(Terrorist) Civil Rights Update

clipped from powerlineblog.com They were, however, much weaker than we wanted, perpetually diluted by opposition amendments, constantly attacked on civil liberty grounds. In addition, after September 11, and again after July 7, we have tried continually to deport foreign nationals who were either engaged in or inciting extremism. Again and again in court judgments we were forced to keep them here. *** So the fault is not with our services or, in this instance, with the Home Office. We have chosen as a society to put the civil liberties of the suspect, even if a foreign national, first. Here, as in England, the moment that terrorists strike again, the very people who have done their best to shackle the administration's ability to protect us will be the first to denounce our government for failing to stop the attack.