2 Reuel Marc Gerecht, “Democracy in Egypt: Why the West Should Welcome a Political Upheaval in the Middle East,” The Weekly Standard, February 14, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 21, www.weeklystandard.com/articles/democracy-egypt_541410.html.
3 Ibid.
4 John Calvert, Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), 89.
5 Amin al-Husseini, Radio Berlin, March 1944.
6 Sayyid Qutb, “The America I Have Seen” (1951), 16, www.tawhed.net/dl.php?i=0704101v.
7 Sayyid Qutb, “Aduna al Awal: al Rijal al Abid,” al Risala, November 3, 1952; quoted in John Calvert, Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), 149.
8 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, The 9/11 Commission Report (New York: Norton, 2004), 51.
9 Sayyid Qutb, “Our Struggles with the Jews,” 1951, quoted in John Calvert, Sayyid Qutb, 169.
10 Thomas R. Mockaitis, Osama bin Laden: A Biography (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2010), 9.
11 Michael Burleigh, Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism (New York: Harper Collins, 2009), 374.
12 Osama bin Laden, “Jihad against Jews and Crusaders,” World Islamic Front statement, February 23, 1998, www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm.
13 The 9/11 Commission Report, 47, www.911commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf.
14 Roger Scruton, The West and The Rest (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2002), 118.
15 Ibid., 132–133.
16 Ibid., 125–134.
17 Terry McDermott, Perfect Soldiers (New York: HarperCollins, 2005), 111.
18 Rolf Mowatt-Larsen, “Al Qaeda’s Pursuit of Weapons of Mass Destruction,” Foreign Policy, January 25, 2010.
19 Michael B. Mukasey, How Obama Has Mishandled the War on Terror (New York: Encounter Broadsides, 2010), 1–6.
20 McDermott, Perfect Soldiers, 149.
21 “Proud Terrorist Gets Life for Trade Center Bombing,” CNN News, January 8, 1998, http:articles.cnn.com/1998–01–08/us/9801_08_yousef.update_1_yousef-trade-center-bombing-airliner-bombing? _s=PM:US.
22 The 9/11 Commission Report, 148–149.
23 The 9/11 Commission Report, 189.
24 Osama bin Laden, “Jihad.”
25 Ibid.
26 Mowatt-Larssen, “Weapons of Mass Destruction.”
27 The 9/11 Commission Report, 70.
28 Paul Harris and Burhan Wazir, “Al-Qaeda’s Bombers Used Britain to Plot Slaughter,” The Guardian, April 21, 2002, www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/apr/21/terrorism.religion.
29 Ibid.
30 Marc A. Thiessen, Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2010), 81.
31 The United States District Court, “Indictment of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” Wall Street Journal, 2009, http:issuu.com/wsj.com/docs/ksm2009indictment04042011.pdf.
32 Tony Blair, A Journey: My Political Life (London: Hutchinson, 2010), 342.
CHAPTER 3—CONVENTIONS
1 Justice Robert H. Jackson, “Nuremberg in Retrospect: Legal Answer to International Lawlessness,”address before the Canadian Bar Association, September 1, 1949, American Bar Association Journal (1949), 813, http:www.roberthjackson.org/the-man/speeches-articles/speeches/speeches-by-robert-h-jackson/nuremberg-in-retrospect-legal-answer-to-international-lawlessness.
2 Ibid.
3 Victoria Toensing, “KSM Deserves Military Justice,” Wall Street Journal, March 2, 2010.
4 Ibid.
5 John C. Yoo and James C. Ho, “The Status of Terrorists,” New York University–University of Virginia Conference on Exploring the Limits of International Law, Virginia Journal of International Law 44 (2003), 207.
6 Jack Goldsmith, The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration (New York: W.W. Norton, 2007), 109–113.
7 President Bush, transcript of speech on terrorism, New York Times, September 6, 2006.
8 Marc A. Thiessen, Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2010), 31.
9 Goldsmith, Terror Presidency, 111.
10 Ibid., 111–113.
11 Thiessen, Courting Disaster, 208.
12 Ibid., 31–33.
13 Noah Feldman, Scorpions (New York: Twelve Publishing, 2010), 215–225.
14 Ibid., 215–225.
15 Francis Biddle, “Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States at July Special Term,” Ex Parte Quirin Et Ali (1942), 12.
16 Jack Goldsmith, “Justice Jackson’s Unpublished Opinion in Ex Parte Quirin,” The Green Bag: An Entertaining Journal of Law, Spring 2006.
