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“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 [...]

Never forget.

Rehab FAIL.

I’m watching Sen. Arlen Specter on the Senate floor right now blithering about how he’ll vote for AG nominee Eric Holder despite the corrupt Marc Rich and FALN pardons.
Holder “deserves the benefit of the doubt” and deserves bipartisanship support since Sen. Leahy supported Chief Justice John Roberts.
The latest AP dispatch on Holder’s expected smooth sailing [...]

The US embassy in Yemen received a warning about this pending attack hours before gunmen drove by and fired shots:
Unknown gunmen opened fire at a checkpoint outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen on Monday, hours after the mission said it received a threat, but a Yemeni official said no one was hurt.
“Police are chasing the [...]

al Qaeda has released a video love letter (er, hate letter) from two Gitmo recidivists to the rest of the world as President Obama prepares to import a boat load of detainees into American civilian courts.
Sealed with a kiss-off:
Two former Guantánamo Bay detainees now appear to have joined Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch, which released a [...]

A good friend writes:
[A]s nearly 100 of the remaining detainees are Yemenis, reflecting that country’s refusal to assure security for repatriated Yemenis, note that AG nominee Eric Holder is a senior partner with Covington & Burling, a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm, which represents 17 Yemenis currently held at Gitmo. From the C & [...]

This morning on Fox & Friends I talked about President Obama’s Gitmo closure plans and the perils of jihadi recidivism:

As an exclamation point on my argument, read this:
The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order [...]

61.
That’s the number of jihadi recidivists who returned to their terror-waging ways after being released from Gitmo.
Go ahead and leave your bets on what the number will be a year after Barack Obama takes office.
The Pentagon said on Tuesday that 61 former detainees from its military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear to have returned [...]

Gitmo Theater
The “they” in that sentence are “human rights groups.” The “administration” is Obama’s. The “toughness” is a reference to the possibility that Obama would actually think carefully about how to fulfill his campaign pledge close Guantanamo Bay in the first 100 days without endangering American lives.
It’s a revealing sentence. A stark illumination of what [...]

“It is more difficult than I think a lot of people realize.”

Finally, some national security news to cheer:
A U.S. judge refused to release two Guantanamo terrorism suspects on Tuesday and upheld the government’s authority to keep them, after ordering freedom last month for five prisoners whose case led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling.
Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon said in two separate rulings the government [...]

Nothing clarifies the mind like a jihadi boomerang.

Remember the Cole.

Netflix for Gitmo detainees? Yes!

You can’t handle the truth.

Pro Bono, my foot.

Gitmo justice.

A “presumption of humanity”, notably absent when discussing Republicans.

Touchy.

Ack.

The Green, Green Grass of Home

Lost sleep.

While I was stuck in traffic on the way to UStream’s Mountain View offices for the From the Frontlines web-a-thon yesterday, I tuned into the Gitmo interrogation hearing by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. Serving as human voo-doo dolls: Berkeley law professor John Yoo, who served in the [...]

We’re Screwed ‘08.

What’s that sound? The thunder of left-wing lawyers and Gitmo detainees jumping up and down for joy at the Supreme Court’s ruling this morning. Brace yourselves. Dissenting Justice Antonin Scalia warns that the ruling “will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed” and concludes “The Nation will live to regret what the Court has [...]

Oops.

Pakistanis Seethe.