Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.

If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.

Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.

Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.