Yet another case of a CIA operative who is "left behind" in Lahore of all places...this man is in in danger; he could be hanged. His jailers are no friends of the U.S. He went over there with a diplomatic passport. He didn't sign on for this s#$^^& - the guys that high tailed it out of there after destroying the documents at the safe house should have made sure they got him out when he was in trouble- first.

What happened to 'no man left behind'?

The real terroist who should be prosecuted are the elected officials in Washington and media who are persecuting the CIA, military and others who are in charge of finding out what what we need to know to protect our country and find out who is responsible for the acts of terroism and war against this country.  We have always been noted for the mildest forms of interrigation in the world.  We don't cut off heads or burn people like the Arabs and Muslims who have no scruples about lying to get their way and then going after the very people they have made "treaties" with because it was convenient to get what they wanted and then changed their minds. We haven't driven bamboo under finger nails or tied people in place over bamboo shoots like the Chinese. We haven't put people in cages submerged in infested water to their necks like the Viet Cong. Yes, water boarding isn't pleasant, but it won't kill anyone.

The real people who deserve to be tried for criminal offenses are "loyal Americans" in Washington and the media who have betrayed our country during the times of war, and terrorism is an act of war.

Peters pulls no punches when he lambastes the DoD for their internal report of the massacre at Fort Hood.  He finds the report to be sickeningly politically correct, a dangerous mindset that eventually cost 13 Americans their lives.

By RALPH PETERS, NYPOST, January 16, 2010

There are two basic problems with the grotesque non-report on the Islamist- terror massacre at Fort Hood (released by the Defense Department yesterday):

* It's not about what happened at Fort Hood.

* It avoids entirely the issue of why it happened.

Rarely in the course of human events has a report issued by any government agency been so cowardly and delusional. It's so inept, it doesn't even rise to cover-up level.

"Protecting the Force: Lessons From Fort Hood" never mentions Islamist terror. Its 86 mind-numbing pages treat "the alleged perpetrator," Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, as just another workplace shooter (guess they're still looking for the pickup truck with the gun rack).

The report is so politically correct that its authors don't even realize the extent of their political correctness -- they're body-and-soul creatures of the PC culture that murdered 12 soldiers and one Army civilian.

Reading the report, you get the feeling that, jeepers, things actually went pretty darned well down at Fort Hood. Commanders, first responders and everybody but the latest "American Idol" contestants come in for high praise.

The teensy bit of specific criticism is reserved for the "military medical officer supervisors" in Maj. Hasan's chain of command at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. As if the problem started and ended there.

Unquestionably, the officers who let Hasan slide, despite his well-known wackiness and hatred of America, bear plenty of blame. But this disgraceful pretense of a report never asks why they didn't stop Hasan's career in its tracks.

The answer is straightforward: Hasan's superiors feared -- correctly -- that any attempt to call attention to his radicalism or to prevent his promotion would backfire on them, destroying their careers, not his.

Hasan was a protected-species minority. Under the PC tyranny of today's armed services, no non-minority officer was going to take him on.

This is a military that imposes rules of engagement that protect our enemies and kill our own troops and that court-martials heroic SEALs to appease a terrorist. Ain't many colonels willing to hammer the Army's sole Palestinian-American psychiatrist.

Of course, there's no mention of political correctness by the panel. Instead, the report settles for blinding flashes of the obvious, such as "We believe a gap exists in providing information to the right people." Gee, really? Well, that explains everything. Money well spent!

Or "Department of Defense force protection policies are not optimized for countering internal threats." Of course not: You can't stop an internal threat you refuse to recognize.

The panel's recommendations? Wow. "Develop a risk-assessment tool for commanders." Now that's going to stop Islamist terrorists in their tracks.

The Fort Hood massacre didn't reflect an intelligence failure. The intelligence was there, in gigabytes. This was a leadership failure and an ethical failure, at every level. Nobody wanted to know what Hasan was up to. But you won't learn that from this play-pretend report.

The sole interesting finding flashes by quickly: Behind some timid wording on pages 13 and 14, a daring soul managed to insert the observation that we aren't currently able to keep violence-oriented religious extremists from becoming chaplains. (Of course, they're probably referring to those darned Baptists . . .)

To be fair, there's a separate, classified report on Maj. Hasan himself. But it's too sensitive for the American people to see. Does it even hint he was a self-appointed Islamist terrorist committing jihad? I'll bet it focuses on his "personal problems."

In the end, the report contents itself with pretending that the accountability problem was isolated within the military medical community at Walter Reed. It wasn't, and it isn't. Murderous political correctness is pervasive in our military. The medical staff at Walter Reed is just where the results began to manifest themselves in Hasan's case.

Once again, the higher-ups blame the worker bees who were victims of the policy the higher-ups inflicted on them. This report's spinelessness is itself an indictment of our military's failed moral and ethical leadership.

We agonize over civilian casualties in a war zone but rush to whitewash the slaughter of our own troops on our own soil. Conduct unbecoming.

Ralph Peters' latest book is "The War After Armageddon."

From the New York Times, January 6, 2010:

In the days since the attack, details of the lives of the victims — five men and two women, including two C.I.A. contractors from the firm formerly known as Blackwater — have begun to trickle out, despite the secretive nature of their work. What emerges is a rare public glimpse of a closed society, a peek into one sliver of the spy agency as it operates more than eight years after the C.I.A. was pushed to the front lines of war.

Shockingly, it appears that the post-Gitmo "art therapy rehabilitation programs" are not working as well as expected. Terrorists released from Gitmo and sent to Saudi Arabia are placed into programs that encourage positive feelings and the appropriate expression thereof - many times which include crayons and paints. 

No one - and I mean, NO ONE - could've predicted that a terrorist wouldn't reform under such circumstances.  I, for one, am shocked, SHOCKED, I say.

By Brian Ross, ABC News, Dec. 28, 2009

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/time_for_new_oss_L23Zi8UoLZzrZiRI9BeDaN

November 22 Oped in New York Daily News by Andrew C. McCarthy, author of Willful Blindness and prosecutor for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing:

EXCERPT:

“From a legal standpoint, it makes no sense to try the Al Qaeda quintet in civilian court. Eleven months ago, these men were prepared to plead guilty in their military commission and proceed to execution. Yet the Obama administration pulled the plug on that commission. This was a transparent sop to the left, which wants to judicialize war-fighting and is repulsed by the intelligence-centric, prevention-first counterterrorism strategy that has protected us for eight years from a reprise of the 9/11 atrocities.

I found this on Robert Spencer's Facebook page and believe it deserves wider coverage than FB, especially as it directly impacts our CIA and military:

Obama may allow Americans to be tried for war crimes in The Hague

According to the AP in Dearborn Michigan, the CIA released a new recruiting commercial focused on Arab-Americans.  It shows several people at a dinner party, with a male voice speaking in a Middle Eastern accent: "Your nation, your world," as the camera moves to reveal the dinner party is in an upper level of a high rise building.  The shot moves within seconds to an image from space.  "They're worth protecting," the voice says, ending with  "Careers in the CIA."

The commercial's planned debut will be on ethnic TV stations and Web sites within the next few months.

This ad, along with another one aimed at Iranian-Americans, are part of the Agency's outreach effort considered critical in the fight against terrorism in the U.S.