BOOK REVIEW: The extremists in our midst

For decades, the hate-America left pounded away with the unrelenting theme that all of our investigating committees and agencies that exposed the enemies within must be silenced, defanged or abolished. "The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists" lays bare all the reasons for the pathological zeal with which that ultimately (mostly) successful wrecking-crew operation was pursued: The probes kept pointing to step-by-step infiltration of constituencies that favored the Democratic Party.