CHAPTER 4—RESPONSES
1 Jack Goldsmith, The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration (New York: W.W. Norton, 2007), 107–108.
2 Ibid., 118.
3 Ibid., 119–120.
4 Tom Bingham, The Rule of Law (London: Allen Lane, 2010), 146.
5 Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, (New York: Penguin Group, 2011), 570–571.
6 Alain Grignard, “Guantanamo Better than Belgian Prisons: OSCE expert,” Reuters, Brussels, March 6, 2006.
7 Michael B. Mukasey, How Obama Has Mishandled the War on Terror (New York: Encounter Broadsides, 2010), 29–32.
8 Goldsmith, Terror Presidency, 120.
9 Quoted by John Lloyd, “Does Torture Work?,” Financial Times, November 5, 20 10.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid.
12 Christopher Hitchens, “Believe Me, It’s Torture,” Vanity Fair, August 2008.
13 George W. Bush, Decision Points (New York: Crown Publishers, 2010), 171.
14 Ibid., 169.
15 Donald Rumsfeld, “How WikiLeaks Vindicated Bush’s Anti-Terrorism Strategy,” Washington Post, May 12, 2001.
16 “Pelosi News Conference on Waterboarding Disclosure,” Washington Post: CQ Transcriptwire , May 14, 2009.
17 Benjamin Wittes, Law and the Long War (New York: Penguin Group, 2008), 29–30.
18 Alan Dershowitz, interview with Wolf Blitzer, CNN, March 4, 2003.
19 Elihu Lauterpacht and C. J. Greenwood, International Law Reports (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), 198.
20 Nigel Biggar, letter to Financial Times, November 20-21, 2010.
21 Anne Applebaum, “The Torture Myth,” Washington Post, January 12, 2005; and “Torture Is Counterproductive,” Slate, March 20, 2007.
22 Michael Walzer, “Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 2 (1973), 160—180.
23 Marc Thiessen, Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack, (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2010), 410—411.
24 Ibid., 23.
25 Ibid., 89; and John Kiriakou, quoted in Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen, “Waterboarding Recounted,” Washington Post, December 11, 2007.
26 Bush, Decision Points, 169.
27 Thiessen, Courting Disaster, 5.
28 Bush, Decision Points, 170.
29 Scott Shane, “Inside a 9/11 Mastermind’s Interrogation,” New York Times, June 22, 2008; Peter Finn, “Retired Officers Meet with Obama Aides on Interrogation Policy,” Washington Post, December 4, 2008; and Steven Swann, “What Happened in Europe’s Secret CIA Prisons?” BBC News, October 8, 2010.
30 Bill Hutchinson, “WikiLeaks Reveals Al Qaeda Thug Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Vowed ‘Nuclear Hellstorm’ Tied to Bin Laden,” New York Daily News, April 25, 2011.
31 Bush, Decision Points, 170.
32 Paul Owen, “George Bush Admits U.S. Waterboarded 9/11 Mastermind,” The Guardian, June 3, 2010.
33 C.I.A. Inspector General Report (PDF), “Khalid Shaykh Muhammad: Preeminent Source on Al-Qaeda (PDF),” Washington Post, August 24, 2009, ccrjustice.org/files/CIA%20KSM%20Preeminent%20Source.pdf.
34 George W. Bush, “President Bush’s Speech on Terrorism,” New York Times, Septe
mber 6, 2006.
35 Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, (New York: Penguin Group, 2011), 593.
36 Bush, “President Bush’s Speech.”
37 John Reid, “Twenty-First Century Warfare–Twentieth Century Rules,” RUSI Journal, June 2006, 151, 3; ProQuest Research Library, 14.
38 Ibid.
39 Bush, Decision Points, 279.
40 “Military Commission, 9/11 Murder and Conspiracy Charges to Be Re-sworn Against KSM,” Liberty Rocks, www.libertyrocks.us, May 30, 2011.
41 “9/11 Military Commission Charge Sheet,” National Institute of Military Justice, June 2, 2011.
42 Associated Press, “Accused September 11th Mastermind ‘I Wish to Be a Martyr,’” quoted on Fox News, June 5, 2008.
43 Robert Spencer, “9/11 Defendants Claim Divine Praise Even While They Plead Guilty,” Washington Post, December 9, 2008; and Human Events, December 10, 2008.
44 Peter Berkowitz, “The Insanity of Bush Hatred,” Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2007.
45 Tony Blair, A Journey: My Political Life (London: Hutchinson, 2010), 348–349.
CHAPTER 5—COURTS
1 Campaign speech by Senator Obama in Pennsylvania, June 16, 2008, www.stjohns.edu/media/3/b001e52d8635402c933a628ab179faab.pdf?d=20080.
