Video: Woman in Irish Parliament takes Obama to the woodshed

She criticizes the American president for wanting to arm Syrian rebels which have terrorist elements in them.

FBI says Holder, Obama had nothing to do with Assata Shakur decision

The Federal Bureau of Investigation says that President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder had nothing to do with putting the first black woman on the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists” list for a crime she allegedly committed 40 years ago.

The move also makes Assata Shakur, previously known as Joanne Chesimard — once active in the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army in the United States at different times over 35 years ago — the first woman to be placed on the list.

“Both AG and the President has nothing to do with the selection of the list or the approval and have not been involved since the creation of the list from 2001,” an FBI public affairs official told Politic365.

However, the official added that President Obama and Holder are aware of Assata Shakur being added to the list.

The FBI conducts an “internal review” when determining who goes on the list and President Obama and Attorney General Holder aren’t necessarily involved, the official explained.

FBI: Obama, Holder Weren't Involved in "Most Wanted Terrorists" Decision || Politic365

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What Will The Obama Agenda Do To Black America?

The Black Agenda Report asks.

Part 1

My Favorite Reporter Jake Tapper Is At CNN

My favorite reporter, Jake Tapper, is no longer the Senior White House Correspondent for ABC News and is now with CNN.

I became a fan of Jake Tapper when I saw him go back in forth with White House Press Secretary Jay Carney over Anwar al-Awlaki's murder by the United States government. Had it not been for Austrian economist Bob Murphy posting this link that September day, I may not be a fan of Jake Tapper. Even more, I've come to study Tapper's questioning style and kept a Jake Tapper book mark (the 7th slot) on my Mozilla browser.

In short, I've decided to model myself after Jake Tapper. More on that later.

Here's a non-HD version of the exchange.



But for the HD version, go where I first saw it.

Click here for the HD version.

Also noteworthy is when Tapper asked President Obama "Where have you been" on gun control. It was one of his last, if not his very last, time in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room as ABC's top White House reporter.


Click here for the HD version.

Shortly after this exchange, the news broke that he would be joining CNN.

Carter: Obama Drone Policies “Do More Harm Than Good” By Targeting “Potential Terrorists”

Former President Jimmy Carter (D) said that he thinks the United States in its foreign policy has “overcorrected” since the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, and that President Obama’s drone policy does “more harm than good” by targeting “potential terrorists” but also accidentally hitting civilians

During a recent trip to Haiti the former president was asked: “what are the main factors playing a role in this deterioration of human rights and the rule of law and how can we restore it?” The question, asked by a reporter at Russia Today, was prompted by an op-ed Carter wrote for the New York Times back in June where he argued that the “United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights.”

“Well the main violations to which I referred in that op-ed piece have been brought about by overcorrecting the 9/11 disaster when terrorists came in and destroyed as you know more than 3,000 American lives and two of our buildings and also even attacked the Defense Department,” he said.

Carter said that “we have overreacted” to the September 11, 2001 attacks and called himself “a lonely voice” because he doesn’t believe in “drone assassinations of people.”

“I personally think that we do more harm than good by having our drones attack some potential terrorists who have not been tried or proven that they are guilty,” Carter said.

“But in the meantime, the drone attacks also kill women and children, sometimes at weddings, and I think this arises more new terrorists than it possibly corrects in maybe killing a few other terrorists leaders so that’s the kind of thing that I think we should correct.”

Carter didn’t mention a specific act, but he also said that “we have now violated a longstanding policy” in the United States “of preserving the privacy of American citizens.”

“We now have passed laws that permit eavesdropping on private telephone calls and private communications. In the past when I was president we passed a law that that could not be done in a single case unless you got a judge to decide in advance that this was a national security question which was very rare. Now it's done all over America,” he said.

"So I think we need to back off from the overcorrection of the problem with the terrorists in 9/11 and restore basic human rights as spelled out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” he continued. “There are 30 paragraphs in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and my estimation is that at the present time the United States is violating ten out of thirty. Other countries are doing the same, but I was just referring to my own country.”

Two US Drone Strikes Kill Up to 21 People in Pakistan -- News from Antiwar.com

Two U.S. drones strikes in north-west Pakistan have killed up 21 people on Thursday and wounded several others, according to Pakistani officials.

Pakistani officials said that the first attack launched two missiles and killed at least five “militants,” and wounded several others. A second attack in the same area in North Waziristan, killed 15 Uzbek fighters, the officials said.

Two US Drone Strikes Kill Up to 21 People in Pakistan -- News from Antiwar.com