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Charles Krauthammer On Civilian Trials For Terrorist Suspects

November 20, 2009 – 9:43 pm

Look, I would love to think that we could simply resolve all of these issues in a civilian court. But in many cases, we can’t. This isn’t a partisan point, just a realistic one. And Krauthammer explains why:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Charles Krauthammer, Civilian Trials, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, Law, Military Trials, National Security, Obama Administration, Terrorism, War on Terror | Comments

Lindsey Graham Devastates Eric Holder

November 19, 2009 – 2:57 pm

Watch:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Civilian Trials, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, Law, Lindsey Graham, Military Trials, National Security, Obama Administration, Terrorism, War on Terror | Comments

Civil Liberties In The Age Of Obama

November 10, 2009 – 3:54 pm

I am so glad we have an Administration that believes in, and respects a right to privacy.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Big Brother, Civil Liberties, Electronic Privacy, Justice Department, Law, Obama Administration, Right To Privacy | Comments

So Much For The First Amendment

October 27, 2009 – 11:16 pm

Remember the people who screamed about civil liberties during the Bush Administration?

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, First Amendment, Free Speech, Obama Administration, School Choice, School Vouchers | Comments

Gitmo and the Sincerest Form Of Flattery

October 8, 2009 – 12:22 am

The more one examines the evidence, the more one finds the Obama Administration upholding Bush Administration policies which attracted the ire and fury of the Left, and which were supposed to be overturned as soon as Hope and Change arrived in Washington.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged Barack Obama, detention policies, Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay, Interrogation, Patriot Act, Terrorism | Comments

Torture and Truth

September 8, 2009 – 10:06 am

The American people are entitled to facts, and truth, and to gauge how we balance acts and results against the alternatives. If that embarrasses the Republican or Democratic Parties, so be it. The alternative is a politicized war over every last foreign policy action, and the last time we tried that gambit, it ended with smoking craters in the Northeastern United States.

By Christopher Badeaux | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged Barack Obama, Christopher Badeaux, CIA, Conor Friedersdorf, Dick Cheney, Enhanced Interrogation, FBI, Leon Panetta, National Security, torture | Comments

Fish Or Cut Bait

July 12, 2009 – 6:54 pm

When we get past the hagiography contained in Newsweek’s portrayal of Eric Holder, we learn that he is wrestling with the idea of appointing a prosecutor “to investigate the Bush administration’s brutal interrogation practices.”

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Alberto Gonzales, Barack Obama, Bush Administration, Department Of Justice, Interrogation Policy, Law, Obama Administration, Politics | Comments

Miranda Rights for Terrorists? Neighborhood Watch on Terror

June 11, 2009 – 9:43 am

By broadening the extraconstitutional Miranda holding and all of the rights it promises to encompass men who are definitionally committing war crimes by pretending to be noncombatants while fighting the United States, the Obama Administration is teaching these men that a criminal process is underway in which they will be cared for, represented, and have a much higher likelihood of returning to the field of battle.

By Christopher Badeaux | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Geneva Convention, George W. Bush, Mike Rogers, Miranda, War on Terror | Comments

Stevens Officially Off the Hook

April 7, 2009 – 5:26 pm

Former Senator Ted Stevens officially had his case dismissed by a federal judge this morning.

By Brad Jackson | Posted in Blogs, The Whip | Also tagged Republicans, Ted Stevens, US Senate | Comments

“Politicizing The Justice Department!”

April 2, 2009 – 1:27 am

That was one of the cries that rallied the port side of politics to the battlements during the Bush Administration. The apotheosis of Barack Obama was supposed to stop Justice Department “politicization” and restore the rule of law to its rightful place.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, D.C. Voting Rights Bill, Justice Department, Law, Obama Administration, Politicization | Comments

Holder Puts a Hold on Stevens Case

April 1, 2009 – 12:14 pm

Attorney General Eric Holder has asked a federal judge to drop all charges against former US Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska.

By Brad Jackson | Posted in Blogs, The Whip | Also tagged Republicans, Ted Stevens | Comments

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