Glenn Greenwald 
President Obama, in his weekend radio address to the nation:
They wanted to terrorize us, but, as Americans, we refuse to live in fear.ABC?News, yesterday:
Fighter planes were scrambled, bomb squads were called, FBI command centers went on alert and police teams raced to airports today, but in the end two separate airline incidents were caused by apparently innocent bathroom breaks and a little "making out," federal officials said.Earlier this year, the Obama White House reversed the?Attorney General's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for his alleged crimes in a federal court in New York, and Congress prohibited Guantanamo detainees generally from being tried on U.S. soil, due to fears that the?Terrorists would use their heat-vision to melt their shackles and escape or would summon their Terrorist friends to attack the courthouse and free them into the community -- even though none of that has ever happened, and even though almost every other county on the planet that suffered similar Terrorist attacks (Britain, Spain, India, Indonesia)?tried the perpetrators in their regular courts in the cities where the attacks occurred.??In 2009, President Obama demanded the power to abolish the most basic right -- not to be imprisoned without having been convicted of a crime? -- by "preventively detaining" people who, in his words, "cannot be prosecuted yet [] pose a clear danger."? During the Bush years, The Washington Post quoted a military official warning Americans that the most extreme security measures are needed against Guantanamo detainees because these are "people who would chew through a hydraulic cable to bring a C-17 down."
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