Important Takeaways:
- Jimmy Carter, America’s 39th president, passed away Sunday at age 100.
- When he took the oath of office in 1977, James Earl Carter Jr. brought a breath of fresh air to Washington. The only Georgian to occupy the White House, Carter helped the nation recover from a government plagued by scandal. But his single term also suffered from a sick economy and serious foreign policy threats.
- A Southern Baptist Sunday school teacher and peanut farmer, the Georgia governor came from nowhere in 1976 to defeat President Gerald Ford. On Inauguration Day, when he shunned a limo and walked to the White House with his wife Rosalynn, it felt like times had really changed.
- Almost overnight, scandal-weary Americans could put Watergate and the Nixon-Ford years behind them.
- After leaving the White House, the former president drew admiration for his charity work with Habitat for Humanity. He told CBN’s Gordon Robertson it was his way of putting his faith in action.
- The 39th president was happily married to his wife Rosalynn for more than seven decades. Before she passed away on November 19, 2023, she was always at his side. In 2018, the couple had joined four other living presidents to say farewell to President George H.W. Bush who was born the same year as Carter.
- Two years prior, Carter announced he had melanoma that had spread to his brain and liver. But just months later, after surgery, radiation, and immunotherapy treatments, he announced he was cancer-free.
- “A lot of people prayed for me and I appreciate that,” he said.
- He handled his battle with cancer with grace and thankfulness, leaning heavily on his faith. “I think I have been as blessed as any human being in the world,” he said.
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The murder of 17 in Paris by Islamic terrorists? It’s Israel’s fault.
That’s the view of former President Jimmy Carter.
Carter appeared on the left-wing comedy show “The Daily Show” and told host Jon Stewart that you had to place the blame for the origin of the terror attack on Israel.
“Well, one of the origins for it is the Palestinian problem,” Carter said. “And this aggravates people who are affiliated in any way with the Arab people who live in the West Bank and Gaza, what they are doing now — what’s being done to them. So I think that’s part of it.”
Carter didn’t elaborate how the end of Israeli-Palestinian conflict would somehow stop the anti-Semitism by Muslims throughout the world. He did go on to say that the attack was a “new development” in Islamic terrorism.
“But I think this is a new evolutionary development in terrorism, where people go into Syria, they get trained there, they have a passport from France, from Great Britain or from the United States,” he added. “They stay there for a few months and learn how to be a terrorist and then they come back through Turkey and you know they have been there and you know who they are. And I think this event in Paris is going to waken up the people in charge of security to watch those people more closely than they have in the past — and not single out all of the Muslims in the country.”
In the latest salvo regarding the spying on ordinary Americans by the National Security Agency, the head of that group is saying that soldier’s lives will be put in danger if more documents are released to the public.
General Keith Alexander told Fox News that his “greatest concern” was the possible loss of life because of Snowden’s actions.
Gen. Alexander said the NSA has a “good assessment” of the remaining documents that Snowden stole before he fled to Russia and that many of those documents will compromise U.S. military actions around the world. Revealing those could put the lives of soldiers and possibly their family members in danger.
He also addressed comments from former President Jimmy Carter that he was concerned the NSA was monitoring e-mails by denying the NSA would do it.
“The reality is, we don’t do that. And if we did, it would be illegal and we’d be … held accountable and responsible,” Gen. Alexander said.
Not even a former President can avoid the NSA.
Former President Jimmy Carter told NBC’s Meet The Press that he avoids using electronic means of communications because he is suspicious that the NSA would spy on him. He said that if he wants to correspond with anyone, especially a foreign leader, he hand-writes a message and then sends it via snail mail.
“I have felt that my own communications are probably monitored,” President Carter said. “I believe if I send an e-mail, it will be monitored.”
Carter also took issue with the use of electronic surveillance by the NSA and the use of drones by intelligence services. Carter said the policies regarding the use of those spy planes “has been extremely liberalized” and he added that he believes intelligence services have abused the tools that had been given to them.
