It's looking more and more like we had some big-time failures in intelligence in the matter of Major Nidal Hasan.  He's the Islamic goon who murdered 13 of our soldiers and injured 27 others at Ft. Hood, Texas. 

Today's big revelation would be that our intelligence folks new that Major Nidal Hasan was communicating with Al Qaeda.  This would include the counter-intelligence division of the U.S. Army.  They knew it .. but did essentially nothing.   Now we're wondering how the people charged with keeping us safe could know that this Islamic thug was trying to contact Al Qaeda, and then surmise that iut was all part of his academic research.

Now we have all kinds of internal probes going on.  Internal probes don't bring back fathers, mothers, sons and daughters.  Internal probes aren't a salve for grief. 

Our intelligence agencies work under which branch of government?  That would be the executive branch.  The boss would be Barack Obama.  Now ... do you think we're getting the full story on Nidal Hasan from the Obama administration?  Sorry, but I certainly don't.  No ... I'm not saying that Obama is responsible for the intelligence failure here.  I'm just suggesting that I don't really expect to get the full story with The Community Organizer at the helm.

Well ... it never should have left.

For a while, it seems as though this nation has lost a sense of urgency when it comes to matters of national security and terrorism. Maybe that is because the previous administration did a fine job of keeping this country safe after 9/11. Or maybe it is because you feel so safe now that Barack Obama and the liberal Left are in charge and playing nice-nice with those who hate us. But the latest details of these FBI al Qaeda probes warrant a little more than a glancing headline.

Before we continue though ... I want you to count how many times you see the words "Muslim" or "Islam" appear in any articles related to this story.

Moving right along ... Over the weekend the FBI arrested two Muslim men, Najibullah Zazi and his father, Mohammed for making false statements. The FBI had been investigating what they thought was a plot to detonate homemade bombs in the US. Turns out that the son, Zazi received al-Qaida explosives training in Pakistan. He was also found trying to entering New York City two weeks ago with bomb-making instructions on his computer. Backpacks and cell phones were seized in raids on apartments Zazi visited while in New York. The FBI believes that these cell phones could have been used to detonate hydrogen-peroxide bombs hidden in backpacks. Their targets may have included various locations or events in New York City like Subway stations or some fashion show. So these Muslims appeared in New York on Monday. Oops. Called them "Muslims." That's more than the newspapers did.

Now federal authorities are saying that as many as a dozen people may be tied to a suspected al Qaeda bomb plot in the US. So the government has expanded its terrorism warning not just to transit systems but to stadiums, hotels and entertainment complexes around the country.

Worried? Even a little? How far would you want our government to go in trying to get to the bottom of these threats ... and perhaps save lives? Would you care if we poured water on Zazi's head to make him THINK he was drowning, even though he would be in no danger? If not that, could we just deprive him of a little sleep to make him talk?

Nope ... can't do those things. That would be torture. Besides, remember that the White House is now in charge of interrogations ... so maybe now you feel even a little bit safer! Right?

Yep. The Obama administration has made it official .. we are not longer engaged in a "war on terrorism." You won't see the word "jihadists" either. Nor the words "global war." The head of the White House homeland security office, John Brennan says that this is a "new way of seeing" things. Instead, the only terminology that will be used is "at war with al Qaeda."

That's it. "We are at war with al Qaeda," says Brennan. "We are at war with its violent extremist allies who seek to carry on al Qaeda's murderous agenda."

Don't you feel so much safer now?

The headline from the Associated Press reads "5 Miami men convicted of Sears Tower attack plot". Read the story here ... then click back.

There ... did you notice anything. Though at the end of the story you'll see some references to al Qaeda .. nowhere in the story are these men identified as Muslims; and yes .. they were all Muslims. Another story identified them as "members of an apparent militaristic religious sect", but not Muslims.

Radical Muslims can rant all week long about their intentions to kill as many Americans as possible and to bring destruction to our shores, but for heaven's sake we simply cannot identify these people for what and who they are. That would just be oh so insensitive and offensive, wouldn't it?

So we have yet to capture Osama bin Laden. Nancy Pelosi and her liberal compadres will tell you that this is one of the great failings of the Bush administration. Well even if Bush didn't catch him, his administration did do something ... they made the guy obsolete. He doesn't matter. He is just another turban hiding somewhere in the mountains of Pakistan. This isn't just me blowing smoke, folks. This is coming from a senior US counterterrorism official. He says that "Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his second-in-command have been rendered ineffective by international anti-terrorist efforts."

But don't worry. If he is caught under the Obama administration, he will have full access to the US court system. Yep, remember when he pledged that during the campaign? I wonder if that will be another one of those promises he can't keep once he realizes the realities of the situation.