First Outrage Of The New Year [updated @1405]

04 January 2010 @ 11:12

Well…it didn’t take Julius Obamacus Caesar and his minions long to concoct their first outrage of the new year. From The Washington Post, Karen DeYoung reporting [tip of the fedora to Memeorandum]:

President Obama’s chief counterterrorism adviser on Sunday defended the administration’s decision to try in federal court the man charged with attempting to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day and indicated that he would be offered a plea agreement to persuade him to reveal what he knows about al-Qaeda operations in Yemen.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian charged with the failed attempt on the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight, was initially “talking to people who detained him” but now has a public defender and “doesn’t have to,” John O. Brennan said on “Fox News Sunday.”

So, the Underwearbomber is going to be tried as if he were an ordinary criminal, not treated as the member of The Jihad that he is. He will be granted all of the rights and privileges given to burglars, drug dealers, rapists, errant stockbrokers and not be subject to the rules of war.

Lovely…just friggin’ lovely.

It gets better:

“We have different ways of obtaining information from individuals” in the criminal-justice process, Brennan said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “A lot of people . . . understand what they’re facing, and their lawyers recognize that there is advantage to talking to us in terms of plea agreements, [and] we’re going to pursue that.” Brennan told CNN’s “State of the Union” that other terrorism suspects have “given us very valuable information as they’ve gone through the plea-agreement process.”

Lovely…a plea-bargain. With a terrorist. With a soldier of The Jihad.

Over at Carol’s Closet, Carol is spot-on:

…Once upon a time, we didn’t bargain with terrorists. Now we fluff their pillows at night and leave them a chocolate mint in the morning. One can imagine Osama sitting around the campfire in his cave with his buds laughing his ass off as they all take turns suggesting a more appropriate and wussified name for America now that were too girly to be referred to as the Great Satan.

In less than a year we have gone from the super power to a bunch of pretty in pink, Mother, may I, pansies. Even the French have bigger balls than us. How embarrassing is that?

We should be used to it by now, Carol, we should be used to it….

Paco ask some good questions:

…Perhaps he’s going to spill his guts in return for, what, a guilty plea on a charge of indecent exposure? Smoking on an airplane?

If they charged him with both, I’m thinking they’re thinking, then they could really put the screws to him…yea, get a really good deal.

How about some more good news? Over at The Corner, Andrew McCarthy looks at the legal implications of the decision to try this bastard in a civilian court:

…behold, yet again, the folly of President Obama’s law-enforcement approach to terrorism. Not only has the assignment of counsel in the criminal case denied us whatever intelligence Mutallab could be giving us about Yemen. The criminal case is complicating the President’s ability to do his jobs as president and commander-in-chief. This morning, Obama declared flatly that Mutallab conspired with al-Qaeda in a heinous attempted terrorist attack. It was refreshing to hear the president not hedge with “alleged” this and “alleged” that. FDR never suggested that the “fear itself” we needed to fear was “alleged.” But, of course, defense counsel will now claim the president is hopelessly prejudicing Mutallab’s ability to get a fair trial — in Detroit or anyplace else — by smearing him in the press and eviscerating the presumption of innocence. The usual judicial reaction to such claims is not to dismiss an indictment but (a) to postpone the trial indefinitely until the negative (to the defendant) publicity dies down, and (b) to direct the executive branch to stop making statements that prejudice the case (on pain of having the indictment dismissed due to “government misconduct”).

Oh, joy: the neverending story of the Underwearbomber has begun.

By his actions in this instance, this President is furthering the endangerment of all of the people of The United States. Not only is he a Tyrant, but he is a dangerously naive one. And, mark me: many of us will end up paying the price with our lives.

UPDATE at 1405: Erick Erickson makes a great analogy: