The Arabic translator scandal is page-one news in Monday’s Washington Times. For once, Senator Charles Schumer (Dem., New York) is

quoted asking precisely the right question:

“The presumption is that everyone at Guantanamo … went through some kind
of background check,” Mr. Schumer said on Sept. 24. “But it is baffling
that a chaplain who spent time in Syria, a country on the terrorist
watch-list, and was trained by a group with ties to terrorism, would be
allowed to serve as a cleric to a bunch of Taliban and al Qaeda.”