Word that Mr. Abdulmutallab has resumed cooperating with authorities isn’t likely to end the controversy. “There’s no changing the fact that Mirandizing Abdulmutallab gave terrorists a six-week head start to cover their tracks,” said Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri, the top Republican on the Senate intelligence committee. “We will never know what life-saving information on co-conspirators and future plots we missed out on.”

Aren’t Khalid and his pals ordinary criminals? Even trying John Gotti didn’t shut down Manhattan. The reason why such extraordinary security will be necessary is that the 9/11 plotters are not merely criminals. They are combatants in a war against the United States; it is their fellow combatants who are still in the field who pose such a risk that extraordinary measures are necessary.

Worth thinking about.

Now, the savvy “Terror Mom” of three is pulling out all the stops to win a mistrial. Among her Cirque du Jihad antics:

— Screaming out loud during the testimony of U.S. Army Capt. Robert Snyder, who was in the room in Ghazni when Siddiqui allegedly grabbed an M-4 rifle and proclaimed, “Allahu Akbar!” and “I hate Americans! Death to America!” Before being ejected from the courtroom, Siddiqui shouted to Snyder, “You’re lying!” She also babbled about torture at a secret prison.

White House spokesman Bill Burton said Thursday that President Obama is committed to seeing Mohammed and his alleged accomplices brought to justice in a federal court. The president believes that can be done successfully and securely.

“Currently our federal jails hold hundreds of convicted terrorists, and the president’s opinion has not changed on that,” Burton said.

Sometimes, I wonder whether they understand the world.

It would also behoove one not to wait to see if Eric Holder has the intellectual ability to answer any hard questions. He graduated from Columbia Law in 1976. It is obvious that Holder took advantage of the affirmative action policies instituted a few years earlier.

Our current U.S. Attorney General lacks the education necessary to carry out his responsibilities. Lindsey Graham made mincemeat of Eric Holder. All Americans should watch this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG7lm8Sfbo4

Our nation is paying an awful price for the lowered academic standards of the Ivy League universities. Their students are often so ridiculously mediocre. Still, they are the “best!” It only gets worse at the second and third tier schools.