Palin: US Needs a Leader, Not a 'Law Professor'

Sarah Palin weighed in on the nation's security today, calling President Obama's approach "fatally flawed" on her Facebook page. "The real nature of the terrorist threat requires a commander-in-chief, not a constitutional law professor," the Republican governor-turned-author writes. Among other things, she blasted the idea of giving Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab the rights of an ordinary defendant.

"It simply makes no sense to treat an al-Qaeda-trained operative willing to die in the course of massacring hundreds of people as a common criminal," writes Palin, citing reports that he stopped talking when read his Miranda rights. "Giving foreign-born, foreign-trained terrorists the right to remain silent does nothing to keep Americans safe from terrorist threats." (More Sarah Palin stories.)