Renditions before and since 9/11 share some basic features. They have been conducted lawfully, responsibly and with a clear and single purpose: Get terrorists off the street and gain intelligence on those still at large. Our detention and interrogation programs flow from the same inescapable logic.

What Edward Snowden did amounted to the greatest hemorrhaging of legitimate American secrets in the history of my nation.

Responsibility demands action, and dealing with the immediate threat must naturally be a top priority.

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