Reno Hayek Symposium

THESE PERSONS ARE SERIOUS THREATS TO THE SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES:

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was confident in her Spiegel Online interview that there would be no worries about future “man-caused” disasters since her policies would be guided by “authoritative information” that makes us “much better to keep track of travelers coming into the US than we were before” 9/11. To buttress her belief she said that “the system worked” when referring to the foiled Christmas explosion on Northwest Flight 253.

But never fear she is focusing on the real threats to the US, “rightwing extremists.” Yes, that’s right, she is the same bozo whose department report, “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment” singled out troops returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan “overseas contingency operations” as at risk for being recruited by rightwing extremists.

Napolitano is indeed a “man-caused disaster,” and a dangerous one at that.

Attorney General Eric Holder is a political animal of the first order but not much of a lawyer. He’s the bozo who decided to forego a guilty plea by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed before a military tribunal in Gitmo and award this 9/11 “man-caused disaster” planner all the rights of a United States citizen in a criminal trial in New York City in a civilian courtroom just blocks from Ground Zero. Notwithstanding this magnanimity he will try other terrorists before military tribunals in Gitmo. Why is Holder talking out of two sides of his multi-sided mouth? Why wouldn’t he save money and accept the KSM guilty plea before the military court?

Simple answer: Holder puts his leftist politics above the safety of this country. Holder is granting citizenship rights to a non-citizen, an enemy combatant. In a criminal law these include, discovery, exclusionary rules of evidence, confrontation, cross examination, counsel, and freedom from self-incrimination. Holder’s attorneys will be able to expose US intelligence and interrogations. They will be able to expose interrogation techniques so that “torture” can be shown and evidence excluded. Al Qaeda will have an international publicity stage that couldn’t otherwise be attained. All so Holder and his boss can play to their antiwar leftist base.

So, what happens to the Nigerian jihadist, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, is he treated as the enemy combatant he is so that he can be questioned and intelligence gained on future attack plans? No Holder’s precedent is followed and he is turned over to civil authorities and given the rights of a US citizen, gratis!

Eric Holder too is a “man-caused disaster” bent on harming the United States.

President Barack Hussein Obama, the community organizing Chicago supernova has an internationalist world view that denies the greatness of this nation; he is bent on weakening that greatness and plunging us into mediocrity. Thus he travels the world bowing and scraping and apologizing. He abandons our allies who courageously stood up to Russia and Iran and curries favor with Russia and Iran. He embarrasses us with his “Mi Amigo” embrace of Chavez and threats to forego diplomatic recognition to a duly elected Honduran government.

But like his minions Napolitano and Holder, he is a political animal. To gain sway with his leftist base in America and Europe and to appease our enemies abroad he quickly ordered the closure of our military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. His order issued with so little thought or planning presented a problem, what to do with the detainees! Unfortunately, part of his solution was to release some of them, in fact six were just repatriated to Yemen! We now know that the young jihadist Mutallab who tried to bomb Northwest Flight 253 was trained in Yemen. Al Qaeda has hailed him a hero. (NRO has a good editorial posted today, Stop Releasing Terrorists!)

Hopefully the country will survive this team of incompetents.

Tom Motherway