Obama told the group that at the Ford museum, he sat in the same bus made famous by civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks when she refused to give up her seat to a white rider.
“It gave me a moment to ponder the courage and tenacity,” of our very recent history, he said.
“We have a lot at stake in this election,” he said. “But we have the truth on our side.”
Directors of the private U.S. security firm Stratfor did not believe that Osama bin Laden was buried at sea, according to Stratfor emails leaked by WikiLeaks.
At 5:26 a.m. on May 2, the morning after Barack Obama announced the successful raid on bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound, Stratfor CEO George Friedman sent an email with the subject “[alpha] OBL“ that said:
Reportedly, we took the body with us. Thank goodness.
Fred Burton, Stratfor’s vice president for intelligence, followed that up at 5:51 a.m. with an email titled “[alpha] Body bound for Dover, DE on CIA plane“ that said:
Than [sic] onward to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Bethesda
At 1:36 p.m. Burton replied to a thread named “Re: OBL’s corpse” with the message:
Body is Dover bound, should be here by now.
Friedman— author of numerous articles and books on national security, warfare and intelligence— founded the Austin, Texas-based company in 1996.
Burton is a former Deputy Chief of the Department of State’s counterterrorism division for the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS).
The DSS assists the Department of Defense in following leads and doing forensic analysis of hard drives seized by the U.S. Government in ongoing criminal investigations.
WikiLeaks has published 637 out of what they say is a cache of 5 million internal Stratfor emails dated between July 2004 and December 2011 obtained by the hacker collective Anonymous around Christmas.
More evidence few people are interested in the establishment’s candidates. Meanwhile, Ron Paul continues to draw SRO crowds ignored by the corporate media.
Mitt Romney has had a few awkward moments throughout the primary season. But few could match his speech to the Detroit Economic Club at Ford Field.
The 65,000-seat home of the National Football League’s Detroit Lions seemed like an odd choice of venue for an appearance in front of a crowd of just 1,250 people.
Romney spoke from a podium on the 30-yard line of the football field in Detroit, Michigan, as the crowd, mostly men in suits, sat in chairs set up on the artificial turf.