The Flying Imam’s Want Access to Security Manuals for Lawsuit

There was a hearing yesterday in the Flying Imams lawsuit. The discovery process started in April is now underway in earnest. This hearing was on motions to compel to answer to discovery, which is what a party in a lawsuit brings when the other party is not supplying the information requested in discovery.

……An encouraging development is that the media was present at the hearing. Bob McNaney from Channel 5, Jim Walsh of the Star-Tribune, and David Hanners of the St. Paul Pioneer-Press were present.

Omar Mohammedi, attorney for the imams, and President of the Board of Directors for the New York Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, went first. His motion was for the judge, Arthur Boylan, to compel US Airways to divulge its training manuals, and information on its security procedures, so that they could show that the security procedures were not followed down to the last jot and tittle when the imams were removed from US Airways Flight 300 on November 20, 2006.

……When I realized what Mohammedi was asking for, I was briefly dazed, as I heard the sound in my mind’s ear of a thousand bloggers screaming something to the effect of “Ok, let me get this straight. A group of imams led by a fundraiser for a Muslim charity (the Holy Land Foundation) which was shut down by the Treasury Department for its connections to Hamas, is asking a judge to compel an airline to divulge its security procedures. And everyone’s OK with that?!?”

This reveals yet another purpose of the Flying Imams attack, to extract information regarding airline security in a way that’s much faster and cheaper than traditional espionage or a series of probing attacks.

……Omar Mohammedi was clearly not interested in answering questions about CAIR’s involvement in the lawsuit. He mentioned that CAIR is a client of his law firm, and thus communications between him, the imams, and CAIR are protected under attorney-client privilege, but he was much more interested in changing the subject. His final remark to the three of us was “As far as we’re concerned, this a racial profiling case,” as if to say that CAIR’s involvement wasn’t really relevant to the proceedings.

http://www.crosswordbebop.com/?p=1539

The little Islamo-miscreants want to get ahold of airline sensitve security information.
Forcing the TSA to hand over security information is a lot easier than spying for it.
It’ll make their next attempt at a terrorist attack a lot easier, to boot.

Let’s hope the court tells these assclowns to take a flying leap.

McCain’s Pandering to La Raza

John McCain flip-flops like crazy over the issue of border security and illegal aliens.

During a townhall meeting, he confronted “La Raza” radical Enrique Morones. Morones is a member of “Borders Angels”, another group of scofflaws who aid and abet illegals.

McCain: Let me just tell you sir, I talked about the people who have come across here illegally and those who have died in the desert. I know that — I come from a border state. I’ve been in Mexico many times. But there’s also drugs coming across our border, sir, that are killing Americans too. And they’re working right there [applause] — yes, sir, and they’re working right there and sending people who just want to come across the border illegally to cover their own activities. [voice rising] The United States of America has to have secure borders, sir, and I will do that. And that’s necessary even if you may disagree. Our nation’s national-security requirements are — that we have secure borders. But we can address this issue in a humane and compassionate fashion, I am committed to that and you have my commitment to it, and we will make it the highest priority, and if you don’t think that we have to secure our borders, then I respect your view but we just disagree.
Link: http://hotair.com/archives/2008/07/15/audio-mccain-rips-la-raza-activist-that-obama-praised/

This is what happened behind the scenes after  the exchange:

On a Mexican radio program on 1420 AM in Tijuana hosted by Odilon Garcia, Morones called in and gave more information on what Morones and McCain talked about after their public conversation took place.

Morones told Garcia that while McCain was talking on the microphone about the fact that drug smugglers are using migrants to cross over illegal drugs, Morones told him that the United States should stop the demand for illegal drugs.

After McCain ended his Q and A session, Morones and McCain spoke face to face and McCain told him about the need for Border Security. Morones asked the Senator to meet with him privately without cameras so Enrique could make the point that Immigration raids are “separating families” and border walls are “killing immigrants”. He told the Senator to ask Enrique’s good friend Juan Hernandez, whom Enrique had dinner the night before, to set up the private meeting. McCain told him that he would. Enrique said that he would ask McCain to sign an executive order to stop Immigration raids.

