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Roger Cressey with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Roger Cressey, former National Security Director. 

Cressey said that Russia's security services (FBS) should be interrogated as to Tamerlan Tsarnaev's activities in Russia during his visits there.  He said the Tsarnaevs weren't members of a sleeper cell as their behaviors showed and that he finds the brothers' relationship as the key.  Ingraham questioned why Chechens after September 11th were allowed into the US.  

Cressey said it is important we learn the triggers to radicalization for national security purposes. He said anyone who is using violence along with religion is problematic and Ingraham cited Tom Brokaw's comments on Islamic rage.  

Cressey is interested in what the overseas interest may have been involved.  

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Catholic Chaplain Captain Emil Kapaun Awarded Medal of Honor

President Obama award Chaplain (Captain) Emil J. Kapaun, U.S. Army, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry at the White House. Chaplain Kapaun is receiving the Medal of Honor posthumously for his extraordinary heroism while serving with the 3d Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division during combat operations against an armed enemy at Unsan, Korea and as a prisoner of war from November 1-2, 1950. April 11, 2013.

 

 

 

Catherine Herridge of Fox News with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Catherine Herridge, chief intelligence correspondence of Fox News on the Benghazi scandal and North Korea.

Herridge said South Korea claims North Korea has its missiles positioned to fire.  Also the US military said we have ability to shoot down a missile aimed at US interests.  Most importantly, she said a recent cyberattack is thought to have come from North Korea. 

Herridge noted we are in big debt to China and that they are robbing us blind, making it difficult for us to negotiate with them save they are worried about instability in North Korea. 

Herridge reported that 700 Special Ops signed a letter to Congress demanding a thorough investigation into the Benghazi scandal. She said Speaker Boehner hasn't gotten behind a special committee investigation, perhaps due to the money and spending political capital.  There are questions about the silence of the survivors, Obama's and Hillary Clinton's lack of engagement in the matter.  She said it is peculiar that the survivors aren't allowed to talk to Congress members who are supposed to receive classified intel.  

Tom Tarentino with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Tom Tarentino.

Tarentino said veterans get excellent health care, but that the mental health side is woefully lacking.  He said there is an outstanding backlog in claims, a 70% rate.  This indicates that the VA can't handle the caseloads.  He doesn't see how the claims will be cleaned up in three years as the administration says.  He said the system is paper based and unchanged for decades.  

Tarentino said there are twenty plus VA centers that vary in quality.  The average veteran waits 273 days with newer vets waiting twice as long.  He stated that those disabled get care for life for service related injuries and five years in transition if one isn't injured.  He stated that we went to war as a nation but that the vets aren't getting taken care of post-war.  

Emilie Karczewski with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Emilie Karczewski, Founder of Las Vegas Sew Girls. 

Karczewski said her friends from Michigan gave her the idea to sew and tailor clothing for injured and disabled veterans.  Her group works totally on donations which are spent locally.  They have been in operation 5 years and sent over 4,000 items of clothing to headquarters in Colorado.  She said the recipients spirits and confidence are elevated with these items.  She described the horrific nature of the military survivors.  

Senator Jim Inhofe with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Senator Jim Inhofe.

Inhofe said the military tuition assistance is an attractive benefit for the troops and then it was pulled out with the sequester.  He suggested cutting President Obama's green agenda in the military which should be done in the private sector.  He and Ingraham noted that this isn't welfare for the military personnel, but a promised benefit.

Inhofe favors the draft and said if this was the case, incentives wouldn't be necessary.  

Inhofe and Ingraham expressed skepticism over Obama's charm offensive because his policies don't change.  

Inhofe said there are too many lines in the sand. He said Rand Paul's filibuster was all right, but noted his was much longer with Senator Hagel.  He doesn't agree with Rand Paul's stance on military cuts.  

Laura Ingraham on "Fox & Friends": Poor Treatment for Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Lady, Dr. Benjamin Carson's National Prayer Breakfast Remarks

Laura Ingraham appeared on "Fox and Friends" on February 12th.  She spoke about the shabby treatment the assassin of Osama bin Laden is receiving in retirement from the military and on Dr. Benjamin Carson's remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast that garnered criticism from the elite media.  

Ingraham commented on the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden who is now getting little support for himself and his family in retirement and decried the dismal treatment veterans receive after putting their lives on the line for the nation.  Ingraham noted that benefits flow to celebrities and others who receive glory for questionable "achievements".

Ingraham commented on Dr. Benjamin Carson's remarks made at the National Prayer Breakfast that critiqued President Obama's policies.  She contrasted the approval celebrities get when they comment on political matters versus the opprobrium Carson received from the elite media.  

