A Tale of Two Books


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A Dutch court is forced to compare Mein Kampf and the Quran in the Wilders trial.

Holder Clears Bush Officials In Torture Probe, Sets Stage For ICC Entry. Will Obama Open The Door?


A few weeks ago I wrote a post here at NRB on a news item that got very little attention from American readers.  It’s well-worth revisiting now.  The Obama Administration announced through an anonymous source on or about January 31 that no one in the Bush Administration who was involved with green-lighting the water-boarding of [...]

Imprisoned for Saving American Lives


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Former U.S. Army Master Sergeant John Hatley is now serving a forty year sentence for allegedly killing terrorists in Iraq.

A New Threat to Free Speech on Campus


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Campus lefists and administrators discover the academic equivalent of the poll tax.

Andrew C. McCarthy: Kill or Capture? – National Review Online


A few years ago, I got into an argument with an expert on military operations. I had written a white paper proposing the creation of a national-security court for terrorism cases. In the paper I criticized the trend to “judicialize” warfare, arguing that, in our system, judgments about the detention and treatment of alien enemy [...]

LA Times Reporter Chu helps Binyam Mohamed Sing the Blues


The British are singing the chorus to Binyam Mohamed’s version of “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me.” Remember how British intelligence informed the Americans about Saddam Hussein stockpiling WMD’s? Once again the British got it wrong. The mainstream American press went along for the ride with the CIA as the scapegoat.
Recently, the British appellate court made public [...]

Khalid Shaikh Muhammad and the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree


Gather ’round.  Here’s a little-known tale about ”The Fruit Of The Poisonous Tree” – or why 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Muhammad (KSM) and his Muslim terrorist friends may very well walk away as free men.  No, I’m not a lawyer.  But during twenty years of police work I spent enough time in criminal trials as an advisory witness [...]

Barack Obama: You Have “No Reasonable Expectation Of Privacy”


CNET was the first to report on prospective tracking of American citizens using cell phone technology, but this week Barack Obama becomes the Dark Knight himself, seizing the opportunity to spy on every American through unfettered access to their cell phone records, physical locations and internet use.
In the movie the Dark Knight, Batman uses cell phone technology to [...]

Hip-Hop Expert Hill Opines on National Security


Columbia University Associate Professor Marc Lamont Hill did his usual babbling act on “The O’Reilly Factor” last night.  This time, the issue was putting the Christmas Day underwear bomber and 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed on trial in civil court rather than before a military tribunal.
This expert in hip-hop music might have been able to [...]

Another “Torture” Non-Scandal


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Al-Qaeda terrorist Binyam Mohamed walks free while his U.S. interrogators are condemned.