“I was stunned to learn while researching Mastermind that Guantanamo detainees succeeded in convincing prison officials to no longer raise the American flag anywhere they could see it. Each morning on every U.S. military base around the world, the American flag is raised to a bugle. But in the interests of not offending the detainees, it was stopped at Guantanamo.”

From Forbes columnist and Pajamas alumnus Richard Miniter*, discussing his new book, Mastermind: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, found via Power Line.

* No to mention host of one of the two parties of the century in Minneapolis, the week of the 2008 GOP convention. This was its competitor — I was happy to attend both; not that I remember much…