OBAMA WHITE HOUSE BACKED RELEASE OF LOCKERBIE BOMBER
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, July 25, 2010, 4:55 PM
The British specialist who examined the Lockerbie bomber revealed yesterday that he warned the Scottish Government that the cancer which won the Libyan his freedom would not kill him.
The US backed the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi.
The Australian reported:
THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya.
Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.
The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.
The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama’s claim last week that all Americans were “surprised, disappointed and angry” to learn of Megrahi’s release.
And apparently BP had no role in his release.
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Chisum commented:
Wow. (-20) on Rasmussen today.
This news will not help his poll numbers.
How low can you go?
Buffalobob commented:
Isn’t congress having hearings next week with BP officials? They could be embarrassing in light of the latest WH shenanigans. (a Scottish reference).
ProLifer commented:
Where is the outrage?
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mmm commented:
I pray the TRUTH will set us free from the grip of Obama.
NeoKong commented:
Obama lied to us…..?
I don’t believe it.
Just how many Americans do you have to kill before a liberal will punish them ?
squeaky commented:
[the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.] the genius got snookered?
IL Patriot commented:
The outrage over this is palpable. Now, there is NO reason to believe that Obama is not a muslim. We can put a man on the moon but we can’t oust this obamination who daily slaps the face of taxpaying, freedom loving Americans. What will we learn next? Every day comes a new revelation and another reason to think we are losing our country. I pray Congressman Issa will soon have subpeona power and uses it frequently.
squeaky commented:
“Just how many Americans do you have to kill before a liberal will punish them ?” if they’re the
ones who buy into a 5 billion downsize in population for the sake of mother earth – they’ll be rewarded.
donh commented:
A high school classmate of mine died on Pan Am flight 103. From the very day news reported of Al Magrahi’s release, I have been saying President Obama through Eric Holder ORDERED it done. I was very disappointed in the number of conservatives who put a tin foil hat on my head and refused to believe our own President could be so meniacally evil as to do such a morally depraved thing. However, fact after fact has come out to support this unfortunate conclusion. The key link in my mind is a woman on Eric Holder’s staff named Jennifer Daskal who worked for Human Rights Watch and represented Libyan detainees at Gitmo during the Bush years. Human Rights Watch was very much involved in the negotiations regarding Al Megrahi.
Can you still blush? commented:
FRom the article:
“the US wanted Megrahi to remain imprisoned in view of the nature of the crime.”
Sillies!!!
OFail commented:
So is he going to club Gitmo, TVS, Wiis, Playstations, Books, Pool, Good food, relaxation, rent paid — so one does not need a job? You know Dystopia of the Obummer lifestyle. I think he is at the gold course, or thinking about it. He knows that it is all bush’s fault and that his economy is better than any republicans in history.
Chisum commented:
Can you still blush?
July 25th, 2010 | 5:36 pm | #11
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Yes, dippity-doo. And, unlike you, we can read.
“The note added: “Nevertheless, if Scottish authorities come to the conclusion that Megrahi must be released from Scottish custody, the US position is that conditional release on compassionate grounds would be a far preferable alternative to prisoner transfer, which we strongly oppose.”
wanumba commented:
No way in hell that guy would have been released had Bush been president.
Even Bush’s worse haters admit that.
But, there’s a new administration in town. Ghaddafi—- Farrakhan-Wright—-Obama.
Green light to release under invalid pretense. NO ONE releases MURDERERS for “humanitarian considerations.” Doesn’t even qualify for a “fig leaf cover.” So, there was a push, with a confident expectation that the USA would not react in an alarmingly negative manner.
Speaking of Green. Obama’s political-socialistic world view seems pretty indistinguishable from Ghaddafi’s Green Book teachings.
That’s why people are confused. Ghaddafi has his own brand of Islam, which has him parked conveniently in the center of the universe of course, which is different from the Saudis and the Iranians. NOI and Black Panthers are influenced by Ghaddafi’s version, NOT by the Saudi version.
