President Obamas terrorists policies has made America the number one target of global Terrorist again.
His plan to close Guantanamo Bay prision in Cuba, will allow thousands of Terrorist to be released back into the general population.
His plan to treat Terrorist as American civiliians, is a mistake.
All of these policies has made America the number one Terrorists target again.
EVAN KOHLMANN, NBC TERRORISM ANALYST:
KOHLMANN: Well, I think the answer is, is that we‘ve had the wrong mentality. We have this fortress mentality where we‘re trying to stop terrorists at airports and in airplanes when they‘re already at the target, long before we should have stopped them initially. The way to stop these folks is through intelligence.
And, you know, the fact that we haven‘t processed intelligence in this case, that‘s not an isolated example. This is a phenomenon that‘s been happening for the last nine years, ongoing.
Richard Reid, you just mentioned Richard Reid, we had Guantanamo Bay detainees in our custody at the time of Richard Reid‘s attempted bombing of an American Airlines plane who knew him, who knew that he was an al Qaeda operative, who knew that he was close friends with Zacarias Moussaoui, and yet, that information was never fed to anyone. Nobody realized it until after Richard Reid had already tried to detonate his shoes on board that airliner.
So, the logic that we send people to Guantanamo Bay and that somehow solves the problem, look, that‘s entirely bankrupt. Not to mention the fact that the people that sent out Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the leaders of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, these were Guantanamo Bay detainees. They were released by the Bush administration, against the advice of the U.S. military, who repeatedly said that these individuals posed an active threat to U.S. national security.
For political reasons, within months of these people being judged unfit for release, they were sent back to Saudi Arabia. How can that happen? There was a serious breakdown here. It‘s not just a breakdown that‘s happened in the last year, it‘s a breakdown that‘s happened over the last nine years.
SHUSTER: Can you fact-check the criticism a little bit? Were the critics equally hard on Mr. Bush? And secondly, are they saying anything substantive that the White House has yet to acknowledge?
KOHLMANN: No. Look, I—you know, I look at what Peter King is saying and I wonder, how come he wasn‘t saying this five years ago, when the Bush administration failed to take under its wing the intelligence reform that was promised. It was promised on the 9/11Commission report. This reform never happened.
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Mr. Kohlmann knows what he's talking about. Stop blaming President Obama for the mess we are in now.