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Here’s Deroy Murdock: Recently declassified Pentagon data demonstrate that among 530 former detainees released from Guantanamo, “27 were confirmed and 47 were suspected of reengaging in terrorist activity.” These 14 percent who returned to jihad, despite being asked to sign non-violence pledges, are those we have captured. Others surreptitiously may have conducted violence, raised money, [...]

Here’s Bret Stephens, and yet another read the whole thing: Sometimes it takes “South Park” to explain life’s deeper mysteries. Like the logic of the Obama administration’s policy proposals. Consider the 1998 “Gnomes” episode — possibly surpassing Milton Friedman’s “Free to Choose” as the classic defense of capitalism — in which the children of South [...]

Here’s the Wall Street Journal: President Obama’s endorsements of Bush-Cheney antiterror policies are by now routine: for example, opposing the release of prisoner abuse photographs and support for indefinite detention for some detainees, and that’s just this week. More remarkable is White House creativity in portraying these U-turns as epic change. Witness yesterday’s announcement endorsing [...]

Are these Democratic Capital Hill folks fools, or do they just think we, the American public, are? Despite her previous denials declassified records show that Nancy Pelosi was briefed 40 times on enhanced interrogation techniques. Meanwhile Sen. Jay Rockefeller has now contradicted his own denial in his own report. Ms. Pelosi’s denials are also difficult [...]

Here’s another great letter to the Wall Street Journal. It’s an important point that often gets forgotten: Regarding Bill McGurn’s “Torture and the ‘Truth Commission’ ” and Bret Stephens’s “The Politics of Liberal Amnesia” (both April 28): Let’s take a step back from the sensationalism of the “torture” headlines. Rules of engagement, most often referenced [...]