President Obama criticized for continuing to fight terrorism with criminal justice system instead of subjecting terrorists to interrogations, South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint postpones vote on TSA nominee over issues of unionizing and integrity, Obama also ripped for deliberately diverting CIA personnel and resources to study climate change.
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint says TSA nominee Errol Southers cannot be confirmed. DeMint says he can’t get a straight answer out of the nominee about whether he supports the unionizing of TSA workers – a move that DeMint says must not be permitted. He also says Southers has demonstrated a lack of integrity by changing his story numerous times about an incident from his years as an FBI agent.
Former Pentagon official K.T. McFarland says federal officials were getting good intelligence from the attempted Christmas Day bomber until they were forced to read his Miranda Rights. She also says intelligently profiling passengers and making sure foreigners have a visa would be good steps.
President Obama has reversed a Bush administration policy and ordered the diversion of CIA resources away from intelligence-gathering efforts for the sake of studying climate change. The Clinton administration did this too, but Bush stopped it for eight years. Why is this happening? We ask Deneen Borelli of Project 21, a group of black conservatives affiliated with the National Center for Public Policy Research.
Three prominent Democrats will not be on the ballot this year, GOP Rep. Dan Lungren slams President Obama for his fundamental misunderstanding of the war on terrorism, Nancy Pelosi rejects C-SPAN and says health debate has beenthe most transparent in history, Holocaust shooter dies and baseball writers add one more to the Hall of Fame.
California Rep. Dan Lungren says we can’t be most effective in thwarting terrorism until President Obama understands who and what we’re fighting and how these attacks are not the work of ‘isolated extremists’ but rather an entire ideology that wants to destroy America. He says charging terrorists in civilian court yields no intelligence and only encourages more radical actions.
Open Doors USA, one of the leading organizations assisting the persecuted Christian church is out with its 2010 World Watch List. Which nation is far and away the worst persecutors of Christians? What do most of the 10 most repressive nations have in common? What conditions do believers face in these hostile countries?
Longtime USA TODAY White House Correspondent Richard Benedetto discusses the ongoing push for greater transparency in the final stages of the health care debate. How significant is C-SPAN’s push for televised deliberations? Do voters really care if the process is open or closed?
C-SPAN urges Congress to open up final health care proceedings to the public, Obama suspends return of Guantanamo detainees to Yemen, U.S. reopens embassy in Yemen, GOP Chairman does not expect to regain majority in Congress this year.
Democrats want to sidestep the normal House-Senate Conference on health care in order to avoid delay tactics from Republicans. Brian Darling of the Heritage Foundation explains what Democrats have up their sleeves and why it’s very likely that the Democrats will win in the end.