2 Ed Whelan, “Boumediene—Justice Scalia’s Dissent,” National Review online, June 12, 2008, www.nationalreviewonline.com/bench-memos/50907/boumediene—justice-scalias-dissent/ed-whelan.
3 Johnson v. Eisentrager, 339 U.S. 763 (1950), caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?friend=%3C%20riend%3E.
4 Telford Taylor, The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials (New York: Knopf, 1992), 56–77.
5 Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, (New York: Penguin Group, 2011), 596–598.
6 Ibid.
7 Marc A. Thiessen, “The Dean of the Gitmo Bar,” Weekly Standard, Vol. 15, No 27, March 29, 2010, http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/dean-gitmo-bar.
8 Michael Ratner, “Gonzales Has His Hand Deep in the Blood of the Conspiracy of Torture,” Democracy Now, January 28, 2005, http://www.democracynow.org/2005/1/28/michael_ratner_gonzales_has_his_hand.
9 Carol Rosenberg, “Critics Assail Pentagon Plan for Terror Trials,” Miami Herald, November 18, 2006, http://www.miamiherald.com/2006/11/18/320155/critics-assail-pentagon-plan-for.html.
10 Andrew C. McCarthy, “The Corner,” National Review online, March 14, 2010, and “Here’s to al-Qaeda,” National Review online, April 30, 2011.
11 Ibid.
12 Benjamin Wittes, Detention and Denial (Washington D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2010), 17.
13 Richard Cohen, “What if Cheney’s Right?,” Washington Post, May 12, 2009.
14 Charles Bolden, “The NASA Administrator and Astronaut in Conversation with Al Jazeera’s Imran Garda,” Al Jazeera English, July 1, 2010, http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/talktojazeera/2010/07/201071122234471970.html.
15 Jane Mayer, “The Trial,” New Yorker, February 15, 2010.
16 Ibid.
17 Scott W. Johnson, PowerLine blog, November 18, 2009.
18 Terry Frieden and Chris Kokenes, “Accused 9/11 Plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Faces New York Trial,” CNN, http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/13/khalid.sheikh.mohammed/index.html.
19 Alan Dershowitz, “America Is on Trial as Much as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Is,” Globe and Mail, November 13, 2009, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/america-is-on-trial-as-much-as-khalid-sheikh-mohammed/article1363102/.
20 Thomas Sowell, “Bowing to World Opinion,” Jewish World Review, November 17, 2009.
21 Michael Makasey, How Obama Has Mishandled the War on Terror (New York: Encounter Books, 2010), 43.
22 Letter from Carolyn B. Lamm, president of the American Bar Association, to Attorney General Eric Holder, November 25, 2009.
23 Michael Elliott, “The Shoe Bomber’s World,” Time, February 12, 2002.
24 Richard Reid, “I am at war with your country,” partial transcript of court hearing (CNN), January 31, 2002, http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/01/31/reid.transcript.
25 Pam Belluck, “Threats and Responses: The Bomb Plot: Unrepentant Shoe Bomber Is Given a Life Sentence,” New York Times, January 31, 2003.
26 John B. Bellinger, III, “Prisoners in War: Contemporary Challenges to the Geneva Conventions,” lecture at the University of Oxford, December 10, 2007.
27 “Obama Expresses Confidence KSM Will Be Convicted; Says He Isn’t ‘Prejudging’ Verdict” (video), Realclearpolitics.com, November 18, 2009.
28 Robert Hochman, “Brady v. Maryland and the Search for Truth in Criminal Trials,” The University of Chicago Law Review 63 (1996).
29 Victoria Toensing, “The Case for Military Trials,” Weekly Standard, February 1, 2010, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/where-try-ksm.
30 Ibid.
31 Eric Holder on Osama bin Laden, Associated Press, March 16, 2002.
CHAPTER 6—REALITIES
1 Clifford Krauss, “Witnesses Recount the Mass Murder at Fort Hood,” New York Times, October 13, 2010.
2 “A Hero’s Recovery,” PowerLine blog, January 23, 2011.
3 Thomas Joscelyn, “See No Evil: The Pentagon’s Fort Hood Investigation Is a Pathetic Whitewash,” Weekly Standard, February 1, 2010.
4 Daniel Pipes, “Major Hasan’s Islamist Life,” Frontpagemagazine.com, November 20, 2009.
5 Christopher Hitchens, “Multicultural Masochism: The War on Terror Didn’t Cause the Fort Hood Shootings,” Slate, November 23, 2009.
6 Senator Joe Lieberman and Senator Susan Collins, “Ticking Time Bomb: Counterterrorism Lessons from the U.S. Government’s Failure to Prevent the Fort Hood Attack,” Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Report, February 1, 2011.
