In an oped in USA Today, John Brennan -- Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism -- responds to critics of the Obama administration's counterterrorism policies by saying "Politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals of al-Qaeda."
I guess if you feel the kumbaya-ism of the plan to treat KSM and all comers caught alive as some kind of super car thieves and American citizens or constitutional PERSONS,- being detrimental to the national well being and the safety of the american people, instead of acting as FDR did ..YOU ARE HELPING AL QAEDA. Exsqueeze me, but isn't this PRECISELY what caused all these same people to shriek FASCISM when they were criticized by Dick Cheney?
Brennan writes that, "Terrorists are not 100-feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill."
In the oped, titled "'We need no lectures': Administration disrupts terrorists' plots, takes fight to them abroad," Brennan writes that politics "should never get in the way of national security. But too many in Washington are now misrepresenting the facts to score political points, instead of coming together to keep us safe."
The administration op-ed is in response to a USA Today editorial entitled "National security team fails to inspire confidence; Officials' handling of Christmas Day attack looks like amateur hour."
Brennan provides a detailed defense of the administration's handling of failed Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab whom, he says, was "thoroughly interrogated and provided important information."
He suggests that many critics are hypocritical and clueless.
That is PRETTY good coming from the man Michael Scheurer identified recently as THE MAN who stopped the CIA from killing Bin Laden during 1996-2000.
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Brennan looks like Cheney?
Maybe we ought to sell t-shirts that say, "I'm helping Al Qaeda".
Or, how about this?
http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2006/05/jihad-bumper-sticker-if-you-cant-beat.html
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