So here's some news:

• The Chinese Communists taught us how to interrogate prisoners:

In 2002, the training program, known as SERE, for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape, became a source of interrogation methods both for the C.I.A. and the military. In what critics describe as a remarkable case of historical amnesia, officials who drew on the SERE program appear to have been unaware that it had been created as a result of concern about false confessions by American prisoners [captured by North Korean forces].

• While Republicans throw a fit about Obama's acquaintance with his neighbor, Weatherman bomber William Ayers, it appears that that McCain has his own associations with terrorists: A prominent McCain fundraiser was the CEO of Chiquita Bannana Company during the late 1980's and 1990's, when the company provided cash and weapons to Columbian paramilitary groups such as the AUC, even after the group had been listed as a terrorist organization.