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Obama refuses to condemn anti-Trump riots, violence against Trump supporters

Mexico seeks Trump talks to modernize NAFTA ...

Schumer: We are not going to help Trump 'build his wall'

Report: Outgoing president shuts down border patrol aerial surveillance program

McCain warns Trump on torture, waterboarding

Melania won't be moving to White House?

Market correction: Clinton Foundation donations plummet by 37 percent

Poll: 64 percent of voters support banning abortion after five months of pregnancy

Can Trump deliver more water to California farmers?

Naked fans inspire Yale's first victory over Harvard in a decade

German Chancellor Merkel says she's seeking 4th term

Rules pushed by Harry Reid could allow Trump's appointments to get confirmed

Tortured Logic?

Indulge me the following scenario: A Muslim man in his early twenties is picked up in Boston because his cell phone has been the source of a series of suspiciously encoded text messages to a known Al Qaeda operative in Yemen ("The pumpkin pie is in the oven," etc.) These intercepts were done by the NSA under the aegis of the American Patriot Act. (Trust me, they can do this.) He is then found to be in this country illegally ... and when his clothing is scanned by a Geiger Counter it exhibits a dangerously high level of radioactivity. His laptop computer is also found to have detailed and credible diagrams of a suitcase nuclear weapon. Other notable intelligence suggests that an illicit atomic bomb has been smuggled into the United States and is now hidden somewhere, ready to be detonated.

For you Pollyannas who believe that such an event is impossible, please explain 9/11. Now, how do you, as our head of Homeland Security, deal with this captured Muslim man to find out the who, what, when, where and how of this possible devastating terrorist attack ... knowing that it might kill hundreds of thousand of Americans and set back our economy for possibly a generation? And, obviously, time is of the essence. Would you immediately and continuously waterboard him until he spilled the beans or, perhaps, read him his Miranda rights and lawyer him up?