Retired Lt. General McInerny Issues Strong Warning to Americans

Posted on Monday, August 25, 2014 by Post Scripts

Posted by Tina

Retired Air Force Lt. General Thomas McInerney issued a dire warning to Americans on FOX News last Saturday in an interview with Uma Pemmaraju:

On the seventh of September, a major news network and a major publishing network are gonna put out a book, and it’s gonna be earth-shattering of what’s happening and what happened. And the fact is we may even see a 9/11/14, MH370 resurface again. We should be prepared for anything. We should go to DEFCON 1, which is our highest state of readiness and be prepared as we lead up to 9/11.

When he was pushed for details he said he could give any more details than what he already said, but emphasized that he believes America should “pay attention”. McInerney also strongly asserted that Americans are less safe today than six years ago, before Barack Obama’s foreign policy.

This is not the first time that the Lt. General has referenced the missing Malaysian jet, flight 370, as part of an ongoing terror threat. In the wake of the plane’s disappearance, he said on more than one occasion that he believed the plane may have been taken to Pakistan for use as a delivery method for a nuclear device.

It would be easy to dismiss McInerney as an alarmist except the DEFCON 1 recommendation is very serious. America went to DEFCON 2 during the very serious Cuban Missile Crisis. As Aaron Gardner of Redstate notes, “The United States has never gone to DEFCON 1 for the simple reason that it would mean that Nuclear War is imminent.”

America’s top general, General Martin Dempsey, believes terrorists will soon pose a direct threat but…

Dempsey’s “current mission is to protect US persons and facilities and that includes, of course, actions necessary to protect the homeland wherever those threats reside.”

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9 Responses to Retired Lt. General McInerny Issues Strong Warning to Americans

  1. Chris says:
    Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at 6:05 am

    “On the seventh of September, a major news network and a major publishing network are gonna put out a book, and it’s gonna be earth-shattering of what’s happening and what happened. And the fact is we may even see a 9/11/14, MH370 resurface again. We should be prepared for anything. We should go to DEFCON 1, which is our highest state of readiness and be prepared as we lead up to 9/11.”

    Y’all have gone full-on crazy.

  2. Tina says:
    Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at 9:28 am

    Chris I imagine if some high military person had said pre 911 that the Clinton administration had constructed a wall that kept the intelligence community from connecting the dots and predicted that planes would fly into buildings in NYC and DC voices like yours would have derided him as “full-on crazy” but he would have been 100% correct.

    The administration is sending mixed signals so they are no help.

    How will you feel if on or near 911 this year, or in time for Christmas, or next year sometime ISIL manages to deliver a suitcase bomb with a chemical or nuclear component on board to a major US city/cities?

    Stupid? Embarrassed?

    …Humbled?

    A Lt. General of the Air Force expresses major concerns about what our enemy is capable of doing. Are you sure we can afford to be flippant about it? And isn’t it newsworthy?

  3. Dewey says:
    Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at 9:34 am

    Everybody knows Fox news is the #1 Conspiracy mouthpiece that is debubked daily.

    It’s amazing you look for conspiracy theories when we are living the 1st one!

    Koch Brothers Tea party and John Birch Society wet dream is what we are witnessing.

    The Koch brothers plan to spend $290 million by November.

    $125 million of that sum is reserved for their ground game. They’ve got 400 staffers in 35 states, including key Senate and House districts. For these mega-donors, it’s a small price to pay to get state legislatures and Congress on their side.

    Yep that is real grass roots!

    Try reading their favorite books like Atlas shrugged and The secrets of the fed. Of course Ay Rand’s book is a fictional book but paul Ryan uses it as his economic theory stable. Never mentions Ayn died collecting social security.

    You support privatizing public assets to global corporations, you support getting rid of all social services including SSI. And everything is all about Obama.

    I realize Obama derangement syndrome is a deep disease but so is racism.

    Know the history of your party, it goes back in history. Or live in ignorance.

    Waiting on the post on how Democracy is bad and corporate rule is good

  4. Dewey says:
    Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at 10:30 am

    BTW Tina there is a true coverup on the Malaysian fights though. Do not let Fox twist that.

