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Terror Trials: Delaying American Justice to Observe Ramadan
18 Jul 2012 11:34 pm Warner Todd Huston

A military judge has just put off American justice in a terror trial so that the accused can observe Ramadan. So our culture, our system of justice is now to take a back seat to Islam. This is how our civilization ends and how we capitulate to radical Islamism without our firing a shot, folks.
As the AP reports, “A U.S. military judge agreed Monday to postpone the next court hearings at the Guantanamo Bay prison for five men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks to avoid a conflict with the …

Liberals Can’t Say “Not In Our Name” Anymore About Drone Strikes
10 Jul 2012 3:00 pm John Hawkins

For the most part, the same shrieking ninnies who wanted to see George Bush on trial for war crimes have simply clammed up about Barack Obama continuing many of the policies they objected to so much in the first place. Still, there have been a handful of dissenters whose desperate urge to coddle terrorists hasn’t been stilled by having a Democrat in the White House.
For example, Tom Junod in Esquire is posting Travon Martin style kiddie pics of Anwar al-Awlaki’s 16 year old son Abdulrahman, who was just recently delivered …

UN Investigator Says US Drone Strikes May Be War Crimes
22 Jun 2012 9:05 am William Teach

Let me be clear: I mostly support Obama’s use of drone strikes against Islamist terrorists around the world. It’s one of the few things on which I agree with him. Actually, it’s more like agreeing with Joe Biden, who recommended using more strikes and less troops in regards to the surge in Afghanistan. The United Nations and ACLU, though, disagree
(Guardian) The US policy of using aerial drones to carry out targeted killings presents a major challenge to the system of international law that has endured since the second world war, …

CIA and MI6 furious that Obama administration blew British agent’s cover
16 May 2012 12:00 am Wintery Knight

From Investors Business Daily.
Excerpt:
Here’s a disturbing update to last week’s amazing story about the U.S. mole who infiltrated al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and thwarted an airliner attack with a more sophisticated underwear bomb.
Someone in Washington whose boss stood to gain from an election year story about alert intelligence operatives successfully protecting American voters at great personal risk leaked the heroic story to the Associated Press. The AP held the story until Obama administration sources said the CIA operative was safe.
But, it turns out, the mole was not a CIA operative. The Obama …

Attorney For 9/11 Defendants Promises Long, Hard Fight
7 May 2012 7:34 am William Teach

Gee wiz, if only the Obama administration had simply accepted that KSM and the other defendants wanted to plead guilty, instead of playing games, like withdrawing all charges “without prejudice” in order to attempt to prosecute them in civilian court. Furthermore, can you imagine how much of a circus it would be if the trial was a civilian one, rather than a military tribunal?
(Washington Post) The behavior during their arraignment Saturday of the five defendants charged with orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was a form of “peaceful …

KSM, 4 Other Jihadis, To Face Military Tribunal For 9/11 Attack
5 Apr 2012 7:10 am William Teach

The in-the-bag-media is working hard to forget that this is the final point of a complete capitulation by Obama and Holder, both of whom wanted these al Qaeda members tried in a federal civilian court blocks from Ground Zero, and ran into a massive outcry over that idiotic plan. Perhaps if he had announced a civilian trial in, say, South Dakota, he could have gotten away with it, but, probably not. Obama tried to showboat, and it came back and slapped him around the head with the stupidity bat
(CNN) The …

Good News: Government Information On US Citizens Can Now Be Held For 5 Years
23 Mar 2012 8:55 am William Teach

Remember the good old days in the years immediately post-9/11, when Democrats freaked out over the government gathering information, which captured some data on US citizens? Remember the insanity over listening to international calls, despite still needing a warrant if it was determined that a US citizen was on the line? Back in 2007, Obama said this
The Supreme Court has never held that the president has such powers. As president, I will follow existing law, and when it comes to U.S. citizens and residents, I will only authorize surveillance …

ACLU On Targeted Killing: We’re Cool With Obama, But, We Don’t Trust Future Presidents
6 Mar 2012 7:58 am William Teach

On first blush, I wrote the headline to reflect that it was weird for the ACLU to even attack Holder and Obama. How often do they do that? Not that often, and, the attacks are generally soft. They haven’t even bothered with Fast and Furious. On targeted killing, yes, they ACLU has been all over this, but, not to the degree had Bush still been president
(ACLU) In a speech today at Northwestern University School of Law, Attorney General Eric Holder spoke on national security issues and addressed the …

Former DEA chief warns of cooperation between Hezbollah and drug cartels
3 Feb 2012 12:00 am Wintery Knight

From CNS News.
Excerpt:
The Iranian-supported Shi’ite terrorist group Hezbollah has spread its influence all the way to the U.S. border with Mexico, a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Iran’s influence in the Western Hemisphere heard on Thursday.
Michael Braun, a former chief of operations at the Drug Enforcement Agency, said Hezbollah had developed relationships with the powerful Mexican drug cartels to “move their agenda forward.” He cited a plot, recently uncovered by the DEA, involving an Iranian operative in Mexico allegedly planning to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington, D.C.
“Hezbollah are absolute masters at …

State of the Union or Wishful Thinking?
25 Jan 2012 5:46 pm Michael Fell

The 2012 State of the Union address has come and gone with little change in the White House’s view of the world. This is unfortunate. America needs viable solutions, not more wishful thinking.
Most disturbing is the continued, steadfast insistence that doubling America’s corporate tax rate will somehow create middle class jobs. After repeated failures by the current Administration to productively invest taxpayer’s money in green energy companies like Solyndra, what track record exists to support the assumption that government can invest the people’s money more wisely than those who earned …

