Sure it's frightening to see the recent stories about the Guantánamo detainees being released to become Al Qaeda captains but here's a story that should even be more chilling.
"Tim Edgar, lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, never imagined he'd be Tim Edgar, lawyer for the director of national intelligence...Edgar reviews classified intelligence programs to ensure the mandate to root out terrorists is balanced with the need to guard people's rights and privacy." Click on this posting to go to the story in USA Today.
So we can see the priorities that have overtaken the Obama administration immediately, and those have been to: close Guantánamo, assist the Congress in preparing several hundred million dollars to be funded to Planned Parenthood and began a rigorous examination of our intelligence gathering to make sure that terrorists are given at least as many rights as the people they're trying to kill.
It makes you nostalgic for 1976 all over again, at least then all we did was give away the Panama Canal, get some hostages taken and project an image of American power so wimpy that Libya thought they could kick our butt. Now we've crossed over into protecting foreign operatives who are spending most of their waking hours plotting ways to blow us up.