    The US is not releasing our sat images for a reason. It may just be to coverup the misreported story, but I say look at the passenger lists of both planes.

    Do not forget the chip. and wait do not allow false media to sway you…… wait and demand truth globally… the world leaders know what is going on not retired idiots.

  5. Tina says:
    Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at 2:39 pm

    Dewey: “Everybody knows Fox news is the #1 Conspiracy mouthpiece that is debubked daily.”

    Un huh, that’s why they’ve gone from being an obscure alternative to #1 in the ratings beating out the competition:

    Looking at the Nielsen numbers, Fox News averaged 443,000 adults 25-54 in primetime to finish ahead of CNN (361,000) in the key news demo, with both networks more than doubling the tally of MSNBC (179,000). CNN had narrowly won in the demo on Monday and Tuesday, before Fox News asserted itself Wednesday through Friday.

    In total-day numbers, FNC averaged 272,000, to 241,000 for CNN and just 106,000 for MSNBC.

    The only week to rate higher for Fox News this year was the State of the Union frame in January.

    As usual, it was no contest in total viewers, with Fox News (2.25 million in primetime, 1.26 million total-day) beating the combined tune-in of CNN (901,000 in primetime, 690,000 in total-day) and MSNBC (737,000 in primetime, 402,000 in total-day).

    The Kochs are not outspending Soros or any number of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, or public union pacs and organizations, Dewey. Don’t get your panties in a bunch.

    Your obsessions are near psychotic.

    I’m a mature adult, Dewey, please refrain from speaking to me as if I were five. I have read Atlas Shrugged!

    “Never mentions Ayn died collecting social security.”

    Since we are all forced to pay into it she would have been a fool not to! (You can’t have it both ways)

    “You support privatizing public assets to global corporations”

    NO! I do not!

    Please name a public asset you are worried about.

    Then tell me how that public asset was initially acquired since government has no money it does not take from the private sector!

    “you support getting rid of all social services including SSI”

    I support reforms, yes. Reforms are needed since the programs as they exist are unsustainable.

    “Getting rid of” implies recklessness…conservatives are not reckless in their approach. That’s what Democrats do…Obamacare is a prime example!

    Why would you not support reforms that put the program on a sustainable path, offer people choice, and eliminate debt, fraud and abuse?

    If public assets were to be “turned over” to the public, which would be an idea worth considering, then they would and should be acquired at fair market value like any asset is acquired in the private market. What’s wrong with that?

    “And everything is all about Obama.”

    Psssst…come here. I got a secret to tell ya. I realize you may not be aware…,i>its because he is the president!

    Obama signed up to be the focus of much of our attention. Clinton was when he was president…Bush was when he was president…chill!

    “Waiting on the post on how Democracy is bad and corporate rule is good ”

    While you are waiting, and busy insinuating that I am uneducated an uninformed, you might want to notice that Democracy is a form of government whereas “corporate rule” is what happens in board rooms of private companies with ownership rights.

    It’s an interesting concept…you might want to consider reading the Bill of Rights.

    You might also want to learn a bit about how our Republic works.

    You might also want to look back through our archives to discover a post or two of mine in which I address corporatism and suggest smaller, less intrusive federal government as a remedy.

    “…the world leaders know what is going on not retired idiots.”

    I’d be careful who you call an idiot Dewey. It could reflect pretty badly on you.

    Readers who wish to become informed of Lt General McInerny’s distinguished career can find information here and here.

    Do you have any idea how disjointed and confused your posts are?

  6. Chris says:
    Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at 5:24 pm

    Tina: “Chris I imagine if some high military person had said pre 911 that the Clinton administration had constructed a wall that kept the intelligence community from connecting the dots and predicted that planes would fly into buildings in NYC and DC voices like yours would have derided him as “full-on crazy” but he would have been 100% correct.”

    No, he wouldn’t have been. Have you read the 9/11 commission report? The “wall” was constructed over a period of 60 years, and was retained during the Bush administration.

    Do you really not see why it is irresponsible for a retired general to go on TV and rile people up about “the next 9/11,” and going to DEFCON 1 for the first time ever? Does that not seem slightly unprofessional or distasteful to you?

