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Ahmed Abu Khattala, the only person to be prosecuted in relation to the 2012 attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is charged with murder of an officer of the United States, conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and other crimes. His trial begins Monday in federal court in the District of Columbia and is expected to run for at least four weeks. (Associated Press/File)

EDITORIAL: Bungled prosecution gives Benghazi defendant constitutional protection

More than Hillary Clinton's missing emails is bedeviling the legal system in the aftermath of the outrage at Benghazi. A Libyan terrorist, accused in the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound, asked a federal judge Monday in Washington to dismiss the charges and send him home to Libya. Ahmed Abu Khattala says his capture and jailing in the United States, pending a trial, is a "government conspiracy."

August 5, 2015
President Barack Obama waves as he leaves after speaking about the nuclear deal with Iran, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015, at American University in Washington. The president said the nuclear deal with Iran builds on the tradition of strong diplomacy that won the Cold War without firing any shots. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

EDITORIAL: Iran deal exposed as fraud

President Obama is beginning to sound like a president running scared. He used "a major speech" Wednesday in Washington to defend his indefensible "deal" with Iran, and compared Republican critics of the deal to the hard-liners in Iran. Secretary of State John Kerry used a cleaned-up barnyard vulgarism in a magazine interview to describe what these Republican critics are trying to do to the poor ayatollahs in Tehran.

August 5, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Time for new blood in House, Senate

Senator Hatch's op-ed illustrated in many ways what is wrong with people such as him: those who have no idea what is going on in this country yet have been Washington politicians for decades ("When tough talk roils the decorum of the Senate," Web July 28). They live in their own little dream world.

August 5, 2015
A classic American car passes in front of some signs that reads in Spanish "Long Live Free Cuba" in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Six months ago Wednesday, Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro stunned the world by announcing an end to their nations’ half-century of official hostility. In Cuba, aging leaders fear swift, uncontrolled change that would cost them power and spawn disorder in a country that dreads the violence and inequality scarring its neighbors. That fear is heightened by the United States’ long history of trying to topple Castro and his brother Fidel. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

EDITORIAL: Obama hides evidence of Castro cruelty

The French, as they usually do, have a word for it: the tendency of a man to judge problems solely on the basis of his professional skills. The French call this "deformation professionelle."

August 4, 2015
President Barack Obama speaks about his Clean Power Plan, Monday, Aug. 3, 2015, in the East Room at the White House in Washington. The president is mandating even steeper greenhouse gas cuts from U.S. power plants than previously expected, while granting states more time and broader options to comply. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

EDITORIAL: Clean Power Plan an assault on low-income Americans

If Barack Obama could summon the will to make war on America's enemies abroad with the enthusiasm he makes war on Americans at home, joy all sublime would descend on the mountains, dells and every fruited plain. But the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version Monday of a new scheme to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants in 49 states, and it's a shocker. The fruit on the plain is likely to shrivel.

August 4, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Illegals need no ‘air quotes’

A visa grants permission to visit a country under clearly defined terms "Questions for the debate," Web, Aug. 3). Staying beyond the terms of one's visa is illegal. Consequently, anyone here past the terms of his or her visa is here illegally — and hence is an "illegal" immigrant.

August 4, 2015
Hillary Rodham Clinton (Associated Press/File)

EDITORIAL: Who could replace Hillary Clinton as Democratic candidate?

For any candidate to have an authentic chance to be the presidential nominee of either party, the voters have to envision him (or her) as sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office. If they can't do that, John Sears, who managed Ronald Reagan's 1976 campaign, observed, the hopeful candidate will never make it. Mr. Sears called this the candidate's first test.

August 3, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Orrin Hatch goes along to get along

Recently in The Washington Times Sen. Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican, sought to chastise Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, for remarks the latter made on the floor of the Senate ("When tough talk roils the decorum of the Senate," Web, July 28). Mr. Hatch did not name Mr. Cruz in his diatribe, but it was clear to whom he was referring.

August 3, 2015
Republican presidential candidate former Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during a forum Monday, Aug. 3, 2015, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

EDITORIAL: Republican elites want to ignore immigration

The debate, such as it is, over illegal immigration gets curiouser and curiouser, and more confusing. Donald Trump provided the gotcha! moment, with a statement off the top of his head damning the quality of Mexican immigrants.

August 3, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: War with terrorists now or later?

Back on Sept. 11, 2001, the existence of a war with radical Islamic terrorism was never more obvious. Today the radical left and misguided liberals believe we can slow-roll the advance of peace by appeasement and delay while these same radical Islamic elements strike us in our homeland and gain strength abroad.

August 2, 2015
In this image taken from a November 2012 video made available by Paula French, a well-known, protected lion known as Cecil strolls around in Hwange National Park, in Hwange, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe's wildlife minister says extradition is being sought for Walter Palmer, the American dentist who killed Cecil. On Saturday, poachers killed Jericho, Cecil's brother. (Paula French via AP)

EDITORIAL: Reverence for human life should outweigh reverence for Cecil

Reverence for life is a good thing, but some people who revere lion life have got their priorities on crooked. Human life is important, too. The Media Research Center observes that the television networks have devoted far more time to the death of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe than to revelations that Planned Parenthood has been dissecting aborted human babies and auctioning the baby parts to the highest bidders here in the United States.

August 2, 2015
In this Jan. 24, 2015, file photo, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

EDITORIAL: Mike Huckabee takes heat over Iran comments

Political rhetoric is dangerous in the hands of careless writers and speakers. Reaching for Hitler as an analogy for contemporary villainy is particularly misleading. Hitler has been sui generis, one of a kind, since Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun, rivaled in modern times only by Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung. Mullahs, evil as some of them may be, don't count. They're bush leaguers.

August 2, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Riveting review of ‘The Billion Dollar Spy’

Joseph C. Goulden's review of David Hoffman's "The Billion Dollar Spy" (BOOK REVIEW: 'The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal,'' Web, July 5) gives a riveting account of how the CIA recruited a Soviet agent named Adolf Tolkachev.

July 30, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: IRS scandal is Democrats, doing what they do best

After reading the front-page article "GOP calls on Obama to fire IRS chief" (July 28), I was amused by the response of Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Democrat, to the suggestion that IRS Commissioner John Koskinen be sacked for obstructing the investigation into politically motivated targeting of conservative groups.

July 30, 2015