Tea Party Should Oppose Latest Terrorist Bill of Rights
The reckless crew is at it again. Libertarian extremists, who purport to be the face of the tea party movement, and their pals on the Lawyer Left, whose obsession is more rights for mass...
José Padilla
Releasing the Blind Sheikh?
It is too early to tell, but not too early to be very worried.
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Candidates and Combatants
Monday night’s debate featured an exchange between Mitt Romney a...
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Algerian Court Sentences Ex-Gitmo Detainee to 3 Years in Prison
An Algerian court sentenced an ex-Guantanamo detainee to three years in prison on Monday for his involvement with an extremist group. Prosecutors had sought a 10-year prison sentence for Nadji Ab...
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The Real Rules of Detention
Earlier this week, Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) responded...
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A Terrorist Released
Binyam Mohamed is ...
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With Holder, the Politicizing Never Stops
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be underwear bomber who tried to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and kill its 292 passengers and crew on Chr...
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War-Power Paranoia
Zero. If you’re keeping score, that would be the number of American citizens assassinated so far by President Obama. Oddly enough, it turns out to be the same number of our countrymen kille...
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The Daqduq Dilemma
He is an enemy combatant, so treat him as one.
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The 9/11 Six: An Opportunity for Senator McCain
Whether capital military commissions really happen will be decided in November.
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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...
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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...
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Gitmo Detainee Transferred to Algeria
The Department of Defense announced the transfer of a Guantanamo detainee to Algeria on Thursday. The detainee, Saiid Farhi (also known as Farhi Saeed Bin Mohammed in US government documents), ha...
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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...
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From Al Qaeda Recruit to Millionaire?
Is the British government preparing to make one of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s alleged co-conspirators a millionaire? The Washington Post reports on the British payouts to former Gitmo detaine...
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A Few Missing Details
The New York Times reports that a federal appeals court has shot down a lawsuit against Jeppesen Data...
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Al Qaeda’s Civil Liberties Union
A look at the other terrorists embraced by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's ACLU lawyers.
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Saying No to Justice
I did something today that I’ve never done before. The Department of Justice, which I proudly served for a quarter century as an assistant U.S. attorney and a deputy U.S. marshal, asked me...
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Prison Is So Confining for Terrorists
A few weekends ago, our friend Peter Robinson and I had an exchange on the Corner about why it is so difficult to prevent prison inmates from continuing their criminal activities from behin...
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National Security Comes First
Jose Padilla happens to be a U.S. citizen. He is also, however, alleged by the executive branch to be an unlawful enemy combatant who came here from the headquarters of an enemy against which we...