And who is John Brennan, "Mr. Obama's chief counter-terrorism adviser," who thinks, apparently, that the government is even better off in its search for information about terrorists when it treats this particular terrorist in question - Umar Farouk Abdulmuttallab - as an ordinary criminal, and extending to him such Constitutionally-protected rights (for citizens) as counsel, and the right to remain silent? He is not only without the decades of experience as a lawyer (for defense and prosecution) and as a judge, but has no legal experience whatsoever. He's never prosecuted anyone. He's not even a lawyer. Yet John Brennan, as "Mr. Obama's counter-terrorism chief," claims that government investigators would "garner valuable data during any plea-bargaining talks." This claim was always fantastical.