Obama Trains ACORN Staff in Financial Shakedown Tactics

Obama-ACORN Root Causes of Mortgage Crisis?   FBI Investigates U.S. Financial Crisis - Where Did $1 Trillion Go?   The high-risk subprime mortgage social engineering community service experiment by left-wing ACORN and Obama has created the largest financial crisis since The Great Depression.  The full reach of the corruption and scandal may never be known but those who created it must not be rewarded.  The architects, primarily left-wing Democrats, created laws, took donations, looked the other way and instead were too busy overseeing donations to their own presidential campaigns and robbing main street blind.  Now these same left-wing Democrats blame everyone else and get up on their high horses and say, "we are here to save you" from the crises they created.   Select Below to Demand Congress Protect Taxpayers Not Speculators FAX All Congressmen - Tell Them No Bailout – Prosecute Offenders! https://secure.responseenterprises.com/ameripac_bailout/?a=1791   Yes, Mr. Obama knows a great deal about the mess.  He is a central figure in the left-wing ACORN exploitation of financial institutions and pressuring them to make high risk loans.  The very same left-wing ACORN was guilty of voter fraud in the last presidential election.   Now these same Democrats want to do another high risk "community service," social engineering experiment. They want to elect a high-risk, low experience, socialist one of the same community organizers that created the mess to be our next president.  We cannot experiment with the office of president and learn as we go. Barack Obama is not qualified and has no history of success as a leader in government or business.   The FBI investigation   An FBI investigation is under way at Lehman Brothers and three other contributors to America's financial crisis to determine whether they put pressure on ratings agencies to award top ratings to securities they issued.   Concerns that Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG or Lehman may have sought to encourage agencies to inflate their ratings — by offering higher fees or the promise of more work — form part of a broad inquiry by the bureau.   The agencies are widely regarded as having failed debt holders by attributing the top ratings to many securities that turned out to be extremely risky and have lost investors hundreds of billions of dollars.   The FBI, which is also investigating whether any of the four institutions deliberately misled investors about the true health of their assets, is expected to demand that they "hold all papers and e-mails under lock and key" as it sifts through the evidence, a source said.   Select Below to Demand Congress Protect Taxpayers Not Speculators FAX All Congressmen - Tell Them No Bailout – Prosecute Offenders! https://secure.responseenterprises.com/ameripac_bailout/?a=1791   How did we get here?   FOLLOW THE MONEY AND CORRUPTION!  A Lending Policy created by democrats for democrats run by democrats monitored by democrats enforced by community organizer democrats and profited from by democrats.   The following information is condensed from an article by Stanley Kurtz. O's Dangerous Pals.   Fannie and Freddie acted in response to Clinton administration pressure to boost homeownership rates among minorities and the poor. However compassionate the motive, the result of this systematic disregard for normal credit standards has been financial disaster.  ONE key pioneer of ACORN's subprime-loan shakedown racket was Madeline Talbott - an activist with extensive ties to Barack Obama. She was also in on the ground floor of the disastrous turn in Fannie Mae's mortgage policies.   Obama Trains ACORN Staff in Shakedown Tactics   It would be tough to find an "on the ground" community organizer more closely tied to the subprime-mortgage fiasco than Madeline Talbott. And no one has been more supportive of Madeline Talbott than Barack Obama.   When Obama was just a budding community organizer in Chicago, Talbott was so impressed that she asked him to train her personal staff.   He returned to Chicago in the early '90s, just as Talbott was starting her pressure campaign on local banks. In those years, he also conducted leadership-training seminars for ACORN's up-and-coming organizers. That is, Obama was training the army of ACORN organizers who participated in Madeline Talbott's drive against Chicago's banks.     Obama Funds ACORN   More than that, Obama was funding them. As he rose to a leadership role at Chicago's Woods Fund, he became the most powerful voice on the foundation's board for supporting ACORN and other community organizers. In 1995, the Woods Fund substantially expanded its funding of community organizers - and Obama chaired the committee that urged and managed the shift.   That committee's report on strategies for funding groups like ACORN features all the key names in Obama's organizer network. The report quotes Talbott more than any other figure; Sandra Maxwell, Talbott's ACORN ally in the bank battle, was also among the organizers consulted.   More, the Obama-supervised Woods Fund report acknowledges the problem of getting donors and foundations to contribute to radical groups like ACORN - whose confrontational tactics often scare off even liberal donors and foundations.   