KABUL, Afghanistan — For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan’s president — courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency.

All told, tens of millions of dollars have flowed from the C.I.A. to the office of President Hamid Karzai, according to current and former advisers to the Afghan leader.

“We called it ‘ghost money,’ ” said Khalil Roman, who served as Mr. Karzai’s chief of staff from 2002 until 2005. “It came in secret, and it left in secret.” (more…)

WASHINGTON DC – Attorney General Eric Holder on Saturday defended the decision to read the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon terror bombings his Miranda rights.

Holder said the decision was “totally consistent with the laws that we have.”

He also pointed to the federal magistrate on the case.

“The decision to Mirandize was one that the magistrate made,” Holder told CNN as he arrived at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington.

Early on Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler showed up at the hospital unannounced with a federal prosecutor and public defender while the suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was being questioned by the FBI. (more…)

“We are not recommending any policy other than one exception. That is, if the United States decides to arm the Syrian rebels with lethal weapons, not just defensive weaponry, that those rebels and those weapons be very carefully vetted. We had a very bad experience with Libya where shoulder-fired missiles went disappeared very quickly and showed up in our backyard. We don’t want that to happen again in Syria.”

APRIL 27th 2013 –  It was revealed for the first time today that the body of murdered Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was recovered by a secret two man Special “Ops” team that was not affiliated with any of the other security entities involved in the Benghazi attack..

This team, acting under their own initiative and armed with their own weapons, undertook this mission despite very little intelligence available for this exceedingly hostile and volatile environment. The information came to light this morning on WVOX’s Vernuccio/Allison radio show.

The previously undisclosed information was provided by former Army Ranger Jack Murphy who is the co-author along with Brandon Webb of Benghazi: The Definitive Report. (more…)

WASHINGTON DC – Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Saturday promised that “explosive” congressional hearings over the Benghazi, Libya attacks are on the way.

“There are more Benghazi hearings coming, I think they’re going to be explosive,” Gowdy said on Fox News.

Gowdy, a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said the hearings are going to be “coming quickly” and seemed to hint that the public might for the first time hear from witnesses to the September assault that left four Americans dead. (more…)

A democrat lawmaker, Representative David Linsky, has taken a position against Mass Democrat Governor Deval Patrick and is working to outline the finances and bring to the public for review.   Well done Mr. Linsky.

(Via Daily Mail)  The deceased Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his wife Katherine relied on food stamps and public assistance from 2011 to 2012, soon after they became parents.

New details have emerged about taxpayer money that was shelled out to the family of the bombing suspects, after the Mass. Gov. previously refused to divulge information on their welfare benefits.

A state lawmaker was able to obtain data about government assistance the Tsarnaevs received and that information was passed on to the media. (more…)

NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) –

Part of landing gear apparently from one of the jetliners that  crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, has been  found wedged between two buildings, one of them a mosque site, in  Lower Manhattan, the NYPD said Friday.

The debris is stuck between the back of 51 Park Place and the rear of 50  Murray Street, according to Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne. (more…)

I’m putting together some more “in depth” information using prior and current research about Syria.   But I just want to throw out a note of caution on the Chemical Weapons issues.

Obama set the red line as WMD use.   I said at the time that was stupid and still believe it.

Forget the damned “red lines”.   Why?

We don’t know who would use the WMD.  Just because it’s used doesn’t mean Assad is using it.  Think about who benefits?

The Assad regime probably would never use chemical weapons period.   The guy is a facist marxist just like Quackdaffy – but he’s also a realist and more westernized than the media will openly tell you.

The “rebels” or resistance in Syria fighting Assad is not just some random collection of democracy loving freedom individualists.  That crew was kicked out about 20 months ago.  It is now 100% al-Qaeda radicals – Al-nursa front. (more…)

In a splashy, dramatic and well choreographed press conference, the Canadian government announced that it has two men in custody in the VIA rail alleged bomb plot, while the FBI is holding a third suspect in New York.  The US media has not investigated nor released any information about the mystery “third suspect” in custody in New York city.

The National Post has determined that the Jaser family created a highly suspect and unbelievable claim of “victimhood” while in Germany (a safe country), alleging that Molotov cocktails were thrown by racists at the family’s apartment, forcing them to “flee” Germany.  These claims were never proven true, and Germany is host to a large population of well protected and state supported Muslims.  In any event, the Jaser family flew to Canada in 1993 on fake passports to claim refugee status and asylum.  Their bogus refugee claim was rejected, but by exploiting the Prog doctrine of sympathy for the fictional and non-existent “Palestinian state”, the Jasers were able to convince an adjudicator that they were “stateless” and had no where to go.

National Post investigates Raed Jaser Family History

Although it was clear that the family had safe haven in Germany and there was no need to “flee” to Canada, several intelligence sources have speculated that the family sought a location in close proximity to the US.

The other VIA Rail bombing suspect in custody, Chiheb Esseghaier, a doctoral student at INRS, a well regarded and federally funded research facility affiliated with the University of Quebec,  was described by other tenants in his residential building as the “neighbor from hell”.  It is clear from independent reports of those who lived close to him that he had difficulty integrating into Canadian culture and appeared to have significant mental health issues.  The concierge at his building described him as a “deeply religious man”.  In spite of numerous warning flags, and being monitored by the Canadian security agencies,  Esseghaier was granted permanent residency status.

Read more about “Esseghaier would scream like a maniac at all hours”.

Both men were able to exploit loopholes in the existing immigration and “refugee asylum” system in Canada to seek shelter in major cities close to the US border, in spite of ample warnings and red flags about the security risk they posed.

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