Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan's appearance on Fox News Sunday yesterday (transcript) -- as well as the other Sunday talk shows -- to discuss the handling of would-be Northwest Airlines terrorist Abdulmutallab may have been intended to reassure the country, but had the opposite effect. He demonstrated an unwillingness to answer important questions, instead evading and ignoring them in favor of memorized talking points.No doubt he was being faithful to the wishes of his boss, President Obama, whose position that terrorists should be treated as criminal suspects and allowed to lawyer up before answering questions, cannot withstand serious scrutiny. A former CIA official himself, Brennan has devolved into an apparatchik spouting the party line no matter how little substance it provides.Paul Mirengoff of Power Line sums up the principal proklems:His statement, in response to a question about what the downside might be to treating Abdulmutallab as an enemy combatant --...(Read Full Post)