Time for Obama to Rethink Terror Trials
My latest column for CNN.com discusses the Obama administration's confused counter-terrorism policies.
By failing to interrogate the underwear bomber exhaustively, the Obama administration failed to do all that is possible to protect the country. They closed their ears to potentially useful information. The underwear bomber may divulge more later. But information loses value by the day, sometimes by the hour. Later may be too late.
The mishandling of the underwear bomber was embedded in the decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal court. If the Obama administration had adhered to prior decisions on military tribunals, it would have left itself room to handle the underwear bomber more responsibly.
And yet this mishandling of the underwear bomber will buy them very little goodwill from their domestic and international left.
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