These two things are not exactly related, but they seem to go together. First, the good news: Lawyers Yoo and Bybee will face no discipline for writing their memos (my take on a related issue here). Next, the bad: nine … Continue reading →
In an excellent development, the Taliban’s top military commander has been captured in Pakistan: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the group’s No. 2 leader behind Afghan Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar and a close associate of Osama bin Laden, was captured … Continue reading →
If you want to follow the twistings and turnings of each, there’s this and this. The latter article seems to put all responsibility for the decision about KSM’s trial on Holder. I’ve always doubted such reports and continue to doubt … Continue reading →
Jane Mayer’s puff piece on Eric Holder appeared recently in the New Yorker. Anyone who reads blogs or periodicals on the right, and who has followed the controversies involving Holder’s decisions about the KSM trial and the Christmas bomber—especially Andrew … Continue reading →
The Obama administration is looking to try KSM elsewhere than New York City. Apparently the movers and shakers in New York realized Obama had hung a huge millstone around their necks, and demanded he remove it. And although the tip … Continue reading →
From another highly-recommended and comprehensive look at the Abdulmutallab fiasco: Other than the first interview, the FBI’s focus was on ensuring that any statements obtained from Abdulmutallab could be used at trial. Intelligence gathering was, if thought of at all, … Continue reading →
Stephen F. Hayes offers an excellent summary of the colossal screw-up that is the Obama administration’s response to the Christmas bomber. Chaos, stupidity, ignorance, missed opportunities, coverup—it’s all there. Who’s responsible? First and foremost, President Obama, for having adopted the … Continue reading →
Here’s a fascinating—and chilling—2006 Atlantic article by Matthew Teague about the world of terrorists and double-agents. The specific setting is the British counter-war against the IRA. But the situation it describes is relevant to our own war with Islamicist terrorism. … Continue reading →
As we learn more about the suicide bombing of CIA officers in Afghanistan, it seems that time-honored safety precautions were broken: [The bomber] fed the agency honest-to-goodness actionable intelligence about jihadis to build up his credibility, to the point where … Continue reading →
…because those Guantanamo prisoners are petitioning to be allowed to stay there.
Continue reading →Here’s another excellent piece from Andrew McCarthy on the legal issues involved in the Gitmo detainees’ release. McCarthy—the prosecutor in the first WTC case—speaks the voice of reason, although he may be crying in the wilderness at this point. McCarthy … Continue reading →
James Kirchik thinks we should waterboard him, because Abdulmutallab is a good example of the “ticking time bomb” scenario. I don’t even think waterboarding would be necessary—he’s hardly the hardened and veteran terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is. But I’m in … Continue reading →