Denial: VP Biden Says Taliban NOT Our Enemy, Obama Official Refuses to Say al Qaeda are ‘Radical Islamists’
20 Dec 2011 1:14 pm Warner Todd Huston

President Obama and his various quislings and underlings still cannot bring themselves to say that the USA is under attack by radical Islamists. This is the self-destructive garbage that comes from the Obama administration every day. This is the kind of stuff that makes of us the “weak horse” that Islamists use to justify their attacks on the US.
We have two examples of this today, one from a representative of the Department of Homeland Security and one from Gaffemaster Joe Biden.
First up, our erstwhile VP. Ol’ Slow Joe Biden told …

Final Defense Bill Does Not Include Ability To Detain American Citizens
17 Dec 2011 9:42 am William Teach

I know this is something that many were concerned with, no matter what side of the political aisle they stand on. But, American citizens should not be concerned, as the final bill does not give the government the right to detain Americans indefinitely, send them to Guantanamo Bay, or give them military trials
(LA Times) The final compromise mandates that terrorism suspects thought to have ties to Al Qaeda and planning attacks against the United States be taken into military custody, even those captured in the U.S. In response …

The Truth About the National Defense Authorization Act
9 Dec 2011 12:51 pm Rachel Alexander

Last week, the Senate voted 93-7 to pass S 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act. Congress has passed this Act every year since 1961. The Act sets policy and outlines financial and legal specifications for the U.S. Department of Defense, such as benefits for military personnel and purchase of equipment. The ACLU, Occupy San Francisco and other left wing groups are hysterically protesting that one of its provisions encroaches on civil liberties, and Obama has threatened to veto it. Section 1032 states that suspected terrorists related to al Qaeda and 911 …

Gov. Quinn Appoints Muslim Linked to Terror Groups to State Advisory Council
3 Nov 2011 1:19 pm Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston
Recently Illinois Governor Pat Quinn announced the formation of the Illinois Muslim American Advisory Council, a group that will somehow “ensure” that Muslim American concerns are taken into account in state government. Among those appointed by the Governor to this board is ISNA Secretary-General Safaa Zarzour, a man who has been linked to organizations that fund Islamist terrorism.
Zarzour is known as a supporter and member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group well known for pushing extremist Islamism and for funding terror throughout the world.
As a site that …

Did Juan Williams Link Christians to The Oklahoma City Bombing?
27 Oct 2011 2:59 pm Warner Todd Huston

In his recent assessment of his year since he was unceremoniously — and illicitly in many folks’ estimation — fired by NPR, Juan Williams indulged one of those fallacious left-wing assumptions that just screams left-wing spin. It is the sort of straw man argument that casts aspersions on others, this time against Christians, while pretending to be the logical, adult in the room, not to mention while pretending not to be casting aspersions. It really is a logical sleight of hand that all liberals use.
First let me say that I …

What About Qadaffi & Libya (Q&A Friday #108)?
21 Oct 2011 4:57 am John Hawkins

Question: First Egypt, now Libya. How many more countries will Obama turn over to the Muslim Brotherhood before people wake up to what he’s doing? — CavalierX
Question: Now that Mr. Qadaffi is apparently dead, how much more money do you think the US will throw at the revolutionaries before they realise that they’ve been dealing with an Islamist faction which will oppose them at every turn and return to the funding of international terrorism which we’d finally dissuaded Mr Qadaffi from pursuing? — Martin Hale
Answer: On the one hand, I’m …

We Need Rules for Cyberwarfare Before a President Steals That Power, Too
19 Oct 2011 2:24 pm Warner Todd Huston

A recent New York Times article revealed that the Pentagon briefly considered engaging in cyberwarfare at the outset of the actions in Libya, but decided against it for a variety of reasons. This reminds us all that as a nation we really need to discuss the use of cyberwarfare. The first question asked must be: should a president be able to simply order such an attack on his own hook?
The Times noted that one of the concerns about the use of cyberwarfare is how it would be justified under the …

Saudis Before Americans?
13 Oct 2011 5:38 pm Michael Fell

Based on allegations that there was an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, the current White House occupant and his Attorney General chose to take action against Iran. Since the alleged Iranian plans violated American and international laws, as well as centuries of ambassadorial protocol, one can argue that it was important for the administration to take these actions. While those may prove to be defensible reasons, there remain underlying questions that are largely being ignored.
While Iran was funding counterinsurgencies and smuggling weapons used to kill Americans into Iraq and Afghanistan, it was OK with the current administration to maintain a policy …

Can Obama Legally Kill You With A Drone Strike?
4 Oct 2011 7:50 am William Teach

Obviously, there has been a big kerfuffle over the “targeted killing” of Anwar al-Awlaki, a United States citizen turned al Qaeda big wig (along with Samir Khan, another traitor who hails originally from North Carolina). Said kerfuffle is bipartisan in nature, with many saying that killing him amounts to assassination of a US citizen, and is unconstitutional, violating the Fifth and Six Amendments. And along comes far left progressive Roger Simon at The Politico to put it into perspective: Can Obama legally kill you?
Should the president have the right to …

Shocker! ACLU Decries Targeted Killing Of al-Awlaki
30 Sep 2011 11:53 am William Teach

I thought this deserved a stand-alone post rather than an adder to the previous post on al-Awlaki
(ACLU Statement) U.S. airstrikes in Yemen today killed Anwar Al-Aulaqi, an American citizen who has never been charged with any crime.
ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer said, “The targeted killing program violates both U.S. and international law. As we’ve seen today, this is a program under which American citizens far from any battlefield can be executed by their own government without judicial process, and on the basis of standards and …

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