A Good Day for Terrorists

The lives of terrorists are about to get easier thanks to the new president:

President Obama is expected to sign "several" executive orders on Thursday directing the Central Intelligence Agency to close its network of "black sites," or secret foreign prisons, and order the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp within a year.

The executive orders, aimed at rolling back much of former President Bush's architecture for the war on terror, involve "altering CIA detention and interrogation rules, limiting interrogation standards in all U.S. facilities worldwide to those outlined in the Army Field Manual, and prohibiting the agency from secretly holding terrorist detainees in third-country prisons," the Washington Post said citing sources familiar with the briefings.

The New York Times said the "orders would bring to an end a Central Intelligence Agency program that kept terrorism suspects in secret custody for months or years," and "also prohibit the CIA from using coercive interrogation methods."

The left has worked themselves into a lather for years over the notion that we might actually treat terrorists as terrorists who want to kill Americans. They want to extend all sorts of rights to them that they don't merit, and want to get them in front of liberal U.S. judges which poses lots of problems on its own. Trying these animals in U.S. courts could cause the revelation of our anti-terror methods, or the release of suspects in order to protect those methods.

It's another symptom of Obama Liberal Personality Disorder.