Enrique then adds, that he called Juan Hernandez about the mistake the McCain campaign is doing by portraying the picture of John McCain with the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe in the background at the NCLR convention. Morones then told the story that on Saturday some students called him at the convention that they were upset with the McCain booth having a picture of Senator McCain with the Virgin of Guadalupe because the senator was using the image of the virgin for political purposes. One of the students took the picture and ran away. Some security officers ran off and caught the student but that the picture was not hung back. The next day the picture was not seen and Morones called that a victory.
Link: http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/15/mccain-at-the-race-conference-capitulation-complete/

McCain was also a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, a proposed bill that would have granted amnesty to illegals.

But,this is what he told conservative bloggers:

As for the Dream Act, McCain told us that he would have voted against cloture (i.e., in favor of preventing a vote) because he “got the message” this summer that Americans want the border secured before we “go on to the rest.” McCain would deem parts of the border secure when the governor of the relevant state so certifies.
Link: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2007/10/018851.php

On the other hand, at a recent address to La Raza, Juan McAmnesty told an audience member that he’ll support the DREAM Act.

Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oivKVWGE2mU&eurl=http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/15/mccain-at-the-race-conference-capitulation-complete/

He also has open-borders radicals like Juan Hernandez, on his staff:
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/juan-open-borders-hernandez/

Dear Juan McAmnesty:

How about ENFORCING the law and preventing anymore MS 13’s, rapists, murderers, thieves, and terrorists, from traipsing across our sieve-like borders.

In other words, grow a pair, help secure the border, and stop pandering to illegals.

But, one can only DREAM.

“Domestic Spying” Frees FARC Hostages

Not that you’ll see any gratitude from the NPR: Link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92383286, but I’m quite sure the rescued people won’t quibble over the “spying” hype.

The stunning rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors owed its success not just to artful deception, but also to a five-year U.S.-Colombian operation that choked their captors’ ability to communicate.

Known as “Alliance,” it began with a satellite phone call in 2003, just weeks after the Americans’ surveillance plane crashed in the southern Colombian jungle, according to U.S. and Colombian investigators and court documents.

The call came from Nancy Conde, the regional finance and supply chief for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, whose boyfriend would become the American hostages’ jailer. She was calling confederates in Miami to see if they could supply the rebels with some satellite phones.

What Conde didn’t know was that state security agents were listening.

U.S. law officers arrested the Miami contacts, who in exchange for promises of reduced sentences put Conde in touch with an FBI front company, according to a U.S. law enforcement official involved in the investigation, who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons.

Over more than four years, that company provided wiretapped satphones and other compromised telecommunications equipment that threw the rebels off balance and eventually helped authorities strangle their supply lines.

The operation laid crucial groundwork for the brazen July 2 commando rescue of 15 hostages held by a rebel unit that Conde supplied, the biggest blow ever dealt to the FARC.

In all, U.S. and Colombian agents intercepted more than 5,000 rebel phone conversations, investigators told The Associated Press.

They allegedly heard Conde and her coconspirators negotiate shipments of everything from assault rifles to condoms for distribution to about a third of the FARC’s estimated 9,000 fighters, including the 1st Front that held the hostages.

“We’re not talking just about finances, communications equipment, food and weapons—but also medical supplies, medicines and people who cared directly for the wounded,” said Luis Ernesto Tamayo, the security official who ran the Colombian side of the operation.
Link: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D91RAQ5O0&show_article=1&catnum=0

Gee, I wonder if the former hostages think their ‘civil rights’ were ‘violated’.

ICE Attorney Arrested for Abetting Illegal Aliens

Like the fox watching the henhouse:

LOS ANGELES - An attorney for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and his wife were arrested on suspicion of accepting thousands of dollars from both legal and illegal immigrants in exchange for immigration benefits, authorities said.

ICE Assistant Chief Counsel Constantine Peter Kallas, 38, and wife Maria Kallas, 39, both of Alta Loma, were arrested Thursday at the San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino, where authorities believed they were accepting such a bribe, U.S. Attorney spokesman Thom Mrozek said in a statement.