Indeed, the report brags about pulling the wool over the public's eye. The Woods Fund's claim to be "nonideological," it says, has "enabled the Trustees to make grants to organizations that use confrontational tactics against the business and government 'establishments' without undue risk of being criticized for partisanship."   Obama Aware of Intimidation Tactics   The Woods Fund report makes it clear Obama was fully aware of the intimidation tactics used by ACORN's Madeline Talbott in her pioneering efforts to force banks to suspend their usual credit standards. Yet he supported Talbott in every conceivable way. He trained her personal staff and other aspiring ACORN leaders, he consulted with her extensively, and he arranged a major boost in foundation funding for her efforts.   And, as the leader of another charity, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Obama channeled more funding Talbott's way - ostensibly for education projects but surely supportive of ACORN's overall efforts.   In return, Talbott proudly announced her support of Obama's first campaign for state Senate, saying, "We accept and respect him as a kindred spirit, a fellow organizer."   In short, to understand the roots of the subprime mortgage crisis, look to ACORN's Madeline Talbott. And to see how Talbott was able to work her mischief, look to Barack Obama.   Select Below to Demand Congress Protect Taxpayers Not Speculators FAX All Congressmen - Tell Them No Bailout – Prosecute Offenders! https://secure.responseenterprises.com/ameripac_bailout/?a=1791   HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of faxes are needed to be delivered to EACH AND EVERY Congressman right away. Be sure to send this Alert to EVERYONE you know who wants to help FORCE our government to STOP the EXCUSES and Save Main Street Not Wall Street!   Tell the Congress to Stop the Wall Street Bailout and Prosecute! 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Glide America Launches, Providing Access From Main Street To Elected Officials Posted: 30 Sep 2008 11:40 AM CDT Glide America has just launched to provide direct access to Washington, DC from ordinary citizens to have their voices heard in a direct line from voters to their elected officials. Glide America's technology combines the ability to disseminate information regarding government initiatives and deliberations and provides citizens with the technology to organize and act, which includes advanced communication and collaboration tools to make a citizens voices heard by their elected officials. From the official news release, accessible with a subscription to PRNewswire for Journalists. Currently information is accessible on the internet from news sites, blogs and official government sites. Government contacts are available through official government directories. Software exists to prepare documents and communicate. Forums exist to vent frustrations and express opinions in social networking and other web 2.0 sites. Who has time to sift through all of that? Glide America provides a total solution. It brings all of those things together into an active community with the capacity for the ordinary citizen to make his appeal directly to the appropriate government officials with public transparency into the timeliness and quality of the official response. Glide America features include: Government Transparency & Accountability- tracks government officials' responsiveness to citizens through statistical analysis of response times to citizen emails and other online communications. Monthly reports will include statistical data on response rates from the officials. Government Address Book- It is being called the "People's Rolodex, of federal government contacts which are integrated into the Glide America email account the site offers the citizens that join. This Rolodex will contain extensive government contact information, including phone numbers and email access from your computer and/or mobile phone. The contact information includes access to Congress, Senators, Government Departments, etc... Advanced Communication & Collaboration Tools- This includes integrated email, group organization and online meeting applications which allows the user to individually or collectively communicate with fellow citizens and Government Officials. Additionally the Glide America site offers group discussions and the ability to add any documents, images, videos, audio files, bookmarks, contacts or calendar events to the group discussion and well as tracking tools to determine whether their messages are being read and how long it takes for officials to respond. Others tools provided: -- You can quickly and easily send large group emails as individual personalized emails bypassing spam filters that are programmed to flag emails that contain many recipients. -- You can easily manage multiple email lists and group discussions. -- You can opt in to receive automated email notifications for upcoming legislation. -- Issue Management Group Discussions are automatically created for upcoming legislation for you to participate in. Information