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Political Correctness Can
Be Deadly


Dear Solstice


Political correctness can be annoying, frustrating, even
exasperating.

But sometimes it can be deadly.

The
commentary below exposes what can only be described as an infuriating
excess of political correctness that will not only compromise our war
against Islamist terrorism — it may cost people their lives.

The
ACLU, in its obsession to put the “rights” of alleged terrorists ahead of
law-abiding citizens and CIA agents, has been caught surreptitiously
photographing CIA agents in order to show their pictures to alleged
terrorists the ACLU is defending.

By doing so the ACLU has put
these agents’ lives at risk in what appears to us to be an obvious
violation of federal law, such as The Intelligence Identities Protection
Act of 1982.

Will the Justice Department properly investigate the
ACLU? We hope so.

But given Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent
wrong-headed decision to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate
interrogation actions by CIA interrogators, it’s difficult not to conclude
that Holder’s sympathies lie more with the ACLU than they do with
safeguarding the lives of Americans and CIA agents.

Many experts
and observers are concluding that the direction the Justice Department is
going will ultimately undermine our intelligence gathering as
interrogators, fearful they may eventually be prosecuted, will choose to
avoid any tactic that even remotely could be interpreted as “excessive.”
How many terrorist plots will thus not be foiled, and how many people will
die as a result? Only time will tell.

One of the interrogation
practices that is being questioned is the blowing of cigar smoke in the
face of an alleged terrorist. Can anyone outside of the anti-American
left, the ACLU, and Eric Holder honestly believe that blowing cigar smoke
in the face of a terrorist is “excessive,” or worse than the ACLU
photographing CIA agents to show their pictures to terrorists?


This goes beyond absurd. This goes beyond political correctness
run amok.

America, we must rise up against this
insanity.






ACLU: Spying for America's Enemies
Michelle
Malkin
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/08/26/aclu_spying_for_americas_enemies


Savor the silence of America's self-serving champions of privacy.
For once, the American Civil Liberties Union has nothing bad to say about
the latest case of secret domestic surveillance -- because it is the ACLU
that committed the spying.

Last week, The Washington Post reported
on a new Justice Department inquiry into photographs of undercover CIA
officials and other intelligence personnel taken by ACLU-sponsored
researchers assisting the defense team of Guantanamo Bay detainees.
According to the report, the pictures of covert American CIA officers --
"in some cases surreptitiously taken outside their homes" -- were shown to
jihadi suspects tied to the 9/11 attacks in order to identify the
interrogators.

The ACLU undertook the so-called "John Adams
Project" with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers -- last
seen crusading for convicted jihadi assistant Lynne Stewart. She's the
far-left lawyer who helped sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted 1993 World
Trade Center bombing and N.Y. landmark bombing plot mastermind, smuggle
coded messages of Islamic violence to outside followers in violation of an
explicit pledge to abide by her client's court-ordered isolation.


The ACLU's team used lists and data from "human rights groups,"
European researchers and news organizations that were involved in
"(t)racking international CIA-chartered flights" and monitoring hotel
phone records. Working from a witch-hunt list of 45 CIA employees, the
ACLU team tailed and photographed agency employees or obtained other
photos from public records.

And then they showed the images to
suspected al-Qaida operatives implicated in murdering 3,000 innocent men,
women and children on American soil.

Where is the concern for the
safety of these American officers and their families? Where's the outrage
from all the indignant supporters of former CIA agent Valerie Plame, whose
name was leaked by Bush State Department official Richard Armitage to the
late Robert Novak? Lefties swung their nooses for years over the
disclosure, citing federal laws prohibiting the sharing of classified
information and proscribing anyone from unauthorized exposure of
undercover intelligence agents.

ACLU Executive Director Anthony
Romero refused to comment on Project CIA Paparazzi and instead whined some
more about the evil Bush/CIA interrogators. Left-wing commentators and
distraction artists are dutifully up in arms about such "inhumane" tactics
as blowing cigar smoke in the faces of Gitmo detainees. But it's Romero
blowing unconscionable smoke:

"We are confident that no laws or
regulations have been broken as we investigated the circumstances of the
torture of our clients and as we have vigorously defended our clients'
interests," he told the Post. "Rather than investigate the CIA officials
who undertook the torture, they are now investigating the military lawyers
who have courageously stepped up to defend these clients in these sham
proceedings."

Courage? What tools and fools these jihadi-enablers
be. Civil liberties opportunism is literally a part of the al-Qaida
handbook. A terrorist manual seized in a Manchester, England, raid in 2005
advised operatives: "At the beginning of the trial ... the brothers must
insist on proving that torture was inflicted on them by state security
before the judge. Complain of mistreatment while in prison." Jihadi
commanders rehearsed the lines with their foot soldiers "to ensure that
they have assimilated it."

Since 9/11, the selective champions of
privacy have recklessly blabbed about counter-terrorism operations,
endangered the lives of military and intelligence officials at Gitmo, and
undermined national security through endless litigation. They accused Bush
immigration officials of xenophobia for pursuing visa over-stayers from
jihadi-friendly countries. They accused local law enforcement, FBI and
other homeland security officials of "racial profiling" for placing
heightened scrutiny on mosques and jihadi-linked charities.

Now,
caught red-handed blowing the cover of CIA operatives, they shrug their
shoulders and dismiss it as "normal" research on behalf of "our clients."


But don't you dare question their love of country. Spying to stop
the next 9/11 is treason, you see. Spying to stop enhanced interrogation
of Gitmo detainees is patriotic. And endangering America on behalf of
international human rights is the ultimate form of leftist dissent.











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