    And if anyone had said that Bush made us less safe during his tenure, you can bet they would have gotten a long lecture from the right about “treason” and “unity” and “standing by your man” or whatever the hell.

    “How will you feel if on or near 911 this year, or in time for Christmas, or next year sometime ISIL manages to deliver a suitcase bomb with a chemical or nuclear component on board to a major US city/cities?

    Stupid? Embarrassed?

    …Humbled?”

    From your tone, it sounds like you would be thrilled, if only so you could use the attack to further bash Obama.

  7. Tina says:
    Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at 8:29 pm

    Chris you are wrong about what was referred to as “the wall” The changes made in during the Clinton years were significant:

    Attorney General John Ashcroft came out swinging in testimony before the 9-11 Commission on Tuesday. “In 1995, the Justice Department embraced flawed legal reasoning, imposing a series of restrictions on the FBI that went beyond what the law required,” he said. “The 1995 Guidelines and the procedures developed around them imposed draconian barriers to communications between the law enforcement and intelligence communities. The wall left intelligence agents afraid to talk with criminal prosecutors or agents. In 1995, the Justice Department designed a system destined to fail.”

    But Ashcroft’s bombshell wasn’t his description of the Clinton Administration’s policies, which have been discussed by previous witnesses. “Somebody built this wall,” Ashcroft told the commissioners, and then went on to accuse one of the commission’s own.

    “The basic architecture for the wall . . . was contained in a classified memorandum entitled ‘Instructions on Separation of Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations,'” said Ashcroft. “Full disclosure compels me to inform you that its author is a member of this Commission.” Ashcroft was referring to Jamie Gorelick, who served as Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton Administration.

    From the beginning, Gorelick’s appointment to the 9/11 Commission was problematic. She served not only as Attorney General Janet Reno’s deputy but also as general counsel at the Department of Defense, jobs which put her at the heart of the Clinton Administration’s anti-terrorism efforts. Her actions, as well as those of her superiors, are among the subjects this commission is tasked to review. How can she be expected to be impartial when it comes to evaluating her superiors, much less herself?

    The memo Gorelick wrote has now been declassified and offers a window into the role she played in obstructing effective intelligence gathering and sharing during the Clinton Administration. The memo grew out of the Justice Department’s prosecution of the 1993 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center — the act that apparently gave Osama bin Laden the idea to try again in 2001.

    “During the course of those investigations,” wrote Gorelick in 1995, “significant counterintelligence information has been developed related to the activities and plans of agents of foreign powers operating in this country and overseas, including previously unknown connections between separate terrorist groups.” But Gorelick wanted to make sure that the left hand didn’t know what the right was doing. “(W)e believe that it is prudent to establish a set of instructions that will clearly separate the counterintelligence investigation from the more limited, but continued, criminal investigations. These procedures, which go beyond what is legally required, will prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation.”

    The problem, of course, is that the inability to share information is precisely what hampered federal agents in tracking down the 9-11 hijackers. As Attorney General Ashcroft testified, this artificial wall impeded the investigation into Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, who was arrested prior to the 9-11 attack, as well as Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, both of whom were identified by the CIA as suspected terrorists possibly in the United States prior to their participation in those terrible attacks. “Because of the wall, FBI Headquarters refused to allow criminal investigators who knew the most about the most recent al Qaeda attack to join in the hunt for the suspected terrorists,” Ashcroft told the commission.

    “At the time, a frustrated FBI investigator wrote Headquarters,” said Ashcroft, “quote, ‘Whatever has happened to this — someday someone will die — and wall or not — the public will not understand why . . .'”

    And they were done for a purpose:

    As the 9/11 Commission tries to uncover what kept intelligence agencies from preventing September 11, it has overlooked two vital factors: Jamie Gorelick and Bill Clinton. Gorelick, who has browbeaten the current administration, helped erect the walls between the FBI, CIA and local investigators that made 9/11 inevitable. However, she was merely expanding the policy Bill Clinton established with Presidential Decision Directive 24. What has been underreported is why the policy came about: to thwart investigations into the Chinese funding of Clinton’s re-election campaign, and the favors he bestowed on them in return.

