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From GOP Rep. Pete Hoekstra’s office, a demand for transparency from the Obama administration on its Gitmo relocation plans:
[Hoekstra,] the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, used a rare, open hearing of a House Intelligence Subcommittee to highlight the fact that nine months to the day after President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order [...]

Aren’t you glad you don’t live in Amherst MA?
Amherst leaders are backing a resolution offering the Massachusetts college town as a possible resettlement home for two Guantanamo detainees if they are released from the military prison.
The board voted 2-1 yesterday to endorse a warrant article filed on behalf of the two men by the group [...]

Attorney General Eric Holder’s old pals at Gitmo detainee-repping Covington & Burlington give this latest news two thumbs up. Way up:
Congress took a step toward President Barack Obama’s goal of closing Guantanamo Bay prison on Tuesday when it cleared a measure allowing foreign terrorism suspects held there to face prosecution in the United States.
The Senate’s [...]

On August 26, my syndicated column blasted the ACLU for its spying operation on undercover CIA agents. The pictures of covert American CIA officers – “in some cases surreptitiously taken outside their homes” – were shown to jihadi suspects tied to the 9/11 attacks in order to identify the interrogators.
The ACLU responded to my column [...]

Have you heard a peep from ACLU supporters about the group’s special spying project on undercover CIA agents? Me neither. It’s the subject of my syndicated column this week. IBD has an excellent editorial. Few other MSM papers have weighed in.
ACLU: Spying for America’s enemies
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Savor the silence of America’s self-serving champions [...]

GOP Sen. Kit Bond voted to confirm crime-coddling Attorney General Eric Holder on February 2, 2009.
Sen. Bon cluelessly explained that Holder was “a good listener.” As I reported at the time, 19 Bend Over Republicans joined the majority to install Holder as head of the Obama Justice Department. Let me refresh your memories:
Alexander (R-TN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond [...]

All wee-wee’d up.

What better way for the Left to show its true stripes than to share classified information and photos of undercover CIA officers with Gitmo detainees.
But, hey, don’t you dare question their love of country. After all, endangering America is the ultimate form of dissent!
We also now learn that the privacy zealots at the ACLU hired [...]

Standing up in Standish, Michigan.

Pushback from GOP Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas on the Obama plans to dump Gitmo detainees at Ft. Leavenworth.
Message: No. Hell. No.
Via The Hill’s Michael O’Brien:
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) threatened to “shut down the Senate” before he allows terrorist suspects to be relocated to Leavenworth, Kansas.
Roberts heatedly pledged to prevent detainees currently housed in Guantanamo [...]

Chicken run.

Make room for jihadi! Tim Sumner reports at 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America that the Obama administration is shuffling prisoners and clearing out beds for Gitmo detainees.
The news comes as the Senate prepares to vote on Sen. Inhofe’s amendment to keep Gitmo detainees off American soil.
Read the whole report and pass it [...]

The Democrats in Washington don’t want to talk about Obama’s Gitmo release policies.
But you do have a voice.
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a Senior Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has posted a video and petition opposing the transfers of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the United States. He’s also sponsoring an amendment, [...]

They don’t want to talk about it. From GOP Rep. Roy Blunt’s office:
Missouri Congressman Roy Blunt accused the House Democratic leadership of refusing to debate the use of tax dollars to compensate foreign nations for relocating Guantanamo detainees. The Democrat-led House Rules Committee last night blocked Blunt’s amendment to the House Intelligence Authorization Bill [...]

Please join Melissa Long, whose fiance was murdered in the 9/11 jihadi attacks, in raising your voices on the closure of Gitmo. She and other 9/11 families met with DOJ. They have much to report and warn their fellow citizens about — so listen up and stay tuned.
Read Melissa’s open letter here and pass it [...]

Steve Hayes has the scoop on how “the Obama Justice Department has quietly ordered FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high value detainees captured and held at U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan,” according to GOP Representative Mike Rogers, “who recently met with military, intelligence and law enforcement officials on a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan.”
Andy [...]

President Obama left the impression yesterday that Supermax prisons are ready, willing, and able to house Gitmo detainees.
Supermax officials in Colorado say otherwise:
Moving any large number of terror detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Colorado’s Supermax would require either shuffling current residents out of the Florence prison or expanding its capacity and resolving a long-running battle [...]

Shorter Obama:
I am against preventive detention (Bush’s), except when I am for it (mine).
I am for transparency (”torture/”interrogation memos), except when I am against it (”torture/”interrogation photos).
I am against the power to order enhanced interrogation techniques, except when I assume that power myself.
I am against “extended re-litigation of the last eight years,” except when I [...]

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It’s the Obama-Cheney showdown this morning. I, for one, am gratified to see this White House forced to put national security on the front burner. If not for the forceful public defenses by Vice President Cheney of the aggressive, proactive measures the last administration took to keep us safe, the current commander-in-chief would [...]

1 in 7.

I noted earlier this afternoon that the Senate voted 90-6 to deny Obama funding for his Gitmo closure plans.
Here’s the roll call vote. The Gitmo Six Democrats:
Durbin (D-IL)
Harkin (D-IA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Whitehouse (D-RI)

First, this just in: A federal judge rules that the US can continue indefinite detention of enemy combatants
And also just in: The Senate amendment scrapping funding for Obama’s Gitmo closure has just been passed by 90-6.
Victor Davis Hanson sums up Obama’s sound and fury on Gitmo:
With the Democratic no-go on Guantánamo (I’ll leave it to [...]

Well, well, well.
Reality bites the White House in the ass, again.
From the administration that was against military tribunals before they were for them and which flip-flopped on a “truth commission” after a public backlash comes the decision to bail on the ACLU and fight the release of detainee “torture” photos after signaling last month that [...]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew from September 2, 2002 that enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, were being used on jihadi detainees.
She knew. From Day One.
That’s what the CIA memo, published at Human Events, shows.
ABC News follows. Pelosi’s spokesperson says his boss has a “recollection” that is “different.”
Nancy Pelosi: Blink, blink.
Allahpundit surveys all the evidence contradicting [...]

File under feckless:
The Close Gitmo Democrats won’t fork over $50 million requested by the Obama administration to fund the transition/resettlement costs for detainees once the facility is shut down.
Maybe the White House can hold a jihadi relocation telethon.

Results from the latest Rasmussen poll show a public more in tune with Dick Cheney than George Soros:
Fifty-eight percent (58%) believe the Obama administration’s recent release of CIA memos about the harsh interrogation methods used on terrorism suspects endangers the national security of the United States. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that [...]

More Obama backtracking that will not surprise you, via ABC News:
President Obama suggested today that it remained a possibility that the Justice Department might bring charges against officials of the Bush administration who devised harsh interrogation policies that some see as torture.
He also suggested that if there is any sort of investigation into these past [...]

“Irony can be so ironic sometimes…”

Well, it was only a matter of time. The Obama administration has decided to abandon the term “enemy combatants” to describe the jihadi suspects at Guantanamo Bay. Makes sense. After all, Attorney General Eric Holder’s former law firm has been calling the Gitmo detainees by a different name for a while now: Clients.
Let the [...]

My friend Debra Burlingame was at last week’s meeting between President Obama and 9/11 and Cole bombing families. 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America reports: “During the meeting, President Obama was wrong on the law, wrong about what Boumediene v. Bush afforded the detainees held at Guantanamo, and stated the public’s perception about [...]