Portal- This will offer the latest news on legislation, politics and business with links to informational sites including official government, candidate, election, news and other sites. Dynamic Desktop/Apps/Hard Drive- Offers 10 free GBs of storage in the Glide America free account free and compatible word processor, presentation application, spread sheet and other features. Once signed up to Glide America, it provides a desktop which automatically updates information on the presidential campaign and pending legislation with links to learn more, voice your opinion and join group discussions. The service also provides the ability of File Synchronization where the user can sync their home computer and your work computer for secure access to any file from your mobile phone or desktop in a group discussion, online meeting or email exchange. According to TransMedia's Chairman & CEO, Donald Leka, "Our institutions of government are precariously faltering in their ability to serve the best interests of the American people. The American people must reassert themselves in the governance of this great nation and Glide America is a vehicle to that end." Leka continues on to say "Glide America is change initiated by the American people through their cell phones and desktops and we are thrilled to provide this innovative service to our fellow citizens." After creating the Glide America account, which takes only a few minutes, the desktop includes tabs for Desktop, Glide HD and Portal. The Desktop offers icons which lead to email, creation of your own Glide America website, account tools, profile tools, groups, access to the tools mentioned above, photo editing, calendars and more. The Glide HD tab opens to offer access to your files you have saved in the Glide America account, including videos, documents, groups, bookmarks, the desktop and calendar and more. The Portal provides one click access to other links and websites. Glide America can be accessed at http://www.glideamerica.org/ .

RNC Launches New Ad: 'Worse' Posted: 30 Sep 2008 11:58 AM CDT The video below is the RNC's new ad, titled "Worse." (YouTube URL here) AD TEXT: VO: Meltdown. Wall Street squanders our money and Washington is forced to bail them out with - you guessed it - our money. Can it get any worse? Under Barack Obama's plan, the government would spend a trillion dollars more, even after the bailout. A trillion dollars. Who pays? You do. New taxes. New spending. New debt. Barack Obama's plan: It will make the problem worse. Paid for by the Republican National Committee. www.gop.com Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. The ad will run in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Indiana. According to The Politico, the RNC is spending $5 Million on the ad buy. .

Mother Admits Bodies Found In Her Freezer Are Her Two Adopted Daughters Posted: 29 Sep 2008 06:13 PM CDT (43 year-old Renee Bowman- Courtesy Calvert Sheriff's Deaprtment) Maryland Police visited the southern Maryland home of 43 year-old Renee Bowman to investigate abuse allegations and discovered the remains of two children in a freezer in the basement. Bowman admits they were her two adopted daughters. The police were implementing a search warrant to investigate abuse of another young girl who had run away from Bowman and in the words of the sheriff's department, "showed signs of extreme abuse and neglect," when they discovered the remains of two other children in the freezer kept in the basement of the house as reported by CNN. She is charged with first-degree child abuse in the beating of the runaway 7-year-old, who was found wandering in the neighborhood wearing only a blood- and feces-soaked T-shirt. The girl escaped from a locked bedroom by jumping out a second-story window, and Bowman admitted beating her with a "hard-heeled shoe," officials said. According to the reports, the 7 year-old girl jumped out of a window on Friday night and went door-to-door searching for help. One resident gave her clothes and dialed 911. The child had open sores and lesions on her buttocks and thighs, marks on her neck made by a cord,rope or other item and bruises on her hands and lips. She told authorities she jumped out of the window so she could "free herself from her mother's relentless beatings." Bowman is being held without bond at this time. According to Lt. Bobby Jones of Calvert County Sheriff's Office, it is believed the mother is responsible for the death of the two children found in the freezer, aged 9 and 11 years old. Bowman had adopted three girls from the District of Columbia, the one that is seven now and the other two would be ages 9 and 11. Autopsies must be complete for police to know if the remains are of the two adopted girls even after Bowman admitted they were. Bowman also admitted to the police she transported the freezer with the bodies in it, from her home in Rockville to her newer home in Lusby when she moved in February. Authorities are trying to determine when the two older girls were last seen alive. Bowman has not yet been charged in the death of the two older girls as of yet. [Update] The Calvert Sheriff's Department press release about this case provided by the Washington Post. .

