Wet Work
Osama bin Laden sleeps with the fishes. His deputy, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad sleeps between clean sheets, eats three square meals a day and receives the same quality medical care as U.S. mili...
Eric Holder
Holder vs. Holder
Why does the Obama Justice Department seem to have trouble mounting a full-throated, compelling legal defense of Osama bin Laden’s killing? The problem for Eric Holder the attorney ge...
Op-eds
A Different Kind of Justice
‘Justice has been done.” That was President Obama’s succinct assessment of the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. special-ops forces, carried out at his direction on Sunday. &ld...
Op-eds
With Dodging and More Dodging, Holder Admits DOJ Dumped CAIR Case
Ah, there’s nothing like transparency. U.S. attorney general Eric Holder has finally confirmed that Justice Department headquarters intervened to quash the prosecution of a t...
Op-eds
Al-Qaeda, Yes; DOMA, No
The modern-day John Adams brigade down at King & Spalding has finally found a client too unpopular to merit representation: the American people. That is exactly the same conclusion drawn by E...
Op-eds
Obama Gives Islamists a Walk
When the first line of defense is “Bush did it, too,” you can rest assured that there is no second line of defense. And on allegations that the Justice Department intervened to preven...
Op-eds
Obama & the Muslim Brotherhood, Continued …
My column this weekend was about the Obama administration’s infatuation with the Muslim Brotherhood — an infatuation that flies under the lunatic banner of “Islamic Outreach.&rd...
Op-eds
Rep. Peter King Seeks Answers on DOJ Decision Not to Prosecute Islamists
House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King has fired off a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, demanding answers about why political appointees in the Obama Justice Department stopped effort...
Op-eds
The Audience Is Listening
There is always great intrigue in Barack Obama’s speeches. Not much heft, mind you, but substance is not the point. In this Chicago-style presidency, what is said is often less telling than...
Op-eds
DOJ Source: Obama Political Appointees Squashed Indictment of CAIR Leader and Other Islamist Groups
My book, The Grand Jihad, is about the Muslim Brotherhood’s conspiracy to destroy America and the West and how Islamists work with Leftists in and out of government. When I speak abou...
Op-eds
Untangling Ghailani
In Manhattan on Tuesday, Judge Lewis Kaplan gave al-Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Ghailani a sentence of life imprisonment after his conviction on a single count of conspiring to bomb American embassies...
Op-eds
Another National-Security Flip-Flop
No sooner did Victor Davis Hanson compile a prodigious list of national-security flip-flops by the Obama Left (posted on the Corner under the title “If We Say It Is, It Is . . . ”) th...
Op-eds
Gitmo Follies
Attorney General Eric Holder is dismayed over Congress’s refusal to cough up funds that would allow the Obama administration to close down Guantanamo Bay and transfer the 170 fire-breathing...
Op-eds
Holder’s Sham Trial
“By prosecuting Ahmed Ghailani in federal court,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a May 21, 2009, statement, “we will ensure that he finally answers for his alleged role in...
Op-eds
Justice Was Not Done
Critics of the Obama administration’s use of the civilian courts to try enemy combatants in wartime – and I am one – understandably point to Wednesday’s stunning verdict i...
Op-eds
Obama Caves on Civilian Trial for KSM
Let’s review the state of play, shall we? Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama blasted the Bush administration’s decision to treat al-Qaeda terro...
Op-eds
The Election and DOJ Oversight
Obviously, there are many things that can be stuffed into the “First Order of Business” file, but one of them ought to be oversight of the Oba...
Op-eds
Internationalism Run Amok
America was founded as a country where no citizen would ever have to submit to the will of a king, or any other brand of despot. But hey, that's yesterday's news. President Barack Obama...
Op-eds
Three Cheers for Politics
A guilty plea by one of Osama bin Laden’s most trusted minions demonstrates yet again that political accountability can spur even a Democrat-controlled Congress to correct the Obama adminis...
Op-eds
Inside the Gitmo Task Force’s Final Report
On January 22, President Obama's Guantanamo Review Task Force completed its final report, which outlined the administration's plan for the remaining detainees held at Guantanamo. The Ta...