By Mr. Curmudgeon

President Obama, like Shakespeare’s Hamlet, can’t seem to make up his mind. As public confidence in the president’s terror fighting capabilities continues to slide, and his administration grapples with a face-saving venue change for the criminal trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Washington Post reports a prickly inconsistency between what the president says and what he does. His ACLU buddies will not be pleased. The Director of National Intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, testified before Congress that the administration is specifically targeting American citizens for death – the president being a one-man death panel.

Blaire said the criteria for terminating – with extreme prejudice – Americans fighting for Islamic terror organizations overseas is “whether that American is involved in a group that is trying to attack us, whether that American is a threat to other Americans.” And there is only one way that could happen, ladies and gentlemen – CIA hit teams must first receive a signed presidential finding.

Similar to, but far more bloody than Obama’s executive order granting mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie unlimited funds, presidential findings are classified executive orders granting presidential authority to kill. Under the Intelligence Authorization Act of 1991, intelligence committees of Congress must be made aware “before the initiation of a covert action authorized by the finding.” In other words, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are also in on it. That then begs the question: if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is worthy of a trial with all the privileges and immunities granted by our Constitution, why not bonafied Americans fighting for the religion of peace? Obama may have a blind spot when it comes to seeing Al Qaeda foreign fighters as enemy combatants but he has no such qualms when it comes to Americans.