Sarah Palin To Hit The Radio Talk Shows Posted: 29 Sep 2008 06:19 PM CDT Now we're talking. The Politico reports Sarah Palin with start making the rounds on conservative radio shows, allowing the public to have more access to her. Palin heads to McCain's cabin in Arizona today to prepare for her Thursday debate, and while she's there she'll do a round of conservative talk radio interviews. "Talk radio is a convenient, powerful and effective outlet," said the aide. Rush Limbaugh, who hosts the most popular radio show in the country, noted in an e-mail that he doesn't invite guests on and alluded to his rocky relationship with the top of the GOP ticket. "The McCain camp doesn't trust me," Limbaugh said. But asked if he'd welcome a call from Palin, the conservative talker said: "Of course." The report also says Palin was much more aggressive in another Couric interview with one aide saying "Sarah Barracuda showed up today," and further encouraging CBS to show this interview from beginning to end. About time. .

Obama Supporter Paints Nude Portrait Of Palin To Hang In His Ale House Posted: 29 Sep 2008 03:51 PM CDT (Click image to enlarge) A co-owner of the Old Town Ale House in Chicago's North Side, Bruce Elliott, painted a portrait of a nude Sarah Palin for his ale house, using his daughter as the model. The portrait was unveiled Thursday and has started drawing crowds and buzz. The portrait is done as an oil painting, stands four-foot-tall and represents a nude Sarah Palin, with her trademark glasses, red stiletto heels and nothing else, leaning on a gun and standing on a polar bear skin. An uncensored version of the painting with other nude portraits beside it can be found at Flickr, showing this type of art is not unusual for the Old Town Ale House. Elliott says the idea came to him the week before when he noticed his daughter Grace doing an impression of Palin, saying "My daughter is a heck of a stand-in for Sarah Palin. She can even do the voice." From there it was a simple matter of getting his daughter to pose nude for him, which she says wasn't a problem because "He changed my diapers," Elliott, who says he's pulling for Barack Obama in the election, worked on the portrait for seven to eight hours a day for a week. While the piece qualifies as a quick grab for attention, it's also very much the creation of someone immersed in the coverage of Palin, whom he refers to as "a real nasty piece of work" while also admitting feeling attracted to her. The report from Windy Citizen says the Palin portrait is becoming the bars "star attraction" with people coming in, even from rival bars to see it and take photographs of it. Elliott states he will not sell the portrait and neither will he paint another version of it, the he says this of Palin, "I don't see how she could be offended by this. I made her into a sex figure." .

Reactions Coming Over Defeat Of BailOut Bill Posted: 29 Sep 2008 02:37 PM CDT By now most know the bailout bill known as Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 failed to pass the House with a vote of 228 NAYS to 205 YEAHS. Reactions are starting to come out with people blaming each other and many blaming Nancy Pelosi for her very divisive speech on the floor at the end of the debate, video will be shown below. The White House spokesman, Fratto, said, "There's no question that the country is facing a difficult crisis that needs to be addressed." He went on to say Bush was disappointed and further stated "Obviously we are very disappointed in this outcome.There's no question that the country is facing a difficult crisis that needs to be addressed. The president will be meeting with his team this afternoon to determine the next steps and will also be in touch with congressional leaders." Several Republican aides said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had torpedoed any spirit of bipartisanship that surrounded the bill with her scathing speech near the close of the debate that blamed Bush's policies for the economic turmoil. Without mentioning her by name, Rep. Adam Putnam, R-Fla., No. 3 Republican, said: "The partisan tone at the end of the debate today I think did impact the votes on our side." Putnam said lawmakers were working "to garner the necessary votes to avoid a financial collapse." But the defeat was already causing a brutal round of finger-pointing. "We could have gotten there today had it not been for the partisan speech that the speaker gave on the floor of the House," House Minority Leader John Boehner said. Pelosi's words, the Ohio Republican said, "poisoned our conference, caused a number of members that we thought we could get, to go south." Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., the whip, estimated that Pelosi's speech changed the minds of a dozen Republicans who might otherwise have supported the plan. Below is the speech from Pelosi which possibly guaranteed she would not receive the votes need to pass what has been called the "crap sandwich" which many said "sucks". Pelosi never did know when to keep her mouth shut. She may have single handedly helped to stop a very bad bill from passing, even though that is contrary to what her intent was. I wonder how much lower her ratings can go? Malkin... must read. .