Pathetically, for it reveals the shallowness of American racial-based politics, Ghaddafi is of mixed, Arab-African heritage, so he plays to the Blacks in the USA (Africans hate him), but he himself considers himself full Arab, that is “white.”
StrngernFiction commented:
I just posted this over on AoS:
His obvious antipathy towards Israel, the report that he told an Egyptian diplomat that he is a Muslim, his “alleged misstatement” that John McCain had “not talked about [his] Muslim faith,” bowing to the Mayor of Tampa Pam “CAIR Day” Lorio, NASA muslim outreach, Nicholas Kristof writing in the New York Times that he recited the Arabic call to prayer in a “first-rate accent,” his 57 states comment, his statement in the Audacity of Hope that he will “stand with Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction,” his odd interest in the long-term consequences of al Qaeda’s actions vs. the “short-term tactical gains” of these actions, etc. And now this.
Is Zero a closeted practicing Muslim? Perhaps not. Do his loyalties lie with Islam over this country? A whole lot of smoke says that they are at the very least divided.
Militant Conservative commented:
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You sorry POS, you think you can kill us and not have any consequences? I think not, your going down bitch. The WH know’s of this and is silent. Your muslim brothers will pay dearly for their false alegeance. DEATH TO THE MUSLIMS!
May their faith be sucking on the hind tit of a sow pig. i am ready, come and take it, pigs.
down with dems commented:
Can you still blush?
July 25th, 2010 | 5:36 pm | #11
Hey, just wanted to let you know that you are illiterate.
The article clearly states that the Obama administration wanted him kept in Scottish prison — BUT, if that wasn’t possible, the Obama administration preferred he be set FREE as opposed to transferred to a Libyan prison.
How is that at all logical? He’s in one prison, we’d like him to stay in that prison… but if he can’t then we’d rather see him running loose than put into a different prison?
To make that clearer for you since you can’t read complete sentences, the Obama administration’s preferences were:
1. Keep him in Scottish prison
2. Let him loose
3. Transfer him to Libyan prison
The United States government would prefer to see a man who blew up an airplane killing 270 people–190 of which were Americans–set free rather than moved from one prison to another.
TRAVESTY
Knave commented:
“The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, ”
Hillary.;
Bill Fabrizio commented:
An open letter to President Obama.
Dear Barry:
It seems that every day we find out something new about you which further separates you from the American people. Yes, every day it’s something new, and it is never something positive but is always something unseemly and corrupt and often un-American. If there is any truth to your advance knowledge of the release of the Lockerbie bomber this would yet represent another low for you!
You may currently have a commanding advantage in congress and a free pass from your MSM puppets but that will come to an end with the November elections. And when that comes to an end so will your capacity to daily inflict criminal and unconstitutional havoc on the American people and economy.
I can’t wait until the investigations congress will demand result in impeachment proceedings against you, and mark my word, they will result in impeachment proceedings.
Sir, you are a disgrace to the Office of the President and an offense to the vast majority of the American people. Please lose the pretense of being remembered as a “great one term president”! Get used to being referred to in the history books as the Republic’s most corrupt president who was impeached, and hopefully imprisoned, after only two years in office.
Your worst nightmare,
An informed American Voter
OICUB12 commented:
How low will the piece of dog s&^% go
Joanne commented:
Sure, it is better to free a terrorist than lock him up – gee, such great logic.
Joanne commented:
donh – Obama doesn’t have a problem with late-term abortion; it is very unlikely he has a problem with the release of a muslim terrorist – a brother-in-Islam
ProLifer commented:
Oh, by the way…
Report: Obama Has Spent $23 Million Backing Pro-Abortion Kenya Constitution
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — A new report issued by the Inspector General (IG) for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) reveals the Obama administration has spent over $23 million for activities in Kenya to influence voters there to support a new constitution that would allow virtually unlimited abortions.
The nation currently protects women and unborn children from abortions, but a constitution voters will consider on August 4 would change the historic pro-life laws of the African nation.
