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The Sunday Sanity Challenge

November 22, 2009

Here's President Obama doing his best Judge Roy Bean impersonation during an NBC interview: NBC: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — can you understand why it is offensive to some for this terrorist to get all the legal privileges of any American citizen? Obama: I don’t think it will be offensive at all when he’s convicted and [...]

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Nearly Two-Thirds Of Americans Are Unamerican

November 18, 2009

Democratic Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) says those opposing terror trials in New York City for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other 9/11 plotters are unamerican: "[Republicans] see this as an opportunity to demagogue," he said. "They will seize on any opportunity to do that, and that means they'll even take a stand that's un-American." "It's un-American [...]

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Terrorist Interrogation Methods Worked. Was It Worth It ?

August 25, 2009

With the release of the CIA Inspector General's (IG) 2004 report about Bush-era interrogation of terrorists, I assume you've all heard what the media wants you to hear – that one terrorist was threatened with a loaded gun and a power drill, that a pretend execution of a terrorist was carried out to get another [...]

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The New Interrogation Methods

May 11, 2009

"Every one of us can imagine the following scenario: We get lucky; we get the No. 3 guy in al-Qaida, and we know there's a big bomb going off in America in three days and this guy knows where it is. We have the right and the responsibility to beat it out of him." – [...]

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Politics First, National Security Second

April 27, 2009

In it's first 100 days, the Obama administration has shifted gears on national security issues. Does political ideology now trump national security ? Here are a few things to think about. – The release of the Bush OLC "torture" memos. There was NO reason to release those memos, other than political ones. Obama cited a [...]

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Enemy Combatants Still Have No Rights

February 22, 2009

After being in office for only a couple days, President Obama issued an executive order that would close the Guantanamo Bay prison within a year. At the same time, he issued an executive order setting up a task force to review detainee policy, which would consider the options for apprehension, detention, trial, transfer, or release [...]

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