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Exclusive: If Our National Security Operation Doesn’t Shock Us Awake, Will Anything? » Publications » Family Security Matters

I had originally planned on writing an article about the National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair’s resignation on May 20th after only 16 months in that position, which came reportedly at President Barack Obama's request. Then, like any good plan following its agenda, only six days later the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, John Brennan, gave a speech at CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) in which he announced that President Obama would be releasing his National Security Strategy on the 27th. That speech changed my plans.

Just to put into perspective where this man’s loyalties lie, John Brennan had just given a speech on February 13 at New York University, in which he stated,

"...And as part of that experience, to learn about the goodness and beauty of Islam....I came to see Islam not as it is often misrepresented, but for what it is...a faith of peace and tolerance and great diversity….”

Two minutes later in the same speech he referred to Jerusalem, Israel’s capital, by its Arabic name,

“And in all my travels, the city I have come to love most is Al Quds...”