In the latest round of succumbing to lawfare follies, the Pentagon announced it will confer legal rights upon 600 detainees at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Yet a contrary report in the Washington Times notes that Team Obama has filed an appeal contesting conferring such rights on Bagram detainees, and also asked for extension of Patriot Act provisions governing roving wiretaps, seizure of business records and monitoring of "lone wolf" terror suspects, all due to expire this year.
NRO legal ace Andy McCarthy, a former top terror prosecutor, calls for waging warfare against lawfare. McCarthy's vehicle: a new Declaration of Independence that frees national security from the shackles of lawfare. He is right, but Team Obama is tone-deaf here, as is the Democratic Congress.
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