Opinion Forum

Thank God for Obama’s Broken Promises

May 3rd, 2011

By Seth Forman After campaigning for years on closing Guantanamo Bay military prison and secret overseas CIA prisons, and actually signing an order to do so in 2009, Obama abruptly reversed himself in March, 2011. Good thing, too. Follow the sequence of events. Barack Obama, August 2007, Salon.com: As President, I will close Guantanamo, reject […]

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Tags: bin Laden, campaign, closure, Guantanamo, interrogation, KSM, promise
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Terrorism and Priorities

February 2nd, 2010

By Tom Carter Richard Cohen, normally a pragmatic liberal who supports President Obama, has taken him and his Administration to task on how they’re dealing with terrorists. From his column in The Washington Post today: There is almost nothing the Obama administration does regarding terrorism that makes me feel safer. Whether it is guaranteeing captured terrorists that […]

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Tags: Abdulmutallab, criminal trials, Guantanamo, KSM, Obama, security
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Criminal Trials for Terrorists

January 23rd, 2010

By Tom Carter Dan Miller, an attorney and a former Army JAG officer, has written two articles at Pajamas Media on the Obama Administration’s policy of trying some foreign terrorists as common criminals in federal courts. These articles very effectively combine legal reasoning and common sense to refute any argument in favor of criminal trials for terrorists. I highly recommend […]

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Tags: enemy combatants, KSM, Miranda, Moussaoui, rights, terrorists, trial
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