The President Ties His Own Hands on Terror

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123993446103128041.html

The release of these opinions was unnecessary as a legal matter, and is unsound as a matter of policy. Its effect will be to invite the kind of institutional timidity and fear of recrimination that weakened intelligence gathering in the past, and that we came sorely to regret on Sept. 11, 2001.

Proponents of the release have argued that the techniques have been abandoned and thus there is no point in keeping them secret any longer; that they were in any event ineffective; that their disclosure was somehow legally compelled; and that they cost us more in the coin of world opinion than they were worth. None of these claims survives scrutiny.

Read the whole thing.  The President now feels morally superior to his predecessor.  It's messy and uncomfortable dealing with bad guys so lets just pretend like they're really just petty law breakers entitled to their constitutional rights.  The problem is that they're not criminals, they're terrorists.  They want to attack our country.  We should not assure them of "fair treatment" if we're lucky enough to catch them.  We should do what's necessary to protect American lives.  We need more Jack Bauers and fewer Eric Holders in this country.