Upon assuming office, President Obama turned U.S. anti-terrorism policy upside down. First, Obama ended the "torture" techniques the Bush administration; once used to pry information from select enemy combatant detainees. Then Obama began providing "Miranda rights" to terrorists captured on the battlefields as a precursor to the administration's goals of having civilian trials in the United States for some of the most culpable 9-11 Gitmo detainees. The term "war on terror" was changed to the more benign sounding "overseas contingency operation." Acts of terrorism became "manmade disasters." Mr. Obama was going to show the world that, under his watch, the United States is fair to even captured terrorists; by affording them the protections of our Constitution. And, even though Obama and Holder assured Americans by telegraphing that  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be found guilty and executed, Mohammed would somehow still get a...(Read Full Post)