AMERICA AT RISK - AT 7:45 A.M. ET - Part I:  With America distracted by the health-care debate, the death of Senator Kennedy and the president's ice-cream tastes at Martha's Vineyard, we forget that this administration is slowly dismantling the war on terror.  Michael Goodwin of The New York Daily News is following our new national insecurity policy:

Pull together the loose threads of recent events and President Obama's vision for fighting the war on terror becomes one very scary picture. Scary, that is, for innocent Americans.

From interrogation to adjudication, the White House plan offers more legal protections to terror suspects and less to our nation. It's a kinder, gentler tilt that favors bad guys and raises the risk of attack at home because it compromises national security to promote other concerns and values.

And...

One thread is Attorney General Eric Holder's misguided decision to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether CIA agents broke the law in aggressive questioning of suspects captured in Iraq and Afghanistan...

...Another scary thread is the plan to take the job of terror questioning away from the CIA and move it to a new group in the FBI. The move is part of an effort to treat terror as just another law enforcement problem, a downgrade that led the White House to drop the words "war on terror." ....

...Scary thread No. 3 is the plan to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and move some of the worst terrorists to American prisons and give some detainees trials in civilian courts. Playing by the legal rule book raises the chance mad killers will walk free because of the vast defendant protections built into our criminal justice system.

Finally...

Obama often insists that keeping Americans safe is his most important duty, yet his actions and those of Holder say otherwise. By tying our nation's hands against an enemy that knows no rules or boundaries, the President is adding to the already considerable chance we will suffer a national catastrophe.

COMMENT:  And you can be sure that, if we do suffer another national catastrophe, Obama will blame it on BUSH (!!). 

Will the American people wake up?  I have to believe they will.  They woke up to Carter.  They rejected McGovern.  But years have passed, and a new generation, miseducated in our leftist universities, has grown.  They will be critical to determining our fate. 

August 27, 2009