July 23, 2009
A curious tidbit.
A convicted al Qaeda terrorist imprisoned in Colorado’s supermax prison requested barry’s books and was initially denied because the FBI determined one page of barry’s “Dreams From My Father” and 22 pages in “The Audacity of Hope” were “potentially detrimental to national security.” He, however, got his books courtesy of an appeal.
Sean Hannity — aired on July 14th.
FOX Transcript – video courtesy of AnmericasNewsToday1
SEAN HANNITY: President Barack Obama’s books are national bestsellers, but one U.S. prison has deemed them a potential threat to national security.
The federal government’s supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, is home to the likes of unabomber Ted Kaczynski and the blind sheik, Omar Abdul-Rahman — the brains behind the 1993 World Trade Center attacks.
The AP reports that in August, supermax detainee Ahmed Omar Abu Ali requested copies of the president’s books. Abu Ali is convicted of helping Al Qaeda and plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush.
His request was passed along to the FBI, which determined that one page in Obama’s “Dreams From My Father” and 22 pages in “The Audacity of Hope” were “potentially detrimental to national security.”
Although the bureau didn’t identify specific passages, the AP press did provide us with the passages that the prison found objectionable. It’s not difficult to determine which passages on those pages they wanted to keep out of Abu Ali’s hands.
Take this one on the U.S. post-9/11: “I firmly believe… that since 9/11 we have played fast and loose with constitutional principles in the fight against terrorism.”
And then there’s this one about our inability to control the flow of immigrants on our southern border: “Immigrants are entering as a result of a porous border rather than any systematic government policy. Mexico’s proximity, as well as the desperate poverty of so many of its people, suggests the possibility that border crossings cannot even be slowed much less stopped.”
That is a prelude to the president’s assertion that the country has no meaningful national security policy: “Our difficulties there [Iraq] don’t just arise as a result of bad execution. They reflect a failure of conception. The fact is, close to five years after 9/11 and 15 years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the United States still lacks a coherent national security policy.”
Since the initial AP story was published last week, we learned that Abu Ali successfully appealed the prison’s ruling and was given access to the president’s books.
I’m guessing he’s going to enjoy President Obama’s conclusions.
July 24, 2009 at 2:59 AM
Hi Britannicus.
Not sure how this relates to the post but you have a good point. Do you have a link to the background story of Jimenez’s medical history?
Note that American citizens with health insurance are denied bone marrow (and in some instances, organ) transplants, because they are too costly, but illegal aliens and foreign nationals arrive and don’t face the same obstacle simply because they have no insurance.
Believe it or not – in some cases – folks with no insurance get better care than those insured.
EMTALA is also known as COBRA and was initially brought about because of the transfer of a pregnant woman in active labor.
It’s why pregnant women illegally enter the country and why pregnant uninsured women present at private hospitals in active labor – they know they can’t be transferred to county hospitals.
And it’s why sick folks are dumped off outside the entrance of ERs – they know the ER has to perform a basic screening exam. And the ER must only provide stabilizing care, but then they have to find somebody willing to take the transfer, which is none too easy.
Michelle Obama’s job at University of Chicago Medical Center was to find ways to prevent indigents from making their way into that 250-yard zone so U of C wouldn’t be burdened with their charitable care and could make more money. She was very good at her job. Though her $192K no obvious reason for raise had more to do with barry becoming US Senator two months previous than U of C’s record profits. Unfortunately, barry couldn’t come through with the $1M U of C earmark.
Valerie Jarrett and Diane Sher both were instrumental in getting Mrs Obama the job and now one is barry’s Sr Interference Advisor and the other is FLOTUS’s Chief of Staff.
Pay to play lady style.
All three were firsthand players in the Daley machine. Michelle Obama knows more about Chicago Politics than barry. Her father had a city job and was a precinct captain under Daley Sr – a job that did not come about through affirmative action and that required a certain quid pro quo understanding. There’s no way barry would have gotten to where he is without her inside knowledge and understanding of how things work.