Hellfire and due diligence

I uncovered an interesting story, per the Washington Post:

A New Year's Day CIA strike in northern Pakistan killed two top al-Qaeda members long sought by the United States, including the man believed to be behind September's deadly suicide bombing at a Marriott hotel in Karachi, U.S. counterterrorism officials confirmed.

The CIA ascertained that Osama al-Kini, a Kenyan national who was al-Qaeda's chief of operations in Pakistan, was killed in the Jan. 1, 2009 missile strike, along with his lieutenant, Sheikh Ahmed Swedan. Both men also helped plan the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa.

Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University, said the CIA's tactics appear to be cutting dramatically into al-Qaeda's top ranks with strikes deep into a lawless border region that insurgents long regarded as a sanctuary.

"It is a stunning testament of the accuracy of intelligence that the United States is obtaining," Professor Hoffman said. "Either we have built up an impressive network of sources that facilitates such precision targeting, or the Pakistani authorities are cooperating big-time."

Natural Exponent believes this is a very good development in combating Islamo-terror. We hope that it continues in the Obama administration, because Obama doesn't strike us as someone who would take the offense toward high-value targets.

But, um, where were the anti-war protesters? If the U.S. had arrested these bad guys, and made them stand for long periods of time while being questioned, or turned down the a/c in the interrogation room, there would be a huge outcry about their treatment.

And yet when our operators blow them to smithereens--out of the blue--with a subsonic Hellfire missile fired by a controller thousands of miles away, there's no complaining from America's leftists.In any case, I'm certain our CIA took great care to make sure it had the right targets in their crosshairs. But you can't get a much better outcome of due diligence than a bulls-eye. But still, no outrage? from any Lefty?

Due diligence, --yes, and yet nothing says "Due Process" like a Hellfire missile.