How Political Correctness Mandates In Government Foil Us From Catching Jihadists
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey writes in the WSJ:
For starters, you can worry about how the High-Value Interrogation Group, or HIG, will do its work. That unit was finally put in place by the FBI after so-called underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up the airplane in which he was traveling as it flew over Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009 and was advised of his Miranda rights. The CIA interrogation program that might have handled the interview had by then been dismantled by President Obama.At the behest of such Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups as the Council on American Islamic Relations and the Islamic Society of North America, and other self-proclaimed spokesmen for American Muslims, the FBI has bowdlerized its training materials to exclude references to militant Islamism. Does this delicacy infect the FBI's interrogation group as well?
Will we see another performance like the Army's after-action report following Maj. Nidal Hasan's rampage at Fort Hood in November 2009, preceded by his shout "allahu akhbar"--a report that spoke nothing of militant Islam but referred to the incident as "workplace violence"? If tone is set at the top, recall that the Army chief of staff at the time said the most tragic result of Fort Hood would be if it interfered with the Army's diversity program.








If Mukasey's past record is any indicator, he's probably concerned that no one will be allowed to waterboard the suspects. What an ass.
He's also such a fan of profiling that he fought the equalization of penalties for crack and powder cocaine, so that white suburban users of coke could continue to get off easy compared to black urban crack smokers, despite evidence that arrests were racially motivated and that there was no significant difference in the high, the addiction, or the secondary effects.
Although I think he makes a good point here, he's not the kind of guy I generally regard as being on my side in any discussion involving civil rights, his commitment to which is, to say the least, lacking.
Grey Ghost at April 22, 2013 5:59 AM
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