But Obama failed to mention a small problem with his drug cartel-busting plan: Mexico has notified U.S. officials that its federal police and military are terminating the unfettered access it gave to U.S. police and security agencies in fighting drug traffickers and organized crime gangs, characterized by many U.S. law enforcement personnel as narco-terrorists.

“The president’s press conference was jammed with half-truths, evasions and out-and-out misrepresentation, some so stunning that even mainstream reporters took to snarking in their tweets. The tone of condescension was striking,” said the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin.

President Enrique Pena Nieto, who was sworn-into office on Dec. 1, 2012, claims that his government is curtailing the direct sharing of intelligence with U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies in order to attempt diplomatic solutions to the death and violence that has all but destroyed his country.

While President Felipe Calderon was praised by many U.S. police officials repeatedly for increasing cooperation between the Mexico and the United States as he led an intense attack on Mexico’s drug cartels, Pena Nieto will probably be heralded by the U.S. left, said a former American narcotics enforcement official.

“In my first conversation with the president he indicated to me that he very much continues to be concerned about how we can work together to deal with transnational drug cartels,” said Obama during the afternoon press conference.

“I’m not going to yet judge how this will alter the relationship between the United States and Mexico until I’ve heard directly from them what exactly they are trying to accomplish,” Obama told the Washington press corp in answer to the Latino reporter’s question.

Many U.S. police officials have said they are not surprised about Pena Nieto likely changing the relationship between U.S. and Mexican security departments. “The new Mexican president is as far-left as other Latin American leaders and as far-left on the political spectrum as President Obama. They believe talking and discussing are viable solutions when dealing with thuggish leaders of rogue nations, Islamofascist terrorist groups, and organized crime gangs such as Mexico’s cartels,” said former drug enforcement and intelligence officer Christopher Colon.

“Under Calderon, the alphabet agencies — FBI, CIA, DEA, ATF, ICE and border patrol agents — had almost complete access to units of Mexico’s Federal Police, army and navy and worked side by side with those units,” Colon noted.

But a former NYPD detective says she’s not putting much stock in Obama and Nieto discussing crime and terrorism. “In fact, Obama said it himself: a lot of the conversation in Mexico will be on economics,” said Det. Iris Aquino. who worked undercover in New York City subway trains and tunnels.

The six-year war against the Mexican narco-terrorists took an estimated 70,000 lives and saw the disappearance of thousands more. But now the Mexican government will do with narcotics what the Obama administration routinely does with Islamic terrorism: Pretend it doesn’t exist.

James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, warned reporters that federal budget cuts that are blamed on the sequestration will harm U.S. national security that won’t be noticed until an attack occurs.

Furloughs for intelligence personnel are being pondered, but so far appear to be an action to be taken as a last resort, say intelligence experts such as Mike Snopes.

“We’re cutting real capability and accepting greater risk,” Clapper told reporters in his office. “For intelligence, this is not quite like shorter hours for public parks or longer lines at the airports. For intelligence, it’s insidious. The capability we cut out today you won’t know about that, you won’t notice it,” he said. “The public won’t notice it. You’ll notice it only when we have a failure.”

Clapper said he could give no details on how America’s intelligence capabilities will be cut. “I’ve seen this movie before,” he said, referring to intelligence cuts in the 1990′s when he ran the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Clapper admitted that the Clinton administration drastically cut human intelligence resources such as closing overseas Central Intelligence Agency bureaus and stations. The basically plan of action was to rely more on technology such as satellites, cyber surveillance and other advanced technology.

“We cut human intelligence, we let our overhead reconnaissance architecture atrophy. We neglected the basics like power space and cooling … and most painfully we allowed the workforce to be distorted,” said Clapper.

Then came the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and intelligence budgets grew. But now, “we’re in another cut cycle,” he said.

Clapper emphasized the importance of maintaining an intelligence workforce that is an important part of homeland security.

“It is a uniform conviction across the leadership of the intelligence community that the most important resource we have is our people,” Clapper said. “So I’m going to try to do all I can, all of us are, to protect our people. If we have to furlough, then minimize the damage and the impact of doing that. All that hasn’t been worked out.”

A top Saudi Arabian Muslim cleric on Friday slammed users of the Twitter.com web site saying the social media site is a meeting place for clowns who make unsubstantiated claims, unjust allegations and incorrect tweets, according to an American-born official with the Israeli National Police, Joel Wasserhaus.

Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul-Aziz al-Sheikh bashed Twitter during a meeting of Saudi Arabia’s senior religious scholars on Friday.

The Grand Mufti told the Muslim audience that most of young people are wasting their time on chatting and using the Internet, including Saudi youngsters.

Saudi Arabia has three million Twitter users, more than any country in the Middle East, with a growth rate of 300 percent year-on-year, according to a report by the Social Clinic, a social media think tank.

According to the Social Clinic, between 2011 and 2012, the size of the population that has access to Twitter in The Kingdom increased by more than 3,000 percent. The Saudis account for an average 50 million tweets per month most of written in Arabic.

“Saudi Arabia has not been selfish either, with most of the tweets being in Arabic, Saudi Arabia accounts for 30 percent of the global tweets tweeted in Arabic, placing Arabic at the top of the pyramid of the fastest growing languages on Twitter, yes Arabic is the fastest growing language on Twitter,” according to statement published at the Social Clinic web site.

The Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh is listed as Number 10 among the world’s cities with most Tweets and is the only Arab city in the top 20 cities using Twitter, according to the report.

One of the problems for Muslim countries utilizing Internet social media communications is the use of Facebook.com and Twitter.com by terrorist groups to proselytize and inform Muslims about their aspirations and accomplishments such as bombings and increasing their numbers.

For example, on Feb. 3, 2012, the Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab complained to Twitter. “For what it’s worth,” they tweeted from their new account, HSMPress1, “shooting the messenger & suppressing the truth by silencing your opponents isn’t quite the way to win the war of ideas.”