Rep. Tom Rooney with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Representative Tom Rooney of Florida's 17th District.

Rooney said he would rather increase taxes than hollow out our military.  He is against tax increases.  

Ingraham noted Rooney is a graduate of West Point and Army JAG, but there must be other cuts in the military rather than the troops benefits.  Rooney said a trillion in a year will have been asked of the military and that the military will be going back to our readiness of the Carter years.  Rooney said the sequester cuts to the Pentagon were a huge mistake.  

Rooney said that the goal is tax code reform to improve revenues which would replace the sequester.  Ingraham enumerated aspects of the current debt.  Rooney said Paul Ryan has a plan and budget which will being to address entitlement reform.  He pointed to cuts he has asked for and Ingraham replied they are drops in the bucket and that there are errors made during the Bush years.  Rooney stated the difficulties of working off a budget from the Pelosi years and that there are few gorwnups in the room.   

Jim Defelice, co-author with Chris Kyle of "American Sniper" with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Jim Defelice, co-author of Chris Kyle's book "American Sniper".

Defelice said he is shocked by the murder of Chris Kyle and said he was a total Texan, to the point he took a plot of Texas sod when deployed to California so his newborns would have their first steps on Texas soil.  Kyle would take veterans and help them readjust to life post military service.  Ingraham commented that the man who shot Kyle had PTSD - one of the people he was trying to help.  

General Stanley McChrystal with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted General Stanley McChrystal, author of "My Share of the Task". 

McChrystal thanked Ingraham for her support of the troops.  

McChrystal emphasized the importance of trust in the military and said it takes time for it to build between the military and the civilian leadership.  He said the message and tone of the "Rolling Stone" article surprised him and was inaccurate, but took responsibility.  

McChrystal said he's biased toward Afghanistan and that it could easily slide back to the Taliban and al-Qaeda.  He added that that country has been through years of war.  He thinks they are worried that the US will pull out and leave them adrift and unprotected.  Ingraham said that the country will always have the possibility of sliding back.  McChrystal restated that he has concern about some level of support be there.  

McChrystal said he saw so many women perform well in the military and that it is important to make sure the standards are consistently and carefully.  

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President Obama Nominates Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of State, John Brennan as CIA Director

President Obama nominates Chuck Hagel as the next Secretary of Defense and John Brennan as the next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. January 7, 2013

 

 

President Obama & Vice-President Biden Pay Tribute To Hero Senator Daniel Inouye

President Obama & Vice-President Biden Pay Tribute To Hero Senator Daniel Inouye who heroically won the Medal of Honor for service in World War II and served in the Congress for half a century:

  

HuffPost: Michelle Obama Donated 900 Toys for Tots (Actually WH Toy Drive Donations)

The Huffington Post reports that "Michelle Obama Donates 900 Gifts To Toys For Tots" - which were actually donations from a White House toy drive.  Once again the Obamas are leveraging the military and White House staff for their own self-aggrandizement. 

Presents collected from the White House toy drive included school supplies, books and toys by K'NEX Brands. President Barack Obama picked up the toys last month when he visited a suburban Philadelphia toy factory as part of his campaign to get the public to pressure Congress to act to prevent the so-called "fiscal cliff."

 

Charles Woods, father of slain Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Charles Woods, father of Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods who was killed in the Benghazi consulate attack.

Woods and Ingraham discussed the fact that the Benghazi consulate that was attacked is American soil.  Woods questioned if the White House response would have been so slow if the attack took place in Los Angeles or Seattle.  Ingraham responded that the consulate was refused assistance according to news accounts.  

Woods said he doesn't want to make the event political as it would dishonor his son's and the other victims memories.  He said VP Biden said to him, "Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls?" when his son's body was brought back to the US.  He has been in touch with other family members.  He said his son was retired, was relatively well off and when asked why he was going over there he replied, "If I don't go there, who will?" Woods said he is raising all these issues is that he also feels if he doesn't who will.

Woods said Secretary of State Clinton said the government would arrest the people who made the controversial film about the Prophet which had nothing to do with the attacks.  He said President Obama's demeanor was quite cold and he wouldn't look him in the eye.   

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Where's "Joining Forces"? Vets Getting Stiffed by VA

The Veterans Administration is late with payments to veterans, creating havoc for their finances. 

Where is "Joining Forces", FLOTUS Michelle Obama and Jill Biden's signature effort to help veterans on this one?  One would suspect they are too busy fighting for their own jobs right now. 

Exasperated veterans who work part-time for the Veterans Administration while attending college say their paychecks are sometimes weeks late, leaving them in trouble with bill collectors or having to borrow money to avoid eviction.

The two-week paycheck is typically about $360, and can be vital to veterans raising families and juggling expenses.