Admiral Blair’s assessment that the interrogation methods did produce important information was deleted from a condensed version of his memo released to the media last Thursday. Also deleted was a line in which he empathized with his predecessors who originally approved some of the harsh tactics after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

“I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past,” he wrote, “but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.”

A spokeswoman for Admiral Blair said the lines were cut in the normal editing process of shortening an internal memo into a media statement emphasizing his concern that the public understand the context of the decisions made in the past and the fact that they followed legal orders.

Umm, yeah.  They wanted to get their point across, not get the facts out.

Here’s another article from another point of view:

(CNSNews.com) – The Central Intelligence Agency told CNSNews.com today that it stands by the assertion made in a May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that the use of “enhanced techniques” of interrogation on al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) — including the use of waterboarding — caused KSM to reveal information that allowed the U.S. government to thwart a planned attack on Los Angeles.

Before he was waterboarded, when KSM was asked about planned attacks on the United States, he ominously told his CIA interrogators, “Soon, you will know.”

According to the previously classified May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that was released by President Barack Obama last week, the thwarted attack — which KSM called the “Second Wave”– planned “ ‘to use East Asian operatives to crash a hijacked airliner into’ a building in Los Angeles.”

So having armed guards prevented this ship from being hijacked, but it’s a bad idea because it might make the pirates mad.  Only in a liberal mind could defending yourself and your interests be seen as a bad thing.  Just think of the poor pirates.  You could have killed some of them.

So goes the old argument that if you arm citizens they are more of a threat and more at danger.  Never mind the fact that statistics prove otherwise.

Amazing how much things change when you are the one making the decisions.  With his “changes” to the system, now it’s ok to have military tribunals for terrorists.  Heaven forbid a terrorist not get a fair trial before his slap on the wrist and ticket back to terrorist central.

Marcus Luttrell: Patriot.

So much for killing them with kindness, eh Mr. President…

Obama vowed when he took office to extend a hand to troublesome countries “willing to unclench your fist” but so far he has had little success with North Korea or Iran, which have continued to advance their nuclear programs and showed little interest in renewed dialogue.

I guess he thought that talking with them, from one now socialist nation (ours) to another, they might listen.  I guess he was wrong (again).

(CNN) — The government is delaying legal action against Pennsylvania landowners who haven’t yet agreed to sell their land for a memorial to victims of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, federal officials said Friday.

The government has been negotiating with several landowners since 2003 in an effort to purchase their properties near Shanksville where the hijacked jet crashed into a field, killing everyone aboard.

If final efforts at negotiations are unsuccessful, officials intend to use eminent domain to acquire the property. That right allows governments to take private property for public use without an owner’s consent, after paying a fair price for the land.

The government is seeking to buy 166 acres in western Pennsylvania to complete the area needed to build a memorial on 2,200 acres.

That’s right.  The government is planning on buying, with our money, 2,200 acres to build a memorial to airline passengers killed in a terrorist act.  I’m sure glad that my tax money is being spent wisely, aren’t you?  On top of that, they are going to FORCIBLY take the land if the rightful owners won’t sell.  Feeling better about your government now?

Arrogance shining through!

Obama arrived on the base 3:19 p.m. local time (1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time) and received a rousing welcome from 1,500 troops in camouflage uniforms, many holding cameras or pointing cell phones to snap pictures.

“You guys make a pretty good photo op,” the president said.

Standing on a riser wearing a blue suit and red tie, with a cluster of troops and a large American flag behind him, Obama expressed “the gratitude of the American public” and said his meetings in four countries over eight days in Asia will help deliver a “safer, more prosperous world for all of us.”

He got a huge cheer when he told them he was increasing military pay. “That’s what you call an applause line,” he said, before boarding his jet and taking off at 4:11 p.m.

Charging these men is a disgrace and a crime in itself!  President Obama, show some integrity and some balls!  Stop this atrocity in its tracks before it’s too late!

Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.

An alleged terrorist accused in the grisly murders of four Americans appeared in court Wednesday in Iraq. But Ahmed Hashim Abed isn’t the one on trial. Instead, he was testifying against one of the Navy Seals who arrested him last September.

Petty Officer First Class Julio Huertas of Blue Island, Illinois, is being tried at a military base on the western outskirts of Baghdad. Huertas and two other Navy Seals face charges in connection with Abed’s arrest, during which the prisoner claims he was punched and kicked by at least one of his captors.

The president should step up and put an end to this.  Of course, he won’t because that’s not what liberal politicians do.  You have to treat terrorists with kid gloves while you’re kissing their ass and “reaching out” to them to try to make them like you.

President Obama has been privately reaching out as he calls it to muslims and muslim organizations.  This trial is nothing more than more ass kissing.  He bows to a Saudi prince, he even bows to the Chinese president, but he won’t lift a finger to stop this travesty of justice.  Some leader he is.

So just how is that hope and change working out for you?  I certainly have hope that we can change the mess Obama has made in the short time he’s been president.  It’s kinda like when you get a bad rash.  It appears out of nowhere, but once the damage is done it can take a very long time, comparatively, to get rid of it again.  That’s the conundrum we find ourselves in now.

FINALLY some good news on these cases.  Putting these heroes on trial is the only crime that should be investigated here.