Note to Jim Moran (D-VA): People who want to kill themselves to kill you don’t care about your ‘reputation’

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 25th at 10:00 PM  | 

Politico has a report today on Democrats’ effort to transfer the violent terrorists currently imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay to facilities within the U.S. “It sets us back in the war on terrorism to be maintaining Guantanamo,” said Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), who’s heading an investigation of the facility for the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. “It will enhance our reputation to close it down and to | Read More »

Obamadminstration: GITMO detainees ‘do not have due process rights’

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 13th at 09:29 AM  | 

UPDATE: The ‘money quote’ from SCOTUSBLOG: The brief was another indication that, at least so far, the new Administration is not moving to make a wide-ranging break with detention policies of the former Bush Administration. The utopian Left, which saw in the Rorshach that was candidate Barack Obama just what they wanted to see (rather than anything tangible or lasting) suffered yet another reality-based blow | Read More »