Rep. Chris Smith, a key pro-life congressman who is the Ranking Member of the Africa and Global Health Subcommittee, has been working with other lawmakers and the IG’s office to investigate grants the Obama administration has provided to Kenyan groups promoting the Yes vote campaign for the new constitution.
In a new report Smith released to LifeNews.com on Friday, he says U.S. taxpayers are now footing the bill for those pro-abortion efforts to the tune of $23 million, far above previous estimates.
Previous estimates had indicated that $2 million was being spent, then that was updated to $11 million and now the figure identified by the IG’s office exceeds $23 million, he said.
“The Obama Administration should not be spending $23 million in American tax dollars on the specific “Yes” campaign, pushing a determined outcome on the proposed constitution in Kenya,” Smith said.
“The U.S. government can be supportive of the process, helping to secure a free and fair referendum. But we must respect the Kenyan people and let them decide for themselves. U.S. dollars should not be used to tell the Kenyan people how to vote,” he added.
Full story at LifeNews.com
jim harley commented:
The Usurper is a Despicable coward who lied once again to the American people. We are running out of time.
Hedgehog commented:
The fact that the choices were between release or prisoner exchange (i.e. return to Libya), it seems to me that the official position was not to insist that he remain incarcerated. It would have been a very simple matter to write that the United States government is opposed to his release from custody until his sentence is complete.
I recall a story of a Federal Judge who sentenced an old mobster to 50 years in prison. The mobster told the Judge: “Your Honor! I’m an old man. I’ll never be able to do 50 years in prison”. The Judge replied: “Do as much as you can”.
JR commented:
I don’t know how – I don’t have that good of an imagination, but somehow someway this was Bush’s fault, I’m sure.
Scott commented:
This was an Obama, Hillary, Gordon Brown show…Pan am 103 was an American flag carrier and 170 Americans died. There is no way in hell that Scotland thought this up on their own. They were merely the useful idiots who kept their mouths shut. We have an enemy of the state in the Whitehouse.
Bill Fabrizio commented:
Hedgehog,
How about if I raise the ante and say that a true American President would have said to the Scotts that not only are we opposed to his release but we will shoot down any plane attempting to repatriate him to Libya. You think there is any chance the Scotts would have misinterpreted that statement?
wanumba commented:
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” the Obama administration’s preferences were:
1. Keep him in Scottish prison
2. Let him loose
3. Transfer him to Libyan prison”
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Well, number 2 and number 3 are the same, aren’t they? Why would Libya have any reason to put him in a Libyan prison when they paid him to do the job?
He got his hero’s welcome, as expected. As Weatherman Bill Ayers said, “Guilty as hell, free as a bird.”
The Scots did not come up with this on their own. Their failure was going along with it and not to blow the whistle on Obama.
So, that begs the question of what pressure and incentives were produced to prod the Scots to be complicit in releasing a mass murderer to the man who employed him to do the job?
Just_Saying commented:
All representatives in D.C., no matter what party, should be pro-impeachment! Not only in January, but NOW!!
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wanumba commented:
Just getting worse – NYT and wikileaks totally sabotaging the Afghan defense.
So, Obama picks Petreaus who is capable of success, then the colluding Lefties cut the legs out from under him.
If Democrats actually fought wars the way they all-out fight our own citizens, who’d worry about anything? Even so, back-stabbing, sabotage and sell-out has NEVER been honorable fighting.
Ruebacca commented:
Obama will not get the nomination from the Democratic party in 2012. Shara Palin is gonna beat him over the head with this. That’s if he survives our avenging angel Darrel Issa.
The Democrats can’t possibly let him run again. He will reap the world-win with this.
Taxpayer1234 commented:
Knave
July 25th, 2010 | 6:31 pm | #18
“The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, ”
Hillary.;
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LOL!!! Good one! Seems Hillary might be playing some of her own Chicago-style politics–i.e., make it impossible for Obooby to even get on the ballot in 2012!
That made my evening! Thanks!
