What Is This World Coming To?

Barack Hussein Obama, in an interview with France’s Canal Plus published Tuesday, told the interviewer:

“And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. And so there’s got to be a better dialogue and a better understanding between the two peoples.”

America’s Islamic population, according to the CIA Factbook, is slightly below the number of Buddhists that call America home.   The CIA says America’s Islamic population is about 0.6% compared to 0.7% for Buddhists.

Actually, America ranks as about the 34th largest Muslim country in the world.

Nobody Told Me Nuthin!

Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18 months that she was never told that these techniques were actually being used.

In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress ever briefed on the interrogation tactics. Then the ranking member and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, respectively, Pelosi and Goss were briefed Sept. 4, 2002, one week before the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The memo, issued by the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency to Capitol Hill, notes the Pelosi-Goss briefing covered “EITs including the use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah.” EIT is an acronym for enhanced interrogation technique. Zubaydah was one of the earliest valuable al-Qaeda members captured and the first to have the controversial tactic known as water boarding used against him.

The issue of what Pelosi knew and when she knew it has become a matter of heated debate on Capitol Hill. Republicans have accused her of knowing for many years precisely the techniques CIA agents were using in interrogations, and only protesting the tactics when they became public and liberal antiwar activists protested.

More from Capitol Briefing

President Barack Obama came to office amid promises of a ‘new era of openness’ after having spent the preceding two years criticizing the Bush administration for undue secrecy.   Obama promised he would not sign any legislation until the public had one full week to scrutinize it online.

Then he rammed the stimulus bill through Congress on a Friday, before anybody had time to read it, took a long weekend off, and signed it the very next business day after its passage.  The Politico noted:

In his first weeks in office, President Barack Obama shut down his predecessor’s system for reviewing regulations, realigned and expanded two key White House policymaking bodies and extended economic sanctions against parties to the conflict in the African nation of Cote D’Ivoire.

Despite the intense scrutiny a president gets just after the inauguration, Obama managed to take all these actions with nary a mention from the White House press corps.

A Politico review of Federal Register issuances since Obama took office found three executive orders, one presidential memorandum, one presidential notice, and one proclamation that went unannounced by the White House.

Two of Obama’s actions on regulatory reform were spotted by bloggers, lobbying groups and trade publications after they emerged in the Federal Register.

Obama promised a new kind of presidency.  He promised unprecedented openness.  And he lied.  This is only the beginning. . . .

So much for Obama’s claim that William Ayers, the founder of the Weather Underground, an unrepentant terrorist who wishes he’d done more to bring down America,  was just a guy in the neighborhood he barely knew.

Independent scientific analysis by a number of leading experts supports the literary detective work of WND columnist Jack Cashill that has led him to conclude unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers was the primary author of important sections of Barack Obama’s highly acclaimed memoir and editor of the book as a whole.

Obama claims little more than a passing acquaintance with Ayers, yet one of the experts told Cashill:

“The Ayers-Obama matching shows a measurable and substantial effect. It is easily and objectively distinguishable from comparison to a third document. These results achieved through good methodology should readily stimulate scientists skilled in the particular relevant fields to construct their own tests, place objective metrics on the correlation between the Ayers-Obama documents and publish results.”

What does it mean?  At minimum, the leading candidate for the presidency is both a liar and a fraud.  That’s not a good place to begin exploring his character from.