National Review's Andrew McCarthy has a must-read article on the implications of the Supreme Court's Hamdan ruling for the FBI's terrorist surveillance program. For those of you with short attention spans, I direct you to a less-eloquent summary of the situation by yours truly.
Friday it was revealed that terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay had been using papers and envelopes stamped with "privileged attorney-client material" had been used to orchestrate three suicides at the camp and other assorted plots. In the cell of one of the detainees who died, the authorities said, investigators found a handwritten message from […]
In response to widespread public outrage at its decision to publish details of the government's Terrorist Financial Tracking Program, the New York Times' editor Bill Keller and reporter Eric Lichtblau have tried to defend themselves by pointing out that the program wasn't really secret at all and the terrorists already knew everything about it. Well, […]
It seems that the New York Times, which divulged a classified program aimed at tracking terrorist financing a couple weeks ago, has decided that their initial "public's right to know" defense was inadequate and is falling back on their "everybody knew" defense. Patterico has helpful details here and here. I'd also like to note that […]
I've been doing some more blawg (that's a legal blog for those of you unfamiliar with all of the hip blog-terminology) reading on the Hamdan case and came across this piece over at Professor Bainbridge's place. Bainbridge appears to suggest that the Congress re-pass the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, re-stripping the court of jurisdiction […]
Austin Bay has a follow-up on the New York Times treachery describing the Times and its sources as the "Axis of Abuse." I agree with much of Bay's analysis, but this part shows just a fundamental misunderstanding of how the news business works. Bush Derangement Syndrome doesn’t explain the Wall St Journal– just “me too” […]
Friday's disclosure by several newspapers, led by The New York Times, but including both The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, of a classified program that has been highly successful in capturing terrorists worldwide isn't dying down in the blogosphere. Los Angeles Times subscribers Patrick Frey and Mark Danzinger have canceled their subscriptions […]
The New York Times letters to the editor commonly seems to be representative not only of the paper's editorial view, but also of its blue-state home base. Therefore, it really says something when the Times publishes six letters on its criminal outing of a legal anti-terrorist surveillance program and four of them take the paper […]
Both Republican and Democrat administrations in the decades before Sept. 11, 2001, have been criticized for viewing Islamic terrorism -- from the Iranian hostage-taking to the Marine barracks bombing in Lebanon to the USS Cole attack -- as a law enforcement issue. When government officials talked about "bringing people to justice," they meant trying them […]
Radio show host Mark Levin has a blog over at National Review and in a post responding to yesterday's discovery of the bodies of two tortured and mutilated American servicemen, he writes in part: Meanwhile, two kidnapped U.S. soldiers were apparently brutally tortured and murdered today. And the question I pose to those who rightly […]