The Isolated Extremist Smoking Gun System Worked
IT REALLY, REALLY WORKS!
Even terrorists have the right to wait until April 15 before declaring their annual income, don’t they?
But just for the record:
Q: What is Michael Yon’s annual income?
Andy McCarthy has helpfully republished his 2005 essay on security today:
I was on a panel some months ago with a top official from the Department of Homeland Security. After reeling off three now-infamous but manifestly non-Arabic names — Richard Reid (the “Shoe Bomber”), John Walker Lindh (the “American Taliban”), and Jose Padilla (allegedly a would-be “Dirty Bomber”) — the official offered to that room full of idealistic law students the cheery lesson our government has drawn: You can’t construct a terrorist profile because the monsters come in all colors, shapes, and sizes. As I listened to this absurdity, I couldn’t help but think of Muggsy Bogues, the five-foot-three-inch dynamo of a point guard who lit up pro-basketball arenas for years. I hope that if some exigency ever impels the Transportation Safety Administration to put together an NBA team, the agency will not think “Muggsy” and scour the land for Lilliputians.
There’s one already living in the White House:
Given the unsettled situation, I’ve spoken to the attorney general and we’ve agreed that we will not be transferring additional detainees back to Yemen at this time.
The terrorists are “unsettled”, not the “situation”. And there will never be a good time to return them to their High Command.
And he says he’s going to close Gitmo because they told him to:
But make no mistake. We will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting tool for Al Qaida. In fact, that was an explicit rationale for the formation of al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
Why don’t you command the terrorists rather than taking commands from them?
And as I’ve always said, we will do so — we will close the prison in a manner that keeps the American people safe and secure.
Only a liberal thinks emptying prisons is a safety measure.
McCarthy again:
He’s spent the last year allowing intelligence officers to be investigated criminally, portraying them as rogues, accusing them of war crimes, removing them from the interrogation equation, and rebuffing calls to disclose to the public how effective their post-9/11 intelligence gathering was. If you create a climate in which pursuing and connecting dots is likely to get you in a heap of hurt, how surprised should you be that we’ve become lax in dot pursuit and connection?
Krauthammer sums it up:
It is beyond disconcerting. It’s insane. … The idea that you give him his rights is simply unbelievable.
Believe.
Believe…the System.
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