7 Spencer Hsu and Carrie Johnson, “Fort Hood Suspect’s Links to Imam Under Scrutiny,” Washington Post, November 9, 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/08/AR2009110818405.html.
8 Dorothy Rabinowitz, “Major Hasan, ‘Star Officer,’” Wall Street Journal, February 16, 2011.
9 Lieberman and Collins, “Ticking Time Bomb.”
10 Joscelyn, “See No Evil.”
11 Heather Somerville, “Fort Hood Attack: Did Army Ignore Red Flags Out of Political Correctness?,” Christian Science Monitor, February 3, 2011, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2011/0203/Fort-Hood-attack-Did-Army-ignore-red-flags-out-of-political-correctness.
12 Rabinowitz, “‘Star Officer.’”
13 John Hinderaker, “A Hero’s Recovery,” PowerLine blog, January 23, 2011, http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/01/028195.php.
14 Jane Mayer, “The Trial,” New Yorker, February 15, 2010.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens and Michael Weiss, “Terrorism and the British Academy,” Weekly Standard, October 22, 2010.
18 Thomas Joscelyn, “Al Qaeda’s Trojan Horse,” Weekly Standard, December 31, 2009.
19 Victor Morton, “Awlaki Personally Blessed Detroit Attack,” Washington Times, December 29, 2009.
20 Eric Lipton and Scott Shane, “Questions on Why Suspect Wasn’t Stopped,” New York Times, December 28, 2009.
21 Stephen Hayes, “What We Lost While Abdulmutallab Clammed Up,” Weekly Standard, February 3, 2010, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/what-we-lost-while-abdulmutallab-clammed.
22 Ibid.
23 Kathryn Jean Lopez, “Move Abdulmuttalab, Senators Insist,” National Review online, January 25, 2010.
24 Editorial, Washington Post, January 23, 2010.
25 Michael Mukasey, “Where the U.S. Went Wrong on the Christmas Day Bomber,” The Washington Post, February 12, 2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021103331.html.
26 Eric Holder, letter to Senator Mitch McConnell, February 3, 2010.
27 Mayer, “The Trial.”
28 Ibid.
29 John McCormack, “KSM Trial Decision Put Off Until Aft
er Midterms,” Weekly Standard , June 21, 2010, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/ksm-trial-decision-put-until-after-midterms.
30 Joshua Durkin and Ray Storez, “Military Commissions: ‘An Enormous Practical Failure,’” The Public Record, March 20, 2010.
31 Ibid., March 21, 2010.
32 Mayer, “The Trial.”
33 Zahid Hussain, “From Suburban Father to a Terrorism Suspect,” New York Times, May 4, 2010.
34 “Faisal Shahzad Made Suicide Video: Al Arabiya Airs Failed Times Square Bomber’s Tape,” Al Arabiya, July 14, 2010.
35 Daniel Pipes, “Faisal Shahzad, Jihadi, Explains Terrorism,” National Review online, June 25, 2010, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/243333/faisal-shahzad-jihadi-explains-terrorism-daniel-pipes.
36 Ibid.
37 Ibid.
38 Document, “Government’s Memorandum in Connection with the Sentencing of Faisal Shahzad,” September 29, 2009, www.nypost.com/r/nypost/2010/09/29/news/media/usavshahzad13.pdf.
39 Barry Rubin, Rubin Reports blog, www.rubinreports.blogspot.com, October 23, 2009.
40 Sunlen Miller, “Obama Honors Daniel Pearl with Freedom of the Press Act,” ABC News, May 17, 2010.
41 “Verbatim Transcript of Combatant Status Review Tribunal Hearing for ISN 10024,” March 10, 2007, www.aclu.org/pdfs/safefree/csrt_ksm.pdf.
42 Benjamin Wittes, “So KSM Really Did Kill Daniel Pearl?,” January 20, 2011, Lawfareblog.com.
43 “Eric Holder Refuses to Say Radical Islam,” Keep America Safe, May 13, 2010, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOQt_mP6Pgg&feature=player_embedded.
44 Mark Steyn, “Nicking Our Public Discourse,” National Review online, May 15, 2010.
45 “Lieberman and MPAC Face Off Over Terror Terminology,” The Investigative Project on Terrorism, June 18, 2010, http://www.investigativeproject.org/2016/lieberman-and-mpac-face-off-over-terror.
46 Joseph Lieberman, “Democrats and Our Enemies,” taken from a speech given at a dinner hosted by Commentary magazine, May 18, 2008, http://patriotpost.us/reference/democrats-and-our-enemies/.
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