Well so much for buy American made!

Leak Gives Marine One Helicopter Details to Iran

A file-sharing glitch reportedly has put engineering, cost and communications details about President Barack Obama’s Marine One helicopter in the hands of Tehran.

NBC affiliate WPXI in Pittsburgh reported Saturday that a Pennsylvania–based security company called Tiversa uncovered the classified information at an IP address in Iran’s capital city.

The CEO of Tiversa, Bob Boback told the TV station, “We found a file containing entire blueprints and avionics package for Marine One, which is the president’s helicopter.”

Tiversa consultant, retired General Wesley Clark advised that the company had located the individual computer and employee that left the information vulnerable.
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This government of ours isn’t doing such a great job now is it? I guess thats what Obama gets for mouthing back at John McCain last week about he didn’t need a new helicopter! Also people do you see by not buying America made we are losing jobs overseas?

Pricey New Presidential Choppers Not Made in U.S.A. – Leak Gives Marine One Helicopter Details to Iran

President Barack Obama’s entreaties to “buy American” to improve the economy apparently doesn’t include the fleet of new Marine One helicopters he’ll soon be shuttled around in.

The Pentagon is spending $11.2 billion for 23 European-designed, British-built helicopters to replace the aging squadron of American aircraft used by American presidents for the past 30 years.

Critics of the presidential purchase claim the contract for the new Lockheed Martin “US101” variant of the Italian choppers violates a decades-old law that requires weapons systems and components used by the U.S. military to be made primarily in the United States.

President Herbert Hoover signed the act into law in 1933 to ensure the United States government would use American made products whenever possible. The law has largely been circumvented by so-called “Memorandums of Understanding” to waive implementation of the law until now, Carter said. Read More

Gitmo Terrorists to Alcatraz

Bond, who is vice chair of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee and member of the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Terrorist Surveillance Program, says his state and nearby Leavenworth prison in Kansas want no part in housing terror suspects.

“The people in San Francisco are the ones making the big noise about it,” Bond told several reporters during a telephone conference Wednesday with KMOX News radio in St. Louis. “And if they want to bring [the detainees] to the United States, I think we ought to put them in Alcatraz and let our good friends in San Francisco deal with these deadly combatants who, in the past, when released from Guantanamo, have gone back on the battlefield to kill Americans.”  Read More

UPdate 25 Jan
Its fine with Pelosi to send the Gitmo terrorist to live next to you in States other than her own.

Pelosi Shrugs off Alcatraz as Possible Terror Detention Facility

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday shrugged off Republican suggestions that the federal government reopen Alcatraz prison in her San Francisco district to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Read More

Thats the best idea that I have heard yet. How about it San Francisco these terrorist could fit right in.  Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together.

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(1) “Rehab:” Gitmo recidivists thumb their noses in new video
Two former Guantánamo Bay detainees now appear to have joined Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch, which released a video on Friday showing them both and identifying them by their names and Guantánamo detainee numbers.

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The Big Money Behind Timothy Geithner Obamas’ Treasury Secretary

This will blow your mind!

Geithner is a wheeler-dealer for powerful special interests.  ”There has to be something more to the rationale for confirming somebody who is this much of a conniver or this dumb to the post. What is it? The Answers here

After reading from the source, then you decide if Geithner is the man for the job!

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Barack & Michelle Obama’s Adventures in Chicago Pay to Play Politics

Barack and Michelle Obama Pay to Play

Diverting poor black patients away from University of Chicago Hospital to lower-quality medical facilities so U Chicago would not be stuck with as many expensive indigent care cases. Source: hillbuzz

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