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2/27/13, "Eric Holder Sounds the Sequester Alarm," ABC News, by Good, Cloherty et al.
"The looming budget sequestration will make Americans less safe, Eric
Holder says—and anyone who says otherwise isn't telling the truth.
"This is something that is going to have an impact on the safety of this
country," the U.S. attorney general told ABC's Pierre Thomas on
Wednesday in a wide-ranging, exclusive interview.
"And anybody that says otherwise is either lying or saying something that runs contrary to the facts," Holder said.
In his interview with ABC News, Holder reiterated warnings that if
automatic spending cuts are triggered on Friday, the Justice Department
will be handicapped in some of its most vital missions to prevent
terrorist attacks and crime.
"The Justice Department is going >to lose nine percent of its budget
between now and September 30th. We're going to lose $1.6 billion. There
are not going to be as many FBI agents, ATF agents, DEA agents,
prosecutors who are going to be able to do their jobs," Holder said.
"They're going to be furloughed. They're going to spend time out of their offices, not doing their jobs."
President Obama's Cabinet members have been warning for weeks that
budget sequestration, which will begin Friday unless Obama and
Republicans reach a deficit-reduction deal to avoid it, will leave their
agencies shorthanded and could bring about disastrous consequences.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Transportation
Secretary Ray LaHood have both appeared at the White House press
briefing room to warn that furloughs for border-patrol agents, TSA
agents and air-traffic controllers will mean weakened border and port
security, longer waits in airport security lines, and logjammed air
travel.
Holder, for his part, warned in a Feb. 1 letter to the Senate
Appropriations Committee that cuts to the FBI, the ATF, the U.S.
Marshals Service, and U.S. Attorneys would limit the department's
capacity to investigate crimes. Cuts at the Bureau of Prisons, Holder
wrote, would mean lockdowns and potential violence, with fewer staff
members on hand.
In a separate letter, FBI Director Robert Mueller
warned that counterterrorism operations would be affected, with the possible
elimination of some joint terrorism task forces with state and local
police. Limited surveillance and slower response times would mean
unwatched targets and the possibility that individuals on terrorism
watch lists could gain entry to the U.S.
"FBI's ability to proactively penetrate and disrupt terrorist plans and
groups prior to an attack would be impacted," Mueller wrote.
To Holder, the problem is simple. "If you don't have prosecutors and agents doing what we expect them to
do, and we won't if this thing actually takes place, we are going to be a
nation that is going to be less safe. And that is simple fact," Holder
said....
On Wednesday, Holder acknowledged that the Justice Department will do
what it can to avoid compromised security, while maintaining that
furloughs can't be avoided."...via Drudge
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2/26/13, Criminal terrorist
Obama channels Fidel Castro dumping hordes of criminals onto innocent
Americans, hundreds of scheduled to be deported illegal aliens released
into communities. Drooling GOP is as bad as Obama, does nothing to
protect innocent Americans
Even before he crapped on innocent Americans by dumping homeless, penniless aliens into their neighborhoods (and media sycophants said it wasn't his fault) Obama threatened cancer and death. He warned the entire world he'd personally increase
chances your plane will crash and will personally cause more people to
die of cancer. These acts of terror are courtesy of a non-existent GOP:
2/23/13, "Obama: If Republicans don’t give me what I want I will make planes fall from the sky," Flopping Aces
"Barack Obama is warning America of the
devastation that the sequester will visit upon the country,including
...that planes will fall from the sky:
“Air traffic controllers and airport security will see cutbacks, which
means more delays at airports across the country,” Obama continued.
“Thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off. Tens of thousands
of parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose access to primary care and
preventive care like flu vaccinations and cancer screenings.”"...
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2/19/13, "Obama, Republicans clash on forced spending cuts," CNN
""Surely the president won't cut funds to first responders when just last
year Washington handed out an estimated $115 billion in payments to
individuals who weren't even eligible to receive them, or at a time when
11 different government agencies are funding 90 different green energy
programs," (Senator Mitch) McConnell said in a statement. "That would be a terrible and
entirely unnecessary choice by a President who claims to want bipartisan
reform.""...
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Ed. note: This most certainly is George Bush's fault.
He and his crowd destroyed the country, the GOP, lifetimes of work and
sacrifice, put the radical left in charge, and aren't the slightest bit sorry about it.
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