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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 [...]

Can’t say I’m getting all wee-weed up about the DOJ disclosure today that Bush/CIA interrogators threatened 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s family (info that isn’t even new.)
Nope. No tears.
How about you?
Flashback: 9/11 Children
Flashback: Angels on loan from God
Via Sgt. Tim Sumner, photos of the angel children murdered on 9/11:

Lan astaslem: Arabic for “I will not [...]

All wee-wee’d up.

Zombie reports on the harassment campaign against John Yoo: See how Berkeley shows its tolerance.
But the left won’t call it a “climate of hate.” They’re just exercising their free speech.
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Commenter Ragspierre: “Replace the name of Yoo with any abortion provider, and ask what the consequence would be…”

All wet.

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 [...]

The House GOP conference picks the perfect background music for Nancy Pelosi’s stammering, stuttering and verbal pirouettes: the Nutcracker Suite.

Perfect: Dan Collins dubs it “Dance of the Sugarplum Failure.”

The House Republicans are not letting up on Nancy Pelosi. Good.
GOP House Leader Boehner says put up the evidence that the CIA lied or apologize:

And the House GOP Conference is pounding the Democratic culture of corruption: “Tonight, House Republican Conference Secretary John Carter will lead Special Orders live on CSPAN to review where we are [...]

Photoshop credit: David Johnson
We had dueling press conferences this morning with Nancy Pelosi accusing the Bush CIA of lying to her about waterboarding and House GOP leader John Boehner defending the integrity of the briefers.
Pelosi had a particularly frozen look on her face throughout her presser as she repeated the “Bush lied about Iraq” mantra [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Wow. Today is just one big, bad joke. Al Franken. Roland Burris. Bill Richardson. Now this:
Leon Panetta will head Obama’s CIA.
Another day, another clueless Clinton crony named to a top job for which he has no experience. The unqualified fish rots from the head down, after all. Via NYT. Damned scary:
President-elect Barack Obama has [...]

I shouldn’t be surprised about this newest outrage; we’ve seen no shortage of it in Iraq from Sadr’s goons.
Chunks of hair waft lazily across the floor in the hot Baghdad breeze.
“This was the torture room,” said Muhanad, the leader of a U.S.-backed armed group that now controls the mosque.
“This is what they used for [...]

Touchy.

Have an unhappy Independence Day! (Photo: Protest Shooter)

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 [...]

On record. Plus: How did McCain vote?

Shocked, shocked.

“The waterboarding lasted about 35 seconds before Abu Zubaida broke down.”

Update 12/8 10:00am Eastern: What Harriet Miers knew.
And Ed Morrissey takes a closer look at what Reps. Silvestre Reyes and Pete Hoekstra say they did and didn’t know.
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Update 1:05pm Eastern. Tom Maguire: “This ongoing selective outrage by the Congressional overseers is ridiculous.”
Par for the course.
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It’s the top news at Memeorandum this morning. The New York [...]

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Don Surber and Wretchard at The Belmont Club note the silence of the human rights crowd and the MSM in regard to the al Qaeda torture manual published at The Smoking Gun. Writes Wretchard:
The problem with the word “torture” is that it has been so artfully corrupted by some commentators that [...]

The human rights group finally releases a statement about the barbaric murders of Privates Menchaca and Tucker. Timestamped 1:36pm EDT:
To: National Desk
Contact: Sharon Singh of Amnesty International USA, 202-544-0200 ext. 289
WASHINGTON, June 21 /U.S. Newswire/ — Larry Cox, Amnesty International USA’s executive director, made the following statement in response to the alleged killing and torture [...]

Jay Leno, Tonight Show (hat tip: reader Kenneth Davis):
The United States has announced a plan tighten all borders by 2008…Unfortunately, Mexico announced a plan to have all their people here by 2007.
Max Boot in today’s Christian Science Monitor:
Remember how exercised everyone around the world was about crimes committed at Abu Ghraib? Infinitely worse deeds are [...]

Unbelievable. A lower Manhattan polling place is surrounded by left-wing propaganda art exploiting Abu Ghraib imagery.
(Hat tip: Little Green Footballs)

“I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to four hours?”
– (Seventy-one-year-old) Donald Rumsfeld, in a notation on a 2002 memo about interrogation tactics, which detailed how terrorism detainees may stand for up to four hours.

Power Line’s John Hinderaker takes a closer look at the Associated Press report on how President Bush and Donald Rumsfeld supposedly gave the green light to unleash torture on al Qaeda detainees:
I found this paragraph, near the end of the AP’s account, astonishing:
“[Rumsfeld] approved 24 interrogation techniques, to be used in a manner consistent with [...]