Our new editorial on last week’s detainee deal:

Reports that the White House was about to fold last week when negotiating with John McCain and other senators on the treatment of War on Terror detainees were greatly exaggerated. Not only did the White House not fold, it got a good deal, one that will preserve the life-saving CIA-interrogation program. The ACLU, the left-wing blogosphere, and human-rights groups are howling, as — given their opposition to all coercive interrogation — well they should.

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