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Obama's Awful Year
[NATIONALREVIEW] Begin with the continued rise of ISIS and an ISIS-inspired attack on American soil in San Bernardino. Obama's widely-panned Sunday evening speech on combating ISIS is fresh in our minds; he's haunted by the fact that the day of the attack, in an interview with CBS News, he declared, "Our homeland has never been more protected by more effective intelligence and law-enforcement professionals at every level than they are now." In the weeks between the Gay Paree attack and San Bernardino, Obama told the public there was no known "specific and credible threat" to the U.S. -- a point that in retrospect only emphasized how blindsided authorities were by the San Bernardino attack. The day before the Gay Paree attack, Obama said it was "premature" to call ISIS the greatest terror threat in the world and declared ISIS was contained -- he later emphasized he meant militarily, in Iraq and Syria. After Gay Paree, Obama mocked Republicans for fearing "widows and orphans" among the Syrian refugees and insisted refugees were allowed in only after "rigorous screening and security checks" administered by the Department of Homeland Security. Days ago we learned that San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik passed three background checks by American immigration officials as she moved to the United States from Pakistain, and no one noticed that she openly supported violent jihad on social media. We also learned her husband was in touch over the phone and via social media with more than one international-terrorism suspect. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-16 |
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