The nation's chief intelligence official warned Thursday that a new president's first year in office is the most perilous time for the country.
“I would say the period of most vulnerability for the United States is the first year of a new president,” Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell told an annual conference of intelligence officials and contractors in Nashville, Tennessee, on Thursday.
McConnell cited the attack on the World Trade Center shortly after Bill Clinton took over the presidency in 1993 and the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, which occurred less than eight months after George W. Bush took the oath of office.
America will be especially vulnerable with an Obama presidency because one of the first things he will do is repeal the Patriot Act.
Soon after he will fulfil his promise made earlier in the year to trim the armed forces and spend less on military hardware.
This will be an open invitation to our enemies that Barack Hussein Obama will not be a threat to our enemies.
With a reduced military and our methods of detecting terrorist activities taken away after the Patriot Act is gone, we will be easy targets.
Much has been said by ‘bleeding heart’ liberals about George W. Bush ‘taking away our freedoms’ with the Patriot Act, yet how many times would we have been attacked without the protection of the Patriot Act?
The Citigroup Building in New York (shown below) was only one of the targets by just one man - Dhiren Barot. He planned to attack a host of financial industry targets in the United States.
There is a long list of thwarted attempts here.
The first year vulnerability story here.
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