While President Obama deservedly revels in the success of the U.S. operation to kill Osama bin Laden, one question remains: Why is the Justice Department threatening criminal prosecution of the men who made the mission possible? CIA Director Leon Panetta has acknowledged that the initial information that led to the discovery of bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, came, in part, from information obtained by “enhanced interrogation techniques against some of those detainees.”
Yet Attorney General Eric Holder persists in what appears to be a vendetta against these very CIA interrogators.
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