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Susan Collins came out and attacked Obama like she was possessed by Lynn Cheney over the handling of the underwear bomber because he was treated by our laws.

"Because of that blindness, this administration cannot see a foreign terrorist even when he stands right in front of them, fresh from an attempt to blow a plane out of the sky on Christmas Day," she said.

"There's no other way to explain the irresponsible, indeed dangerous, decision on Abdulmutallab's interrogation. There's no other way to explain the inconceivable treatment of him as if he were a common criminal."

Most conservatives are taking this point of view and are suddenly saying that even their hero, George W. Bush, made mistakes handling terrorists. Of course they were never heard from when Bush was actually in charge, but the media ignore this fact.

Eric Holder, the AG shot down all republican arguments today about their complaints.

Attorney General Eric Holder today basically accused Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and 10 Republican senators of playing politics with national security by criticizing the administration's decision to try Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in civilian court.

Anyway, Susan Collins looks even more foolish because Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is now talking again, which validates the handling of his arrest even more. Not that we needed this development anyway, because the administration handled it perfectly. Andrea Mitchell actually smacked her around over this information when she came on this morning and the only retort Collins had was that he should have been talking sooner. It's pretty clear, when Mrs. Greenspan can read off a list of reasons why you are being jerk, that Collins didn't handle it well at all. The Baltimore Sun:
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, arrested last Christmas for trying to explode a bomb on a plane arriving in Detroit, has begun talking again to authorities, officials said Tuesday, a development that only ratcheted up the debate over whether he should be tried in federal court or before a military tribunal. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Ca.), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, confirmed that the young Nigerian operative has changed his mind and is speaking to federal agents again. 'My understanding is that he is cooperating," she said, "that they have gotten useful information out of him. My information is that is continuing" since he was given the Miranda warning upon his arrest on Christmas Day.
Glenn Greenwald takes Collins apart over her idiocy:
But this right-wing demagoguery (coming from both Republicans and some Democrats) has nothing to do with those debates. For one thing, the accused Christmas Day bomber was captured and is being held inside the U.S. (right-wing fear-mongerers have long argued that we should not bring GITMO detainees to the U.S. because, once inside the U.S., they would then enjoy full Constitutional protections). But more important, the standard rhetorical formulation being used -- "extending rights to foreign Terrorists which the Constitution reserves for U.S. citizens" -- suggests that Constitutional rights are for American citizens only. That is blatantly false, and anyone making that claim -- as Susan Collins and so many others have -- is either extremely ignorant or extremely dishonest.
Why are Republicans and conservatives alike aiding and abetting terrorists? They are doing exactly what al-Qaeda wants, which is to go out publicly like scared children, forgetting the rule of law and whipping up more fear in America. Hasn't the nation suffered enough? Why can't these elected officials act in a serious manner?
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It takes a Republican to be so repugnant.


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

But a Democrat to pronounce it.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

hahaha, i know, what is wrong with that woman? After 15 seconds of listening to that clip I had a shortness of breath and began to feel a little nauseous.

curtilingus's picture
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Great. Incidentally, anyone following the xmas bomber should read Kurt Haskell's eyewitness account and timeline with updates. he was a passenger on the plane and has some pretty incredible stuff.

Shadowgm's picture

... saw all this and SAID NOTHING.

Oh, but of course AFTER THE FACT, he's all, "I saw it! I saw him and knew he was a terrorist right away!"

No he witnessed the incident at the airport in Amsterdam and didn't think to mention it because he didn't know the reason behind customs letting the man on the plane without a passport. he spoke out immediately when he witnessed the irregularities at the landing airport and documented them well.

he also quoted the Detroit news to support his assertions.

Shadowgm's picture

AFTER THE INCIDENT.

Gosh, I think if a guy sets his nuts on fire mid-flight, I can peg him as a crazy person, too.

neoconbuster's picture

In CNN'S OWN WORDS:

VIDEO:Cover up?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAtK7FFDukQ

Where is the tape showing the boarding passengers?
Who was the video camera man?
Who was the Indian man?

