SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT: 

VIGILANCE – FROM THE NEW YORK POST:  New York City is preparing for an “elevated threat environment” on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks Saturday because of the recent Kabul airport bombing and increased al Qaeda propaganda, though there are currently no specific threats, officials said.  “We have developed a robust security overlay for the upcoming ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks,” Martine Materasso, chief of the NYPD’s Counterterrorism Bureau, said Wednesday during the mayor’s daily press briefing.  “We will be using all of our counterterrorism resources to ensure a safe event,” she added.  Those tools include explosive detection canines, uniformed police presence by the former site of the Twin Towers, heavy weapons teams, explosives detection instruments, a bomb squad at the site, license plate readers, radiological and chemical sensors and surveillance cameras.  The NYPD takes these things seriously.  I wonder if the Biden administration does.  Biden will be visiting all three 9-11 attack sites.  It will be interesting to see the kind of reception he receives. 

MADNESS – FROM BREITBART:  Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says President Joe Biden is seeking to execute a plan that would give “unlimited green cards” to unvetted Afghans evacuated from Afghanistan in recent weeks.  As Breitbart News reported on Wednesday, Biden turned the fast-track citizenship for Afghans plan into a budget request to Congress.  The request asks Congress to allow Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to give green cards, and eventually naturalized American citizenship, to at least 50,000 Afghans by waiving standard vetting procedures.  Cotton slammed the request as “just another chapter in Biden’s rolling fiasco of an Afghanistan policy” in a statement.  Cotton’s office said the Biden plan would allow “any Afghans who come to the United States over at least the next year to obtain green cards, backdated to the day they entered the country, without completing the normal refugee screening or approval process” while also not counting the Afghans against annual refugee caps.  The security risk to our country is vast in such a lax process, but the political left will rejoice.  More Democratic voters.  The Dems have a remarkable capacity to benefit from any disaster.

September 9, 2021