Could it possibly be that those behind the current individuals in power are operating under “a doctrine of post-sovereign globalism in which America is seen as owing its principal allegiance to the international legal order rather than to our own Constitution and national interests”? According to the National Review Online that is exactly what is going on here.

Recall that the president chose to install former Yale Law School dean Harold Koh as his State Department’s legal adviser. Koh is the country’s leading proponent of transnationalism. He is now a major player in the administration’s deliberations over international law and cooperation. Naturally, membership in the International Criminal Court, which the United States has resisted joining, is high on Koh’s agenda. The ICC claims worldwide jurisdiction, even over nations that do not ratify its enabling treaty, notwithstanding that sovereign consent to jurisdiction is a bedrock principle of international law.

As the Republic draws to an end over the coming decades so does the sovereignty of our nation as the progressives push our Constitution aside for more international concerns.   The moral relativism of today slowly eats away at the freedom and justice of tomorrow in barely perceptable ways.   Tomorrow perhaps Rumsfeld and Bush can’t travel outside the country for fear of arrest.  The next day our soldiers returning from the battlefield are arrested by the a U.N. police force stationed in America.   Will it take 100 years, 50, or 20? Only time will tell.

<blockquote>Cheney said in a “Fox News” interview with Sean Hannity that he found it disturbing that Obama did not also release memos that Cheney said documented the effectiveness of the interrogations — a point contested by some experts. </blockquote>

So, while Obama tries to make us out to be the bad guy and weaken us on the battlefield he fails to acknowledge the effectiveness of some of these techniques.  Since, we have a such a short memory let me remind you.

The terrorists’ target was a notable Los Angeles office building, he said during a speech given at the National Guard Association of the United States’ headquarters.  The 73-story Los Angeles office building, the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River, was called the Library Tower at the time of the terrorist plot. It was renamed US Bank Tower in 2003.  The plot was thwarted in early 2002 when a Southeast Asian nation arrested a key al Qaeda operative who was in on the plan.  Subsequent debriefings and other intelligence operations made clear the intended target and how al Qaeda hoped to execute it This critical intelligence helped other allies capture the ringleaders and other known operatives who had been recruited for this plot.  The ringleader of the West Coast plot was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was al-Qaeda’s military chief at the time. Mohammed was later captured in Pakistan in March 2003, Bush said.  Mohammed had planned to employ members of JI, an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group located in Southeast Asia, for the Los Angeles operation, Bush said. The al Qaeda chief wanted young South Asian men rather than Arabs to conduct the operation, he said, so as not to arouse as much suspicion.

The bold was added by me. So, what interrogation methods were used to get all that information. Coffee and donuts? Yeah right!