Rob was a Washington DC private detective specializing in homicide, political corruption and terrorism. Rob is an authority on the use of social engineering to steal protected information. Rob’s investigative work and congressional testimony resulted in the passage of state and federal laws. Rob has hosted talk radio shows in Washington DC, Maryland and Colorado and was an award-winning Colorado newspaper columnist. Rob’s current focus is the intersection of national security, politics and the Internet.
The lesson from the mainstream media's deliberate decision to not report the testimony from the Gosnell trial is that they have, once again, been exposed as a coordinated team of liberal advocates – not journalists.
Last week there was a glaring, indeed obscene, omission in Obama's presentation. There was no mention of the brutal assassination of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and the murder of three other exceptionally brave Americans – Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty – serving alongside Stevens in Libya on September 11, 2012.
For too long, we have become disconnected from one another in our families, neighborhoods and communities. We have turned over to the federal government – sometimes voluntarily, sometimes not – so many of the responsibilities that we used to deal with as families, churches, neighborhoods, communities and states that we no longer feel we have an obligation as citizens to watch out for one another.
As we stood on the appointed street corner at the appointed time, a van pulled up with the side door sliding open even before coming to a complete stop. As soon as we jumped in and sat down on the bench seat, the door slammed shut and the van quickly accelerated into downtown Washington, D.C. traffic.
The men and women who volunteer to pay the ultimate price for our freedom deserve to be in a class unto themselves when it comes to their franchise to vote.
Michael Ledeen (Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and author of more than 25 books, most recently Accomplice to Evil; Iran and the War Against the West).