President Obama reaches his 100th day in the White House Wednesday, so the liberal press is about to burst with flowery tributes to multiple milestones – some real, most imagined – of this most radical American chief executive ever. Contrary to the plaudits flowing from America’s left-leaning journalists this week, The Examiner must dissent by noting three of Obama “achievements” that likely mark his administration as a disaster in the making.

First, there is national security. Obama’s demotion of the War on Terror to “overseas contingency operations” points to a series of presidential decisions that eventually will cost many American lives. Most egregious was last week’s irresponsible and manifestly deceitful release of formerly classified documents describing “enhanced interrogation techniques” – water-boarding, sleep deprivation, confinement in close quarters, etc. – used by the U.S. in the wake of 9/11. Obama’s decision was irresponsible because it handed a priceless recruiting tool to al Qaeda and other radical Muslim groups. They will surely use this gift from Obama to find and train many more jihadist fanatics in the mass murder of Americans here and around the globe. This decision was deceitful because Obama also sought to conceal the full truth on the issue, most especially that thousands of Californians are alive today because the “second wave” of deadly attacks using commercial airliners was prevented as a result of information gleaned from multiple water-boardings of the master-mind of 9/11.