Aid and Comfort to the Enemy

This was in the paper today. Don't you know that the Al Quaeda spies and Taliban followers in the United States are passing this along to enemy combatants to lift their spirits?

How long must the press keep giving morale boosts to the enemy?

There is no reason for them to capitulate. They can learn form the American media that America does not have the stomach for a fight. What happened to the American resolve that caused us to all pull together for victory? Do any of you believe that this sympathy for the enemy would have been tolerated then?

Note the liberal slant of the story. The writer could just have easily told us what Majid Khan was doing in Pakistan, and what actions lead to his arrest. They would rather print inflammatory quotes from Khan's attorney. This story is not about informing the public; it is about attacking our government's efforts to protect us. It is about attacking President Bush. Why do you suppose they don't use this type of propaganda to attack the enemy with such fervor?

11:20 AM CST on Sunday, December 9, 2007
Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A suspected terrorist taken to Guantánamo last year says he was tortured in overseas CIA prisons and is now suffering physical and psychological trauma as a result, one of his attorneys said Saturday.
Majid Khan, the only U.S. resident among 15 "high-value" detainees, described the alleged abuse in October during his first meetings with attorneys at the Guantánamo Bay Navy base in Cuba.
"He was subjected to state-sanctioned torture," said attorney Wells Dixon, who was not authorized to share details of his client's account.
None of Mr. Khan's specific assertions of torture could be read in the heavily redacted documents.
A Central Intelligence Agency spokesman denied allegations that it tortured Mr. Khan or any others in terror interrogations beginning in 2002.
Mr. Khan, a 1999 graduate of a Baltimore-area high school, was seized in Pakistan in March 2003 and held until last year in secret CIA custody. In September 2006, he was transferred to Guantánamo, where he may be charged and face prosecution under a new military tribunal system.
After hearing Mr. Khan's account of his time in CIA custody, his attorneys sought a federal court order for the government to preserve any evidence of torture. The motion filed Nov. 30 argues that evidence of harsh interrogation techniques is key to Mr. Khan's ability to prove he has no connection to al-Qaeda.
"Khan admitted anything his interrogators demanded of him, regardless of the truth (redacted) in order to end his suffering," according to the attorneys' filing.
The bid to preserve evidence became urgent after the announcement Thursday that the CIA videotaped its interrogations of two top terror suspects in 2002 and destroyed the tapes three years later.
"The government is plainly no longer entitled to the presumption that they've acted in good faith," Mr. Dixon said.