{"id":19138,"date":"2013-06-09T19:37:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T23:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19138"},"modified":"2013-06-09T19:37:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T23:37:25","slug":"posted-on-facebook-by-allen-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19138","title":{"rendered":"Posted On Facebook By Allen West"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 data-ft=\"{&quot;type&quot;:1,&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">As I ponder the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"National Security Agency\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=39.109,-76.77&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=39.109,-76.77 (National%20Security%20Agency)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">NSA<\/a> records data mining episode here are my thoughts. This is like carpet bombing vs. precision attack. Can someone explain why we weren\u2019t listening to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Anwar al-Aulaqi\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anwar_al-Aulaqi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Anwar-al-Awlaki<\/a> and his conversations with Major <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Nidal Malik Hasan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nidal_Malik_Hasan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Nidal Hasan<\/a>? Why weren\u2019t we able to track <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"2009 Little Rock recruiting office shooting\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2009_Little_Rock_recruiting_office_shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Carlos Bledsoe<\/a>&#8216;s travel to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Somalia\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=2.03333333333,45.35&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=2.03333333333,45.35 (Somalia)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Somalia<\/a> and Yemen to receive terrorist training? Why didn\u2019t we pay attention to warning signs of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Abdul Mutallab<\/a> (underwear bomber) with a one-way ticket and little baggage traveling from Nigeria to America? Why weren\u2019t we paying attention to the Tsarnaev brothers\u2019 travels and connections to Chechen <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Islamic terrorism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islamic_terrorism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Islamic terrorism<\/a> &#8212; heck Russia warned us? Why is it that in October 2011, 57 Islamic organizations &#8212; several with ties to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Muslim Brotherhood\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ikhwanonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Muslim Brotherhood<\/a> &#8212; sent a letter to then counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan demanding we purge training materials and punish instructors they deemed &#8220;offensive&#8221; and we didn\u2019t say \u201cshove it\u201d and target THEIR records? We\u2019d rather carpet bomb Americans to cover our cowardice in confronting <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Islamic extremism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islamic_extremism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Islamic extremism<\/a>. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benjamin Franklin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Franklin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Benjamin Franklin<\/a> said, &#8220;Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.\u201d<\/h5>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=8a78f863-2f1f-4e6b-986e-50d714f170f6\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I ponder the NSA records data mining episode here are my thoughts. This is like carpet bombing vs. precision attack. Can someone explain why we weren\u2019t listening to Anwar-al-Awlaki and his conversations with Major Nidal Hasan? Why weren\u2019t we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19138\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5605,2727,666,5687,850,900,5688,809,894],"class_list":["post-19138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2009-little-rock-recruiting-office-shooting","tag-allen-west","tag-anwar-al-awlaki","tag-benjamin-franklin","tag-islamic-terrorism","tag-muslim-brotherhood","tag-national-security-agency","tag-nidal-malik-hasan","tag-somalia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19141,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19138\/revisions\/19141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}