Another witness on board the flight, Richelle Keepman, said she noticed the cameraman at the beginning of the flight, believing the man might have been simply excited about a first flight, or etc. Later when the 'bombing' incident took place, she says the cameraman was the only one standing up, and intently filming the entire incident.

Shadowgm do you work for the CIA , FBI, IDF , Blackwater?

... where he has right to counsel, etc., as opposed to reating him like a member of the Legion of Super Terrorists who will raze America with their heat vision and ultrastrength, with Islamoconversion beams shooting out of his arse.

OK. Talk about attacking Obama and the democrats, look at this video Lil Liberals in our future leaders. It's a silent movie ala little rascals and, well it says some pretty awful things about our current line-up. Definitely backed by conservatives.

I'm also surprised it hasn't been taken down.

roxsteady's picture

Sadly, she reappeared on Hardball where spitty allowed her to lie again. It's bad enough listening to her speech pattern let alone her bullshit. She sounds like an 6 year old who has been crying for 4 hours because he can't eat that shaving cream

Susan Collins is a blight on America.

I'm glad Eric Holder bitch slapped her. She should be used to men putting her in her place. She's a Republican female.

certain rights?

Seems to me that our very first official founding document said that all men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.

Nowhere does it say that only American men (and woman) are endowed by those rights.

They should give that guy a wedgie until he talks.

and if one good solid terrorist attack actually happened on US soil under Obamas tenure, or even against a number of Americans in a foreign locale, well then would they collectively let out a resounding breath, before they inhaled, and vigorously attacked Obama and Dems for said attacks. and the Press would help them. itd be like 9-11 had never happened. not that many people are 'remembering' 9-11 anyway. short term memory issues and all. now again, if its under a Dem president well then they can remember the entire phone book. and it is as simple as ive stated.

Masada's picture

I'm not sure what problem they have with Due Process, but to be against it is to be emphatically anti-American. It would serve this nation well to keep an eye on such anti-Americans as they are a thread away from terrorists themselves.

by their paranoia and fear about terrorism, bin laden and zawahiri dont have to work hard at all. just put out a tape here and there and start chatter on networks and itll keep a lot of GOPers skirred.

11dimensionsandcounting's picture

This EXCELLENT piece from WSW conclusively makes the case that our Intelligence Agencies knowingly let Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab board the plane and enter the country.

From WSW:

The revelation that US intelligence agencies made a deliberate decision to allow Abdulmutallab to board the commercial flight, without any special airport screening, has been buried in the media. As of this writing, nearly a week after the hearing, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times have published no articles on the subject. Nor have the broadcast or cable media reported on it.

Full and unedited:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/feb2010/f25...

neoconbuster's picture

"There are a number of possible explanations for the decision to allow Abdulmutallab to board Northwest Flight 253. One possibility is that it was bound up with efforts by elements within the US intelligence apparatus to politically destabilize the Obama administration."

Please watch the video linked by me above.

The Wanderer's picture

That's all they're good at. If these fools were in power after 12/7/41, we would have capitulated to the Japanese out of the sheer pants-soiling terror that The Big Bad Evil Japanese might hit us again.

Has someone explained to this harridan that more Americans died last year of the flu than died on 9/11? You have a better chance of hitting your state's lottery.

Hechicera's picture

You catch more flies with honey ...

ghostrider's picture

Ever get tired of being wrong? Remember Hannity and Kristol were all on Obama's case about the Somali pirates while they had American hostages. That crisis was handled in a way that would've had the cretins jumping up and down and beating their chests in excitement if it was on Bush's watch. Every last one of these repugs are frauds and hypocrites. I have no patience for them, including the so-called moderates like Collins and Snowe.

jewelbomb's picture

she's not really a great orator, is she? She talks as though she's scolding a group of naughty children.

