“The Bush administration used the criminal justice system to convict more than 300 individuals on terrorism-related charges,” writes Attorney General Eric Holder in a new letter to Republican critics in Congress. The letter is part of the Obama administration's aggressive defense of its decision to grant full American constitutional rights to al Qaeda soldier Umar [...]
Byron York: Who are the 300 terrorists held in U.S. prisons? – Washington Examiner
February 7, 2010 By 2 Comments
Senior Amnesty International official accuses it of putting rights of jihadis before those of their victims
February 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Cross-posted at JihadWatch
Not surprising at all, given the Leftist/Jihadist alliance that manifests itself in so many areas. “Amnesty International is ‘damaged’ by Taliban link,” by Richard Kerbaj for The Sunday Times, February 7 (thanks to Sr. Soph):
A SENIOR official at Amnesty International has accused the charity of putting the human rights of Al-Qaeda terror suspects [...]
State of the Union: What Obama didn’t say about Terrorism
January 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
With only a cursory mention of the war on terror, three things were conspicuous by their absence in last night’s State of the Union speech: Gitmo, Miranda, and the New York terror trials.
On January 22, 2009, just two days after being sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama issued an [...]
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Obama PWNs the Left on Guantanamao
January 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Committed left-winger Glenn Greenwald is laying the smack down on President Obama over at Salon.com over his policy reversals on Guantanamo Bay and the prisoners held there. He is provoked by a New York Times report that the Administration is going to indefinitely hold nearly 50 detainees without trial after a task force concluded that [...]
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Dump Attorney General Eric Holder
January 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It is time for Eric Holder to go.
Holder’s latest outrage, reported last night on “The O’Reilly Factor”, is his decision to drop a Justice Department investigation into the New Black Panther Party in a case of polling place intimidation. Holder is also stonewalling Congress and the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, who have requested information about the case.
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How a Smirking Traitor and a U.S. President Found One Another
January 12, 2010 By 1 Comment
When the Obama administration announced that it would use a civilian court in New York as the venue for the forthcoming trial of five Guantanamo Bay detainees with ties to the 9/11 conspiracy, David Horowitz called that decision “a propaganda gift to Islamic murderers who will turn the courtroom into a media circus to promote their hatred against the Great [...]
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How the U.S. Creates Jihadists: the World According to Amy Goodman
January 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In 2008, the Pentagon estimated that 11 percent of all released Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) detainees had rejoined militant groups. Last April, the figure had risen to 14 percent. A just released Pentagon report cites a really sobering statistic: 20 percent of all released Gitmo terrorists have returned to their former militant existence.
If you are at [...]
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Obama: No Gitmo transfers to Yemen ‘at this time’ – POLITICO.com
January 6, 2010 By 2 Comments
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the United States will halt all transfers of Guantanamo prisoners to Yemen for now, but insisted he is not wavering in his commitment to shut down the prison for terror suspects. “Given the unsettled situation, I’ve spoken to the attorney general and we’ve agreed that we will not be [...]
Peter Beinart: The War on Terror Isn’t a War
January 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
If you’re trying to kill large numbers of people who are trying to kill you en masse, most people would correctly identify this situation as a war. President Barack Obama knows this, which is why he bristled at former Vice President Dick Cheney’s recent claims that he doesn’t treat our counterterror efforts like a war [...]
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Pots and Kettles: Shepard Smith Yells Gitmo is America’s “Black Eye”
Some people just have no sense of irony.
Apparently, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith is one of them. Monday night, the broadcaster most known for having Tammy Faye Bakker eyes, twice used “black eye” as a metaphor.
Shep basically lost control while arguing with Congressman Peter King about the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, and whether it [...]
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