Dueling court rulings now force the Treasury Department to seek warrants to freeze assets of those suspected of terror financing in Ohio, but not in Oregon. The Fourth Amendment test may land in the U.S. Supreme Court.

When an American-born radical Islamist cleric chose to praise last week's Fort Hood shooting spree by Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan, part of the rationale was that no Muslim could faithfully serve the U.S. armed forces.

Even as law enforcement puzzles over whether there is a terror connection to the massacre at Fort Hood, pressure mounts in Congress for answers from the Pentagon and intelligence agencies

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan may well have snapped under the stress of not wanting to deploy overseas. But we can't ignore that his hateful comments may conceal a religious undertone to his deadly onslaught at Fort Hood, Texas.

Philip Alston, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, gives terrorists the upper hand, and ties U.S. hands in the terror fight, with his warning not to use drones to kill al-Qaida leaders.