Ali Saleh Khalah al Marri, an al Qaeda sleeper agent who returned to the U.S. on September 10, 2001, has agreed to a plea bargain with federal prosecutors. Al Marri was held as an enemy combatant by the Bush administration (the only one held in the continental U.S.) since 2003, and then the Obama administration decided to prosecute al Marri’s case. That prosecution has now ended in a deal that could net al Marri 15 years in prison.

The ACLU and lefty activists have advocated for al Marri repeatedly. Based on their rhetoric, you would think that the Bush administration was more of a danger to America than terrorists such as al Marri, who was sent by top 9-11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) to orchestrate follow-on attacks against American citizens. In July of 2008, for example, the New York Times took advocacy on behalf of al Marri’s case to new lows. The Times editorial board wrote: