Prof. Sowell looks at the latest from the Obama administration:
In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.
Terrorists are not even entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention, much less the Constitution of the United States. Terrorists have never observed, nor even claimed to have observed, the Geneva Convention, nor are they among those covered by it.
But over and above the utter inconsistency of what is being done is the utter recklessness it represents. The last time an attack on the World Trade Center was treated as a matter of domestic criminal justice was after a bomb was exploded there in 1993. Under the rules of American criminal law, the prosecution had to turn over all sorts of information to the defense– information that told the Al Qaeda international terrorist network what we knew about them and how we knew it.(…)
Please continue reading… Consider the future – do you think that MI6 or French Intelligence will be willing to share their intelligence with U.S. agencies?
Weeeellll, since I don’t recall anyone here getting the vapors when Obama announced that his economic team and Treasury would be staffed by many of the very people who either helped cause (Summers) or utterly failed either to predict or stop (Geithner) the near-total meltdown of the banking system, I have to assume that you don’t oppose on principle the idea of Presidents hiring people who work in the industries, organizations or countries they’re to either regulate or negotiate with.
So why all the hue and cry now?