The Usual Suspects on the left and in the MSM (but I repeat myself) have exploded in outrage over what was “revealed” in Bush-era “torture/interrogation” memos released yesterday by an Obama administration desperate to prove that government should be “transparent” (even though by their own standards, the only transparency they’re interested in is transparency for past administrations, not the current one).
The AP reports on how Somali pirates are vowing to “hunt down and kill” Americans after the rescue of Captain Phillips this past weekend left three of the four pirates holding him hostage dead from sniper shots:
Andy McCarthy pegged Barack Obama correctly before he got elected, on the issue of how a potential Obama administration would treat political dissent from the opposition. Read this post, and then compare it with what you read earlier today about that DHS document on “extremist right wing groups” and you’ll see that McCarthy was way ahead of his time.
Read this post about Obama’s visit to Iraq last week, specifically the part where it is alleged that prior to the event the troops were polled as to which ones supported Obama, and those who answered yes were supposedly ushered to the front of the receiving line and given cameras they were told to hold up and take pictures with.
I guess dissent is not patriotic after all, hm?
“When will Barack Obama apologize to George Bush?” – Ed Morrissey, wondering when Obama will finally get around to point blank acknowledging his naive campaign-era view of habeas corpus rights of suspected terrorists, in light of a Friday story in the NYT about how the Obama administration plans to appeal a district court ruling “that granted some military prisoners in [Bagram Air Base] Afghanistan the right to file lawsuits seeking their release.”
