The Ahmed Ghailani case underscores the necessity of Obama's quiet decision to change course and lift the ban he imposed after his inauguration on new military commission trials at Guantanamo.

It went virtually unnoticed (and unreported by this newspaper), but last week a federal court found the government of Iran liable for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Al-Qaeda remains intent on attacking the United States, as made clear by a series of planned attacks prevented by the American intelligence community, and it is unsafe to assume that al-Qaeda is not planning a staggering attack for the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

The Obama administration has endangered the United States by stopping the interrogation techniques that could protect the country from terrorist threats.

Why should New York City bear the $216 million burden of the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?

McCain was briefed in detail more than once on enhanced interrogation, so he knows full well that enhanced techniques were not used to gain intelligence from detainees — they were used to compel their cooperation.

Will the president insist that high-value terrorist Umar Patek be taken into U.S. custody for interrogation? The answer will tell us how serious Obama is about stopping the next attack.

Guantanamo Bay has still not shut down, and recently CIA director Panetta stated that if a top al-Qaeda leader was captured, they would probably be detained there.