when a man named abdul mutallab was captured over detroit, there wases in place as yet not interrogation program operated by the fbi and so he was warned of his miranda rights and put immediately into the criminal justice system. however, the investigations of cia operatives, that the justice department had had time to begin and to organize. that is i suggest eloquent of the priorities of those making those decisions. and what of the larger struggle against islamism? obviously, there are limits to how a government like ours can defend itself. if the first amendment's establishment clause means anything, it means our government can't pick winners and losers in doctrinal disputes. that's something muslims have to decide on their own. but it can take rationale steps to defend itself and avoid irrational steps that undermine its

. >> abdul mutallab who tried to blow up himself and fellow passengers on chris day in 2009 is the son of a former economics minister of nigeria. products of economic and social forces? i mentioned john brennan and the attorney general not because they are unique but because they are perfect symbols of the kind of solve headed did i have dense that has infected the discourse of public figures. not that this is new to the point of being unprecedented. it isn't it the smart set in the 1920s ridiculed the lifestyles of the bu jaw see. anti-anti-communist was fashionable in some circles in the 1950s. a great liberal judge learned hand often called the greatest appellate judge ever to sit said in address called the spirit of liberty that is quoted so often it's shop worn that the spirit of liberty is the spirit, that is not too sure that it is right. well, that may be if not exactly true, at least an affordable indulgence at times. it may even have been an affordable indulgence at the time he said it in the late spring of 1944 when victory against the ism of that day was pretty well certain