The Left lashes out at the Obama administration as New Yorkers breathe a sigh of relief that they won’t have to host monsters in their backyard.
The Obama Administration Finally Reverses A Dangerously Dumb Decision: No Circus Trial In New York For Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
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Hayden: The CIA is NOT the Enemy Part III
March 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
General Michael Vincent Hayden served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from May, 2006 until February, 2009. He is a retired United States Air Force four-star general and a former Director of the National Security Agency. Currently, Hayden is a principal at the Chertoff Group, a security consultancy, co-founded by former Homeland Security Secretary [...]
NewsReal Blog Interview: Military Tribunal vs. Federal Trial: Obama’s Ping Pong Game
March 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
There is much speculation on whether President Obama will overrule his attorney general and change the venue and the type of trial the terrorists will be given. NewsReal Blog interviewed those with first-hand knowledge for their opinion on what type of trial the terrorists should have and where it should be held. Weighing in [...]
NewsReal Blog Interview with John Yoo, Part 2: The Good (military commissions), The Bad (Federal Trials), and The Ugly (KSM)
March 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
John Yoo is currently a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley. From 2001 to 2003 he was a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Council at the U.S. Department of Justice. It was during this time that he co-authored the Bybee memo defining torture and American Habeas [...]
David B. Rivkin Jr. and Marc A. Thiessen: A Tale of Two Terrorists – WSJ.com
February 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Obama administration’s decision to read the Christmas Day bomber his Miranda rights has rightly come under withering criticism. Instead of a lengthy interrogation by officials with al Qaeda expertise, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was questioned for 50 minutes by local FBI agents and then later advised of his “right to remain silent.”It’s well understood that [...]
Andrew C. McCarthy: Rigging the Numbers on Terror – National Review Online
February 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It is welcome news that the Obama administration has reversed its irrational decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 plotters in Manhattan’s federal court. So far, however, the administration has merely — and grudgingly — begun to climb out of this hole of its own making.The president seems more poised to move [...]
Terror Trials No Longer in NYC; Opportunity for U.S. Justice System
February 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By Glenn Sulmasy
The decision to move the trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) and his four compatriots from a New York City federal courthouse highlights the struggles associated with detaining and trying the al Qaeda fighters. Needless to say, many businessman, the families of the victims of 9/11, Wall Street Executives and realtors in New [...]
Obama Has Just Made the Country a Lot Less Safe: Moving Gitmo Terrorists to Illinois
December 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In one of his dumbest acts as President, Barack Obama will be taking some of the most hardened terror suspects being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and transferring them to the currently abandoned Thomson Correctional Center in western Illinois.
As Amy Goodman describes it on Democracy Now!:
The Obama administration has confirmed plans for the eventual transfer of [...]
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Harold Koh
December 1, 2009 By 3 Comments
For the entire Harold Koh profile, click here. Selected highlights from the Harold Koh profile: Born in Boston, Massachusetts in December 1954, Harold Hongju Koh is an attorney of Korean-American heritage…. In 2009 President Barack Obama nominated him to be the Legal Advisor to the U.S. State Department. Koh is an advocate of transnationalism, a concept that argues in [...]
