The (False) Gospel According to John

In response to today’s excoriating editorial by the usually Obama-friendly USA Today editorial board about the administration’s bungled handling of Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, haughtily writes that “we need no lectures” from critics in the media, the Congress, and the public. We were among the first to call out the administration on treating Abdulmutallab like a criminal rather than an enemy combatant, so we assume some of Brennan’s anger may be directed at us. Let us respond to some of his points:
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