Bailout Plan Fails to Pass The House Posted: 29 Sep 2008 01:54 PM CDT Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (109 page PDF file) failed to get passed through the House. Roll call on the final vote will be found here as soon as they get it up. Vote is 228 NAYS to 205 YEAS with 1 not voting. More analysis at CNN Money. More at Michelle Malkin. Malkin provides roll call of who voted for the bill and who voted again. I will continue to update. .

2004, Democrats Insist Nothing Wrong At Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Posted: 29 Sep 2008 12:51 PM CDT Hat Tip Hot Air...watch the 2004 video which shows how our country got into this financial mess we are in. It is an 8 minute, 37 second video and if you watch it, then no commentary is really needed from me. If you haven't watched it, let me give you a few examples Hot Air provided: Maxine Waters: Through nearly a dozen hearings, we were frankly trying to fix something that wasn't broke. Mr. Chairman, we do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly at Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Franklin Raines. [Raines would barely avoid prosecution for fraud.] Gregory Meeks: … I'm just pissed off at OFHEO [the regulators trying to warn Congress of insolvency at the GSEs], because if it wasn't for you, I don't think we'd be here in the first place. … There's been nothing that indicated that's wrong with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac has come up on its own … The question that then comes up is the competence that your agency has with reference to deciding and regulating these GSEs. Lacy Clay: This hearing is about the political lynching of Franklin Raines. Barney Frank: I don't see anything in this report that raises safety and soundness problems. Read the rest over at HA, it is a comprehensive analysis, so I am not going to attempt to improve on a good thing, just watch the video and read the rest there. I am watching C-span now and it looks like the clowns are getting ready to blow up the circus. .

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THE GLENN BECK PROGRAM September 30, 2008 Sponsored Links Check Angie's List before you hire.   On Today's Program Bush speaks, Glenn critiques President Bush addressed the nation today, which Glenn found odd because in any recession in recent memory, the President did not come out and address the nation with grave concerns over inaction. What's it all mean? Glenn listens to the President's comments and reacts. Read the transcript. Insiders listen here. Time to act Author and columnist Jonah Goldberg joined Glenn today to vent over the inaction of our elected government during the current financial crisis. Jonah is not surprised that this bill went up in flames, mostly because it was accurately described as a 'crap sandwich'. Turns out no one really likes crap sandwiches and the vote was a failure-- but can they reach an agreement? Read the transcript. Insiders listen here. Bill O'Reilly Glenn welcomed the host of the ever popular O'Reilly Factor cable news show, Bill O'Reilly, on today's radio program. They talked about his new book A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity which is a look at how one of America's top commentators shaped his views of the world. If you missed their conversation: Read the transcript. Insiders listen here. Arguments Against Idiots The financial crisis is finally starting to ripple all the way down to the idiots who haven't been paying attention. And now they have arrived on the scene just in time to blame the whole thing on Bush and Republicans. Here are the winning arguments to use against your idiot friend who says 'we have to do something!' while defending the current 'crap sandwhich' bailout bill. Angie's List Hello my fellow sick twisted freaks, I want to share with you one of my favorite resources ... Angie's List. They make it possible for me to get local ratings and reviews for everything from dentists to plumbers so I can see see who does the best work before I hire. It's perfect! Go to Angie's List and save 20% on new annual memberships with promo code GBECK! -glenn Tonight: Congress is fiddling while the country burns. After the defeat of the $700 billion dollar bailout, the House is off until Thursday. Glenn is tired of the blame game and the partisan bickering. It's not a partisan political issue, it's an American issue. Tonight! 7 and 9 ET. Newsletter Clip: Economy in crisis: Inflation and your bottom line. What everyday life in America may look like twelve months from now. Check out the newsletter clip of the day to watch the video. Glenn Beck Program | 1270 Avenue of the Americas | New York, NY 10020 www.glennbeck.com

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FBI working to prevent terrorist 'October surprise'

