John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, publicly stepped in the proverbial \u201cit\u201d once again this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fresh off a round of blockbuster appearances in which he explained the remarkable intelligence benefits of the 50-Minute Undie Bomber interrogation, he made a speech at NYU.\u00a0 In answer to a question, he sought to dismiss concerns about the 20 percent recidivism rate for released terrorists, saying, \u201cYou know, the American penal system, the recidivism rate is up to something about 50 percent or so, as far as return to crime.\u00a0 Twenty percent isn\u2019t that bad.\u201d<\/p>\n
We understand from The New York Times<\/em> that Attorney General Eric Holder is getting some White House help with \u201cmessaging,\u201d because of Holder\u2019s inability to differentiate terrorists from common\u00a0 domestic criminals.\u00a0 Regarding Mr. Brennan, it\u2019s just too bad this is an administration that doesn\u2019t support \u201cno child left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, publicly stepped in the proverbial \u201cit\u201d once again this weekend.\u00a0 Fresh off a round of blockbuster appearances in which he explained the remarkable intelligence benefits of the 50-Minute Undie Bomber interrogation, he made a speech at NYU.\u00a0 In answer to a question, he sought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[498,733,856,536,857],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-eric-holder","tag-interrogation","tag-john-brennan","tag-terrorism","tag-undie-bomber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3782,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions\/3782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}