Rascalcat's picture

Who gets lectured? Naughty children? Coincidence?

I think not.

I've always considered her about as reasonable as a Republican gets. Granted, that is not all that reasonable, but still.

dnegri's picture

Why do all these Republicans, when pressured, wind up sounding like acolytes of Dick Cheney?

Have they no shame?

Woody McBreairty's picture

to come up with this hideous woman. Horse face not considered, she has a voice that's so coarse, quivering & awful it just grates on your nerves like fingernails scratching on a black board. I once considered her tolerable, especially since I am also from Maine, but her sudden plunge into the Republican propaganda cess pool revisits and intensifies the disgust I had always felt for her.


Woody McBreairty

Pennlady's picture

Well has Collins said I spoke to soon??? Offered any kind of apology??? Could be She is letting Steele pull her strings so the republicans will contribute to her campaign.


pennlady

Kreskin's picture

The fact that this nit wit / fountain of BS later got called out and corrected doesn't matter , she was allowed to misinform and lie prime time on the major networks , mission accomplished , the morons automatically believe her and will be repeating the lie and misinformation , that's how it works with the MSM , it's nothing but a platform for spreading right wing lies , misinformation and absolute bull shit to the masses , Goebbels would have loved this set up .

Loath_GOP's picture

This Collins woman is horrendous. What an absolute embarrassment to the office she holds.

...O'Reilly, Fox and fucks....

Can't believe that Obama could hold out any hope that he could work with such a dumbass.

aquatarkus's picture

Just say NO to Drugs! In the meantime keep your Big Mouth Shut.
My God is this the Best that the Good People of Main can come up
with? Truly Pathetic.

nodrama's picture

No Susan Collins. That voice! The self-righteousness! Makes one want to put a cream pie in her face. (Joe Lieberman would lick it off.)

I know what you mean. I know this has nothing to do with the merits of what she's saying, but she is really annoying to listen to. Well, I guess the self-righteousness is part of it, but I mean just her speaking voice in general.

P.S. I also know what you mean about Ruth Buzzi, but I never found her annoying.

P.P.S. I wonder if there is some medical reason for her voice?

Kreskin's picture

I can't either , are Obama and company living in reality ? Maybe they too are making up their own ? Frustrating to say the least .They are letting the Repugs dictate and win and with the constant bombardment of unchallenged right wing lies on the MSM it seems to me that the Repugnants are beating them in the PR war too . Obama and the Dems should be mopping the floor with these clowns ! They'd better pull their heads out and soon .

Embittered Angry Anti-Republicrat Max-Hussein-1's picture
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IMPEACH sitting Officials who promote the use of TORTURE: A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY!

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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.

Embittered Angry Anti-Republicrat Max-Hussein-1's picture
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Q U E S T I O N:
How is one "SUPPORTING AND DEFENDING" the Constitution of the USA when that sworn Oath is superseded by the promotion of VIOLATING the Constitution of the USA?

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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.

blubonnet's picture

So, the genesis of this whole "terror" boondoggle also stuck a knife through humanity wherever there was oil, and a big shot came through the Bill of Rights, and need I go on? Well, taking note of the Fiction presented by our government, for anyone that's honestly looked at bot sides of the argument's evidence, fiction is the only way to see the official line. Well, among millions of others, one of many many physics based professions, Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth, the honoring of accomplishing an awakening, with 1000 signatures have been reached declaring fiction of the government's explanations of 9-11-01. It ought to be covered by news folks around here. Get the whole scoop...

http://www.ae********.org

brantl's picture

of her being "schooled"? This certainly isn't it. When is somebody going to mention to them that being an "enemy combatant" is a highly contested term, causing cases to be lost in the Supreme Court (among other places) and that it couldn't be applied to an area that isn't an area of combat, in the first place?

Somebody needs to "school" these people with a law book and a dictionary. What a tool this woman is.

karlo5's picture
cow

Moooooooo

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