Precedence
Absence
[Obama - 12/28/09] This incident, like several that have preceded it, demonstrates that an alert and courageous citizenry are far more resilient than an isolated extremist.
[Obama - 1/2/10] “We know that he traveled to Yemen, a country grappling with crushing poverty and deadly insurgencies. It appears that he joined an affiliate of al Qaeda, and that this group—Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula—trained him, equipped him with those explosives and directed him to attack that plane headed for America," ...
“This is not the first time this group has targeted us. In recent years, they have bombed Yemeni government facilities and Western hotels, restaurants and embassies-including our embassy in 2008, killing one American. So, as president, I’ve made it a priority to strengthen our partnership with the Yemeni government-training and equipping their security forces, sharing intelligence and working with them to strike al Qaeda terrorists,"
President Obama has issued a new executive order on “Classified National Security Information” (the Order) that addresses the problem of over-classification in numerous ways… [and] establishing a National Declassification Center (NDC) to facilitate collaborative declassification review among government officials;
The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of [1/1/10] at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.
[Obama’s nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration, Erroll Southers] ...Southers’s admission that he was involved in a questionable use of law enforcement background data ...
Taxpayer losses from supporting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will top $400 billion ...
“... an alert and courageous citizenry are far more resilient than an isolated extremist.”
And, apparently, more effective than an ineffective intelligence community.
Posted by ZZMike on 01/02/10 at 12:06 PM
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