconsider the procedures, at least for the Thanksgiving travel season.
In a letter Friday to TSA Administrator John Pistole, Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and Shelia Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said the agency should rethink the new screening procedures in light of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, typically the busiest travel time of the year.
“While we agree that security measures should be enhanced in the wake of recent attempted terrorist attacks on the aviation system, we are concerned about new enhanced pat down screening protocols and urge you to reconsider the utilization of these protocols. With Thanksgiving Day marking the beginning of the busiest travel season of the year, this request is timely,” Thompson and Jackson Lee write in their letter.
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The lawmakers say members “expressed concern” about the pat-down procedures when they were briefed on them in September. They ask Pistole for a number of documents, such as a privacy impact assessment, regarding the new pat-down procedures and say TSA screeners need more training, citing an inspector general report detailing weaknesses in the agency’s training program.
Thompson and Jackson Lee criticize the agency in their letter. They say TSA should have done a better job of informing the public about the new screening procedures while also making sure to better protect their civil rights.
“Before implementing this new more invasive pat down procedure, as a preliminary matter, TSA should have had a conversation with the American public about the need for these changes. Even before that conversation, TSA should have endeavored to ensure that these changes did not run afoul of privacy and civil liberties,” they write.
Read the comments. You have to see how angry people are and how many call for using Israeli procedures. "Profile and leave the rest of us alone" is a theme. I could not agree more.
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