Giving Aid And Comfort to the Enemy

What could President Obama have been thinking? An IBD editorial yesterday detailed the damage that the president's release of classified information about interrogation procedures does to national security.

The president has clearly damaged our national security throught this intentional revelation of classified information about the "CIA's tough interrogation of high-value terrorist detainees such as 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad."

Now the terrorists can read the details of the likely interrogation procedures they will be subjected to if caught and discover that because we are a humane and civilized nation, even our "torture" (give me a break) is a form of patty cake. As Aron Nimzowitsch, the great chess master, was quoted as saying: "The threat is more powerful than its execution." Well the threat is all tied up in the uncertainty. Now the terrorists, the people who cut other people's heads off on television to terrorize us, know for sure that we are paper tigers. I wonder what other brilliant ideas the president has?

Follow Up 4-20-2009: Transparency ... give me a break!