Journalists are ignoring Joe Biden. Let me buck the trend by pointing out that Mr. Foreign Policy has a pretty weak record when it comes to the intersection of law and terrorism. Obama famously flip-flopped on FISA. Biden didn’t: He was one of 28 senators to vote against this year’s amendments to the law. If Senator Biden had prevailed, our intelligence agents would be monitoring a lot fewer foreign-to-foreign calls by terrorists.

Biden voted against the Military Commissions Act, too. He was one of 34 senators to do so. If he had prevailed, we would not be able to try KSM and the like–at least not without disclosing sensitive intelligence.

And he filibustered the Patriot Act extension. Over the last five years, in other words, he has opposed every major legislative initiative against terrorism.