If anybody was actually paying attention, they’d see the Republican national security brand melt before their eyes in the past couple weeks. They first smeared the White House about reading Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab his Miranda rights. Then it came out that Abdulmutallab was talking after an interrogation process marked by help from his family and [...]

Republicans are stepping up their crusade against the sound interrogation tactics that have Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab providing intelligence again. Today it was Mitch McConnell, disparaging the entire Federal Bureau of Investigation: MCCONNELL: This was a person who was trying to blow a plane out of the air from Nigeria. It’s clearly a case for the [...]