Warning that would-be terrorists are “hiding within our midst,” White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said Tuesday night that President Obama will not allow potential attackers to use U.S. citizenship as a shield – and that the naturalization process is being looked at to see if there can be improvements.
Brennan also said that a new high-value detainee interrogation group, known as the HIG, had been deployed to question recent terrorism suspects, including the naturalized citizen who allegedly tried to detonate a car bomb in Times Square. The group’s resources were also used in the questioning of a suspect who sought to down an airline on Christmas Day, he said.
Brennan said that, while the rise in terrorism from people with easy access to the United States is being closely watched, it is important not to overreact “so we become xenophobic.”
But he did suggest that U.S. officials might not treat American citizens with terrorist aims any differently than they would suspects captured abroad.
“Individuals shouldn’t be able to hide behind their U.S. passports, behind their U.S. citizenship,” Brennan said at a dinner hosted by the Nixon Center, a Washington think tank.
“There are certain laws that govern how we deal with U.S. persons and U.S. citizens and those laws are adhered to, but if we were to give U.S. persons … a pass simply because of the passport they hold or their place of birth, we would be making the American people … more vulnerable to those attacks.”
Raising the idea of recent proposals in Congress to strip terrorism suspects of their citizenship, Brennan said such efforts might do little to prevent attacks because they would punish suspects only after the fact. Furthermore, he said, sending someone to prison for life has the same practical effect as stripping away the rights of U.S. citizens. Still, he described the issues as “important and legitimate questions that honest people can have very different views of.”
In remarks that focused largely on the administration’s counterterrorism strategy, Brennan publicly confirmed that national security adviser James Jones and CIA Director Leon Panetta are in Pakistan talking to officials about Faisal Shahzad, the suspect captured after a failed car bomb attempt in Times Square on May 1.
He said that the administration’s newly created interrogation program was used to interrogate Shahzad, as well as the attempted airline attacker, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Although the group had not been fully activated by the time Abdulmutallab was taken into custody on Christmas Day, some of its participants did gain access to him eventually. “These mobile interrogation teams have been deployed on multiple occasions,” Brennan said.
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Rob_ I think you might be the one who is a bit off. There have been far worse atrocities in history with more proven facts and evidence than the “jewish” holocaust. It is now so bad that you cannot even use the term holocaust for any other event because it has been copyrighted for the jews, by the jews and of the jews. Why do we never care about the Armenians and if jews really cared about such things why are they not lobbying for recognition of the armenian, native american, or other holocausts? They care only for themselves. It is important to address you point though concerning who is a jew and all that. The average jew personally knows little about such things, they are as blind sheep too. They donate and they eat up all the propaganda, as do the gentiles. But there exist a class of jewish puppeteers who are in turn puppets of the bilderberger types. While it is appropriate and necessary to disclose as truth the domination of the jewish agenda, I believe in the end these jews who ‘think’ they are running the show are in their own turn tools easily dispensed with should the true masters of the universe deem them too much of a liability. If the west in general wakes up to the jewish treachery do you think the gentile powerbrokers will defend them? NO. They will let them serve as scapegoats-again- while confiscating their wealth and accumulating even more wealth in the midst and wake of the hysteria. It was done before. After WWI the jews, like vampires to blood, came to the US. The power demons view them as their most cunning and useful puppets but NEVER, their equal-which is something jewry should never forget.
THE DOMINATION OF JEWRY OVER AMERICA is now complete.
Jews are in control of every sphere of America’s infrastructure. The 3 major areas of Jewry’s victory over the American people are 1) Banking; 2) Politics; & 3) Education.
To understand what a “victory” over the Gentiles in America means for the Jews, a simple equation is all that is needed. Jewry wishes to enslave the Gentiles to its own agenda & to eradicate any particularism unique to Gentile culture.
One of the “particulars” of Gentile culture has been their historical allegiance to the Christian faith and the national customs bound up with that faith. America was once known as a “Christian” nation with a distinct “Christian” culture.
But the Zionist Jews, through their infiltration of academia and the press, have turned America into a secular nation. Yet “secularism” is just another name for “judaism.”
For in a secular society, in which any particular Gentile strain has been diluted, Jewry can promote their Jewish propaganda, UNCHALLENGED, to its maximum effect. This is why the American people have been instilled with a sense of “Gentile guilt” given Jewry’s promotion of the so-called “Holocaust” – which has been proven to be yet another Jewish hoax.
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Milhail are you insane ? The Holocaust did happen. These Zionist Jews you speak of are NOT the same Jews in Israel or the same we learn about in The Bible. The people that tun this world “the bilderberg’s” are a bunch of Satanic deciples trying to collapse every nations economy to make a One World Government. Thats all they want, besides to kill off 85 to 90% of us. They will prevail…for a while. But when its all said and done they shall ALL burn in the pit of HELL.