Obama Adviser Wants Terrorists Treated like Regular Criminals By Warner Todd Huston

Back on July 29th, the New York Times published an article that was ostensibly supposed to be a book review(1) even as the first half of the long piece was an anti-Bush, ant-war-on-terror political rant. The byline was credited to Samantha Powers, who, as the Times somewhat benignly defined her, is a "professor of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard." But, Power is far from a mere lefty Harvard professor because in the past she was a duly paid member of Senator Obama's staff and is still a key foreign policy adviser to this day for his campaign for president. In fact, when Obama's shallow foreign policy experience was attacked in the press recently, she was the one who wrote a long apologia(2) that was sent to media outlets to staunch the bleeding of the Obama campaign. Why the Times did not fully identify her as an interested party in a political campaign and instead painted her as just a "professor" is hard to understand. It's doubtful they'd ever give such cover to a Republican operative.

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