A search warrant affidavit said the couple, using a pair of companies they had set up, filed false employment petitions with federal authorities for 45 illegal immigrants and two legal permanent residents.Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080627/ap_on_re_us/immigration_corruption

It’s bad enough the Border Patrol can’t stop the thousands who sneak in without detection, and that the Federal government rufuses to secure the border, but we also have to contend with slimeballs in the ICE who make it easier for more illegals to skirt the system.

I hope they throw the book at these two assholes.

Mexico Frees Murderers of U.S. Border Patrol Agents

Our ‘freinds’ the Mexicans:

U.S. officials say they are outraged that a judge in Mexico has released a man suspected of killing a Yuma border agent this year by ramming a Humvee into the agent’s all-terrain vehicle.

The release of 22-year-old Jesus Navarro Montes comes as U.S. Border Patrol agents grapple with an increase in vehicle-ramming attacks along the Mexican border in recent years.

Since Oct. 1, the Border Patrol in Arizona has logged 24 truck assaults on agents or their barricades along the border. The number hit a record 44 the previous year, which was before work crews built dozens of miles of vehicle barriers along the Arizona-Sonora line.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement says its agents also have seen a steady increase in vehicle attacks in recent months, although ICE does not keep statistics.

The ICE doesn’t keep track of illegals, either.

Navarro’s release last week, which since has come to U.S. officials’ attention, drew outrage from the Border Patrol and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.

In a written statement Wednesday, Chertoff said, “We are shocked and appalled,” calling the death of Agent Luis Aguilar “a heinous act of violence.” Paul Beeson, head of the Border Patrol’s Yuma Sector, said he was “outraged” at the news.

Chertoff should be even more shocked and appalled at the fact that two border agents were imprisoned in 2006 for doing their jobs.
Links:
http://archive.glennbeck.com/realstory/10-23-06.shtml
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,249478,00.html

But one Mexican official suggested it was U.S. authorities’ failure to act that led to Navarro’s release.

“The U.S. has not issued an arrest warrant or an extradition request and has presented no evidence of Navarro’s guilt,” said Ricardo Alday, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Yeah, maybe we shoulda sent Duane “Dog” Chapman, the Bounty Hunter, to get the sonofabitch since the government won’t do it. He had success nabbing a fugitive serial rapist, Andrew Luster, who fled to Mexico in 2003. Chapman was not only charged by the Mexican government for ‘kidnapping’, but arrested by the imbeciles in the Federal Marshals for doing the job they refused. All charges were subsequently dropped.
Links:
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Jan30/0,4670,ChapmanExtradition,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,213856,00.html

……Aguilar, a Yuma Sector agent, was killed in January when he laid a spike strip to stop a suspicious truck from returning to Mexico through the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area in California.

A Humvee struck Aguilar, 32, and crossed the border. Navarro, accused of being the driver, was arrested later in Mexicali. Navarro was held in a Mexican jail on prior human-smuggling charges until his release last week.

The diplomatic exchange over Navarro’s release comes as the Bush administration pushes for a $1.6 billion aid package to help Mexican law enforcement fight its drug war.
Link: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/06/26/20080626ramming.html

How about spending that money to build a BORDER WALL, George?

BTW: The scumbag illegal shot by the wrongfully imprisoned agents, was himself arrested:

EL PASO, Texas — The arrest of an admitted Mexican drug smuggler shot by a pair of U.S. Border Patrol agents is prompting renewed calls for the former law-enforcement officials’ release from prison.

Osvaldo Aldrete Davila was arrested Thursday at an international port of entry in El Paso; a sealed indictment issued in October charged him with drug smuggling offenses.

“These guys absolutely need to be pardoned,” Rep. Tom Tancredo, R.-Colo., told FOX News on Friday.

The agents, Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos, were convicted last year of shooting Aldrete and lying about it. The agents were each sentenced to more than a decade in prison.

“This whole thing with Davila shows you how rotten the deal is they got,” Tancredo said.
Link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311996,00.html

Gotta love the ass-backwards mentality of the Department of Homeland Stupidity.