    In April, CNSNews.com staff writer Scott Wheeler reported that a senior U.S. government official and three other sources claimed that the 1995 memo written by Jamie Gorelick, who served as the Clinton Justice Department’s deputy attorney general from 1994 to 1997, created “a roadblock” to the investigation of illegal Chinese donations to the Democratic National Committee. But the picture is much bigger than that. The Gorelick memo, which blocked intelligence agents from sharing information that could have halted the September 11 hijacking plot, was only the mortar in a much larger maze of bureaucratic walls whose creation Gorelick personally oversaw.

    It’s a story the 9/11 Commission may not want to hear, and one that Gorelick – now incredibly a member of that commission – has so far refused to tell. But it is perhaps the most crucial one to understanding the intentional breakdown of intelligence that led to the September 11 disaster.

    Nearly from the moment Gorelick took office in the Clinton Justice Department, she began acting as the point woman for a large-scale bureaucratic reorganization of intelligence agencies that ultimately placed the gathering of intelligence, and decisions about what – if anything – would be done with it under near-direct control of the White House. In the process, more than a dozen CIA and FBI investigations underway at the time got caught beneath the heel of the presidential boot, investigations that would ultimately reveal massive Chinese espionage as millions in illegal Chinese donations filled Democratic Party campaign coffers.

    When Gorelick took office in 1994, the CIA was reeling from the news that a Russian spy had been found in CIA ranks, and Congress was hungry for a quick fix. A month after Gorelick was sworn in, Bill Clinton issued Presidential Decision Directive 24. PDD 24 put intelligence gathering under the direct control of the president’s National Security Council, and ultimately the White House, through a four-level, top-down chain of command set up to govern (that is, stifle) intelligence sharing and cooperation between intelligence agencies. From the moment the directive was implemented, intelligence sharing became a bureaucratic nightmare that required negotiating a befuddling bureaucracy that stopped directly at the President’s office.

    First, the directive effectively neutered the CIA by creating a National Counterintelligence Center (NCI) to oversee the Agency. NCI was staffed by an FBI agent appointed by the Clinton administration. It also brought multiple international investigations underway at the time under direct administrative control. The job of the NCI was to “implement counterintelligence activities,” which meant that virtually everything the CIA did, from a foreign intelligence agent’s report to polygraph test results, now passed through the intelligence center that PDD 24 created.

    NCI reported to an administration-appointed National Counterintelligence Operations Board (NCOB) charged with “discussing counterintelligence matters.” The NCOB in turn reported to a National Intelligence Policy Board, which coordinated activities between intelligence agencies attempting to work together. The policy board reported “directly” to the president through the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.

    The result was a massive bureaucratic roadblock for the CIA – which at the time had a vast lead on the FBI in foreign intelligence – and for the FBI itself, which was also forced to report to the NCOB. This hampered cooperation between the two entities.

    The Wall was one of the reasons Bush created the Department of Homeland Security…to ensure that departments were talking with each other and sharing information. See also this.

    How much better off we might all be if neither the wall nor the DHS had ever been built.

    Please refrain from lectures about “riling people up”. The party you favor engages in it all the time.
    The display put on down in Ferguson is just the latest example and much more dramatic than someone giving the public information they might need or want to know, especially when their President has decided playing hookey is a much better way to do his presidency.

    The President told us Al Qaeda was “on the run”… “decimated” and “on the path to defeat.”…who can count on this man?

    I don’t take pleasure in criticizing the President.

    I am deeply concerned about our country.

    Your suggestion about my tone is repugnant and extremely offensive, albeit typical for you.

  8. Chris says:
    Wednesday, August 27, 2014 at 6:23 am

    Tina: “The display put on down in Ferguson is just the latest example and much more dramatic”

    Much more dramatic than saying that we are about to see another 9/11? Have you any sense of proportion left?

    “than someone giving the public information they might need or want to know,”

    He did not give the public any information! Information would have been a specific warning coupled with suggestions about what we can do about it. All he gave was a vague warning of impending doom. How is that helpful to anyone?

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