Visit our News page Dear Charles, Understandably, Americans are focused on the economic crisis facing our country. But as the article below demonstrates, the threat of Islamic terrorism never sleeps. One can only imagine the negative impact on our already shaky financial and credit markets if a terrorist attack was successfully implemented on our soil sometime during the next five weeks. FBI hunts American citizens trained overseas for terror Feds launch dragnet to stop 'October surprise' attack Posted: September 29, 2008 1:00 am Eastern http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=76415 © 2008 WorldNetDaily As Pakistani investigators hunt the terrorists behind the massive Marriott Hotel bombing in Islamabad, FBI agents in the U.S. have begun aggressively hunting for Americans who have recently returned from trips to Pakistan where they may have trained at al-Qaida camps, WND has learned. A coast-to-coast dragnet has been launched partly in response to leads developed in the arrest of one of al-Qaida's "fixers" in the U.S., say FBI officials. They report the bureau is in a race against time to identify Pakistan-trained sleeper cells and disrupt a possible pre-election "October surprise." For the first time since 9/11, counterterrorism field agents have been authorized to spy on young Muslim men and women – including American citizens – who have traveled to Pakistan without any specific evidence of wrongdoing. Controversial new investigative guidelines approved by the Justice Department allow agents to monitor suspects and conduct undercover interviews even before opening formal investigations. FBI headquarters has ordered its field offices to aggressively pursue anonymous tips and report back any suspicious activities in their Muslim communities. The intelligence will be immediately analyzed and shared in a threat matrix to avoid a repeat of the so-called "Phoenix memo" intelligence failure, officials say. In the weeks prior to 9/11, an alert agent in the FBI's Phoenix office noted that several radical Middle Eastern men were taking flying lessons. He drafted a memo and sent it to headquarters, which promptly buried it, missing an opportunity to act before the disastrous hijackings of 9/11. The FBI's new rules and current sense of urgency follow the recent interrogation of al-Qaida operative Aafia Siddiqui, an M.I.T.-educated scientist who fled to Pakistan after 9/11. She was arrested this summer in Afghanistan and brought back to the U.S. after sustaining injuries from a gun battle. According to a federal indictment, Siddiqui was found with handwritten notes that referred to a "mass casualty attack" and listed various locations in the U.S. including Wall Street, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, Plum Island and the Brooklyn Bridge. In addition, certain notes referred to the construction of "dirty bombs," chemical and biological weapons and other explosives. Siddiqui's notes also discussed "mortality rates associated with certain of these weapons and explosives," the indictment says. Other notes referred to various ways to attack "enemies," including destroying reconnaissance drones, using underwater bombs and using gliders. A computer thumb drive in Siddiqui's possession contained electronic correspondence that referred to specific "cells" and "attacks" by certain "cells," the indictment says. Other documents referred to "enemies," including the U.S., and discussed recruitment and training. Officials say subsequent interrogations have revealed that possibly hundreds of American Muslims, many of them of Pakistani descent, have traveled to Pakistan in recent years to train at al-Qaida and Taliban madrassas and terror camps and have returned to the U.S. to carry out suicide attacks. The revelation has shocked the politically sensitive FBI into abandoning its long-held policy of coordinating investigations in the Muslim community with Muslim-rights groups. Officials say it's more important than ever to track down Muslims who have traveled to Pakistan, and gather and disseminate intelligence quickly to disrupt possible terror plots before they can develop to an operational stage. "There's some worry we may be in another Phoenix moment," one official said, "but this time we're determined to leave no stone unturned." The formation of al-Qaida training camps inside Pakistan has been a major concern among U.S. security agencies since at least 2004, when Washington issued a rare intelligence directive to border agents to check young Pakistani male travelers –including Americans – for physical signs of military training. As WND first reported, they were asked to look for "rope burns," "unusual bruises," "scars" and other possible injuries suffered from obstacle courses, firearms or explosives. "Many of the individuals trained in the Pakistani camps are destined to commit illegal activities in the United States," warned the two-page DHS advisory that launched the special action. According to another internal DHS document obtained by WND, the department more recently directed customs officers to escort passengers identified by "one-day lookouts" to secondary inspection, where they are subjected to a battery of questions to determine if they have visited terror camps in Pakistan. American citizens of Pakistani descent also are under increased scrutiny. Over the past few years, U.S. authorities have arrested or investigated several Pakistani-American men who have trained at the camps during trips to Pakistan. One camp