Is Obama Pulling The Wings Off a Butterfly?

Dan from New York connects the dots, asking "Is Obama Pulling The Wings Off a Butterfly -- the U.S.A?":

Take a random walk through these posts from respected bloggers here, here and here.

I'll tell you what I see. I see a country quickly being made over in the image of a man who has no affection for it.

Key graph from item 1 (Power Line: The Dove That Dare Not Speak Its Name):

The DoJ determination takes us back to the administration's treatment of Khalid Sheik Mohammed as a criminal defendant. No reason of law or justice, history or tradition, supports the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al. in federal court. Indeed, as Thomas Sowell observed, it is something of an obscenity.

Cloaking Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al. with the constitutional protections afforded American citizens comes at a steep price. In the case of Omar Abdulmutallab the cost is foregone intelligence regarding the planning of future attacks on American citizens.

From item 2 (Power Line: John Brennan's Disgraceful Performance):

Brennan attempted to defend the decision to treat Abdulmutallab like an ordinary criminal defendant through the normal Obama dodge: Bush did it too [but] it is dishonest in this instance. In response to questiioning by Chris Wallace about why Abdulmutallab was allowed to "lawyer up" as if he were an ordinary criminal defendant, Brennan responded: "There were people who were arrested during the previous administration -- Richard Reid, the shoe bomber; Zacarias Moussaoui; Padilla; Lyman Faris; others -- all were charged and tried in criminal court and sentenced, some cases to life imprisonment."

But Wallace wasn't raising the issue of how Abdulmutallab should be tried; rather the issue was how he should be interrogated. Padilla was removed from the ordinary criminal system, treated as an enemy combatant, and harshly interrogated. Abdulmutallab was not. Thus, Brennan was not being candid in pretending that Abdulmutallab's treatment is the same...

At the back end of the process, after foreign terrorists have been interrogated, It is a serious mistake and something of a travesty to try them in federal court (Padilla is not a foreigner, though). But it is close to criminal, at the front end, to give foreign terrorists rights enjoyed by ordinary defendants that make it more difficult for us to obtain information from them that might well prevent future attacks and save lives.

And, finally, from item 3 (RedState: Could this actually be the greatest and potentially the deadliest of Obama’s screw ups so far?):

The White House is subtly blaming the intelligence community for the failure to deduce the Delta/Northwest attack.

Why?

"Presidential aides are concerned that Obama will somehow be unfairly accused of dropping the ball on the fight against terrorist in Yemen "

Because the President is worried about being blamed, the White House is trying to blame the CIA while at the same time undermining the CIA through a rush to publicize the Afghan attack.

Either this White House is willfully trying to sabotage the intelligence community or they are rank amateurs. I pray to God in Heaven it is the latter.

The Democrat Party -- whose unflagging motto shall forever be "This war is lost!" -- never fails to put partisan hackery over national security. Never. And this is why the Party of Weakness must be summarily dismissed from office in 2010.