JR commented:
There was a time when governmental agencies like the FBI and maybe the CIA would investigate anti-American radicals like Bill Ayers and maybe a Barack Obama. Now these radicals are actually running the government. Can you imagine just how many of our country’s deepest secrets are being hacked and copied every single day, to be handed to our country’s enemies (presumably because our country is supposedly some sort of imperialistic power that must be brought down a few notches) by these loony Obama appointees? Can you imagine how bad this situation will be after Obama loses his next election, and these infiltrators (infil-traitors) are just waiting to be canned? The election of this left-wing extremist so so screwed our country. Will we be able to ever recover? Every day, it gets harder and harder for us to do so.
Scott commented:
Washington is truly a deadzone…They release enemies of the state while they honor communists like Van Jones…I predict that the first state that declares its own sovereignty will experience a landrush that hasn’t been seen since the 19th century. I will join them…
Robert commented:
While we can of course castigate the Obama
and Brown cabals. let’s save some for the
dishonorable Scots, and our own State
Department and SoS Hillary Clinton.
Pigeon poop on them all.
Billy Bartholomew commented:
This folks… is a GODDAMN OUTRAGE!!!!!
This is almost the worst nightmarish scenario come true!!! My GOD they actively lobbied for a bloody terrorist to go free!!!!!
But around the same time (remember?), Janet Reno….errrr… big sis put out that paper warning of soldiers returning home becoming terrorists? oh yeah and the tea parties too…
Obama is our Caligula!!! He’s probably already tried to give a speech where he proclaimed himself ‘Jove’ … hahahahaha but even his sick handlers thought that was too far!!! haha!!!
reliapundit commented:
ON AUGUST 20 – THE DATE OF THE RELEASE, OBAMA LIED TO US:
President Barack Obama said the decision to free the terminally ill bomber on compassionate grounds was a mistake and warned Libya not to give him a hero’s welcome.
But thousands were on hand to greet him warmly when his plane from Scotland touched down at a military airport in Tripoli. There was a festive atmosphere with some wearing t-shirts with al-Megrahi’s picture. Others waved Libyan and Scottish flags while Libyan songs blared.
The White House declared it “deeply” regretted the Scottish decision as Abdel Baset al-Megrahi left prison and flew to Libya on an Airbus dispatched to Glasgow Airport.
REPEAT:
Barack Obama said the decision to free the terminally ill bomber on compassionate grounds was a mistake
FOR SUGGESTING THE MASS-MURDERING JIHADIST BE RELEASED “ON COMPASSIONATE GROUNDS”, AND FOR LYING ABOUT IT – BY CLAIMING EVEN A RELEASE ON THOSE GROUNDS “WAS A MISTAKE” OBAMA MUST BE IMPEACHED.
AuntieMadder commented:
The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama’s claim last week that all Americans were “surprised, disappointed and angry” to learn of Megrahi’s release.
Americans were surprised, disappointed and angry to learn of Megrahi’s release. That Oilbama wasn’t any of those things has no bearing on that statement. He isn’t American. He isn’t even a legal immigrant. He’s the most destructive and dangerous illegal alien to every enter this country.
donh commented:
Drudge reports on a letter the Obama administration wrote on the subject of Al Megrahi’s release. The arguement went that Libyan prisons are too treacherous and unsafe to have Al Megrahi returned to a Lybian prison so they would rather have him go free. This is the exact same line of aguement Eric Holder’s deputy Jennifer Daskal used to prevent Libyan terrorists at Gitmo from being sent to prisons in Libya. … Here is an interesting article on a CIA spy asset named “Curveball” used by Colin Powell as a source for iraq intelligance . There is a lot more intregue out there is on this story. … http://www.economist.com/node/14400737/comments
AuntieMadder commented:
JR
July 25th, 2010 | 8:08 pm | #35
Copied and handed over or sent via Oibama’s personal Blackberry.
jainphx commented:
This cabal cares nothing for human life. They care nothing for laws, and our constitution, they just get in the way of their agenda. I say nothing this horrendous as ever been done to us before. Impeachment now, for crimes against the people of this country. he isn’t even a citizen in my opinion.
