Brennan: 20% recidivism rate for Gitmo terrorists “isn’t that bad”
ABC News’ Jake Tapper reports on some disturbing comments made over the weekend by counterterrorism “czar” John Brennan on the recidivism rate for Gitmo detainees:
WH counterterrorism chief: Criticizing Obama only aids Al Qaeda
The Washington Examiner’s Byron York reports on a war of words well underway between WH counterterorrism chief John Brennan and 4 GOP leaders on the issue of Mirandizing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Islamofascist thug who attempted to blow up a plane en route to Detroit on Christmas Day:
Fallout from Christmas Day attempted terror attack continues
Charles Krauthammer has the details:
WH to Justice Dept: Let’s move KSM’s trial out of NYC
Via the NY Daily News (hat tip: Tom Maguire):
Marc Thiessen schools Christiane Amanpour on waterboarding
Former senior Bush administration official Marc Thiessen has been a machine over the last couple of years when it comes to setting the record straight on CIA interrogation tactics and how the “EIT”s (Enhanced Interrogation Tactics) like waterboarding, for example, actually did stop terrorist attacks and saved lives. Fortunately for us, he’s still at it this year, both with a new book on the issue and hitting the media circuit to talk about both it and the misinformation being spread by revenge-minded Democrats and their cohorts in MSM about what did and did not happen.