used photos of President Bush for target practice. "The camps are a big concern," said a DHS official, who requested anonymity. "We are questioning U.S. citizens, as well as Pakistani nationals, as they come back to the states if the computer says they might have terrorist ties." FBI Director Robert Mueller earlier this month cited the threat posed by the Pakistani terror-training camps while briefing Congress about the bureau's expanded investigative powers, which officially go into effect Oct. 1. "We know that in western Pakistan now that there are camps in which individuals are being trained. The U.K. knows that very well because individuals who were involved in the 2005 attacks and later attacks had traveled to Pakistan for training in the camps and then come back," Mueller testified before the House Judiciary Committee. "I believe the American public would want us to do what is necessary to try to identify persons who had traveled to Pakistan, whatever their heritage, whatever their background, whatever their ethnicity, to determine who has gone to Pakistan to obtain that training and may be coming back to the United States to undertake an attack." House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., complained the new investigative rules would give FBI agents license to racially profile citizens. FBI officials noted that the Marriott blast, which killed both U.S. Defense and State Department officials, signaled new techniques by al-Qaida-trained suicide terrorists. The dump-truck bomb they used was so massive, leaving a crater 30 feet deep and 60 feet wide, that it managed to severely damage the building even from beyond the concrete barriers protecting the perimeter of the building. Also, investigators said that the hotel – a high-profile target that was used by Western diplomats as well as the CIA – had been targeted at least twice previously for attack, just as the U.S. embassy in Yemen had been hit in minor operations before this month's full-scale attack. The repeat attacks indicate the terrorists are testing security, experts say. It also indicates they will keep coming back to the same target until they are successful in destroying it. In the U.S., the World Trade Center was first attacked in 1993 and then again in 2001. A target the hijackers intended to strike but failed to hit on 9/11 was the U.S. Capitol. 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THE GLENN BECK PROGRAM September 29, 2008 Sponsored Links Check Angie's List before you hire.   On Today's Program Gingrich: 'Paulson should be fired' Glenn spoke with Newt Gingrich this morning about the proposed bailout bill. He was a bit surprised by what Gingrich had to say. Not only does Gingrich think that Secretary Paulson should be fired, but he believes we are potentially on the brink of a crisis of 1929 proportions if nothing is done. Find out what Gingrich thinks of the bail out bill and why he thinks it will pass. Read the transcript. Insiders listen here. Ron Paul: "We're going to destroy the dollar" He has been warning of the declining dollar and America's impending financial crisis for months. Glenn spoke with Ron Paul about the proposed bailout and got Paul's thoughts on what this means for our country's economic future. Read the transcript. Insiders listen here. Senator DeMint Another voice from Washington who is 'very much against the bailout' is Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina. Glenn spoke with him on the program today. They discussed the public response to the bailout, including calls to Senator DeMint's office that were 9-1 against the bailout. Read the transcript. Insiders listen here. What you can do After talking about the bailout with some folks in Washington close to the political process, Glenn spent some time discussing simple things that you can do to help your family during these tough times. Read the transcript. Insiders listen here. Angie's List Hello my fellow sick twisted freaks, I want to share with you one of my favorite resources ... Angie's List. They make it possible for me to get local ratings and reviews for everything from dentists to plumbers so I can see see who does the best work before I hire. It's perfect! Go to Angie's List and save 20% on new annual memberships with promo code GBECK! -glenn Tonight: As another major bank goes under, it looks like we have a deal on the Bailout Bill -- but it won't matter. Glenn says we're headed for a depression unlike anything seen in the 1930s. Why the bill is another step on the road to nationalization of American businesses, tonight at 7 and 9 ET. Unelectable DVD Now available in retail stores nationwide -- the show that proves why Glenn is completely unelectable. This summer Glenn toured the country giving the speech that he wished just one politician would have the courage to give, one that is so true yet at the same time a recipe for not getting elected. Glenn Beck Unelectable DVD -- available now at retailers nationwide, get the details here. Order your copy today Glenn Beck Program | 1270 Avenue of the Americas | New York, NY 10020 www.glennbeck.com

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