Lisa G in NZ commented:
I’m sure I’ve read this somewhere: “…Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.”
AuntieMadder commented:
Lisa G in NZ
July 25th, 2010 | 11:24 pm | #44
So, what’s your point?
Charlie Gibson commented:
The lesson is, don’t take a terrorist prisoner.
Male Silverback commented:
This bombing was one of the main reasons Regan bombed Libya. We lost a pilot and put others at risk just to send a message to Qdafi. Note, Qdafi dissapeared from the spotlight after that for a very long time.
I am possitive that this was Obama’s little olive branch to his brothers.
Obama must go.
cracker commented:
Let me get this straight: release is FAR PREFERABLE to prison transfer? Seems to be aiding our enemies to me, only problem is; Obama’s enemies are not OUR enemies, WE are HIS enemy.
Chisum commented:
The unpresidential president
In the current Weekly Standard cover story, Professor James Ceaser observes:
The longer he is president, the less presidential he has become. Obama has reversed the usual process of growth and maturation, appearing today far more like a candidate for the presidency–and a very ordinary one at that–than he did during the latter stages of his campaign.
Professor Ceaser explores Obama’s turn to political populism and comments:
To engage in populism and parallel demagogic tricks–to blame others, to mock, to display no magnanimity toward opponents–all of these actions necessarily appear unpresidential. They are fitting for campaigns, but they make a president look smaller.
Professor Ceaser gives a hint of the price exacted by the events betraying Obama’s lack of class:
Obama’s political counselors do not seem to have the slightest clue of the damage they have done to him, because they have no conception of what the office of the presidency is all about. They coach their prince to be presidential one day and populist the next, oblivious to the fact that if presidentialism appears as a mere pose it loses all credibility.
Professor Ceaser’s long essay explains something important that is happening before our eyes. It demonstrates how right Hoekstra was to characterize Obama’s remarks about him as “unpresidential.”
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/07/026849.php
Robert commented:
Re: impeachment.
From the letter;
“the US position is that conditional release on compassionate grounds would be a far preferable alternative to prisoner transfer, which we strongly oppose.”
This clearly advocates for the comfort of the enemy terrorist, who was convicted in court.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
‘Treason shall consist in giving them comfort.’
The Obama Administration has given comfort to an enemy of the United States of America.
The Obama Administration has committed Treason against the United States of America.
antilbr commented:
Does obama eat pork?….just wondering!
Robert commented:
Re: #53
Note the wording of the Clause;
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
This clause clearly defines the beneficiary as the “United States” and not the ‘government of the United States of America’. Instead, it is indeed the government of the United States of America, that is, the federal government, that has committed an act of Treason against the “United States”.
No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Perhaps one of those “United States”, say Arizona, could file the charge, supported by “two Witnesses to the same overt Act”.
Gail F commented:
Give me a break, folks. The note reportedly says that the US opposes the release, but if Scotland decides to release him, then we would prefer the compassionate grounds release to transfer to a Libyan prison — with the prisoner preferably living in Scotland. This is not the same as “backing his release.” Save your outrage for SCOTLAND, and for whoever said he had only three months to live!
Gail F commented:
oops, I wasn’t finished — and for the Sec. of State for not doing a better job of this. But not opposing something enough is not the same as BACKING it.
I’m assuming they didn’t want him in a Libyan prison because they figured the incarceration would be a sham — hence saying they wanted him to stay in Scotland for the three months until his supposed death.
Everyone involved in this reprehensible sham should be fired. But to say this is proof that Pres. Obama ordererd him released or wanted him released is silly. The Obama administration is incompetent, pure and simple.
Chisum commented:
Gail F,
Do you honestly believe that the Scottish government would defy the US if it had lodged a formal rejection of this terrorist’s release?
And you should ask yourself why this occurred during BO’s administration and not GW Bush’s.
thomas mc donnell commented:
the president claimed to be shocked and suprised at the time of the release of al-megrahi. i don’t think you can be shocked and suprised by something you had a hand in bringing about. can you? i’ll bet not one member of american tass will question the president about this lie.