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Testing the Bounds of U.S. Citizenship

By | 02.16.10 | 6:00 am

In the (unconfirmed) event anyone in the Obama administration is trying to annul the citizenship of any American recruited by al-Qaeda in order to kill him without legal encumbrance, the evidence is (mostly) clear: you can’t.

“If you’re an American citizen, we don’t take away your citizenship,” said Karen Greenberg, More…

Will Obama Argue Against His Own Military Commissions for 9/11 Perps?

By | 02.12.10 | 9:19 am

The Washington Post has an interview with Attorney General Eric Holder in which Holder, for the first time, appears to give himself breathing room to abandon federal criminal trials for the 9/11 conspirators:

“At the end of the day, wherever this case is tried, in whatever forum, what we

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Civil Libertarians Reject Obama’s Guantanamo Closure Plan

By | 02.05.10 | 6:00 am

If there was any doubt that Republicans in Congress will oppose this year’s push from President Obama to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) speech Wednesday to the Heritage Foundation ought to have laid it to rest. In the course of a half hour’s worth More…

Americans Assassinating Americans

By | 02.04.10 | 9:44 am

Wow.

Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair acknowledged Wednesday that government agencies may kill U.S. citizens abroad who are involved in terrorist activities if they are “taking action that threatens Americans.”

Blair told members of the House intelligence committee that he was speaking publicly about the issue to reassure

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Al-Qaeda’s Diabolical Breast-Implant Plot

By | 02.03.10 | 3:41 pm

This is from a birther website, but I just can’t resist:

Women suicide bombers recruited by al-Qaida are known to have had the explosives inserted in their breasts under techniques similar to breast enhancing surgery. The lethal explosives – usually PETN (pentaerythritol Tetrabitrate) – are inserted during the operation

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GOP Senate Leader Pledges to Block Funding for 9/11 Trials

By | 02.03.10 | 11:52 am

In an address to the Heritage Foundation filled with unsubstantiated assertions about the Obama administration’s counterterrorism policies, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the GOP Senate leader, made one concrete promise: If the Obama administration moves forward with its plans to try the 9/11 conspirators in civilian courts, “We will do everything More…

What Would the Next al-Qaeda Attack Look Like?

By | 02.03.10 | 10:46 am

Lately I’ve been bashing Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, for his performance in a recent Senate hearing. So let me take this opportunity to praise him for his detailed assessment to the House intelligence committee this morning on what al-Qaeda’s actual capabilities for attacking the U.S. look More…

New York Terror Trial ‘Unraveling’

By | 01.29.10 | 5:02 pm

For a one-stop compendium of how the prospects for trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City for his role in 9/11 have deteriorated, ProPublica’s Dafna Linzer has you covered. What remains interesting: There has yet to be any effort by any New Yorker skeptical of holding the More…

Feinstein, in Letter About KSM Trial, Suggests Follow-Ups to Christmas Attack Are Possible

By | 01.29.10 | 1:02 pm

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has released a letter she sent to President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder asking them to reconsider trying Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the architect of the 9/11 attacks, in Manhattan. Significantly, Feinstein urged Obama and Holder to More…

A Green al-Qaeda?

By | 01.29.10 | 8:37 am

When Osama bin Laden is so desperate for international support that he’ll start making an environmentalist case against the United States, something is going very right. Still, Get Energy Smart Now is trying to stop the stupidity before it starts:

Turning the world back to the 12th century,

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