WH declassifies excerpts from Bush-era cybersecurity report

The White House on Tuesday made public excerpts of a previously classified report on cybersecurity prepared by the Bush adminisration.

 The report prescribes that the president “establish a front line of defense” and better address emerging cybersecurity threats.

It also calls on both White House officials and lawmakers to boost domestic Web security programs, especially with respect to the federal government’s classified networks, while expanding cybersecurity research and education programs.

The Obama White House decided on Tuesday to declassify the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), a 2008 report signed by President George W. Bush that has formed the bedrock of the White House’s cybersecurity policy.

Read more: The Hill

‘Grassroots’ Coffee Party Organizer Exposed as Obama Political Operative

Surprise! Surprise!It turns out that the “grassroots” organizer of the “progressive alternative” to the Tea Parties, the Coffee Party, has been exposed as an Obama political operative. If you had read the profiles of the Coffee Party founder Annabel Park (photo) in the Washington Post or New York Times you wouldn’t have had a hint as to her extensive political activity in the 2008 Obama campaign. So how did William A. Jacobson of Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion discover this “deep secret” that the two major newspapers with their vast resources were unable to find? Well, it required the “tremendous effort” of tapping a few keys and a whole mouse click to find this subject matter as Jacobson explains:

In fact, a simple internet search (which the NY Times apparently is not capable of doing) reveals that Park organized the Coffee Party for the specific purpose of undermining the Tea Party movement

Read more: Newsbusters

NBC: Rangel to give up tax committee gavel

WASHINGTON – After being admonished by an ethics panel for accepting corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean, Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., will take a “leave of absence” from his chairmanship of the powerful House Ways and Means committee, NBC News has learned.

The top spot may temporarily go to Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., according to leadership sources, or to Rep. Pete Stark of California, the committee’s second-ranking Democrat

Read more: NBC News

President Obama to Say Democrats Will Use Reconciliation to Pass Senate Health Care Reform Fix, If Not Given Up or Down Vote

White House officials tell ABC News that in his remarks tomorrow President Obama will indicate a willingness to work with Republicans on some issue to get a health care reform bill passed but will suggest that if it is necessary, Democrats will use the controversial “reconciliation” rules requiring only 51 Senate votes to pass the “fix” to the Senate bill, as opposed to the 60 votes to stop a filibuster and proceed to a vote on a bill

Read more: ABC News

Obama down in every Bush state he won in 2008

So much for the coming Democratic reallignment. Public Policy Poliing — Democratic polling firm — breaks the bad news for the president. Obama now has a negative approval in every Bush state that he flipped from red to blue in the last election:

Read more at the Washington Examiner

UK Muslim leader to put fatwa on Jihad

LONDON – A revered mainstream Muslim scholar is set to announce in London on Tuesday a fatwa (Muslim ruling) against terrorism and suicide bombing in the name of Islam.

Sheikh Dr. Tahir ul-Qadri, a widely recognized and respected authority on Islamic jurisprudence, will issue a comprehensive fatwa prohibiting terrorism and suicide bombing at a press conference in Westminster, central London.

The Pakistani-born Dr. Qadri has authored an unprecedented, 600-page fatwa on why suicide bombings and terrorism are un-Islamic and scripturally forbidden. The ruling is the most comprehensive theological refutation of Islamist terrorism to date

Read more: JPost

Obama looks to undecided Dems for health backing

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At least nine of the 39 Democrats who voted “nay” when the House passed sweeping overhaul legislation 220-215 in November are now undecided or withholding judgment until they see Obama’s final product, according to an Associated Press survey

Read more: AP

Marines evacuate Wash. Post reporter from war zone — to attend movie premiere?

Gawker is reporting that Washington Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran may have pulled some questionable shenanigans to get the Marines to evacuate him from his war zone embed:

The “personal reason” that Chandrasekaran needed out of Marja, it turns out, was so he could attend the New York premiere of The Green Zone, the new Matt Damon film based on Chandrasekaran’s 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City. Chandrasekaran’s last byline from Marja appeared on February 23, and here he is at the premiere on February 25.

“I had a number of reasons for needing to come back,” Chandrasekaran told Gawker. “Certainly attending the premiere of a movie inspired by a book that I wrote was among them. Unfortunately, there was a scheduling conflict and I had to leave Afghanistan when I did.” But Chandrasekaran never told the military officials who bent the rules for him and his paper why he needed the special treatment, and at least one of them was under the impression that it was some sort of family emergency. “I didn’t go into my reasons for needing to leave,” he said, “but I didn’t keep anything from them, and I certainly did not at any point say that there was a family emergency. They evaluated our request and they made their decision. They have their usual procedures, but I believe the public affairs staff recognizes that they’d like to have certain large news organizations covering significant military operations. That includes the Washington Post and others.”

Read more at the Washington Examiner

Farrakhan: Obama is targeted by U.S. Jewish lobby, Zionists

U.S. President Barack Obama is targeted because of standing up to the Jews who control American politics as well as its economy, the Chicago Sun Times quoted the leader of Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan as saying on Monday.

Farrakhan, speaking to a crowd of 20,000 followers at Chicago’s United Center on Sunday, said that Obama’s political problems began when he, according to the Chicago Sun Times report, stood up to the Jewish lobby during a White House meeting.

When they left the White House, his problems began,” Farrakhan said, adding that “the Zionists are in control of the Congress.”

Read more: Haaretz

Liberty Loses a Voice

On Thursday, February 18, one minute before the conclusion of his four-hour morning radio show on KSFO in San Francisco, conservative talk show host Lee Rodgers was fired. Rodgers was under contract until July, but it didn’t matter. Rodgers wasn’t allowed to gracefully say goodbye to his listeners. By the next day, KSFO evening host Brian Sussman had taken over the morning job. Rodgers’ forty-plus-year radio broadcasting career is over, at least for now

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What is most worrisome for the conservative movement is the unspoken reason behind the KSFO firings: It appears that the station ownership, Citadel Broadcasting, led by CEO Farid Suleiman, may be “bowing” to complaints from liberal activists and Muslim sympathizers.  Rodgers would rant about “Mooslims” and radical Islam on his show, and he frequently mentioned that the Council on American Islamic Relations was complaining about his views. He hinted at this in a blog posting on Melanie Morgan’s website this week after his termination:

I WILL tell you, in all candor, that thanks to Mr. Suleiman’s Citadel management, I could no longer proudly say that the company had never told me what to say or what not to say.  There was an obvious cave-in to some ultra-left and pro-Muslim groups, making it unlikely that I would have ever renewed my contract with the company, anyway

Read more: The American Thinker