Four questions for attorney general-designate Michael B. Mukasey.

A Congressionally appointed and sanctioned system of preventive detention would solve the problem of how to handle terrorist detainees.

Aggressive counterterrorism policies will continue into the next presidency, but they will be wrapped in more attractive packaging.

Did the Justice Department and Congress go too far in enacting The Patriot Act, or was it really a solution to the wrong problem? Either way, the debate continues.

France's counterterrorism efforts are the most effective in the world. The United States would do well to adopt some of France's strategies.

The Bush administrationmay be forced toexplore secretly the possibility of a "grand bargain" with Tehran.