Victor Davis Hanson nails it
He writes at NRO’s the Corner:
When we do know for a fact that Mutallab tried to blow up a plane, we get a presidential “allegedly” (“a passenger allegedly tried to ignite an explosive device on his body, setting off a fire”), and yet when we don’t know all the facts, as in the Professor Gates mess, we get instantaneous certainty (“the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home.”)
The perils of political correctness are especially pernicious when the emperor has no clues.
So this foriegn national who was trying to kill hundreds of people is going to be treated as a criminal defendant (hence the “allegedly”) instead of a terrorist. This is a bad bad mistake. I am not for torture or coercive interrogation, but this is nuts. He is now lawyered up.
Heaven forbid anyone should “lawyer up” when accused of a crime! My God, what is America coming to!