Submitted by: Tony Caputo
Obama's 'War'
By The New York Post April 24, 2013
Is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev an "enemy combatant"? The Obama administration says "No." Then again, it almost had to.
From the day he ran for president, Barack Obama has advanced two certainties: that military commissions are bad, and that the way his predecessor prosecuted the War on Terror was not just wrong but immoral, unconstitutional and perhaps criminal.
He staffed his White House with people who thought the same. Attorney General Eric Holder launched a criminal investigation against the CIA interrogators. Harold Koh, once State's legal adviser, worried Bush's legal structure could "license genocide." And let's not forget Obama's pick for the Office of Legal Counsel at Justice, Dawn Johnsen, a lawyer who called for "outrage" over the supposedly lawless nature of virtually every aspect of Bush war policy.
